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The Final Cut

The Final Cut is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jason Di Rosso, Lauren Carroll Harris, Luke Goodsell.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Sweet Country (2017) Jason Di Rosso It confirms Thornton as a perceptive director, one whose absence at this level has been felt.
Posted Jan 17, 2018  Edit critic review
Darkest Hour (2017) Jason Di Rosso The film is carried by Oldman, of course, who can now add Churchill to his career gallery of real life characters that includes Sid Vicious, Beethoven and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Posted Jan 10, 2018  Edit critic review
All the Money in the World (2017) Jason Di Rosso Had Scott shown more faith in his film's own complexity, he might have made something great.
Posted Jan 04, 2018  Edit critic review
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Jason Di Rosso The Star Wars franchise is in good hands with writer-director Rian Johnson, who delivers an enthralling, often funny and at times achingly beautiful galactic adventure in The Last Jedi.
Posted Dec 14, 2017  Edit critic review
Only the Brave (2017) Jason Di Rosso For a film so unambiguously cheering for its heroes, it has an unsettling way of questioning the cost of their achievement.
Posted Nov 30, 2017  Edit critic review
The Disaster Artist (2017) Jason Di Rosso What Franco's performance brings out is a sense of emotional pain that's perhaps not obvious in the real Tommy Wiseau.
Posted Nov 29, 2017  Edit critic review
Get Out (2017) Jason Di Rosso As a keenly observed portrayal of the African-American experience, it seems every bit as important a film as Moonlight is, even if the Academy will probably never recognise its brilliance.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Their Finest (2016) Jason Di Rosso The Danish director pulls tears and laughs from the material, and touches on social issues that a contemporary audience will appreciate.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Don't Tell (2017) Jason Di Rosso Don't Tell is two films, in a way. The film it is and the film it could have been. To its credit, the distance between the two is sometimes not much at all, but it never completely disappears.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) Jason Di Rosso The film breathes, and while it's overlong, the important thing is you never feel like you're suffocating with too much information or plot. A new series beckons and the magic is back.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Founder (2016) Jason Di Rosso The dramatic impact of betrayals creeps up on you, partly because the film rolls on with a smooth, upward motion and few obvious signposts, partly because Ray is so likable.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Legend of Ben Hall (2016) Jason Di Rosso The film is a rich, if flawed, portrait of a haunted man and a romantic tribute to the Australian bush as a mirage of freedom.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Office Christmas Party (2016) Jason Di Rosso Josh Gordon and Will Speck have made a gross-out comedy for the times that's both vulgar and conservative, panicked and strangely self-satisfied.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Una (2016) Jason Di Rosso The lingering question posed is whether or not Ray is a good man who suffered a lapse in judgement. If you believe Ray for even a split second, and the film is good enough to make you believe him, you've had a peek at the way this kind of predation works.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Lost City of Z (2016) Jason Di Rosso [Lost City] may be rewriting history, but when you take the film on its own terms, it's a nuanced, thrilling portrait of a man fighting convention and prejudice.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Light Between Oceans (2016) Jason Di Rosso ...If this sounds like your cup of milky tea, The Light Between Oceans should satisfy, but not dazzle.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) Jason Di Rosso The alternating action and suspense are just enough to keep it afloat, but not enough to make it fly. A solid three stars.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Elle (2016) Jason Di Rosso In a year that's seen mainstream cinema struggle to reach any great heights, it's refreshing to find a film that's as engaging and defiantly hard-to-pin down as Elle.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Arrival (2016) Jason Di Rosso Villeneuve has failed to deliver anything near the emotional intensity of his previous work and the ever-dependable Adams can't save the film from some ponderous sci-fi noodling.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Boys in the Trees (2016) Jason Di Rosso It feels like an urban legend told at a slumber party - earnest and creepy with a plot twist you see coming - but first-time writer/director Nicholas Verso's delight is palpable.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Joe Cinque's Consolation (2016) Jason Di Rosso [Consolation] is a dark and thought-provoking film that will linger with you long after the credits roll.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (2016) Jason Di Rosso Stranger still, in a film this progressive, this woke, that they talk about wanting their land back, without the faintest acknowledgement that they, in turn, have stolen it from Native Americans.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Girl on the Train (2016) Jason Di Rosso The Girl on the Train needed more heart than head, without sacrificing its core idea about the reasons women self-destruct. Blunt's red-raw performance does remain a reason to see it.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Jason Di Rosso Zack Snyder is not a subtle director. An understatement, I know. But it's more obvious than ever here.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Lady in the Van (2015) Jason Di Rosso At its best, The Lady in the Van exposes the hypocritical, torn feelings many of us experience around the homeless, old age, and how women are 'supposed' to be.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Boss (2016) Jason Di Rosso The Boss, directed by McCarthy's husband Ben Falcone, is a comedic flatline: poorly paced, flaccidly scripted, morally disjointed.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Witch (2015) Jason Di Rosso It's only when the family's livestock become involved that cracks appear in the earnest surface. I haven't cackled so much since the satanic goat in Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Where to Invade Next (2015) Jason Di Rosso Where to Invade Next is worth a look, for its small revelations. I mean, even if you've heard that kids in French state schools eat better food than our kids, actually seeing them eat scallops in fish broth is one of the film's truly eloquent moments.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Eye in the Sky (2015) Jason Di Rosso Guy Hibbert's clever screenplay gets a lot of mileage out of a simple idea.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Deadpool (2016) Jason Di Rosso I like Reynolds as an actor, and even I was bored.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Steve Jobs (2015) Jason Di Rosso The spark of genius in Sorkin's script is that it's structured around three key product launches across a decade and a half, instead of attempting a full biography like the dismal Ashton Kutcher film a few years back.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Anomalisa (2015) Jason Di Rosso The bleakness is more about Kaufman's disappointment with human beings. No one in the film seems to know what to do about it. Though wilfully pessimistic, it's a striking achievement.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Mermaid (2016) Jason Di Rosso Admittedly it's pantomime at times, but it's saved by some laugh-out-loud acerbic humour that the Chinese do so well...The Mermaid is worth a look.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Sisters (2015) Jason Di Rosso Like so many films by SNL alumni, it struggles to keep up the pace, and a few good scenes - or skits - are all you get.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Big Short (2015) Jason Di Rosso The Big Short is entertaining stuff, even if ultimately it foregoes the human scale contradictions at the heart of the story-especially in Carrel's storyline-for the Big Sermon.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Revenant (2015) Jason Di Rosso The Revenant is a highly polished film about grand themes: greed, justice and the dispossession of indigenous lands.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Spotlight (2015) Jason Di Rosso Journalism is the hero here and this film is a compelling, impassioned and nostalgic glimpse of the work and time it requires.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Room (2015) Jason Di Rosso While Room is in some ways an obviously manipulative fairy tale that suffers from some story compression in the first half, it has the capacity to hit some deeper insights later.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) Jason Di Rosso This film is the best thing out this week - it's breath-taking in stretches. But its lack of empathy for the human condition it so presumptuously lectures us about is a nagging flaw.
Posted Nov 16, 2017  Edit critic review
Jungle (2017) Jason Di Rosso Unfortunately, [Daniel] Radcliffe doesn't have the breadth to find a middle register between grim, action movie determination and boyish charm, and suggest the required psychological complexity.
Posted Nov 09, 2017  Edit critic review
Detroit (2017) Jason Di Rosso [Director Kathryn Bigelow's] forte doesn't serve this film's full ambition as a statement about American racism and a testimony of the suffering of its victims.
Posted Nov 02, 2017  Edit critic review
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Jason Di Rosso It's no surprise the director of Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople could bring out a softer side to the Marvel material.
Posted Oct 27, 2017  Edit critic review
Good Time (2017) Jason Di Rosso Electricity pulses through the film - amped by Daniel Lopatin's grand slabs of retro-futurist synth - which also recalls the inventiveness and physicality of silent cinema comics like Buster Keaton.
Posted Oct 12, 2017  Edit critic review
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Jason Di Rosso Blade Runner 2049 is the sequel we didn't need, a film that mimics the original's style, but falls short of capturing its danger and romance.
Posted Oct 05, 2017  Edit critic review
Battle of the Sexes (2017) Jason Di Rosso Often a reviewer feels compelled to compare a movie with a much better book or play. In this case, it's the documentary.
Posted Sep 28, 2017  Edit critic review
Nocturama (2016) Jason Di Rosso The film is a carefully constructed hall of mirrors within which Bonello shows us the horror of anger without empathy, and the state as the most terrifying player of all. It is a pitch black allegory for our time.
Posted Sep 21, 2017  Edit critic review
It (2017) Jason Di Rosso Pennywise remains a chilling figure, lurking beneath the streets of a small Maine town, but you feel his most poignant appearances are still to come.
Posted Sep 14, 2017  Edit critic review
Ali's Wedding (2017) Jason Di Rosso At a time when Muslims tend to be absent from our screens bar in the most tragic and brutal scenarios, the idea that these characters have the compassion and courage to work through their significant issues autonomously drives the film's feel good energy.
Posted Aug 31, 2017  Edit critic review
Logan Lucky (2017) Jason Di Rosso Steven Soderberg's funny, underdog heist movie is a heartfelt paean to the kinds of Southern working-class whites normally caricatured as Confederate-flag-waving racists.
Posted Aug 17, 2017  Edit critic review
Atomic Blonde (2017) Jason Di Rosso An action thriller of hyper-stylised visuals and a catchy 80s soundtrack, it raises your heartbeat to fight-or-flight levels.
Posted Aug 03, 2017  Edit critic review
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