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

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
The Night House (2020) Luke Parker Visually, audibly, and thematically, The Night House is an assaulting film, but because it works best in the gray areas between certainty and hysteria, the filling of the void, as it were, is a bit of a letdown.
Posted Sep 27, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jungle Cruise (2021) Luke Parker An unapologetic archeological swashbuckler...[and] a movie that bites off perhaps a bit more than it can chew.
Posted Sep 27, 2021  Edit critic review
B-
The Suicide Squad (2021) Luke Parker If there's only one true, declarative statement to be made about James Gunn's "The Suicide Squad," it would be that the film is entirely and undoubtedly a product of trust.
Posted Sep 27, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Free Guy (2021) Luke Parker Free Guy is not the movie it thinks it is. It is not a champion for originality. In fact, tag-teaming on punchlines with two of Hollywood's biggest franchises, it's hard to see it as nothing more than a corporate red herring in that regard.
Posted Sep 27, 2021  Edit critic review
A-
The Green Knight (2021) Luke Parker The Green Knight is far from the most faithful adaptation ever put to screen - in fact, it may be up there with Monty Python in terms of Arthurian accuracy - but its deviations and amendments are always far from uninteresting.
Posted Sep 27, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Val (2021) Luke Parker Val is an affectionate film, and even more, a self-affectionate film. It does just as much obscuring and bending as it does revealing.
Posted Sep 27, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Pig (2021) Luke Parker Whereas Cage's outrageous tendencies generally draw an overshadowing effect, in "Pig," an odd little film set in the surprisingly sardonic world of culinary Portland, they're an unexpected anchor.
Posted Aug 04, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Luke Parker Questlove's first film is exactly what you'd hope it'd be: a vibrant fusion between song and history. If you came for the music, you'll be surprised to find yourself staying for the knowledge. And certainly vice versa.
Posted Aug 04, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
F9 The Fast Saga (2021) Luke Parker F9 is a stupendously stupid movie. Total nonsense. Bombastic and, forgive the pun, ludicrous. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I had a lot of fun watching it. I now support multi-million-dollar goofball productions.
Posted Aug 04, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Luca (2021) Luke Parker The movie made me miss my own summertime friendships, with their imperfections and their tenderness, but I couldn't help but feel that the movie, at least by comparison to other Pixar projects, wasn't very ambitious.
Posted Aug 04, 2021  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) Luke Parker As the sequel to a movie that probably never deserved one, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard is about as vulgar and vulgarly bloated and uninspired as you'd expect. And as it turns out, three truly is a crowd. [published June 28]
Posted Aug 04, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
In the Heights (2021) Luke Parker In The Heights puts the pop back in popcorn, as in, "go to the theater, eat some popcorn, and watch this movie."
Posted Jun 17, 2021  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Spirit Untamed (2021) Luke Parker This is the kind of movie I hope my kid never finds on DVD, and the DVD that may have to go "missing" after one too many viewings.
Posted Jun 07, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) Luke Parker If there was ever a film that demonstrated the persistence of art, it's this one.
Posted Jun 07, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) Luke Parker The third time is not the charm for The Conjuring franchise, though to be honest, I don't know what a charm superseding those first two movies would even look like.
Posted Jun 07, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Quiet Place Part II (2021) Luke Parker Going from world building to world exploring, Part II experiments less with genre to bring about a noticeably different experience - one with a lot more sound and a lot less story...[but] there's a good apocalypse story here.
Posted Jun 02, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Cruella (2021) Luke Parker As someone who generally gets too angry about resurrected characters and origin stories, I found Cruella surprisingly energetic and happily twisted.
Posted Jun 02, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Riders of Justice (2020) Luke Parker An artistic gift for the eye, the heart, and the mind.
Posted May 26, 2021  Edit critic review
2/5
Army Of The Dead (2021) Luke Parker A penniless heist film and a brainless zombie flick.
Posted May 26, 2021  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Woman in the Window (2021) Luke Parker Amy Adams is fighting an uphill battle in this one, a movie so shameless it shoves its inspirations - all much better movies, by the way - right in the viewer's face, as if to say, "wouldn't you rather be watching something else instead?"
Posted May 17, 2021  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) Luke Parker There's too much "could have been" and "should have been" surrounding Spiral to dismiss it as just franchise fodder.
Posted May 17, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
The Water Man (2020) Luke Parker A story about humanity that isn't afraid to challenge its younger audiences' hearts and minds. However, the way the film opens the curtain on imagination prevents Oyelowo from fully producing the same kind of '80s Hollywood adventure he set out to make.
Posted May 09, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wrath of Man (2021) Luke Parker Ritchie's time-warping powers are on display once again, though this time...they're used to inflate the movie, to make it seem like there's more happening than there actually is. [But] there's more than enough to enjoy with this movie.
Posted May 09, 2021  Edit critic review
2/5
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021) Luke Parker Michael B. Jordan goes for Olympic gold in tactical swimming in this unpleasantly convoluted and politically uninspired revenge thriller.
Posted May 02, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) Luke Parker A high-spirited shot of energetic eye candy, the movie is also fondly intimate and crude to a T. I loved it.
Posted May 02, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
The Father (2020) Luke Parker Emotionally, rationally, and chronologically, The Father whips its viewers around like rag dolls.
Posted Apr 25, 2021  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Mortal Kombat (2021) Luke Parker Mortal Kombat puts the "brutal" in brutality and the "kom" in kome on...
Posted Apr 25, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Mank (2020) Luke Parker Mank works best as an exhibit of broken talent. It's a film whose journey asks the viewer to find worth in a character who sees none in himself, and withstand his self-sabotage as it grapples against his genius.
Posted Apr 25, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Sound of Metal (2019) Luke Parker This is a film that fuses the farthest limits of its form to tell its story and remind viewers of both the fragility and adaptability of life.
Posted Apr 19, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Promising Young Woman (2020) Luke Parker A candy-coated contemporary nightmare...I don't think any other movie out there belongs better to this cultural moment.
Posted Apr 19, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Crisis (2021) Luke Parker A solid cookie-cutter thriller that does its darnedest to touch on as many different sides of the opioid epidemic as possible. The result is far from perfect, but it is, at the very least, commendable.
Posted Apr 19, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Minari (2020) Luke Parker And while it may not preserve the American Dream, per se, it projects one American dream for decency in all people.
Posted Apr 11, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Luke Parker The film reminds audiences of the "yet to be" excitement behind its two leads, while also extending that excitement to the man behind the camera.
Posted Apr 11, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) Luke Parker This is a time of great pride swallowing.
Posted Apr 11, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) Luke Parker A lot of this film feels manufactured to me. And while the story is presented in a very comfortable way, I didn't necessarily feel like the film was as revolutionary as it thought it was.
Posted Apr 07, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) Luke Parker I'll almost always respect the movie that knows what it's about over the movie that pretends to be something it's not. In that way, this film is sincere.
Posted Apr 07, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Nomadland (2020) Luke Parker This is beautifully shot and told story - one that is distinctly American for fortunate and unfortunate reasons.
Posted Apr 07, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Zombie for Sale (2019) Luke Parker Audiences will be so connected with the characters that by the time it becomes a horror movie, Zombie for Sale will be all the more effective.
Posted Jul 28, 2020  Edit critic review
1/5
Game of Death (2017) Luke Parker At least the game's countdown feature told me when the movie would be over.
Posted Jul 28, 2020  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020) Luke Parker As controlled as an experiment but as endearing as a classic.
Posted Jul 28, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Decade of Fire (2019) Luke Parker A restorative history lesson and a necessary counterpoint to years of cover-ups and unjust finger pointing.
Posted Jul 25, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
The Truth (2019) Luke Parker A crescendo of events and an intimate portrayal of a worn family.
Posted Jun 29, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Irresistible (2020) Luke Parker If competition is the reason our politics are messed up, they are, without a doubt, the reason why this film's comedy is messed up.
Posted Jun 29, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Tommaso (2019) Luke Parker Willem Dafoe's performance breathes life into this semi-autobiographical film.
Posted Jun 23, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The King of Staten Island (2020) Luke Parker Judd Apatow saw something in Pete Davidson I've never seen...I'm very impressed.
Posted Jun 16, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018) Luke Parker This is a story that is very quickly fading away...it introduced a whole new potential side to documentary filmmaking for me.
Posted Jun 10, 2020  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Primary (1960) Luke Parker [Primary proves] there is nothing more inherently correlated with the ideals of [documentary] storytelling than elections.
Posted Jun 02, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/5
End of Sentence (2019) Luke Parker There's a lot of new stuff around [the characters], but a very old wound between them...and a lot of the stuff that is used to mend their relationship is glossed over.
Posted Jun 02, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
This Teacher (2018) Luke Parker The setting is as important a character as Hafsia...never threatening or violent enough to be behind enemy lines, but definitely [different enough] to feel isolating.
Posted Jun 02, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/5
SCOOB! (2020) Luke Parker An overly complicated film based on an otherwise simple cartoon.
Posted May 17, 2020  Edit critic review
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