Jon Dieringer
Jon Dieringer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Introduction (2021)
81%
“Hong's films are seemingly guided by the faith that ... discomfort can ripen with comic pleasure and, if you look hard enough, shiver with the profound.” –
Screen Slate
Jan 24, 2022
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
85%
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is undisguised liberal agitprop. But for most people the important question is: does Borat still say "mai waif," and is it still funny?” –
Screen Slate
Oct 21, 2020
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Feels Good Man (2020)
95%
“The filmmakers are keen to balance both the micro and macro threads of Pepe's story: Furie's personal loss and redemption arc, and the vast phenomena of memes and online culture.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 11, 2020
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Empty Metal (2018)
83%
“Empty Metal attacks big questions with a heavy aesthetic arsenal.” –
Screen Slate
Dec 5, 2019
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The Irishman (2019)
95%
“Scorsese's most ambitious attempt to map the machinations of organized crime onto postwar American history.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 28, 2019
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Pain and Glory (2019)
96%
“An advanced-career masterpiece of self-reflection.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 27, 2019
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The Whistlers (2019)
83%
“One of the most droll and purely pleasurable films to emerge from the Romanian New Wave.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 27, 2019
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Joker (2019)
68%
“A joyless film with the wit and emotional intelligence of a school shooter manifesto.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 25, 2019
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Edogawa ranpo taizen: Kyofu kikei ningen (Horrors of Malformed Men)(Horror of a Deformed Man) (1969)
100%
“As a cinematic rendering of the gothic, fetishistic, horrific, and sublime - erotic, grotesque nonsense - it is unparalleled.” –
Screen Slate
Jul 23, 2019
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Surfer (2018)
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“It deserves to be widely celebrated, counter to its panning by Variety's Joe Leydon.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 27, 2019
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Shirkers (2018)
99%
“The film is pervaded by an alternately whimsical and agonizing sense of mystery, one steeped in contradictions of accomplishment and missed opportunity.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
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Minding the Gap (2018)
100%
“This may stand as the definitive portrait of young life in the post-industrial midwest circa now.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
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Ray & Liz (2018)
94%
“Misguided in a way that only artist-made features can be.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
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Vox Lux (2018)
62%
“[The second half] of the film is meandering and pointless, underlining previously nuanced themes ... without meaningful development nor surprises.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
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Sambizanga (1973)
100%
“Once seen, never forgotten: as cinema and politics, Sambizanga is unimpeachable.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
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Birds of Passage (2018)
96%
“Passage is best when it manages to balance a perceptive and sensitive approach to Wayuu customs with the trappings of smart genre cinema.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
Full Review
Runaway Train (1985)
83%
“It's one of the most beautiful and slickly produced pieces of reactionary junk food cinema ever made, and it's glorious.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
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Personal Problems (1980)
100%
“It's a necessary work, and one of the major repertory revivals of this or any other year.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
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The Unicorn (2019)
100%
“A moving and frequently harrowing portrait of a family riven by peculiar and obscure traumas ... Transfixing and inspiring.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 1, 2019
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