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Chris Mello

Chris Mello's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Sweet My Home (2023) EDIT “A relative lack of traditional horror elements and reliance on offscreen incident might make the film feel bold for a while, but eventually, it starts to feel a little flat.” – In Review Online Apr 14, 2024 Full Review Limbo (2021) 86% EDIT “Limbo is another impressive work from Cheang... but it is also frustratingly grim, the work of a filmmaker who looks at Hong Kong and hates what he sees. ” – In Review Online Sep 28, 2023 Full Review The Pigeon Tunnel (2023) 96% EDIT “ Taken as a final interview with one of the great writers of the second half of the 20th Century, The Pigeon Tunnel is a joy... As a new documentary from one of the masters of the form, however, it appears minor; a film lacking in purpose and new insight.” – In Review Online Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Bad Things (2023) 54% EDIT “the gulf between Bad Things’ lofty goals and its realization could not be wider, as the film is sorely deficient as both genre entertainment and intellectual exercise.” – In Review Online Aug 23, 2023 Full Review Dead Shot (2023) 70% EDIT “Though it initially has the makings of a typical revenge movie and sports plenty of violence, it's a slower, more thoughtful historical thriller... more interested in emotional gravity and political apparatus than in spinning bloodshed into entertainment.” – In Review Online Aug 16, 2023 Full Review Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) 96% EDIT “This new film... is not lucky enough to boast such exciting subject matter, but it is... [a] better film [than Jude's other work] and more approachable still, given that it doesn’t give a third of its runtime over to a video essay covering… everything.” – In Review Online Aug 11, 2023 Full Review Kennedy (2023) 56% EDIT “Kennedy is hollow garbage, an overlong slog that manages the dubious feat of being lightweight and ponderous simultaneously.” – In Review Online May 31, 2023 Full Review Ghosted (2023) 24% EDIT “Fletcher’s film... isn’t really a throwback to the summer movies of the 2000s so much as Apple TV+’s foray into an emergent genre best described as “Netflix drivel.”” – In Review Online Apr 30, 2023 Full Review Sisu (2022) 94% EDIT “Herlander has made a structurally sound movie that moves at a measured rhythm, allowing for room to breathe and reset in between the setpieces.” – In Review Online Apr 29, 2023 Full Review Radiance (2017) 63% EDIT “But because the film is so often satisfied to lifelessly plod through the motions of a middling drama so light it might evaporate, there’s not enough here to engage with past the surface. ” – In Review Online Apr 28, 2023 Full Review Kill Boksoon (2023) 79% EDIT “Yet although it might be overstuffed, overlong, and unfocused, Kill Boksoon is rarely less than entertaining, all of its individual parts working as they should, even when they don’t come together.” – In Review Online Apr 3, 2023 Full Review The Killer (2022) 82% EDIT “But The Killer, like its predecessor, doesn’t warrant generosity. It’s a shallow retread of already shallow ground, a contemporary setting update to a historical version of the same bad movie.” – In Review Online Jul 21, 2022 Full Review The Deer King (2021) 59% EDIT “The film is an anonymously beautiful fantasy epic that gets too lost in vague world-building to deliver much of anything compelling.” – In Review Online Jul 14, 2022 Full Review Flux Gourmet (2022) 85% EDIT “Flux Gourmet’s stiff performance art world satire could use a push past its gross-out faux extremity into something actually horrific.” – In Review Online Jun 23, 2022 Full Review Cairo Conspiracy (2022) 85% EDIT “It’s a wonderfully intriguing set-up, one that makes for a thriller in which allegations of sin carry as much weight as a bullet, but the stuffy genre clothes the film comes dressed in keep it from being as textually rich as it could have been.” – In Review Online May 28, 2022 Full Review La Jauría (2022) 100% EDIT “La Jauría is a gorgeous, hypnotic film, one where memorable images sometimes repeat, imbuing the film with a kind of monotony that remains gripping. ” – In Review Online May 27, 2022 Full Review There Are No Saints (2022) 27% EDIT “Alfonso Pineda Ulloa has used this script to make a slick, violent crime movie that is more than happy to basically abandon its initially heady themes in favor of more typical straightforward bloodshed.” – In Review Online May 27, 2022 Full Review Corsage (2022) 85% EDIT “Corsage is, in places, a victim of this staleness, but it sports a fantastic Vicky Krieps as the caustic and complicated Austrian Empress, so it’s good anyway.” – In Review Online May 26, 2022 Full Review The Worst Ones (2022) 100% EDIT “[It] is sensitive, intelligent filmmaking, but its even-handed nature toward both the population of Picasso and Gabriel’s film sometimes feels like an elision of perspective, like it’s walking up to the line but ultimately letting everyone off the hook. ” – In Review Online May 25, 2022 Full Review Hunt (2022) 68% EDIT “The twists, however, are what Lee mistakes for intelligent plotting. ... It never becomes convoluted enough to be hard to follow, but instead only casts the film as a more simplistic, disappointing thriller” – In Review Online May 23, 2022 Full Review Final Cut (2022) 71% EDIT “But what’s really missing from Final Cut is an attitude. ... There’s nothing genuine about Hazanavicius, a big-name director whose Oscar win has aged like milk, doing the same thing almost beat for beat in a creatively bankrupt act of cannibalization.” – In Review Online May 23, 2022 Full Review Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) 81% EDIT “Rescue Rangers is a film made for Disney+ that totally pales in comparison to the thing it invites comparison to, the way making stinky cheese analogous to drugs can’t hold a candle to the sexual innuendo of playing patty cake.” – In Review Online May 23, 2022 Full Review Summer of Changsha (2019) 14% EDIT “[Summer of Changsha is] a maudlin piece of fake deep psychodrama that doesn’t even have the good sense to entertain. Changsha is a film that hardly establishes the goodwill it works so hard to erode over two very long hours.” – In Review Online May 18, 2022 Full Review The Takedown (2022) 40% EDIT “[The Takedown is] a simple, mildly funny buddy cop comedy that lamely invokes politics for points, stumbling into the lie that police are somehow the enemy of fascism.” – In Review Online May 5, 2022 Full Review Bubble (2022) 52% EDIT “What you see is what you get with Bubble, a film that cant escape its own slightness even as it reaches for grand sentiment.” – In Review Online Apr 28, 2022 Full Review
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