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Tom Duggins

Tom Duggins's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) 67% 3/5 EDIT “It’s difficult not to feel that there’s a better film lurking within that might have been rescued by a bit more red ink and a more ruthless re-think in the cutting room.” – CineVue Apr 28, 2023 Full Review How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The love shown for the heist genre itself, its thrills and pleasures, leavens any sense of heavy handedness in the subject matter, and like any good crime caper, it toys with your unspoken loyalties. ” – CineVue Apr 18, 2023 Full Review Infinity Pool (2023) 87% 4/5 EDIT “It’s hard to fault the magnetic craft of this exquisitely unpleasant picture, like a broiling jacuzzi of hallucinatory sex and violence that you might briefly dip a toe into, if you dare.” – CineVue Mar 22, 2023 Full Review God's Creatures (2022) 90% 5/5 EDIT “God’s Creatures has all the hallmarks of a cult classic where the directness of the story-telling cuts through like a blade.” – CineVue Mar 20, 2023 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% 5/5 EDIT “It can move at a fast clip, overwhelming you with detail, only to slow for a moment or two, allowing you to marvel more fully at this strange public figure and her internal hive of neuroses. ” – CineVue Jan 13, 2023 Full Review All My Friends Hate Me (2021) 89% 3/5 EDIT “What we’re left with is a sort of Blairite middle-ground where punches are pulled and no one really comes in for too much flack. Where’s the fun in that?” – CineVue Jun 8, 2022 Full Review Operation Mincemeat (2021) 83% 3/5 EDIT “It has its moments, but the film is guilty of being fun but forgettable, much like those numerous spy stories cooked up on typewriters in the quiet hours of night and then lost to history when the guns fell silent.” – CineVue Apr 18, 2022 Full Review A Hero (2021) 97% 4/5 EDIT “This is another beautifully crafted film from a director who knows how to draw every last jot of human emotion from his cast, throwing big questions before his characters and letting them take it in their stride.” – CineVue Jan 7, 2022 Full Review Old (2021) 50% 4/5 EDIT “This is a film which confronts you at speed, chasing after you with drool on its fangs - and frankly, that's a good thing. Its charm is where the mania is.” – CineVue Jul 23, 2021 Full Review PVT Chat (2021) 68% 4/5 EDIT “Its independent spirit shines through gloriously, reminding the viewer that, really, a decent story and some talented actors is all that's required to make a movie.” – CineVue Feb 12, 2021 Full Review Stardust (2020) 19% 3/5 EDIT “The film stumbles between moods, caught between overt mythmaking and something closer to historical detail, which leaves an enjoyable but incomplete picture of the great musician's life.” – CineVue Jan 19, 2021 Full Review Tenet (2020) 70% 2/5 EDIT “Tenet is a bit like the myth whereby NASA spent millions of dollars on a pen that could work in zero gravity when the Soviets just used a pencil. Nolan should re-learn how to use a pencil.” – CineVue Aug 27, 2020 Full Review The Delivered (2019) 90% 5/5 EDIT “The film's unusual blend of genre conventions can be a little disorienting, but the film is so careful and considered, its blend of modern ideas and historical detail so unexpected and exciting, that it's hard not to walk away feeling exhilarated.” – CineVue Jun 25, 2020 Full Review Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) 99% 4/5 EDIT “Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a subtle, quietly devastating look at how a young woman's body is constantly subject to outside pressures.” – CineVue May 11, 2020 Full Review Ema (2019) 88% 5/5 EDIT “Ema is an astonishing film. Constructed of peppery conflicts and passionate affairs, emotionally fraught speeches and tender embraces, most of them elicited by Ema herself.” – CineVue Apr 30, 2020 Full Review The Whalebone Box (2020) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Whether you find Kötting's style enchanting or merely tedious, it would be hard to walk away from The Whalebone Box not amazed at how much thinking there is to be done about something so small” – CineVue Apr 2, 2020 Full Review System Crasher (2019) 94% 4/5 EDIT “System Crasher might sound like a tough watch, but the film is anything but bleak. Steeped in a certain realist tradition... Fingscheidt's film pulses with life, capturing perfectly the headstrong, reckless nature of Benni herself.” – CineVue Mar 25, 2020 Full Review Radioactive (2019) 63% 2/5 EDIT “It's an unfortunate misfire, best to be covered in tonnes of boron and shielded behind a guarded perimeter: no one should revisit this film in a hurry.” – CineVue Mar 20, 2020 Full Review Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 97% 4/5 EDIT “With Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma has crafted a romance which swaps cliche and sentimentality for poignant questions about the nature of image-making and the attempt to capture a memory.” – CineVue Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Greed (2019) 50% 3/5 EDIT “Conceived as a biting commentary on inequality, sweatshop labour and... well, greed, the film lacks fluency and laughs, rarely managing to lands its many upward punches.” – CineVue Feb 18, 2020 Full Review Parasite (2019) 99% 5/5 EDIT “Parasite is quite simply a supreme feat of film-making, a tense and hilarious jewel box of a film that draws you deeper and deeper into its wicked, absurdist satire.” – CineVue Feb 5, 2020 Full Review The Lighthouse (2019) 90% 4/5 EDIT “What it lacks in overall coherence is made up for with a collection of brilliant individual contributions.” – CineVue Jan 29, 2020 Full Review Sorry We Missed You (2019) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Occasionally, the script is a little too on-the-nose and expository, but the emotional force of the drama is such that those moments pass by without disturbing the overall impact of the film itself.” – CineVue Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019) 80% 4/5 EDIT “It's a mesmerizing watch for fans of Cohen's music, a fitting portrait sewn artfully together.” – CineVue Jul 24, 2019 Full Review The Brink (2019) 84% 5/5 EDIT “The film is a compelling, concerning artefact which shows demagoguery in action, without coming across as heavy-handed.” – CineVue Jul 15, 2019 Full Review
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