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James Adams

James Adams's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Film Critic, Globe and Mail

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The Death of Louis XIV (2016) 87% 4/4 EDIT “A masterpiece.” – Globe and Mail Jul 14, 2017 Full Review Don't Blink -- Robert Frank (2015) 84% 3.5/4 EDIT “Don't Blink is a friendly film by a friend - honest and historically aware, but almost unfailingly affectionate and attuned to the "spontaneous intuition" that, 92 years after his birth, still seems the governing principle of Frank's life.” – Globe and Mail Aug 26, 2016 Full Review Miles Ahead (2016) 74% 2/4 EDIT “Miles Ahead? Miles behind is more like it.” – Globe and Mail Apr 15, 2016 Full Review Mountains May Depart (2015) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “There's a lot of heart here.” – Globe and Mail Mar 4, 2016 Full Review Drone (2014) 94% 3/4 EDIT “The film ranges far, wide and deep in its exploration of this distinctively 21st-century form of "dehumanized" combat.” – Globe and Mail Nov 20, 2015 Full Review Brooklyn (2015) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Fans of the novel, of which I'm one, may find the film sweeter and more romantic than Toibin's original conception.” – Globe and Mail Nov 20, 2015 Full Review Heart of a Dog (2015) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “The wide swerve of Anderson's associations, their "hypnotic splattered mist," don't make for an easy film. But it is a very good one and only the hardest heart will leave the theatre unmoved.” – Globe and Mail Oct 30, 2015 Full Review The Forbidden Room (2015) 96% 3/4 EDIT “[A] narcotized fever dream ...” – Globe and Mail Oct 9, 2015 Full Review Banksy Does New York (2014) 100% 3/4 EDIT “It's downright playful, in fact, funky chic and cheeky. Somewhere, Banksy is smiling.” – Globe and Mail May 22, 2015 Full Review Big Eyes (2014) 72% 2/4 EDIT “Burton lets his film putter along in middle gear, provoking neither riotous laughter nor emotional immersion.” – Globe and Mail Dec 24, 2014 Full Review The Great Invisible (2014) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's heartening to know there are filmmakers with a longer view untethered to the frantic rhythms of the news cycle.” – Globe and Mail Oct 21, 2014 Full Review Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014) 83% 3/4 EDIT “With a large cast of wise guys, reporters, ex-cops, victims and lawyers, lawyers, lawyers, it's like five seasons of The Wire distilled into one epic episode.” – Globe and Mail Jul 11, 2014 Full Review Tim's Vermeer (2013) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Mostly it is fascinating and compelling.” – Globe and Mail Feb 21, 2014 Full Review Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 92% 3/4 EDIT “You don't end up rooting for Llewyn Davis because there's not much to root for. And this imparts a weird sort of impersonality or cold-bloodedness to the film's core.” – Globe and Mail Dec 20, 2013 Full Review The Hunt (2012) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Hunt's inexorability feels derived more from thematic or ideological concerns than any organic necessity.” – Globe and Mail Dec 16, 2013 Full Review The Act of Killing (2012) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Bizarre, hypnotic, audacious.” – Globe and Mail Dec 16, 2013 Full Review Looking Is the Original Sin (2012) 2/4 EDIT “Thing is, the work the viewer sees in Looking is the Original Sin, isn't terribly prepossessing.” – Globe and Mail Nov 22, 2013 Full Review Geography Club (2013) 67% 2/4 EDIT “As a manifesto for tolerance and a contribution to greater social and gender harmony, this is an exercise all to the good. As a film, however, it's something of a snooze.” – Globe and Mail Nov 15, 2013 Full Review Hi-Ho Mistahey! (2013) 2.5/4 EDIT “As an act of witness, Hi-Ho Mistahey! is admirable; as cinema, not so much.” – Globe and Mail Nov 1, 2013 Full Review A Touch of Sin (2013) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “Epic and intimate, A Touch of Sin finally feels as big and complex, as contradictory and sad as, well, China.” – Globe and Mail Oct 18, 2013 Full Review The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “It effectively recalls what a divisive, often irritating, even hated figure Ali was back in the day, before his ascent to the realm of myth and near-sainthood.” – Globe and Mail Oct 11, 2013 Full Review The Art of the Steal (2013) 46% 2/4 EDIT “As is often the case in these caper flicks, there's too much plot for insufficient dramatic effect, and alert viewers will suss out where it's all heading in the first five minutes.” – Globe and Mail Sep 20, 2013 Full Review Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2012) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “vocateur is never less than watchable. At the same time, you have to wonder who's going to watch it.” – Globe and Mail Aug 30, 2013 Full Review The East (2013) 77% 2/4 EDIT “The East is not a very good movie, hobbled by an excess of plot, a lack of believability and big gaps of logic.” – Globe and Mail Jun 7, 2013 Full Review Picture Day (2012) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “What Picture Day lacks in tension it makes up for in the writer-director's astute understanding of character and acuteness of observation.” – Globe and Mail May 24, 2013 Full Review
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