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Damon Wise
Damon Wise's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Touch (2024) |
Kormákur’s film doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it does have its little idiosyncrasies in a genre that can be very formulaic. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Twisters (2024) |
It’s hard to imagine who Twisters is actually for. The dialogue is creaky, whenever it’s not Satnav-speak, and the bad behavior of rapidly spinning air isn’t really something to invest in. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jul 10, 2024
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Fly Me to the Moon (2024) |
In its favor, Johansson and Tatum -- in perhaps their most weaponized comedic roles since Hail, Caesar! -- really do make a great team, which is the main box ticked and will likely be the biggest draw for audiences. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jul 08, 2024
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Xoftex (2024) |
Deshe’s film should pick up steam on the arthouse circuit, offering an unorthodox, often oblique, but emotionally powerful attempt to recreate onscreen the disorientation of the stateless mind. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) |
The generous use of score suggests even the makers don’t have a lot of faith in the power of silence any more. It delivers enough frights for the time being, though, and the casting of Nyong’o carries it to the finish line. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jun 27, 2024
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MaXXXine (2024) |
Sometimes clumsily but more often not, MaXXXine has things to say about the objectification and humiliation of women in Hollywood, as actors and directors, and, alongside that, the belittling of horror as a genre too. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jun 26, 2024
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Inside Out 2 (2024) |
You could be forgiven for thinking that this journey home will be a picaresque riot, a colorful flexing of the collective Pixar imagination, but there’s not much fun in this 13-year-old’s mind. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Lake George (2024) |
Coon is magnetic as always, but this is Whigham’s show, and this performance might yet take him to awards season as one of the year’s best. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jun 11, 2024
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McVeigh (2024) |
McVeigh does have something new to say about radicalization, that it’s not about religion or race or mental illness but a way to fill an empty vessel. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jun 10, 2024
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The Watchers (2024) |
Working from a folk-horror novel by A.M. Shine, Shyamalan takes a simple single-location genre premise and somehow creates a thriller that’s both unnecessarily complex and almost entirely uninteresting. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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All We Imagine as Light (2024) |
At a time when so much attention is being paid to the lives of the haves and the have-nots amid such financial imbalance worldwide, it’s refreshing to see the spotlight on ordinary women caught somewhere in the middle, living just enough for the city. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 28, 2024
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The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024) |
At a brisk 81 minutes, it’s all over very quickly, and it’s to Hazanavicius’s credit that he doesn’t equate length with importance: the power of his film derives very much from its clarity and simplicity. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 28, 2024
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Beating Hearts (2024) |
A romantic banlieue opera that delivers all the gritty, vicarious thrills of the now-standard post-Goodfellas gangster movie but also burrows into issues of class and gender in refreshingly unpredictable ways. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Grand Tour (2024) |
Gomes has enough admirers now that there’s a small but dedicated audience for his sophisticated meditations on history and culture... For the rest of us, though, it all seems a little too much like hard work. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 22, 2024
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Anora (2024) |
The star of the show is the fearless Mikey Madison, who gives her all as the dazed and confused Ani. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 21, 2024
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Armand (2024) |
Reinsve shines as a striking anti-heroine, playing a brittle, broken woman with a marshmallow interior. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024) |
Like Limonov, who fashioned his penname from the Russian word for a hand grenade, it explodes across the screen with wit, irreverence and invention; a slap in the face of public taste indeed. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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The Substance (2024) |
The perfect breakout genre movie of the year. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) |
A surprisingly relatable experience, part anthropological study, part nostalgia kick, lit up (literally) like a Christmas tree in a yuletide riot of red, white and green. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 17, 2024
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Megalopolis (2024) |
Coppola breaks many of the cardinal rules of filmmaking in the film’s 138 minutes but it upholds the most important one: it is never, ever boring, and it will inspire just as many artists as the audiences it will alienate. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 16, 2024
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) |
Nyoni’s sophomore film is something darker and altogether more serious... Using the occasion of a family funeral as the jumping-off point for a slow-burn drama builds, rather stealthily, to an unexpectedly emotional climax. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 16, 2024
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Ghost Trail (2024) |
Ghost Trail isn’t exactly thrilling, certainly not in the manner of a John le Carré novel. Closer in spirit to Spielberg’s Munich, it’s a quietly profound character study about the need for a closure that may never come. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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Back to Black (2024) |
Back to Black is the story as seen through the singer’s own eyes, which is a very smart way of dodging the bullets that accompany any attempt to tell her rise-and-fall story. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Apr 09, 2024
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Things Will Be Different (2024) |
Those willing to get swept up and carried along by its playful Moebius-strip logic will be richly rewarded. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Apr 08, 2024
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Kim's Video (2023) |
A playful and intelligent film that teases one thing and delivers quite another. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Apr 08, 2024
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) |
It is confusing at times, and not everything works, but Frozen Empire does a very good job of keeping the flame alive, 40 years after the fact. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 20, 2024
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Omni Loop (2024) |
History repeats itself in this ingenious but surprisingly heartfelt sci-fi. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 19, 2024
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Desert Road (2024) |
For a first-timer, Triplett shows flair and confidence with a very tricky concept, but Froseth deserves credit too, for bringing humanity into what could very easily been a cold, mathematical exercise. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 14, 2024
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Sew Torn (2024) |
The charm of Sew Torn is how it takes a well-worn genre narrative and disrupts it with so many quirks and eccentricities that it takes on an identity all of its own. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 13, 2024
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Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) |
This could be one of the best films yet to come out of the pandemic, beautifully articulating the sense of isolation and introspection it engendered but also the digital camaraderie that emerged via online interactions and RPGs such as this. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 12, 2024
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We Were Dangerous (2024) |
It never quite comes together as the wry, subversive coming-of-age movie that it might have been, but the performances are powerful enough in Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s debut that its emotional heft is surprisingly indelible. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 09, 2024
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Timestalker (2024) |
Timestalker is an ambitious project that not only works, it coheres in a way that cements Lowe as a genuine and quite visionary comedic talent. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 09, 2024
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Cabrini (2024) |
Monteverde’s dour tone, often exacerbated by his none-too-subtle use of score, doesn’t exactly make 145 minutes fly by. Still, it’s a story worth telling, and its solemn, old-school storybook stylings are actually quite refreshing in the modern age. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) |
Regardless of its factual credentials, it’s hard to imagine a more heartfelt tribute, and it’s to Scorsese’s credit that, in his 80s, he’s put aside so much time to wave the Union Jack for The Archers. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Mar 04, 2024
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Architecton (2024) |
Such a concept isn’t all that new, but Kossakovsky’s fascinating, magnetic film essay does help us to reassess what we’ve lost over the centuries. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 27, 2024
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Spaceman (2024) |
Finally, it just starts to feel very long, and it’s tempting to wonder if the script, adapted from the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar, isn’t actually just a very literal interpretation of Elton John’s song “Rocket Man." - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 21, 2024
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Dune: Part Two (2024) |
Part Two would be an epic achievement from any other director, but it feels that there is something bigger, better and obviously more decisive to come in the third and hopefully final part of the trilogy. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 21, 2024
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Meanwhile on Earth (2024) |
A strange, poetic, and endearingly surreal meditation on the counterintuitive ways in which we react when confronted with loss. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 19, 2024
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Bob Marley: One Love (2024) |
The problem with One Love is that, just like the music industry, its makers still don’t quite know how to deal with Bob Marley, a genuine original, a true rebel poet, a Che Guevara on the downbeat. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 08, 2024
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10 Lives (2024) |
Using the Dorset coast as his backdrop, director Christopher Jenkins creates a cosy, homespun world that’s quite refreshing after the recent trend for fairytale kingdoms in faraway places. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 02, 2024
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Little Death (2024) |
Those willing to follow first-time director Jack Begert down the rabbit hole into the film’s surprising second half will find it strangely satisfying. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 01, 2024
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DIG! XX (2024) |
What unites everyone in this still-engrossing movie is that they do what they do because, a) it’s all they can do, and b) it’s all they want to do. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 26, 2024
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A Real Pain (2024) |
The film is proof that Eisenberg has ready to transcend the label of actor-director: Benji is a gift of a role, the kind that makes movie stars, and Eisenberg generously hands it to Culkin on a plate. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 22, 2024
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Winner (2024) |
Thanks in part to a terrific performance by CODA star Emilia Jones, Winner (subtitled: Based on Reality), justifies every minute — and could even use a few more. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 21, 2024
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The American Society of Magical Negroes (2024) |
While it results in a wildly uneven tone, there’s something refreshing about its thoughtfulness. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 21, 2024
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It's What's Inside (2024) |
This is first-class genre filmmaking and an impressive calling card for everyone involved. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 20, 2024
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Sasquatch Sunset (2024) |
Somehow, the Zellners pull it off, taking a premise that could so easily have become Trash Humpers in the Woods, and delivering instead a warm and thoughtful study of nature and its hierarchies, of which we presume to be at the top. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 20, 2024
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I Saw the TV Glow (2024) |
For those ready and willing to embrace its commitment to mood over logic, I Saw the TV Glow is a must-see, pairing the otherworldly ambience of Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink with the morbid surrealism of Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 19, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
Though primarily a comedy, Thelma succeeds because it isn’t a spoof; Margolin clearly loves action movies and finds inventive new ways to create tension. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 19, 2024
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Ghostlight (2024) |
A funny, intelligent and yet at times almost unbearably sad movie that takes a searing family tragedy and spins it into a riveting redemption story. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jan 19, 2024
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