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Scott Tobias

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

I see movies, watch DVDs, and read books, then I get paid to write what I think of them. Beats doing stuff.

Favorites:

Top 5 (no order): Sansho The Bailiff, Duck Soup, Tokyo Story, Shoot The Piano Player, Taxi Driver

Location:

Chicago

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “Out Of The Past is a quintessential noir.” – AV Club Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “The visual wonders of The Abyss haven’t been blunted by time.” – Guardian Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Predators (2025) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “Apart from anything else, Predators is a clinic in documentary ethics, but Osit’s intellect doesn’t mute his pain, sensitivity and outrage. It’s a film for the heart and the head. ” – The Reveal Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% 2.5/5 EDIT “Reiner and company indulge in a victory lap that feels weirdly like an extended promotion for Tap-related merchandise, with McCartney and John doing their part to bolster the sales pitch.” – The Reveal Sep 12, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “There’s integrity to the no-frills human horror of The Long Walk and Lawrence, working from a script by JT Mollner, follows through on its uncompromising bleakness. ” – The Reveal Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% 2/5 EDIT “The Coens never made a film anywhere near as bad as Honey Don’t! ” – The Reveal Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% 3.5/5 EDIT “One half makes you worry the old guy’s lost his touch and the other proves the old guy’s still got it. Looking at the scorecard, Lee wins here by split decision.” – The Reveal Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Pumpkinhead (1988) 51% EDIT “Pumpkinhead found its audience almost entirely on videocassette, which seems appropriate, since the film's strengths lie almost entirely in the niche worlds of FX and creature designs. ” – AV Club Jun 4, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “The film is neither as chilling nor as funny as it intends to be, and only fitfully offers tantalizing glimpses of what might have been.” – Guardian May 1, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% EDIT “As Bateman, Bale exudes just the right kind of anti-charisma.” – Guardian Apr 2, 2025 Full Review There Was, There Was Not (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “There Was, There Was Not becomes a wrenching memorial for a country that no longer exists, a fairy tale without a happily ever after. ” – The Reveal Nov 1, 2024 Full Review Sasquatch Sunset (2024) 71% 3.5/5 EDIT “There’s a slightness to the conceit of Sasquatch Sunset that the Zellners cannot quite overcome, but there’s a generosity to the comedy and to its appreciation of the natural world that’s hard to resist. ” – The Reveal Apr 17, 2024 Full Review R.M.N. (2022) 97% 3.5/5 EDIT “Though Mungiu takes a heavy hand with the symbolism, particularly in a head-scratcher of a final moment, his main characters remain irreducible in the face of a conflict that’s seemingly cut-and-dried. ” – The Reveal Dec 6, 2023 Full Review Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) 92% EDIT “Alice's story of female independence and self-realization inspired an awful sitcom, but Scorsese and star Ellen Burstyn give the film an edgy, foul-mouthed toughness that's resolutely unfit for television. ” – AV Club Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Y tu mamá también (2001) 90% EDIT “There are plenty of boys-to-men films about the raunchy adventures of pleasure-seeking teenagers, but Alfonso Cuarón's inspired and exhilarating road movie... taps so directly into their teeming energy that it all but levitates off the screen.” – AV Club Sep 9, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% EDIT “Traffic could have been a bland, documentary-like procedural, but he gives it the distinctive two-tone look he brought to Out Of Sight, an eerily effective ambient soundtrack, and frequently radical editing rhythms.” – AV Club Aug 9, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% EDIT “Mulholland Drive gives way to an internal dream logic that can only be described as Lynchian. ” – AV Club Jul 10, 2023 Full Review Fast X (2023) 56% 3/5 EDIT “Fast X has enough joyful self-awareness that resistance becomes futile. At a certain point, it feels better to give in and smile.” – Guardian May 17, 2023 Full Review Heavenly Creatures (1994) 95% EDIT “Heavenly Creatures careens toward tragedy in a breathtaking rush, with every swoop of the camera whooshing the audience closer to the inevitable. ” – AV Club May 15, 2023 Full Review Come and See (1985) 90% EDIT “A product of the glasnost era, Come And See is far from a patriotic memorial of Russia's hard-won victory. Instead, it's a chilling reminder of that victory's terrible costs.” – AV Club Mar 14, 2023 Full Review Down in the Delta (1998) 76% EDIT “Though well-intentioned and occasionally affecting, Down In The Delta is more successful as a social tool than a work of art. ” – AV Club Jan 4, 2023 Full Review Smile (2022) 80% 3.5/5 EDIT “Finn uses the strength of his conceit to turn the screws, raising tension through the Ring-like timeline Rose faces and the sheer relentlessness of her supernatural tormentor.” – The Reveal Dec 19, 2022 Full Review Triangle of Sadness (2022) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Triangle of Sadness doesn’t leave audiences with much to unpack thematically, but it’s clear-eyed and hilarious about the systems that enforce societal inequities and what might happen if they were ever to unravel.” – The Reveal Dec 19, 2022 Full Review Decision to Leave (2022) 94% 4/5 EDIT “It’s not as immediately gripping as his previous work, but it lingers like perfume.” – The Reveal Dec 19, 2022 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “Burrows itself so deeply into a single character’s perspective that it defies all generalization or facile politicking. ” – The Reveal Dec 19, 2022 Full Review
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