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

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
This Is Not a War Story (2021) Dan Jardine Writer/director/star Talia Lugacy has crafted a thoroughly compelling examination of the challenges faced by veterans returning to civilian life.
Posted Aug 03, 2021  Edit critic review
88/100
Memories of Murder (2003) Dan Jardine There is an "everything including the kitchen sink" quality to a lot of S. Korean films. They either have no respect for the rules of genre, or are such big fans of various genres they want us to experience them all in one flick. I love the results here.
Posted Mar 12, 2021  Edit critic review
84/100
Gunda (2020) Dan Jardine Farm noir. Definitely on the level, though, ground level Bub, no Dutch angle about it
Posted Mar 12, 2021  Edit critic review
70/100
New Order (2020) Dan Jardine The way the intensity ratchets up during the military's fascist quelling of the uprisings is particularly compelling and completely plausible. I just wanted to spend more time with the peasants. Do they have an end game? What is their "New Order?"
Posted Mar 12, 2021  Edit critic review
80/100
Black Bear (2020) Dan Jardine Hits home as an exploration of the multiple dangers of using one's personal life as fodder for one's creative expression, with a dash of method actor-y meta-commentary added for flavor.
Posted Mar 12, 2021  Edit critic review
76/100
Family Obligations (2019) Dan Jardine The story and themes the movie explores are familiar, but they are examined with enough nuance and eccentric charm to distinguish the film from others of this ilk.
Posted Mar 03, 2020  Edit critic review
52/100
Trauma Therapy (2019) Dan Jardine The director shows no flair for the genre, as he generates little tension in the therapeutic sessions, and fails to use the setting to create feelings of dread or claustrophobia
Posted Dec 24, 2019  Edit critic review
80/100
Sunday Girl (2019) Dan Jardine Ambrosio has a very good eye for symmetrical compositions and creative camera placement, as well as an astute sense of detail in the costumes and set design.
Posted Oct 21, 2019  Edit critic review
56/100
The Outsider (2019) Dan Jardine The Outsiders suffers from a lack of a single moment of narrative surprise or subtlety, as it follows the conventions of the genre slavishly.
Posted Jun 02, 2019  Edit critic review
76/100
Bull (2019) Dan Jardine Bull could easily slide into sentiment, but maintains the course as a quiet, naturalistic film set in a dying corner of the country, involving characters on the outer periphery of society who participate in an industry that is in atrophy
Posted May 17, 2019  Edit critic review
70/100
A Boy Called Sailboat (2018) Dan Jardine A wee fable whose ability to charm will be in direct correlation to one's default cynicism setting.
Posted Jan 14, 2019  Edit critic review
90/100
The Florida Project (2017) Dan Jardine The pathos of the film proves to be gut-wrenching
Posted Mar 15, 2018  Edit critic review
82/100
Amarcord (1973) Dan Jardine Fellini shoots much of the film in muted colors that seem slightly out-of-focus, as if he were attempting to transport us into a dreamlike state.
Posted Jan 10, 2016  Edit critic review
91/100
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Dan Jardine Sherlock Jr. is Keaton's signature statement, and mind-warping flight of fancy on the dreamlike nature of films and the fluid nature of our ontological existence.
Posted May 29, 2015  Edit critic review
54/100
Frank (2014) Dan Jardine The film tries very hard for quirky, but (barely) manages annoying.
Posted Feb 20, 2015  Edit critic review
The Theory of Everything (2014) Dan Jardine The treatment of the subject matter goes over to what is essentially religious adoration.
Posted Feb 20, 2015  Edit critic review
68/100
Get On Up (2014) Dan Jardine The film's relative lack of any actual drama in the narrative is ultimately the result of a biographical approach too dedicated to flattery.
Posted Feb 20, 2015  Edit critic review
89/100
The Firemen's Ball (1967) Dan Jardine I cannot remember the last time I laughed so hard that I cried, but I did for The Firemen's Ball, and more than once.
Posted Feb 11, 2015  Edit critic review
71/100
Wild (2014) Dan Jardine A solid entertainment that treats the central story of redemption with honesty
Posted Feb 11, 2015  Edit critic review
62/100
Alan Partridge (2013) Dan Jardine The creaky premise of the plot is behind the times by decades, not years.
Posted Jan 25, 2015  Edit critic review
90/100
Ida (2013) Dan Jardine The film's moral complexity is laudable
Posted Jan 25, 2015  Edit critic review
82/100
Nightcrawler (2014) Dan Jardine Nightcrawler gives us what we want--a "happy ending"-- as well as what we deserve-- a deliciously ironic comment on what passes for success in contemporary society.
Posted Jan 23, 2015  Edit critic review
87/100
Force of Evil (1948) Dan Jardine The film cleverly uses illicit numbers running as a metaphor for unethical business practices in post-war America
Posted Jan 09, 2015  Edit critic review
82/100
The Killing Fields (1984) Dan Jardine Ngor's naturalistic and empathic portrayal of his character's desperate fight for survival is the key to this film's visceral power.
Posted Jan 09, 2015  Edit critic review
69/100
Time Bandits (1981) Dan Jardine Gilliam opts for an acerbic and often nasty tone that risks offending the very audience at which it purported to be aimed.
Posted Dec 30, 2014  Edit critic review
70/100
Kagemusha (1980) Dan Jardine The film swings like a pendulum between stillness and action, an occasionally jarring mix of David Lean-like panoramas with intimate character study.
Posted Dec 27, 2014  Edit critic review
76/100
Stardust Memories (1980) Dan Jardine Woody Allen's altar is the art of filmmaking, and Stardust Memories is his crisis of faith.
Posted Dec 27, 2014  Edit critic review
77/100
Jean de Florette (1986) Dan Jardine Jean de Florette is as melodramatic as any soap opera, but its treatment is just a little askew, just off-center enough for the film to evolve into a moving and powerful pastoral tragedy.
Posted Dec 27, 2014  Edit critic review
78/100
Harvey (1950) Dan Jardine Elwood may be a drunk (or not -- does he ever actually take a drink?), and he may be delusional, but he is also happier, less neurotic, and more content than the so-called normal people who surround him and claim to be looking out for his best interests.
Posted Dec 26, 2014  Edit critic review
86/100
Jezebel (1938) Dan Jardine The film's success is wrapped around Davis' steely performance and the elegant production values
Posted Dec 26, 2014  Edit critic review
80/100
Julius Caesar (1953) Dan Jardine Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz manages to showcase the Bard's dialogue in a film that also has the visual appeal of Oscar-winning art direction.
Posted Dec 26, 2014  Edit critic review
90/100
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) Dan Jardine Director William Dieterle manages a difficult task well, creating a film of both great sweep and remarkable intimacy.
Posted Dec 26, 2014  Edit critic review
76/100
Fitzcarraldo (1982) Dan Jardine Herzog's film confirms that dreamers and their obsessions can give us otherwise unimaginable moments of pure beauty.
Posted Jul 30, 2014  Edit critic review
65/100
Taps (1981) Dan Jardine Mildly engaging, but burdened by a predictable climax.
Posted Jul 29, 2014  Edit critic review
79/100
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Dan Jardine Playing the part as if born to it, Cooper is at the top of his game, imbuing Deeds with just the right blend of empathy and intelligence.
Posted Jul 27, 2014  Edit critic review
81/100
Hud (1963) Dan Jardine Patricia Neal delivers a subtle and sensual Oscar-winning performance.
Posted Jul 17, 2014  Edit critic review
84/100
Like Father, Like Son (2013) Dan Jardine Completely realistic because it is in keeping with the reserved temperament of the culture.
Posted Jul 16, 2014  Edit critic review
74/100
Laurence Anyways (2012) Dan Jardine Too much music. Too much colour. Too much movie. But a good movie.
Posted Jul 16, 2014  Edit critic review
79/100
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) Dan Jardine I have to admit the film got under my own skin and not simply as voyeurism
Posted Jul 16, 2014  Edit critic review
76/100
Margin Call (2011) Dan Jardine Margin Call is Wall Street for now. That a sexy Gordon Gekko-type villain is no longer anywhere to be found shows just how much worse things really are today.
Posted Mar 17, 2014  Edit critic review
50/100
Ishtar (1987) Dan Jardine The performances are endearing enough, the pacing is actually quite crisp and there is no shortage of zany silliness in the story. It just never gels.
Posted Mar 17, 2014  Edit critic review
63/100
Post Tenebras Lux (2012) Dan Jardine As irritating as this film is, I am grateful for it. Reygadas is an artist, and an uncompromising one at that.
Posted Mar 09, 2014  Edit critic review
79/100
Fruitvale Station (2013) Dan Jardine An impressive debut by Ryan Coogler.
Posted Mar 09, 2014  Edit critic review
79/100
All Is Lost (2013) Dan Jardine The low tech nature of All is Lost accentuates the primal (physical) nature of this struggle, while the technical prowess of Gravity emphasizes its more metaphysical (and less interesting) nature
Posted Mar 04, 2014  Edit critic review
68/100
Gravity (2013) Dan Jardine An escape from the past that is simultaneously a flight to no future.
Posted Mar 04, 2014  Edit critic review
83/100
Stories We Tell (2012) Dan Jardine Post-post-modern. Yeah, that's right, the negation of the negation.
Posted Feb 01, 2014  Edit critic review
82/100
My Name Is Joe (1998) Dan Jardine Loach in fine form, at the peak of his craft. Proletarian realism does not get better than this.
Posted Jan 26, 2014  Edit critic review
80/100
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Dan Jardine A better celebration of one of the most creatively exciting periods in American history I cannot imagine.
Posted Jan 12, 2014  Edit critic review
70/100
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010) Dan Jardine It is a bit of a revelation to realize that Hicks, who would develop into one of the angriest and edgiest standup comedians of his time, was once such a clean-cut and straight young man.
Posted Jan 12, 2014  Edit critic review
70/100
The Queen of Versailles (2012) Dan Jardine A pretty effective warning shot across the bow of the one percenters.
Posted Jan 12, 2014  Edit critic review
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