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Inside Hook

Inside Hook is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Charles Bramesco, Jesse Hassenger.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
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Ferrari (2023) Jesse Hassenger Ferrari bridges Mann world and something more closely resembling ours. He turns brand-name vibes back into a man.
Posted Mar 27, 2024  Edit critic review
B
Mean Girls (2024) Jesse Hassenger The staging of the songs from the Broadway show is consistently inventive, something that a surprising number of movie musicals still struggle with after all these years.
Posted Mar 27, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
Drive-Away Dolls (2024) Jesse Hassenger Drive-Away Dolls finds a way to make its cartoonish earthiness both sexy and, at times, weirdly romantic, both in ways that would be hard to picture in a “proper” both-Coen movie.
Posted Mar 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Miller's Girl (2024) Charles Bramesco From one scene to the next, a viewer may experience trouble discerning whether this is a merely stupid movie, an amusing specimen of semi-witting camp, or stealth coup of high-wire self-parody.
Posted Feb 02, 2024  Edit critic review
The Iron Claw (2023) Charles Bramesco For all the demonstrative shows of love for wrestling that come from Durkin, he also identifies it as a mortally injurious force to those who practice it, and conflates the game itself with Fritz’s malignant approach to it.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Saw X (2023) Charles Bramesco X frames Kramer like a tragic hero instead of a complete maniac with a thing for Rube Goldberg homicide, and swears by the wobbly moral mechanism he believes will balance his soul’s ledger.
Posted Oct 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Aggro Dr1ft (2023) Charles Bramesco The director's latest is an impulse-driven, almost childlike approach to image-making.
Posted Sep 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Hit Man (2023) Charles Bramesco The smoldering, wily, wild-but-true Hit Man returns Linklater to his loquacious take on romance, with a man using his gift of gab to shrug off himself.
Posted Sep 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Royal Hotel (2023) Charles Bramesco Ironically for a film doused in alcohol, it takes a sober-minded view of a societal disorder that requires minimal exaggeration to rival the stuff of slasher flicks.
Posted Sep 15, 2023  Edit critic review
The Boy and the Heron (2023) Charles Bramesco The Boy and the Heron, a farewell feature... unmistakable in its satisfying yet heart-pulverizing finality, represents the master’s effort to make his peace with the impossibility of peace in his lifetime.
Posted Sep 15, 2023  Edit critic review
The Holdovers (2023) Charles Bramesco The first Christmas miracle in the instant Yuletide staple The Holdovers is star Dominic Sessa.
Posted Sep 15, 2023  Edit critic review
B
No Hard Feelings (2023) Jesse Hassenger The movie frequently and cheekily emphasizes the sheer amount of work involved in maintaining some kind of glamorous movie-star mystique, even as people wonder aloud if you’re too old.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
C+
Joy Ride (2023) Jesse Hassenger Joy Ride is in the odd position of placing its comic archetypes in a more believable and compelling sociological context than the plastic bros of The Hangover, while zig-zagging ever more haphazardly away from a recognizable reality
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Jesse Hassenger The familiarity is part of the game, of course: Introducing enough new stunts and beautiful faces to wow the crowds while taking ownership over the iconography to keep others from snatching it away.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
Barbie (2023) Jesse Hassenger Barbie has a symbiotic view of how play becomes wearyingly, terrifyingly freighted with real-world meaning, which helps explain why the movie’s vision of the real world is somehow both whimsical and jaundiced.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
You Hurt My Feelings (2023) Charles Bramesco We all share some pieces of Beth’s struggle to take it easy on herself, chief among them the unvanquishable fear that we’re not as talented at the thing we’ve committed ourselves to as we’d like to think.
Posted Jun 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Beau Is Afraid (2023) Charles Bramesco Going by this Occam’s Razor interpretation, the mere fact of this Caligulan pity party’s existence looks less like a showcase of narcissism and more a feat of creative individualism.
Posted Apr 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Babylon (2022) Charles Bramesco Under Chazelle’s bruised showman sensibility, to love something means honestly seeing all the ways in which it is broken and still hearing violins when you look at it anyway.
Posted Dec 29, 2022  Edit critic review
Tár (2022) Charles Bramesco Todd Field’s TÁR brings a sober, moderated nuance to a third-rail issue that all but demands polarization.
Posted Oct 20, 2022  Edit critic review
The Whale (2022) Charles Bramesco There’s precious little truth in Charlie’s Job-like buffet of tribulations, trapping him in a film as stifling as his airless home.
Posted Sep 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Charles Bramesco As a film about the intricate joys of puzzle-solving, it’s plain to see Johnson getting his kicks in the same way, reveling in complexity and bringing us with him as he untangles it.
Posted Sep 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Women Talking (2022) Charles Bramesco Though the source material is loosely based on a real-life episode in a Bolivian Mennonite village, its cinematic equivalent arrives to us as a big, ripe allegory for the ordeals faced by those traversing the hostile terrain of entertainment.
Posted Sep 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) Charles Bramesco Bodies Bodies Bodies is the latest movie so eager to crack the pathology of the youths that it loses the texture of actual teenage behavior.
Posted Aug 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Sharp Stick (2022) Charles Bramesco For a filmmaker known for her transgression, Dunham has a weird underlying conservatism...
Posted Aug 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Mad God (2021) Charles Bramesco Playful and morbid, inquisitive and wise, [Tippett is] worth following into Hell and out the other side.
Posted Jun 30, 2022  Edit critic review
The Black Phone (2021) Charles Bramesco A limited location, a restricted number of characters and a narrative model rooted in sparseness all demand finesse in order to be spun into feature-length cinema, and The Black Phone shows why, for worse more often than for better.
Posted Jun 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Men (2022) Charles Bramesco Just an ounce too invested in proving its own IQ, the film occasionally slips into a stylistic pretension, an overbearing eloquence concealing a lack of true wisdom -- the one male pathology Garland doesn’t touch on.
Posted May 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Deep Water (2022) Charles Bramesco Through Lyne’s expertise as well as Affleck and de Armas’ gameness about their semi-transparency, the erotic thriller once again attains its highest aspiration by obliterating the concept of the guilty pleasure.
Posted Mar 18, 2022  Edit critic review
Licorice Pizza (2021) Charles Bramesco Behind each scene, there's a smile and a shake of the head -- an acceptance that the good times are behind us, and that that's a fine place for them to be.
Posted Dec 03, 2021  Edit critic review
Last Night in Soho (2021) Charles Bramesco Wright warns against idealizing an era just as ripe with rot and degradation as the present, but his point also has more nuance than pointing out the obvious failings of a less enlightened time.
Posted Nov 04, 2021  Edit critic review
Dune (2021) Charles Bramesco Villeneuve has pulled off an impressive feat of sheer craft that is very large yet very empty, full of wondrous sights but shot with a staunch lack of wonder.
Posted Oct 22, 2021  Edit critic review
No Time to Die (2021) Charles Bramesco No Time to Die retires Old Man Bond in reverent yet melancholy fashion,
Posted Oct 08, 2021  Edit critic review
The Humans (2021) Charles Bramesco The audience can reasonably expect that the Blakes' baggage will all be dumped out for our perusal over the night to come, which it will, but Karam's execution puts this film a notch above its many cousins in dysfunction.
Posted Sep 24, 2021  Edit critic review
Hillbilly Elegy (2020) Charles Bramesco Why did Amy Adams and Glenn Close choose to do such a bad movie?
Posted Sep 21, 2021  Edit critic review
Another Round (2020) Charles Bramesco The last shot of this film [is] as indelible as any you'll find...
Posted Sep 21, 2021  Edit critic review
True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Charles Bramesco For his fourth feature, Australia's prodigal son has returned to his visceral, lo-fi roots.
Posted Sep 21, 2021  Edit critic review
Shirley (2020) Charles Bramesco Shirley Jackson's life is adapted to a movie that's as complicated and interesting as the author's writing.
Posted Sep 21, 2021  Edit critic review
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Charles Bramesco The mindbending auteur's latest film feels like a culmination of all that came before it.
Posted Sep 21, 2021  Edit critic review
This Town (2020) Charles Bramesco David White's breakout indie hit asks a tricky question: Could you fall in love with someone who probably isn't a murderer, but might be?
Posted Sep 21, 2021  Edit critic review
The Green Knight (2021) Charles Bramesco In lieu of hero-buildling and stylized violence, David Lowery's take on Arthurian legend invites you to soak in its vibes and chew the scenery.
Posted Sep 21, 2021  Edit critic review
The Card Counter (2020) Charles Bramesco [Schrader has] become the American cinema's preeminent prophet of doom, unflinchingly honest about how far beyond salvation we really are.
Posted Sep 10, 2021  Edit critic review
The Grudge (2020) Charles Bramesco ...we're suffering from a dearth of true boogeymen, the figures that loom in our shared pop-cultural nightmares. It's the faces that stay with us.
Posted Mar 11, 2020  Edit critic review
The Gentlemen (2019) Charles Bramesco The MTV-style editing feels passé, its humor smug and fratty.
Posted Mar 09, 2020  Edit critic review
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