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Matthew Connolly

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

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The Human Condition 2: The Road to Eternity (1959) 4/4 EDIT “The film possesses a restless vitality, with hard cuts juxtaposing abject brutality with pastoral tranquility and romantic longing.” – Slant Magazine Jun 17, 2021 Full Review A Soldier's Prayer (1961) 4/4 EDIT “The film possesses a restless vitality, with hard cuts juxtaposing abject brutality with pastoral tranquility and romantic longing.” – Slant Magazine Jun 17, 2021 Full Review Sorry Angel (2018) 82% EDIT “Honoré largely adheres to a restrained visual palette, mirroring his evenhanded vision of queer kinship.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Princess Cyd (2017) 96% EDIT “Princess Cyd proves a very worthy addition to this significant and growing body of work, even as it moves away from some of [director Stephen] Cone's more established directorial traits.” – Reverse Shot Dec 1, 2017 Full Review Applause (2009) 89% EDIT “Though utterly convincing as a renowned theater actress, it's clear from her work in Applause that Paprika Steen has a face for the camera.” – House Next Door Apr 7, 2016 Full Review A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) 90% EDIT “Roy Andersson's latest film perches decidedly above the world it studies, gazing down fixedly upon its inhabitants from a perspective at once sympathetically engaged and assiduously distanced.” – Film Comment Magazine May 7, 2015 Full Review Bird People (2014) 59% EDIT “At the risk of taking the avian symbolism a step too far, I'd wager that telegraphing one's intentions to interrogate the realities of 21st-century dislocation only to settle for hands-across-the-water truisms seems a little chicken.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 15, 2014 Full Review Vic & Flo Saw a Bear (2013) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The film presents its tonal switch-ups and narrative swerves with a deadpan belligerence by turns stimulating, calculated, and poignant.” – Slant Magazine Feb 3, 2014 Full Review My Darling Clementine (1946) 100% 4/4 EDIT “The film subtly complicates viewer expectations early on, eschewing clear-cut character rivalries in favor of more complex emotional and social configurations.” – Slant Magazine Jan 21, 2014 Full Review Like Crazy (2011) 70% EDIT “I'll admit that my heart broke a little by film's end, as the camera rested on Yelchin and Jones's faraway looks and Stars' sublime "Dead Hearts" flooded the soundtrack.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 5, 2013 Full Review The Dead Man and Being Happy (2012) EDIT “At once familiar and enigmatic, Javier Rebollo's The Dead Man and Being Happy feels like a connect-the-dots film with a few lines artfully blurred.” – Slant Magazine Sep 29, 2013 Full Review The Servant (1963) 90% 4/4 EDIT “The film's sidelong narrative glances suggest a privileged world brimming with innuendo-laden excess and barely concealed sexual jealousies.” – Slant Magazine Jul 22, 2013 Full Review The Broken Tower (2011) 20% 2/4 EDIT “James Franco's film is tonally flat and a little too impressed with its own elliptical construction.” – Slant Magazine Apr 24, 2012 Full Review Snow on Tha Bluff (2011) 3/4 EDIT “Questions of authenticity aside, Damon Russell evinces a shrewd understanding of how to juxtapose the handheld camera's finite sightline with the bursts of chaos that suddenly invade it.” – Slant Magazine Apr 17, 2012 Full Review Donoma (2010) 3/4 EDIT “Unlike similarly interconnected narratives, Donoma refuses to lay out its complete collection of characters up front” – Slant Magazine Mar 27, 2012 Full Review Domain (2009) 77% 3.5/4 EDIT “The ultimate drama of Domain becomes how long he can be a witness to her self-destruction.” – Slant Magazine Jan 8, 2012 Full Review La Dolce Vita (1960) 95% 4/4 EDIT “What is happiness within the film's world? Fellini offers no easy answers.” – Slant Magazine Jun 3, 2011 Full Review Accident (2009) EDIT “Form and content merge nicely throughout the first half of Accident, which is nothing if not the story of how skilled professionals work to make their complex efforts appear spontaneous and, well, effortless.” – House Next Door Feb 24, 2011 Full Review La maison Nucingen (Nucingen House) (2008) EDIT “It's fitting that the title of Ral Ruiz's latest, Nucingen House, should not place primacy on character, plot, or theme, but on the physical setting itself.” – House Next Door Feb 24, 2011 Full Review Sois Sage (Be Good) (2008) EDIT “The problem with Be Good, Juliette Garcias's moody, visually-striking directorial debut, is one the film shares with other, similarly ambiguous character studies about people with hidden pasts.” – House Next Door Feb 24, 2011 Full Review Cold Fish (2010) 75% EDIT “Sono orchestrates the escalating body count and psychosexual perversity with near-unrelenting frenzy.” – House Next Door Feb 24, 2011 Full Review The African Queen (1951) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Huston understands the majestic savagery of his surroundings well enough to let it exert some dramatic pressure on what is primarily a buoyant romantic comedy.” – Slant Magazine Feb 9, 2011 Full Review Cluny Brown (1946) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “What is the famed "Lubitsch touch" if not the quiet thrill of being in on the joke?” – Slant Magazine Dec 20, 2010 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% 4/4 EDIT “Scorsese might never again find a subject as ideal as Jake LaMotta, the Bronx-based boxer whose public bouts and private demons Raging Bull chronicles with such bruising acuity.” – Slant Magazine Nov 2, 2010 Full Review Waiting for Superman (2010) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Guggenheim wants you to know that he has an education problem, and that you should too.” – Slant Magazine Sep 26, 2010 Full Review
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