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Washington Free Beacon is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Sonny Bunch.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/4
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Sonny Bunch Special credit must be given to the effects team, which brings to life Mysterio's trippy, perception-altering powers in a way once thought unimaginable for a live-action film.
Posted Jul 04, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Toy Story 4 (2019) Sonny Bunch All of which is to say that Toy Story 4 is really about parenthood.
Posted Jun 21, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rocketman (2019) Sonny Bunch Big screen jukebox musical an enjoyably chaotic mess.
Posted Jun 21, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Sonny Bunch It's got monsters punching each other, what more do you people want?
Posted May 31, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
Aladdin (2019) Sonny Bunch Utterly unnecessary, but not charmless.
Posted May 24, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum (2019) Sonny Bunch Great action masks a meditation on the natural order.
Posted May 17, 2019  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) Sonny Bunch Detective Pikachu made me feel old.
Posted May 10, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Shadow (2018) Sonny Bunch Shakespearean Chinese martial arts epic takes a little while to get going.
Posted May 10, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Under the Silver Lake (2018) Sonny Bunch Overly ambitious and densely plotted and stuffed to the brim with ideas about modernity and pop culture and the meaning of it all.
Posted May 03, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Avengers: Endgame (2019) Sonny Bunch A decade of Marvel movies culminates in three hours of (awesome) fan service.
Posted Apr 26, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Best of Enemies (2019) Sonny Bunch A trip into a past-not a distant past, less than 50 years, but one that is increasingly unrecognizable-and an artful reminder of the possibilities of change.
Posted Apr 12, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Highwaymen (2019) Sonny Bunch Director John Lee Hancock seeks to deglamorize [Bonnie and Clyde], focusing not on their youthful faces or swaggering mien or charming chatter, but on Bonnie's limp.
Posted Apr 12, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Shazam! (2019) Sonny Bunch Fun and funny, Levi's charismatic captain is a marvel.
Posted Apr 05, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2018) Sonny Bunch Riveting, with a compelling cast and an intriguing story and a thriller's sensibility.
Posted Mar 29, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
Dumbo (2019) Sonny Bunch Disney's latest retread of a beloved cartoon bores
Posted Mar 29, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Dragged Across Concrete (2018) Sonny Bunch An elucidation of the state of society, a lament against the ruin that change is wreaking upon the people forced to live in a world they neither recognize nor like.
Posted Mar 22, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Us (2019) Sonny Bunch Tim Heidecker ... is the film's low-key MVP.
Posted Mar 22, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Triple Frontier (2019) Sonny Bunch J.C. Chandor is probably my favorite director of actors working at the moment.
Posted Mar 15, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
Captain Marvel (2019) Sonny Bunch Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre movie about a cosmically powered white woman.
Posted Mar 08, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Greta (2018) Sonny Bunch Greta ... is a perfect metaphor for Twitter.
Posted Mar 01, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Fighting With My Family (2019) Sonny Bunch The purest form of filmmaking as myth making.
Posted Feb 27, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Alita: Battle Angel (2019) Sonny Bunch Fun, exciting, a little sweet: the perfect Valentine's Day blockbuster
Posted Feb 15, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Arctic (2018) Sonny Bunch Arctic is fascinating as a study of the creation of society on a micro level, of the things we do for each other for no reason other than our shared humanity.
Posted Feb 08, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Cold Pursuit (2019) Sonny Bunch There's a weird, wry sense of humor running through Cold Pursuit, an almost aggressively regressive brand of yuks that consistently made me giggle.
Posted Feb 08, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) Sonny Bunch Jake Gyllenhaal is solid as the increasingly unhinged Morf, bringing a weightiness to a part that could have easily devolved into silliness.
Posted Feb 01, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018) Sonny Bunch Dogs have often been useful components of American propaganda films ... but Sgt. Stubby kicks it up a notch, placing a pooch in the center of all the action.
Posted Jan 26, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Polar (2019) Sonny Bunch There's something delightfully regressive about the first half or so of Polar. ... Unfortunately, the action-comedy trades madness for melancholy in its closing moments.
Posted Jan 25, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
Glass (2019) Sonny Bunch Sadly, Glass isn't quite tight enough to drive home its points. In that looseness we find a sin worse than sloppiness or authorial vanity: we find boredom.
Posted Jan 18, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) Sonny Bunch A truly fascinating cinematic document, the sort of thing that shows the power, and the limitations, of the artform to transport audiences through space and time.
Posted Jan 11, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Aquaman (2018) Sonny Bunch Aquaman is fun. It's a lot of fun! Especially if you are willing to shut your brain off and enjoy the movie on the level it is intended.
Posted Jan 04, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Vice (2018) Sonny Bunch Despite the hagiographic elements at play here-really, Cheney should send McKay a nice bottle of scotch for putting together such a paean-Vice, sadly, isn't perfect.
Posted Dec 21, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Sonny Bunch The best comic book movie released this year, and the only one that should even be considered for a best picture nomination at the Oscars.
Posted Dec 14, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Vox Lux (2018) Sonny Bunch If Vox Lux is great, its greatness derives in no small part from the voiceover narration of Willem Dafoe.
Posted Dec 14, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Roma (2018) Sonny Bunch Roma's not cold, but it is calculating. You can almost feel Cuaron pulling your strings, a jealous deity happy to make you squirm in your seat while you beg for mercy.
Posted Dec 07, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Sonny Bunch The Ballad of Buster Scruggs alternates between dark, lunatic humor and darker, depressing morbidity. In other words, it's The Full Coen.
Posted Dec 07, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Favourite (2018) Sonny Bunch Sumptuous period settings and top-notch performances.
Posted Nov 30, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Creed II (2018) Sonny Bunch Surprisingly touching treatment of villains makes up for rote boxing action.
Posted Nov 23, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Widows (2018) Sonny Bunch One twist too many hobbles compelling crime drama.
Posted Nov 20, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
The Front Runner (2018) Sonny Bunch But what about your gaffes, Gary Hart?
Posted Nov 16, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Suspiria (2018) Sonny Bunch The final half hour of Suspiria suggests there's a brash, mad movie buried somewhere under all this pretense, one that could have rivaled Mandy for most-[crazy]-fun movie of the year.
Posted Nov 02, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Halloween (2018) Sonny Bunch Green and company's film feels almost like a repudiation of Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of Halloween, which posited Myers as a victim.
Posted Oct 19, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
First Man (2018) Sonny Bunch IMAX's superior technical possibilities are often used for spectacle, and that's fine. But Chazelle has done something more important with the large format: He's made a thematic point.
Posted Oct 12, 2018  Edit critic review
2/4
Venom (2018) Sonny Bunch It feels like it takes forever to get to the fun weirdness, which is odd since this movie is only really about 100 minutes long. But ... I'm kind of interested in seeing a sequel?
Posted Oct 05, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
A Star Is Born (2018) Sonny Bunch Bradley Cooper outshines Lady Gaga in competent retread.
Posted Oct 05, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Sisters Brothers (2018) Sonny Bunch The plot is threadbare; the story, such as it is, relatively uninteresting. ... As an acting showcase, however, there is much to love.
Posted Sep 28, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018) Sonny Bunch The House With a Clock in Its Walls has a slick competence and cleverness that will appeal to adults and just enough menace to make the film tense but not terrifying for younger viewers.
Posted Sep 21, 2018  Edit critic review
2/4
The Predator (2018) Sonny Bunch The Predator doesn't quite work because it's never quite clear what it wants to be and, when it finally does snap into focus, it's about the wrong things.
Posted Sep 14, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Mandy (2018) Sonny Bunch Mandy is an instant cult classic. ... This is a rock opera as envisioned by the lords of hell.
Posted Sep 14, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Peppermint (2018) Sonny Bunch You could put Garner in a Taken/John Wick-style high-concept action-thriller annually and I'd show up for each and every one of them.
Posted Sep 07, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Kin (2018) Sonny Bunch Intriguing and entertaining, a rare original sci-fi flick that leaves audiences wanting to know more.
Posted Aug 31, 2018  Edit critic review
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