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Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Bryant Frazer.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
44/100
The Reckoning (2021) Bryant Frazer Imagine a downbeat cross between historical romance, rape-revenge thriller and what's become known as folk horror and you'll have a pretty good idea of the overall mood.
Posted Feb 05, 2021  Edit critic review
75/100
Knocking (2021) Bryant Frazer A threadbare narrative that's gorgeously shot, beautifully performed and spooky as hell.
Posted Jan 31, 2021  Edit critic review
54/100
Censor (2021) Bryant Frazer It runs a bare 84 minutes and yet manages to feel draggy in its slow-moving first hour and rushed in its eventful climactic segment.
Posted Jan 30, 2021  Edit critic review
95/100
Possessor: Uncut (2020) Bryant Frazer A horrifying but finely observed thriller about psychology, cyberintelligence, and that old chestnut, the duality of mind and body.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
C+
The Owners (2020) Bryant Frazer Diverting if overly familiar crime drama with horror-movie undertones comes to life when Sylvester McCoy and Rita Tushingham arrive.
Posted Sep 02, 2020  Edit critic review
B+
Zatoichi (2003) Bryant Frazer A gorgeous and evocative piece of entertainment that takes a deliberately playful approach to its genre.
Posted Aug 13, 2020  Edit critic review
46/100
We Summon the Darkness (2019) Bryant Frazer Simply can't wring suspense from a scenario that ends up isolating the murderers from their murderees on either side of a locked door for a long, dull section of the film.
Posted Apr 08, 2020  Edit critic review
C+
Bad Boys for Life (2020) Bryant Frazer In quieter moments, Martin Lawrence turns in a genuinely touching performance as a man torn between duties to his family and his friend, but Smith is more reliant on a constant feed of mild one-liners.
Posted Jan 17, 2020  Edit critic review
B-
Knives and Skin (2019) Bryant Frazer The film's style can be frustratingly mannered, but Reeder's teenaged characters have some heart and soul.
Posted Dec 06, 2019  Edit critic review
B-
Piercing (2018) Bryant Frazer Dark, contrasty imagery complements increasingly uncomfortable action on-screen, as Piercing settles into an entertainingly twisted groove and a compelling rhythm of give and take.
Posted Jan 31, 2019  Edit critic review
B
Disobedience (2017) Bryant Frazer Director Sebastián Lelio's portrayal of the orthodox community is exceptionally even-handed; he doesn't soft-pedal its stifling and anachronistic nature, but neither does he present it as hopelessly cruel or unyielding.
Posted Aug 09, 2018  Edit critic review
C
Brimstone (2016) Bryant Frazer It's Gaspar Noe without the freaky-deaky audacity and grandiose concern for the human condition or, maybe more to the point, Lars Von Trier without the formal elegance.
Posted Mar 10, 2017  Edit critic review
B
Elle (2016) Bryant Frazer Elle is as entertaining as any film Verhoeven has made, which might seem like an odd thing to say about a film that conjures a brutal rape scene abruptly and repeatedly.
Posted Sep 26, 2016  Edit critic review
B-
Vlees (Meat) (2010) Bryant Frazer A pretty good example of a 21st-century grindhouse film. Think Luis Buuel crossed with Jrg Buttgereit.
Posted Sep 19, 2016  Edit critic review
61/100
The Neon Demon (2016) Bryant Frazer Part tragedy and part comedy, but also part horror movie and part pornography.
Posted Jun 23, 2016  Edit critic review
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Bryant Frazer Buster Keaton's artistic breakthrough remains to this day absolutely the funniest film ever made.
Posted May 29, 2015  Edit critic review
58/100
A Most Violent Year (2014) Bryant Frazer The compelling moral dimension is matched in a couple of places by fairly riveting action, but the film lacks any commanding narrative insight into its milieu.
Posted Dec 29, 2014  Edit critic review
84/100
Boyhood (2014) Bryant Frazer Director Richard Linklater approached this decade-spanning project with a novelist's ambition and patient determination -- it's unique in its rhythms.
Posted Jun 17, 2014  Edit critic review
94/100
Under the Skin (2013) Bryant Frazer As avant garde in execution as any narrative film I can think of.
Posted Apr 13, 2014  Edit critic review
C+
300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Bryant Frazer More than any other element, Eva Green's performance singlehandedly elevates the film from the doldrums of its hermetic conception and execution.
Posted Mar 14, 2014  Edit critic review
88/100
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Bryant Frazer Maybe the first Coen Bros. film that seems to settle into sampler territory. But it sure sticks with you.
Posted Dec 05, 2013  Edit critic review
61/100
You're Next (2013) Bryant Frazer You're Next is pretty satisfying as a semi-horror film, sparring gamely with genre conventions rather than embracing or spoofing them outright.
Posted Sep 11, 2013  Edit critic review
B-
Inserts (1975) Bryant Frazer A self-reflexive text (and dark satire) on the movie industry's depiction of sex on screen in the early years of the MPAA ratings system.
Posted Sep 09, 2013  Edit critic review
B
Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011) Bryant Frazer Its even-handed treatment of imperfect characters compares quite favorably with mainstream Hollywood stuff like Easy A.
Posted Mar 30, 2012  Edit critic review
C-
Silent House (2011) Bryant Frazer Despite spending too much screen time sobbing, shrieking, or putting on a game face as the camera peers down her shirt, Elizabeth Olsen comes out ahead.
Posted Mar 11, 2012  Edit critic review
B-
Haywire (2011) Bryant Frazer Soderbergh's approach is a little too stripped-down - when you're making a conventional genre movie, the absence of conventional genre elements becomes distracting in itself.
Posted Jan 23, 2012  Edit critic review
B-
The Artist (2011) Bryant Frazer The Artist plays less like an original take on the early sound era than as fan fiction set in the world of Singin' in the Rain.
Posted Jan 10, 2012  Edit critic review
C+
A Dangerous Method (2011) Bryant Frazer Scenes built on line after line of historically accurate but awkward, overly mannered dialogue distract and eventually grate.
Posted Jan 10, 2012  Edit critic review
B+
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Bryant Frazer You get the sense Blomkvist and Salander might march with Occupy Sweden protesters; in its way The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is another movie about the 99 percent.
Posted Jan 10, 2012  Edit critic review
B
Pina (2011) Bryant Frazer It's not an overview of Bausch's career or a statement on her art, but a celebration of her work and the dancers who bring it to life.
Posted Jan 10, 2012  Edit critic review
B-
The Dead (2010) Bryant Frazer You get used to the sight of the slow-moving undead swaying against the film's natural landscapes like half-imagined phantoms, and somehow that makes them more unnerving.
Posted Oct 07, 2011  Edit critic review
B-
(undefined) Bryant Frazer Puts an alluring, unnerving, yet weirdly dispassionate spin on social unrest in Germany circa 1969.
Posted Aug 18, 2011  Edit critic review
B
Tabloid (2010) Bryant Frazer First-tier documentarian Errol Morris finds himself slumming a bit with Tabloid.
Posted Jul 15, 2011  Edit critic review
B
X-Men: First Class (2011) Bryant Frazer I'm generally sick of remakes and relaunches and reboots, but this revamped X-Men origin story is kind of fun.
Posted Jun 08, 2011  Edit critic review
A-
The Tree of Life (2011) Bryant Frazer Terrence Malick is hardly the first filmmaker to show us characters who cry out at the silence of God, but he is perhaps the most unquestionably American.
Posted Jun 01, 2011  Edit critic review
C
Hall Pass (2011) Bryant Frazer Sporadically funny, but it wastes a lot of time on dreary clichés.
Posted Feb 25, 2011  Edit critic review
B+
The Social Network (2010) Bryant Frazer There's a real mischievousness to David Fincher's approach.
Posted Jan 19, 2011  Edit critic review
C+
Death of a Snowman (1978) Bryant Frazer Gives off a subtle but unusual vibe that's somehow suggestive of the rifts in South African culture.
Posted Jan 19, 2011  Edit critic review
A+
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Bryant Frazer Immaculately designed, evocatively photographed, and easy to watch but also spiky, morally complex, and ultimately unsettling.
Posted Jan 19, 2011  Edit critic review
C
Repo Chick (2009) Bryant Frazer It shouldn't even be watchable, but writer-director Alex Cox manages to keep the cheese factor low.
Posted Jan 19, 2011  Edit critic review
B+
The Housemaid (2010) Bryant Frazer The perverse thing is that the film goes down so easily and elegantly, like a fine chocolate and a swig of merlot.
Posted Jan 19, 2011  Edit critic review
C+
Black Swan (2010) Bryant Frazer Robert Altman's paean to this behind-the-scenes process was affectionately dubbed The Company. Aronofsky's may as well be titled Army of One.
Posted Dec 06, 2010  Edit critic review
A
Certified Copy (2010) Bryant Frazer This is one of the great films about film, a master class in performance and character and narrative.
Posted Sep 30, 2010  Edit critic review
A-
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Bryant Frazer Uncle Boonmee is less a case study in death by degrees than it is a magical and baffling tone poem on the idea of reincarnation.
Posted Sep 25, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
Enter the Void (2009) Bryant Frazer Full of stimulating, often challenging imagery that's rooted in a kind of sentimentality.
Posted Sep 23, 2010  Edit critic review
B+
Buried (2010) Bryant Frazer Cleverly written and staged with plenty of wound-up energy, plus a climax that sucks the air out of the theater.
Posted Sep 23, 2010  Edit critic review
B
The Town (2010) Bryant Frazer The Town has showcase heist sequences and car chases that avoid the usual pitfalls of over-the-top silliness and/or incoherence.
Posted Sep 17, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Easy A (2010) Bryant Frazer The whole affair is PG-13 toothless and TV slick - I kept feeling that the movie was insisting on its own embraceability, and I resisted.
Posted Sep 17, 2010  Edit critic review
B+
Dogtooth (2009) Bryant Frazer Director Giorgos Lanthimos may be influenced by Michael Haneke's clinical approach as well as by David Lynch's affection for the weird.
Posted Jul 15, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
Inception (2010) Bryant Frazer Christopher Nolan's films are things of beauty, precisely constructed and expertly executed. But you wouldn't want to live there.
Posted Jul 15, 2010  Edit critic review
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