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All Movie Guide

All Movie Guide is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dan Jardine, Josh Ralske.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/5
Ghost in the Shell (2017) Jack Rodgers The basic plot outline of Ghost in the Shell has been jammed into a typical blockbuster narrative about the self-actualization of a Chosen One...
Posted Apr 01, 2017  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Inside Out (2015) Jack Rodgers ...nothing less than one of the most complex, ambitious, and abstract movies that Hollywood has ever released with the hope that it will do blockbuster business.
Posted Oct 20, 2016  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Grand Piano (2013) Jack Rodgers ...a slick, entertaining night out at the theater based on nothing but pure style and a propulsive plot.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
2/5
Bridgend (2016) Jack Rodgers Without any sense of time or place to anchor the story and give it meaning, it becomes little more than an endless parade of misery.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
3/5
Crimson Peak (2015) Jack Rodgers Watching Crimson Peak, it's tempting to wonder if Guillermo del Toro should continue on as a filmmaker or retire to become a designer of theme-park attractions.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Ashby (2015) Jack Rodgers ...any glimmers of a raw, electrifying performance from Rourke - an actor nearly incapable of being boring - are buried underneath a metric ton of barely developed story lines.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
2/5
The Wild Life (2016) Jack Rodgers The Wild Life is so inept that it feels like huge chunks of it are missing...
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014) Jack Rodgers The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death has a great sense of atmosphere, and unfortunately, little else.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
4/5
The Overnight (2015) Jack Rodgers Funny, humane, kinky, and painfully honest, it's a movie that will get under your skin.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
2/5
Dirty Weekend (2015) Jack Rodgers ...at this point, Neil LaBute seems to have the same level of insight into sex and relationships as Sin City creator Frank Miller does into violence and criminality.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
3/5
Hungry Hearts (2014) Jack Rodgers ...Hungry Hearts never goes any further than preying on some pretty basic fears.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Slow West (2015) Jack Rodgers ...this is still an astonishingly assured first film, one that synthesizes familiar ingredients into something that's wildly entertaining and feels new.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
3/5
Snowden (2016) Jack Rodgers Snowden might be a gripping thriller (with this subject matter, how could it not?), yet it feels like a lot of the nuance has been ironed out of it in order to fit into a conventional, 134-minute narrative.
Posted Oct 19, 2016  Edit critic review
Phantom of the Opera (1943) Dan Jardine Lon Chaney created such an empathetic villain that it was nearly impossible not to root for him
Posted Nov 13, 2015  Edit critic review
4/5
The Living Wake (2007) Derek Armstrong The Living Wake is the kind of whimsical material from which cult classics are built, and it has a happy excess of bigness.
Posted May 21, 2010  Edit critic review
In My Sleep (2009) Nathan Southern The ludicrousness of the erotic scenes, such as the masseuse client sequence, points to the film's complete disconnectedness from any sort of recognizable reality.
Posted Apr 23, 2010  Edit critic review
Defendor (2009) Jeremy Wheeler Maybe what's most fresh about Defendor is the plausibility of it all.
Posted Feb 26, 2010  Edit critic review
6/10
Bubble Boy (2001) Josh Ralske The film is only sporadically funny, and it's frequently in poor taste, but it's got energy to spare, and Gyllenhaal's performance gives it a soul.
Posted Dec 11, 2007  Edit critic review
7/10
Spin (1995) Josh Ralske [The] film's real service is in explicating how the media's inability to inform audiences and reflect the political spectrum of our culture is a systemic problem.
Posted Oct 31, 2007  Edit critic review
6/10
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003) Josh Ralske A near-perfect time capsule of a specific moment in our culture, and a telling analysis of instant celebrity and the fickleness of youth culture.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
5/10
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) Josh Ralske There's such a wealth of genuine anger and sadness underlying the film that it transcends [its] flaws.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
5/10
Pups (1999) Josh Ralske If Stevie didn't seem like such a real and basically ordinary teen, the film wouldn't be so compelling.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
6/10
American Experience: RFK (2004) Josh Ralske A moving and troubling documentary.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
5/10
The Loveless (1983) Josh Ralske A strange, but compelling amalgam of art film and homage to the American International Pictures biker flicks of the 1960s.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
5/10
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003) Josh Ralske A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
7/10
My Best Fiend (1999) Josh Ralske A thoughtful and clever examination by the director of his longstanding friendship and creative partnership with the late Klaus Kinski.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
6/10
Sunshine Hotel (2001) Josh Ralske Dominic has made a film of heart and intelligence about those subsisting on the margins of society.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
5/10
Cinemania (2002) Josh Ralske Cinemania might have been a more edifying experience if it really delved into the roots of this obsession.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
6/10
The Kill-Off (1989) Josh Ralske An ugly, low budget noir that...somehow manages to capture the spirit of Jim Thompson's writing.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
7/10
Laws of Gravity (1992) Josh Ralske ...A sustained level of tension that few street dramas can match.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
7/10
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) Josh Ralske A fast-paced documentary that entertains as it informs.
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
9/10
Burden of Dreams (1982) Josh Ralske A fascinating portrait of a filmmaker pushed to the outer edge of sanity...
Posted Oct 26, 2007  Edit critic review
The Prestige (2006) Perry Seibert The Prestige is the cinematic equivalent of watching a Penn & Teller show.
Posted Oct 19, 2006  Edit critic review
4/5
Masculine-Feminine (1966) Josh Ralske
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
3/5
The Funeral (1996) Josh Ralske
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
7/10
Isolation (2005) Josh Ralske Fans of good old-fashioned creature features should be very pleased...
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
3/10
Kinetta (2005) Josh Ralske ...doesn't add up to much, aside from an enervating moviegoing experience.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
5/10
Cavite (2005) Josh Ralske ...there's...a certain unseemliness to the endeavor that is difficult to dismiss.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
8/10
Geuk jang jeon (Tale of Cinema) (2005) Josh Ralske ...richly inventive and consistently fascinating filmmaking...
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
7/10
The Young Lieutenant (2005) Josh Ralske ...an exemplary genre piece, melding a down-and-dirty 1970s vibe with a very modern perspective on the globalized nature of contemporary Paris.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
5/10
I'm Reed Fish (2007) Josh Ralske ...demonstrates a lot of talent, but it's another case of a neophyte filmmaker not recognizing where his true strengths lie
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
7/10
Brothers of the Head (2005) Josh Ralske ...despite outlandish subject matter that might lend itself to something more lurid or camp, it treats its characters and their story with refreshing restraint and seriousness.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
10/10
Old Joy (2006) Josh Ralske ...the landscape it maps is as much spiritual as it is physical, and the personal story it tells is inescapably political...
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
7/10
Color Me Kubrick (2005) Josh Ralske put forth with...an unapologetic sense of depraved fun...
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
7/10
Duelist (2005) Josh Ralske ...its most salient feature is its spectacular visuals.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
6/10
There Was a Beautiful Girl (2003) Josh Ralske Ek Hasina Thi is not quite the revelation that its champions would like to think it is, but for the most part, it hits its marks.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
5/10
Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005) Josh Ralske ...offers some valuable insight into Korean culture.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
9/10
The Squid and the Whale (2005) Josh Ralske ...Baumbach's most emotionally potent and visually coherent film to date.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
7/10
Paradise Now (2005) Josh Ralske A tragedy regardless of its conclusion, Paradise Now is an important and powerful effort to explicate the inexplicable.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
6/10
Spider Forest (2004) Josh Ralske ...a twisted journey that lingers in the memory.
Posted Aug 05, 2006  Edit critic review
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