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Killer Movie Reviews

Killer Movie Reviews is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Andrea Chase
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/5
Scream (2022)

Andrea Chase

SCREAM's true accomplishment lies in that we know what's going to happen, but we're still startled when it does, and being toyed with along the way is part of both that suspense and humor.
Posted Jan 22, 2022
2
5/5
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)

Andrea Chase

Neither for the intellectually timid nor the prudish, Radu Jude's romp through cultural hypocrisy and the human penchant for being not just cruel, but also idiots, is designed to confront and confound with savage humor and brutal satire.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
3
4/5
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Andrea Chase

Eschewing the artifice of reality, Coen creates an experience that is Cathartic as well as horrifying, akin to the medieval morality plays or even the tragedies of classical Greece
Posted Jan 19, 2022
4
1/5
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2021)

Andrea Chase

A relentlessly obvious and overplayed exercise in draining the last dregs from a moribund franchise.
Posted Jan 19, 2022
5
4/5
Nine Days (2021)

Andrea Chase

Does not presume to give us all the answers to time and space, but it does posit, without judgement and without pretension, what it means to live meaningfully.
Posted Dec 23, 2021
6
3/5
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

Andrea Chase

Chastain delivers an impeccable performance of drive and innocence that never resorts to caricature.
Posted Dec 23, 2021
7
4/5
The Card Counter (2021)

Andrea Chase

Pits the failings of society against the individual conscience, the role of free will against group think, and the desire for forgiveness that can never quite be quenched.
Posted Dec 23, 2021
8
2/5
House of Gucci (2021)

Andrea Chase

A ramshackle accretion of muddled plots studded with oddly incoherent character development.
Posted Dec 23, 2021
9
3/5
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Andrea Chase

Balances a vibrant cacophony of action with a criminally flabby script that takes far too long to get where it needs to go.
Posted Dec 23, 2021
10
5/5
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Andrea Chase

A visual spectacle that doesn't stint on the excesses of CGI, while never forgetting that the way to engage an audience is to make it care about the protagonists.
Posted Dec 17, 2021
11
5/5
Nightmare Alley (2021)

Andrea Chase

A sumptuous morality tale with Old Testament justice and a vocabulary, both and aural, that is as intrinsic to the storytelling as any plot point or line of dialogue.
Posted Dec 15, 2021
12
2/5
Eternals (2021)

Andrea Chase

A philosophically dense film that stagnates under its own considerable weight as it dances through 7000 years of world cultures while never quite finding its groove.
Posted Nov 22, 2021
13
5/5
Last Night in Soho (2021)

Andrea Chase

There is nothing better than just settling in for a unique ride through personal demons and the unsettlingly clingy nature of the past.
Posted Nov 1, 2021
14
2/5
Antlers (2021)

Andrea Chase

It all unfolds with a pace so deliberately slow that it makes you want to scream, making that element the most horrific to be found here.
Posted Nov 1, 2021
15
2/5
Halloween Kills (2021)

Andrea Chase

We learn many things here, few of them surprises. One is that Jamie Lee Curtis is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to chewing up scenery with satisfying aplomb. Another, that the franchise is every bit as unkillable as Michael Myers.
Posted Oct 16, 2021
16
4/5
No Time To Die (2021)

Andrea Chase

If Rami Malek as supervillain Lyutsifer Safin is more method acting than genuine menace, well, so be it. There is much here to cherish as loose ends are neatly tied, legacies are assured, and the pyrotechnics deliver.
Posted Oct 8, 2021
17
4/5
Titane (2021)

Andrea Chase

Presents the carnal as an intellectual exercise, vicious and unremitting in externalizing cultural violence about gender norms in a stylized satire that will leave you suitably discombobulated.
Posted Oct 5, 2021
18
2/5
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Andrea Chase

Taking the franchise into the bickering couple route of light comedy and minimal story was, as they say, a choice. Not a good one, but a decisive one
Posted Oct 2, 2021
19
1/5
The Addams Family 2 (2021)

Andrea Chase

Why use characters that are the definition of mordant in a film with no bite? Was My Little Pony not available?
Posted Oct 1, 2021
20
4/5
Copshop (2021)

Andrea Chase

Adroitly combines tension and goofiness with an insouciance that is nothing short of breathtaking.
Posted Sep 19, 2021
21
2/5
Malignant (2021)

Andrea Chase

There are a few moments that may or may not be intentionally hilarious strewn throughout its running time, that we are forced to wonder about those intentions is the crux of the problem.
Posted Sep 11, 2021
22
5/5
Together (2021)

Andrea Chase

nor for the way it captures a bleak moment in history, but for Razor-sharp observations about what it means to be human, and thereby imperfect, but still more than worthy of not just love, but, more, respect
Posted Sep 4, 2021
23
4/5
Candyman (2021)

Andrea Chase

The tension of a serial killer on the loose, particularly of the supernatural variety, is juxtaposed with the tension people of color feel while negotiating a white world.
Posted Aug 30, 2021
24
4/5
The Night House (2021)

Andrea Chase

For all the overtones of the supernatural, it is the terror of slipping into very real madness that drives it, making it a first-rate psychological thriller that will leave you shaken to your core.
Posted Aug 22, 2021
25
2/5
Reminiscence (2021)

Andrea Chase

Rife with visuals that evoke a disquieting dreamlike state, the story, an ersatz neo-noir set mostly between sunset and sunrise, drones along with the cinematic equivalent of a mosquito's interminable buzz on a humid afternoon.
Posted Aug 21, 2021
26
3/5
Cryptozoo (2021)

Andrea Chase

For all CRYPTOZOO's visual and thematic strengths, it fails on an emotional level, never quite compelling us to invest in these characters personal journeys as opposed to their ethical ones. It leaves us with an intriguing film, but not a gripping one.
Posted Aug 20, 2021
27
4/5
John and the Hole (2021)

Andrea Chase

Dancing adroitly between reality and metaphor, this psychologically disturbing story is told in muted colors and hushed tones, the better to create a dreamlike state where subconscious fears are deliberately provoked.
Posted Aug 7, 2021
28
2/5
Jungle Cruise (2021)

Andrea Chase

A big-budget romp working itself into a tizzy without succeeding in shaking the feeling of déjà-vu that it engenders.
Posted Aug 6, 2021
29
4/5
Joe Bell (2021)

Andrea Chase

Walhberg and Miller deliver strong, heartbreaking performances that are emotionally complex and all the more powerful for relying on subtlety and nuance.
Posted Jul 23, 2021
30
4/5
Mandibles (Mandibules) (2020)

Andrea Chase

Cinematic rules are not so much broken as ignored, but there Is the intention of a master plan, making each development as shocking as it is original.
Posted Jul 22, 2021
31
4/5
Black Widow (2021)

Andrea Chase

Action sequences come thick and fast, with an aerial rescue that is both heart-stopping and that obeys (most) of the laws of physics, but this is a film that focuses on sentiment while somehow eschewing the trappings of sentimentality.
Posted Jul 10, 2021
32
3/5
Too Late (2021)

Andrea Chase

Deadpan and droll in its exploration of monsters and their enablers, it doesn't so much expose anything new about what people are willing to do in order to succeed as present it with a puckish flair and a wicked sense of irony.
Posted Jul 8, 2021
33
2/5
F9 (2021)

Andrea Chase

A compete surrender to willful, ebulliently gleeful inanity.
Posted Jun 26, 2021
34
5/5
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer (2021)

Andrea Chase

A searing and trenchant portrait of a country still struggling with the legacy of slavery. Never strident, never glib, this is a compelling film that is unflinching in what it wants to say about the past and the present.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
35
4/5
Luca (2021)

Andrea Chase

It follows an time-honored path to an ending that will warm the cockles of your cardiac organ while also making you question the best way to eat pasta.
Posted Jun 16, 2021
36
2/5
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)

Andrea Chase

The frenzy feels forced and oddly stagnant.
Posted Jun 15, 2021
37
3/5
Edge of the World (2021)

Andrea Chase

Less a rollicking action film than it is an adventure of the spirit.
Posted Jun 8, 2021
38
2/5
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Andrea Chase

A turgid exercise in predictability and hooey that fails even the internal logic test, but is tricked out with some nifty tracking shots and first-rate cinematography
Posted Jun 4, 2021
39
4/5
Caveat (2020)

Andrea Chase

Squirm-inducing and enigmatic, It has the oneiric quality of a half-remembered nightmare, the half that is the most disquieting, where events move relentlessly and inevitably into the macabre.
Posted Jun 3, 2021
40
4/5
Undine (2020)

Andrea Chase

As a parable about the stasis of trying to move forward without confronting the past, It is a persuasive précis. Told with elegance and intelligence, it works on several levels at once, all of them darkly poetic.
Posted Jun 1, 2021
41
5/5
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

Andrea Chase

There is not a millimeter of extraneous footage. This is lean and mean filmmaking at its very best that will leave you breathless. And hoping for A QUIET PLACE 3.
Posted May 30, 2021
42
5/5
Riders of Justice (2021)

Andrea Chase

A film that challenges the viewer about the most basic assumptions about law, order, and the mechanics of civilization. It's also as wildly entertaining as it is profoundly subversive.
Posted May 28, 2021
43
4/5
Drunk Bus (2021)

Andrea Chase

It has a wicked sense of humor tempered with the melancholy of a life on hold.
Posted May 28, 2021
44
4/5
Cruella (2021)

Andrea Chase

Fresh-faced Grand Guignol.
Posted May 26, 2021
45
4/5
Two Lottery Tickets (2021)

Andrea Chase

This sly and charming story meanders along making its point about cinema and human nature with nary a trace of pretension, nor a pandering nod to political correctness.
Posted May 25, 2021
46
4/5
Dream Horse (2021)

Andrea Chase

The emotional highs and lows give the right immediacy, and the lack of syrup in what is ultimately a very sentimental story gives a fresh and welcome cast to the proceedings.
Posted May 22, 2021
47
4/5
Enfant Terrible (2021)

Andrea Chase

All the contradictory elements are here in Masucci's intense and terrifying performance.
Posted May 21, 2021
48
1/5
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)

Andrea Chase

This is a reboot of sorts with dreams of being just as franchise worth [as the original]. Some dreams needs to be quashed.
Posted May 15, 2021
49
3/5
Finding You (2021)

Andrea Chase

A harmless bit of fluff, gooey as a marshmallow and just about as challenging.
Posted May 12, 2021
50
4/5
Paper Spiders (2021)

Andrea Chase

It refuses to pander to its audience with platitudes or rainbows, while at the same time, it never demeans Dawn for her condition, nor strips her of her humanity.
Posted May 11, 2021