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Daniel D'Addario

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

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The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (2025) 67% EDIT “[The documentary] gathers plenty of raw reporting, but assembles it into a story only as best it can, ultimately undone by the challenges its particular story presents. ” – Variety Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats (2024) 0% EDIT “In utterly disavowing his own work even as it’s happening, Rogan shows that, for all he may have the trappings of a marquee Netflix comic, he lacks a fundamental quality the best comics share: Courage.” – Variety Aug 5, 2024 Full Review God Forbid: The Sex Scandal that Brought Down a Dynasty (2022) 82% EDIT “God Forbid’s gestures toward political statement are well intended but distract from the character study of Falwell Jr., who seems to have used the power of pulpit and position to take what he wanted until the bill came due. ” – Variety Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Annie Live! (2021) 100% EDIT “Even as viewers surely understood they were watching a broadcast bolstered by the resources of NBC, it was possible to believe that this was something like the best sort of community theater.” – Variety Dec 3, 2021 Full Review Four Hours at the Capitol (2021) 89% EDIT “The imagery of destruction and assault is powerful on its own terms; it's in building the story of the participants' motives and actions that Four Hours at the Capitol falters, making what could have been a definitive document into a deeply flawed one.” – Variety Oct 20, 2021 Full Review Britney Vs Spears (2021) 60% EDIT “This shapeless doc feels overlong at just over 90 minutes, because it's unclear what, exactly, Carr and collaborator Jenny Eliscu want to say about Spears.” – Variety Sep 28, 2021 Full Review Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch (2021) EDIT “The concept of "realness," of claiming one's own part of straight culture by embodying it at least until trying on one's next costume, is at the heart of this special, and asserts itself fascinatingly.” – Variety Jun 30, 2021 Full Review This Is Paris (2020) 63% EDIT “This documentary seems so intent on excavating her trauma, up to and including animated re-enactments of her time in purgatorial prep school, that it loses sight of her.” – Variety Sep 15, 2020 Full Review On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries (2020) 63% EDIT “It's easy to care about the women in On the Trail, and the issues they face. But the film around them doesn't feel built to last -- or to exist in a moment beyond the one for which it was intended.” – Variety Aug 6, 2020 Full Review Howard (2018) 93% EDIT “Disney makes both a stirring, if not unexpected, case for his, and its own, legacy. It also introduces viewers, more fully than skeptics of the studiously family-friendly corporation might expect, to Ashman.” – Variety Aug 3, 2020 Full Review Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020) 93% EDIT “Gadsby tends, more than ever, to generate more powerful applause lines than audience laughs, and to generate admiration more from her ability to plainly state her beliefs than through the comic sleight-of-hand at which she's adept.” – Variety May 26, 2020 Full Review AKA Jane Roe (2020) 88% EDIT “The sadness of McCorvey's life, captured well by Sweeney, is that she was at the center of a fight for women's freedom, and yet was herself so unfree, buffeted by waves that she endured with unimaginable forbearance.” – Variety May 20, 2020 Full Review EDIT “Converts into unpleasant spectacle what was always implicit in the star's legal project: That, for her, reform... comes in the package of the beneficent gift of individual attention to telegenic and unthreatening cases, rather than... reform.” – Variety Apr 3, 2020 Full Review Lance (2020) 91% EDIT “It's a work with a precise moral compass about a person who comes to seem as though he lacks one entirely - and a work that, most strikingly of all, seeks to understand rather than condemn him.” – Variety Jan 28, 2020 Full Review Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times' (2019) 80% EDIT “Plopping contemporary stars into old scripts and trusting it'll move us feels like a cop-out. As the broadcast itself bore out, people in 2019 have a lot else on their minds.” – Variety Dec 19, 2019 Full Review A Christmas Carol (2018) 52% EDIT “Pearce is undeniably good, but the script, with its aphoristic philosophy planted in the mouth of a character who'd historically been a fairly unintellectual money-hoarder, never allows him to compel us.” – Variety Dec 18, 2019 Full Review Fyre (2019) 93% EDIT “"Fyre" drills down on a story of [Billy] McFarland as a unitary figure of special malice, which feels both less interesting and less true.” – Variety Dec 11, 2019 Full Review The Little Mermaid Live! (2019) 36% EDIT “ABC's broadcast was a lovingly made reminder of "The Little Mermaid's" greatness that cleverly didn't seek to outshine its source material.” – Variety Nov 6, 2019 Full Review El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) 92% EDIT “Though the path Gilligan and company took was at times a dubious one, "El Camino" can't, finally, be said to have lost its way.” – Variety Oct 11, 2019 Full Review Downton Abbey (2019) 84% EDIT “[T]his journey to the past may end up feeling ultimately less nostalgic than backward-looking.” – Variety Sep 9, 2019 Full Review Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein (2019) 89% EDIT “[T]he whole enterprise feel[s] indulgent, a vanity project for one of Netflix's biggest stars and not one that demands in any real way to exist.” – Variety Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Brexit (2019) 80% EDIT “Brexit's problem isn't that it is too flip about recent history. It's that it takes every possible branch of history seriously, and doesn't do the work of discerning which ones matter more.” – Variety Jan 17, 2019 Full Review My Dinner With Hervé (2018) 83% EDIT “Dinklage shines as Hervé Villechaize, but the character is too far on the margins of his own story.” – Variety Oct 16, 2018 Full Review Queen of the World (2018) 38% EDIT “Perhaps the film's best touch is the degree to which it sets up a contrast between the royal for whom Queen of the World is a valedictory document and the one for whom it's something of a debut.” – Variety Oct 2, 2018 Full Review Believer (2018) 64% EDIT “Reynolds seems to push Believer towards sharing the spotlight by bringing in other voices; in so doing, he shows viewers exactly what the role of a good ally is.” – Variety Jun 25, 2018 Full Review
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