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Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Cinematical film critic.

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Movies TV Shows
Annihilation (2018) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “Annihilation gets momentum from the deeper it pushes into the uncertainties of ecology and the self.” – Slant Magazine Feb 21, 2018 Full Review Edge of Darkness (2010) 54% 1.5/4 EDIT “A shot that defiantly fixes on Mel Gibson's balding pate from behind is the only evidence of the volatile actor-director's famous penchant for cinematic self-flagellation here.” – Slant Magazine Jan 25, 2010 Full Review The Paranoids (2008) 45% 1.5/4 EDIT “A frustratingly underdeveloped Argentinian dramedy about the perils of emotional retreat.” – Slant Magazine Jan 22, 2010 Full Review Sherlock Holmes (2009) 70% 2.5/4 EDIT “Pop culture's most enduring sleuth gets a welcome, modernized makeover in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes.” – Slant Magazine Dec 24, 2009 Full Review Nine (2009) 39% 1.5/4 EDIT “Marshall overlooks the potentially unsavory dimensions of a reputed scaliwag director's sex life in favor of a succession of bloodlessly PG-13 encounters heavy on implication.” – Slant Magazine Dec 16, 2009 Full Review Serious Moonlight (2009) 21% 0/4 EDIT “Hopefully Serious Moonlight will not become Meg Ryan's Trog: an embarrassing, final starring role in an otherwise respectable movie star career that has sputtered to a halt in recent years.” – Slant Magazine Nov 30, 2009 Full Review Ninja Assassin (2009) 26% 2/4 EDIT “Ninja Assassin has little opportunity to fill its action-free beats with dread or tension.” – Slant Magazine Nov 27, 2009 Full Review The Messenger (2009) 90% 3/4 EDIT “These largely self-contained vignettes are harrowing, the source of a font of raw emotional release that could never be otherwise captured except through a presumably invasive documentary process.” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2009 Full Review Law Abiding Citizen (2009) 26% 1/4 EDIT “An illogical, campy joke of a movie that suffers hugely in comparison to F. Gary Gray's earlier ****-the-injustice-system thriller The Negotiator.” – Slant Magazine Oct 16, 2009 Full Review An Education (2009) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The emotional maturity of a sheltered teen in post-war austerity Britain is thoroughly tested in An Education.” – Slant Magazine Oct 6, 2009 Full Review Whip It (2009) 86% 1.5/4 EDIT “There's a lot of underlying potential here, but there seems to have been no one around to whip it into shape.” – Slant Magazine Sep 29, 2009 Full Review Surrogates (2009) 37% 1.5/4 EDIT “Mostow demonstrates an uncharacteristic lack of subtlety throughout that suggests a diminishment of skills for the man who helmed the crackerjack kidnap thriller Breakdown.” – Slant Magazine Sep 25, 2009 Full Review Disgrace (2008) 83% 2/4 EDIT “It's not Coetzee's assertion that the white minority South Africans must go a ways toward assimilating into African life to remain relevant that invites deep scrutiny, but the narrow vision presented here of Africanization as something akin to wilding.” – Slant Magazine Sep 17, 2009 Full Review Jennifer's Body (2009) 47% 2.5/4 EDIT “Represents a cornucopia of ideas, both comedy and horror, and the determination of the filmmakers to simply play the odds of getting more elements right than wrong instead of pursuing a purer vision makes it a mixed viewing experience.” – Slant Magazine Sep 16, 2009 Full Review Taking Woodstock (2009) 47% 2/4 EDIT “Taking Woodstock fails to immerse us in the visceral feeling of being there.” – Slant Magazine Aug 27, 2009 Full Review Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Impressively compact in its storytelling and visually sumptuous despite a budget of pocket-change proportions.” – Slant Magazine Aug 21, 2009 Full Review Bandslam (2009) 81% 1/4 EDIT “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On is the name of the bubblegum rock group at the center of Bandslam, as well as a useful mantra for any moviegoer struggling to make it all the way through this depressingly phony approximation of a teen tragicomedy.” – Slant Magazine Aug 11, 2009 Full Review G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) 33% 2/4 EDIT “Sommers seems to be operating under what he perceives as a pact between himself and his 11-year-old fanbase, to simply provide them with as much awesome **** as he's allowed to shovel at the screen.” – Slant Magazine Aug 6, 2009 Full Review Shrink (2009) 27% 1.5/4 EDIT “Though it never rains frogs in Shrink, the influence of Magnolia on this sprawling portrait of West L.A.'s rich-and-miserable couldn't be more pronounced.” – Slant Magazine Jul 23, 2009 Full Review A Woman in Berlin (2008) 82% 1.5/4 EDIT “As quickly as possible, the initial, brutal encounters are concluded and the film is hurried along to its second, plot-heavy incarnation as a healing-and-reconciliation drama.” – Slant Magazine Jul 15, 2009 Full Review Deadgirl (2008) 33% 1.5/4 EDIT “The appeal of Deadgirl depends exclusively on the intriguing image at its center.” – Slant Magazine Jul 7, 2009 Full Review Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) 46% 2/4 EDIT “This third entry in the animated kiddie series appears to be more, um, fair and balanced.” – Slant Magazine Jul 6, 2009 Full Review The Girl From Monaco (2008) 48% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Girl from Monaco is a frustratingly suspense-free affair.” – Slant Magazine Jul 1, 2009 Full Review My Sister's Keeper (2009) 47% 1.5/4 EDIT “My Sister's Keeper suffers from sheer sloppiness of script that results in scenes of comedic frivolity coming off as screechingly forced.” – Slant Magazine Jun 25, 2009 Full Review Imagine That (2009) 41% 1/4 EDIT “In its minimalism that borders on self-parody, Imagine That is reminiscent of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening.” – Slant Magazine Jun 11, 2009 Full Review
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