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Geek is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Bob Chipman.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
8/10
Werewolf by Night (2022) Bob Chipman Continues Marvel Phase 4's now very apparent love affair with the company's extremely weird late-70s 'experimental' phase with a great debut showcase for director Michael Giacchino
Posted Nov 11, 2022  Edit critic review
3/4
Shadow (2018) Bob Chipman Essentially a palace-intrigue melodrama stirred together with a feudal spy-thriller and a gothic romance complete with secret passages and lurid identity-swap twists.
Posted Apr 27, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
Shazam! (2019) Bob Chipman This a fun, funny, exciting, action-packed, thrilling, big-hearted, sincerely-felt family adventure movie that rates with the best of the superhero genre.
Posted Apr 12, 2019  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Dumbo (2019) Bob Chipman "Probably the worst of the live-action Disney remakes so far."
Posted Mar 29, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Fighting With My Family (2019) Bob Chipman It's a hard movie to dislike, and I suspect it'll find more than a few fans who never thought they'd like a 'wrestling movie.'
Posted Mar 22, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
Captive State (2019) Bob Chipman A dark, somber, low(ish)-budget, science-fiction political allegory that dares to ask the question "What if 'District 9' and 'They Live' were the same movie - and both took themselves much too seriously?"
Posted Mar 16, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Wandering Earth (2019) Bob Chipman Think Pacific Rim's heart in When Worlds Collide's body, wearing Armageddon's clothes; hinged on what's easily the most *ridiculous* not-outright-fantasy sci-fi conceit anyone has attempted to put to live action in (probably?) my lifetime.
Posted Mar 08, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) Bob Chipman It's hard to imagine that the final coda won't tug hard at the heartstrings of truly devoted fans who feel they've "grown up" alongside Hiccup and Toothless.
Posted Feb 23, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) Bob Chipman A classically-structured 'You Shouldn't Have Opened The Scary Box, Dummy!' campfire story that just happens to be set among exactly the sort of pretentious windbag characters who's very state of being is looking too hard at simple, obvious things.'
Posted Feb 08, 2019  Edit critic review
1/4
Miss Bala (2019) Bob Chipman I almost feel bad hoping [a franchise] eludes her for at least this one more attempt. It's nothing personal, I just can't imagine sitting through 'Miss Bala Returns' in two years.
Posted Feb 02, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Serenity (2019) Bob Chipman Such an audacious, big, showy, bold swing of an idea I can't not respect that they took a shot at it.
Posted Jan 26, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Destroyer (2018) Bob Chipman [Kidman delivers] a tour-de-force performance that's all the more impressive considering she can be seen beating up fish-people in ridiculous-looking plastic armor in 'Aquaman' with equally sincere commitment elsewhere at the multiplex.
Posted Jan 18, 2019  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Vice (2018) Bob Chipman "...aims to go both go big and go home with the definitive docu-come-dramedy takedown of the major political scandals of three whole Spider-Man reboots ago."
Posted Jan 12, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Mary Poppins Returns (2018) Bob Chipman There's a few beats early where they cut to medium-closeup for the 'mischevious smile just for the audience' bit" that hit more like: 'OH! Wow, okay. There she is.' that I'm not sure I was suitably prepared for.
Posted Dec 29, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Aquaman (2018) Bob Chipman Either the best bad movie or the worst good movie of 2018.
Posted Dec 21, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5
Happy Death Day (2017) Bob Chipman As fixes for reviving the slasher genre apart from "make them good again" go, this is actually a pretty ingenious one.
Posted Dec 20, 2018  Edit critic review
4/4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Bob Chipman The best animated movie of the year and the first good Spider-Man movie in fourteen years.
Posted Dec 16, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) Bob Chipman All dropped into a thoroughly ordinary-looking jungle environment with the palette of a dreary network drama and all the stylistic flourish of a sedan commercial; like bare fluorescent bulbs humming at full brightness in an otherwise bare beige room.
Posted Dec 09, 2018  Edit critic review
1
Robin Hood (2018) Bob Chipman The kind of bad movie people end up talking about for years after, that fails because someone thought they had a big idea that nobody told them was a terrible idea until it was too late."
Posted Dec 01, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5
Creed II (2018) Bob Chipman The actors are all on point, the storytelling through action is brutal, crisp and satisfying and whichever of the two credited screenwriters came up with Adonis' ring-entrance gimmick should get a special Oscar just for that note.
Posted Nov 23, 2018  Edit critic review
0.5
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) Bob Chipman I'm not going to say it's the worst movie I've ever seen; but it's very possibly the worst prequel - the new low-point for expository, minutiae-obsessed, continuity-porn, anti-narrative in the "Cinematic Universe" era of blockbuster film making.
Posted Nov 17, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5
Overlord (2018) Bob Chipman I won't lie and say that the current state of the world hasn't made good, old-fashioned Nazi-blasting even more entertaining than it used to be; but the bottom line is that Overlord is [as good as] movies like this get.
Posted Nov 10, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Ghostbusters (2016) Bob Chipman A great team deserved a greater story.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5
Star Trek Beyond (2016) Bob Chipman Probably the best overall movie in the franchise since The Voyage Home.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
1
Jason Bourne (2016) Bob Chipman I have always been completely baffled by what's supposed to be so fascinating about the Bourne movies.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5
Suicide Squad (2016) Bob Chipman [Feels] all at once like an irritating wallow in the paint-huffing waste-of-skin teenage version of anarchic excess and the infuriatingly fake, phony, mass-market corporate co-opting of the paint-huffing waste-of-skin teenage version of anarchic excess.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5
Sausage Party (2016) Bob Chipman It is, simply stated, piss-your-pants funny - both in that I laughed almost hard enough to do that and in that it's the sort of humor where "pissing your pants" would be an actual punchline.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5
The Magnificent Seven (2016) Bob Chipman The main comparative takeaway I can give is that neither one is precisely as good as Seven Samurai, but you already knew that.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) Bob Chipman The point here is to savor the intricately animated action sequences and to drink in the potent mood of the piece, which brings a kinetic edge to Laika's signature detail-heavy, slightly melancholy production design
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Pete's Dragon (2016) Bob Chipman Anyone even a year or two older than Pete himself will be able to guess where this is going, but the magic is in getting there and Pete's Dragon is one of the most gentle, deliberate versions of this particular story to come along in a long time.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Sully (2016) Bob Chipman a welcome return to form for Eastwood after the depressing misfire that was American Sniper.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Blair Witch (2016) Bob Chipman A cover set of The Blair Witch's Greatest Hits: Unreliable map, time-displacement, scary noises, stickmen, rockpiles, face in the camera, spooky house, stand in the corner, was-that-or-wasn't-that-a-witch, goodnight Cleveland there will be no encore.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Bob Chipman Eva Green doing the stern-yet-nurturing British headmistress routine? To borrow a quote from Patton Oswalt: Which gods did I please!?
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
2
The Accountant (2016) Bob Chipman I can honestly barely be bothered to remember what the point of the present-day part of the story even was.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5
The Birth of a Nation (2016) Bob Chipman A frustratingly incomplete half-measure overall, however understandable the sense that it might've been something more must have felt back in Park City. That final shot, though... damn, that really is something.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
1
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) Bob Chipman Instead of becoming a syndicated TV vehicle for whoever the present-day equivalent of Kevin Sorbo or Lorenzo Llamas is, somebody decided that this needed to be a movie franchise for Tom Cruise.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Doctor Strange (2016) Bob Chipman Like looking at a black light poster on uppers: It's visually lovely, and you're having a good time, but there's also a small nagging sense that somebody might have brought the wrong drugs to the party.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) Bob Chipman The closest thing to the grotesque incestuous f***pile that defines the deeper recesses of modern "fanfic" culture ever to grace a movie screen: a Doctor Who meets Pokemon mash-up rewritten into a tangential Harry Potter prequel.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) Bob Chipman An obscenely violent gore-porn cartoon conjured forth by a spectacularly disturbed, deeply unwell mind [and] as sincere an expression of faith as cinematic narrative as you're ever likely to see. So, in other words, a new Mel Gibson film.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Arrival (2016) Bob Chipman I can't help but feel like the film is eventually a bit too clever for its own good
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Moana (2016) Bob Chipman I wasn't blown away by Moana, but I liked it a lot.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Bob Chipman When Rogue One is following the "cool and different" edict, that's when it's awesome
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Sing (2016) Bob Chipman Understands the unironic way the premise of talent contest reality shows sincerely connects with people, and why this particular arrangement of tunes and character stock-types works even though (indeed because) they've become "cheezy" and overly familiar.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Allied (2016) Bob Chipman About as good as "grown up" movies get this time of year
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
2
Nocturnal Animals (2016) Bob Chipman By now all of the "I'd pay to watch Amy Adams read ____" jokes have been made, but suffice it to say that in practice it's... not exactly a riveting spectacle, let's put it that way.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
0.5
Assassin's Creed (2016) Bob Chipman The action is barely passable, the look of everything is hopelessly generic, the story is stripped bare and totally uninvolving, there isn't a single memorable or remotely interesting thing going on in it.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) Bob Chipman The Resident Evil franchise as a whole [is] so profoundly past its sell-by date that every sequel feels like a nostalgic revival of something that never actually went away.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
2
Live by Night (2016) Bob Chipman gradually realizing that not only isn't it good but that it's never going to become good feels like a small-scale slow-motion tragedy
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5
A Monster Calls (2016) Bob Chipman The absolute worst? When a film is trying really hard with only the best of intentions and all the right influences to say something very welcome and worth saying... and still, sucks.
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3
Split (2017) Bob Chipman The Shyamalanaissance is real!
Posted Nov 04, 2018  Edit critic review
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