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Saporta Report (Atlanta)

Saporta Report (Atlanta) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Eleanor Ringel Cater.

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Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story is a different sort of feel-good movie. Perry feels good about himself, and by the end, you’ll feel good about him, too.
Posted Dec 06, 2023  Edit critic review
The Holdovers (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater If only The Holdovers had some of its actors’ bonafides. But overall, it feels painfully phony.
Posted Nov 29, 2023  Edit critic review
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater Some of his bits you have to see to believe how funny they are. How funny they’ve always been. Brooks has been kidding around a long time.
Posted Nov 16, 2023  Edit critic review
The Burial (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater It’s a fine way to pass a couple of hours in the sure hands of a pair of gifted old-timers (Foxx and Jones) and an up-and-coming newcomer (Betts) who knows how to set off David vs. Goliath fireworks.
Posted Oct 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Fair Play (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater Perversely provocative and shamelessly entertaining.
Posted Oct 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Pixote (1980) Eleanor Ringel Cater An unsparing, unsentimental look...
Posted Oct 09, 2023  Edit critic review
The Official Story (1985) Eleanor Ringel Cater Sometimes the most enduring political statements are made without guns and banners.
Posted Oct 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Like Water for Chocolate (1992) Eleanor Ringel Cater The result is a movie as magical as it is mouth-watering.
Posted Oct 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Bye Bye Brazil (1979) Eleanor Ringel Cater A wonderfully winning little film that thrives on contradictions.
Posted Oct 09, 2023  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983) Eleanor Ringel Cater Part “Rashomon,” part Roy Rogers, this wonderful film about miscommunication and miscarriage of justice, set in turn-of-the-century Texas, is based on a true incident.
Posted Oct 09, 2023  Edit critic review
A Haunting in Venice (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater My guess is that Kenneth Branagh had a lot more fun making A Haunting in Venice than we have watching it.
Posted Sep 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Golda (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater Directed by Guy Nattiv, the film offers almost no insights into who Meir was -- from family matters to ministerial decisions.
Posted Sep 07, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater Barbie is, at best, half a movie.
Posted Aug 02, 2023  Edit critic review
Oppenheimer (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater Holding it all together is Murphy... He understands his character’s contradictions; more importantly, he has an uncanny instinct for how to reveal them.
Posted Jul 27, 2023  Edit critic review
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater If Goldin (or her work) doesn’t appeal to you, well, a good deal of this movie won’t either. Then again, if her style of activist/artist hits a sweet spot, then All the Beauty and the Bloodshed may strike you as both eye opening and admirably outraged.
Posted Mar 29, 2023  Edit critic review
Aftersun (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater It’s a very personal piece and much about it is more mystifying than revelatory. Still, the leads are magnificent together. If nothing else, Aftersun will make you think about your relationship with your own father.
Posted Mar 02, 2023  Edit critic review
Empire of Light (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Empire of Light has too much going for it to be a bad film. But it is, at times, a disappointing one.
Posted Feb 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Your Place or Mine (2023) Eleanor Ringel Cater Your Place or Mine may not qualify as a find, but it’s agreeable and affectionate and these days, that counts for a lot.
Posted Feb 15, 2023  Edit critic review
The Menu (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater As horror-satire goes, The Menu isn’t especially sophisticated. And true foodies can probably poke holes in every course. But in its own insistently odd way, the film is a good deal of palate-cleansing fun.
Posted Feb 08, 2023  Edit critic review
White Noise (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater [Baumbach has] taken a respectable swing at it, and the result is 2/3rds of a very good movie.
Posted Jan 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Glass Onion is either too smart or too lazy; I’m not sure which.
Posted Jan 09, 2023  Edit critic review
The Son (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater The Son is family dysfunction done right, a piece that understands that collateral damage is, nonetheless, still damage and moving on doesn’t always mean leaving pain behind.
Posted Dec 16, 2022  Edit critic review
The Wonder (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater The sizable wonder at the center of The Wonder is its star, Florence Pugh. Her perfectly-pitched performance holds together a film that often feels like a horror movie while flirting with questions of faith and the nature of miracles.
Posted Dec 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater She’s certainly not a clueless do-gooder, but she can come close – like those well-meaning Hollywood wives who once organized aerobics classes for the homeless.
Posted Nov 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Ticket to Paradise (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Sometimes frothy is only so much foam.
Posted Nov 28, 2022  Edit critic review
See How They Run (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater If you have a soft spot for period whodunits, then you may have some fun with this stylish, well-cast piece that mostly comes off as an appetizer for The Glass Onion.
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
The Good Nurse (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Watchable as it is, The Good Nurse is a tad flat, a bit unsatisfying.
Posted Nov 03, 2022  Edit critic review
The Good House (2021) Eleanor Ringel Cater The Good House isn’t a great movie but until its overly melodramatic final 10 or so minutes, it’s a pretty darn good one.
Posted Oct 26, 2022  Edit critic review
Sidney (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater You leave Sidney feeling frankly uplifted. His balancing act has never been equaled -- and has yet to be fully explored. At least this documentary is a good start.
Posted Oct 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Catherine Called Birdy (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater If it weren’t for Ramsey and Sophie Okonedo, in the small but hilarious role of an offbeat wealthy widow, the picture would be borderline unwatchable.
Posted Oct 12, 2022  Edit critic review
Blonde (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater A showy exercise in exploitation and salacious story-telling.
Posted Oct 06, 2022  Edit critic review
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Miller is now in his late 70s, and the fact that he can pull off anything like this -- or almost pull it off -- is pretty darn impressive. Your enjoyment, I guess, is just how far you’re willing to go on a flawed magic carpet ride.
Posted Sep 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater I guess it could be called a romance thriller courtroom drama. I had a few other names for it, but that doesn’t really matter. Let’s just say the movie didn’t make me mad. It didn’t make me much of anything.
Posted Sep 14, 2022  Edit critic review
Nope (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Despite some ingenious touches and a nod or two to the history of movie-making, Peele’s third movie is an incoherent, chaotic disappointment.
Posted Sep 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Vengeance (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater It’s a fish-out-of-water tale with an expertly hooked fish and unexpectedly dark (but still comic) waters.
Posted Aug 31, 2022  Edit critic review
Elvis (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Luhrmann’s biofilm is more like an Elvis impersonator -- bloated and bejeweled, barely skimming the surface of one of the most original entertainers who ever lived.
Posted Aug 17, 2022  Edit critic review
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater A nauseatingly time-warped film about how the right fancy dress can change your life.
Posted Aug 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Benediction (2021) Eleanor Ringel Cater Davies does some interesting things with WWI documentary footage, and he gets strong performances from his cast. But it’s difficult to get inside his Sassoon, to feel his anti-war passion or his pain as a gay man in an unforgiving culture.
Posted Aug 03, 2022  Edit critic review
Bitterbrush (2021) Eleanor Ringel Cater Understated yet oddly mesmerizing.
Posted Jul 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater True, the non-fan may still have trouble sorting everyone out and may not be as enamored of the sillier moments. But A New Era does its job and does it well.
Posted Jun 24, 2022  Edit critic review
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater After maybe, 10-15 minutes of normal stuff -- taxes, laundry, family tensions -- this movie takes off into some of the most imaginative and just plain what-tha’-??????? territory you’ve ever seen.
Posted Jun 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Secrets is overpopulated and underwritten. Oh, there’s plenty of plot, but it comes at us in so many bits and pieces that nothing hangs together.
Posted Jun 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Operation Mincemeat (2021) Eleanor Ringel Cater It’s dutiful, steely-eyed and, alas, just a bit dull.
Posted May 25, 2022  Edit critic review
The Lost City (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Formula done right is one reason the lightweight romantic romp, The Lost City, works. Another is the unassuming, easy-going chemistry between its two leads, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
Posted May 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater The picture is always entertaining, but it seems ever so slightly subdued.
Posted May 12, 2022  Edit critic review
Jockey (2021) Eleanor Ringel Cater t holds us. Partly through its lived-in feel -- you can all but smell the hay and manure. And partly through Collins’ wise, intuitive performance. He’s utterly convincing as a slightly over-the-hill jock.
Posted May 04, 2022  Edit critic review
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater Entertaining albeit lightweight.
Posted Apr 27, 2022  Edit critic review
All the Old Knives (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater It’s certainly not a waste of time. But it’s also not one of those movies you can’t wait to tell someone else about. You know the feeling.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
The Outfit (2022) Eleanor Ringel Cater The Outfit is unimaginable without Rylance. His Leonard is a model of precision. Like a perfect gentleman’s valet, he is rigorous and polite, unfailingly observant, and beguilingly obsequious -- as scrupulous with people as he is with fabric.
Posted Apr 14, 2022  Edit critic review
Parallel Mothers (2021) Eleanor Ringel Cater It is pure Pedro Almodovar -- bold, brilliant and, on occasion, exuberantly bonkers.
Posted Mar 05, 2022  Edit critic review
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