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Matthew Odam

Matthew Odam's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Adopt a Highway (2019) 70% EDIT “We are forced to intuit backstory, motivation, fears and hopes in Hawkes' eyes. Fortunately, his eyes have it.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 15, 2019 Full Review Agave: Spirit of a Nation (2018) EDIT “How these families will be able to stem or fit into a more global and industrialized world never feels completely fleshed out. While that bigger overhead view of the situation in Mexico is lacking, the passion and heart of those featured rings true.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 22, 2018 Full Review The Work (2017) 100% EDIT “When you watch The Work, you enter the hot, uncomfortable confines where beauty and truth are forged from the raw materials of pain, longing and the need to connect, and you leave shaken but more rooted in humanity.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 16, 2017 Full Review Served Like a Girl (2017) 100% EDIT “Served Like a Girl does a sensitive job of showing the bravery of female soldiers in both deployment and at home.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 14, 2017 Full Review Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press (2017) 91% EDIT “The question isn't whether Gawker is worth saving, but simply a protection of first amendment rights.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 14, 2017 Full Review Memoria (2016) 100% EDIT “Memoria is a poignant and troubling film, but it rarely telegraphs its shots and treats its young subjects with a slightly removed concern.” – Austin American-Statesman Dec 27, 2016 Full Review The Adderall Diaries (2015) 26% EDIT “The frenetic tone and uneven storytelling feels more like an outline for a film than a finished product.” – Austin American-Statesman Dec 27, 2016 Full Review City of Gold (2015) 89% EDIT “City of Gold' is a sweet and charming portrait of a talented man with a big appetite -- for food, for people, for Los Angeles.” – Austin American-Statesman Dec 27, 2016 Full Review Don't Think Twice (2016) 98% B EDIT “[An improv troupe] makes for a solid backdrop for writer-director Mike Birbiglia to explore what happens when individual ambitions and latent jealousy can poison a group.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 15, 2016 Full Review Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016) 45% EDIT “When [Robbins] stares directly at Berlinger and tells him he is simply driven to help people reshape their lives, you have no choice but to believe him, even if you can't piece together all of the exact why and how.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 15, 2016 Full Review Miss You Already (2015) 70% B- EDIT “[A] Beaches-esque tale of friendship, perseverance and love, mostly in times of duress.” – Austin American-Statesman Nov 5, 2015 Full Review 6 Years (2015) 69% EDIT “It gives shape to the anxiety and emotional tumult that comes with maturation and the struggle to hold a relationship together after irreparable fissures have already started to form.” – Austin American-Statesman Sep 14, 2015 Full Review Being Evel (2015) 97% B- EDIT “We can probably stop making movies about the legendary Evel Knievel. That statement is a testament to the comprehensiveness of the film from Daniel Junge and the fact that the daredevil is starting to feel like an anachronism.” – Austin American-Statesman Aug 20, 2015 Full Review Adult Beginners (2014) 49% EDIT “Kroll and Byrne find a palpable sense of care for one another. It helps that Kroll can use his face as well as any actor to draw laughs from the audience, and Byrne can illicit empathy and compassion with her gentle, plaintive eyes.” – Austin American-Statesman Apr 20, 2015 Full Review Best of Enemies (2015) 93% EDIT “There is great pathos and tragedy in both men's lives, and as much humor as there is in the film, it is underlined with a sadness.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 27, 2015 Full Review Yakona (2014) 71% EDIT “Yakona is a visually stunning piece of ambitious filmmaking, though the storytelling sometimes suffers from ambiguity and an overreliance on images alone.” – Austin American-Statesman Oct 28, 2014 Full Review The Great Invisible (2014) 94% EDIT “Margaret Brown's documentary, The Great Unknown, does what so many excellent documentaries does: It educates and infuriates.” – Austin American-Statesman Oct 21, 2014 Full Review Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013) 64% B EDIT “Benjamin displays the familiar Hendrix quirks (the jaw gyrations, wide eyes and smiles while jamming), captures his wind-blown-kite voice perfectly, and paints the picture of an accidental poet philosopher who defied genre classifications.” – Austin American-Statesman Oct 2, 2014 Full Review Obvious Child (2014) 90% B+ EDIT “The movie takes a refreshingly honest look at the nuances and realities of unplanned pregnancy in a way few recent movies have.” – Austin American-Statesman Jun 20, 2014 Full Review Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013) 79% B+ EDIT “It's poignant that Myers, a man of great fortune and no shortage of film ideas, would choose to make his first feature a paean to a friend and mentor whom many viewers may not even know. It is an act of class and kindness befitting the movie's subject.” – Austin American-Statesman Jun 19, 2014 Full Review Chef (2014) 87% B- EDIT “A slight but sweet film (part passion/part vanity project) that feels like it was tossed together in short order.” – Austin American-Statesman May 22, 2014 Full Review Blue Ruin (2013) 96% 4/5 EDIT “[With] Blue Ruin, [director Jeremy Saulnier] muffles the humor with darkness and grounds the violence in a stumbling revenge fantasy enacted by a lost and fractured soul.” – Austin American-Statesman Apr 24, 2014 Full Review Source Code (2011) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Jones proves with Source Code that he understands how to pace a traditional thriller, and Gyllenhaal's display of comedic chops, confident bravado and tender sympathies prove that the 30-year-old actor has arrived at leading-man status.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 23, 2014 Full Review Bad Words (2014) 66% B EDIT “Bateman knows how to play jerks as well or better than anyone. He's perfect at the center of this foul-mouthed, loose-limbed, often hilariously mean comedy.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 20, 2014 Full Review Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) 90% A- EDIT “In a world lacking trust, every movement seems a threat, around every corner lurks betrayal.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 18, 2014 Full Review
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