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Michael Snydel

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

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The Black Sea (2024) 92% B- EDIT “Harden is the variable––the lead performer whose dynamic with both actors and non-actors skirts the right side of the line between intuition and invention.” – The Film Stage Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Maggie Moore(s) (2023) 51% EDIT “Call it Coen Brothers-lite as categorical shorthand.” – The Spool Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Blue Jean (2022) 96% EDIT “Blue Jean as a film rarely seems interested in extending its empathies beyond their effect on the main character.” – The Spool Jun 16, 2023 Full Review Kandahar (2023) 45% EDIT “Kandahar is sturdy, Butler brings precisely what he’s supposed to, a few character actors do very nice work, and it looks good. ” – The Spool May 29, 2023 Full Review You People (2023) 39% EDIT “From the prefab Los Angeles collage bumpers to the uninvolving camerawork, there’s barely a moment where You People feels like an actual movie as opposed to, well, a television show. ” – The Spool Jan 29, 2023 Full Review The Power (2021) 84% B- EDIT “Corinna Faith's haunted hospital creeper hinges on such a richly atmospheric historical context that it's a wonder it hasn't been used as the backdrop for more horror.” – The Film Stage Apr 10, 2021 Full Review Our Friend (2019) 85% EDIT “From beginning to end, Affleck's performance is a continuum of his wounded, mumbling persona.” – The Spool Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Hunted (2020) 61% EDIT “Throughout, [Lucie] Debay tries her hardest to imbue her character with the semblance of an arc...but it can't cloak that the film turns curiously sluggish whenever the camera is in her presence.” – The Spool Jan 13, 2021 Full Review Gunda (2020) 98% EDIT “Combined with alternately elliptical and sparingly continuous editing, it all mounts into something far larger than its minute-to-minute rewards.” – The Spool Dec 22, 2020 Full Review Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds (2020) 98% EDIT “Fireball is unlikely to stand as a radical highlight in Herzog's future career. Consider it a victory lap...the documentary about the destructive beauty of meteors is equal parts perplexing and engaging.” – The Spool Nov 13, 2020 Full Review Blood Vessel (2019) 73% EDIT “A smart but oddly timid single-location creature feature.” – The Spool Nov 6, 2020 Full Review May the Devil Take You: Chapter Two (2020) 80% EDIT “Tjahjanto overcomplicates the sequel's perverse genre thrills with too many frills.” – The Spool Oct 31, 2020 Full Review Secret Society of Second Born Royals (2020) 55% EDIT “Mythology-happy Disney has never missed an opportunity for the future brand, but it still squanders the assets they have here.” – The Spool Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Sputnik (2020) 88% EDIT “There's still plenty of room for gooey Cronenbergian shapeshifting, but there's rarely a chance for the catharsis of death.” – The Spool Aug 14, 2020 Full Review The Painted Bird (2019) 81% EDIT “God might be dead, but the film is unable to commit to its own aspirations of spiritual chaos beyond the action on screen.” – The Spool Jul 16, 2020 Full Review The Outpost (2019) 91% EDIT “Nearly every character other than those three leads is defined less by personalities than a single attribute that can be insulted.” – The Spool Jul 3, 2020 Full Review Driveways (2019) 99% EDIT “Chau is a vibrant presence, expanding a series of scattered notes into a character who's not haunted by regret but who hasn't come by resolution easily.” – The Spool May 8, 2020 Full Review Coffee & Kareem (2020) 21% EDIT “A cobbled-together hodgepodge of cutting room floor jokes from early 2000s Judd Apatow rip-offs .... and the racial and sexual politics of a Cops rerun.” – The Spool Apr 3, 2020 Full Review The Way Back (2020) 84% EDIT “A familiar but satisfying take on the redemption story strengthened by the palpable pain of its onscreen protagonist.” – The Spool Mar 6, 2020 Full Review The Rhythm Section (2020) 28% EDIT “The film is exhilaratingly out of step with the autopilot assassin stylings of the John Wicks of the world.” – The Spool Jan 31, 2020 Full Review Queen & Slim (2019) 82% EDIT “Over and over, the dialogue moves from sinuous to hammer-headed as the characters restate their frame of mind and align themselves with a fatalist spirituality.” – The Spool Jan 23, 2020 Full Review Charlie's Angels (2019) 52% EDIT “[It's] rarely subversive, but is sincere and thoughtful even in its most pandering, commodified moments.” – The Spool Jan 23, 2020 Full Review 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) 44% EDIT “[E]ven as [Roberts] still needs to work on creating more engaging victims, he knows exactly what to do once all hell breaks loose.” – The Spool Jan 20, 2020 Full Review The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) 95% EDIT “Representation for people with genetic disorders still has a long way to go, but this is the rare film that seems to be moving the needle instead of placating the masses.” – The Spool Jan 20, 2020 Full Review Richard Jewell (2019) 77% EDIT “Unafraid of broad strokes, the film traffics in the kind of binary moral coloring that on the surface feels dramatically simplistic.” – The Spool Jan 19, 2020 Full Review
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