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Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Not Coming to a Theater Near You is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jenny Jediny, Leo Goldsmith, Matt Bailey, Michael Nordine, Moira Sullivan, Rumsey Taylor.

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Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) Rumsey Taylor Biollante would not appear in any other film in the Godzilla franchise, perhaps for practical reasons (she's inherently more ephemeral than other kaiju monsters), but she's among the series' most idiosyncratic nemeses.
Posted May 22, 2019  Edit critic review
Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) Tina Hassannia Despite some basic incongruities and its occasionally silly tone, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster is a genuinely enjoyable film for the series.
Posted May 21, 2019  Edit critic review
Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack! (2001) Leo Goldsmith The monster battles... are among the best in the entire series.
Posted May 21, 2019  Edit critic review
Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla (1994) Leo Goldsmith While there is an overall lack of excitement... the film nonetheless delivers on anonymous citizens fleeing in terror, roaring beasts blasting and beating the hell out of each other, and iconic landmarks and urban infrastructure being utterly devastated.
Posted May 21, 2019  Edit critic review
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) Tina Hassannia Exemplifies the peak of the Godzilla franchise's tonal shift into campy, fun territory, a phenomenon that reflected the series' absorption of 1960s Western pop-culture influences.
Posted May 14, 2019  Edit critic review
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) Leo Goldsmith While Terror of Mechagodzilla is not exactly a good film, it at least veers into slightly darker territory than some of the later Showa efforts.
Posted May 13, 2019  Edit critic review
Son of Godzilla (1967) Leo Goldsmith This showdown, a father-and-son team up held amid a blizzard orchestrated in a last ditch effort by the experimental meteorologists, is the film's true highlight, a curious denouement to an already odd film.
Posted May 13, 2019  Edit critic review
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) Leo Goldsmith Invasion has many pleasures, not least of which is its resemblance to Honda's earlier, more purely sci-fi ventures... But perhaps its most remarkable feature is its subtle, but noticeable steps in rehabilitating Godzilla's character.
Posted May 11, 2019  Edit critic review
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Leo Goldsmith This is, one might argue, what the audience has paid to see and what they've always wanted to see: the then-most famous couple in the world, at home in both the literal and figurative sense, unguarded and au naturel.
Posted Oct 27, 2018  Edit critic review
Under the Cherry Moon (1986) Abbey Bender An unquestionably ridiculous film. Ridiculousness doesn't have to be a bad thing, though. In fact, the film has everything we want in a pop superstar vanity project.
Posted Jun 26, 2018  Edit critic review
Supergirl (1984) Abbey Bender Szwarc means to create drama, effectively absorbing us in the adventures of a superhero flying in on the winds of the second wave of feminism. But his work lacks any playfulness or self-conscious humor.
Posted Jun 26, 2018  Edit critic review
The White Reindeer (1952) Steve Macfarlane There is little else out there like The White Reindeer.
Posted Oct 18, 2016  Edit critic review
Viy (1967) Veronika Ferdman Ershov and Kropachyov create a visually stunning work both uniquely Russian and (perhaps accidentally) Italian, that is worthy of inclusion in the horror canon.
Posted Oct 17, 2016  Edit critic review
Chinese Roulette (1976) Matt Bailey Chinese Roulette is one of those films where you hate every single one of the characters yet can?t tear yourself away from them until you find out how they end up.
Posted Jul 06, 2015  Edit critic review
Poto and Cabengo (1980) Michael Nordine Sadder ways to grow up certainly exist, but few come to mind.
Posted Jan 18, 2014  Edit critic review
Possession (1981) Michael Nordine A film about a woman who fucks an octopus.
Posted Oct 04, 2013  Edit critic review
The Family Man (2000) Michael Nordine Its emotional core makes it easy to appreciate as a classical (if not classic) entertainment.
Posted May 25, 2012  Edit critic review
Starman (1984) Rumsey Taylor Starman is Carpenter’s most uncharacteristically unironic effort, and it concludes with what is in my mind the finest cinematic moment of his entire career.
Posted May 25, 2012  Edit critic review
The Color Wheel (2011) Michael Nordine A feat not only of filmmaking but of the mind's ability to deflect what it doesn't want to accept.
Posted May 20, 2012  Edit critic review
Alien Resurrection (1997) Michael Nordine More than worthwhile as a closing statement.
Posted May 03, 2012  Edit critic review
Bonjour Tristesse (1958) Michael Nordine It's almost like a game, the kind that seems funny until someone gets hurt.
Posted May 01, 2012  Edit critic review
Here (2011) Michael Nordine Grapples with the very idea of wanderlust, eventually coming to look at it as both a state of grace and an appealing delusion.
Posted Apr 29, 2012  Edit critic review
Black Sunday (1977) Veronika Ferdman Black Sunday deserves to be placed alongside William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives in the pantheon of great films willing to truly examine what happens to veterans of war.
Posted Apr 24, 2012  Edit critic review
Return (2011) Michael Nordine Unique for how normal it is, and laudable for its humbleness.
Posted Feb 29, 2012  Edit critic review
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Michael Nordine Anderson knows precisely how to convey his ideas, but the ideas themselves often feel slight once delivered.
Posted Feb 26, 2012  Edit critic review
4 (Chetyre) (2006) Rumsey Taylor Even if its reasoning remains illogical, it amounts to a demonstration of unbridled audacity.
Posted Feb 07, 2012  Edit critic review
Family Plot (1976) Rumsey Taylor As the impromptu coda to not only Hitchcock's fifty-year career but also his critically disharmonious late period, which finds some of his most political and under-appreciated work, Family Plot concludes ingeniously, with a wink.
Posted Dec 20, 2011  Edit critic review
Topaz (1969) Rumsey Taylor It is a technically accomplished film, and its narrative is robust and complex, even if its destination is ultimately of no great significance.
Posted Dec 20, 2011  Edit critic review
The Birds (1963) Leo Goldsmith The Birds represents better than any other Hitchcock film the extreme polarities of his universe: vicious unpredictability and moral and emotional disorder on the one hand, and rigorous stylistic control and formal organization, on the other.
Posted Dec 16, 2011  Edit critic review
Marnie (1964) Leo Goldsmith Marnie's Mama's house is a masterpiece of repressed emotion, a bland domestic space of seemingly placid creams and yellow, rendered in swirling wallpaper and upholstery patterns.
Posted Dec 16, 2011  Edit critic review
Shame (2011) Michael Nordine It presents us with moment after moment clearly meant to alarm and then gives the impression of looking down its nose at us for having the intended reaction.
Posted Dec 02, 2011  Edit critic review
The Turin Horse (2011) Michael Nordine There's a quietude to its stillness, which Tarr likens to a kind of gift.
Posted Nov 27, 2011  Edit critic review
A Separation (2011) Michael Nordine Farhadi brings us as close as can be to these characters, but he also refuses to editorialize or nudge us too far in any one direction.
Posted Nov 23, 2011  Edit critic review
Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (2011) Michael Nordine Ceylan is highly attuned to the moments of grace that accent long periods of stillness, and it's in such instances that the story reveals itself as an almost fantastical affair.
Posted Nov 22, 2011  Edit critic review
Coriolanus (2011) Michael Nordine The language is ultimately akin to the one Christmas light that won't light up and blacks out all the others.
Posted Nov 13, 2011  Edit critic review
Oslo, August 31st (2011) Michael Nordine The film so gracefully replicates its protagonist's drifting moods that its full emotional weight doesn't immediately seem as heavy as it is.
Posted Nov 09, 2011  Edit critic review
The Snowtown Murders (2011) Michael Nordine It's a world where few deserve trust and fewer still make good on it.
Posted Nov 08, 2011  Edit critic review
Attenberg (2010) Michael Nordine Tsangari catalogues these men and women like butterflies pressed between the pages of an entomologist's journal, makes brief notes of each one's idiosyncrasies, and moves on to the next.
Posted Nov 07, 2011  Edit critic review
This Is Not a Film (2010) Michael Nordine It's clear from the first moments that this is a man who can't help but understand his situation in cinematic terms.
Posted Nov 06, 2011  Edit critic review
Michael (2011) Michael Nordine We never get too close to Michael, but one suspects this may be a good thing.
Posted Nov 06, 2011  Edit critic review
Bonsai (2011) Michael Nordine Jimnez either doubts his audience's ability to figure things out on their lonesome or his own ability to subtly convey them - maybe both.
Posted Nov 04, 2011  Edit critic review
Event Horizon (1997) Glenn Heath Jr. One moment a raging horror film, the next a restrained examination of psychological inanity, Event Horizon takes its genre schizophrenia to sadistic extremes. But this is what makes it such a fascinatingly deformed horror hybrid.
Posted Nov 01, 2011  Edit critic review
Mahal (1949) Michael Nordine We become part of its world without being wholly bound by its rules.
Posted Oct 29, 2011  Edit critic review
2046 (2004) Michael Nordine 2046 thus comes to encapsulate everything to which Wong (and, in turn, his audience) keeps returning.
Posted Oct 26, 2011  Edit critic review
(undefined) Michael Nordine There's no lack of mood and atmosphere, key elements both, but there isn't enough anchoring them to plot or character for it to matter.
Posted Oct 25, 2011  Edit critic review
The Inglorious Bastards (1978) Michael Nordine A boisterous air of irreverence makes Inglorious Bastards fascinating in its own right.
Posted Oct 25, 2011  Edit critic review
Enter the Void (2009) Michael Nordine Enter the Void may be a monolith of sorts, but it's one erected solely as a testament to itself.
Posted Oct 25, 2011  Edit critic review
Your Highness (2011) Michael Nordine Green's film is what happens when a talented director and cast indulge almost every one of their silly, sophomoric impulses; though not perfectly streamlined, the results are frequently hilarious all the same.
Posted Oct 25, 2011  Edit critic review
The Four Times (2010) Michael Nordine Such descriptors as contemplative, deliberate, and meditative fall short of the mark in conveying exactly what's at work here.
Posted Oct 25, 2011  Edit critic review
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011) Michael Nordine Hobo with a Shotgun celebrates its genre roots but in no way expounds on them; it's all pastiche with no substance.
Posted Oct 25, 2011  Edit critic review
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