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Next Projection is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Derek Deskins.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
9/10
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013) Derek Deskins With its strength of voice, it is far more inspirational than any topless protest contained within.
Posted Jan 20, 2021  Edit critic review
9.6/10
Midnight Special (2016) Derek Deskins The story is wonderfully detailed, entertaining, mysterious, and endlessly thrilling.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
8.6/10
The Big Short (2015) Derek Deskins McKay takes his gift for comedy and weaves it into drama like a rich tapestry.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
8.6/10
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) Derek Deskins The comedy comes from a place of reality and even when said reality is heightened, Linklater does it in a way that rolls off your back.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
5/10
Concussion (2015) Derek Deskins Concussion had to be good, it had to scare us, and it should have scared the NFL. Instead it just sits there idly in a bed of clichés and manufactured tension.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
9/10
Demolition (2015) Derek Deskins It is a role that requires an actor that does more than what is on the page. Something that Gyllenhaal accomplishes spectacularly.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
4.5/10
Song to Song (2017) Derek Deskins Outside of the more standard Malick-isms, Song to Song also has a troubling relationship with women, making their role secondary to a man's and establishing a mood of objectification.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
8.3/10
Jeff Lowe's Metanoia (2014) Derek Deskins Jeff Lowe's Metanoia is the type of documentary that captivates your eyes and ears in the most expected of ways but wins over your heart in one that is far more surprising.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
9.4/10
Hush (2016) Derek Deskins I no longer trust a sliding glass door at night.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
4/10
Spaceship (2016) Derek Deskins Taylor seems bored by his own story and quickly introduces secondary and tertiary characters of diminishing importance to jolt a line that was doing just fine on its own.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
7.7/10
Little Sister (2016) Derek Deskins Add to the well written screenplay a cast that seems catered to this cadence and the result is a family that is almost too familiar for comfort.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
5.6/10
Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon (2016) Derek Deskins The film is endlessly scattered, hopping along from subject to subject as it feels the audience becoming bored and pulling away.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
5.9/10
Loev (2015) Derek Deskins Saria's penchant for generating his own faux conflict that arises out of service to the story rather than the characters is his ultimate downfall.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
8.2/10
American Fable (2016) Derek Deskins First time feature writer-director Anne Hamilton is staking her claim, this is her style, and you will do right to take notice.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
7.2/10
I Am the Blues (2015) Derek Deskins It is as if as each musician tells his tale and strums his guitar that everything is ok again. The music is their release and all of the sadness comes out in the songs.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
7.4/10
Prevenge (2016) Derek Deskins The writing is authentic even when it is ridiculous, but what really shines through is Lowe's dark sense of humor.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
5/10
Headshot (2016) Derek Deskins It was as if I opened a puzzle only to find that the majority of the items within the box didn't belong. How do you get a lint covered gummy bear, a harmonica, three bullets, and a corner puzzle piece to fit together? You don't.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
7.3/10
Pet (2016) Derek Deskins The tension ratchets up spectacularly and your blood pressure rises in the anticipation of what may lie behind the next corner.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
7.8/10
Of Dogs and Men (2016) Derek Deskins Of Dogs and Men may make you cry and it will certainly make you mad, but more importantly than anything else, it shows you how to make a change.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
9.4/10
Orange Sunshine (2016) Derek Deskins Kirkley doesn't necessarily want you to feel for his subjects but instead wants you to feel like you are one of them. It is that inclusivity that makes the emotional punches that are eventually unleashed land so resoundingly.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
7/10
The Slippers (2016) Derek Deskins What is impressive about Morgan White's direction is how the many stories are gently folded in, winning the viewer over bit by bit.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
9.2/10
Atomic Blonde (2017) Derek Deskins Theron takes to the fight choreography like a violent fish to bloody water. She is exactingly brutal and nearly balletic in her execution.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
6/10
Free Fire (2016) Derek Deskins The problem with Free Fire is that it just doesn't have much more going on in outside of what you see in the trailer.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
7.5/10
It (2017) Derek Deskins It is much like walking through a haunted house. Sure, you were scared here and there, but the feeling was fleeting and not a whole lot different from that last haunted house.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
8.4/10
Small Town Crime (2017) Derek Deskins Its twists and turns toy with your emotions and despite its largely familiar story conventions, it never comes across as predictable.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
5.1/10
Bokeh (2017) Derek Deskins This issue of character development is largely what holds the film back. Without understanding what makes this couple tick, we are left voyeurs in a world that we cannot understand.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
6.2/10
DRIB (2017) Derek Deskins DRIB is just trying too hard to be too many things, never managing to do any of them all that well.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
3.1/10
The Honor Farm (2017) Derek Deskins It's like overhearing a 17-year-old rail on about the complexities of life, having read an introductory book on philosophy but never ventured out of his suburb.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
7.5/10
A Quiet Place (2018) Derek Deskins The mediocre nature of the film's actual scares betray what is mostly a thrilling film.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
9/10
American Animals (2018) Derek Deskins It is a popcorn movie dripping with arthouse flair, and populated with intriguing and complex characters, be they real or performed.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
9.5/10
Blindspotting (2018) Derek Deskins The combination of the rhythmic script, the bumping soundtrack, and the stylish direction recall the early work of Spike Lee.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
6/10
6 Balloons (2018) Derek Deskins Were 6 Balloons to be nothing more than an actor's showcase, it would work, unfortunately the rest of its pieces just never quite come together.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
5.2/10
The New Romantic (2018) Derek Deskins Perhaps more egregious than its familiar plot and waste of up-and-comer Jessica Barden is that despite its title, there is nothing "new" or "romantic" about The New Romantic.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
8.4/10
The Breaker Upperers (2018) Derek Deskins If we have the good sense we will throw our money at writer-director-stars Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek, because they certainly have a whole lot more to say.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
3/10
Elizabeth Harvest (2018) Derek Deskins At times, Elizabeth Harvest appears to even confuse itself, feeling as if the film didn't have a script as much as an idea that continued to be brainstormed until the film was wrapped.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
6.5/10
After Everything (2018) Derek Deskins Despite its many charms, Shotgun never fully feels like something to care about. It is enjoyable, but only passably.
Posted Oct 16, 2018  Edit critic review
90/100
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Jason McKiernan ...Spielberg's dazzling return to peak action form, an action-packed spectacle that leaves us breathless and smiling.
Posted Dec 27, 2011  Edit critic review
85/100
The Artist (2011) Jason McKiernan ...a gem of post-modern significance, celebrating a bygone era by commenting on it, fleshing it out with broad universality.
Posted Dec 27, 2011  Edit critic review
90/100
Young Adult (2011) Jason McKiernan ...flirts with conventional expectations before ripping them out from under us.
Posted Dec 27, 2011  Edit critic review
99/100
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Jason McKiernan ...cinema at its most vivid, wrenching, and revelatory - an abstract masterpiece about the withering fragility of the human soul.
Posted Dec 27, 2011  Edit critic review
65/100
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Jason McKiernan ...a meticulous slow burn of visual suggestion, dripping in atmosphere and loaded with evocative subtext in nearly every shot.
Posted Dec 27, 2011  Edit critic review
74/100
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) Jason McKiernan ...makes this wintry season feel like summer all over again.
Posted Dec 27, 2011  Edit critic review
45/100
The Smurfs (2011) Jason McKiernan ...candy for kids and arsenic for adults.
Posted Dec 07, 2011  Edit critic review
40/100
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) Jason McKiernan For a movie with a kitschy-verve title like Cowboys and Aliens, the resulting film sure is flaccid and joyless, without even a hint of spice.
Posted Dec 07, 2011  Edit critic review
79/100
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Jason McKiernan ...a minor godsend in the midst of heinous sequels, lame comic adaptations, and overblown action epics.
Posted Dec 07, 2011  Edit critic review
30/100
The Change-Up (2011) Jason McKiernan ...the cinematic equivalent of a 14-year-old boy watching scrambled porn in his room.
Posted Dec 07, 2011  Edit critic review
93/100
Beginners (2010) Jason McKiernan Beginners offers a greater insight into humanity than any film I've seen in 2011.
Posted Dec 07, 2011  Edit critic review
73/100
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Jason McKiernan ...a very well-mounted summer entertainment with a few intriguing allegorical strokes to stimulate more than just our eyes.
Posted Dec 07, 2011  Edit critic review
70/100
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Jason McKiernan Wonderful sequences. Great performances. A very good movie...but could've been so much more.
Posted Dec 07, 2011  Edit critic review
70/100
Fright Night (2011) Jason McKiernan This is a wild haunted house of a movie, full of jump cuts, overt creepiness, and an ever-present smirk on its face that lets us in on the joke...
Posted Dec 07, 2011  Edit critic review
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