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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
Belushi (2020)

Andrea Chase

By the end, you don't just weep for the work that he might have done, comedy and drama, if he had made through that dark night of the soul, but for the little boy, so loved by so many, who couldn't find the capacity to love himself.
Posted Nov 22, 2020
2
4/5
Truth is the Only Client: The Official Investigation of the Murder of John F. Kennedy (2020)

Andrea Chase

Rich in details, blissfully lacking hyperbole, this is a welcome scholarly approach to an emotional subject.
Posted Nov 21, 2020
3
5/5
The Twentieth Century (2020)

Andrea Chase

This rapturously surreal romp through fascism, propaganda, and the perils of love delights in its arch embrace of retro-futuristic artifice and vintage melodrama.
Posted Nov 21, 2020
4
2/5
My Summer as a Goth (2019)

Andrea Chase

It challenges neither expectations, nor cinematic conventions as it serves up its candy-sweet message in a non-threatening way that takes no chances.
Posted Nov 11, 2020
5
4/5
I Am Lisa (2020)

Andrea Chase

One comes away from this deliciously atmospheric, intellectually nimble excursion into lycanthropy, wildly entertained and not a little challenged about human nature.
Posted Oct 30, 2020
6
4/5
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Andrea Chase

We must be grateful that it combines the shock with humor that refuses to recognize boundaries. Or taste. It also has one of the best punch lines of an ending ever.
Posted Oct 23, 2020
7
4/5
J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs & The Church of the SubGenius (2020)

Andrea Chase

This (mostly) playful, always thoughtful documentary is an unusual cautionary tale about what happens when society abandons absurdity as release and distraction.
Posted Oct 14, 2020
8
2/5
The War with Grandpa (2020)

Andrea Chase

It's almost worth enduring for the sight of Walken in full Santa regalia trying to put the little girl oh his knee at ease. Whatever you are imagining, it's even better. Almost.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
9
4/5
The Glorias (2020)

Andrea Chase

From the first frame we are put on notice that this will be a film in which the emotional truth of her life is given equal weight with the factual truths that, while accurate, cannot hope to convey the same power.
Posted Oct 4, 2020
10
4/5
The Artist's Wife (2020)

Andrea Chase

By refusing to compromise about life's messiness, it makes an art of chaos in elegantly composed vignettes filmed with a chilly beauty, and gives us an ending that is maddening, yet absolutely true.
Posted Sep 29, 2020
11
5/5
Mulan (2020)

Andrea Chase

There are several volumes of sophisticated feminist theory at work, but, trust me, they are wholly in the service of a first-rate action-adventure film that puts characters ahead of spectacle.
Posted Sep 3, 2020
12
5/5
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020)

Andrea Chase

[A] nimble film full of wit, intelligence, and compassion
Posted Aug 26, 2020
13
4/5
Tesla (2020)

Andrea Chase

This thoughtful, potent film may be understated in form, but is explosive in its consideration of the struggle of true genius in a world where originality is suspect, and imagination must be channeled into the mundane to be appreciated.
Posted Aug 22, 2020
14
4/5
Sputnik (2020)

Andrea Chase

An instant gut-wrenching and cerebral classic that is dark, twisted, and quietly mesmerizing as it builds to its devastating climax.
Posted Aug 16, 2020
15
5/5
Boys State (2020)

Andrea Chase

It finds in this purely ceremonial exercise a stark portrait of a deeply divided country at a crossroads, and in its protagonists' struggles, a charged journey full of suspense, disappointment, and joy.
Posted Aug 12, 2020
16
3/5
Made in Italy (2020)

Andrea Chase

[It] doesn't take many risks in its plot, nor does it need to do so, though the rogue weasel is a piquant touch.
Posted Aug 9, 2020
17
4/5
Radioactive (2020)

Andrea Chase

Pike, like Marie, refuses to indulge in the expected. She is fiercely driven, uncompromising and passionate.
Posted Jul 24, 2020
18
4/5
The Sunlit Night (2019)

Andrea Chase

Rich in gorgeous cinematography that makes a grey landscape as dazzling as primary colors, and with quietly complex performances that reveal unspoken volumes
Posted Jul 18, 2020
19
5/5
The Truth (La vérité) (2020)

Andrea Chase

A psychological conundrum and a comedy of manners that is anything but precious.
Posted Jul 3, 2020
20
4/5
7500 (2020)

Andrea Chase

By removing any hint of sensationalism from the events, [it] focuses on the moment-to-moment uncertainty of people ripped from the security of their familiar routines, and then forced to face both impossible choices as well as their own mortality.
Posted Jun 15, 2020
21
4/5
Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains & The Future of The Internet (2020)

Andrea Chase

A lively, cinematic page-turner of a documentary [that] takes us on a rollicking journey through the history of Bitcoin: its detractors, its disciples, and its philosophers.
Posted Jun 4, 2020
22
4/5
Deerskin (2020)

Andrea Chase

droll, intellectually sparkling consideration of absurdity and madness
Posted May 3, 2020
23
4/5
Last Call (2020)

Andrea Chase

ruthlessly intense in the suspense it engenders in the audience as these two characters discover the intimacy of instant communication by phone has its inevitable limitations
Posted Apr 5, 2020
24
4/5
The Hunt (2020)

Andrea Chase

a black comedy that dissects not just the inherent evils of the class system but also of the, admittedly exaggerated (or is it?) outcome of unchecked wealth in conflict with the powerless, but discontented, poor.
Posted Mar 22, 2020
25
1/5
Bloodshot (2020)

Andrea Chase

a derivative lump of lethargy that taints the thrill of the plot twist, and renders an action sequence in plummeting elevators dully predictable
Posted Mar 22, 2020
26
1/5
The Grudge (2020)

Andrea Chase

Verges on the edge of becoming a parody of itself, and not a good one
Posted Jan 12, 2020
27
5/5
Joker (2019)

Andrea Chase

an original thought-piece that builds on the dissonance of the past as a way to conjecture about the future.
Posted Jan 12, 2020
28
5/5
1917 (2020)

Andrea Chase

It is a stunning and savage existential exercise, and a thing of overwhelming poetic beauty.
Posted Dec 23, 2019
29
2/5
Richard Jewell (2019)

Andrea Chase

Rather than a thoughtful piece about the necessity of our society first to praise and then to tear down its celebrities, or the perils of profiling, Mr. Eastwood has dumbed-down the issues by finding the lowest common denominator
Posted Dec 13, 2019
30
5/5
Knives Out (2019)

Andrea Chase

[C]inematic legerdemain as its cast expertly calibrate their performances so that arch never strays into the certain disaster of becoming artificial. The result is a giddily entertaining, emotionally engaging film that sets a new standard for its genre.
Posted Nov 28, 2019
31
2/5
Last Christmas (2019)

Andrea Chase

[A] lugubrious exercise in muddled storytelling.
Posted Nov 10, 2019
32
4/5
Doctor Sleep (2019)

Andrea Chase

Flanagan has devised a seamless reconciliation that is true to both the previous film and novel on which it was loosely based. In fact, he's turned several of the problems into virtues, while making a film that has true horror.
Posted Nov 10, 2019
33
4/5
The Current War: Director's Cut (2019)

Andrea Chase

[S]n elegantly realized intellectual thriller which considers not only the eternal struggle between art and commerce, but also the effect of personalities on inventing the future.
Posted Nov 8, 2019
34
1/5
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Andrea Chase

A dull and incoherent effort with soupy flashbacks, Interludes of pretentious metaphysics, and astonishingly inert action
Posted Nov 2, 2019
35
3/5
Harriet (2019)

Andrea Chase

The brutality is ritualized, the ending no surprise, with only an inspired and counterintuitively quiet performance by Cynthia Erivo in the title role to elevate the proceedings.
Posted Oct 28, 2019
36
5/5
The Lighthouse (2019)

Andrea Chase

A dark and twisted fever dream of a film that confronts the anguish of the human condition with suitable horror and an equally suitable dash of absurdity
Posted Oct 26, 2019
37
3/5
The Addams Family (2019)

Andrea Chase

[A]s crisp as it is arch
Posted Oct 15, 2019
38
2/5
Gemini Man (2019)

Andrea Chase

[J]ust because we >can< so something, does that automatically mean that we should? In the case of pitting an older Will Smith against a younger Will Smith courtesy of slick visual effects, the answer is a resounding no. Make that NO
Posted Oct 14, 2019
39
2/5
Abominable (2019)

Andrea Chase

As bland as its eponymous character. Worse, it's one long déjà vu experience of pre-fab whimsy and schmaltz whose greatest virtue is its very forgetablity.
Posted Sep 29, 2019
40
4/5
Hustlers (2019)

Andrea Chase

The script written by director Lorene Scafaria is rife with references to just who got hurt when the bottom fell out of the market thanks to Wall Street elites. It makes what follows, as those strippers fleece them, a spectacle that is deeply satisfying.
Posted Sep 22, 2019
41
1/4
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

Andrea Chase

Little more than a soft-core snuff film
Posted Sep 21, 2019
42
4/5
Ready or Not (2019)

Andrea Chase

This very black comedy plays on the fine line between horror and farce juggles horror tropes and family dynamics with aplomb. And a whole lot of gore.
Posted Aug 22, 2019
43
2/5
Angel Has Fallen (2019)

Andrea Chase

[S]putters along to a catawampus of a resolution that is as improbable as it is irritating.
Posted Aug 22, 2019
44
4/5
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)

Andrea Chase

[Blanchett] possesses that most devastating and dynamic element in the actor's repertoire: the ability to surprise, even jolt, an audience with every choice.
Posted Aug 21, 2019
45
4/5
Luce (2019)

Andrea Chase

[L]ess a film than a political dialectic on race and class in these United States, and a brilliant, exquisitely performed one at that.
Posted Aug 11, 2019
46
3/5
Brian Banks (2019)

Andrea Chase

It's [Hodge's] performance that makes BRIAN BANKS the film its makers intended it to be: a feel-good film about a broken system. And this is also its failing.
Posted Aug 10, 2019
47
3/5
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

Andrea Chase

Fueled by a cocksure attitude, a healthy dose of ironic self-awareness, and the undeniable star power of its three eye-candy leads, this spin-off from the Fast and Furious franchise is a pleasant enough diversion.
Posted Aug 2, 2019
48
4/5
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019)

Andrea Chase

and a land of fragile dreams, transactional relationships, and the manifestation of the dark side of it all in the form of Charles Manson
Posted Jul 26, 2019
49
5/5
The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

Andrea Chase

Enlightening, disquieting, and compelling in its absolute fearlessness, it's a quirky J'accuse worthy of Zola, and just as scathing.
Posted Jul 13, 2019
50
4/5
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Andrea Chase

takes the coming-of-age story into complex territory with an imperfect hero whose vulnerabilities serve as his imperative to prevail. Plus, a cracking good story that races across the screen the way Peter's heart does when he sees MJ.
Posted Jul 13, 2019