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Jason Zinoman

Jason Zinoman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% EDIT “Making this work requires wit, the right tone and a ruthless sense of pace. Byrne manages all three with a sure hand.” – New York Times Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Hannah Berner: We Ride at Dawn (2024) EDIT “Berner delivers what she calls “female locker room chat” with swagger and anything-goes charisma. ” – New York Times Aug 28, 2024 Full Review Langston Kerman: Bad Poetry (2024) EDIT “[Kerman] does a lot of material about the love lives of mothers, and somehow makes it seem wholesome, relying on a sensible good-boy persona. It might remind some of John Mulaney, who directed this special. ” – New York Times Aug 28, 2024 Full Review Adam Sandler: Love You (2024) 92% EDIT “Not everything hits hard, in part because this is a quirkier effort that will delight the hard-core Sandler fans, those who stuck with him before the critics came around. ” – New York Times Aug 28, 2024 Full Review Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats (2024) 0% EDIT “Rogan is interested in ideas on his podcast, whereas in his new special, he prefers playing dumb. ” – New York Times Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Ramy Youssef: More Feelings (2024) EDIT “The comic takes a nuanced look at his own role as a Muslim celebrity and at the American response to conflict in the Mideast.” – New York Times Mar 28, 2024 Full Review Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only (2023) EDIT “Works best as a behind the scenes hang with an odd couple.” – New York Times Dec 12, 2023 Full Review A Haunting in Venice (2023) 76% EDIT “In straddling genres, “Haunting” can get stuck in the middle. But there’s fun to be had there.” – New York Times Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Insidious: The Red Door (2023) 39% EDIT “The leaden screenplay would be easier to overlook if there were more spooky sequences.” – New York Times Jul 7, 2023 Full Review John Mulaney: Baby J (2023) 86% EDIT “Mulaney’s comedy... has become spikier, pricklier, sometimes slower while remaining as funny as ever, like he’s a pitcher who learned to mix up speeds.” – New York Times Apr 25, 2023 Full Review Evil Dead Rise (2023) 85% EDIT “Cronin... is a meticulous creator of stunning shots. His camera doesn’t move. It dances, shifting, spinning, occasionally knocked on its side like a running back in a collision.” – New York Times Apr 21, 2023 Full Review Scream VI (2023) 77% EDIT “It’s tricky business balancing disturbing terror and jokey film criticism, and while this sequel occasionally pulls it off, the weight of obligations to the dictates of the franchise ultimately drags it down.” – New York Times Mar 9, 2023 Full Review Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (2023) 46% EDIT “In this special, Rock seemed more raw than usual, sloppier, cursing more often and less precisely. This was a side of him you hadn’t seen before.” – New York Times Mar 6, 2023 Full Review Cocaine Bear (2023) 65% EDIT ““Cocaine Bear” too often feels like a one-joke movie, stretched thin.” – New York Times Feb 24, 2023 Full Review M3GAN (2022) 93% EDIT “While there are some hints at social commentary on how modern mothers and fathers use technology to outsource parenting, this movie is smart enough to never take itself too seriously.” – New York Times Jan 5, 2023 Full Review Nocebo (2022) 74% EDIT “Even in a movie haunted by death, you need more signs of life.” – New York Times Nov 3, 2022 Full Review V/H/S/99 (2022) 75% EDIT ““V/H/S/99” smartly dispenses with the wraparound plot that was always the worst part of all its predecessors, but finds a creative if unnecessary connective tissue.” – New York Times Oct 20, 2022 Full Review The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) 100% EDIT “Along with some very funny footage of a master of his craft, it offers a convincing argument that while Gregory became famous for his comedy, what made him such a riveting cultural figure is what he did after he left it behind.” – New York Times Jul 1, 2021 Full Review Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) 95% EDIT “"Inside" is a tricky work that for all its boundary-crossing remains in the end a comedy in the spirit of neurotic, self-loathing stand-up.” – New York Times Jun 4, 2021 Full Review James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 (2021) EDIT “It's a familiar trick, making someone look ridiculous by imagining the terrible logic of their thinking, but few have committed to it so fully or for as long.” – New York Times Mar 24, 2021 Full Review Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020) 93% EDIT “"Douglas" is a surprisingly slick, joke-dense show, running hot then cold and even chilly, periodically pausing to meditate on its changing temperature.” – New York Times May 28, 2020 Full Review John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) 96% EDIT “Mulaney offers counterprogramming, a quirky variety show with a modern Broadway sensibility. At its best, and most fully realized, it feels like a program made by unusually sophisticated, precocious children for their friends.” – New York Times Dec 31, 2019 Full Review Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh (2019) 100% EDIT “It has far too many fresh takes and idiosyncratic elements to be called hack. But it is a reminder that whatever you think about it, there is no denying that sometimes, the familiar works.” – New York Times Oct 23, 2019 Full Review Cracked Up (2018) EDIT “This isn't your typical show business documentary.” – New York Times Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019) 98% EDIT “Max Lewkowicz's documentary keeps reminding us of the multiple sources of inspiration for this quintessentially Jewish musical, from the paintings of Marc Chagall to the politics of the day.” – New York Times Aug 22, 2019 Full Review
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