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Jim Vorel

Jim Vorel's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Man Finds Tape (2025) 82% 7.4/10 EDIT “This is a startlingly creative and skillfully assembled little movie–one that eventually overreaches to some degree, but as a viewer you wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. ” – Paste Magazine Nov 16, 2025 Full Review Being Eddie (2025) 75% 6.2/10 EDIT “Despite its shortcomings, the sharp-eyed viewer will still glean some interesting tidbits about the comedy legend from what is left unsaid.” – Paste Magazine Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Playdate (2025) 23% 2.0/10 EDIT “The sheer, cumulative ugliness of Playdate, as it careens between sequences of incomprehensible action and dull-as-dirt comedy, works to do nothing so much as corrode the spirit.” – Paste Magazine Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Trap House (2025) 52% 6.7/10 EDIT “Trap House thus evolves into a cat-and-mouse game between the cartel murder squads on one side, the valorous DEA squad on the other, and the idiotically overconfident kids caught in the middle.” – Paste Magazine Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Caterpillar (2023) 100% 8.6/10 EDIT “Caterpillar is a stunning piece of documentary work, both for its incredible degree of access to both its central character and his journey, and its unconventional style of presentation, which skirts the boundaries of documentary and narrative feature.” – Paste Magazine Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 5.5/10 EDIT “It’s so busy depicting the worst events of Christy's life, it has no time to sell us on the supposed sense of triumph that it insists is there. I’m unconvinced.” – Paste Magazine Nov 4, 2025 Full Review House of Ashes (2025) 71% 5.5/10 EDIT “It’s a story that was clearly made with the best of sociopolitical intentions, but it lacks both the gumption and the know-how to translate its dissatisfaction into a truly biting critique.” – Paste Magazine Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Violent Ends (2025) 67% 8.4/10 EDIT “...a scintillating southern gothic crime drama bolstered by stellar performances, gritty naturalism and exquisitely gruesome payoffs.” – Paste Magazine Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Dream Eater (2025) 68% 5.8/10 EDIT “With growing repetition, it continues going through the sleepwalking motions, squandering its stronger elements. Where it might have become a nightmare you couldn’t shake, the film ultimately vanishes in the mundane light of dawn.” – Paste Magazine Oct 27, 2025 Full Review River of Grass (2025) 100% 7.1/10 EDIT “Both a personal diary and tribute to Everglades conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, River of Grass weaves a potent spell of greenery.” – Paste Magazine Oct 21, 2025 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% 8.0/10 EDIT “Gandbhir didn’t choose to make a documentary feature about this case because it was unique, but because it was blandly indicative of a decidedly American brand of cultural decay. What she presents is stark, horrifying, and infuriating on multiple levels.” – Paste Magazine Oct 15, 2025 Full Review *smiles and kisses you* (2024) 7.8/10 EDIT “Smiles and Kisses You captures a fascinatingly personal profile of just how deep the emotional salve of A.I. can be for an individual, although one wishes at times that some wider context might be applied.” – Paste Magazine Oct 12, 2025 Full Review John Candy: I Like Me (2025) 89% 6.0/10 EDIT “When everyone is so eager to say the same, nice things about the performer of John Candy: I Like Me, a deeper level is hard to uncover.” – Paste Magazine Oct 8, 2025 Full Review V/H/S Halloween (2025) 89% 7.1/10 EDIT “One of the series’ strongest recent efforts, buoyed by the joyfully demented humor and explosive bloodletting of “Diet Phantasma,” “Fun Size” and “Home Haunt” in particular.” – Paste Magazine Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 8.7/10 EDIT “Not just an impressive piece of animal wrangling and performance, but a genuinely heartwrenching piece of storytelling that also features impressive direction and immaculately staged visuals, framing and lighting in particular. ” – Paste Magazine Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Play Dirty (2025) 42% 7.0/10 EDIT “Play Dirty is a caper so off-kilter that it never has a chance to become boring, so absurd that you can’t take any element of it seriously, and so entertaining that it manages to make a run time of 125 minutes feel reasonable, if only barely. ” – Paste Magazine Sep 30, 2025 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% 7.6/10 EDIT “When it finally comes time to do so, Bone Lake delivers in firmly entertaining, if occasionally nonsensical fashion, with welcome goriness filling in for the more overt eroticism that is often implied but somewhat lacking.” – Paste Magazine Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% 5.0/10 EDIT “Johansson makes it so easy for both the audience and characters to forgive all of Eleanor’s actions that it kills any sense of danger or trespass in the premise–even internally, Eleanor seems to have no conflict.” – Paste Magazine Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 75% 8.0/10 EDIT “Kirk’s film is a surprisingly lyrical and quite gritty, intimate thriller, one that makes the best of its unorthodox choice of performers to tell a story that is equal parts tender and savage.” – Paste Magazine Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Adulthood (2025) 77% 6.9/10 EDIT “There are enough moments of either well-calculated gallows humor or generational commentary to keep things moving briskly along, and both Gad and Scodelario find room to have a new definition of maturity thrust upon them.” – Paste Magazine Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Predators (2025) 97% 8.2/10 EDIT “Predators interrogates what we’re getting out of supposed pursuits of justice. The vulnerable, of course, must be protected. But perhaps the route to doing so should be out of the hands of those seeking their own sick enjoyment, profit or entertainment.” – Paste Magazine Sep 15, 2025 Full Review The Man in My Basement (2025) 40% 6.0/10 EDIT “For far too much of its bloated runtime, it becomes an incomprehensible slideshow of trauma and weakly executed horror imagery, only occasionally revealing the far more effective, character-driven psychological thriller it’s clearly yearning to be.” – Paste Magazine Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 86% 7.1/10 EDIT “The effect is an intensely dreamlike visual and auditory palette, quickly devolving into a nightmare where you’re sinking deeper and deeper into a setting that frequently feels rotten and miserable for everyone involved. ” – Paste Magazine Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% 8.1/10 EDIT “Heartfelt, gently humorous and possessing a keen understanding of the passage from juvenile to adult thinking, it’s a thoughtful and solemnly beautiful feature debut.” – Paste Magazine Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Motor City (2025) 70% 4.8/10 EDIT “The experience of watching Motor City evokes unwittingly landing on one of those fake A.I. trailers that are a plague upon YouTube, realizing halfway through that the uncanniness suggests a vague caricature of human behavior rather than anything genuine.” – Paste Magazine Sep 9, 2025 Full Review
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