Ben Dickinson
Ben Dickinson's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.
Love & Mercy (2014)
89%
“[John] Cusack, in particular, doing some of the best work of his impressive career, captures the subtlest manifestations of Brian's off-kilter wit and wobbliness in exquisite detail.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Far From the Madding Crowd (2015)
85%
“But the absolute best thing about Far from the Madding Crowd s Carey Mulligan's Everdene.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Boyhood (2014)
97%
“The transformation in Mason that we witness makes this film nothing short of astonishing-in the same way that kids can be in real life.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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While We're Young (2014)
84%
“Baumbach succeeds in vividly depicting how the people who occasionally serve as catalysts in our lives inevitably do so with results we cannot imagine beforehand-but, if we're lucky, leave us with a little more self-knowledge than we started with.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
81%
“I never said this movie wouldn't wring you out. But, reluctant moviegoer, you won't regret it-not for a second.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Grandma (2015)
91%
“There's lived-in wisdom in Reid's bluff honesty, and at the closing shot, of her marching off across L.A., we're left to conclude hopefully that she's got a lot more marching in her.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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The Martian (2015)
91%
“The Martian marks a wonderful return to grand filmmaking for the prodigious producer and director Ridley Scott after his humorless and joyless recent outings...” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Room (2015)
93%
“A rarity: a fairly lurid, ripped-from-the-headlines fiction that isn't played for cheap, cheesy thrills but rather, with insight and wisdom, explores the extremes of human experience that it would give rise to.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Carol (2015)
94%
“Carol notably soft-pedals the tragedy that the novel arrives at, but it improves on Highsmith's formulation when Carol brilliantly, tormentedly summarizes the hopelessness of her struggle to keep her daughter.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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The Danish Girl (2015)
65%
“The Danish Girl admirably illustrates how sexuality reaches to the very root of the human spirit.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Tumbledown (2015)
70%
“It all tends to stick with you-more than just a little bit.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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A Bigger Splash (2015)
89%
“To behold him mansplaining rock 'n' roll inspiration to the legendary Marianne Lane is horrible and hilarious; Harry is a unique high-low point in [Ralph] Fiennes's oeuvre.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Money Monster (2016)
59%
“Let's just say it's a helluva ride.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
72%
“[Susanna] White... has taken a marvelously lucid script by veteran screenwriter Hossein Amini and jumped her career way up to the next level by making one of the more inspired Le Carr adaptations ever shot.” –
Elle
May 18, 2018
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The Birth of a Nation (2016)
72%
“In The Birth of a Nation, Parker has put forward a purposeful and uncompromising provocation.” –
Elle
May 17, 2018
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
87%
“Leave it to Streep to find the Jenkins in herself-and to make us care, even a little, about this epic misadventuress who made it all the way to Carnegie Hall. Once.” –
Elle
May 17, 2018
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Loving (2016)
88%
“The lead performances here are humble and powerful, and the storytelling and camerawork in the service of their story is granular and pointillistic in its unerring detail.” –
Elle
May 17, 2018
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Fences (2016)
92%
“An enduring, indelible interpretation of this conflicted figure and the family that surrounds him.” –
Elle
May 17, 2018
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Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016)
100%
“The marvellous thing about Bright Lights is that it is not at all a conventional Hollywood hagiography-far from it. Carrie would never have acceded to that in a million years .” –
Elle
May 17, 2018
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Elle (2016)
91%
“Ending notwithstanding, the bottom line is that Elle is standard "ironically" transgressive radio-shock-jock stuff gussied up for tony audiences as that art-house staple...” –
Elle
May 17, 2018
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Maya Angelou and Still I Rise (2016)
96%
“There's so much else to be savored in And Still I Rise...” –
Elle
May 16, 2018
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Rough Night (2017)
45%
“Rough Night pinballs along according to its own demented internal logic, with a series of perfectly executed twists and reveals, as it gathers speed toward its spectacular climax.” –
Elle
May 16, 2018
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The Last Word (2017)
41%
“Ah, Shirley MacLaine-it's been way too long!” –
Elle
May 16, 2018
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Battle of the Sexes (2017)
84%
“Steve Carell was born for the role, and he aces it.” –
Elle
May 16, 2018
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The Big Sick (2017)
98%
“[Holly] Hunter, in particular, commands our rapt attention in every scene she's in as a mama bear moving to protect her daughter in full DEFCON 1 mode...” –
Elle
May 16, 2018
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