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Boulder Weekly is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Michael J. Casey, Ryan Syrek, Thomas Delapa.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
5/5
Sorcerer (1977) Michael J. Casey Bleak as hell but so expertly made it’s hard not to sit in awe.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Wages of Fear (1953) Michael J. Casey Bleak as hell but so expertly made it’s hard not to sit in awe.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Michael J. Casey A Hollywood blockbuster from Warner Bros. engineered to make a boatload of money on the backs of stale formulas and the lowest common denominator.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Bring Her Back (2025) Michael J. Casey It’s swift and scary and contains enough excitement and unsettling imagery for an engaging time.
Posted May 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Michael J. Casey "The Phoenician Scheme" isn’t free from humor, both in the writing and in the execution, but the hallmarks that make for a compelling Anderson picture miss their mark.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Michael J. Casey Achieves the cinematic exhilaration you hope for in a Tom Cruise movie, even if the script doesn't.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) Michael J. Casey A Jekyll and Hyde riff, and it’s as subtle as a kick to the groin.
Posted May 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Withnail and I (1987) Michael J. Casey Every frame of "Withnail" excretes authenticity.
Posted May 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Shrouds (2024) Michael J. Casey The longtime Canadian body-horrorist has been making audiences squeamish since the 1970s. But in his latest, "The Shrouds," there’s a sense that the squeamishness relates to real-world grief, grounding this near-future sci-fi story obsessed with death.
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Woman of Paris (1923) Michael J. Casey Chaplin’s skill of communicating significant information with small touches — particularly when it comes to sexual relations at a time when even a hint was taboo — carries the kind of cleverness that’s timeless.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Michael J. Casey One of the many frustrations of "Death of a Unicorn" is how shockingly literal it is.
Posted Mar 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Black Bag (2025) Michael J. Casey One of the pleasures of "Black Bag," and there are many, is that the movie itself is a red herring.
Posted Mar 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) Michael J. Casey A handful of off-kilter dream sequences, which are revealed to be dreams only retroactively, and realistic scenes that still contain a mystical quality and Nyoni’s images of entrapment become tangible. A must-see.
Posted Mar 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
One to One: John & Yoko (2024) Michael J. Casey Though "One to One" isn’t a tip-to-turn concert film, the footage of the Plastic Ono Band on stage is fantastic. So, too, is the archival footage Macdonald and Rice-Edwards use as connective tissue to bring political and personal context to the story.
Posted Mar 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
In Waves and War (2024) Michael J. Casey A humane look at what it takes for someone to move beyond their pain.
Posted Mar 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The White House Effect (2024) Michael J. Casey It’s fascinating, infuriating and so expertly constructed that you’ll be thinking about it for months.
Posted Mar 06, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Incident (2023) Michael J. Casey Using split screens and overlapping panels, Morrison reconstructs the moments leading up to the shooting and deconstructs the post-shooting narrative the police create to justify the killing.
Posted Feb 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Flow (2024) Michael J. Casey Zilbalodis wisely avoids anthropomorphizing the animals. But that doesn’t mean they are free from personality.
Posted Feb 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Paddington in Peru (2024) Michael J. Casey "Paddington in Peru" feels a little overstuffed when it tries to find something for everyone to do, but it never gets too out of hand. It’s an adventure story in the classic Saturday matinee sense.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Room Next Door (2024) Michael J. Casey It’s the kind of story that would come off as flat and boring and probably pretentious if the storyteller didn’t tell it well. But Almodóvar does. And it works.
Posted Jan 09, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
A Complete Unknown (2024) Michael J. Casey There’s nothing remotely interior about Dylan or his music in "A Complete Unknown."
Posted Dec 19, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
The End (2024) Michael J. Casey With a runtime of two and a half hours and only a couple of strong singing voices to stand on, I suspect that "The End" will be beloved more for its ambition than its success.
Posted Dec 12, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Mississippi Masala (1991) Michael J. Casey The heart of this story revolves around the sweet and sexy romance of Mina and Demetrius, and Washington is downright radiant in his youth and command.
Posted Dec 07, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Queer (2024) Michael J. Casey Plays like Luca Guadagnino’s "2001: A Space Odyssey" — another movie that approached its material with a deliberate pace.
Posted Dec 07, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Michael J. Casey The frame dissolves, the connection is palpable and, for a brief moment, the veil between you and the screen falls. It’s moments like this that make my heart happy that pictures can move.
Posted Nov 27, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Funny Girl (1968) Michael J. Casey Some stars shine. This one sparkles.
Posted Nov 14, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Nocturnes (2024) Michael J. Casey What makes "Nocturnes" work is how patient the filmmakers are with their subjects. Their ability to place viewers under the calm and hypnotic beating sounds of the moth wings is almost immediate. It's more like meditation than viewing.
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Oh Canada (2024) Michael J. Casey Even at 78, Schrader is still telling provocative stories.
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Order (2024) Michael J. Casey "The Order" is a deeply satisfying cat-and-mouse narrative. The script locks itself to the time period, allowing the audience to relax and enjoy the proceedings before revealing the ongoing legacy of the splinter group in the movie’s chilling conclusion.
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Chainsaws Were Singing (2024) Michael J. Casey Shot in Estonia back in 2013, the world wasn’t ready for "Chainsaws Were Singing," so the filmmakers waited 11 years to release it. Frankly, the world may still not be ready.
Posted Oct 31, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Changeling (1980) Michael J. Casey It’s spooky without being schlocky, terror with hardly a drop of blood. And as effective as the haunted house device is, the real mystery driving the haunting is so cold-blooded and practical that you won’t even think twice about its motivation.
Posted Oct 31, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Piece By Piece (2024) Michael J. Casey With LEGOs in place of people, "Piece by Piece" doesn’t just become watchable; it becomes playful.
Posted Oct 22, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Nickel Boys (2024) Michael J. Casey An immersive experience that feels truly empathetic.
Posted Oct 22, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Project A 2 (1987) Michael J. Casey Chan’s on-screen fighting is a flurry of fists, tumbling bodies, and acrobatic feats. And since action has no language barrier, he and his stunt team became a worldwide phenomenon.
Posted Oct 10, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Project A (1983) Michael J. Casey The scene in the teahouse where Hung and Chan team up to slap around a couple of lowlifes is poetry. The climactic battle with Biao, Chan, and Hung trying to take down the pirate captain might be the greatest fight scene in all of cinema.
Posted Oct 10, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
A Different Man (2024) Michael J. Casey At its heart, "A Different Man" is a twisty black comedy about not knowing yourself or the person standing next to you — maybe even the lack of an attempt to.
Posted Oct 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
My Old Ass (2024) Michael J. Casey "My Old Ass" isn’t a time travel movie, but a movie that wants to hold on to a specific moment in time.
Posted Sep 26, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Becomers (2023) Michael J. Casey "The Becomers" is a low-budget sci-fi endeavor, and director Zach Clark relies on a narrative that opens with intrigue and builds on cleverness to keep the audience engaged.
Posted Sep 19, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Sing Sing (2023) Michael J. Casey There’s a real harmony between the artists in front of and behind the camera to create something moving, something lasting here. A lot of movies, a lot of good movies, come and go. "Sing Sing" will stick.
Posted Aug 15, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Soldier's Lagoon (2024) Michael J. Casey Meditative, informative and hypnotic, this nonfiction feature from Pablo Álvarez-Mesa shows that screened reality has many avenues.
Posted Aug 08, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Intercepted (2024) Michael J. Casey It’s a potent concoction of emotion and reality that feels manipulative and sincere, revealing and urgent. Everyone says war is hell, but few movies capture it this directly.
Posted Aug 08, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
This House (2022) Michael J. Casey Feels like a discovery despite being shot during the pandemic. Every image feels beamed from the past. It’s artifice approaching authenticity.
Posted Aug 08, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) Michael J. Casey At once a retrospective of cinema’s greatest collaboration and a love letter from one filmmaker to another.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. (2024) Michael J. Casey The hook here is watching Harris at work — a brilliant mind in constant motion, constant revision, constant revelation. It’s like he’s inside his own hall of mirrors, discovering new ideas and hearing new rhythms within the same material.
Posted Jul 25, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Longlegs (2024) Michael J. Casey Perkins’ movie is scary, but in a specific way and probably for a specific segment of the audience.
Posted Jul 18, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Macbeth (1948) Michael J. Casey It’s a wonder to watch, even though three-quarters of a century has passed.
Posted Jul 11, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Michael J. Casey Everyone is good in "Kindness"; everyone is game — 100% necessary in a Lanthimos film.
Posted Jun 27, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hit Man (2023) Michael J. Casey "Hit Man" blows by like a warm summer breeze with plenty of smiles and just as many chuckles. It’s only afterward that you realize how much is going on.
Posted Jun 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Tuesday (2023) Michael J. Casey It would be easy to call this movie a downer, considering all the talk of death and dying and mourning going on, but there’s a bonkers energy coursing through Tuesday’s veins that keeps it afloat.
Posted Jun 13, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Let It Be (1970) Michael J. Casey There’s a beauty in the containment of "Let It Be": Just one month and a dozen or so songs crammed into 80 minutes of magic.
Posted May 30, 2024  Edit critic review
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