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Bill Chambers

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Capricorn.

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Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Official Website:

http://filmfreakcentral.net

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Eternity (2025) 77% 1.5/4 EDIT “Once established, Eternity‘s love triangle offers no further turns of the screw: Joan must simply pick a lane.” – Film Freak Central Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 2/4 EDIT “Dead Man's Wire has some of that Dog Day electricity up front but is too low-stakes and underpopulated to sustain it, no matter how many multimedia you-are-there inserts Van Sant cuts to from news crews and the like.” – Film Freak Central Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Obsession (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “I like how Obsession more or less skips the honeymoon phase and goes straight to the irony of Bear’s wish coming true, in all its hollowness and imprecise syntax.” – Film Freak Central Oct 7, 2025 Full Review The Sun Rises on Us All (2025) 79% 3.5/4 EDIT “A devastating adult drama, The Sun Rises on Us All is also a uniquely pulpy one.” – Film Freak Central Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% 1.5/4 EDIT “If a few sequences still captivate, the overall feeling of the film is one of a grimy datedness and a decided lack of impetus.” – Film Freak Central Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Degrassi: Whatever It Takes (2025) 2/4 EDIT “Rideout’s documentary is the story of a proud second-wave feminist becoming another compromised Boomer, though that makes this uneasy mix of fluff, hagiography, and reckoning sound more hard-hitting than it is.” – Film Freak Central Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% 3.5/4 EDIT “Return to Oz is largely dazzling, certainly more intricate than the expressionistic original. ” – Film Freak Central Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% 2.5/4 EDIT “Wolf Man is rarely conventionally satisfying as either a tentpole or a werewolf movie, and more power to it; but its vision is a tad blinkered.” – Film Freak Central Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% 1.5/4 EDIT “ A film this artificial has little hope of aging well, and that’s without factoring in the glut of state-of-the-art CGI.” – Film Freak Central Apr 18, 2025 Full Review The 4:30 Movie (2024) 70% 1.5/4 EDIT “So much of The 4:30 Movie feels like the ChatGPT interpolation of a Kevin Smith joint.” – Film Freak Central Feb 28, 2025 Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 82% 3/4 EDIT “...impeccably acted across the board, and it can be a mordantly funny reminder that Trump is beyond parody...” – Film Freak Central Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Paying for It (2024) 88% 2/4 EDIT “For all its frank sexuality, there is something disappointingly safe about Paying for It...” – Film Freak Central Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Seeds (2024) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Seeds–it’s a metaphor for pregnancy, it’s a cautionary tale about corporate bedfellows, it’s the proverbial spoonful of sugar.” – Film Freak Central Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Aberdeen (2024) 2/4 EDIT “Aberdeen is a frustrating film with a frustrating lead.” – Film Freak Central Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% 3/4 EDIT “Though its stylistic restlessness most evokes the lyricism and playful practical effects of Dracula and Youth Without Youth, Megalopolis also improbably recalls The Godfather in its earnest preoccupation with the stressful but reassuring pull of family...” – Film Freak Central Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Young Werther (2024) 71% 1/4 EDIT “It reduces her to a cartoon character, and one of those is already enough for the remarkably thin Young Werther, a movie that confuses the novel’s gravitas with its renown...” – Film Freak Central Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Friendship (2024) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “While Robinson is exactly the right actor to play the peculiarly modern specimen that is Craig, his performing style sucks up so much oxygen it’s ultimately fatiguing, proving the wisdom of I Think You Should Leave episodes tapping out after 15 minutes.” – Film Freak Central Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Lisa Frankenstein (2024) 52% 1.5/4 EDIT “I don’t think Lisa Frankenstein is epochal enough to age like anything other than milk.” – Film Freak Central Jun 15, 2024 Full Review Night Swim (2024) 19% 1/4 EDIT “A better movie would have placed him at the forefront of a coming-of-age narrative, though I truly can’t figure out how the sensitively conceived Elliot thrived in such a creatively starved and frankly ableist endeavour.” – Film Freak Central May 3, 2024 Full Review Rosemary's Baby (1968) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Krzysztof Komeda's score sounds lush enough, and the track delivers all those muffled, half-heard conversations with an uncanny dislocation despite the absence of stereo imaging.” – Film Freak Central Oct 27, 2023 Full Review The Teachers' Lounge (2023) 95% 3/4 EDIT “The haunting final shot is a loss for everyone involved in a way that doesn't feel equivocating or cynical, just quietly tragic.” – Film Freak Central Sep 30, 2023 Full Review I Don't Know Who You Are (2023) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “I thought a lot about Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7, of which this film is something of a micro-budget Canadian update.” – Film Freak Central Sep 30, 2023 Full Review Smugglers (2023) 88% 3/4 EDIT “... a touching and remarkably subtle bit of friendship-as-destiny, appropriately smuggled like contraband into a formulaic yarn.” – Film Freak Central Sep 30, 2023 Full Review Sleep (2024) 95% 2/4 EDIT “As it stands, Sleep had me at hello--and lost me by goodbye.” – Film Freak Central Sep 30, 2023 Full Review Seagrass (2023) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Hama-Brown is someone to watch; she even makes us care about a blanket and a closet door.” – Film Freak Central Sep 30, 2023 Full Review
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