Dominic Patten
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SNL50: The Anniversary Special (2025)
72%
“Even if it is wall-to-wall politics when SNL returns... Sunday’s SNL50 special was a missed opportunity and a ring kissing by any other name.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Feb 18, 2025
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NBC's Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony in IMAX (2024)
43%
“The skies over a soaked Paris remained overcast for Friday’s 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony as the promised trés unique spectacle on the River Seine proved rudderless despite some superstars, a historical mixtape, and a grande balançoire or two.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Jul 29, 2024
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Nothing Compares (2022)
99%
“What the film [reveals] anew is an artist far more principled, talented and enduring than her critics and many of her contemporaries.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Jan 22, 2022
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Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
84%
“Some characters and situations may be fictional but this is not revisionist history in the broader sense. And so, with the ending well known from history, the onus is on the actors and themes to engage, which they do well.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Oct 19, 2021
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Friends: The Reunion (2021)
67%
“Oddly, despite all that and its resemblance to the contrivance of a DJ Khaled album, the sum total of Friends: The Reunion is somewhat sloppy.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
May 26, 2021
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
99%
“Perhaps the best block party any of us have had or are going to get for months, Summer of Soul is a movie for right now in both speaking to the toxicity of American racism and dancing to the power of endurance.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Jan 29, 2021
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Transhood (2020)
86%
“A little too brisk in its approach, and yet Transhood allows its young voices to find their voice, so to speak, and reveals much of how our sense of self, identity, and empathy have evolved.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Nov 12, 2020
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A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)
93%
“Sheen has lost none of his gravitas as America's undisputed greatest living fictional POTUS. In fact, with the passing years, the Apocalypse Now vet has gained additional statesman statue that fits the role of the nuanced Bartlet even more fully.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Oct 19, 2020
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Black Is King (2020)
94%
“The highly stylized and nearly 90-minute film that draws from last year's Lion King: The Gift album is extremely successful when it pinpoints the power of spectacle in storytelling to manifest mythology -- for both its creator and the film itself.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Jul 31, 2020
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Becoming (2020)
93%
“Becoming is very much a work in progress and hence, good 온라인카지노추천 across the spectrum.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
May 4, 2020
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Beastie Boys Story (2020)
95%
“It takes a while to get there and doesn't always stick, but losing the shtick, Beastie Boys Story hits you like a bass drum when it finds its (heart)beat in a eulogy to Adam Yauch.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Apr 24, 2020
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Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
98%
“With [David] Milch's words... [Ian] MacShane still raises f'ing and blinding to a poetic art.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Dec 10, 2019
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
92%
“No need to go into a sub textual read or get caught in the minutia, but El Camino is a script that should have stayed a dream and nothing more.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Oct 11, 2019
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' (2019)
88%
“The reprise of The Jeffersons' pilot was so authoritative that I forgot I was watching a staged throwback until that far-from-Gerald-Ford-era, Washington-instigated group hug right near the end.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
May 23, 2019
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The Dirt (2019)
38%
“What they were extremely entertaining at, even from the cheap seats. was being bad - which, sadly, is what The Dirt the movie is in all the wrong ways.” –
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Apr 10, 2019
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