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Sunday Arts Magazine Podcast (JOY 94.9)

Sunday Arts Magazine Podcast (JOY 94.9) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Stephen A. Russell.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Goodbye Julia (2023) Stephen A. Russell An incredible film... a heightened pressure cooker... a morality play with intimate personal drama.
Posted Apr 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Origin (2023) Stephen A. Russell Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is absolutely incredible as [Isabel] Wilkerson... an interesting and powerful film.
Posted Apr 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Stephen A. Russell Godzilla vs Kong: Dumb and Dumber... it's fair to say that the sociopolitical commentary angle is not so strong here... but there's a basic childlike nostalgia element.
Posted Apr 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Io Capitano (2023) Stephen A. Russell A really joyous film... that increasingly becomes a confronting, realistic of the horrors of people trying to make the sea voyage... powerfully done with out-of-this-world cinematography.
Posted Apr 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Seven Veils (2023) Stephen A. Russell Amanda Seyfried puts in a career-best performance... if you love films that play with breaking the boundaries of form... theatre geeks will love it.
Posted Apr 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Chevalier (2022) Stephen A. Russell I really wanted to love this ... but it's just really pat ... Lucy Boynton is cataclysmic as Marie Antonette... a middling biopic.
Posted Sep 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Showing Up (2022) Stephen A. Russell Just give that pigeon the Oscar now
Posted Sep 06, 2023  Edit critic review
20,000 Species of Bees (2023) Stephen A. Russell A very beautiful film
Posted Sep 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Stephen A. Russell It's a real good time... it was a weird choice for Greta Gerwig, I think, and yet she's done the absolute best you could probably do with a film like this.
Posted Jul 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Tetris (2023) Stephen A. Russell It's a real East vs West battle with British and American people trying to get control of this game made in Soviet Russia. They're obviously not very big on the Capitalist game, but the capitalists are salivating at how much money this game will make.
Posted Apr 10, 2023  Edit critic review
EO (2022) Stephen A. Russell If you watched The Banshees of Inisherin and, like most of the world, fell in love with Jenny the donkey and went on an emotional journey with her, well this is your next fix of beautiful trauma.
Posted Apr 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Allelujah (2022) Stephen A. Russell It's a perfectly lovely British film you'll probably forget as soon as you've seen it ... until it takes a wild turn in the final act ...
Posted Apr 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Broker (2022) Stephen A. Russell It's a really beautiful meditation on found family
Posted Apr 10, 2023  Edit critic review
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Stephen A. Russell Its less like a [three-hour] fight sequence and more like an incredibly bonkers ballet
Posted Apr 10, 2023  Edit critic review
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Stephen A. Russell If this was a straight documentary on [Nan Goldin] and her art, then it would be incredible, but where it gets really interesting... is the art collective mission to bring down [The Sackler family] name [from museums]
Posted Mar 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Pearl (2022) Stephen A. Russell I'm quite sure no animals were harmed in the making of this film, but many of those farmyard critters don't make it out alive...
Posted Mar 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Living (2022) Stephen A. Russell It's a really simple, beautiful film
Posted Mar 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Spoiler Alert (2022) Stephen A. Russell It is interesting... but it is super stagey... and very mawkish
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
The Whale (2022) Stephen A. Russell I found this quite hammy... it feels like it's pointing and staring.
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Knock at the Cabin (2023) Stephen A. Russell "There is a very interesting concept behind this one... but it didn't work for me."
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) Stephen A. Russell You're going to forget about it as soon as you walk out of the cinema, but while you're in the cinema, you're going to have a good time.
Posted Jan 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) Stephen A. Russell Its a film about a loss soul, finding your place, it has darkness and deals with death and grief... I adored this.
Posted Jan 09, 2023  Edit critic review
A Man Called Otto (2022) Stephen A. Russell i can't really buy Tom Hanks as a cranky old man, he's so typecast at this stage of his career
Posted Jan 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Blueback (2022) Stephen A. Russell The present-day isn't as interesting as the childhood stuff.
Posted Jan 09, 2023  Edit critic review
The Fabelmans (2022) Stephen A. Russell Is it indulgent? Yes. Is it a little bit schmaltzy? Yes. Is it absolutely beautiful and a perfect holiday movie? Yes.
Posted Jan 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Sundown (2021) Stephen A. Russell Slowburn, then bonkers
Posted Dec 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Belfast (2021) Stephen A. Russell Horrendously twee
Posted Dec 30, 2022  Edit critic review
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) Stephen A. Russell It goes so easy on [Tammy} that there's not a lot of meat on it... but [Chastain's] is still great in it.
Posted Dec 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Parallel Mothers (2021) Stephen A. Russell An intimate story of two women making their way as new mothers, Almodovar also folds in Spanish history... stunning.
Posted Dec 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Stephen A. Russell There are microscopic moments with humans, but it looks like a computer game for the majority of the film.
Posted Dec 19, 2022  Edit critic review
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