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Daniel Carlson

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

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EDIT “It's taken Oswalt a while, but he's finally developed a voice based on his own nerdy neuroses.” – PopMatters Aug 2, 2019 Full Review MacGruber (2010) 47% EDIT “It's funny but forgettable.” – Pajiba Mar 30, 2019 Full Review Australia (2008) 53% EDIT “Australia is as big, lumbering, vast, dry, and aimless as the catch-all title would lead you to believe.” – Pajiba Nov 6, 2018 Full Review The Fountain (2006) 52% EDIT “For all its missteps into mythological navel-gazing, The Fountain manages to stand apart as Aronofsky's personal exploration into the nature of love and the willingness to pursue an object of obsessive desire.” – Pajiba Nov 5, 2018 Full Review The Prestige (2006) 77% EDIT “Yes, the film is built on deceptions, and yes, it features a series of interconnected twists, but like all good movies and magic tricks, it doesn't lose any glory in a repeated performance or viewing, only gains it.” – Pajiba Nov 2, 2018 Full Review Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) EDIT “In keeping in line tonally with the rest of the series, as well as for the way it adds new texture to old ideas, "Razor" becomes not so much an anomaly as a valuable part of the story so far.” – Pajiba Jun 13, 2018 Full Review Interstellar (2014) 73% C+ EDIT “There's clear ambition here, but no direction; emphasis, but no meaning.” – Movie Mezzanine Nov 5, 2014 Full Review Before I Go to Sleep (2014) 36% C- EDIT “There's a resigned manner in the way Before I Go to Sleep plays out.” – Movie Mezzanine Nov 3, 2014 Full Review Rudderless (2014) 65% B- EDIT “...there are many things about Rudderless that do work in smaller sections.” – Movie Mezzanine Oct 17, 2014 Full Review Fury (2014) 75% A- EDIT “...the film's real power comes from the ugly way it inverts more traditional modern war-film narratives, particularly with its examinations of mercy.” – Movie Mezzanine Oct 17, 2014 Full Review Bird People (2014) 59% A- EDIT “Bird People is slight but never inconsequential, dreamy but never unbelievable.” – Movie Mezzanine Sep 13, 2014 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% C+ EDIT “Forrest Gump is never sure of what it is or what it wants to be.” – Movie Mezzanine Sep 5, 2014 Full Review The Trip to Italy (2014) 88% C+ EDIT “As Coogan warns Brydon early on, "It feels odd to do something for the second time." Like all good advice, though, it falls on deaf ears.” – Movie Mezzanine Aug 15, 2014 Full Review About Alex (2014) 46% B+ EDIT “About Alex is familiar inside and out, but that doesn't make it any less true. Just the opposite.” – Movie Mezzanine Aug 7, 2014 Full Review Video Games: The Movie (2014) 18% F EDIT “It takes a certain mix of hubris and willful ignorance to begin a documentary about video games with a quote from Gandhi.” – Movie Mezzanine Jul 18, 2014 Full Review Sex Tape (2014) 16% D+ EDIT “It stretches to fill 90 minutes of screen time, yet feels so, so much longer.” – Movie Mezzanine Jul 18, 2014 Full Review Premature (2014) 48% C+ EDIT “I remember laughing, but I don't remember why. It's a little like being stuck in time.” – Movie Mezzanine Jul 7, 2014 Full Review Drive (2011) 93% EDIT “[Nicolas Refn] made a gripping, moving, heart-stopping, revelatory thriller, and as he moves fast through the turns and floors the gas, you never want him to stop.” – Pajiba Sep 16, 2011 Full Review Turkey Bowl (2011) 67% EDIT “The most fun I've had at a movie in a long time.” – Pajiba Jun 23, 2011 Full Review True Grit (2010) 95% EDIT “The script is a letdown at almost every turn... The Coens’ emotional argument here is weaker than it’s ever been, in large part because they don’t seem to feel nearly as conflicted about the violence they’ve scripted as they usually are.” – Pajiba Jan 3, 2011 Full Review Black Swan (2010) 85% EDIT “The director's earlier works are difficult to watch (let alone revisit) for the powerful emotional toll they exact on the viewer, but Black Swan earns the same fate for a far less satisfying reason: it's just not worth it.” – Pajiba Dec 2, 2010 Full Review Tangled (2010) 89% EDIT “An original film would at least have had the distinction of being an interesting failure. This one's merely boring.” – Pajiba Dec 2, 2010 Full Review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) 76% EDIT “A rousing, exciting, and engaging film that flies with the better angels that have often felt just out of reach for the other installments: its humor spot-on, its conflicts utterly real, its sacrifices painfully felt.” – Pajiba Dec 2, 2010 Full Review The Town (2010) 92% EDIT “Affleck's made a great film buried inside a moderately good one. All he needs to do is discover how to let it out.” – Pajiba Sep 17, 2010 Full Review The American (2010) 64% EDIT “Too muted and pensive to work as a thriller, too withdrawn to be a character study, and too cold to evoke any sympathy, the film is instead a dull and alienating exercise in how to take a strong actor and interesting premise and mostly waste them.” – Pajiba Sep 9, 2010 Full Review
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