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Erik Adams

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The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 7/10 EDIT “Considering the relatively deserted theatrical comedy landscape of 2025, Akiva Schaffer’s faithful, unapologetically dumb Police Squad! update plays like a big, refreshing gulp from the seltzer bottle.” – IGN Movies Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Meanwhile on Earth (2024) 82% 6/10 EDIT “It’s heady sci-fi in more ways than one, done on an impressively small scale and with alternatingly astonishing, bewitching, and horrifying visuals that prove director Jérémy Clapin’s previous Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature was no fluke.” – IGN Movies Nov 5, 2024 Full Review Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) 98% 7/10 EDIT “It's an entertaining and occasionally illuminating watch, but it's merely a supplement to all the other Muppet shows and movies in the Disney+ library.” – IGN Movies Jun 4, 2024 Full Review Unfrosted (2024) 39% 5/10 EDIT “It’s a flashy package with a sugary zip whose contents probably won’t stick with you through lunch -- perhaps a better representation of a Pop-Tart than Seinfeld could’ve intended.” – IGN Movies May 7, 2024 Full Review Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023) 72% 6/10 EDIT “The visual ingenuity director Cory Finley demonstrated in Thoroughbreds and Bad Education is on display here, but the sci-fi satire lacks an Anya Taylor-Joy, Hugh Jackman, or Geraldine Viswanathan to ground its lofty aims and urgent message.” – IGN Movies Aug 22, 2023 Full Review Tom & Jerry (2021) 29% C EDIT “Tom And Jerry can't even let the cat and mouse escape from such bogus, contemporary studio-film standards...” – AV Club Mar 1, 2021 Full Review Boys State (2020) 95% B EDIT “Boys State has noble aims when it comes to teaching teenagers how their leaders are chosen and held accountable, but Boys State shows that those aims can only do so much to keep the uglier side of that process at bay.” – AV Club Aug 24, 2020 Full Review Beastie Boys Story (2020) 95% C+ EDIT “The Beastie Boys story is simply too big, too strange, too unwieldy for Beastie Boys Story to contain it.” – AV Club Apr 26, 2020 Full Review John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) 96% A- EDIT “While plugging into a potent strain of existential humor, The Sack Lunch Bunch remains earnest in its execution and reverent toward its inspirations.” – AV Club Dec 26, 2019 Full Review EDIT “It's a little messy, but you were warned by that mouthful of a title.” – AV Club Aug 7, 2019 Full Review Patton Oswalt: Finest Hour (2012) 100% EDIT “If this is a softer [Patton] Oswalt, at least it's his own brand of softness. And it's still hilarious.” – AV Club Aug 1, 2019 Full Review Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive (2013) 100% A- EDIT “Buried Alive is a spectacularly entertaining hour-plus of stand-up, but it's also an intriguing bit of cultural anthropology.” – AV Club Jul 17, 2019 Full Review Oh, Hello On Broadway (2017) 88% B+ EDIT “Its sense of humor is deeply specific and heavily referential... it's also proof that a specific perspective and an alienated audience don't necessarily go hand in hand.” – AV Club Jul 15, 2019 Full Review John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid (2015) 100% A EDIT “You can tell why two broadcast networks and no less an esteemed comedy maven as Lorne Michaels thought John Mulaney should be a TV star. The stand-up comedian is great on camera, as he repeatedly demonstrates in his new hour-long special.” – AV Club Jul 9, 2019 Full Review Deadwood: The Movie (2019) 98% B+ EDIT “It's Malcomson who runs away with Deadwood: The Movie.” – AV Club Jun 5, 2019 Full Review The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019) 100% B- EDIT “The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience is joke-dense and visually rich, but comes up short on a key factor for making the Lonely Island big leagues: It doesn't invite the type of repeat viewing that built the cults of Hot Rod and Popstar.” – AV Club May 24, 2019 Full Review John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018) 100% EDIT “What follows is a special that manages to find some intimacy within what was once the world's largest auditoriums, while never once losing sight that, holy shit, Mulaney's playing Radio City.” – AV Club Dec 27, 2018 Full Review W. Kamau Bell: Private School Negro (2018) 82% EDIT “A timely, energetic set that covers politics, racism, parenting, TV, and, in one of the stories he shares in Private School Negro, watching political TV coverage about a racist while parenting.” – AV Club Dec 19, 2018 Full Review Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977) 56% EDIT “This is the best way to tell the Christmas story in Animagic: with the proper amount of pathos and levity -- and fun character design, too.” – AV Club Dec 5, 2018 Full Review The Little Drummer Boy (1968) 75% EDIT “A poignant third act restores his faith in humanity, all the while making up for some of the roughest animation work in the Videocraft catalogue.” – AV Club Dec 4, 2018 Full Review Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976) 50% EDIT “It all adds up to a largely nonsensical wintertime fairy tale, but with Rankin/Bass' seasonal powers in the process of diminishing, Rudolph's Shiny New Year represents a last-ditch effort to synthesize a number of imaginative concepts into a single story.” – AV Club Nov 28, 2018 Full Review The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) 90% EDIT “[It] melds the big heart and "true Christmas spirit" of previous specials with the bonkers, hallucinatory imagery of those to come-leaving behind only the slightest hint of treacle.” – AV Club Nov 19, 2018 Full Review The Happytime Murders (2018) 23% C- EDIT “The knowing handling of noir conventions and clever metaphor for race relations of Brian Henson's R-rated fluff bath were all treated with greater grace and more panache 31 years ago in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” – AV Club Aug 23, 2018 Full Review Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) 94% B- EDIT “More than any cradle-to-grave narrative, these are the primary reasons to accept the documentary's titular summons: to witness Williams' artistry all over again, to see something unseen from a performer who was so ubiquitous and so prolific.” – AV Club Jul 19, 2018 Full Review Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (2017) 100% A EDIT “Career Suicide is suffused with that spirit, a display of Gethard's deft ability to balance confessional honesty with a keen nose for the absurd.” – AV Club Jan 9, 2018 Full Review
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