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Brian Orndorf
Tomatometer-approved critic
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Official Website:
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Movies reviews only
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) |
The production’s joints are a little rusty and the writing is overstuffed, but there’s fun to be had with “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” especially when Burton taps into his old madness and Keaton is permitted to get goofy with his most distinct creation. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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Rebel Ridge (2024) |
As with “Hold the Dark,” overlength is an issue here, but “Rebel Ridge” mostly holds together as an engrossing thriller with excellent performances all around. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR! (2024) |
It’s a riveting, hilarious journey. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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I'll Be Right There (2024) |
Gracefully executed, and it’s a pleasure to watch star Edie Falco work through the stages of frustration her character experiences during the endeavor, giving one of her finest performances. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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The Thicket (2024) |
“The Thicket” isn’t always successful with its storytelling, but it does create an immersive understanding of the era and its gun-toting participants, while a few casting treats certainly help the cause. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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AfrAId (2024) |
There’s the reality of the topic and the haunted house interests of the picture, and viewers are quickly left with a real dud. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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1992 (2024) |
“1992” has something to explore when it comes to the L.A. Riots and family bonds, but Vromen and Penn refuse the challenge to expand on the few engaging ideas they have. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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Reagan (2024) |
It’s a bio-pic of Ronald Reagan from the director of “Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels,” “Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite,” and “Bratz.” - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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Gary (2024) |
Dashwood can’t resist the ugly side of Coleman’s days. However, there’s an opportunity to understand the late subject’s perspective in life, comprehending decisions that became tabloid fodder, while his pain is made crystal clear. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 01, 2024
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You Gotta Believe (2024) |
The picture captures youthful activity capably, and there’s an inspiring tale of teamwork in the middle of it all, giving the endeavor some emotional power as it follows a storytelling playbook. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Sep 01, 2024
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The Crow (2024) |
Skarsgard and FKA Twigs try to deliver a grand love story for this iteration of “The Crow,” but emotions are muddied and tragedy is botched in this lifeless pass at reviving a dormant franchise. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 23, 2024
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The Killer (2024) |
Not completely subdued work, with the effort rising up to deliver some key moments of violence, giving stars Emmanuel and Sy something to play as they bring life to a less operatic viewing experience. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 23, 2024
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Incoming (2024) |
Originality is limited to a few ideas, with the rest of the endeavor sticking with ugly encounters and dim passes at humor. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 23, 2024
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The Deliverance (2024) |
Hope for an understanding of one woman’s pain is punted away in the final hour, which becomes like every other evil extraction movie in the marketplace.
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| Posted Aug 23, 2024
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Between the Temples (2024) |
Silver has pure magic in stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, with the actors embracing the free range experience, landing bits of humor and heartache in a movie that wants viewers to feel everything. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2024
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Greedy People (2024) |
The road to the conclusion is a bit steadier, examining rising paranoia and horrible accidents with a playful cast and a decent pace. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2024
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The Clean Up Crew (2024) |
“The Clean Up Crew” is derivative and unpleasant, clearly struggling to generate a wild ride of colliding personalities and underworld events. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2024
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Catching Dust (2023) |
It’s a slower paced endeavor with a less than satisfying conclusion, but Gatt hits on a few interesting points of loyalty, and he works well with the atmospheric location. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2024
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The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (2024) |
The cast assembled here gives their all, working to make somewhat odd characters into feeling people, and it’s enjoyable to watch these interpretations come to life. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2024
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Hell Hole (2024) |
Talky and mostly uninteresting, asking viewers to participate in what’s basically a filmed play with a cast of unseasoned actors. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2024
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Crescent City (2024) |
Clumsily tries to be a whodunit, but mostly remains a whocares as little of the endeavor becomes passably interesting. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 16, 2024
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The Union (2024) |
“The Union” is certainly more engaging than similar streaming adventures into the world of secret spies and explosive operations. At the very least, it’s never boring.
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| Posted Aug 16, 2024
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Alien: Romulus (2024) |
It’s executed superbly at times, providing a fantastic thrill ride that plays with sequel iconography and plotting. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 14, 2024
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Blink Twice (2024) |
“Blink Twice” eventually goes full exploitation to find a finale, but up to this point, it’s an intriguing examination of danger. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 14, 2024
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Skincare (2024) |
It’s the mental illness of celebrity, and the protection of it that gives “Skincare” a few boosts of insanity, with Banks and Peters fashioning a twisted ride for those interested in experiencing such screen tension and oddity. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 14, 2024
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The Good Half (2023) |
Looks to explore intimate spaces of distress and confusion, also reinforcing the power of relationships, which helps the picture find some interesting areas of communication - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 14, 2024
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My Penguin Friend (2024) |
Easily charms with its animal antics and cuts a little deeper with character pain, though it remains a sunny examination of friendship and askew therapy from an unlikely source of comfort. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 14, 2024
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Jackpot! (2024) |
Unfortunately, the film doesn’t have inspired funny business to share, presenting a riff-happy journey that grows obnoxious in a hurry. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 14, 2024
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Cuckoo (2024) |
The production has atmosphere and some effective elements of horror, and there’s a feral side to Schafer’s performance that helps “Cuckoo” reach intended moments of pure intensity. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 09, 2024
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Borderlands (2024) |
It’s not quite the disaster its ruinous production history promises, but “Borderlands” certainly doesn’t work, fighting to transform into the spirited, snarky, CGI-intensive eye candy it desperately wants to become. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 08, 2024
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One Fast Move (2024) |
A few scenes manage to connect on an emotional level, but the rest of the feature fails to be meaningful as Blatz goes déjà vu with the structure of a sports film. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 08, 2024
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It Ends With Us (2024) |
“Us” has the power of the book driving its appeal, but there’s something about this cinematic representation of doubt and danger that makes Hoover’s work seem ridiculous, or worse when it comes to trivializing real-world pain. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 08, 2024
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Duchess (2024) |
Marshall has nothing much to offer, relying on cliché and shots of a half-naked Kirk to make it through the lifeless feature. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 06, 2024
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The Mouse Trap (2024) |
It’s “Blood and Honey” all over again, with limited effort put into the final production, which is caught between becoming one big goof and one colossal bore. “The Mouse Trap” merely exists to collect a quick buck from the curious. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 06, 2024
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Running on Empty (2024) |
“Running on Empty” goes the wrong way with ideas, eschewing dramatic opportunity to become another weak, R-rated comedy that doesn’t have any laughs. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 06, 2024
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Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024) |
Inspired moments remain in “Saving Bikini Bottom” (including a chase inside a water park), and it connects as intended for the most part. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 02, 2024
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Trap (2024) |
“Trap” isn’t all that forcefully constructed to begin with, but it falls apart long before it crawls to a limp conclusion, finding Shyamalan defiantly biting off more than he can chew when it comes to ludicrousness. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 02, 2024
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Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) |
A formulaic, unfunny bore, with all the spark of Johnson’s original creation turned into a lifeless, charmless viewing experience. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 01, 2024
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The Instigators (2024) |
“The Instigators” isn’t exciting, deeply felt, or all that amusing. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Aug 01, 2024
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Detained (2024) |
It’s not a sharp puzzler, but when it comes to moments of shock and intimidation, the effort offers a little more danger than most B-movies. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 31, 2024
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The Fabulous Four (2024) |
A dispiriting collection of sitcom moments that’s increasingly dire to watch. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 26, 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) |
Struggles with tonal balance and repetition. However, it’s hard to deny the spirit of the endeavor, which is meant to be wild and surprising. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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The Last Breath (2024) |
It's eager to meet marketplace demands for rowdy shark action and bloody messes, but such combat is the least interesting element in the endeavor, which finds a decent amount of tension in the dive itself, not the horrors of the deep. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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The Beast Within (2024) |
Has mood and competent performances, but there’s very little to the production that’s meant to grab the viewer, often caught struggling to find intensity with a tale of growing threat. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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Spread (2024) |
Doesn’t do enough with its central concept of female gaze interests in the world of X-rated entertainment. There’s room for sharpness and enlightenment, but Charlet would rather play dumb instead. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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Find Me Falling (2024) |
Thespian charm certainly helps the cause here. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Clear Cut (2024) |
“Clear Cut” falls apart fairly quickly, making for a tough viewing experience, with the endeavor skipping an opportunity to become something lean and mean in the world of logging. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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My Spy: The Eternal City (2024) |
A sloppy, ill-conceived sequel, and it’s debatable if anyone wanted it in the first place. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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Oddity (2024) |
Frights remain in play in the movie, which connects with genre formula and many inspired moments of pure filmmaking. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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Twisters (2024) |
“Twisters” isn’t a grand reimagining of tornado alley terror, but as pure entertainment with several menacing storm and rescue sequences, it works, reviving large-scale weather nightmares for the masses. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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