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rec.arts.movies.reviews is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Andrew Wright, Bill Clark, Bob Bloom, Brian Orndorf, Chris Bumbray, David N. Butterworth, David Nusair, Dragan Antulov, Drew McWeeny, Eric Lurio, Eugene Novikov, Frank Ochieng, Geoff Berkshire, Grant Watson, Greg Dean Schmitz, James Sanford, Jeffrey Huston, Jon Popick, Josh Gilchrist, Karina Montgomery, Kristian M. Lin, Laura Clifford, Louis Proyect, Mac Verstandig, Mark R. Leeper, Matt Prigge, Michael Dequina, Michael J. Doyle, Oggs Cruz, Phil Hall, Roberta Sparrow1, Scott Mendelson, Scott Tobias, Shane Burridge, Shay Casey, Susan Granger, Ted Prigge, Wallace Baine, Willie Waffle.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Roberta Sparrow1 Lovely installment to the franchise!
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
5/10
The Nowhere Inn (2020) Mark R. Leeper There are aspects in THE NOWHERE INN reminiscent of SYNECDOCHE and of THE TRUMAN SHOW. This film is semi-autobiographical; it is also somewhat self-referential.
Posted Sep 16, 2022  Edit critic review
7/10
The Rescue (2021) Mark R. Leeper THE RESCUE is a documentary about the rescue of a Thai boys' soccer team trapped in Tham Luang Cave in June 2018, when an early monsoon rainfall blocked many of the entrances and would soon flood the cave.
Posted Sep 14, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
The Duke (2020) Laura Clifford This is a great story, beautifully told, combining a do-gooder with a heart of gold with the only theft in the history of the National Gallery.
Posted Apr 26, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Asia (2020) Laura Clifford Pribar may set our expectations certain ways, once even making me dread the path she had chosen, but her film isn't the usual mother/daughter movie, upending cliché time and time again in moving and intimate scenes.
Posted Jul 05, 2021  Edit critic review
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) Shane Burridge Riefenstahl's attachment to the project...ensured that the film of the event would not escape being viewed as a propaganda piece
Posted Apr 09, 2021  Edit critic review
B
Onward (2020) Laura Clifford Pixar has been known for its incredible world building, but "Onward's" world is Tolkien lite by way of Dreamworks' dragons with a lead character who could easily slip into a Keebler elf commercial...
Posted Feb 27, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Rocketman (2019) Frank Ochieng Thoroughly eye-popping, sprawling with vibrancy and vision, and spryly contemplative, ROCKETMAN is a virtual blast into the effervescent orbit of the meaningful musical biopic.
Posted Jun 01, 2019  Edit critic review
B-
Photograph (2019) Laura Clifford There is a sadness to these two characters that permeates the film and its gentle romance.
Posted May 16, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
The Curse of La Llorona (2019) Frank Ochieng ...yearns to piggyback on The Conjuring's previous installments. Nevertheless, The Curse of La Llorona peters out as a pronounced offering of supernatural sludge without any particular sense of unfamiliar dire, distinction or definition.
Posted Apr 21, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Destroyer (2018) Frank Ochieng Destroyer's selling point is its leading lady Kidman whose fraught physicality and penetrating performance as an undesirable, conflicted cop in this stagy street-wise fable of corruptible consciousness propels this urban drama's bloodshot resonance
Posted Dec 31, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Holmes & Watson (2018) Frank Ochieng One would gain more chuckles watching the short-lived '70s sitcom "Holmes and Yoyo" than withstanding the big screen strained silliness of Holmes & Watson. Indeed, Holmes & Watson need to definitely get a comical clue.
Posted Dec 26, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Bumblebee (2018) Frank Ochieng Undoubtedly energetic, infectiously witty, and resourcefully feisty...frenzied family fun entertainment with a notable message about belonging and feeling connected. The film's pounce-and-pathos mantra is refreshingly poignant and invigorating
Posted Dec 22, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Widows (2018) Frank Ochieng [A] cerebral popcorn flick with an inherent cunning messaging about shifty womanhood pushed to the legal limit, Widows is dashing entertainment. The incomparable Viola Davis is its strong, shining centerpiece
Posted Dec 13, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Deadpool 2 (2018) Frank Ochieng Deadpool rules! Absolutely riotous in its blood-splattered insanity, "Deadpool 2" does its intended job in delivering the overstuffed antics rooted in the free-wheeling nonsense of Reynolds's brand of bouncy badassness.
Posted Dec 12, 2018  Edit critic review
B
C'est la vie ! (2017) Laura Clifford "The Intouchables" cowriter/directors Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano once again adhere strictly to genre templates, but do so with such verve and wit they are like master plate spinners.
Posted Jul 12, 2018  Edit critic review
B
12 Days (2017) Laura Clifford Depardon's fly-on-the-wall approach suggests Frederick Wiseman with fewer cutaways and a more limited focus. The film is fascinating, but leaves us with many questions unanswered.
Posted Jun 28, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Homicide (1991) Mark R. Leeper
Posted Dec 13, 2017  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Homicide (1991) Serdar Yegulalp
Posted Dec 13, 2017  Edit critic review
Chasing Coral (2017) Louis Proyect The urgency of this problem requires people to become informed about the issues, starting with seeing the film either at the IFC or on Netflix.
Posted Jul 18, 2017  Edit critic review
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) Louis Proyect Fascinating tale of an autodidact who died at the age of 32 leaving behind a body of work that ranks among the 20th century's most valuable.
Posted Dec 10, 2016  Edit critic review
Hidden Figures (2016) Louis Proyect Great story and powerful performances in a film that dramatizes a neglected aspect of the Civil Rights movement.
Posted Dec 10, 2016  Edit critic review
Merci patron! (2016) Louis Proyect This is the kind of film Michael Moore has a reputation for making but does not deserve. If his latest depicted France as a liberal utopia, this one shows the grim reality--but with humor.
Posted Nov 29, 2016  Edit critic review
Asperger's Are Us (2016) Louis Proyect Four young men with Asperger's discover that comedy is the best cure for what ails them.
Posted Nov 28, 2016  Edit critic review
Off the Rails (2016) Louis Proyect A bittersweet documentary about a man who lived to drive subway trains and buses under false identity, the kind of work real employees regard as oppressive.
Posted Nov 28, 2016  Edit critic review
Magnus (2016) Louis Proyect Mostly of interest for chess enthusiasts, it is a fascinating study of someone as gifted as Bobby Fischer but not burdened by madness.
Posted Nov 22, 2016  Edit critic review
Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015) Louis Proyect As much a documentary on Kurosawa, the film is a reminder of how much we have lost since the golden age of cinema was replaced by the bottom-line barbarianism of the Hollywood studios.
Posted Nov 22, 2016  Edit critic review
Denial (2016) Louis Proyect This film benefits from a screenplay written by David Hare, arguably Britain's finest living playwright, who eschewed holocaust film cliches.
Posted Nov 19, 2016  Edit critic review
Circle of Poison (2015) Louis Proyect It is the definitive film critique of pesticides that benefits from a wide array of scientific experts and activists including Weir himself who has credentials as both.
Posted Nov 18, 2016  Edit critic review
Arrival (2016) Louis Proyect Octopuses from outer space can't begin to compete with Klaatu or ET.
Posted Nov 15, 2016  Edit critic review
National Bird (2016) Louis Proyect By far the most effective treatment in either documentary or narrative film of the war crimes that will be linked with Barack Obama for decades to come.
Posted Nov 09, 2016  Edit critic review
Peter and the Farm (2016) Louis Proyect More like Charles Bukowski than Henry David Thoreau, the eponymous farmer featured in this brilliant film is a reminder that documentaries are often far better than narrative films in character development.
Posted Nov 02, 2016  Edit critic review
Finding Babel (2015) Louis Proyect Whether your interest in Babel is purely literary or political or like mine a combination of both, this is a must-see film. It will make you want to read his great works for the first time or once again like me. A superb production.
Posted Oct 28, 2016  Edit critic review
The Ivory Game (2016) Louis Proyect The first film since John Huston's "Roots of Heaven" that makes you want to support sainthood for the activists trying to end elephant poaching.
Posted Oct 22, 2016  Edit critic review
Before the Flood (2016) Louis Proyect A stunning achievement that despite its understandable inability to ground its critique in the capitalist system that is the root of all our problems, this film is both timely and insightful.
Posted Oct 22, 2016  Edit critic review
Into the Inferno (2016) Louis Proyect A reminder that volcanoes can be just as deadly as grizzly bears and just as much of an inspiration for arguably the world's greatest septuagenarian director.
Posted Oct 14, 2016  Edit critic review
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (2015) Louis Proyect An outstanding film both artistically and politically. I only wish that there were parts 3 and 4. Unique for its being made by a victim of the US made by a native of the country . Not to be missed by serious political people. My pick for best doc of 2016.
Posted Oct 07, 2016  Edit critic review
The Birth of a Nation (2016) Louis Proyect Finally a film about slavery by an American director that is the artistic and political peer to Gillo Pontecorvo's "Burn".
Posted Oct 01, 2016  Edit critic review
13TH (2016) Louis Proyect Another work of genius from one of America's outstanding directors and social critics.
Posted Oct 01, 2016  Edit critic review
The Hurt Business (2016) Louis Proyect Everything you ever wanted to know about the fastest growing spectator sport with fighters who despite the violence of their craft are smart, articulate and likable. Highly recommended.
Posted Sep 30, 2016  Edit critic review
Among the Believers (2015) Louis Proyect Surprise-surprise. Young boys and girls become Islamic fundamentalists in order to get a meal and a roof over their head. The answer is not Predator drones but ending inequality.
Posted Sep 30, 2016  Edit critic review
Do Not Resist (2016) Louis Proyect In the 60s the left used to refer to the cops as an occupying army. This fine documentary shows how reality has caught up with the rhetoric.
Posted Sep 30, 2016  Edit critic review
I, Daniel Blake (2016) Louis Proyect Ken Loach at his very best. It might be subtitled "Why Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader". Succeeds as social commentary and as the story of an individual.
Posted Sep 28, 2016  Edit critic review
The Unknown Girl (2016) Louis Proyect Pay no attention to the "rottens". This is an outstanding film by the Dardennes about the difficulties of living a moral life under capitalism.
Posted Sep 26, 2016  Edit critic review
Seed: The Untold Story (2016) Louis Proyect A model of scientific insight, story-telling and cinematic panache that reminds us that the future of life under capitalism is guarded at best.
Posted Sep 23, 2016  Edit critic review
The Ruins of Lifta (2016) Louis Proyect Although in many ways an unrealizable project, Menachem Daum's attempt at reconciliation with Palestinians is a reminder that Jewish ethics is not necessarily a contradiction in terms when it comes to Israel.
Posted Sep 23, 2016  Edit critic review
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four (2016) Louis Proyect A reminder of how documentary filmmakers are using the videocamera in the same way that earlier generation of revolutionaries used the printing press. BRAVO!
Posted Sep 16, 2016  Edit critic review
Snowden (2016) Louis Proyect Pay no attention to the "rottens". This is vintage Oliver Stone and powerful story-telling about a true American hero.
Posted Sep 15, 2016  Edit critic review
Command and Control (2016) Louis Proyect A close call with a gargantuan catastrophe and a risk that still exists as long as nuclear weapons exist.
Posted Sep 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Neruda (2016) Louis Proyect A fascinating examination of the role of radical artist in bourgeois society that prioritizes the drama of an individual rather than the social drama of a crackdown that anticipated Pinochet. Despite that, it is great filmmaking.
Posted Sep 09, 2016  Edit critic review
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