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Karen D'Souza

Karen D'Souza's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Black Panther (2018) 96% 4/4 EDIT “The richness of the visual palette here is dazzling.” – San Jose Mercury News Feb 15, 2018 Full Review Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) 91% EDIT “"The Last Jedi" has as much heart as it has guts and that's a stirring combination. You walk out of the cinema reminded why it's sometimes worth fighting a battle you may well lose.” – San Jose Mercury News Dec 12, 2017 Full Review It (2017) 85% 3/4 EDIT “As a child of the '80s, this reviewer had high expectations for this classic horror fable and director Andy Muschietti mostly manages to live up to them.” – San Jose Mercury News Sep 6, 2017 Full Review Wonder Woman (2017) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Jenkins doesn't need to bludgeon us with pyrotechnics. The real fireworks of the "Wonder Woman" narrative are its powerful emotions.” – San Jose Mercury News May 31, 2017 Full Review Get Out (2017) 98% 4/4 EDIT “The deliciously sinister nature of the race dynamics will make you cringe, right up until it gives you the chills.” – San Jose Mercury News Feb 22, 2017 Full Review La La Land (2016) 91% 3/4 EDIT “If you haven't already fallen for this gauzy romp through the city of Angels at this point, you surely will during the last scene, with its bittersweet homage to the way times goes by.” – San Jose Mercury News Dec 30, 2016 Full Review Fences (2016) 92% 3/4 EDIT “The intensity of the bonds between the actors here, forged when many of them starred together on Broadway, deepens the ache of this tragic tale and makes this Fences so formidable.” – San Jose Mercury News Dec 20, 2016 Full Review Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “Despite lively performances, handsome costumes and a lavish sense of 1940s high society, "Florence Foster Jenkins" just doesn't hit all the right notes.” – San Jose Mercury News Aug 10, 2016 Full Review The BFG (2016) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “Once the wonder of this world has sunk in, there's nowhere to go in this film, which can lull you straight into torpor.” – San Jose Mercury News Jun 28, 2016 Full Review Love & Friendship (2016) 96% 2.5/4 EDIT “An intelligent actress too often wasted in butt-numbing action movies, Beckinsale is endlessly captivating as a formidable woman low on funds but high on manipulative genius.” – San Jose Mercury News May 17, 2016 Full Review Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015) 11% 2.5/4 EDIT “Yari's earnest but plodding biopic lacks a sense of sweep and truth, trading tropical landscapes for narrative depth in a way that diminishes the power of the Hemingway mystique.” – San Jose Mercury News Apr 27, 2016 Full Review Hail, Caesar! (2016) 86% 2/4 EDIT “Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the film is the nagging feeling that the Coens do indeed have something fascinating to say about the inner workings of Hollywood, but the flailing "Hail, Caesar!" isn't it.” – San Jose Mercury News Feb 3, 2016 Full Review Sisters (2015) 60% 3/4 EDIT “Admittedly, the groaner gags and physical shtick are piled on thicker than '80s mascara, and the movie goes overboard here and there (mud wrestling? really?), but hanging with Amy and Tina always makes for an excellent adventure.” – San Jose Mercury News Dec 16, 2015 Full Review Suffragette (2015) 73% 3.5/4 EDIT “"Suffragette" urges us to look at the dynamics of gender, class and power then and now with fresh eyes.” – San Jose Mercury News Oct 27, 2015 Full Review Crimson Peak (2015) 72% 2/4 EDIT “This haunted house flick has all the discipline and restraint of a Spirit Halloween store. Once the suspense is gone, all that's left is the blood spatter.” – San Jose Mercury News Oct 14, 2015 Full Review The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “The documentary connects the past and the present so forcefully that we see our own reflection in the struggle to bring power to the people.” – San Jose Mercury News Sep 28, 2015 Full Review Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “After "The Man in the Machine," you may never look at that iPhone in your hand the same way again. You truly will think different.” – San Jose Mercury News Sep 1, 2015 Full Review Sunshine Superman (2014) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Strauch makes a compelling case for the exhilaration of living, and dying, on your own terms, a freedom so few of us ever truly experience.” – San Jose Mercury News May 26, 2015 Full Review Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% 1.5/4 EDIT “About an hour in, it finally dawned on me that perhaps the movie was giving me insights into masochism after all. As the minutes slowly, painfully ticked by I came to accept my punishment.” – San Jose Mercury News Feb 12, 2015 Full Review Into the Woods (2014) 70% 2.5/4 EDIT “This movie always seems to distance itself from that existential truth that was at the core of Sondheim's original.” – San Jose Mercury News Dec 18, 2014 Full Review Carrie (2013) 51% 2.5/4 EDIT “For all its cheesy '70s vibe, De Palma's movie far better captured the primal, almost "Lord of the Flies" nature of the high school experience, the sheer terror of being a social outcast. That's what really gave the "Carrie" myth such staying power ...” – San Jose Mercury News Oct 17, 2013 Full Review The World's End (2013) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “The movie never makes fun of geek tropes, but it does indulge in rapid-fire pop culture allusions that go so bloody fast you need to see it twice to catch them all.” – San Jose Mercury News Aug 21, 2013 Full Review World War Z (2013) 67% 1.5/4 EDIT “Other than the CGI eye candy, which is intense, there is little in the way of layers and complexity to this portrait of pandemonium.” – San Jose Mercury News Jun 19, 2013 Full Review Much Ado About Nothing (2012) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “A slick, postmodern "Much Ado" that delights so much it's very nearly as you like it.” – San Jose Mercury News Jun 5, 2013 Full Review Les Misérables (2012) 70% 3/4 EDIT “It's hard to resist the movie's wrenching sense of intimacy.” – San Jose Mercury News Dec 12, 2012 Full Review
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