Anne Thompson
Tomatometer-approved critic
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
82%
4/5
“Unlike most sequels Lethal Weapon 2 is neither predictable nor conventional. It's just pumped full of juice.” –
Empire Magazine
Aug 3, 2020
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Love & Basketball (2000)
85%
“[It] wrestles with complicated issues of love and friendship, competitiveness and gender identity...” –
IndieWire
Mar 31, 2020
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Get Out (2017)
98%
“Peele seduces, subverts and manipulates audience expectations - as the masters Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter, and Stanley Kubrick did before him.” –
IndieWire
Mar 31, 2020
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Mudbound (2017)
97%
“Rees embraced the book's multiple narrators, lacing the two families into a complex tapestry.” –
IndieWire
Mar 31, 2020
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Django Unchained (2012)
87%
“Tarantino designed this revisionist western to blow people's gaskets. Packed with physical comedy, bloody action and hell-bent revenge, it looks like a classic widescreen Sergio Leone western...” –
IndieWire
Mar 31, 2020
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
87%
“The brilliant, original four-hankie dystopian family drama from New Orleans newcomer Benh Zeitlin far surpassed any expectations for a scruffy $1.5 million effort from an unknown film collective...” –
IndieWire
Mar 31, 2020
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Fences (2016)
92%
“Davis went big...debuting film actor Jovan Adepo shines...” –
IndieWire
Mar 31, 2020
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The Revenant (2015)
78%
“A stunning visual tone poem about frontier survival.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Dec 22, 2015
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
74%
“Boasts stunning wide-screen photography, dazzling long takes, time-shifting perspectives, mysteries to be solved, wind blowing through kicked-in doors and window frames, surging horses, raging blizzards, knives... and bodies piled on the floor.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Dec 21, 2015
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The Big Short (2015)
89%
B+
“The Big Short reflexively comments on its Hollywoodness to pull in the complicit viewer and make them trust what they are hearing.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Dec 15, 2015
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By the Sea (2015)
35%
B
“Jolie is aiming for an intimate Cassavetes-style exploration of emotion. Sometimes she gets there.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Dec 15, 2015
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Joy (2015)
61%
“Lawrence ably carries Russell's first film with an everywoman protagonist at its center who is not crazy.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Dec 15, 2015
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Concussion (2015)
58%
B-
“More effective as heartfelt agit prop than visceral drama.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Nov 13, 2015
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014)
100%
“Hyper-flexible theater star Kathryn Hunter as Puck is a marvel.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Jun 18, 2015
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Dheepan (2015)
87%
“This movie deserves high praise.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
May 28, 2015
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Knight of Cups (2015)
47%
2/5
“Like Tree of Life, it's best to let the film wash over you and enjoy Lubezki's gorgeous images such as mist rolling over a hillside and various inventive underwater perspectives.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Feb 9, 2015
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Inherent Vice (2014)
73%
3/5
“Anderson had long wanted to adapt Pynchon--this marks the first movie to do so. Is it successful? That depends on what you demand from an L.A. detective mystery.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Dec 10, 2014
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Patrolman P (2013)
“Although Mizrahy's narration lacks a certain sparkle, the archival footage of what is now Old New York -- the '70s era of a burning Bronx, garbage strikes and John V. Lindsay -- is fascinating. So is Phillips.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Dec 1, 2014
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A Most Violent Year (2014)
89%
3/5
“Chandor leaves out many details and explanations for his characters' behavior; the movie raises more questions than it answers, including why the filmmaker was driven to make it.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Nov 11, 2014
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The Gambler (2014)
43%
1/5
“Our anti-hero has a gambling addiction. He is depressed. He is trapped. And the arc of the movie is about him trying to ditch his unhappy life and pull it out. Snore.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Nov 11, 2014
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Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
40%
“It's an odd bird, but accomplished, and essential for Philip K. Dick purists.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Jun 30, 2014
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The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
81%
“This is a manipulatively fake studio movie all the way, anchored and saved by star Shailene Woodley's inability to be inauthentic.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Jun 7, 2014
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
91%
“Liman has a gift for off-center authenticity--even amid the orchestrated chaos of a major studio FX picture.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Jun 7, 2014
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Under the Skin (2013)
83%
“From the disorienting opening frames, music video director Glazer's first feature film in a decade is clearly more akin to the provocative Birth than his 2000 paeon to kinetic violence, Sexy Beast.” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Mar 26, 2014
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Noah (2014)
75%
3/5
“Even with this misguided quest to prove himself as a would-be Spielberg, Aronofsky remains defiantly true to himself, and upholds his mission to "never bore an audience."” –
Thompson on Hollywood
Mar 24, 2014
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