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Justin Strout

Justin Strout's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Kaboom (2010) 60% EDIT “[T]he inconceivably bad, wholly inorganic latest from Gregg Araki, a lifetime purveyor of similarly ugly films that try to speak to a generation that, thankfully, never existed except for in Araki's developmentally stunted head.” – Orlando Weekly May 29, 2020 Full Review The Artist (2011) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The Artist is at turns funny, heartbreaking, thrilling and a visual marvel with only the aid of Ludovic Bource's sublime score to guide our reactions.” – Orlando Weekly Jan 13, 2014 Full Review The Sessions (2012) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Hunt's tangible disregard for false modesty does justice to the misunderstood surrogacy profession, while Hawkes' committed yet matter-of-fact portrayal of O'Brien masterfully avoids theatricality or sappy heartstring tugging.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 13, 2012 Full Review Looper (2012) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Johnson's brilliant move is to center his sci-fi around a basic human survival drama.” – Orlando Weekly Sep 26, 2012 Full Review The Master (2012) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Ultimately, it's a movie about the right brain, the left brain and all the toxins of life that swim between them.” – Orlando Weekly Sep 19, 2012 Full Review 10 Years (2011) 58% 4/5 EDIT “First-time director Jamie Linden's thesis is clear: Nobody has changed all that much in those mostly collegiate 10 years, but that doesn't mean they still can't.” – Orlando Weekly Sep 11, 2012 Full Review Lawless (2012) 67% 5/5 EDIT “Lawless is everything that a film haunted by the likes of Faulkner and McCarthy should be: a Southern Gothic masterpiece that treats life and death more like a functional condition than a physical phenomenon.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 29, 2012 Full Review Hit & Run (2012) 49% 3/5 EDIT “What these movies require is against-all-odds chemistry, and Shepard and Bell have that in spades.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 21, 2012 Full Review The Queen of Versailles (2012) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Taken at face value, The Queen of Versailles reveals nothing about the rich that isn't plainly evident on the E! Network. But its most surprising quality is also Jackie's: endurance.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 15, 2012 Full Review The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) 36% 4/5 EDIT “Even when the logic isn't quite there - something about the fragility of life comes up in the third act and really just lays there - like Cindy and Jim Green, its good intentions are reward enough.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 15, 2012 Full Review Hope Springs (2012) 75% 4/5 EDIT “It's a good-natured, humanely observed dramedy, geriatric or otherwise.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 8, 2012 Full Review Music From the Big House (2010) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Music from the Big House middles along as a formless, touristy showcase for Chiarelli.” – Orlando Weekly Jul 11, 2012 Full Review Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012) 89% 4/5 EDIT “From the noise-drenched opening credits to the final, bittersweet song, the concert footage - a DVD of the entire nearly four-hour show is reportedly in the works - pulses with excitement.” – Orlando Weekly Jul 11, 2012 Full Review People Like Us (2012) 52% 4/5 EDIT “People Like Us looks great and feels lived-in, especially by Pine and Banks, who are both so charismatic and innately intelligent that they can make almost any plot mechanism seem organic.” – Orlando Weekly Jun 29, 2012 Full Review Darling Companion (2012) 21% 1/5 EDIT “Oh, man. Man, oh, man.” – Orlando Weekly May 16, 2012 Full Review Marvel's the Avengers (2012) 91% 4/5 EDIT “This is the Avengers that fanboys have always felt in their bones, and Whedon's camera is constantly in motion and in command.” – Orlando Weekly May 2, 2012 Full Review The Raven (2012) 22% 2/5 EDIT “The screenplay by actor Ben Livingston and former Playboy Club writer Hannah Shakespeare, resists adventure at every turn; it feels rushed, poorly structured and determined to disappoint.” – Orlando Weekly Apr 25, 2012 Full Review Bully (2011) 85% 4/5 EDIT “No matter their age, show this to kids you care about, and tell them it gets better.” – Orlando Weekly Apr 11, 2012 Full Review W.E. (2011) 12% 2/5 EDIT “Hear us out, Madge: Next time, go with what you know.” – Orlando Weekly Mar 28, 2012 Full Review The Hunger Games (2012) 84% 4/5 EDIT “The Hunger Games expertly toes the PG-13 line, suggesting more than showing, but not shying away from brutality as an integral part of the film's and novels' grim message.” – Orlando Weekly Mar 21, 2012 Full Review Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) 38% 3/5 EDIT “Their brand of scatological nonsense may have found its most favorable home on the big screen.” – Orlando Weekly Feb 29, 2012 Full Review Rampart (2011) 74% 4/5 EDIT “The same measured calculation that went into casting big actors for small roles to keep the attention on Harrelson goes into many choices throughout Rampart, and though the effect can be frustrating, it feels correct.” – Orlando Weekly Feb 29, 2012 Full Review Act of Valor (2012) 28% 2/5 EDIT “If you begin with the dismissive claim that we will experience what the film industry can't do, you'd better be ready to show it and prove it.” – Orlando Weekly Feb 22, 2012 Full Review This Means War (2012) 24% 2/5 EDIT “It feels like it was constructed by a committee with focus-group worksheets in hand.” – Orlando Weekly Feb 15, 2012 Full Review Pariah (2011) 95% 4/5 EDIT “On a second viewing, I couldn't escape one thought: There's nothing simple about teens coming out to their parents.” – Orlando Weekly Jan 25, 2012 Full Review
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