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House Next Door is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Andrew Schenker, Bill Weber, Chris Cabin, Chuck Bowen, Dan Callahan, Ed Gonzalez, Ela Bittencourt, Elise Nakhnikian, Eric Henderson, Fernando F. Croce, Glenn Heath Jr., Jamie Dunn, Jeremiah Kipp, Keith Uhlich, Matt Zoller Seitz, Michael Nordine, Nick Schager, Odie Henderson, Paul Schrodt, Rob Humanick, Simon Abrams, Steven Boone, Tina Hassannia, Vadim Rizov.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Phantom Thread (2017) Dan Callahan "Phantom Thread is a movie filled with performances that feel like the best Method acting from the mid-20th century, when actors like Montgomery Clift and Julie Harris seemed to know every minute of each day in the past lives of their characters."
Posted Jan 19, 2018  Edit critic review
Call Me by Your Name (2017) Dan Callahan "Call Me by Your Name is a great love story, and it is also a story about the way that Guadagnino's camera loves and brings out Hammer as an actor who can express joy or inner turmoil with a glance."
Posted Nov 23, 2017  Edit critic review
Jackie (2016) Kenji Fujishima Pablo Larraín's film is concerned with elucidating levels of performance in public and private spheres.
Posted Nov 28, 2016  Edit critic review
Applause (2009) Matthew Connolly Though utterly convincing as a renowned theater actress, it's clear from her work in Applause that Paprika Steen has a face for the camera.
Posted Apr 07, 2016  Edit critic review
Men at Work (1990) Odie Henderson Men at Work is patient zero for the plague of Charlie Sheen movies that infected the 1990s.
Posted Aug 28, 2015  Edit critic review
Wild at Heart (1990) Robert C. Crumbow The power of the film is the endurance of an Elvis Presley song (or two), the staying power of a children's movie, and the sight and sound of a match being struck: romantically mellow, wackily comic, and deadly, darkly serious.
Posted Aug 14, 2015  Edit critic review
Quick Change (1990) Odie Henderson Quick Change requires a leap of faith from the audience.
Posted Jul 16, 2015  Edit critic review
Die Hard 2 (1990) Evan Davis Most sequels try to hide from their derivative essence.
Posted Jun 29, 2015  Edit critic review
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie (1990) Odie Henderson Privilege is also a crime in Cat from Hell, which once again pits the rich against a supernatural force for whom money holds no currency.
Posted May 04, 2015  Edit critic review
Cinderella (2015) Kenji Fujishima It's been made with enough care and belief in its material that it manages to refresh our relationship to the iconic tale.
Posted Mar 11, 2015  Edit critic review
Salesman (1969) Matt Zoller Seitz With his weathered face, Chiclet teeth and hints of baseline depression, Paul the Badger is the film's foremost emblem of American malaise, a fortysomething Working Joe chewed up in the gears of consumerist expectations.
Posted Mar 09, 2015  Edit critic review
Mommy (2014) Tomas Hachard For a director whose characters regularly display an abundance of melodramatic sentiment, Xavier Dolan leaves himself plenty of emotional cover in his movies.
Posted Jan 21, 2015  Edit critic review
Nightcrawler (2014) Tomas Hachard Nightcrawler lives by Gyllenhaal's great performance, but it dies by the limits of his character.
Posted Oct 28, 2014  Edit critic review
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) Michael Nordine Perhaps we can consider films like Babel the necessary ashes from which Birdman had to rise and hope Alejandro González Iñárritu's ascendance continues.
Posted Oct 12, 2014  Edit critic review
Young Einstein (1988) Odie Henderson Serious's most distinguishing feature is his unruly hair, which serves as both a reminder of Einstein's own unkempt mane and the endless series of '80s-era stand-up comedians memorable only for their wacky hairdos.
Posted Aug 06, 2014  Edit critic review
Lock Up (1989) Clayton Dillard There's nothing fun, however, about Lock Up's absent social interests, which are made particularly deplorable through a refusal to address any semblance of a socio-political zeitgeist.
Posted Aug 04, 2014  Edit critic review
Starry Eyes (2014) Calum Marsh The film, in the end, doesn't have much to say about the nature of fame and ambition, other than a bit of facile posturing and shopworn wisdom, and frankly, Widmyer and Kolsch seem more interested in exploitation than reflection.
Posted Jul 30, 2014  Edit critic review
Weekend at Bernie's (1989) Steve Macfarlane Ted Kotcheff's moth-bitten, notoriously macabre comedy Weekend at Bernie's is best--and most rewardingly--revisited as an unintended rumination on the queasy moral crises of Reaganomics-era America.
Posted Jul 06, 2014  Edit critic review
Batman (1989) Kenji Fujishima Returning to Tim Burton's 1989 Batman in light of Christopher Nolan's recent, remarkably successful Batman trilogy turns out to be quite a fascinating experience.
Posted Jun 23, 2014  Edit critic review
Natural Sciences (2014) Oscar Moralde Breezy and slight in its runtime, Matas Lucchesi has crafted a coming-of-age film that's modest in its ambitions, but touching nonetheless.
Posted Jun 17, 2014  Edit critic review
Club sándwich (2013) James Lattimer As each of his running gags peters out into tidy resolution and the tired old tropes of the coming-of-age story rear their head, the overriding impression is that a bit of shit-shovelling might do Eimbcke the world of good.
Posted Jun 16, 2014  Edit critic review
Tir (2013) James Lattimer While it feels churlish to criticize such a topical, heartfelt endeavour, it's also hard not to groan at a film whose final message is underlined by its protagonist literally shovelling shit.
Posted Jun 16, 2014  Edit critic review
Arraianos (2012) James Lattimer It's only toward the end of the film, as one of the old women is seen sitting at a sewing machine in a modern house, that you realise just how far out of space and time it's transported you.
Posted Jun 16, 2014  Edit critic review
Costa da morte (2013) James Lattimer Quite apart from the sheer visual joy generated by Patio's images, his injections of gentle humour in the voiceover anecdotes and lithe shifts in focus give the film a sense of forward motion and flow that thankfully never lets up.
Posted Jun 16, 2014  Edit critic review
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013) James Lattimer Even if some of the Linklater film montages verge on YouTube fan videos, there's no denying the considerable skill involved in capturing such a natural-seeming conversation and then having its cadences dictate its structure.
Posted Jun 16, 2014  Edit critic review
Vampire's Kiss (1989) Robert C. Crumbow Vampire's Kiss, pretty much never recognized, is even more important today than it was in the summer of 1989.
Posted Jun 07, 2014  Edit critic review
Renegades (1989) Steve Macfarlane What's left is a thin daguerreotype of an idea that was losing steam before cameras were even rolling.
Posted Jun 05, 2014  Edit critic review
Dead Poets Society (1989) Odie Henderson Dead Poets Society purports to be about the bravery of following one's own path. This is a bright, shining lie, one the film is ballsy enough to tell to your face.
Posted Jun 04, 2014  Edit critic review
For Queen and Country (1988) Clayton Dillard Unlike Denzel Washington, whose acting career was soon to prosper, Martin Stellman hasn't directed another film since.
Posted May 19, 2014  Edit critic review
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart (2014) Clayton Dillard Private Violence is directive American trauma thinkpiece, insistent that its troubles can be confronted head-on.
Posted Mar 03, 2014  Edit critic review
Private Violence (2014) Clayton Dillard Jeremiah Zagar's structure and politics devolve from questioning a particular kind of mediated fervor to concerning itself with more obvious issues of judicial malpractice.
Posted Mar 03, 2014  Edit critic review
Concerning Violence (2014) Clayton Dillard The film struggles at times to transcend its academic presentation as an advanced visual essay explicating a theoretical text.
Posted Mar 02, 2014  Edit critic review
Happy Valley (2014) Clayton Dillard Happy Valley quietly reveals the structures that assist deviant behavior as the site of true horror.
Posted Mar 01, 2014  Edit critic review
The Notorious Mr. Bout (2014) Clayton Dillard The Notorious Mr. Bout doesn't untangle the moral and ethical quandary presented here by the density of reconciling public sins with private passions.
Posted Feb 28, 2014  Edit critic review
Intruders (2013) Jesse Cataldo Using personal differences, economic rifts, and familiar city-versus-country conflicts to lay the groundwork for a complex murder mystery, Intruders remains a consistently entertaining and surprising sophomore effort.
Posted Feb 21, 2014  Edit critic review
Papusza (2013) Ela Bittencourt Papusza is at its most enthralling in some of the flashbacks, where we glimpse the heroine as an agent of her own fate.
Posted Feb 21, 2014  Edit critic review
The Weight (2012) Chuck Bowen It's one of a kind.
Posted Feb 19, 2014  Edit critic review
Our Sunhi (2013) Chris Cabin A past of repressed feelings and bad trysts is summoned, but the conversations between Sunhi and her men seem to pivot more on questions of a sustainable career in filmmaking.
Posted Feb 18, 2014  Edit critic review
The Better Angels (2014) John Semley Edwards's homage to his master plays like sycophantic, if well-meaning, imitation, like a kid trying to impress his dad by swinging his golf clubs or clumsily strumming a guitar.
Posted Feb 10, 2014  Edit critic review
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) John Semley A film that begins as a weird, halfway-considered ode to the sway of the cinema ends up making a case against that same power.
Posted Feb 09, 2014  Edit critic review
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky (2013) John Semley It's easy to greet the prospect of a Michel Gondy making a doodle movie about the ideas of Noam Chomsky like that aggrieved nerd on The Simpsons: "Ugh, why does it have be zany?"
Posted Feb 08, 2014  Edit critic review
The Thin Blue Line (1988) Tina Hassannia The Thin Blue Line is proof that sometimes, though rarely, the political impact of a film can be as tangible as an innocent man being freed from prison.
Posted Dec 11, 2013  Edit critic review
The Golden Dream (2013) Oscar Moralde Saved from such simplicity by the time and space it gives to the ensemble cast and their relationships.
Posted Nov 14, 2013  Edit critic review
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) Elise Nakhnikian As he did in The Secret of the Grain, Kechiche uses cooking and eating as keys to character and relationships.
Posted Oct 14, 2013  Edit critic review
Her (2013) Kenji Fujishima By the end, Spike Jonze pushes past his tightrope of sincerity and irony into a near-spiritual realm that still maintains its fragilely intimate, bittersweet vibe.
Posted Oct 13, 2013  Edit critic review
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) Kenji Fujishima For Ben Stiller, apparently, Thurber's classic story is grist not for a sympathetic exploration of the universal human desires to dream and live, but to craft what eventually amounts to a totem to his own vanity.
Posted Oct 07, 2013  Edit critic review
The Immigrant (2013) Elise Nakhnikian The film sometimes makes it difficult to suspend disbelief.
Posted Oct 06, 2013  Edit critic review
Gloria (2013) Kenji Fujishima Though Paulina Garca's performance is enough to hold the vignettes together, it isn't quite enough to redeem a handful of dramatic miscalculations
Posted Oct 06, 2013  Edit critic review
Bastards (2013) Elise Nakhnikian There's no shortage of bastards in this tale about the destructive power of a deeply dysfunctional family, but if the men inflict most of the violence, the women bear their share of the blame for the damage done.
Posted Oct 06, 2013  Edit critic review
The Missing Picture (2013) Gerard Raymond Inured as we are these days to every variety of man's inhumanity to others, the clay figurines, so poignantly created by sculptor Sarith Mang, become an extraordinary testament to a lost society.
Posted Oct 04, 2013  Edit critic review
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