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Ian Buckwalter

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Back on Board: Greg Louganis (2014) 89% “Furjanic shows a keen sense of how to structure Louganis' failures alongside his dramatic victories for maximum impact, as well as making poignant personal-is-political statements about evolving views of homosexuality.” – Washington City Paper Aug 6, 2015 Full Review What If (2013) 74% “The film manages a neat trick of sticking close to formula while still being unexpectedly fresh.” – NPR Aug 7, 2014 Full Review The Endless Summer (1966) 100% 7/10 “Part surfing film, part travelogue, occasionally even anthropological study and wildlife film, ultimately it visually taps into the wanderlust that sends us to far-flung beaches in search of an escape from life that we can't find at home.” – NPR Jul 25, 2014 Full Review Wish I Was Here (2014) 45% “Wish I Was Here's philosophical scope never gets much bigger than the slip of paper inside a fortune cookie.” – NPR Jul 18, 2014 Full Review Kuroneko (1968) 96% 9/10 “A masterpiece of quietly creepy Japanese horror.” – DCist Jul 15, 2014 Full Review Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) 96% 8/10 “Why shoot a documentary about cave paintings in 3D? Is Werner Herzog crazy? The answer to the second question has always been, "quite possibly," but the answer to the first becomes apparent the first time he trains his camera on the cave walls.” – DCist Jul 15, 2014 Full Review Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) 91% 8.5/10 “It's the first big tent-pole film of 2014 that nails everything from start to finish, blending thoughtful allegory, meaningful science fiction and dazzling action spectacle without a hitch.” – NPR Jul 10, 2014 Full Review Family Instinct (2010) 5/10 “Whether things are manipulated or not (and the editing suggests they often are), at times this feels like a film that exists for no purpose other than to shock.” – The Washingtonian Jul 9, 2014 Full Review Our Idiot Brother (2011) 70% 6.5/10 “... a film that largely earns its laughs honestly.” – DCist Jul 8, 2014 Full Review Tammy (2014) 24% 5.5/10 “Eventually the film does manage to find its own awkward way, with enough effective and less desperate jokes to smooth things over after the rocky start.” – NPR Jul 3, 2014 Full Review Snowpiercer (2013) 94% 7.5/10 “This is exactly the sort of ambitious, audacious, and uncompromising filmmaking that deserves to be seen.” – NPR Jun 26, 2014 Full Review Third Person (2013) 25% 3/10 “If the film didn't take its own intended profundity so seriously, it might get a pass.” – NPR Jun 19, 2014 Full Review 22 Jump Street (2014) 84% 7/10 “What separates 22 Jump Street from sequel mediocrity is that everyone's in on the joke.” – NPR Jun 12, 2014 Full Review Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 91% 6.5/10 “Refreshing and unexpected, both for its humor and for its upending of action norms.” – NPR Jun 5, 2014 Full Review A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) 33% 4/10 “The problem isn't that the jokes are crass; they're just not that funny.” – NPR May 29, 2014 Full Review Cold in July (2014) 84% 7/10 “On the one hand, the movies hardly need yet more examinations of perceptions of masculinity. On the other, one as well-crafted and constantly surprising as Mickle's adaptation of Joe Lansdale's pulpy crime novel is hard to argue against.” – NPR May 22, 2014 Full Review Godzilla (2014) 76% 7.5/10 “This is exactly what big summer movies ought to aspire to: never short on dazzle, but unafraid to let us catch our breath once it's been taken away.” – NPR May 15, 2014 Full Review The Double (2013) 83% 6.5/10 “If The Double never fully succeeds, it's still exactly the sort of challenge and risk one wants out of a filmmaker as promising as Ayoade.” – NPR May 8, 2014 Full Review The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) 50% 4.5/10 “The small moments, the physical comedy, Spidey's constant wisecracking; these things are all charming, but they're counterbalanced by stock summer blockbuster elements that Webb never seems interested in.” – NPR May 1, 2014 Full Review Blue Ruin (2013) 96% 8.5/10 “Blue Ruin succeeds on the strength of Saulnier's skill at slowly escalating the tension, even with a would-be action protagonist who is almost comically inept.” – NPR Apr 24, 2014 Full Review Transcendence (2014) 19% 5/10 “Transcendence has hints of a richly complex story, but too often feels content just dumping the pieces of its puzzle out on the table without doing much assembly - or even making sure all the pieces are even there.” – NPR Apr 17, 2014 Full Review Draft Day (2014) 60% 4.5/10 “The movie is loaded with all the star cast members and glossy sheen that money can buy. That's almost enough to hide just how aggressively mediocre it is underneath.” – NPR Apr 10, 2014 Full Review Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) 97% 7.5/10 “For those with any interest in cult cinema or just the bizarre behind-the-scenes stories of any film production, Jodorowsky's Dune is a fascinating document of one of the most legendary films ever not made.” – NPR Mar 20, 2014 Full Review Bad Words (2014) 65% 6.5/10 “Bad Words announces its high concept immediately and then goes about the business of telling its story without wasting a moment.” – NPR Mar 13, 2014 Full Review The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 92% 9/10 “Grand Budapest is a culmination of the tinkly music-box aesthetic of Anderson's work to date, turned up to 11.” – NPR Mar 6, 2014 Full Review
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