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Jim Hemphill

Jim Hemphill's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Reel.com film critic.

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Trespass (1992) 70% 4/4 EDIT “Hill is one of the most proficient directors in Hollywood when it comes to using editing as an expressive tool.” – Chicago Reader Jun 2, 2022 Full Review The Last Word (2017) 40% 8.5/10 EDIT “In Fink's script for The Last Word, Pellington finds the right vehicle to explore his preoccupations through a new lens, and addressing the issues through female characters has reinvigorated his technique.” – Paste Magazine Mar 3, 2017 Full Review Aquarius (2016) 97% 9.5/10 EDIT “Kleber Mendonca Filho has made only two features, but with his second, Aquarius, he achieves artistic heights common only to the masters of the medium: Jean Renoir, Yasujiro Ozu, Ingmar Bergman, Abbas Kiarostami, Richard Linklater.” – Paste Magazine Oct 6, 2016 Full Review Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) 78% 3.5/10 EDIT “A sloppy, careless mess which takes forever to get where it's going and has no idea what to do when it gets there, Sharon Maguire's return to the Bridget Jones franchise is still fairly watchable thanks to the charisma of its three leads.” – Paste Magazine Sep 16, 2016 Full Review When the Bough Breaks (2016) 12% 7.5/10 EDIT “This is Cassar's second film this year -- the first was the exquisite Western Forsaken -- and confirmation that he's a filmmaker of uncommon talent and versatility.” – Paste Magazine Sep 14, 2016 Full Review Snowden (2016) 61% 9/10 EDIT “[Stone's] latest film, Snowden, synthesizes all of the director's best qualities into one ruthlessly efficient 134-minute package.” – Paste Magazine Sep 14, 2016 Full Review Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) 96% 9/10 EDIT “A lively, spectacularly entertaining documentary by filmmaker, archivist and historian Kent Jones.” – Paste Magazine Dec 3, 2015 Full Review Goosebumps (2015) 78% 6.5/10 EDIT “Goosebumps is the first film I've seen that actually recreates the charm of something like The Goonies or Gremlins and successfully updates it rather than merely imitating it.” – Paste Magazine Oct 22, 2015 Full Review Truth (2015) 64% 4.8/10 EDIT “Truth is one awfully glib piece of work.” – Paste Magazine Oct 15, 2015 Full Review Bridge of Spies (2015) 91% 9/10 EDIT “It must be noted that few American directors, and virtually none in the studio system, are tackling the kinds of difficult questions that [Spielberg] routinely addresses head-on.” – Paste Magazine Oct 15, 2015 Full Review Knock Knock (2015) 37% 9.4/10 EDIT “This is a movie of supreme confidence -- it starts strongly and only gets better in every scene -- a thriller that invites plenty of comparisons to the works by masters of the form: Hitchcock, Polanski, De Palma. It earns these comparisons.” – Paste Magazine Oct 8, 2015 Full Review The Perfect Guy (2015) 19% 9/10 EDIT “The Perfect Guy is pitch-perfect Hollywood entertainment of the kind that studios used to crank out by the dozens in the 1940s.” – Paste Magazine Sep 11, 2015 Full Review Sleeping With Other People (2015) 64% 5/10 EDIT “Sets out to reinvent the genre only to succumb to all of the same old formulas.” – Paste Magazine Sep 9, 2015 Full Review The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) 68% 5/10 EDIT “The superb craftsmanship on display only makes the film's shortcomings more frustrating, though; it's one of the best-looking boring movies ever made.” – Paste Magazine Aug 19, 2015 Full Review Squirrels to the Nuts (2014) 46% 9.5/10 EDIT “Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way is simultaneously everything one might expect and a complete surprise, a film that contains all of the strengths of the director's past work in a completely new form.” – Paste Magazine Aug 14, 2015 Full Review The Gift (2015) 91% 9.7/10 EDIT “Joel Edgerton's debut feature as director, The Gift, is the best kind of great movie: It doesn't announce itself as great at all.” – Paste Magazine Aug 11, 2015 Full Review Weirdsville (2007) 56% 2.5/4 EDIT “Moyle is as deft a craftsman as ever, utilizing the widescreen frame to create a number of elegant, vibrantly colorful images that give the film a bright, bubbly energy in spite of the violence at its core.” – Reel.com Oct 5, 2007 Full Review The Price of Sugar (2007) 74% 4/4 EDIT “Uplifting and enraging in equal measures, Bill Haney's The Price of Sugar is a powerful issue-driven documentary that also happens to have one of the most compelling heroes of any movie this year.” – Reel.com Sep 28, 2007 Full Review Lust, Caution (2007) 73% 3.5/4 EDIT “The movie has more power than a conventional adventure film because it has more to say.” – Reel.com Sep 28, 2007 Full Review Pathfinder (2007) 8% 1/4 EDIT “Pathfinder is simultaneously action-packed and a total bore, a strange movie that never seems to move even though it consists of almost nothing but violence.” – Reel.com Sep 22, 2007 Full Review The Last Winter (2006) 76% 3/4 EDIT “In the end, the scariest thing about The Last Winter is how few of its ideas seem truly fantastic or implausible.” – Reel.com Sep 21, 2007 Full Review Dragon Wars: D-War (2007) 28% 3/4 EDIT “It's admittedly pretty dumb, but in the end its fierce commitment to its own goofy ideas is oddly admirable.” – Reel.com Sep 15, 2007 Full Review Mr. Woodcock (2007) 14% 2/4 EDIT “It's a two-minute trailer unsuccessfully stretched into an 87-minute feature film.” – Reel.com Sep 14, 2007 Full Review I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006) 73% 3.5/4 EDIT “Idiosyncratic and personal, it's a comedy that could only have come from the distinctive mind of its very talented creator.” – Reel.com Sep 7, 2007 Full Review Self-Medicated (2005) 37% 3.5/4 EDIT “Monty Lapica's Self-Medicated is a powerful, personal piece of independent filmmaking” – Reel.com Aug 31, 2007 Full Review
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