Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this
publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following
Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
David Nusair
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/4
Gus Van Sant does an effective job of putting an erratic yet often engrossing spin on the material...
Posted Aug 18, 2018
2
2.5/4
Mile 22 (2018)
A typically erratic Peter Berg film...
Posted Aug 17, 2018
3
2/4
Slender Man (2018)
It's apparent right from the get-go that Slender Man doesn't have much of a story to tell or even, as becomes clear, a reason to exist...
Posted Aug 16, 2018
4
3/4
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Filmmaker Susanna Fogel does a superb job of immediately drawing the viewer into the proceedings...
Posted Aug 16, 2018
5
2/4
Incredibles 2 (2018)
An erratic (and ultimately disappointing) sequel...
Posted Aug 14, 2018
6
3/4
Dog Days (2018)
Filmmaker Ken Marino has infused Dog Days with a perfectly competent yet generally unmemorable sensibility that's allayed by the charisma of the various performers...
Posted Aug 10, 2018
7
2/4
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Disappointingly erratic and rarely engrossing...
Posted Aug 10, 2018
8
2/4
Puzzle (2018)
...there's perhaps just not enough material here to sustain a feature-length running time.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
9
.5/4
Monolith (2016)
...a decent setup that's employed to terrifically terrible and flat-out interminable effect by filmmaker Ivan Silvestrini...
Posted Aug 9, 2018
10
2.5/4
Suddenly (1954)
...a decent (and appreciatively brisk) little B movie.
Posted Aug 8, 2018
11
2.5/4
Kiss of Death (1995)
There's little doubt that Kiss of Death fares best in its opening stretch...
Posted Aug 7, 2018
12
2.5/4
The Sea of Trees (2016)
Filmmaker Gus Van Sant certainly does an effective job of initially luring the viewer into the deliberately-paced picture...
Posted Aug 6, 2018
13
2.5/4
Psycho (1998)
Gus Van Sant's oddball, shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic...
Posted Aug 6, 2018
14
2/4
Other People's Money (1991)
...an ill-advised adaptation that just doesn't have enough material or substance to sustain a feature-length running time.
Posted Aug 4, 2018
15
3/4
Dreamscape (1984)
There's little doubt, then, that Dreamscape improves immeasurably...
Posted Aug 4, 2018
16
2.5/4
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
A mild improvement over its lackluster predecessor...
Posted Aug 4, 2018
17
1/4
...a bottom-of-the-barrel example of lowest-common-denominator childrens' filmmaking.
Posted Aug 3, 2018
18
2/4
The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
19
2/4
The Darkest Minds (2018)
The Darkest Minds suffers from a run-of-the-mill quality that's woefully prevalent in all its various attributes...
Posted Aug 3, 2018
20
1/4
Yogi Bear (2010)
...a patience-testing, headache-inducing disaster with little to offer older viewers.
Posted Jul 17, 2018
21
2/4
Salvador (1986)
...a gritty and often grim narrative that's generally (and unfortunately) lacking in overtly compelling elements...
Posted Jul 16, 2018
22
.5/4
The First Purge (2018)
...just another paint-by-numbers exercise in absolutely tedium.
Posted Jul 16, 2018
23
3/4
Marathon Man (1976)
Filmmaker John Schlesinger delivers a slow-moving first half that admittedly requires a fair degree of patience from the viewer...
Posted Jul 16, 2018
24
2.5/4
People Places Things (2015)
Strouse's ongoing emphasis on overly off-kilter instances of comedy and character development sometimes prevents the viewer from entirely embracing the material...
Posted Jul 13, 2018
25
2/4
Skyscraper (2018)
A disappointing actioner...
Posted Jul 13, 2018
26
3.5/4
First Reformed (2018)
...a stellar entry within Schrader's admittedly rocky body of work.
Posted Jul 13, 2018
27
2/4
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
...an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Posted Jul 13, 2018
28
2/4
A rather ineffective followup to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland...
Posted Jul 12, 2018
29
2/4
Wish Upon (2017)
...a disappointingly half-baked horror effort that could (and should) have been so much better.
Posted Jul 11, 2018
30
1/4
Prey (2006)
Fairly worthless from start to finish...
Posted Jul 8, 2018
31
2/4
Father Hood (1993)
Basically adequate yet completely forgettable...
Posted Jul 8, 2018
32
3/4
Calibre (2018)
An erratic yet effective thriller...
Posted Jul 5, 2018
33
3.5/4
Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
A compulsively (and increasingly) watchable piece of work...
Posted Jul 4, 2018
34
2.5/4
Perpetually uneven but affable enough...
Posted Jul 3, 2018
35
3/4
Tau (2017)
An erratic yet watchable sci-fi effort...
Posted Jun 29, 2018
36
2.5/4
Jersey Girl (2004)
Director Kevin Smith's first non-View Askewniverse effort...
Posted Jun 29, 2018
37
3/4
Upgrade (2018)
It's a solid premise that's employ to watchable and occasionally enthralling effect by filmmaker Leigh Whannell...
Posted Jun 29, 2018
38
2/4
Anesthesia (2016)
A disappointing misfire...
Posted Jun 29, 2018
39
2.5/4
Ocean's 8 (2018)
There's little doubt that Ocean's Eight comes off as a far more erratic and hit-and-miss endeavor than its Steven Soderbergh-helmed predecessors...
Posted Jun 28, 2018
40
1/4
The Quiet Ones (2014)
An unmitigated disaster...
Posted Jun 27, 2018
41
2/4
Being Charlie (2016)
Competent yet perpetually uninvolving...
Posted Jun 27, 2018
42
1/4
Disobedience (2018)
...a fairly disastrous misfire that simply doesn't work in any way, shape, or form (and this is to say nothing of McAdams' consistently distracting accent).
Posted Jun 26, 2018
43
3/4
American Animals (2018)
Filmmaker Bart Layton punctuates American Animals with interviews with the story's real-life figures...
Posted Jun 26, 2018
44
2/4
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Too Big to Fail ultimately comes off as a talky, surprisingly dull drama that all-too-often feels a reenactment on a financial news network.
Posted Jun 25, 2018
45
1.5/4
The Three Musketeers (2011)
46
2/4
Wolves (2017)
Featuring a breakout performance by Taylor John Smith...
Posted Jun 23, 2018
47
1/4
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Initially intriguing yet ultimately atrocious...
Posted Jun 23, 2018
48
2.5/4
...a passable followup that's lacking most of the awe and wonder (and fun) of Steven Spielberg's superlative 1993 original.
Posted Jun 22, 2018
49
1/4
Revolver (2005)
An often astonishingly incoherent trainwreck...
Posted Jun 20, 2018
50
2.5/4
Centurion (2010)