Jesse Hassenger
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53% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.5 points lower than other critics.
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Jesse Hassenger's Scores
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| Average review score: | 59 | |
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| Highest review score: | American Honey | |
| Lowest review score: | Asking for It | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 362 out of 801
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Mixed: 370 out of 801
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Negative: 69 out of 801
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- Jesse Hassenger
It’s a piercing portrayal of culturally specific nerd rage in Tomine’s comics; on film, it’s a little talky, and could’ve used more Ghost World-style moments of caricature, like that savaging of Crazy Rich Asians at the opening. But while Shortcomings doesn’t turn Ben into a misanthropic hero or excuse his often-terrible behavior, it does stick to the ethos he espouses early in the picture: This is a movie full of people who are flawed, and real.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 30, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
Rather than containing relatable multitudes in a compact story ready-made for online sharing, a bigger-screen Cat Person turns paper-thin.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 30, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
The film’s other performances aren’t as engaging as Seydoux and young Martins, which means One Fine Morning itself sometimes feels like it’s muddling through with Sandra’s same weariness, too faithfully reproducing the repetitions of real life.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 27, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
It is remarkable that his three-hour Wandering Earth prequel is simultaneously stranger and more emotionally grounded than the earlier film. Yet even at this length, even with eye-popping moments and believable characters, some crucial humanity feels missing.- Polygon
- Posted Jan 21, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
JUNG_E has plenty of spare parts, and occasionally janky green-screen effects. But both the robots and humans it assembles move with unexpected grace.- Polygon
- Posted Jan 20, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
It’s a movie about a toxic relationship that digs into the harrowing psychological details of mental and verbal abuse without exploiting it. It’s also a single-minded PSA picture — indie portraiture with hardly any identifying details filled in.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 19, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
By the end, the movie feels less like a canny reflection of true-crime fascination than a weak imitation of it — screen life, reduced to mere pixels.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 17, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
By laying off the action-movie gas pedal, Plane makes Butler, performing in his native Scottish accent, more warmly likable than he’s been in years.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 13, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
At times, the movie feels like it’s having fun in spite of itself. So it’s perfect, in a way, that Edgar Allan Poe keeps turning up to jolt his own story back to life.- Polygon
- Posted Jan 6, 2023
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- Jesse Hassenger
The movie isn’t quite evocative enough to work as effective minimalism. It averages out a stripped-down Smith and the more florid filmmaking touches to land squarely in the middle of the road.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Dec 5, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
This film isn’t a particularly astute portrayal of war, but it does ably depict sacrifice — something ultimately missing from the movie-star restoration of Top Gun: Maverick. Comparing the two movies isn’t especially fair, but it’s still worth noting that this smaller production is doing more with less.- Polygon
- Posted Dec 3, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Roar Uthaug is not a director who seems destined for greater, grander epics, and that’s one of his best qualities. He makes polished B-movies without the delusions of A-list grandeur.- Polygon
- Posted Dec 2, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Violent Night isn’t a great action movie, or even a very good one, but George Costanza’s old assessment of Home Alone rings true: “The old man got to me!”- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 30, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
It’s not especially fair to criticize the movie that could have been made, rather than the one that was actually made. But even on its chosen terms of a family dramedy, People feels lopsided.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 18, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Given how unnecessary Rise Of the Damned is, Leyden’s choice to pare down the original RIPD’s summer-movie bombast into an agreeable, swiftly paced supernatural Western qualifies as a rousing success. On the other hand, anyone working in the RIPD universe should also understand the value of just staying dead.- Polygon
- Posted Nov 15, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Without any actual classicism to accompany Craig’s outdated notions of outrageousness, the movie quickly turns fustier than its edgy posturing lets on. Craig simply watches a bunch of selfish people behave badly in predictable ways, and occasionally has them lunge at each other in anger. How perfectly droll!- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 4, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
For better and worse, The Inspection seems like the movie Bratton had to make, a story so personal that some of its biggest emotional confrontations start to resemble a therapeutic exercise.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 24, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Schrader pushes the somber score and just-the-facts cinematography as close to pure explication as possible. There is visual storytelling, but little in the way of mood or evocation.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 13, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Gray’s many fans will probably love Armageddon Time, and it may even win over some more neutral viewers who respond to his decidedly non-nostalgic look at a pivotal (and not especially promising) moment in U.S. history. But anyone who has found his movies less articulate than the ideas behind them will only get occasional respite here.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 13, 2022
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- Posted Oct 12, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
One point in favor of Bruckner’s new Hellraiser is that it takes some time before it feels truly lost.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 5, 2022
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- Posted Oct 3, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Edgerton isn’t as electric as Hawke or Isaac, and the passion-play dramaturgy strains. But as he allows himself to drift from self-torture, Schrader finds some new, compellingly strange ways to tend this well-worn soil.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 2, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
When it keys into Mamie’s horrifying experience, and the way she refuses to retreat from it, Chukwu and Deadwyler pack a wallop.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 1, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
God’s Creatures doesn’t have quite the same enchanting, unnerving mystery of The Fits, where a girls’ dance troupe begins to suffer unexplained seizures. The hardscrabble working-class details here inevitably feel a bit more familiar, whether from American kitchen-sink indies or Irish plays.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 28, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Meet Cute has more on its mind than so many mid-2000s rom-coms, and sure looks a hell of a lot better, so it’s all the more crushing when so much of it turns out to be just as gratingly plastic.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 21, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
The movie is both a daring and empathetic deconstruction of Monroe iconography anchored by a beautiful performance from de Armas, as well as a miserabilist wallow in exploitation. Like its fictionalized subject, the lines between the two are sad, blurry and spellbinding.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Mottola and Hamm don’t seem like they’re trying to rewrite Hamm in Fletch’s image, or vice versa. They look more like they’re making exactly the half silly, half sly movie they personally want to see.- Polygon
- Posted Sep 15, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Anyone suffering from severe summer-movie withdrawal might want to seek this one out, so long as they prepare themselves for a familiar summer sensation. The film pops, then fizzes and fades: It’s a firecracker of a movie, for better and worse.- Polygon
- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
The movie is so poorly staged that it manages to conceal the supposedly important hero/kid bonding elements, while telegraphing early on where the rest of the story is going.- Polygon
- Posted Aug 26, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Kline’s movie works best when it blurs the lines between the people of a nerdy subculture and the style of their obsessions.- Polygon
- Posted Aug 26, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
In its loopy, beguiling, occasionally befuddling way, Three Thousand Years of Longing feels like it’s trying—and sometimes failing—to sum something up about Miller’s own history of loving strange movie magic.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 25, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
It’s very much in the tradition of another Spielberg summer creature movie: Like Jaws, Beast heightens basic human fears about a sharp-toothed predator into something impossible, even ridiculous, yet weirdly plausible for most people.- Polygon
- Posted Aug 23, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Look Both Ways has nothing meaningful to say about any of the subjects it’s supposedly addressing. Even when the filmmakers get little details right (Natalie’s animation references are spot-on and very convincing), the movie is playing the supportive friend to its audience, patting viewers on the back and talking about how everything happens for a reason, and it’ll all turn out great.- Polygon
- Posted Aug 23, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
What’s supposed to resemble a smart, unnerving sci-fi movie looks more like a lecture about male dominance and deception that keeps foregrounding its least interesting characters.- Polygon
- Posted Aug 18, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Orphan: First Kill isn’t an especially scary movie, nor is its class-war commentary especially subtle or insightful. Through sheer force of personality, though, these elements are rendered immaterial. Like Esther, the movie has a keen sense of how to weaponize its own audacity.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 16, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Apart from some stray moments of youthful exuberance, the film version of 13 has been scrubbed as clean as any high school musical, so that it resembles any number of sitcomy streaming programming—erasing the very novelty that made it sing on stage.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 12, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
At times, Rogue Agent feels reluctant to fully engage in the kind of deception that might make it a trickier, more “fun” piece of work; it’s almost too tasteful for its own good.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 10, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Reijn and DeLappe don’t seem interested in preying on real fears so much as laughingly confirming any suspicions that yes, your friends secretly talk smack about you. Bodies Bodies Bodies is a fun ride through those well-founded anxieties, but as the end credits roll, some viewers may still be waiting for more of a punch — or a better punchline.- Polygon
- Posted Aug 3, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Honor Society never gets a handle on its comedic bona fides, but its faux-irreverent tone does allow for a satisfying con-style turn as Honor struggles to keep her new maybe-fake friends under her control.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 1, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
The movie isn’t easy to dismiss. Its awkward comedy is often funny, and its shadowy mystery is compelling, because Abilene’s death does become more of an enigma to Ben as he learns more about her. Performers as eclectic as Holbrook, J. Smith-Cameron, Isabella Amara, and Ashton Kutcher all do their best to bring these potentially elusive characters to life.- Polygon
- Posted Jul 28, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Like The Prince of Egypt or Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas before it, The Sea Beast ditches talking animals and funny sidekicks, but it can’t fully shake off its Disney influences. It’s a whole lot of well-animated beasts and water, with nowhere to flow.- Polygon
- Posted Jul 14, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
It’s telling that The Forgiven has the shape of a long, dark night of the soul, while actually taking place over several days.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jul 5, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
What makes The Princess so surprisingly fun is its commitment to a hooky premise.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 1, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Even some of its rawest emotional moments feel studiously cribbed from other movies, which is probably why not a single thing any character does throughout Don’t Make Me Go is genuinely surprising or even slightly unexpected. It’s a movie about the unpredictability and inherent dangers of a life well-lived, and you can set a watch to its screenwriting beats.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Paramount+ should have thrown this movie a theatrical run; it may more or less amount to an 86-minute pilot episode for the new series that’s coming soon, but it’s also one of the funniest movies of the year.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 22, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Though its actual storytelling is pretty arbitrary, The Black Phone has the emotional simplicity of a children’s film, wearing its grit like makeup.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jun 21, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
If we have to wade through some silly, pandering nostalgia to get to this pleasingly vast dinosaur playground, so be it.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 8, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Its creepy unease lingers, and just as in It Follows and The Guest, Monroe is the face of that unease. That’s the power of a great scream queen.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
By the end of this movie, its inventive genre cross-breeding feels as worn-out as any other.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
If it’s no longer surprising that Sandler is a good, steady actor, it’s still fun to find out he can find new ways to play to the cheap seats.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jun 2, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
The movie never turns into a full-tilt caper, even as the obligatory end-credits appendix hints at enough material to inspire one. It’s stuck, charmingly and a little wanly, in another era.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jun 2, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
The movie gets livelier every time Stewart appears, as if on a contact high from her intoxication. Crimes of the Future needs those extra jolts of weirded-out star power. In spite of its arresting imagery, it’s sometimes more engaging to think about than to actually watch.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 2, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Men is a horror film operating largely under nightmare logic and allegorical rumbling, and in a broad sense can’t offer many true surprises.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 19, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
If Senior Year had been willing to further develop its affectionate social satire, it might have been a surprise 2020s classic of the teen-movie genre. Instead, it’s dead set on proving it has heart, too, and in the process becomes as thirsty for likes as any teenager’s Insta.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Is it better for a Stephen King franchise to burn out or fade away? Firestarter manages to do both at once.- Consequence
- Posted May 12, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Even when The Bad Guys resembles other movies, it’s stealing from them gracefully, with its own sensibility and energy.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 22, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Ambulance tightens the story’s frequent ridiculousness into genuine tension; it’s just retro enough to feel like an old-fashioned thriller done up with some newfangled tech that doesn’t choke the images with overly obvious CG.- Consequence
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has just enough laughs to make its shopworn lessons about the value of friendship and (brace yourself) teamwork feel like part of a harmlessly amusing kids’ movie, rather than an insidious way of training kids to expect and even demand franchise bloat.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Yet there’s some kind of invisible force here, hurrying things along in the hopes of a future team-up, making sure this feature film arrives more undead than alive.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 30, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
With its crisply likable leads mixing it up with pleasingly chewy gangster stereotypes, it has the consistency of a good candy bar.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 21, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Throughout its slim but slow 83 minutes, Umma piles up missed-opportunity scenes that cry out for a ghoulish sense of humor or an audience-rattling jump.- Polygon
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
As with Free Guy, Reynolds and Levy have made a movie aimed at the dead center of mainstream geek culture, designed to be described as having so much heart—even though it’s as smooth and featureless as a Funko Pop.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 10, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Asking for It is made with sloppy overconfidence, a stunning bluff of both style and substance.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 3, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Despite the sci-fi trimmings—or, really, in perfect sync with them—the anxiety After Yang generates has the gentle, humming pervasiveness of real life. It’s trying its best to tell us about the world.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Mar 2, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
As a whole, Dog is credible as a small-scale drama with some moments of light, puppyish comedy, from the man and the mutt. Like Clooney before him, Tatum hasn’t quite made his own Soderbergh movie. He has, however, made a surprisingly good one.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Uncharted spends a lot of time scraping up meager points for what it isn’t, rather than what it is. It isn’t a superhero movie, despite the budget. It isn’t CG’d within an inch of its life; there appears to be some location shooting in the mix.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 15, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
There’s a sweetness to the movie’s multiple storylines about teenagers earnestly, supportively pining for each other—and a neutered prudishness, too, about how none of these 17-year-olds seem to think about sex for even a second.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Feb 10, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
More casual viewers’ mileage may vary on which stunts are laugh-out-loud funny and which are abjectly horrifying, and the rickety carnival rollercoaster ride works better when the other passengers—whether fellow audience members or the on-camera talent—are screaming and laughing along in equal measure.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 2, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
It’s the extreme age-specificity and seeming low effort of Buck Wild that makes it more content than feature film.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Jan 28, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
It offers the bittersweet spectacle of a pretty loony movie trying its best to become a more conventional one. Maybe an outright boondoggle would have been more memorable.- Polygon
- Posted Jan 21, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Campbell, Cox, and Arquette all have chances to shine, and Campbell’s rueful confidence even approaches something vaguely touching. But this is a crowded movie where the body count sometimes inspires relief rather than dread: Finally, some of these extra characters are being cleared out!- Polygon
- Posted Jan 13, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
The wistful feelings it generates about a world allowed to keep moving coexist alongside an uneasy evocation of brain fog, an easy stand-in for either a zombified endemic state or a specific long-COVID symptom—take your pick. Whatever the original motivation, Leon appears to sense, after a couple of sweet slice-of-life capers, that you can’t keep walking and talking forever.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Jan 11, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
It’s heartening to see a big-ticket cartoon franchise end with the animation as its true star.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Jan 10, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
If playwright Theresa Rebeck, who receives co-writing and story credit, brought a fresher perspective to this material at some point, it has been slathered in screenwriterly varnish and a sense of take-charge female empowerment best described as EuropaCorpesque.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 6, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
The story is never fully passed along to the younger character; this really is Fiennes’ movie all the way, and probably more interesting for it.- Polygon
- Posted Jan 5, 2022
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- Jesse Hassenger
Coen’s version of Macbeth is a canny, fascinating hybrid of a theatrical sensibility and a cinematic translation, shot in ghostly monochrome.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 24, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
The one performer in the ensemble capable of making this stuff sound like the good kind of bullshitting is Affleck- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 16, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
There’s liveliness in the conception of Rumble, knocked around and out by the demands of formulas no one has bothered to figure out.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 15, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Don’t Look Up is both types of blunt: It makes no bones about exactly what the filmmakers think of climate-change deniers and social-media distractions, and it repeatedly blunts the impact of its satire by calling its shots early, often, and loudly.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 7, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
The Lucy-Desi material that should be at the heart of the story never really pays off, as if it’s wandered off and found another, secret movie to inhabit.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 7, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
It seems questionable whether this was really intended as a movie in the first place.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 3, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
For all of its limitations and points of departure from the previous series, though, Raccoon City maintains that lineage of B-movies made with skill.- Polygon
- Posted Nov 24, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
The movie keeps enough of Richard’s messy past off screen to feel like a hagiography with a few concessions, rather than a true warts-and-all portrait.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Nov 16, 2021
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- Posted Nov 8, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Afterlife wants desperately to summon the spirit of watching the first movie back in 1984. It winds up ghoulish in the wrong way.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Oct 9, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
The movie is too vividly realized to be boring, but it spends a lot of time scrambling out of the gap between pulpy fun and serious allegory. It’s also hobbled by the fact that it’s very much, as the opening credits say, Part 1; no real resolution is offered by the end of its 155 minutes. It’s just half a movie.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 7, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
This intimate, four-character film has its own quiet rhythms, compatible with yet distinct from any perceived A24 house style. It’s a hybrid of unnerving, dread-based horror and genuine domestic drama. Are they naturally so different, anyway?- The A.V. Club
- Posted Oct 4, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Even if C’mon C’mon occasionally feels like navel-gazing, it’s too open-hearted and generous of spirit to miss.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 4, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Campion’s take on the Western is an elegant, sometimes unnerving accomplishment.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 1, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Gyllenhaal is the whole show, and his irritable, driven, struggling character doesn’t exactly glorify his line of work. His unpleasantness gives the movie its edge, and perhaps also an unearned sense of gravitas.- Polygon
- Posted Oct 1, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Todd Haynes obviously loves rock and roll, which makes it all the more impressive that he’s spent his career making movies about key figures in its history while avoiding the usual lionizing cliches.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 1, 2021
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- Consequence
- Posted Oct 1, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Though he’s been accused of re-carving the same dollhouse-scale miniatures over and over again, The French Dispatch finds Anderson continuing to fill out his increasingly elaborate skill set.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 1, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
It’s a faster, wilder ride—and a choppier one, even as it moves primarily in circles.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Sep 30, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Whenever the movie seems prepared to dig a little deeper, it throws another self-actualization party in its own honor.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Sep 9, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Only in fits and starts does Together capture the electricity of live performance.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Aug 24, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
Beyond considerable physical presence, Q brings touches of subtlety to a stock character; by the time she makes her eventual, inevitable reference to wanting to get out of the game, there’s a genuine weariness that feels earned enough to bypass the cliché.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Aug 19, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
The increasingly ornate violence (much of it taking place in a newer if no less creaky location) fuels an effective thrill machine, and if that machine can’t match the unexpected sweetness of the T-800’s relationship with John Connor, well, maybe that’s for the best.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Aug 12, 2021
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- Jesse Hassenger
As a babysitter, the movie’s not much different than a brief marathon of episodes. As a family bonding experience, it may qualify for adults as a mild form of psychological torture, presenting storylines that feel ready to wrap up at the 15-minute mark and then must continue on for another hour.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Aug 9, 2021
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