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Blunt Magazine is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Travis Johnson.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Marty Supreme (2025) Travis Johnson Marty Supreme is more Raging Bull than Rocky, tracing the rising and falling fortunes of a gifted but horrible human being.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Travis Johnson After decades of every dystopian movie trying to look like Blade Runner or Mad Max, it’s almost refreshing to see one that looks like nothing at all.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Travis Johnson What unfolds is a kind of sci-fi wilderness adventure, with the pair (plus a cute little CGI critter dubbed Bud, who manages to be charming rather than grating) learning to trust each other.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Travis Johnson The actual plot here is a war between rival CEOs, which should really play well in the current climate, along with "doing a collab with Tesla's Optimus" and "casting Jared Leto".
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Phone 2 (2025) Travis Johnson There’s nothing wrong with playing to the tropes if the tropes pay off, and Derrickson gets a lot of moody atmosphere out of the film’s wintry setting
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Travis Johnson You can't fault the ambition, but this is a failed experiment.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Travis Johnson Spinal Tap's secret sauce has always been that the songs, though daft, are actually good.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Travis Johnson It's an ingenious little clockwork marvel of a film.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Travis Johnson The Smashing Machine is not much of a movie. It’s not even much of a marketing campaign for Johnson’s acting abilities, which seems to be the point of the exercise.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Travis Johnson It's impossible to see its depiction of a nation in the grips of a cult of personality turned death cult and not hear "MAGA!"
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Travis Johnson There’s not much to differentiate between the Conjuring flicks and any dozen low budget, allegedly “true” ghost stories that cram themselves into the back blocks of Prime Video and Tubi apart from brand name recognition.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Travis Johnson Filmmaker Macon Blair gets it. He know the secret formula has to include heart. It has to cleave to some kind of ethos in among all the gratuitous gore, obviously fake severed limbs, and shameless nudity.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Darkman (1990) Travis Johnson Perfect is boring; if Darkman were perfect, I’d probably love it less.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) Travis Johnson You’ll need to set your expectations appropriately – even old fans may find this a pretty rote effort.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Pickup (2025) Travis Johnson The Pickup very much plays to formula, but the formula fails to effervesce.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Heads of State (2025) Travis Johnson Heads Of State works largely because of the chemistry and charisma of its two stars, both guys who have never been afraid to commit to the bit to get a laugh.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) Travis Johnson I’m just here to watch people die in creative and gruesome ways, and sometimes I even pretend it matters if they deserve it.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Chopper (2000) Travis Johnson It was transformative, alright; Chopper turned Bana from a light entertainer into a serious dramatic actor overnight, a swerve impossible to predict even with 20/20 hindsight.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Shrouds (2024) Travis Johnson The Shrouds asks provocative questions: how do we grieve? Why do we? And how do we live in the aftermath?
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025) Travis Johnson There’s not much new here for old fans, but it’s still fun to play the hits.
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Travis Johnson What could have been a lazy cash-in is instead smart, funny, and at times spectacularly gory.
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Travis Johnson More than anything else, The Fantastic Four: First Steps feels obligatory.
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
I See You (2019) Travis Johnson Sharp, assured and intriguing, this is a thriller that punches above its weight.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wretched (2019) Travis Johnson This is a fun, pacy piece of horror cinema.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballerina (2025) Travis Johnson I’m not sure the world of the High Table is much chop without Mr Wick at the centre.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Together (2025) Travis Johnson What if the worst couple you knew met The Thing?
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Dangerous Animals (2025) Travis Johnson It’s a riveting, bloody, mean little thrill ride that moves faster than a mako and is guaranteed to have audiences screaming.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Travis Johnson Apart from the obligatory post-apocalyptic scavenger-chic drop in technology, 28 Years Later shows us a complete change in the way of viewing the world.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Travis Johnson It’s all about setting expectations. Mine for the Jurassic franchise – Park or World, it makes no difference – are pretty modest, so I always have a reasonably good time.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Bring Her Back (2025) Travis Johnson Bring Her Back is ambitious. It’s digging into uncomfortably ambiguous emotional and moral territory at a time when most popular screen fare clearly divides its characters into heroes and villains, white hats vs black.
Posted May 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Travis Johnson Thunderbolts (I am done with the asterisk) has all the ingredients for a good time, but fails to mix them well.
Posted May 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Accountant 2 (2025) Travis Johnson Christian was raised to be a kind of home range Delta Force operator, but his real power is his autism. He has a beautiful mind for forensic accounting and covert murder.
Posted Apr 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Warfare (2025) Travis Johnson The axiom in screenwriting is that action is character. Warfare, not an action movie, is nonetheless all action. Surely it's all character, then?
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Drop (2025) Travis Johnson Drop angles off of surveillance paranoia and technophobia a bit – whoever our mysterious antagonist is, he knows his way around mobile phones and security cameras – but it mainly trucks in social anxiety.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Sound of Freedom (2023) Travis Johnson If this flick wasn’t being used as a battleground in the Great Culture War this week, I’d forget I ever saw it within six months.
Posted Sep 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Travis Johnson Starring 80s poster boy John Cusack and featuring a blistering soundtrack curated by Joe Strummer, ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’ is like John Hughes directed The Killer.
Posted Jul 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Annette (2021) Travis Johnson It's a middling movie: midbrow, midrange, probably mid a lot of Year's Best and Year's Worst lists come December.
Posted Oct 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Escape From New York (1981) Travis Johnson What works is the tone, the character, and the deeply cynical attitude towards authority of all stripes.
Posted Oct 24, 2021  Edit critic review
Daniel Isn't Real (2019) Travis Johnson We've danced this dance before and part of the fun is trying to parse what is objectively real and what is only subjectively so - a task made deliberately difficult by how closely the film cleaves to Luke's increasingly erratic point of view.
Posted Jul 14, 2021  Edit critic review
12 Monkeys (1995) Travis Johnson The received wisdom is that science fiction is always, when you get right down to it, about the period in which it is written, but in the grim Spring of 2020... 12 Monkeys looks startlingly prescient, even if the dates are wide by a decade or two.
Posted Jul 14, 2021  Edit critic review
Evil Dead II (1987) Travis Johnson At its heart, the sequel/semi-remake is really about a guy alone in a house he can't leave, slowly going mental. That's something a lot of us can relate to.
Posted Jul 14, 2021  Edit critic review
Zappa (2020) Travis Johnson "Legendary" is an adjective that gets thrown around a lot, often without too much justification. So too is "visionary", come to think of it. But Frank Zappa was both: insanely talented, intimidatingly intelligent and incorrigibly iconoclastic.
Posted Jul 14, 2021  Edit critic review
Black Widow (2021) Travis Johnson A much more grounded, street-level kind of affair than the high-flying, universe-shaking antics we've grown accustomed to, and Shortland's character-first approach is a good fit for the material.
Posted Jul 12, 2021  Edit critic review
Sin City (2005) Travis Johnson The movie is not just the essence of the books writ large, but the books brought to life.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Strange Days (1995) Travis Johnson Kathryn Bigelow's propulsive sci-fi thriller Strange Days is a stone cold, ass-kicking classic.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Total Recall (1990) Travis Johnson Total Recall as a film and Verhoeven as a filmmaker both have serious thematic concerns, beyond the simple, iconoclastic joy of throwing as much blood and boobs at the screen as they could get away with.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
A Knight's Tale (2001) Travis Johnson Helgeland doesn't hide his anachronisms; he puts them right up front and demands that we grapple with them. They're not mistakes or the result of sloppy research; they're deliberate and they have a point.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Wake in Fright (1971) Travis Johnson If anything, the film has become more potent, more poignant, even more capable of shocking and disturbing.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
You Don't Nomi (2019) Travis Johnson Director Jeffrey McHale's bold documentary attempts - and generally succeeds - in rehabilitating the reputation of Verhoeven's infamous 1995 erotic stinker, Showgirls.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Viva the Underdogs (2020) Travis Johnson It's a fun trip, if not an especially deep one - don't go expecting any MTV Behind the Music scandals or warts 'n' all tales of rock 'n' roll excess.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
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