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Walker MacMurdo

Walker MacMurdo's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Hero (2017) 77% 2/4 EDIT “By never challenging the terms of Hayden's self-imposed misery, The Hero never resolves whether Hayden needs a second chance when he, perhaps, had a very good first one.” – Willamette Week Jun 21, 2017 Full Review Ghost in the Shell (2017) 43% 2/4 EDIT “The action is a blurry mess of jump cuts and extraordinarily annoying slo-mo flips [but] director Rupert Sanders has created one of the most overwhelming visual worlds in recent memory.” – Willamette Week Apr 13, 2017 Full Review Raw (2016) 93% EDIT “Marillier seamlessly transitions from cloistered nerd to hypersexed party wastrel, playing her discovery that she's a beautiful young woman who's too smart for her own good with the squirmy, frantic energy of a real-life teenager.” – Willamette Week Mar 29, 2017 Full Review The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) 86% 2/4 EDIT “What begins as a novel spin on the claustrophobic thriller takes a turn for the familiar about halfway through, but strong performances, lean exposition and tight camera work keep indie-horror rising star Andr vredal's new feature compelling.” – Willamette Week Mar 1, 2017 Full Review Get Out (2017) 98% 4/4 EDIT “What emerges, with nods to the absurdist anxiety of Rosemary's Baby and the existential terror of Michael Haneke is a tightly wound, viciously funny comment on the quotidian horror of life in black America.” – Willamette Week Mar 1, 2017 Full Review Logan (2017) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Despite tonal missteps, a major one serving as the film's transition to the third act, Logan is a thinking man's superhero flick: the best "gritty" offering we've had since The Dark Knight Returns.” – Willamette Week Mar 1, 2017 Full Review Aloys (2016) 80% 1/4 EDIT “Director Tobias Nlle's pretty camera work can't save this film from being an utter chore.” – Willamette Week Feb 27, 2017 Full Review I Am Not Your Negro (2016) 99% 4/4 EDIT “Peck's masterful presentation of Baldwin's ideas lets the audience "see" America through his eyes, making his case intellectually and emotionally.” – Willamette Week Feb 9, 2017 Full Review Yourself and Yours (2016) 94% 1/4 EDIT “Although Lee Yoo-young's subdued performance as the film's lead is compelling, even Joe Swanberg completionists will struggle to find insights here.” – Willamette Week Feb 8, 2017 Full Review Hedi (2016) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Majd Mastoura gives a masterful performance in Mohamed Ben Attia's commentary on a rapidly changing Tunisia that forces people to choose between family and happiness.” – Willamette Week Feb 8, 2017 Full Review xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) 46% B EDIT “Thankfully, it avoids tonal pitfalls with a good dose of 2016 post-irony, ramping up the extremity to a scale so ludicrous and grating -- neon-splattered title cards introduce many of the film's minor characters -- that it's clearly tongue-in-cheek.” – Willamette Week Jan 25, 2017 Full Review Silence (2016) 83% C+ EDIT “Scorsese overplays his hand, and Silence ends, 30 minutes late, on the exact syrupy note you expect it to.” – Willamette Week Jan 12, 2017 Full Review Elle (2016) 91% A- EDIT “Verhoeven and Huppert have crafted a grimly humorous but life-affirming portrait of strength and survivorship.” – Willamette Week Jan 11, 2017 Full Review No Pay, Nudity (2016) 71% C+ EDIT “No Pay, Nudity is a good example of why studio executives don't want to throw money at pictures in which not much happens: If they aren't very good, they tend to be very dull.” – Willamette Week Dec 14, 2016 Full Review Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) 84% A EDIT “The performances in this film are among the best the franchise has seen. This isn't a film of supermen. It's one of everyday people trying to justify, morally and practically, their roles in the struggles against an overwhelming, evil adversary.” – Willamette Week Dec 14, 2016 Full Review Bad Santa 2 (2016) 23% B- EDIT “Quietly, Thornton is an excellent comic, and writer Shauna Cross wisely gives him the film's best material to laugh-out-loud effect.. [But] film also suffers from a robust case of sequelitis.” – Willamette Week Nov 23, 2016 Full Review The Pearl (2016) 67% A EDIT “The Pearl isn't some late-night infomercial selling transgender rights to an uneducated audience. It simply wishes to show trans humanity.” – Willamette Week Nov 10, 2016 Full Review From Afar (2015) 79% B- EDIT “Perhaps this film requires a deeper understanding of Latin American queerness than this reviewer possesses, but From Afar watches like an intimate film that lacks intimacy.” – Willamette Week Oct 26, 2016 Full Review The Handmaiden (2016) 96% B+ EDIT “The Handmaiden is an undeniably lush, meticulously constructed film whose celebration of perversity is among the most artful you'll see.” – Willamette Week Oct 26, 2016 Full Review White Girl (2016) 70% B EDIT “When White Girl isn't dressing up as a morality play, it sharply confronts the social and political anxieties of the most idealistic generation in generations.” – Willamette Week Oct 12, 2016 Full Review The Birth of a Nation (2016) 72% B EDIT “Nation is a big, difficult, still important mess.” – Willamette Week Oct 5, 2016 Full Review
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