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Fran Hoepfner

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

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Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval (2024) 33% EDIT “The comedian may joke about her expulsion from Hollywood, but it’s clear how hurt she feels. And when it comes to owning her mistakes, DeGeneres struggles to find the humor.” – The Atlantic Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% EDIT “Alien: Romulus really shines when it plays like a straightforward Alien movie -- and doesn’t pander to the demands of franchisable intellectual property. There’s yucky pleasure to be had in watching these young people flounder.” – The Atlantic Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% C- EDIT “An unfortunate slog: all filler, no killer, stretching into tedium before its rushed ending.” – The Film Stage Nov 15, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% B- EDIT “It’s difficult to accept Barbie as a satire when the filmmakers’ earnest enjoyment of the cars, the houses, the outfits, and even the toy food feels much more indulged than any philosophical reckonings.” – The Film Stage Jul 19, 2023 Full Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) 99% B+ EDIT “For Blume devotees, this adaptation of the author’s hit novel is––take a breath––very faithful. Devoid of modern-day winkings, needling jokes, or overlong proselytizing, It’s Me, Margaret (for short) is mercifully for its target audience. ” – The Film Stage Apr 20, 2023 Full Review Beau Is Afraid (2023) 67% D EDIT “Beau Is Afraid hates Beau, no doubt, but it hates his mother, too, and it hates everyone who shows him both kindness and cruelty, a comedy of neither manners nor errors.” – The Film Stage Apr 11, 2023 Full Review 80 for Brady (2023) 59% EDIT “This is a 90-something minute Super Bowl commercial, a warm-blooded advertisement of what football — and by extension the NFL — could be, if it wasn’t for all the things that it actually is.” – TheWrap Jan 31, 2023 Full Review Maybe I Do (2023) 31% EDIT “The older couples’ sparks have faded, perhaps because none of these people were characters to begin with. Macy, Sarandon, Keaton and Gere are operating with one adjective apiece and hitting that adjective until we’re exhausted by them. ” – TheWrap Jan 24, 2023 Full Review Victim/Suspect (2023) 79% EDIT “That these stories are worth being told is inarguable, but is this the proper lens to go about it?” – TheWrap Jan 23, 2023 Full Review Judy Blume Forever (2023) 95% EDIT “Despite the stylish gimmicks and mash-up tricks, “Judy Blume Forever” often suffers from the curse of biography — it is not always remarkable to go through someone’s life chronologically, even if their work is remarkable.” – TheWrap Jan 21, 2023 Full Review The Seven Faces of Jane (2022) 36% EDIT “None of these films or segments do much that feels exciting or original. Several of them tread familiar beats. What we’re left with feels like a half-hearted attempt at something more profound than it winds up being.” – TheWrap Jan 15, 2023 Full Review Wildcat (2022) 92% EDIT “The metaphor — both Turner and Keanu need to rehabilitate their behavior before returning to their respective “natural” environments — is obvious, of course, but well-balanced by the film’s intimate look at the lives man and cat live away from society.” – TheWrap Dec 19, 2022 Full Review Something from Tiffany's (2022) 72% EDIT “Do these two feel like they belong together against all odds? Despite the pushy urging from Ethan’s daughter and Rachel’s business partner, the unfortunate answer is “not really.”” – TheWrap Dec 8, 2022 Full Review Nanny (2022) 91% EDIT “It’d be better if “Nanny” leaned into its own ambiguousness and myth-making for its final act; there is no need for the film to be quite as literal as it winds up being.” – TheWrap Nov 21, 2022 Full Review Bad Axe (2022) 96% EDIT “Captures the wildly disparate facets of small-town Michigan life, from Nazis and rampant gun ownership, the lack of recycling and cheap restaurant food, to the miraculous skies and beautiful greens, the local camaraderie and budding pockets of diversity.” – TheWrap Nov 16, 2022 Full Review Peaceful (2021) 31% EDIT “Too often gives way to melodramatics and redundancies.” – TheWrap Oct 27, 2022 Full Review She Said (2022) 88% EDIT “It’s not a particularly artful film, with one too many exterior shots of the Times’ office and a rote score by Nicholas Brittell, but it’s tough not to get increasingly invested in Kantor and Twohey’s work.” – TheWrap Oct 14, 2022 Full Review The Silent Twins (2022) 69% EDIT “Smocyńska’s knack for visual originality is largely unparalleled, but where “The Silent Twins” falters is in its static script.” – TheWrap Sep 15, 2022 Full Review The Good Nurse (2022) 74% EDIT “At its best, “The Good Nurse” is grim and procedural, reminiscent, perhaps, of “Spotlight” or “The Insider,” movies that veer away from the depiction of the crimes at hand, opting for the tired tedium of getting people to go on the record.” – TheWrap Sep 12, 2022 Full Review In Her Hands (2022) 58% EDIT “So outwardly focused, so intended for Western audiences, that it barely transcends the nature of a Wikipedia page.” – TheWrap Sep 9, 2022 Full Review True Things (2021) 79% EDIT “A raw and passionate look at the type of love that can be both all-encompassing and destructive, passionate and dangerous.” – TheWrap Sep 9, 2022 Full Review Girl Picture (2022) 97% EDIT “The screenplay by Daniela Hakulinen and Ilona Ahti is full of nuance and room to breathe. These girls are figuring out who they are, and the script is smart enough to know they won’t have answers to those questions after the third Friday night.” – TheWrap Aug 11, 2022 Full Review Mack & Rita (2022) 24% EDIT “An odd, sweet and, at times, maybe even deranged film, full of charismatic performances and an earnest message about being yourself.” – TheWrap Aug 11, 2022 Full Review Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) 86% EDIT “Still, for a screenplay that hates all these characters so much, it’s hard not to want a movie that is willing to go a little nastier with all of them. Grosser kills, perhaps, or meaner moments.” – TheWrap Aug 4, 2022 Full Review How to Please a Woman (2022) 71% EDIT “At times, it feels like the film makes a case for a good domestic life over a good professional life, when those things ought not be at odds with each other.” – TheWrap Jul 20, 2022 Full Review
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