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Corey Hall

Corey Hall's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) 90% B+ EDIT “A film loaded with snappy dialogue, winking in-jokes, and a fistful of terrific performances that add a layer of emotional resonance and moral complexity, grounding the material even as it threatens to fly away in a blizzard of flying shrapnel.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jul 13, 2015 Full Review Children of Men (2006) 92% EDIT “Fortunately, the film rarely slows down long enough to proselytize, especially in the hellish refugee-camp climax, a horrid polyglot of ceaseless conflict that could be any war zone on the planet.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Apr 1, 2015 Full Review The Artist (2011) 95% A EDIT “Director Michel Hazanavicius, in his first American production, has pulled of a miracle, making a gimmick with a pretty wispy framework into something sturdy, memorable and moving.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Feb 17, 2015 Full Review The Fault in Our Stars (2014) 81% B- EDIT “Now we have a three-hankie melodrama for the Snapchat generation, with smart phone texts taking the place of messages in bottles, but with most of the genre's established tropes firmly in place.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jan 6, 2015 Full Review Gloria (2013) 100% B+ EDIT “This is not a film about narrative sweep, but about the slow, steady business of reclaiming one's soul.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Frozen (2013) 89% B EDIT “Not only does the movie look great with its scenes of glistening, freezing majesty, but it also sounds absolutely terrific.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Dec 8, 2014 Full Review Babylon A.D. (2008) 7% F EDIT “Babylon A.D. is a plodding incoherent fiasco, though an oddly compelling one.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jul 29, 2014 Full Review Grown Ups 2 (2013) 8% D- EDIT “[A] witless, clueless and utterly pointless sequel to a comedy that pulled in boatloads of cash, but was beloved by absolutely no one.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jul 28, 2014 Full Review The Last Airbender (2010) 5% C- EDIT “Nothing here is helped by M. Night Shyamalan's bizarre casting choices.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jul 18, 2014 Full Review Pierrot le Fou (1965) 88% A EDIT “There's cool and then there's Jean-Paul Belmondo. No one ever made being bored look so exciting, and the effortlessly graceful and impossibly hip actor gave the mid-'60s nouvelle vague a needed macho punch.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jul 16, 2014 Full Review A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) 33% C- EDIT “They could have just called it A Million Jokes Die in the West So That Six May Work.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jun 4, 2014 Full Review The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) 51% B- EDIT “In spite of the numbing effect of this chaotic claptrap, the movie is still blessed with an incredible super power: the chemistry between leads Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) May 10, 2014 Full Review Fed Up (2014) 80% B EDIT “The film's real strength is actually in Katie Couric's refined news-anchor delivery, and her skill, charm, and celebrity likely opened some doors.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) May 10, 2014 Full Review Neighbors (2014) 72% C+_ EDIT “Rogen continues to toke bongs and crack jokes about dongs, all in an increasingly desperate attempt to extend immaturity into infinity. Maybe it's just me, but having initially been a fan I've grown weary of his pot fueled antics.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) May 10, 2014 Full Review The Face of Love (2013) 44% C EDIT “For all the hard-fought realism, brilliant performances, and the feelings stirred up by the themes of mortality and late-life romance, there is the inescapable silliness of the central conceit.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Apr 16, 2014 Full Review Draft Day (2014) 60% C+ EDIT “...the movie remains oddly watchable, even if an underlying tale in which millionaires are going to get richer a little faster may have trouble making it onto the highlight reel these days.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Apr 16, 2014 Full Review Noah (2014) 75% B EDIT “Aronofsky's grand, crazy vision is filled with more awe and reverence than a traditional snoozefest like Son of God, and, in its fun, flawed and chaotic way, Noah is a popcorn flick about the endless wonders of the universe and of the human soul.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Apr 16, 2014 Full Review Divergent (2014) 41% C EDIT “The hazy message, that you need to join a club, and only then think independently, is confused, and hardly the cynical dystopian satire of Orwell or Huxley.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Mar 23, 2014 Full Review The Darjeeling Limited (2007) 69% B+ EDIT “Here Anderson, like his heroes, learns the real adventure is in getting deliriously lost.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Mar 12, 2014 Full Review Non-Stop (2014) 62% B- EDIT “... a very by-the-numbers affair, but one that delivers cheesy shocks and jolts with the predictability and efficiency of a veteran flight crew doling out ginger ale and tiny bags of pretzels.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Mar 6, 2014 Full Review Son of God (2014) 17% D EDIT “...as good as any film edited together from segments of a History Channel miniseries can be expected to be, which is to say it's utterly terrible.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Mar 6, 2014 Full Review The Wind Rises (2013) 88% B EDIT “The Wind Rises, in its own mysterious, inimitable ways, is a fitting farewell for a director committed to the power of creativity.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Feb 26, 2014 Full Review Vampire Academy (2014) 18% D+ EDIT “I can't speak for Richelle Mead's novels, but I'm assuming they read like the instruction manuals for a role playing game: there are both too many, and not enough, rules.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Feb 14, 2014 Full Review August: Osage County (2013) 67% C+ EDIT “All this vitriol might work better on the stage, but bigger than life and in tight close-up, the familial nastiness becomes insufferable. TV producer-turned-director John Wells lights everything like an ad for cholesterol meds.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jan 9, 2014 Full Review Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) 40% D+ EDIT “There are smatterings of clever touches but eventually it all degenerates into the same old, same old demonic shenanigans. The truly terrifying part is that the audience for this kind of trash doesn't care.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Jan 9, 2014 Full Review
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