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John Semley

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Hit Man (2023) 95% “Powell’s performance is outstanding. He plays against his own newly popularized persona as Hollywood’s latest cardboard-cutout hunk du jour, gamely modulating his voice, the tilt of his head, the glare in his eyes ever slightly.” – The New Republic Jun 6, 2024 Full Review The Sweet East (2023) 81% “In Sean Price Williams's debut film, The Sweet East, he pokes fun at the nation's ideological bubbles.” – The New Republic Feb 24, 2024 Full Review Infinity Pool (2023) 87% “Ultimately, Brandon Cronenberg’s new movie may not be very good. But at least he’s failing on his own terms.” – The New Republic Feb 2, 2023 Full Review Shut In (2022) 50% “Gallo’s authentically raw performance also has an unintended consequence: It makes the rest of the film look even more crude and amateurish by comparison.” – The New Republic Feb 18, 2022 Full Review Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020) 60% “If nothing else, Have a Good Trip recenters this weirdness in our current reconception of psychedelia.” – The New Republic May 14, 2020 Full Review Us (2019) 93% 3/4 “Peele develops a genuinely thrilling, heart-in-the-throat-scary horror picture.” – Globe and Mail Dec 10, 2019 Full Review Jojo Rabbit (2019) 80% “Despite its setting in Nazi Germany, Taika Waititi's movie never risks actually disturbing its audience.” – The New Republic Oct 19, 2019 Full Review Midsommar (2019) 83% 2.5/4 “Midsommar musters no such productive uncertainty of feeling, nothing in the way of genuine horror. There is only cruelty and coldness, draped in billowy peasant gowns and wreathed in radiant garlands.” – Globe and Mail Jul 2, 2019 Full Review Shaft (2019) 34% 1.5/4 “In its neediness to be liked, the new Shaft - the third of five films in the series to be titled, simply, Shaft - says everything and nothing.” – Globe and Mail Jun 13, 2019 Full Review The Dead Don't Die (2019) 54% 3.5/4 “The Dead Don't Die says blissfully little about the state of the world today. For its slightness and silliness, its concerns are grander.” – Globe and Mail Jun 13, 2019 Full Review Dark Phoenix (2019) 22% 1/4 “Their performances are so cornball and their line-readings so hacky that one might be forgiven for confusing Dark Phoenix with some low-rent porno parody of itself.” – Globe and Mail Jun 6, 2019 Full Review Hail Satan? (2019) 96% 3/4 “In keeping with the Temple's highly endearing sense of humour, Lane's doc approaches their activities with an irreverence that never feels mocking.” – Globe and Mail May 2, 2019 Full Review Breakthrough (2019) 60% 1.5/4 “That, perhaps, is the role movies like Breakthrough serve. They are simple sermons dressed up in seductive trappings of Hollywood cinema.” – Globe and Mail Apr 17, 2019 Full Review Shazam! (2019) 90% 1.5/4 “So beyond working as an advertisement for D.C.'s other movies, Shazam! also offers a stiflingly claustrophobic cinematic landscape, which has no point of reference outside of D.C.'s own intellectual properties.” – Globe and Mail Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Dumbo (2019) 46% 2/4 “Abysmally scripted and hammily acted - and not, for the most part, in an interesting or ironic way - Dumbo recasts Disney's animated classic in the trappings and suits of Burton's pinstripe-and-pinwheel upholstery.” – Globe and Mail Mar 26, 2019 Full Review Alita: Battle Angel (2019) 61% 2.5/4 “[T]aken on its own terms, the commingling of writer-producer James Cameron's monster-budget technowizardry and director Robert Rodriguez's B-movie sensibilities doesn't amount to a heck of a lot.” – Globe and Mail Feb 11, 2019 Full Review Stalker (1979) 100% “It's a film that challenges us to be bored, while refusing to be boring.” – Salon.com Feb 7, 2019 Full Review What Is Democracy? (2018) 96% 3.5/4 “The film indexes the manner in which democracy has become abstracted and polluted, especially by governmental capitulation to the meddling interests of free-market capitalism.” – Globe and Mail Jan 4, 2019 Full Review Aquaman (2018) 66% 3/4 “In making the first DC superhero film in a long time to aspire to anything like levity, Wan finds a way to catalyze what might have been yet another dust-dry origin story.” – Globe and Mail Dec 21, 2018 Full Review Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) 37% 3/4 “Strings together gag after gag after gag at such a relentless clip that it's hard to do anything but double over laughing.” – Globe and Mail Oct 26, 2018 Full Review Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) 75% 1.5/4 “An eager entertainment absent anything genuinely entertaining.” – Globe and Mail Oct 12, 2018 Full Review Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009) 60% “As a fan of the series it pains me to say so but after seven seasons and two films the Trailer Park Boys have worn out their welcome.” – Exclaim! Oct 8, 2018 Full Review First Reformed (2017) 94% 3.5/4 “Ultimately its sheer archness reveals Paul Schrader as a gifted and deeply persuasive evangelist of the transcendental style - if not quite a canon saint.” – Globe and Mail Jun 1, 2018 Full Review Pope Francis -- A Man of His Word (2018) 81% 2.5/4 “His sincerity offers an alluring catharsis, a hope-by-proxy. We don't have to believe, just as long as we can believe that he believes.” – Globe and Mail May 18, 2018 Full Review Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 85% 1.5/4 “Even by Marvel's own standards of serviceable mediocrity, Infinity War fails.” – Globe and Mail Apr 25, 2018 Full Review
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