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Linoleum Knife is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Alonso Duralde, Dave White.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Banana Split (2018) Alonso Duralde A smart and breezy coming-of-age comedy that pushes a lot of the buttons that Booksmart does.
Posted Mar 31, 2020  Edit critic review
A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) Alonso Duralde The seasoned cast sells the one-liners, and while there's probably at least one slo-mo montage too many, the promise of a sequel involving the trio of grandmas seems like a movie worth anticipating.
Posted Nov 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Queen of Katwe (2016) Alonso Duralde Mira Nair is an emotional button-pusher of Spielbergian ability.
Posted Sep 25, 2016  Edit critic review
Love the Coopers (2015) Alonso Duralde One of the few Christmas movies to acknowledge that every holiday we spend with loved ones is layered with every other holiday we've ever spent with those loved ones.
Posted Nov 15, 2015  Edit critic review
Terminator Genisys (2015) Alonso Duralde Once it's clear that anything can be undone and redone by changing the time lines, everything ceases to matter. There will always be a John Connor; there will always be a Skynet; there will always be a Terminator.
Posted Jul 05, 2015  Edit critic review
3/5
The New Rijksmuseum, Part 2 (2013) Dave White A weirdly watchable glimpse at the agonizingly long process of getting anything accomplished in The Netherlands.
Posted Jul 03, 2015  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Magic Mike XXL (2015) Dave White These men have unrealized yearnings - for art, for singing careers, for "glass slipper" marriage, for frozen yogurt - and they're going to make it rain by acting out those fantasies, man-twerking with all the "realness" they can muster.
Posted Jul 02, 2015  Edit critic review
The Overnight (2015) Alonso Duralde The kind of tame comedy that promises something transgressive but then chickens out before going anywhere that might unsettle its core audience.
Posted Jun 21, 2015  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Inside Out (2015) Dave White I believe that its most significant contribution to pop culture will be as a lasting statement of opposition to facile, idiotic "feelings" as they're currently sold by movie studios, a chance for a moment of truth about loss, and grief, and even numbness.
Posted Jun 19, 2015  Edit critic review
2/5
Jurassic World (2015) Dave White This franchise is, itself, very much like the dangerous dinosaur park depicted. It has investors who need to see a good return. It has to sell, and sell well, globally. Nothing can be left to chance. Therefore, nothing is.
Posted Jun 12, 2015  Edit critic review
4/5
Something Better to Come (2015) Dave White The horror on display is relentless, almost incomprehensible... [but] in spite of her circumstances, and in the face of the depressing inertia of her world, Yula refuses to accept the idea of hopeless permanence.
Posted Jun 12, 2015  Edit critic review
White God (2014) Alonso Duralde Engrossing, and open to any number of metaphorical readings -- but not for people who can't handle simulated animal abuse in movies.
Posted Apr 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Three Hearts (2014) Alonso Duralde If your plot can be resolved by having the characters share a bottle of wine and say, "You know, funny story..." there had better be a damn good reason why that conversation isn't happening.
Posted Mar 24, 2015  Edit critic review
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police (2012) Alonso Duralde There are three stories to be told about the Police, but you're only going to hear one of them here.
Posted Mar 24, 2015  Edit critic review
Chappie (2015) Alonso Duralde Like the director's previous films, it offers intriguing ideas and cool visuals before completely falling apart as a story.
Posted Mar 07, 2015  Edit critic review
The Last Five Years (2014) Alonso Duralde Moving and bittersweet, with great songs performed by two very skilled performers.
Posted Feb 13, 2015  Edit critic review
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) Alonso Duralde I don't use the word "reprehensible" a lot, but that's what this movie becomes after a promising start.
Posted Feb 13, 2015  Edit critic review
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Alonso Duralde Less interested in sexual power dynamics than in lassoing this guy into what the movie perceives as "normalcy."
Posted Feb 13, 2015  Edit critic review
Earth Girls Are Easy (1989) Alonso Duralde As funny and silly as ever, it's even more interesting to watch as a period piece, exulting in the dream of the San Fernando Valley of the 1980s.
Posted Jan 19, 2015  Edit critic review
Appropriate Behavior (2014) Alonso Duralde Funny and specific, it makes you eager to see what this filmmaker does next.
Posted Jan 19, 2015  Edit critic review
Mr. Turner (2014) Alonso Duralde Takes you on a bit of a meander, but you'll find by the end that you've arrived somewhere.
Posted Jan 05, 2015  Edit critic review
Big Eyes (2014) Alonso Duralde Ultimately boils down to being just another movie about an abusive marriage.
Posted Jan 05, 2015  Edit critic review
The Babadook (2014) Alonso Duralde An extraordinary film that taps into the fears of both childhood and adulthood.
Posted Dec 15, 2014  Edit critic review
Inherent Vice (2014) Alonso Duralde I get why some people will love this movie, but for me, sitting through it was an absolute chore.
Posted Dec 15, 2014  Edit critic review
0/5
Saving Christmas (2014) Dave White Hot cocoa is referenced no fewer than nine times. Cameron talks about the drink as though it were the trump card of his entire argument, as though dropping a microphone. "And COCOA!"
Posted Nov 22, 2014  Edit critic review
Nightcrawler (2014) Alonso Duralde A riveting character study, but also an unsettling look at what the economy is doing to us as a society.
Posted Nov 03, 2014  Edit critic review
Goodbye to Language (2014) Alonso Duralde It's like someone gave Godard a list of everything you're not supposed to do in a 3D movie, and he did every one of them. Which is why he's a genius.
Posted Nov 02, 2014  Edit critic review
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) Alonso Duralde It probably helps to have some background in Japanese folklore, but the movie is utterly gorgeous even if you don't.
Posted Oct 27, 2014  Edit critic review
Fury (2014) Alonso Duralde A reminder that World War II was a hellhole, no matter how great the Andrew Sisters were.
Posted Oct 20, 2014  Edit critic review
Left Behind (2014) Alonso Duralde The first movie made from this material was all about the Anti-Christ taking over the UN. This one's about landing a plane.
Posted Oct 20, 2014  Edit critic review
Gone Girl (2014) Alonso Duralde Thoroughly engrossing, even when it stops being logical.
Posted Oct 13, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
Stray Dogs (2013) Dave White Tsai has created one of his greatest films, full of the fragility, daily humiliation and fear that engulfs the lives of the poor, one that points to the moral requirements of active compassion. It's a masterpiece of the deepest sadness.
Posted Sep 24, 2014  Edit critic review
Space Station 76 (2014) Alonso Duralde Daringly changes tone, and challenges expectation, without ever missing the beat. The acting and the design are consistently spot-on in their homage to the '70s, but it's smarter and deeper than the gag-fest you might expect.
Posted Sep 21, 2014  Edit critic review
This Is Where I Leave You (2014) Alonso Duralde This is where I roll my eyes and make a gagging noise.
Posted Sep 21, 2014  Edit critic review
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) Alonso Duralde Gets under your skin in a most effective way.
Posted Sep 21, 2014  Edit critic review
Wetlands (2013) Alonso Duralde Shocking and outrageous -- but in the best way possible.
Posted Sep 13, 2014  Edit critic review
God Help the Girl (2014) Alonso Duralde If, like me, you have a weakness for movies where people burst into song, this will be right up your alley
Posted Sep 09, 2014  Edit critic review
0/5
The Identical (2014) Dave White It's a mysterious, hilarious mess, a confusional cry for directions in a Triple Elvis Universe. Buy your ticket now, before it magically disappears from theaters, and feel the brain-breaking power of song.
Posted Sep 09, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Love Is Strange (2014) Dave White Nothing showy or fussy from director Ira Sachs and cinematographer Christos Voudouris, the camera lingers on human details, the goodness and tenderness between these men, with a lot to say about the level of scrutiny gay lives are subjected to routinely.
Posted Aug 24, 2014  Edit critic review
What If (2013) Alonso Duralde Doesn't redefine the rom-com, but it's a fine example of the genre.
Posted Aug 20, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
Boyhood (2014) Dave White Full of empathy and fully realized detail, its specificity transforming into universality, an achievement of time and love that's already among the best films about childhood (and parenthood) you'll ever have the pleasure to watch.
Posted Jul 11, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
Manakamana (2013) Dave White The beauty and rhythms of the fixed camera's highly specific focus builds a hypnotic group narrative of religion's possibility, the ways in which it can bring joy and peace.
Posted Jun 27, 2014  Edit critic review
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Alonso Duralde Phony, cloying, and pandering.
Posted Jun 10, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
Fed Up (2014) Dave White Fed Up is on to a very important truth: we're all going to die of sugar if we don't start talking about it like the delicious cigarette it is.
Posted May 15, 2014  Edit critic review
God's Not Dead (2014) Dave White It's not just bad filmmaking; it's bad Christianity.
Posted Mar 26, 2014  Edit critic review
2/10
Endless Love (2014) Alonso Duralde This movie has no idea how letters of acceptance work, how airports work, how relationships work.
Posted Feb 14, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
About Last Night (2014) Alonso Duralde Comes to life whenever Hart and Hall return to scream at each other or to have passionate sex while wearing livestock masks.
Posted Feb 14, 2014  Edit critic review
Angels Sing (2013) Alonso Duralde There are enough tunes and sweet moments to make Angels Sing the kind of Christmas movie I can see coming back to in Decembers to come.
Posted Nov 26, 2013  Edit critic review
Nebraska (2013) Alonso Duralde Payne never shoots for big, wacky moments, but if you can allow yourself to get into the film's deliberate rhythms, it offers a trove of honest observations and satisfying (and, admittedly, occasionally acrid) laughs.
Posted Nov 19, 2013  Edit critic review
A Touch of Sin (2013) Dave White In [Jia's] sorrowful vision of Life Right Now, everything on screen follows the jagged line of trickle-down cruelty, one where the bottom isn't the bottom at all.
Posted Oct 17, 2013  Edit critic review
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