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DCist is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dominic Griffin, Ian Buckwalter, Pat Padua
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/10
Marshall (2017)

Dominic Griffin

Anyone expecting a substantive picture about Marshall is just going to have to lower their expectations...
Posted Jul 16, 2019
2
4.5/10
Year by the Sea (2017)

Dominic Griffin

The world needs more films for older audiences, so such viewers can see themselves on screen and so the seasoned veterans that get these roles can continue to get work long after their superhero movie days are gone.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
3
7/10
Beach Rats (2017)

Dominic Griffin

...Eliza Hittman uses skin-deep imagery to explore the inner life of her haunted protagonist. Taking the coming of age film's threadbare trappings, she probes deeper, fixing her penetrative lens upon the tragic masquerade of performative masculinity.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
4
8/10
Step (2017)

Dominic Griffin

This summer's mega-budget blockbusters can't pack the cathartic punch provided by the most satisfying moments in Step's triumphant third act. And this is real life.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
5
4/10
Wish Upon (2017)

Dominic Griffin

...this is not a subtle or particularly original horror movie, but it is never, ever boring. In fact, it may be the most striking subversion of a well-worn trope in ages, despite also being almost admirably stupid.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
6
6/10
47 Meters Down (2017)

Dominic Griffin

ut this is a movie about pretty white girl tourists trying not to get eaten by sharks. It doesn't even attempt to reinvent the wheel. Be warned, however: this film brings far more laughs than screams, and very few are intentional.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
7
7/10
Wonder Woman (2017)

Dominic Griffin

. Where Snyder's films thus far have been dismal 9/11 rehashing oddities, Jenkins has made the first film to capture the magic DC's always represented in the four color world. It's a treasure to have it here on the silver screen.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
8
6/10
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Dominic Griffin

Guardians of The Galaxy (...) was a unique outlier compared to its homogenized brethren. While Vol. 2 is just as charming, if not more so, it still suffers from many of the same issues that have plagued every Marvel film.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
9
6/10
Free Fire (2017)

Dominic Griffin

Ben Wheatley's latest film has a sharp premise, but doesn't take it any further than its logical, exhausting conclusion.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
10
7.5/10
Logan (2017)

Dominic Griffin

While it would have been nice if these themes had been more thoroughly explored, they still resonate. Besides, nerds have waited almost 20 years for uncensored slice and dice from the ol' Canucklehead. Sometimes, compromise is necessary.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
11
8.5/10
Get Out (2017)

Dominic Griffin

With great buzz and nearly universal acclaim, critics may worry about overselling Get Out. But the film truly is one of the funniest comedies, scariest horror films, and most assured cinematic debuts in recent memory.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
12
9/10
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

Dominic Griffin

Everyone who's ever worked on the property has tried to create the most perfect Batman story ever. Who knew that all they had to do was use Legos to cut to the character's very core?
Posted Jul 16, 2019
13
6/10
Julieta (2016)

Dominic Griffin

Director Pedro Almodóvar has devoted many of his films to strong female characters. Underneath his signature bold colors, though, his latest feature feels strangely shallow.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
14
5/10
Loving (2016)

Dominic Griffin

...the intersection of race and legality in the country was characterized by crucial gray shades that Loving reduces to the digestibility of a Hallmark card. That the colors on that card are muted and arty can't hide its retreaded sentiment.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
15
5/10
The Birth of a Nation (2016)

Dominic Griffin

There's a pulpy, macabre sense of thrill once the rebellion begins and white blood is vengefully spilt, but as in the history books, it's over before it truly begun. It's a shame that a film with so much potential is content simply to clear a low bar.
Posted Jul 16, 2019
16
Tomorrowland (2015)

Pat Padua

Cheerily puts the steering wheel in your own hands.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
17
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Pat Padua

A thriller whose intensity is driven by emotion as much as it is by motion.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
18
Welcome to Me (2015)

Pat Padua

If only Alice Krieg had directed it herself.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
19
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Pat Padua

You may learn something before it's all done and it makes a billion dollars.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
20
Adult Beginners (2015)

Pat Padua

Kroll ... [gives] Nick enough humanity to make his character arc watchable and even moving.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
21
Man from Reno (2015)

Pat Padua

A convoluted mystery in which the helmsman cares about his characters and doesn't treat them like pieces of meat or pawns on a chessboard.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
22
3 Hearts (3 coeurs) (2015)

Pat Padua

I did not feel anybody's heart beating ... but those strings kept me moderately invested in a pair of sisters and the moppet tax inspector they loved.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
23
The Salt of the Earth (2015)

Pat Padua

What is this, an inspirational poster?
Posted Aug 31, 2018
24
The Wrecking Crew (2015)

Pat Padua

If it moves from personal history to pop culture study, it also moves in the other direction, instilling a sense of urgency in documenting our own personal histories.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
25
It Follows (2015)

Pat Padua

Takes cues from '70s horror movies, but ... creates its own creepy atmosphere.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
26
Eva (2015)

Pat Padua

Eva had me at the robotic cat.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
27
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

Pat Padua

They wiggle their formulaic rumps in the direction of paying audience's tear ducts until water inevitably and uncontrollably gushes.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
28
Wild Tales (2015)

Pat Padua

An exciting, gory ride that gets heavy-handed and loses steam, but there's more than enough to satisfy the lust for blood and entertainment.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
29
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Pat Padua

If you must have a stylistic gambit, better slow motion than incomprehensible motion.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
30
Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Pat Padua

It's not Tatum's fault that he can't get into the character of an albino puppy man from another planet.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
31
Winter Sleep (2014)

Pat Padua

If the film is in part about winter doldrums, it conveys this ennui perfectly.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
32
Paddington (2015)

Pat Padua

Eventually gets lost in Scooby Doo plot territory, but at heart it's a story of a young bear trying to find his way in a new world.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
33
Inherent Vice (2015)

Pat Padua

A fog of uncertain motivations ... make it hard to ever get purchase on the film and truly engage with it.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
34
The Babadook (2014)

Pat Padua

Rich in mental metaphor, the monster knocking at the door only exists from the power we give it.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
35
The Overnighters (2014)

Pat Padua

The Overnighters isn't just a movie about the economic crisis or the breakdown of the American Dream. Its powerful metaphors take it from very specific circumstances to something universal.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
36
Interstellar (2014)

Pat Padua

Succeeds on a level that has been largely foreign to the celluloid-loving director: the emotional.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
37
Nightcrawler (2014)

Pat Padua

Jake Gyllenhaal's greasy performance as Lou Bloom is a spot-on psychopath, spewing forth banalities like a deranged creep, but he never goes so far as to make his character someone you don't recognize.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
38
John Wick (2014)

Pat Padua

Bloody and effective, but even more than a cathartic bloodbath, it offers laughter and puppies.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
39
St. Vincent (2014)

Pat Padua

Everyone is redeemable-and not just the obvious heroes.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
40
Gone Girl (2014)

Pat Padua

More ephemeral than the director's best work.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
41
The One I Love (2014)

Pat Padua

Immerses the viewer in its chilling waters, leaving you with a feeling of instability that may be hard to shake.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
42
Rich Hill (2014)

Pat Padua

Its beauty also suggests a plea to the viewer: how do you keep America beautiful?
Posted Aug 31, 2018
43
If I Stay (2014)

Pat Padua

The audience's conflict is whether or not to stay awake.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
44
Get On Up (2014)

Pat Padua

[Chadwick Boseman] gets the mannerisms right, and builds a volatile character who's opportunistic, frightening and vulnerable, like a funky Klaus Kinski.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
45
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Pat Padua

Its complete lack of connection with Allen's or anybody's reality is startling, which seems to get at the film's very themes of storytelling and the illusions and delusions we hold dear in order to get through our lives.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
46
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2014)

Pat Padua

Koba is the most vivid character on either side of the evolutionary fence.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
47
Jersey Boys (2014)

Pat Padua

Sinks as if it had concrete blocks tied to its windpipes.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
48
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Pat Padua

A brutal indictment of the disposability of life.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
49
The Dance of Reality (2014)

Pat Padua

A mixed bag, albeit an intensely colorful and at times wildly inventive one.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
50
Jodorowsky's Dune (2014)

Pat Padua

Its leading man is one of the most charming, charismatic figures you'll see in any movie, fact or fiction, all year.
Posted Aug 31, 2018