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Chron. is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): A.A. Dowd.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Asteroid City (2023) A.A. Dowd There are no small roles in Anderson's theater of the melancholic absurd.
Posted Jun 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) A.A. Dowd Watching it, you have to wonder why more superhero spectaculars don't ditch their nominally live-action shooting strategies for the full expressive freedom of animation.
Posted May 31, 2023  Edit critic review
The Wrath of Becky (2023) A.A. Dowd The sequel revives the appealing hook of extravagantly annihilating racist scum, and even gives it a sharper edge.
Posted May 29, 2023  Edit critic review
The Boogeyman (2023) A.A. Dowd Does The Babadook have representation? He should really start taking these derivative trauma phantoms to court.
Posted May 25, 2023  Edit critic review
The Little Mermaid (2023) A.A. Dowd Occasionally, the familiar pleasure of this fish-out-of-water story cuts through the murky execution, like a trinket catching a ray of moonlight while sinking to the seafloor.
Posted May 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Fast X (2023) A.A. Dowd The franchise was more fun, as opposed to "fun," when it wasn't so in on the joke.
Posted May 17, 2023  Edit critic review
BlackBerry (2023) A.A. Dowd Johnson applies a screwball procedural framework to a true story of tech-world boom and bust, building his movie on a clash of values and personalities.
Posted May 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Love Again (2023) A.A. Dowd Your heart will go on, and your eyes will look away in embarrassment.
Posted May 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) A.A. Dowd The movie wears you down as much as it wears you out. It feels earnest in its mega-budget cringe, an expression of Gunn's sensibility as much as a play to appease stockholders.
Posted Apr 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) A.A. Dowd A reverently faithful adaptation: a Margaret that treats its source material like gospel… which, to plenty who grew up on its wisdoms, it essentially is.
Posted Apr 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Showing Up (2022) A.A. Dowd The comedy is often as dry as an untouched paintbrush.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Beau Is Afraid (2023) A.A. Dowd It's pure, uncut Freudian spectacle: an epic of guilt and shame writ IMAX large, exorcizing familial demons on a bigger budget than A24 has ever shelled out.
Posted Apr 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Evil Dead Rise (2023) A.A. Dowd It does Evil Dead proud by doing its own bloody thing.
Posted Apr 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Renfield (2023) A.A. Dowd An off-putting multiplex monstrosity, mixing glib action-movie splatter with therapy speech.
Posted Apr 12, 2023  Edit critic review
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) A.A. Dowd All that pristine computer animation is akin to polishing… well, what Mario finds in pipes during his day job.
Posted Apr 04, 2023  Edit critic review
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) A.A. Dowd A bit like playing D&D with kids who consume nothing but Marvel movies and seem eager to annoy their DM with nonstop winking asides.
Posted Mar 30, 2023  Edit critic review
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) A.A. Dowd The final 45 minutes or so of this fourth installment is a bravura attempt to top everything that came before, and it's got sequences that feel bound for the pantheon.
Posted Mar 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Scream VI (2023) A.A. Dowd The first Scream in ages that's more scary than it is glib, approximating the shivery fun of the first (and second) rather than just relentlessly echoing it.
Posted Mar 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Creed III (2023) A.A. Dowd At its best, the movie takes the unlikely shape of a yuppie-in-peril thriller about chickens coming home to roost, Cape Fear reinvented into a Shakespearean sports drama.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Marlowe (2022) A.A. Dowd Marlowe is no classic from the case files. It lacks the intricacy of Chandler's best mysteries, that sense of being helplessly pulled into a labyrinth of compounding revelations.
Posted Feb 16, 2023  Edit critic review
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) A.A. Dowd Quantumania is proof, if we still needed it, that bigger isn't always better. In growing to typical Marvel size, it shrinks away the fun.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) A.A. Dowd Channing Tatum. Male stripper movie. What did Soderbergh need, a road map?
Posted Feb 07, 2023  Edit critic review
Knock at the Cabin (2023) A.A. Dowd Shyamalan has tapped right into the paranoia of our age. He's made a single-location potboiler that echoes the rapid proliferation of crackpot conspiracy theories and the powerful urge to doom scroll.
Posted Feb 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Infinity Pool (2023) A.A. Dowd It's the Grand Guignol fever dream of a bored Roman emperor.
Posted Jan 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Missing (2023) A.A. Dowd As a mystery, Missing has a cozy airport-fiction intrigue, like a Lois Duncan pageturner for a readership that swipes to turn pages.
Posted Jan 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Skinamarink (2022) A.A. Dowd It seems to exist in the liminal space between awake and asleep, expertly capturing the way the mind plays tricks on you over a restless night spent studying shadows and shuddering at every stray sound.
Posted Jan 12, 2023  Edit critic review
Plane (2023) A.A. Dowd In lieu of a real Liam Neeson programmer to soothe the January blues, Plane will do.
Posted Jan 11, 2023  Edit critic review
M3GAN (2022) A.A. Dowd M3gan runs with its low premise. It's a preposterous hoot with some actual ideas in its silicon head.
Posted Jan 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Babylon (2022) A.A. Dowd You can enjoy its garish pageant of sex, drugs, death, and screaming matches while still wondering if Chazelle is cosplaying transgression, trying to will himself into a rock star of American coke-binge cinema.
Posted Dec 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) A.A. Dowd Cameron's limitations as storyteller remain as crystal clear as the water. But one does not look to Avatar for narrative sophistication.
Posted Dec 13, 2022  Edit critic review
Empire of Light (2022) A.A. Dowd There's little heat to Empire of Light, and a styrofoam staleness to its treatment of the important topics of then and now.
Posted Dec 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Violent Night (2022) A.A. Dowd What a boon to larger-than-life Hollywood action figures Harbour is! We take him seriously, even when swaddled in the red of a Hellboy, a washed-up super spy, or a hammer-swinging Kris Kringle.
Posted Dec 01, 2022  Edit critic review
Bones and All (2022) A.A. Dowd For a good long while, Bones and All is rather outstanding, an equally seductive and sinister scavenging of genre touchstones.
Posted Nov 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) A.A. Dowd On and on the movie goes.
Posted Nov 18, 2022  Edit critic review
The Menu (2022) A.A. Dowd Foodies, celebrity chefs, the filthy rich—this is low-hanging fruit for a satirist. But The Menu dices each with Ginsu precision.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Aftersun (2022) A.A. Dowd Aftersun is practically the definition of a "small" movie, but it sneaks up on you.
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) A.A. Dowd Why, with most of the old pieces in place, does Wakanda Forever feel—as so many sequels before it have—like it's reflecting the magic of its predecessor rather than entirely recapturing it?
Posted Nov 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Armageddon Time (2022) A.A. Dowd [Gray has] given his life story the tidy, well-meaning structure of a college admissions essay.
Posted Nov 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Prey for the Devil (2022) A.A. Dowd This is just another regurgitation of yesterday's devout scare tactics, spewing diet Exorcist clichés as freely as Linda Blair once painted the walls in pea soup.
Posted Oct 28, 2022  Edit critic review
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) A.A. Dowd The word "tragicomic" was coined for performances, and movies, like these.
Posted Oct 27, 2022  Edit critic review
My Policeman (2022) A.A. Dowd It’s admirable to see a superstar test his range, even if the results suggest that it’s not nearly as wide as the stages he headlines.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Decision to Leave (2022) A.A. Dowd Even the most expositional passages of this elegant, tricky murder mystery brim with quietly stunning craft.
Posted Oct 18, 2022  Edit critic review
Tár (2022) A.A. Dowd Field, in the parlance of the world he depicts, conducts this all with aplomb. He dazzles without showboating.
Posted Oct 14, 2022  Edit critic review
Halloween Ends (2022) A.A. Dowd So say this, if nothing else, for Halloween Ends: It truly wants to keep the promise of its title.
Posted Oct 13, 2022  Edit critic review
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