Bill Chambers
Tomatometer-approved critic
Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Official Website:
http://filmfreakcentral.net
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
61%
1.5/4
“ A film this artificial has little hope of aging well, and that’s without factoring in the glut of state-of-the-art CGI.” –
Film Freak Central
Apr 18, 2025
Full Review
The 4:30 Movie (2024)
71%
1.5/4
“So much of The 4:30 Movie feels like the ChatGPT interpolation of a Kevin Smith joint.” –
Film Freak Central
Feb 28, 2025
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The Apprentice (2024)
83%
3/4
“...impeccably acted across the board, and it can be a mordantly funny reminder that Trump is beyond parody...” –
Film Freak Central
Oct 21, 2024
Full Review
Paying for It (2024)
92%
2/4
“For all its frank sexuality, there is something disappointingly safe about Paying for It...” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
Full Review
Seeds (2024)
100%
3/4
“Seeds–it’s a metaphor for pregnancy, it’s a cautionary tale about corporate bedfellows, it’s the proverbial spoonful of sugar.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Aberdeen (2024)
2/4
“Aberdeen is a frustrating film with a frustrating lead.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Megalopolis (2024)
45%
3/4
“Though its stylistic restlessness most evokes the lyricism and playful practical effects of Dracula and Youth Without Youth, Megalopolis also improbably recalls The Godfather in its earnest preoccupation with the stressful but reassuring pull of family...” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Young Werther (2024)
71%
1/4
“It reduces her to a cartoon character, and one of those is already enough for the remarkably thin Young Werther, a movie that confuses the novel’s gravitas with its renown...” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
Full Review
Friendship (2024)
91%
2.5/4
“While Robinson is exactly the right actor to play the peculiarly modern specimen that is Craig, his performing style sucks up so much oxygen it’s ultimately fatiguing, proving the wisdom of I Think You Should Leave episodes tapping out after 15 minutes.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
52%
1.5/4
“I don’t think Lisa Frankenstein is epochal enough to age like anything other than milk.” –
Film Freak Central
Jun 15, 2024
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Night Swim (2024)
19%
1/4
“A better movie would have placed him at the forefront of a coming-of-age narrative, though I truly can’t figure out how the sensitively conceived Elliot thrived in such a creatively starved and frankly ableist endeavour.” –
Film Freak Central
May 3, 2024
Full Review
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
97%
4/4
“Krzysztof Komeda's score sounds lush enough, and the track delivers all those muffled, half-heard conversations with an uncanny dislocation despite the absence of stereo imaging.” –
Film Freak Central
Oct 27, 2023
Full Review
The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
96%
3/4
“The haunting final shot is a loss for everyone involved in a way that doesn't feel equivocating or cynical, just quietly tragic.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
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I Don't Know Who You Are (2023)
100%
2.5/4
“I thought a lot about Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7, of which this film is something of a micro-budget Canadian update.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
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Smugglers (2023)
88%
3/4
“... a touching and remarkably subtle bit of friendship-as-destiny, appropriately smuggled like contraband into a formulaic yarn.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
Full Review
Sleep (2024)
95%
2/4
“As it stands, Sleep had me at hello--and lost me by goodbye.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
Full Review
Seagrass (2023)
95%
3.5/4
“Hama-Brown is someone to watch; she even makes us care about a blanket and a closet door.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
Full Review
Ultimate X: The Movie (2002)
72%
2/4
“Ultimate X is a commercial for the X-Games that undersells its own product by cutting to commentary from personnel in which they overstress that "we ain't seen nothin' yet." You start to wonder, If that's the case, why do you keep making me [watch]?” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 12, 2023
Full Review
All You See (2022)
3.5/4
“Padidar develops visual motifs that lend a veritable line drawing some vital shading. In many ways, All You See is about using cinema to knock down the Tower of Babel.” –
Film Freak Central
May 18, 2023
Full Review
Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)
48%
1.5/4
“Watching late-period Soderbergh, which I appear to be alone in feeling no affection for, I find I often can't tell the difference between what is intellectual perversity and what is, er, the side effects of being a 60-year-old director...” –
Film Freak Central
May 6, 2023
Full Review
Praying for Armageddon (2023)
83%
2.5/4
“Praying for Armageddon left me fearful and hopeless, quite intentionally and therefore successfully.” –
Film Freak Central
May 6, 2023
Full Review
Invaders From Mars (1953)
88%
3.5/4
“...the results are duly impressive regardless of format...” –
Film Freak Central
Feb 4, 2023
Full Review
I Like Movies (2022)
100%
2.5/4
“Levack's feature debut I Like Movies is so uncanny I could only laugh.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 22, 2022
Full Review
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
87%
1/4
“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a buddy movie in the vein of Alan Arkin-Peter Falk comedies and a busy-dad-shaming movie out of the Adam Sandler playbook. ” –
Film Freak Central
Jul 1, 2022
Full Review
The King's Man (2021)
41%
1/4
“Unlike RoboCop 3 or Police Academy III: Back in Training, The King's Man retains the R rating of its predecessors, though here it feels like the MPA is primarily trying to protect children from boredom.” –
Film Freak Central
Mar 23, 2022
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