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Tom Meek

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Biography:

Tom Meek is a writer living in Cambridge. His reviews, essays, short stories and articles have appeared in The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, Cambridge Day, The Charleston City Paper and SLAB literary journal. Tom is also a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and teachers writing and journalism in the Boston Area.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
H Is for Hawk (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a bittersweet exploration of loneliness and self-doubt that soars on the strength of its restraint and Foy’s full embodiment of Helen’s emotional state.” – Cambridge Day Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “Affleck and Damon lean into their parts, though most of the rest of the cast, save Calle, hang in the orbit of their swagger. ” – Cambridge Day Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “Movement and mime specialist Miguel Torres Umba does an impressive and convincing turn in a monkey suit as Ben (bonus points for not going CGI, even if the facial prosthetics stand out).” – Cambridge Day Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Mannequin (2025) 56% 1.5/4 EDIT “The hokey exorcism shatters the spell Berardo casts early on.” – Cambridge Day Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% 2/4 EDIT “I found myself reflecting that the only reason to make this movie is to give people more reasons to dislike making Greenland a U.S. territory.” – Cambridge Day Jan 15, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “The tenuous bond with Clay helps drive the action too, even if it is predictable. No real guts are spilled per se, just emotional ones. ” – Cambridge Day Jan 7, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “What ensues are some slow, sloppy offings that Park stages with great comedy despite their grim affect.” – Cambridge Day Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “This bold, poetic nightmare resonates with humanity and wonder.” – Cambridge Day Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Great Flood (2025) 56% 3/4 EDIT “There’s a lot of threads that director Kim Byung-woo throws into the vortex. Some of it’s confounding and confusing, but it’s never dull.” – Cambridge Day Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% 2.5/4 EDIT “ Law and Brühl’s righteous lads give the film its anchor as resolute ideologue and man willing to go to all ends to protect his family, while de Armas... turns the dial up to eleven.” – Cambridge Day Jan 5, 2026 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “It is atypical Panahi, rich in production values and gingerly plotted, something that Panahi’s other films — seeking to skirt government censorship — avoided in their raw, natural, unflinching lens.” – Cambridge Day Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “In an era of maximalist biopics that mistake volume for insight, “Song Sung Blue” finds meaning in the margins. ” – Cambridge Day Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “It’s a madcap turn that keeps amping up the tension in unexpected ways. The casting is devilish, with magician-funnyman Penn Jillette and gruff director Abel Ferrara.” – Cambridge Day Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “Each new “Avatar” installment has been notably longer and more eye-poppingly impressive (do yourself a favor and see this one in 3D Imax), but also rides the rails of diminishing returns – more is not more. ” – Cambridge Day Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Endless Cookie (2025) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The matters at the core are isolation, addiction, colonialism and the harmful impacts on generations of Indigenous people, done in vivid, hand-drawn animation by Seth that makes Adult Swim look tame” – Cambridge Day Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 2/4 EDIT “This empty melodrama isn’t filled by the quirk of Freyne’s after-world building – think “Beetlejuice.” If this is what eternity looks like, I’ll choose hell.” – Cambridge Day Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “O’Connor gets a passing grade as the main focus, but it’s Close and Craig that sell it. ” – Cambridge Day Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “Overall, “Hamnet” makes for a well-constructed disappointment. ” – Cambridge Day Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “Road to Revenge is lean, and necessarily so, as it’s one note. The bloody orgy of bullets and metal mangled mayhem likely isn’t for all, but will certainly please fans of the original.” – Cambridge Day Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “How Trier pulls the splaying story together feels virtuosic, but there’s nothing showy or needlessly sentimental. It’s muted, dour and throughly affecting. It’s filmmaking from the heart.” – Cambridge Day Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “The meticulous recreation of the time and place is mind-boggling, and the number of personalities brought to life rivals Midnight in Paris.” – Cambridge Day Nov 14, 2025 Full Review One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “It’s a wild olio that captures the chaotic time with Lennon and Ono at the fore, on point and putting themselves out there in every sense of the word.” – Cambridge Day Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Vortex (2025) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Vortex is a talkie film that hangs on the long, resigned face of Gardell, a comedian best known for his long stint on “Mike & Molly.” It’s a dramatic switch that Gardell pulls off, quietly but effectively conveying his inner dread.” – Cambridge Day Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 3/4 EDIT “It’s an effective blend of grim, sci-fi grit and nonchalantly ribald comedy. It swings for the fences and connects.” – Cambridge Day Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “Michael Shannon and Richard E. Grant are fine adds as the U.S. and British prosecutors that try to pin Göring to the wall, but without Crowe, the judgment here would lack conviction.” – Cambridge Day Nov 10, 2025 Full Review
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