Susan Walker
Susan Walker's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Toronto Star
Movies reviews only
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The Uninvited (2009) |
The premise is seaworthy, but the execution flounders. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jan 30, 2009
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Delgo (2008) |
This flick is like a cheap thriller where the wisecracks always fall flat and the author couldn't be bothered to invent a new plot, so he just patches together some old ones. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Dec 12, 2008
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Nobel Son (2007) |
Nobel Son is as darkly funny as it is exhilarating. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Dec 05, 2008
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Four Christmases (2008) |
It's Four Christmases in need of a wedding, or maybe a funeral. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Nov 26, 2008
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Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) |
As it has evolved from a 10-minute cabaret piece, through a short film Bousman made in Toronto, to the big screen, Repo! The Genetic Opera has gained in both guts and gusto. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Nov 21, 2008
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I Can't Think Straight (2007) |
Buildings and their interiors fare a lot better in this sumptuously lensed and set-designed film. That's because they don't have to talk or act. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Nov 21, 2008
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) |
That these boys could not fathom what was actually going on in the camps also rings true and is the reason why stories like this one must endure. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Nov 07, 2008
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The World Unseen (2007) |
Less an account of hatred and injustice in apartheid-torn South Africa than it is a soap opera-ish romance that could easily be an episode of The L-Word. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Nov 07, 2008
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Brick Lane (2007) |
Kaushik is remarkable as Chanu, a role that demands he be a buffoonish, yet loving man, intelligent beneath his self-aggrandizing attitudes, oversized ambitions and determined cheerfulness. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007) |
The winning aspect of this adaptation of a best-selling autobiography is in the director's management of the points of view. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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The Secret of the Grain (2007) |
After two and a half hours, The Secret of the Grain, ends, as arbitrarily as it began. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
Coming from the man who made his name as a director of often grim social-realist films such as Vera Drake, All or Nothing and Secrets & Lies, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky strikes one as a film fantasy. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 17, 2008
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008) |
Quite a bit of honey is applied to make the awful truths palatable, but The Secret Life of Bees curtails the sappiness with performances -- especially Fanning's -- that are grounded in reality. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 17, 2008
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An American Carol (2008) |
Utterly asinine, sophomoric, tasteless, the movie has much in common with Zucker's Airplane!, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and Scary Movie sequels, minus the laughs. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 13, 2008
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All Together Now (2008) |
All Together Now enthrals. It also makes you want to fly to Las Vegas immediately and buy a ticket to LOVE. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 13, 2008
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City of Ember (2008) |
A thrilling adventure tale and teen fantasy that is grounded in real concerns about who is managing the planet. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 10, 2008
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Blindness (2008) |
This film rests uneasily between art and thriller, putting a huge burden on the actors, especially Julianne Moore, to convey the larger meaning of the story. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 03, 2008
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Tell No One (2006) |
Tell No One is a thoroughly absorbing whodunit with more twists and switchbacks than the Le Mans racecourse. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Sep 26, 2008
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Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
No character in this turbulent sea of love crashing on the shores of misfortune is any more developed than they are in Sparks' potboiler. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Sep 26, 2008
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Igor (2008) |
Igor, like the Frankenstein's monster at the centre of its tired plot, looks like something cobbled together out of used, very used, parts. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Sep 19, 2008
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Outsourced (2006) |
In the hands of a lesser director, the secondary characters, including Todd's matronly Indian landlady, might have been mere caricatures. Smart production design and camerawork enhance the sense of authenticity. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Aug 29, 2008
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French journalist Marie-Monique Robin takes a scattershot approach in her expos of Monsanto, an American multinational chemical and biotechnology company responsible for some of the most toxic and environmentally damaging products ever sold. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Aug 01, 2008
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) |
Director Julian Jarrold and writers Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies have not surpassed their predecessors, but neither have they done any lasting damage with their interpretation of the 1945 novel. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jul 25, 2008
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The Last Mistress (2007) |
A costume drama with an emphasis on costume over drama. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jul 25, 2008
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A Jihad for Love (2007) |
While there is much to admire among the subjects of A Jihad for Love, the film itself is a low-grade production that risks losing the viewer with an unimaginative sequence of talking heads. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jul 18, 2008
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Space Chimps (2008) |
The animated action movie nevertheless delivers -- da-dum -- more fun than a barrel of monkeys. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jul 18, 2008
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Alice's House (2007) |
Nothing much happens in Alice's House, and a turning point in the plot is terribly contrived, but as sociology and maybe even a pilot for a soap serial, the movie is worth a look. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jul 11, 2008
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Planet B-Boy (2007) |
If Benson Lee's intention with Planet B-Boy was to set the record straight on the continuing story of break dancers, then his documentary has to be counted a success. With a few caveats. - Toronto Star
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| Posted May 30, 2008
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The Strangers (2008) |
With no plot to speak of, no character development whatsoever, no theme and precious little intrigue, what we have here is simply a pileup of effects. And not especially special effects. - Toronto Star
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| Posted May 30, 2008
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The Unknown Woman (2006) |
Rappoport is the movie's saving grace. - Toronto Star
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| Posted May 09, 2008
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The Babysitters (2007) |
The script has a stale air, like something that was doing the rounds for a long time before David Ross found backers to make a film out of it. - Toronto Star
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| Posted May 09, 2008
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The Forgotten Woman (2008) |
[Director Dilip] Mehta has done a fine job of getting the message out to the world. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Apr 28, 2008
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Ben X (2007) |
What leads off like a docudrama of the social ills accompanying a misunderstood condition merges into fantasy until, in very clever ways, director Nic Balthazar turns the medium into the message. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Apr 18, 2008
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Bella (2006) |
This is not a weepy, but a story about healing, forgiveness and redemption. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Apr 11, 2008
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Snow Angels (2007) |
The sabotage plotting, sometimes engaging dialogue, visual inventiveness, a distant soundtrack and some occasionally gripping performances only add up to a film that leaves one feeling as frozen as those snow angels. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Mar 21, 2008
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Penelope (2006) |
The semi-satirical treatment of celebrity culture, as Penelope is treated first as a tabloid sensation then a media darling, is lame and dated. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Feb 29, 2008
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Caramel (2007) |
[Writer-Director] Labaki writes and directs with a sure hand for capturing universal truths. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Feb 22, 2008
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Step Up 2 the Streets (2008) |
Reeks of artificiality and phoney emotion. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Feb 14, 2008
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Still Life (2006) |
Nothing much actually happens in Still Life, and yet one is left with a deep feeling of irrevocable loss and destructive change only heightened by the chirpy tourist patter and government promotional talk about the great Three Gorges Dam. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jan 25, 2008
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They Wait (2007) |
There are elements of a good fright flick and intriguing ghost story in They Wait. It's too bad that they are overshadowed by all the bad aspects " terrible dialogue and cheesy special effects and makeup. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jan 25, 2008
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How She Move (2007) |
In the increasingly crowded field of movies based on urban dance, How She Move stands out as a well-written and well-acted drama with an appeal that reaches beyond dance fanatics. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Jan 25, 2008
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The Savages (2007) |
The dynamic that operates throughout this film is fantasy versus reality, not just in the lives of the characters but in American life in general. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Dec 21, 2007
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P.S. I Love You (2007) |
It's the sort of movie that no man will ever go to unless dragged by a woman. His sole reward will be the sight of Swank in sexy underwear. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Dec 21, 2007
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Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
Me, I want a hula hoop. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Dec 14, 2007
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Hitman (2007) |
The plot of Hitman is difficult to follow and in any case secondary to the sheer spectacle of murder and mayhem. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Nov 21, 2007
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Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) |
As long as Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium sticks to magic, it is pretty engaging, but the lives on display are less than mesmerizing. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Nov 16, 2007
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Music Within (2007) |
Pimentel's persistence and eventual triumph over prejudice and discrimination is a story worth telling, if only on a shoestring. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Nov 09, 2007
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
If this were a Susanne Bier film made on her home turf we'd feel a lot more wrung out by the movie's end. Instead we're just worn out. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 19, 2007
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My Kid Could Paint That (2007) |
Bar-Lev has made a refreshingly honest documentary. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 19, 2007
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Death at a Funeral (2007) |
Death at a Funeral might have been made in the 1960s, not to be released until well past its stale date. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Oct 12, 2007
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