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Theo Estes

Theo Estes's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Lamb (2021) 86% EDIT “While Lamb's acting and visuals are overwhelmingly successful, its plotting is comparatively uneven.” – The Spool Oct 13, 2021 Full Review The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) 25% EDIT “With the limitations of the script, the cast feels wasted.” – The Spool Jun 16, 2021 Full Review Our Towns (2021) 89% EDIT “While it may lack an in-depth examination of the situations that caused the decline of each community, the filmmakers and journalists did an excellent job highlighting people who wanted to make a difference in their community.” – The Spool Apr 14, 2021 Full Review Lucky (2020) 93% EDIT “Grant's performance is an excellent depiction of a woman trying to keep herself together as her world falls apart.” – The Spool Mar 19, 2021 Full Review PVT Chat (2021) 68% EDIT “PVT CHAT feels like a funhouse, at turns humorous and at other turns scary, with the views of the characters and our own world distorted and yet recognizable.” – The Spool Feb 5, 2021 Full Review Happiest Season (2020) 82% EDIT “[I]t is the perfect holiday film for those who want a gay twist on Christmas.” – The Spool Nov 23, 2020 Full Review The Life Ahead (2020) 92% EDIT “[Loren] imbues Rosa with dignity and grace, the portrait of an older woman who, despite her hard life, still has an aura of glamor.” – The Spool Nov 14, 2020 Full Review Malasaña 32 (2020) 43% EDIT “The movie starts to feel like a retread of the same old ghost movies we've been watching for the last three-plus decades.” – The Spool Oct 21, 2020 Full Review Dancer in the Dark (2000) 69% EDIT “Dancer in the Dark critiques the relentless optimism of mid-century movie musicals, but it also puts the American cultural narrative under the microscope.” – The Spool Oct 8, 2020 Full Review Books of Blood (2020) 20% EDIT “This may be a decent fix for those itching for some new Barker, but it's probably better to just revisit one of his classics.” – The Spool Oct 8, 2020 Full Review The Boys in the Band (2020) 85% EDIT “The stigma of being an out queer person has lessened since the '60s, and the self-loathing the characters feel may seem foreign to some queer people today.” – The Spool Sep 28, 2020 Full Review The One and Only Ivan (2020) 72% EDIT “With such limited character building, The One and Only Ivan wastes its cast.” – The Spool Aug 19, 2020 Full Review A Thousand Cuts (2020) 100% EDIT “[I]]t brings attention to the civil rights abuses occurring now in the Philippines, smartly implying how this illiberalism could happen elsewhere.” – The Spool Aug 10, 2020 Full Review Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020) 100% EDIT “Though Tabsch & Constatnini aren't able to give us a glimpse of who Mercado was behind the cape, they adroitly capture his presence and what made him a force of nature in the Latinx world.” – The Spool Jul 9, 2020 Full Review Welcome to Chechnya (2020) 100% EDIT “The fear the refugees live in is given a tangible quality, and the documentary imbues even the most mundane moments with tension.” – The Spool Jun 29, 2020 Full Review My Spy (2020) 49% EDIT “In the end, Segal spends too much time trying to pull at the heartstrings with My Spy, rather than ticking the funny bone.” – The Spool Apr 15, 2020 Full Review Blow the Man Down (2019) 99% EDIT “Krudy and Cole are able to achieve something rare... They give us a world that feels real, and lived in, that existed before the audience and will exist after.” – The Spool Mar 20, 2020 Full Review Goldie (2020) 95% EDIT “Goldie's energy is matched by Shawn Peter's kinetic cinematography, which is paired with animation by Smith & Lee, a colorful and undulating aesthetic reminiscent of Klasky-Csupo.” – The Spool Feb 25, 2020 Full Review The Photograph (2020) 74% EDIT “Rae and Stanfield (not to mention Noel and Adams) are such engaging screen presences, elevating what could have been a trite romance with some real heat.” – The Spool Feb 13, 2020 Full Review Gretel & Hansel (2020) 63% EDIT “...it can't be completely dismissed; it's visually compelling, and Perkins has a real eye for atmosphere.” – The Spool Jan 31, 2020 Full Review Ramen Shop (2018) 86% EDIT “While the first half . . . dabbles in some familiar dynamics, Khoo's loving depictions of the food that frame their story carry the film until it can get to a stronger back half.” – The Spool Jan 18, 2020 Full Review Men in Black: International (2019) 23% C EDIT “Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson's charms can only do so much lifting in a film that falls short everywhere else, be it in story, stakes, or world-building.” – Consequence Jun 13, 2019 Full Review
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