Reason Online

Reason Online is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Glenn Garvin, Kurt Loder
Rating Title/Year Author
EMMA. (2020) Kurt Loder A movie so deliciously detailed you want to step inside of it and wander around, marveling at the bonnets and capes, the candle-lit banquet tables , the vast country manor with its cavernous rooms and sweeping greensward. EDIT
Posted Feb 21, 2020
Buffaloed (2019) Kurt Loder The picture crackles along on the trademark energy of its star, Zoey Deutch, and you keep wanting it to work even after it starts letting you down. EDIT
Posted Feb 14, 2020
The Assistant (2019) Kurt Loder Deals with the subject of sexual harassment in whispers and sighs, and the result is chilling. EDIT
Posted Feb 7, 2020
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) Kurt Loder As the opening installment of a projected franchise, it's pretty promising... EDIT
Posted Feb 7, 2020
The Rhythm Section (2020) Kurt Loder Starts out strong, as you'd expect of a movie produced by the tenders of the James Bond franchise, but steadily loses interest on its way to a piddling conclusion. EDIT
Posted Jan 31, 2020
Color Out of Space (2019) Kurt Loder The family seems like a normal bunch-or as normal as any bunch might be with Nic Cage at its helm. EDIT
Posted Jan 24, 2020
Underwater (2020) Kurt Loder The movie is an unabashed embrace of a much better film, but it's not too bad itself. EDIT
Posted Jan 10, 2020
Little Women (2019) Kurt Loder Gerwig, nominated for Oscars as both writer and director for her breakthrough movie, the incomparable Lady Bird, here settles fully into her status as an exceptional American filmmaker. EDIT
Posted Dec 27, 2019
Cats (2019) Kurt Loder I so wanted to slam this movie, but then... EDIT
Posted Dec 20, 2019
Bombshell (2019) Kurt Loder Might have been a better movie if it were a full-on Megyn Kelly biopic-with her ambiguous relationship to Ailes, she's a richly complex character. EDIT
Posted Dec 13, 2019
Uncut Gems (2019) Kurt Loder A vivid simulation of what it might be like to live inside a pinball machine, giving Adam Sandler his showiest role, which he embraces obvious appreciation. EDIT
Posted Dec 13, 2019
Marriage Story (2019) Kurt Loder Driver and Johansson have likely never been better and are sometimes electrifying. EDIT
Posted Dec 6, 2019
Knives Out (2019) Kurt Loder Despite the story's many incidental pleasures, it never really takes off. EDIT
Posted Dec 2, 2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) Kurt Loder He knew that children grapple with some of the same issues adults do-death, sorrow, insecurity-but are less prepared to deal with them. That was where Mister Rogers came in. EDIT
Posted Nov 22, 2019
Charlie's Angels (2019) Kurt Loder It's not a terrible movie, just not a terribly good one. EDIT
Posted Nov 15, 2019
One Child Nation (2019) Kurt Loder By the end I felt that my heart was ready to burst from my chest and leap to its death down on the floor. EDIT
Posted Nov 8, 2019
The Apollo (2019) Glenn Garvin Everybody who was anybody in black show business played the Apollo. And now Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams has captured the excitement in an HBO documentary, The Apollo. EDIT
Posted Nov 4, 2019
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) Kurt Loder The new Terminator movie is much better than the last three Terminator movies, if you remember them. Which you may not. It doesn't matter. EDIT
Posted Nov 1, 2019
The Irishman (2019) Kurt Loder It used to be that the scariest things in Martin Scorsese's gangland dystopias were the bullet storms and the barroom stompings. Now there's a more formidable menace: time. EDIT
Posted Nov 1, 2019
The Lighthouse (2019) Kurt Loder A movie designed to shiver your timbers and fog your mind. EDIT
Posted Oct 18, 2019
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) Kurt Loder Fans of bloody horror comedy could do a lot worse than this picture. And no doubt soon enough will. EDIT
Posted Oct 18, 2019
Parasite (2019) Kurt Loder A very wild ride, and maybe Bong's best... EDIT
Posted Oct 11, 2019
Joker (2019) Kurt Loder The movie gets off to a strangely muted start, and even fans of the DC comics in which the demented clown has been giving Batman so much guff for the past 80 years may grow restless. EDIT
Posted Oct 4, 2019
First Love (2019) Kurt Loder This being a Miike film, the young canoodlers at the heart of the story are a boxer with a brain tumor and a drug-addicted call girl. EDIT
Posted Sep 27, 2019
Kamera o tomeru na! (2017) Kurt Loder Kind of brilliant. Well, it's very clever. EDIT
Posted Sep 20, 2019
Ad Astra (2019) Kurt Loder Can't compensate for its basically recycled nature with endless po-faced pondering of tedious daddy issues. EDIT
Posted Sep 20, 2019
Hustlers (2019) Kurt Loder The movie's moral nuance is refreshing: None of these characters have God entirely on their side. EDIT
Posted Sep 13, 2019
() Glenn Garvin Shadow of the Towers goes off the rails, turning from a credible, if not necessarily remarkable, reminiscence about a brutally painful day to simplistic immigration agitprop. EDIT
Posted Sep 9, 2019
It: Chapter Two (2019) Kurt Loder Inevitably, monotony sets in, and by the end you're gasping for fresh invention. EDIT
Posted Sep 6, 2019
Untouchable (2019) Glenn Garvin If you want a crash course in Weinstein's thoroughgoing and possibly criminal loutishness, you couldn't possibly do better than this report from British television documentarian Ursula Macfarlane. EDIT
Posted Sep 3, 2019
The Fanatic (2019) Kurt Loder I'm sorry to bring this movie to your attention, but... EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2019
Don't Let Go (2019) Kurt Loder As the movie winds on, we hear talk of a mysterious character called Georgie, and a deadly conspiracy, and pretty soon the picture devolves into an exercise in racing and chasing and predictable blam-blam-kapow. EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2019
Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019) Glenn Garvin Arguably one of the finest music documentaries ever produced. EDIT
Posted Aug 26, 2019
Hot Air (2018) Kurt Loder Simpleminded political gesturing... EDIT
Posted Aug 23, 2019
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) Noah Berlatsky If I'm to have American imperial propaganda, I couldn't ask for it to be any more shoddily made or any more unconvincing than this. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Noah Berlatsky The Men Who Stare At Goats is trying to be a smart, black, satirical comedy... Yet on the other hand, it's still trying to be a mainstream Hollywood movie. And whenever the two impulses come into conflict, Hollywood wins. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Zombie Tidal Wave (2019) Glenn Garvin How could a show named Zombie Tidal Wave be anything less than awesome? Not since the man-eating tree of 1953's From Hell It Came has nature's implacable misanthropy been displayed more magnificently. EDIT
Posted Aug 16, 2019
Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019) Kurt Loder A deeply wack piece of work-the kind of doc Errol Morris might make if he were recovering from a serious head injury. EDIT
Posted Aug 16, 2019
() Glenn Garvin None of them reveal much that isn't fairly well known to anybody who has followed the reams of literature on the case... The answers are neither novel nor sufficient. EDIT
Posted Aug 12, 2019
() Glenn Garvin Arrogantly infuriating... Baby Boomers didn't change the world at Woodstock, or create a New Man... It's sad that, 50 years later, they still can't tell the difference. EDIT
Posted Aug 5, 2019
A Score to Settle (2019) Kurt Loder Starts out stupid, gets even stupider, and then it ends, which is one of the most satisfying things to be said about it. EDIT
Posted Aug 2, 2019
Them That Follow (2019) Kurt Loder Admirably free of the smug mockery so often aimed at these sorts of people... EDIT
Posted Aug 2, 2019
Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) Kurt Loder It's filled with wonderful stuff-mesmerizing stretches of narrative invention and a raft of memorable performances, most notably by its stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, who've rarely if ever been more magnetic. EDIT
Posted Jul 26, 2019
Share (2019) Glenn Garvin Share is thoughtful, but it's not entirely clear where those thoughts are headed. Give Bianco credit for making a film about a rage-inducing topic that doesn't shout; but a little less mumbling would have been welcome. EDIT
Posted Jul 22, 2019
David Crosby: Remember My Name (2019) Kurt Loder A portrait of a man running out of road... EDIT
Posted Jul 19, 2019
Midsommar (2019) Kurt Loder An ambitious but not entirely successful movie... EDIT
Posted Jul 5, 2019
Yesterday (2019) Kurt Loder Resistance seems pointless... EDIT
Posted Jun 28, 2019
Child's Play (2019) Kurt Loder The latest unnecessary extension of this weary franchise. EDIT
Posted Jun 21, 2019
The Dead Don't Die (2019) Kurt Loder Nothing in Jim Jarmusch's new zombie-com is as undead as the movie itself. EDIT
Posted Jun 14, 2019
Men in Black: International (2019) Kurt Loder Some aliens still pose existential threats to the planet. But as we see in this fourth MiB film, the franchise also faces an existential threat of its own: irrelevance. EDIT
Posted Jun 14, 2019