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Brian Formo

Brian Formo's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Blonde (2022) 43% A- EDIT “It is the most shocking body horror movie of the year. This is a portrait of an icon that is done precisely in the way that she decries filmmaking: by taking what she’s given as a single piece of a jigsaw puzzle—that someone else puts together.” – Collider Sep 15, 2022 Full Review Don't Worry Darling (2022) 38% B- EDIT “Don’t Worry Darling is best as a surface-level matinée thriller with a few follow-up ahas. Darling chooses to girlboss when it could’ve sucker punched. But it’s still way more watchable than many terminally online people already believe it to be.” – Collider Sep 5, 2022 Full Review The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 96% A- EDIT “This is an ode to petty grievances, bizarre stands that won’t be remembered, but might become a tall tale at a pub. Like the sparse land of its setting, Inisherin is a film that reveals multitudes through observation and reflection.” – Collider Sep 5, 2022 Full Review The Whale (2022) 64% D+ EDIT “It is inorganic, gimmicky, manipulative, and its lessons are simplistic. As a character, Charlie remains mostly a body. He has a kindness to him, but this role is mostly to react to the wants and needs of others.” – Collider Sep 5, 2022 Full Review Pearl (2022) 93% C+ EDIT “Pearl does end up enhancing X a little bit by essentially chronicling all the shortcomings and repression that drove Pearl mad. But it’s not without its own shortcomings. Chiefly, that it isn’t remotely scary. ” – Collider Sep 4, 2022 Full Review Master Gardener (2022) 71% B- EDIT “While this is templatized Schrader, he shows more of an ability to prune and rework small areas within his work that had too many weeds. Edgerton’s natural and stoic approach to his role feels like a decade of atonement. ” – Collider Sep 3, 2022 Full Review Bones and All (2022) 82% B- EDIT “The bones of the story are eerie, and the flesh is twee. It’s a mix that doesn’t always work but the chemistry between Russell and Chalamet is incredibly strong.” – Collider Sep 2, 2022 Full Review Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) 60% C EDIT “There are numerous slapstick moments in Bardo that feel more like Iñárritu is trying to have fun but it’s often clunky and counterintuitive to his core seriousness.” – Collider Sep 2, 2022 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% A- EDIT “Of course, TÁR sinks or swims depending on the performances and Blanchett commands every one of these 158 minutes. She is already a generational performer but TÁR has to be one of her all-time best performances.” – Collider Sep 1, 2022 Full Review White Noise (2022) 64% C+ EDIT “The most visually expressive of Noah Baumbach's oeuvre.” – Collider Aug 31, 2022 Full Review Phantom Thread (2017) 91% 5/5 EDIT “Phantom Thread intoxicates and needles the viewer, not knowing where it is leading or why Anderson, who's lately made such epic in scope films, chose to make it; until it hits with an emotional bag of hammers.” – Collider Dec 24, 2017 Full Review Good Time (2017) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “What if Abel Ferrara made After Hours? The result would be the jittery, electro-infused New York nightmare Good Time. And that result is a pure cinematic thrill.” – Collider Dec 24, 2017 Full Review God's Own Country (2017) 98% EDIT “Because the movie is less about can they stay together and more about the personal growth from deadbeat to responsibility on the part of the son by letting love in, God's Own Country works magnificently” – Collider Dec 24, 2017 Full Review Lady Bird (2017) 99% EDIT “Gerwig is traveling backwards as a writer from Frances Ha to Mistress America to Lady Bird. That trilogy of films is, dare I say, even better than Francois Truffaut's collected Adventures of Antoine Doinel.” – Collider Dec 24, 2017 Full Review Call Me by Your Name (2017) 95% EDIT “What truly elevates Call Me by Your Name is Michael Stuhlbarg, as the father to Chalamet and the teacher to Hammer, who gets an all-timer monologue that provides extra layers to the story.” – Collider Dec 24, 2017 Full Review Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) 90% EDIT “The acts of violence that must be committed to be sent down multiple levels within the maximum-security prison are indeed gruesome but everything is grounded in the best performance of Vaughn's lifetime.” – Collider Dec 24, 2017 Full Review Lucky (2017) 97% 3.5/5 EDIT “Stanton is magnificent. He uses silence and rascal exuberance so interchangeably that you know they're rooted in the same place, in a place of hollow disbelief in life.” – Collider Sep 29, 2017 Full Review mother! (2017) 68% 3.5/5 EDIT “The first portion is very Ingmar Bergman-like, a suffocating chamber play with simpler dream machinations and a frightening world of unease. The second portion turns into outright chaos, a carnival ride of horrific human behavior.” – Collider Sep 5, 2017 Full Review Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 90% 2.5/5 EDIT “With McDormand as the Greek Chorus for the left side of hatred and Rockwell the bumbling bumper sticker for the right side of hatred, it's unfortunate that Harrelson's Sheriff is eventually reduced to a deus ex machina character.” – Collider Sep 4, 2017 Full Review Woodshock (2017) 27% 1/5 EDIT “There's more thought going into the color filters, which classic post punk songs to play on a jukebox, and the bra and nightgown selection than anything resembling character building or story.” – Collider Sep 3, 2017 Full Review Zama (2017) 96% 4.5/5 EDIT “Zama isn't a young buck looking for adventure and then got it. He's just a man who wants to get home and the comedy of errors-and his own hubris and lust-keeps him there and ultimately takes him to "the horror, the horror."” – Collider Sep 3, 2017 Full Review Lean on Pete (2017) 90% 2.5/5 EDIT “The further Charley gets from the Wenatchee and Portland racetracks, the more unique first half starts to feel pretty darn distant.” – Collider Sep 2, 2017 Full Review The Shape of Water (2017) 92% 4.5/5 EDIT “The Shape of Water not only entertains as a sumptuous fairytale, but it reinforces a faith in humanity set in a time where tolerance of other races, nationalities, and non-"family values" love was volatile. And it's percolating back to the surface again.” – Collider Aug 31, 2017 Full Review Downsizing (2017) 47% 3/5 EDIT “The mish-mash of Downsizing's world with its method of old-fashioned storytelling doesn't work entirely, but there are moments of fabulous satire.” – Collider Aug 30, 2017 Full Review Columbus (2017) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Haley Lu Richardson puts the story on her shoulders and elevates the film into a beguiling, thin air. She lends the beautiful but empty buildings a beating heart.” – Collider Jun 17, 2017 Full Review
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