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David Bax

David Bax's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Problemista (2023) 85% EDIT “Julio Torres' wonderfully surreal new comedy, Problemista, nails the nauseous tension of being a vulnerable, lowly employee and mines serious laughs from it.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “Misery is light on bumps and jolts (though not completely without them). Instead, Reiner relies on a sense of dread, which he introduces early on and then proceeds to crank up almost imperceptibly throughout.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 20, 2026 Full Review About Dry Grasses (2023) 92% EDIT “This is a movie about a pathetic man who is nonetheless relatable to those of us who are watching him.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Here (2023) 95% EDIT “With its naturalistic performances and its tale of a friendship that burns all the brighter for having a fast-approaching expiration date, Here has a lot in common with Sofia Coppola‘s Lost in Translation.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Good One (2024) 98% EDIT “An early clue that Good One is more than a light, humanistic dramedy comes in the form of Celia Hollander’s sad, harp-driven score.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Realm of Satan (2024) 56% EDIT “Realm of Satan, in truth, might indulge its subjects a bit too much, adding special effects to make their imagined mysticism come to life.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Drift (2023) 72% EDIT “Drift is a premise in search of a movie.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% EDIT “It calls to mind David Lowery‘s A Ghost Story, another film that turns the haunted house genre into a meditative–and similarly gorgeous–project.” – Battleship Pretension Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Winner (2024) 54% EDIT “This is a cutesy, quippy portrait of a complex American activist reduced to a yassified girlboss (and other such things I have no business trying to work into a review).” – Battleship Pretension Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Hit Man (2023) 95% EDIT “At its core, Hit Man is a movie about pretending.” – Battleship Pretension Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Handling the Undead (2024) 75% EDIT “Maybe it’s in keeping with the Norwegian personality to have such muted reactions to such drastic events; would your response to the return of a dead loved one be to silently light up a cigarette?” – Battleship Pretension Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Sasquatch Sunset (2024) 71% EDIT “Despite the seemingly outlandish hook, David and Nathan Zellner‘s Sasquatch Sunset, which follows what appear to be a father, mother and child of the species, is, above all, just very boring.” – Battleship Pretension Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Bushman (1971) 100% EDIT “May it outlast the popular counterculture it critiques.” – Battleship Pretension Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Dìdi (2024) 96% EDIT “There’s a refreshing honesty and, possibly, a particular boyishness, to a story of an artist discovering his medium not due to the purity of his innermost compulsions but just because he’s trying to be seen as cool.” – Battleship Pretension Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Disco Boy (2023) 88% EDIT “Alex and Jomo’s stories eventually becoming intertwined is not just a clever narrative trick, though it does provide emotionally powerful results.” – Battleship Pretension Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Love Me (2024) 46% EDIT “Love Me is the movie equivalent of people who type “smol.”” – Battleship Pretension Sep 12, 2025 Full Review The Promised Land (2023) 97% EDIT “This is clearly a high budget, professional production, the kind of thing Hollywood used to more regularly churn out for grown mainstream audiences who liked a little bit of class with their popcorn.” – Battleship Pretension Sep 10, 2025 Full Review I Saw the TV Glow (2024) 85% EDIT “Like World’s Fair, the film would have to be categorized as horror, assuming it would have to be categorized at all.” – Battleship Pretension Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Freaky Tales (2024) 75% EDIT “The screenplay here is so self-evidently engineered that it ultimately comes across as more of an exercise than a work of artistic passion.” – Battleship Pretension Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Stress Positions (2024) 73% EDIT “All I know is I want more from Hammel as soon as possible.” – Battleship Pretension Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Veni Vidi Vici (2024) 52% EDIT “To call this film a comedy is more of description of its intent than of its content.” – Battleship Pretension Aug 27, 2025 Full Review The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (2024) 97% EDIT “It’s an argument that, as one person states in the film, “There are solutions to most things.”” – Battleship Pretension Aug 26, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “Sam Raimi’s Darkman may actually be the closest cinema has ever come to actually feeling like a comic book. ” – Battleship Pretension Aug 23, 2025 Full Review In a Violent Nature (2024) 79% EDIT “Each shot feels as if it were painstakingly storyboarded and each cut judiciously predetermined.” – Battleship Pretension Aug 23, 2025 Full Review Night Swim (2024) 19% EDIT “Ultimately, Night Swim boils down to this: What if, instead of an entire snowbound hotel, Jack Torrance had a pool?” – Battleship Pretension Aug 20, 2025 Full Review
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