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Tomas Hachard

Tomas Hachard's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Citizen Ruth (1996) 80% EDIT “The movie's most charming characteristic is, in fact, its irreverence: It bears the tell-tale signs of a young director taking aim at, and then laughing off, the absurdities of the world he grew up in.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Qissa (2013) 88% EDIT “Qissa is most captivating when it treats Kanwar's identity dilemma head on; its best scenes are intimate ones that portray the tempestuous inner turmoil wracking its protagonist.” – Cinema Scope Oct 16, 2017 Full Review Ningen (2013) EDIT “By its close, Ningen has become tangled in digressions.” – Cinema Scope Oct 16, 2017 Full Review Caught in the Web (2012) 7% EDIT “There's a stiffness to the actors' performances that reinforces the film's ambiguous tone. And Chen's use of jump cuts is jarring and arbitrary, their ubiquity upping the ante on the film's already tiring hyperactivity.” – NPR Jun 8, 2016 Full Review Tangerines (2013) 88% EDIT “Because the conflict between Abkhazians and Georgians is so sketchily drawn, the ultimate heartwarming tone of the film seems not so much unearned as unspectacular.” – NPR Apr 21, 2015 Full Review Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) 91% EDIT “A work of many moving parts, one to take apart and put back together again repeatedly.” – NPR Apr 9, 2015 Full Review Effie Gray (2014) 43% EDIT “Thompson largely succeeds at giving Effie a voice, much as Fanning succeeds at beautifully bringing it to life. But the world around Effie remains crudely drawn, and in that respect the film can only do so much justice to her story.” – NPR Apr 2, 2015 Full Review Batched (2014) 66% EDIT “It's all quite superficial, but never less than gripping, and is aided by an ending that at least doesn't compromise too much-the movie finishes with a smirk more than a smile.” – NPR Mar 26, 2015 Full Review Jauja (2014) 88% EDIT “The film is expansive, pushing the ideas that Alonso has probed in the past further than he has ever taken them.” – NPR Mar 19, 2015 Full Review It Follows (2014) 95% EDIT “Can one perfectly-executed shot redeem the less successful earlier attempts? In this case, after the initial awe wears off, the effect is the opposite: it only makes you realize how much more there was to mine from Mitchell's premise all along.” – NPR Mar 12, 2015 Full Review Two Men in Town (2014) 50% EDIT “The movie's melancholic, atmospheric tone, coupled with a muted performance from Whitaker, offers a new way into the material.” – NPR Mar 5, 2015 Full Review Wild Canaries (2014) 83% EDIT “It's evident that the film is largely a lark, that Levin is having fun creating comic sparks by smashing a murder mystery together with a group of self-centered detectives, plot details be damned.” – NPR Feb 26, 2015 Full Review Approaching the Elephant (2014) 100% EDIT “It's a visceral, experiential, and absorbing viewing experience, not an educational issue doc.” – NPR Feb 19, 2015 Full Review Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) 49% EDIT “It's tempting to call the film muddled and be done with it, but there's an inventiveness and beauty to Lee's visuals here ... and an experimentation in the execution that's hard to ignore.” – NPR Feb 12, 2015 Full Review The Duke of Burgundy (2014) 94% EDIT “Strickland hides much beneath the surface in The Duke of Burgundy, but the movie is also a delight to look upon ...” – NPR Jan 22, 2015 Full Review Mommy (2014) 89% EDIT “For a director whose characters regularly display an abundance of melodramatic sentiment, Xavier Dolan leaves himself plenty of emotional cover in his movies.” – House Next Door Jan 21, 2015 Full Review Human Capital (2013) 81% EDIT “Human Capital's principled outrage against the wealthy is overwhelming. But it's not particularly useful ...” – NPR Jan 15, 2015 Full Review La última película (2013) 78% EDIT “ltima pelcula becomes a movie about finality, about the ways we stand in awe of end-times even as they strike fear in us ...” – NPR Jan 8, 2015 Full Review A Most Violent Year (2014) 89% EDIT “It bears all the hallmarks of depth except for actual wisdom.” – NPR Dec 31, 2014 Full Review If You Don't, I Will (2014) 74% EDIT “Many of the jokes, like the ones launched at the expense of Mellie's son's psychomotor problems, aim at the easiest targets, leaving the final products simplistic if not offensive.” – NPR Dec 18, 2014 Full Review Little Feet (2013) 75% EDIT “Far from being precisely molded to elicit an emotional response, Little Feet is content to let the pieces fall more haphazardly and to seek resonance in small moments rather than grand, dramatic gestures.” – NPR Dec 11, 2014 Full Review Before I Disappear (2014) 34% EDIT “Before I Disappear is ultimately hampered not by a messy plot but by bland characters who, for the most part, don't so much talk to each other as they monologue at each other.” – NPR Dec 5, 2014 Full Review Dying of the Light (2014) 13% EDIT “The rushed and often inchoate execution means there's little in the film that gets the benefit of more than a moment's reflection.” – NPR Dec 5, 2014 Full Review A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) 96% EDIT “Girl Walks Home manages to be a wholly original work while containing nary a unique thought or idea.” – NPR Nov 20, 2014 Full Review Rosewater (2014) 76% EDIT “The result neither portrays the suffering of Bahari's incarceration adequately nor lampoons the absurdities of the situation.” – NPR Nov 13, 2014 Full Review
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