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Chris Packham

Chris Packham's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Arizona (2018) 43% EDIT “A well-done but chilly and essentially unlovable black comedy...” – Village Voice Aug 21, 2018 Full Review Sollers Point (2017) 85% EDIT “The loose, seemingly improvisational performances bolster the film's unstudied realism and surface the hope and despair of the characters.” – Village Voice May 16, 2018 Full Review Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story (2018) 94% EDIT “Even small efforts to rectify human misdeeds cause suffering to animals, and Bell seems aware of this balance of consequences.” – Village Voice Apr 26, 2018 Full Review 44 Pages (2017) 83% EDIT “It's likely all the easy jokes that might occur to you about the magazine racks in the lobbies of dentists' offices will evaporate and you'll wonder if they might be hiring.” – Village Voice Apr 17, 2018 Full Review Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018) 89% EDIT “An education-focused and age-appropriate true story of the official mascot of the 102nd infantry regiment, who participated in seventeen battles on the Western Front during World War I, returning home as a hero.” – Village Voice Apr 10, 2018 Full Review 1918: Journey's End (2018) 91% EDIT “Though set at a specific moment in time, the film could be about terminal cancer patients or condemned prisoners, a deeply felt catalog of the behaviors of men who know they're about to die.” – Village Voice Mar 14, 2018 Full Review Richie McCaw: Chasing Great (2016) 75% EDIT “It's clear where all of this is going, but McCaw surprises with his mental rigor (he excelled academically) and total commitment to his sport (he plays with a stress fracture in his foot).” – Village Voice Feb 27, 2018 Full Review Big Time (2017) 85% EDIT “[An] elegant documentary ...” – Village Voice Dec 2, 2017 Full Review Big Sonia (2016) 94% EDIT “The loose structure is bound by a thread of motherhood. Sonia's children, two daughters and a son, are lively, intelligent, and deeply affected by their parents' trauma.” – Village Voice Nov 16, 2017 Full Review The Osiris Child (2016) 60% EDIT “A series of scenes that cut away from interesting developments to flashbacks with a vengeance, as though "interesting developments" killed director Shane Abbess' dog.” – Village Voice Oct 4, 2017 Full Review Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) 90% EDIT “Zahler's screenplay is driven by a solid central character and dialogue that might have made Elmore Leonard sit up straight.” – Village Voice Oct 4, 2017 Full Review Against the Night (2017) 9% EDIT “The film vacillates between two explanations for the hauntings - one supernatural, one boring - strobing back and forth until the film's final, exasperating twist.” – Village Voice Sep 13, 2017 Full Review Dave Made a Maze (2017) 85% EDIT “Cardboard is cheap, and by marshalling a tiny budget toward craft-store set design, Watterson builds a movie that's genuinely bigger on the inside.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 31, 2017 Full Review The Layover (2017) 0% EDIT “To accept these characters, you have to suspend your disbelief and any knowledge about real-life women.” – Village Voice Aug 30, 2017 Full Review Unleashed (2016) 75% EDIT “An inoffensive Hallmark card of an indie comedy, as indifferently intended by the sender as it is regarded by the recipient.” – Village Voice Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Brave New Jersey (2016) 56% EDIT “Lambert aims for gentle, Lake Wobegon-ish nostalgia, but the jokes never land, the undifferentiated small town confers no sense of location, and its eccentrics aren't particularly weird.” – Village Voice Aug 1, 2017 Full Review Kill Switch (2017) 9% EDIT “An ungainly hybrid of two totally disparate mediums that have been Human Centipede-d together: film and first-person-shooter video games. Film is not the front end of this configuration.” – Village Voice Jun 14, 2017 Full Review Camera Obscura (2017) 28% EDIT “The implied conditional logic governing the camera's curse doesn't extend to the film's amateurish discontinuities ...” – Village Voice Jun 7, 2017 Full Review Afterimage (2016) 86% EDIT “Director and co-writer Andrzej Wajda's story is a vise that inexorably tightens on the artist as he loses his job, his gallery, and the professional credentials required for artists to work.” – Village Voice May 17, 2017 Full Review Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait (2017) 50% EDIT “Though visually expansive ... the film feels emotionally intimate.” – Village Voice May 3, 2017 Full Review Tomorrow Ever After (2016) 86% EDIT “All of this might be profoundly silly if it weren't built around Thier's dignity and gentle humor.” – Village Voice May 3, 2017 Full Review Rackstraw Downes: a painter (2014) EDIT “Glacial and mesmerizing, the documentary equivalent of droning Tibetan singing bowls, a work crafted to induce its audience into the same contemplative state as its subject at work.” – Village Voice Apr 26, 2017 Full Review Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back (2016) 86% EDIT “In this stylish documentary, Cattelan talks effusively on camera about his career, his work, and his private life in unexpectedly candid interviews.” – Village Voice Apr 12, 2017 Full Review Salt and Fire (2016) 33% EDIT “Despite the bad acting, self-importance and general Herzogian ridiculousness, the director actually has a deep sense of beauty ...” – Village Voice Apr 5, 2017 Full Review The Assignment (2016) 33% EDIT “Rodriguez absolutely tears it up as a stomping, cussing nuclear core of male swagger, both before and after the surgery.” – Village Voice Apr 5, 2017 Full Review
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