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The Rumpus

The Rumpus is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Ade Adeniji, Arielle Bernstein, Jeffrey Edalatpour, Matt Singer, R. Emmet Sweeney, Tom Meek
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Obvious Child (2014)

Arielle Bernstein

Obvious Child is sweetness swaddled in a dirty joke.
Posted Jun 25, 2019
2
Antichrist (2009)

Arielle Bernstein

It is frightening because it takes an unflinching look at the power and complexity of our emotional lives, a power so great that it might in fact destroy us.
Posted Jun 25, 2019
3
Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2014)

Arielle Bernstein

One of the things I love most about Nymphomaniac is its insistence on seeing sex as something that is important.
Posted Jun 25, 2019
4
Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)

Arielle Bernstein

There is something sexy about the type of languid decay we see throughout Only Lovers Left Alive...
Posted Jun 25, 2019
5
Django Unchained (2012)

Ade Adeniji

Django Unchained is a must see, full stop. At the very least, films like this are an experience.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
6
12 Years a Slave (2013)

Ade Adeniji

Birector Steve McQueen presents slavery as it happened with a camera that hangs on shots long after we're comfortable looking. The only choice is to engage with what's on screen.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
7
The Hangover (2009)

Matt Singer

In the case of The Hangover, Phillips made a decent diversion, but no classic; like its heroes you'll have a good time, then forget most of it when you wake up the following morning. It's a movie, not a film.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
8
Up in the Air (2009)

Matt Singer

Up in the Air is sentimental, but that doesn't mean it's simplistic. In fact, the movie plays at some interesting contradictions. It is a genuinely funny movie about genuinely depressing times.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
9
Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Matt Singer

The movie left me both exhilarated and frustrated. Not quite a masterpiece, it might qualify as a "messterpiece," an unwieldy, unfocused film with unforgettable moments that nearly get lost in a sea of excess.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
10
The Informant! (2009)

Matt Singer

Like Soderbergh's Ocean's 11 series, The Informant! is a funny movie with no jokes.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
11
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009)

Matt Singer

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh would play as weak sauce in any context, but it's especially disappointing coming to theaters on the heels of the similarly themed but superiorly made Adventureland.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
12
Hunger (2008)

Matt Singer

There is very little context, because on the inside, prison has no context. There is just horror. And maybe, sometimes, in the least expected places, beauty.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
13
Sugar (2008)

Matt Singer

Sugar is worth seeing not because it invalidates baseball's meritocracy, or because it makes us feel guilty for enjoying the national pastime, but because it shows us with empathy and insight how baseball players are more than what they do on the field.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
14
Watchmen (2009)

Matt Singer

The only way to truly adhere to Alan Moore's vision of Watchmen would be to not make the movie in the first place.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
15
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Laura Bogart

Inside Llewyn Davis forces its protagonist into making the choice that any working artist fears: the choice between selling out and giving up.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
16
Zero Dark Thirty (2013)

Laura Bogart

Zero Dark Thirty doesn't indulge in breathless reveling; it's a brooding, muscular piece about obsession and vengeance.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
17
Haywire (2012)

Laura Bogart

Despite its supposed intentions about introducing a new type of action hero, Haywire just affirms old archetypes. The truly subversive version of the woman warrior can wear the dress (and like it) and be a surgeon with a shotgun.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
18
Shame (2011)

Laura Bogart

[Shame] evokes years of blanket forts and snow angels, spat words and fumbling reconciliation churning to the surface. This is the power of good fiction: It lets us breathe meaning into blank spaces.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
19
Trance (2013)

Tom Meek

[Trance] evokes an eerie, hypnotic wonderment, consuming you and transporting you, until inevitably, the fingers snap, the eyes open, and the rapturous trance is broken.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
20
Funny People (2009)

R. Emmet Sweeney

Funny People is deeply personal and intriguingly abstract, a bittersweet vision of a comedian's mournful existence.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
21
Sunshine Cleaning (2009)

Jenni Miller

SunShine Cleaning is a lovely little film that's more gallows than humor.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
22
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008)

Barry Jenkins

35 Shots of Rum is possibly Denis' most humanistic character study, thoughtful, endearing, and rendered with exemplary tact.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
23
Please Give (2010)

Lindsay Zoladz

Please Give, Holofcener's fourth film, takes well-worn notions about giving and receiving, and lingers on them long enough that they begin to wobble, as if placed under an inch of water.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
24
The Wrong Light (2017)

Lauren Wissot

The Wrong Light is disturbing on several levels.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
25
Suited (2016)

Lauren Wissot

Suited is an eye-opening journey into the niche subject of dressing for success when you're a gender nonconforming individual.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
26
Kisses (2010)

Ruth McCann

It's haunting and crisply vivid in parts, but definitely fuzzy around the edges.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
27
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Ruth McCann

Though titled about as artfully as a Tomb Raider flick, Bad Lieutenant is possessed of a sleekness and a morbid sophistication that belie the unfortunate clunkiness of its title.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
28
Wonderful World (2010)

Ruth McCann

Perhaps Wonderful World resonates with a limited, snarky audience: me and Ben. But I suspect the wonder reaches further. After all, if Ben teaches us anything, it's that we're all far less alone than we think.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
29
The Kids Are All Right (2010)

Ruth McCann

Kids Are All Right doesn't need any ideological defenses. It's deeply felt, fully and properly expressed, and perhaps that's enough.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
30
Broken Embraces (2009)

Jeffrey Edalatpour

Since her star-making turn in Volver, Cruz has evolved into a great actress, whose films the audience longs to return to: she and Almodóvar have created whole and complete worlds. Indeed, Broken Embraces mirrors our own - but brightly.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
31
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009)

Jeffrey Edalatpour

The White Ribbon breathes an unholy life into the generation of children who would grow up to become the obedient soldiers and members of the Nazi party.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
32
Let it Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (2010)

Jeffrey Edalatpour

The arrival of Agathe Villanova is at the center of the drama in Let it Rain, and the story benefits from giving her more to do in front of the lens.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
33
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Jeffrey Edalatpour

Larsson was a natural heir to Mankell's style, but unlike his progenitor's work, both the book and film versions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo lack Wallander's good heart.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
34
Howl (2015)

Jeffrey Edalatpour

Howl is neither a biopic about the poem's author Allen Ginsberg, nor does it delve into any other poem in his literary oeuvre. These are the first of many missteps that the producers take.
Posted Sep 18, 2017