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Brian Roan

Brian Roan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) 63% B EDIT “While the results are a little uneven narratively, the breathless action, stellar performances, and beautiful compositions carry the story to rousing heights. ” – The Film Stage Apr 28, 2023 Full Review Luca (2021) 91% B+ EDIT “The script, with all of its wit and perfectly interwoven story threads and running gags, bears all the hallmarks of the best of Pixar's story trust.” – The Film Stage Jun 16, 2021 Full Review Oxygen (2021) 90% B+ EDIT “A nail-biting, thought-provoking, fleet-footed film.” – The Film Stage May 11, 2021 Full Review The Tax Collector (2020) 17% C+ EDIT “While David Ayer's characters may be archetypes, they are never cliches.” – The Film Stage Aug 10, 2020 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% A- EDIT “World War I was a war of meters won over days and weeks, and 1917becomes a microcosm of this idea, showing the struggle for every step these men take.” – The Film Stage Nov 27, 2019 Full Review Doctor Sleep (2019) 78% B+ EDIT “For those who can accept that departure, Doctor Sleep offers a shockingly nuanced and human story of social longing, spiritual rehabilitation, and existential redemption.” – The Film Stage Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Ready or Not (2019) 89% B+ EDIT “The tone management in this film is remarkable, and the blur of the absurd and the real is such that both the horror, the drama, and the comedy is kept on a dizzying high wire.” – The Film Stage Aug 20, 2019 Full Review Dumbo (2019) 46% D EDIT “Dumbo is a movie about circuses produced by Disney that seems to hate both circuses and Disney.” – The Film Stage Mar 27, 2019 Full Review Us (2019) 93% B- EDIT “Among many the questions that Us may raise in an audience, the foremost might be this: is being no more than the sum of its parts a bad thing if so many of those parts are really, really fun?” – The Film Stage Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Captain Marvel (2019) 79% C EDIT “Captain Marvel seems to hold itself to no higher standard than the absolute minimum that people tend to expect from an entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.” – The Film Stage Mar 6, 2019 Full Review Glass (2019) 37% B EDIT “Rather than being a more grounded and stylized homeopathic antidote to Marvel films, Shyamalan has delivered a strange journey into the meaning and the hope to be found in comic books.” – The Film Stage Jan 16, 2019 Full Review The Upside (2019) 43% C EDIT “The Upside is a movie so safe that it barely exists, like a pool so scared of people drowning that it aspires to little more depth than a wet spot on the ground.” – The Film Stage Jan 12, 2019 Full Review It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) 100% EDIT “This isn't adult-friendly - it is decidedly adult-oriented - but still not the type of things that most adults would want to see. It's a profound, beautiful statement on mortality, and it is not friendly.” – The Film Stage Mar 6, 2018 Full Review Mute (2017) 20% C EDIT “Mute is one of those strange oddities in which every single aspect of the plot feels purposefully cultivated for some grand thematic or existential purpose, yet none of it coheres into something that feels particularly meaningful or revelatory.” – The Film Stage Feb 23, 2018 Full Review Justice League (2017) 39% C+ EDIT “If you can't do anything right, move so quickly that no one has time to notice.” – The Film Stage Nov 16, 2017 Full Review My Happy Family (2017) 100% B+ EDIT “My Happy Family borrows and remixes the social realism and aesthetic formalism of the Dardennes in a way that allows it to exude an energy all its own.” – The Film Stage Feb 17, 2017 Full Review A Cure for Wellness (2016) 42% C+ EDIT “All of the surreal images become nothing more than awe-inspiring affectations that don't add any meaning to the story itself.” – The Film Stage Feb 7, 2017 Full Review The Vessel (2016) 67% B+ EDIT “Produced by Terrence Malick, it is the rare film in which the guiding hand of the artist-as-producer feels not overbearing or dominant, but rather paternal and knowing.” – The Film Stage Sep 15, 2016 Full Review Suicide Squad (2016) 26% C- EDIT “Muddled characters and uneven storytelling are the roots of the issues here, but the ways in which Ayer seems to try to cover up his film's deficiencies grate most of all.” – The Film Stage Aug 3, 2016 Full Review Pacific Rim (2013) 72% C- EDIT “I expected the melding of horror and humor so singular to him, not the soulless and ultimately monotonous spectacle actually delivered.” – The Film Stage Jul 11, 2016 Full Review The Shallows (2016) 79% B+ EDIT “A film that is patient, atmospheric, and that delights in delivering escalating thrills of a smaller but more valuable variety.” – The Film Stage Jun 23, 2016 Full Review Finding Dory (2016) 94% B- EDIT “In terms of emotional complexity and character evolution, Finding Dory treads the same water as its predecessor with less success.” – The Film Stage Jun 14, 2016 Full Review Now You See Me 2 (2016) 34% D EDIT “Now You See Me 2 is a vapid, heartless film that wastes the time of its cast and audience alike.” – The Film Stage Jun 9, 2016 Full Review Warcraft (2016) 29% C EDIT “A grand, goofy, colorful epic with an almost impenetrably convoluted mythology, Warcraft never breaks its stone-faced earnest investment in its own story and world.” – The Film Stage Jun 8, 2016 Full Review Hateship Loveship (2013) 52% B+ EDIT “Despite its seemingly canned plot, [it] commits to delivering a glimpse into that truth spiced with the joy of optimism rather than the easy placebo of certainty.” – The Film Stage Jun 6, 2016 Full Review
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