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Stephen Schaefer

Stephen Schaefer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) 69% B EDIT “A rehash...but the kids will love it.” – Boston Herald Nov 8, 2022 Full Review Run Sweetheart Run (2020) 62% B EDIT “Run Sweetheart Run takes on a welcome gravity as it barrels along.” – Boston Herald Nov 3, 2022 Full Review Freaky (2020) 84% B EDIT “Unpretentiously silly and yet slightly serious, Freaky gives horror expectations a sweet spin of sustained absurdity.” – Boston Herald Nov 13, 2020 Full Review Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020) 50% B- EDIT “Hathaway looks to be having the time of her life but she tends towards camp rather than terror.” – Boston Herald Oct 24, 2020 Full Review Most Wanted (2020) 68% A EDIT “Hartnett, strikingly tall, lean and fearless as Malarek, conveys the bitter realities of a diminished press with diminished resources.” – Boston Herald Jul 28, 2020 Full Review Irresistible (2020) 40% B- EDIT “If Stewart's comic tone here never settles into a satisfactory rhythm, Carell... is both over the top and diminished. His Zimmer never seems to be quite in focus. Byrne hasn't much to do other than scowl.” – Boston Herald Jun 26, 2020 Full Review You Should Have Left (2020) 40% C EDIT “A pallid haunted house story...wastes the talents of its two formidable stars.” – Boston Herald Jun 22, 2020 Full Review Miss Juneteenth (2020) 99% A EDIT “A triumph of regional cinema, the Fort Worth, Texas-made Miss Juneteenth scores as an engrossing character study and a modest suspenser.” – Boston Herald Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Come to Daddy (2019) 87% B+ EDIT “As Come to Daddy morphs into a Scorsese-styled murderous landscape, the standouts are Martin Donovan, whose Brian is full of all sorts of shocking surprises, and Mexico's Ona Grauer...” – Boston Herald May 29, 2020 Full Review Survive the Night (2020) 13% C EDIT “Screenwriter Matt Eskandari's predictable plot abandons realism - along with any unexpected character revelations. There's no shocking, jolting violence or queasy ick-making accidents.” – Boston Herald May 22, 2020 Full Review Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020) 74% A- EDIT “It's an emotional bombshell.” – Boston Herald May 5, 2020 Full Review Hope Gap (2019) 63% B EDIT “"Hope Gap" ultimately offers a tidy exploration of people who were miserable and, as it concludes, have moved on.” – Boston Herald May 1, 2020 Full Review Beastie Boys Story (2020) 95% B+ EDIT “What Spike Jonze has done in the anything but somber tell-all "Beastie Boys Story" is to let the history of a record-breaking hip-hop group be told by only the two people who lived it.” – Boston Herald Apr 24, 2020 Full Review Disneynature: Elephant (2020) 81% B+ EDIT “The duchess is a constant presence, offering facts, history and excitable moments as if we're gathered in a circle and being given vivid insights into this fascinating tale of survival against often incredible odds.” – Boston Herald Apr 3, 2020 Full Review Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020) 67% EDIT “This lavish, fantastical adventure takes our inspiring heroine into what might be described as James Bond territory.” – Boston Herald Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Swallow (2019) 87% A EDIT “A fairy tale shot in sunlight but chillingly black-hearted at its core, "Swallow" is a mesmerizing look at Hunter, a trophy wife trapped, ignored and suffocating.” – Boston Herald Mar 13, 2020 Full Review The Way Back (2020) 84% A EDIT “"The Way Back," to its credit, spikes our expectations, surprises with its own emphasis on what Jack is doing and, more importantly, what he's teaching those kids.” – Boston Herald Mar 6, 2020 Full Review And Then We Danced (2019) 94% B- EDIT “The filmmaker nicely conveys the two men's flirtation as they smile, occasionally touch and smile some more.” – Boston Herald Mar 6, 2020 Full Review The Banker (2020) 78% B+ EDIT “Directed with propulsive energy by Boston-born George Nolfi, "The Banker" takes a fun, freewheeling upward trajectory only to plunge into depths of deceit, hypocrisy and political sanctimony that seems all too familiar.” – Boston Herald Mar 6, 2020 Full Review Seberg (2019) 36% B EDIT “The film's use of the fictional Solomon as the sympathetic viewpoint for the audience is its big mistake... It's [Kristen] Stewart who sets the fires, a study of a complex woman's unraveling registered with a coolly magnetic intensity.” – Boston Herald Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Blumhouse's Fantasy Island (2020) 9% D EDIT “If only "Fantasy Island" were to convey real suspense, actual thrills or shocking horror. Instead it plods along, an academic exercise in connecting dots, imagining backstories and offering greeting card bromides.” – Boston Herald Feb 18, 2020 Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) 64% B+ EDIT “If the plot is familiar - meaning formulaic - this "Sonic" has enough verve, humor, action and just the right tone to present an alien we soon realize is just an overactive and very lonely kid, who happens to be an immigrant from another world.” – Boston Herald Feb 14, 2020 Full Review Gretel & Hansel (2020) 63% C+ EDIT “Minus scares or an intensely sinister setting, this "Gretel & Hansel" lives up to its billing as "grim." That's hardly enough.” – Boston Herald Jan 31, 2020 Full Review The Turning (2020) 12% C EDIT “As Kate predictably battles with malevolent spirits, "The Turning" becomes a turgid slog of many horrors.” – Boston Herald Jan 24, 2020 Full Review Three Christs (2017) 41% B- EDIT “Director and co-writer Jon Avnet fails to make this decidedly odd material into a credible experience.” – Boston Herald Jan 17, 2020 Full Review
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