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John Patterson

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Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% EDIT “A wide-open work of art, capable of eliciting infinite responses, quite fathomless, and Lynch’s masterpiece.” – Guardian Jul 11, 2023 Full Review The Revenant (2015) 78% EDIT “The Revenant offers this year's most hostile on-film environment after Aleksey German's equally snowbound (and exhausting) Hard to Be a God.” – Truthdig Dec 29, 2015 Full Review Spotlight (2015) 97% EDIT “Both a crepuscular paean to the slowly vanishing age of the metropolitan daily newspaper and a hymn to the virtues of old-school shoe-leather investigative journalism, the kind that gets results and changes lives and cities.” – Truthdig Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) 36% EDIT “Their brand isn't crisis -- their brand is middlebrow, middle-of-the-road, entirely middling filmmaking of the third rank.” – Truthdig Nov 3, 2015 Full Review Bridge of Spies (2015) 91% EDIT “As a retro-Cold War thriller, Bridge of Spies is an efficient, exciting entertainment dotted with nicely executed set pieces, but it's also a Spielberg movie, which usually means trouble somewhere.” – Truthdig Oct 15, 2015 Full Review Black Mass (2015) 74% EDIT “What is so disappointing about Black Mass is its sheer timorousness in the face of other, frankly, better and more daring approaches to this material.” – Truthdig Sep 22, 2015 Full Review Last Vegas (2013) 45% 3/5 EDIT “Last Vegas is a good-natured bimbo of a movie, it'll do just about anything to please you, though luckily that includes delivering the 20 big laughs you feel you're owed (unlike The Hangovers), and gently jerking a tear or two.” – Guardian Nov 4, 2013 Full Review SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden (2012) 50% 3/5 EDIT “Seal Team 6 could only rate as propaganda in a toxic, Fox News-driven political environment such as obtains at this moment.” – Guardian Nov 6, 2012 Full Review The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009) 69% EDIT “Fans of the novels will eat it up, while newbies may wonder what all the fuss is about.” – Village Voice Jul 6, 2010 Full Review The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009) 85% EDIT “Catch it before the inevitable U.S. remake.” – Village Voice Mar 16, 2010 Full Review The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 94% EDIT “A madly beautiful, often straight-up-bonkers meditation on the life of its eponymous Armenian-Azeri balladeer and poet.” – L.A. Weekly Feb 21, 2008 Full Review Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) 93% EDIT “Shadows was a leap in the dark like none other in Soviet film history, and a slap in the face of the officially sanctioned and artistically vacuous school of Socialist Realism.” – L.A. Weekly Feb 21, 2008 Full Review Unconscious (2006) 85% EDIT “Laboring in the wide shadow of Almodvar and lacking much in the way of visual distinction, Unconscious compensates with its cast's full-tilt commitment to rip-snorting farce.” – L.A. Weekly Apr 12, 2007 Full Review Fuck (2005) 56% EDIT “Profound and joyously silly at the same time, Steve Anderson's documentary about our most potent secular blasphemy comes at the word and subject from every conceivable angle: Its awesome power to offend the listener and to empower its utterer.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 9, 2006 Full Review Greg & Gentillon (2005) EDIT “Sending two faux-provincial innocents into real-life situations involving levelheaded, genially imperturbable Canadians offers only the mildest kind of comedy.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 26, 2006 Full Review Vajra Sky Over Tibet (2006) 55% EDIT “A tonic for Buddhists, no doubt, it offers many pleasures to atheists as well.” – L.A. Weekly Sep 7, 2006 Full Review Princesas (2005) 74% EDIT “Aranoa's film is a small miracle of controlled empathy.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 31, 2006 Full Review Queens (2005) 45% EDIT “This enormously likable comedy is given an additional boost by the energetic presence of five of Spain's favorite actresses (including sleek Marisa Paredes, flighty Mercedes Sanpietro and growlin' Carmen Maura, an Almodvar regular).” – L.A. Weekly Aug 24, 2006 Full Review Sisters in Law (2005) 92% EDIT “Inspirational stuff, and often hysterical to boot.” – L.A. Weekly Jul 6, 2006 Full Review RV (2006) 23% EDIT “In RV, the downwardly spiraling career trajectories of Robin Williams and director Barry Sonnenfeld intertwine like the ropes of a tangled parachute.” – L.A. Weekly May 2, 2006 Full Review Stoned (2005) 16% EDIT “This half-forgotten '60s controversy can't sustain a whole movie, so director Steven Woolley and writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade pad things out.” – L.A. Weekly Mar 23, 2006 Full Review Firewall (2006) 19% EDIT “Had Loncraine done a better job of plundering his own oeuvre, Firewall might have acquired the mojo it so sorely lacks.” – L.A. Weekly Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Wolf Creek (2005) 55% EDIT “Consummately well-crafted, unapologetically vicious and leavened with moments of humor that merely intensify the horror.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 22, 2005 Full Review Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) 17% EDIT “Even more problematic is the script's clumsy, sprawling architecture, Sheridan's clubfooted sense of pacing and his grubby, indistinct visuals.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 10, 2005 Full Review Winter Soldier (1972) 100% EDIT “A harrowing and often nauseating compendium of battle-zone confessions that was cast into obscurity almost immediately upon release in 1972.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 3, 2005 Full Review
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