Tasha Robinson
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41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points lower than other critics.
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Tasha Robinson's Scores
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| Average review score: | 64 | |
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| Highest review score: | Son of Saul | |
| Lowest review score: | Sydney White | |
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Positive: 479 out of 807
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Mixed: 262 out of 807
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Negative: 66 out of 807
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- Tasha Robinson
Anyone already planning on seeing Stoker, the English-language film debut of Oldboy and Thirst director Park Chan-wook, shouldn’t read this review. Or watch a trailer. Or read anything about it at all, really...It’s best taken one tense, exhilarating moment at a time, without anticipation or expectation.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Feb 27, 2013
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- Tasha Robinson
So polished that it might pass for a scripted narrative feature, but that's not a bad thing. They found a remarkable spokesman in Bolivian teenager Basilio Vargas, and while his cogent, organized descriptions of his life, beliefs, history, and ambitions sometimes seem too calculated, at least they're calculated to communicate efficiently and appealingly.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Plenty of horror movies are willing to settle for making audiences jump. Mama is more ambitious by far: It makes sure viewers are emotionally committed even when they aren't clutching their armrests or covering their eyes.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Jan 16, 2013
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- Tasha Robinson
It walks a fascinating line between morbid humor and outright horror, and it consistently defies expectations by resetting them at every possible step.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Svankmajer's nihilistic story isn't for everyone, but he skillfully manages its disturbing execution in ways no one else could, and he brings it across in a darkly comedic way that encourages simultaneous laughter, horror, and thought. If that isn't art, what is?- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
In a real sort of way, Gilliam IS Parnassus, carrying his tatterdemalion show forward from year to year and trying to get people to pay attention, and the mingled sense of bitterness and hope in his story makes this whole crazed fantasy into something far more real.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
The story is a standard fairy-tale concoction, but the New Agey philosophy about healing and heroism makes for a classic Henson story, all heart and rapturous wonder at the world's incredible possibilities.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
The occasional missteps (some overly precious symbolism, the grimy DV look) rarely get in the way of the film’s many winces, gasps, and breathless, cringing anticipation.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
This is the most epic of the Harry Potter movies, the one that finally dispenses with side-quests and open-ended plotlines and offers up all the final payoffs.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
As with the Wallace & Gromit films, most of the fun is in the deft characterizations, the zippy banter, and the joyous sight gags.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
This is Csupo's feature directorial debut, but as creator, producer, and writer of "Rugrats" and "The Wild Thornberrys," among several other series, he's had a long career in animation, and he handles the CGI setpieces masterfully.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Powell and Loy's light, witty, unflappable characterizations became the unwavering backbone of a terrific series.- The A.V. Club
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- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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- Tasha Robinson
Annihilation is a portentous movie, and a cerebral one. It’s gorgeous and immersive, but distancing. It’s exciting more in its sheer ambition and its distinctiveness than in its actual action.- The Verge
- Posted Feb 23, 2018
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- Tasha Robinson
While the film doesn't dig deep, or hit particularly hard, it neatly achieves its modest goals: presenting a real-life heroine in real-life terms. A film this fictionalized rarely feels this much like fact.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Though Prometheus follows "Alien's" story beats, it's a looser and less satisfying story, more intellectual than visceral, and not fully satisfying on either level. But in part, that's because it's trying to do so much more.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Jun 6, 2012
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- Tasha Robinson
Up is challenging, emotionally and narratively, but it trusts viewers to keep up; Pixar has never been interested in talking down to children or their parents.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
What keeps the story fresh isn't so much Guadagnino's swooning sense-reveries, which sometimes flow with dreamlike wonder and sometimes just drag; instead, most of the power comes from Swinton, who always makes the most of characters imbued by passion, but straitjacketed by expectations.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
It might be considered admirable how firmly Titley sticks to the facts, rather than trying to draw out a moral from the entire situation. But it leaves the story feeling more like a quirky, isolated human-interest story than a watershed moment in the development of exploitative, stunt-driven reality television.- Polygon
- Posted May 8, 2024
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- Tasha Robinson
Attempts to address grief frankly, gently, and without didacticism, and it largely succeeds.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Maybe Stiller just seems stilted because he's the only one here who isn't playing to the rafters.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
The film bounces along on cheap but entertaining Mel Brooks-worthy audio and visual gags, like the live-chicken-throwing fight, or the sequence where the camera discreetly pans away from Dujardin and a partner making out on his hotel bed--only to focus on a full-length mirror in which they're still fully visible.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
While In Darkness sticks to formula, it brings across that formula effectively.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Feb 8, 2012
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- Tasha Robinson
The story should be a standard mismatched-couple-falls-in-love tale, but the script and the sprightly directing give the story plenty of snap and humor, and the animation is so luminously beautiful that even a falling-in-love sequence cribbed in part from The Little Mermaid is overwhelmingly magical.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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- Tasha Robinson
It's an accomplished potboiler entertainment, as calculated and clever as the stories Irving spins to stay afloat in the growing sea of his own lies.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
The moody tone and carefully balanced drama turn a grubby premise into something unexpectedly elegant.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Like the best claustrophobic thrillers, the film keeps finding clever new ways to complicate what initially seems like a limited setting with limited story options.- The Verge
- Posted Aug 25, 2016
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- Tasha Robinson
Disney’s triumphant return to hand-drawn 2-D animation still holds an awful lot of familiar, comfort-food charm.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
The King's Speech is admirably free of easy answers and simple, happy endings; it's a skewed, awards-ready version of history, but one polished to a fine, satisfying shine.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 11, 2010
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- Tasha Robinson
It’s a gorgeous, visually ambitious film, full of show-offy setpieces reportedly inspired by the work of Hayao Miyazaki.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
It's a daring, even mildly challenging mixture for a superhero film, and while the pieces don't entirely add up, the puzzle is at least original.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Audiences will likely come away from The Last Jedi with a lot of complaints and questions. But they’re at least likely to feel they’re in the hands of someone who cares about the series as much as they do, someone who loves its history, but sees the wide-open future ahead of it as well.- The Verge
- Posted Dec 12, 2017
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- Tasha Robinson
Only Washington stands out; he's charming, intense, and charismatic as ever.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Spider-Man: Homecoming brings the character back to his basics. In the process, it shows why he’s always been such a popular draw, and it makes a strong argument for a branch of the MCU / Sony heroverse that operates on a smaller scale than the rest of the world.- The Verge
- Posted Jun 29, 2017
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- Tasha Robinson
Mermin presents all this without editorial comment, and her film would be worth watching if only for its look at a profound culture-clash. But it goes one better, and delves into one of those clashing cultures, capturing it in a moment of change that goes far beyond one beauty academy's superficial concerns.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
While it's essentially just another slick Spielberg action machine, it's operating effectively on all cylinders throughout.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 20, 2011
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- Tasha Robinson
This caper film possesses Miyazaki's usual good-hearted charm, but he injects a manically energetic humor that his more sedate children's films never quite achieve.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
The film has any number of chances to exploit the setting and Butterfield's wide-eyed innocence, but instead, it mines a vast, eerie tension by keeping both boys in the dark.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
At its best, Micmacs is a robust, enjoyably lunatic game. It's social commentary by way of a good Looney Tune.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Anyone who's been closely involved with a wedding knows exactly how these beleaguered schmucks feel. Those who haven't may just take Confetti as a lighthearted but convincing argument for elopement.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Public Enemy openly raises the question of why officers of the law hated Mesrine so much that they were willing to turn his death into a block party.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
It’s a dark, grim, suffocating story that only missteps by overplaying its hand, making the larger message about prostitution increasingly overt.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Apr 24, 2013
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- Tasha Robinson
After Yang is intensely internal and personal, as grief so often is, which guarantees it won’t connect with a wide audience. But as a collection of images and moods, all gently nudging at that central question of what defines a person, it’s gravely hypnotic. It’s an old question, asked in a new way, with deepest gravity and respect.- Polygon
- Posted Jan 27, 2022
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- Posted Jan 30, 2024
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- Tasha Robinson
The whole film is too reliant on action-movie cuts and zooms, plus James Horner's insistent score, but it's beautifully rendered and convincingly exciting.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Mangold delivers a taut modern take on a lesser classic, preserving the "High Noon" themes about doing the right thing against all odds, and injecting a more modern pacing and urgency without going overboard. His film isn't Leonard's classic, but it's a solid, genre-respecting Western in its own right.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
The surreality is distancing, but authentic, believable performances and a low-key affect keep Running From Scissors from turning shrill.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
What is surprising is how he (Darabont) rebounds from his weak, awkwardly compressed opening to produce one of the scariest King films since Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining."- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
This is the kind of film where viewers can let themselves flow with the film’s emotion, or entirely ignore the action and just get lost in the beauty of the imagination. Either way, it’s a luscious trip to take.- Polygon
- Posted Jan 21, 2020
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- Tasha Robinson
There's nothing wrong with animation aimed at adults, but this may be the first kids' movie that throws fewer bones to its supposed intended viewers than to their parents.- The A.V. Club
- Posted Dec 15, 2010
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- Tasha Robinson
Nair's film is a joyous triumph in the way it makes the story accessible, without losing sight of the specifics that make it not just a true story, but a complete and real one.- The Verge
- Posted Sep 23, 2016
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- Tasha Robinson
The film moves effortlessly, with plenty of tense thrills and surprise reveals. It’s relentless, but rarely rushed. The action is terse, and in one unexpected case, breathless and terrifying.- The Verge
- Posted Mar 9, 2016
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- Tasha Robinson
Cars is a fine example of the formula, with pleasant chemistry, the patented Pixar cleverness, and the usual sweetly melancholy nostalgia courtesy of songwriter Randy Newman.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
For a film about suicide, Wristcutters is agreeably loopy and game. Dukic is bitterly funny rather than maudlin, and his carefully plotted grunge chic, in addition to being cheap, lends the film a great deal of Jim Jarmusch grime to go with its unmistakable Jim Jarmusch quirk.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Has its heartbreaking moments and its surprise giggles, particularly thanks to Ron Hewat's minor role as a former hockey play-by-play announcer now narrating his nursing-home life.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
It’s colorful and charming, and it’s certainly unique in its story specifics. But it also feels safe, simple, and soft-edged compared to Pixar’s wilder swings for the outfield.- Polygon
- Posted Feb 24, 2020
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- Tasha Robinson
It’s depressing, in more ways than one, given its cynical take on what makes life worthwhile, and what we have to do to preserve it. But it’s also refreshing to see science fiction this aware of how actively we’re careening toward a terrible future, and how our response to it is likely to be specific, personal, and just as selfish as the behavior that gets us there in the first place.- Polygon
- Posted Aug 21, 2021
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- Tasha Robinson
For all the eye-popping battles and fast-moving action, it’s an emotional story that takes the time to explore what its protagonist really wants out of life, and why god-tier power may be as much of a burden as a benefit.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 17, 2021
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- Tasha Robinson
Ghostbusters is a lively, hilarious crowd-pleaser, which is all that's really required of a big summer action comedy.- The Verge
- Posted Jul 13, 2016
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- Tasha Robinson
Men is nearly unique as a horror movie in Harper’s specific response to the threats she faces. But even as she parts ways with the usual wailing victim image, the film still holds onto its sense of the uncanny and horrific. Even seasoned body-horror fans may be shaken by where this film goes in terms of its bloody physicality.- Polygon
- Posted May 9, 2022
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- Tasha Robinson
It’s no wonder that every part of Across the Spider-Verse is an attempt to outdo the first movie. The idea of growing, of surpassing and ignoring everyone else’s limits, is the heart of this series’ heroes and their individual journeys. It looks like the movies themselves are designed to follow suit.- Polygon
- Posted May 31, 2023
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- Tasha Robinson
The story of The Vast of Night is nothing particularly special. The storytelling, though, is spectacular.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 10, 2020
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- Tasha Robinson
Good horror-comedy is hard to pull off, but Hsu finds his balance by steering hard into the comedy, while pouring on the fake blood.- Polygon
- Posted Mar 27, 2025
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- Tasha Robinson
Presence is more intellectual than visceral, more engaged with raising questions than pinning viewers to their seats.- Polygon
- Posted Jan 27, 2025
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- Tasha Robinson
Vogt makes deliberate, thoughtful choices that amp up the story’s drama and horror without ever turning it into the kind of action-centric special-effects showcase Americans have come to expect even from their low-budget superpower stories.- Polygon
- Posted May 19, 2022
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- Tasha Robinson
Dystopian sci-fi has rarely been as delicately and beautifully detailed as Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s new film.- Polygon
- Posted Sep 26, 2022
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- Tasha Robinson
It unfolds with a fascinating specificity that goes well beyond the Batman details, and unlocks a lot of conversation-starting thoughts about the various ways and reasons people associate with different fandoms.- Polygon
- Posted Mar 21, 2022
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- Tasha Robinson
This is a film about the wilds — internal and external — and Saulnier shoots both the natural and the human side of the story with his usual sharp instincts for startling and engaging images.- The Verge
- Posted Sep 14, 2018
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- Tasha Robinson
The Founder’s biggest strength is that it doesn’t lose the story or the characters in the larger metaphor about the gap between creation and exploitation.- The Verge
- Posted Jan 19, 2017
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- Tasha Robinson
The weight of graphic, grotesque violence hangs over the entire movie. But the daring emotional violence lingers longer, well after the lights go down on the final shot.- The Verge
- Posted Feb 17, 2017
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- Tasha Robinson
Given how much of the film is spent on watching tiny items grow to improbable size, and huge objects shrink down to the scale of toys, it seems only appropriate that Ant-Man and the Wasp neatly balances its big, serious concerns with its little petty ones. It’s a movie that understands all the variances of scale, and takes the audience along for the ride as they constantly change.- The Verge
- Posted Jun 28, 2018
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- Tasha Robinson
The film packs in so much material that it's bound to have dead ends and weak spots, but its confidence in its provocations is compelling.- The Verge
- Posted Jul 29, 2016
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- Posted Apr 27, 2018
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- Tasha Robinson
The sheer dynamism and energy of the movie are compelling, even when the character drama isn’t.- The Verge
- Posted Mar 12, 2018
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- Tasha Robinson
It’s a heightened, sometimes stagey take on a trashy exploitation flick, but it is mesmerizing.- The Verge
- Posted Sep 26, 2017
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- Tasha Robinson
The subjects of Girls State are trying to express their confidence about their power and impact in the world, while simultaneously watching their country deny them rights over their own bodies and emphasize their powerlessness. There’s a particularly uncomfortable irony in watching them working to piece together their own political beliefs and futures while their government is shutting down their options.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 12, 2024
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- Tasha Robinson
For viewers who are still impressed by CGI destruction and thrilled by the sight of realistic mechas in action, Uprising is yet another escalation in scale, staged creatively and with apparent love for the old-school kaiju genre.- The Verge
- Posted Mar 22, 2018
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- Tasha Robinson
Incredibles 2 is a lighter and more incident-packed adventure. The same characters are running through some of the same emotions but with much less of a sense of weight and impact.- The Verge
- Posted Jun 15, 2018
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- Tasha Robinson
The sequel actually slows down the story a bit, with a lower jokes-per-second rate and a little more time for contemplation. But instead of making the new film smaller or duller, it leaves room for a little more sophistication. The sequel’s best gag isn’t a one-liner or a one-off, it’s subtly and fundamentally built into the story.- The Verge
- Posted Feb 7, 2019
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- Tasha Robinson
The film’s eye-candy is endlessly impressive and a worthy reason to see the film in a theater, but it’s never as memorable as authentic, unique story moments like Hiccup’s first connection with Toothless in the series’s first installment.- The Verge
- Posted Feb 27, 2019
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- Tasha Robinson
The movie is packed with deep colors, glorious texture, and striking sequences, plus plenty of drone footage showcasing unspoiled, rough wilderness. Apex’s narrative simplicity (and the fact that it’s a Netflix movie) might lend itself to second-screen viewing, but anyone who lets their attention wander to their phone is going to miss some beautiful footage that makes this story seem a lot bigger than it is.- Polygon
- Posted May 8, 2026
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- Tasha Robinson
Let The Fire Burn is a fascinating look at official overreaction, government overreach, and the corrupting effects of prejudice on powerful institutions.- The Dissolve
- Posted Oct 1, 2013
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- Tasha Robinson
The story of America's first successful class-action sexual-harassment lawsuit may sound dull, but Caro ratchets up the intensity until every flung epithet and threat stings. The approach is sometimes shrill, but it's effective.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
While The Fault In Our Stars is more pastel watercolor than hard-edged drama, it’s still hugely warm and winning, thanks in large part to Boone’s unfussy, wistful direction.- The Dissolve
- Posted Jun 5, 2014
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- Tasha Robinson
Nimród Antal's terrific feature debut Kontroll takes some time to get up to speed--but once it's fully underway, it develops a heady momentum and a devastating impact.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Along the way, Murderball surpasses the typical who-will-win sports-film dynamic and becomes a fascinating and personal exploration of quadriplegia.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Whenever it hits its stride, it's a well-acted, vividly executed, full-speed-ahead special-effects extravaganza that puts as much bang as possible into every remaining scene.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
It's a patient film, and it requires some patience from its audience. But its rewards are gentle and winning, and for once, a cinematic history lesson doesn't feel artificial and processed in every pore.- The Verge
- Posted Sep 9, 2016
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- Tasha Robinson
The doc never feels propulsive, or even particularly informative, and it never has to. For people who remotely enjoy the existence of dogs, Well Groomed is one of the most wholesome, joyous, purely enjoyable documentaries in the streaming world, and Stern doesn’t aspire to anything more.- Polygon
- Posted Aug 18, 2020
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- Tasha Robinson
Generations of readers have found The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe to be a gripping adventure that reaches well beyond its religious underpinnings, and this robust version respects both aspects and finds the same winning balance of excitement and meaning.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
Carney’s emphasis is more on performance than craftsmanship. His camera lovingly covers the actual act of bringing music to life, and he makes being in the middle of a band look like the most revitalizing and rewarding place on Earth.- The Verge
- Posted Apr 26, 2016
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- Tasha Robinson
It’s a quiet film of modest narrative ambitions and simple shifts. But its technical and visual ambitions couldn’t be higher. It’s as if Ghibli is still trying to raise its own bar, so that even if it’s going out, it’s reminding viewers what they’d be missing.- The Dissolve
- Posted May 21, 2015
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- Tasha Robinson
The beginning of the film is purposefully surprising in many little ways, but the rest of the film is a gorgeously shot, heart-in-throat wait to see whether the payoff can dodge expectations nearly as well. The journey is more important than the destination, but Wladyka makes enough daring choices to make both worthwhile.- The Dissolve
- Posted Apr 2, 2015
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- Tasha Robinson
It’s the work of a director deeply enamored of his source material, and determined to do right by it, even if it means frightening kids, baffling parents, and embracing whatever style works in the moment.- The Dissolve
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- Tasha Robinson
Deserted Station plays out like a dream, but Raisian moves comfortably between fantasy and nightmare, real and surreal.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
The humor edges against absurdism, but stays self-aware and witty, with that mild-mannered optimism presiding.- The A.V. Club
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- Tasha Robinson
What makes Human Capital a worthwhile experience is the way [Virzí] focuses on understanding his characters’ desires, rather than deriding them as unworthy.- The Dissolve
- Posted Jan 13, 2015
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- Tasha Robinson
Compare any of this to the grinding series of vicious gags from, say, pretty much any Ben Stiller movie post-Flirting With Disaster, and Fast Times starts looking like a tame jokefest even grandma can enjoy. There's no crotch damage, no humorously dead animals, no pie-fucking, and no menstrual-blood-on-the-pants jokes, either. At its most graphic, it's got a little good-natured pot humor...It's just pure, lighthearted, relatively respectful fun. With boobs.- The A.V. Club
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