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Screen Comment is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Nathanael Hood.

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6/10
Special Correspondents (2016) Nathanael Hood I would recommend it for people looking for a decent comedy, but I'd warn them to be prepared for some unexpected ugliness.
Posted Dec 28, 2018  Edit critic review
7/10
Children of the Mountain (2016) Nathanael Hood A quiet, heartrending tale of motherhood.
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8/10
Command and Control (2016) Nathanael Hood These are the things of which nightmares are made.
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8/10
Ixcanul (2015) Nathanael Hood The film is comfortably languid.
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7/10
Courted (2015) Nathanael Hood And this is what Courted is truly about: the slow chipping away at the masks that shield us from the world and each other.
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8/10
Obit. (2016) Nathanael Hood It's always the films about death which end up being the most life-affirming, isn't it?
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9/10
Memories of a Penitent Heart (2016) Nathanael Hood the only way to understand Memories of a Penitent Heart is to see it yourself. I hope you do. My words can't do it justice.
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7/10
Magnus (2016) Nathanael Hood The portrait we gather from Magnus is of a young man who does what he does not because he enjoys it but because he is good at it.
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7/10
A Hologram for the King (2016) Nathanael Hood It's also one of the first, if not THE first, American film I've watched that suggests that it's the West that needs the Middle East's economic influence, not the other way around.
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8/10
Elvis & Nixon (2016) Nathanael Hood The film is concerned with the collision of egos, the interplay between two very public figures unsure of how much of their guard or personas they should let down in each other's presence.
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7/10
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2016) Nathanael Hood ...a documentary of passion bordering on fanaticism, of drive flirting with self-destruction.
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5/10
Here Alone (2016) Nathanael Hood ...feels like a ninety-minute compilation of filler material.
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5/10
The Human Thing (2016) Nathanael Hood ...a deflated bag, robbed of all ambition and momentum.
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8/10
Do Not Resist (2016) Nathanael Hood ...an essential snapshot of American history.
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5/10
Life, Animated (2016) Nathanael Hood But Life, Animated doesn't seem to have enough confidence in Suskind's story to let it speak for itself.
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6/10
Bad Rap (2016) Nathanael Hood It spends far too little time focusing on the actual history of Asian American rappers...and poorly divides time between the four main rappers.
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6/10
A Kind of Murder (2016) Nathanael Hood It feels more like an exercise in defining the mechanics of suspense than in actually utilizing them.
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7/10
Bugs (2016) Nathanael Hood But Bugs resists the temptation to be benign or harmless.
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4/10
High-Rise (2015) Nathanael Hood ...a jumbled mess of a film.
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7/10
Viva (2015) Nathanael Hood [The] emotional outbursts feel genuine, necessary, even, but not forced.
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6/10
The First Monday in May (2016) Nathanael Hood The First Monday in May is gorgeous, sumptuous. It's also undercooked.
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6/10
Always Shine (2016) Nathanael Hood It's not a good film, but I'd be damned if I said I didn't love every minute of it.
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4/10
AWOL (2016) Nathanael Hood Completely bereft of momentum, it staggers and stumbles its torturous way through an eighty five-minute run-time without offering anything creative or original.
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9/10
The Revenant (2015) Nathanael Hood The Revenant is a film of mud, blood, and carnage set against unforgiving northern wastes of snow and freezing water.
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8/10
Thank You for Playing (2015) Nathanael Hood As an exploration of the human spirit, it is indispensable.
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7/10
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) Nathanael Hood Hunt for the Wilderpeople masks its earnest sweetness with a giggling distrust of authority, making it at once heartfelt and mischievous.
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5/10
Nerdland (2016) Nathanael Hood It isn't even that funny.
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7/10
Among the Believers (2015) Nathanael Hood A chilling documentary that examines Maulana Aziz's Red Mosque network and the roots of Muslim extremism.
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5/10
Steak (R)evolution (2014) Nathanael Hood The documentary feels less informative, less explorative than it does self-indulgent.
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6/10
Slow West (2015) Nathanael Hood It's so obsessed with being a well-constructed, socially conscious film that it forgets to be a good one.
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9/10
In Transit (2015) Nathanael Hood The final feature by Albert Maysles...it utilizes the unobtrusive techniques he helped pioneer...to capture a stirring cross-section of humanity locked in a temporary purgatory.
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6/10
Applesauce (2015) Nathanael Hood But I can't help but feel that his central message of the importance of empathy gets muddled by the slapdash storytelling.
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7/10
Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (2015) Nathanael Hood Funny, compelling, and heart-felt.
Posted Dec 27, 2018  Edit critic review
8/10
Autism in Love (2015) Nathanael Hood I have never seen a film that treated autism with the same level of respect and dignity as Matt Fuller's Autism in Love.
Posted Dec 27, 2018  Edit critic review
8/10
Scherzo diabolico (2015) Nathanael Hood A near-perfect engine of human cruelty.
Posted Dec 27, 2018  Edit critic review
4/10
Sworn Virgin (2015) Nathanael Hood ...it nevertheless deflates Hana's journey of emotional weight.
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