Joshua Vasquez
Joshua Vasquez's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Son of the Mask (2005)
6%
.5/4
“Remarkably inept.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 18, 2005
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F for Fake (1973)
88%
4/4
“F for Fake is one of the more wistfully humorous of Welles's wrestlings with reality.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 18, 2005
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
95%
2.5/4
“A documentary of quiet, introspective charm.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 10, 2005
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Travelers and Magicians (2003)
95%
2.5/4
“A bit too creakingly stiff in its allegory, but the film's refusal to provide simple answers is touchingly appropriate.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 26, 2005
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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
79%
3/4
“Guy Maddin's snow globe cinema, hermetically sealed in ghostly adoration of silent cinema, is well matched to this darkly comic fable.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 4, 2004
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It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
50%
2/4
“Stretches the darkly comedic aspects of the trilogy to the breaking point.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 4, 2004
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It Lives Again (1978)
47%
3/4
“The second and third parts of Larry Cohen's It's Alive trilogy are by turns silly and sublime.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 4, 2004
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It's Alive (1974)
65%
3.5/4
“One part allegory on familial tensions and one part commentary on environmental and biological poisoning.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 3, 2004
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The Black Cat (1934)
89%
4/4
“The Black Cat's impressionist wasteland is composed of equal parts severe allegory and pulp poetry.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 29, 2004
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
70%
3.5/4
“One of the finest of the seven entries in Hammer's Frankenstein cycle.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 28, 2004
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Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
54%
3/4
“Taste the Blood of Dracula is unusual in that it keeps Dracula somewhat on the sidelines.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 28, 2004
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
97%
4/4
“The film is not only an account of the moral slippage of one man but the record of a far larger, seemingly uncontrollable escalation.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 20, 2004
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Robot Stories (2002)
74%
3/4
“Concerned with detailing the various interactions of an unsettling, fragile humanity with its own technology.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 13, 2004
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Torque (2004)
22%
2/4
“Director Joseph Kahn's Torque is inoffensively diverting-it's neither a work of inspired genre genius or mere manipulative commercial trash.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 12, 2004
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Paycheck (2003)
26%
1.5/4
“The possibilities of Dick's premise are never really exploited, just used as the framework for limp action set-pieces.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 19, 2003
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
94%
3.5/4
“The city of Belleville is like some nocturnal amalgam of Paris and New York, on the edge of a vast sea and of the world itself.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 18, 2003
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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
71%
3/4
“There is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 5, 2003
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Timeline (2003)
13%
2.5/4
“The attempt to stay true to a historically minded adventure by maintaining a strangely subdued tone in terms of action just doesn't work.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 25, 2003
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Bad Santa (2003)
78%
1/4
“Bad Santa tries to be as vulgar and offensive as possible so that it might somehow justify the inevitability of its own happy ending.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 23, 2003
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
58%
2/4
“The lunacy isn't inspired and the film never imitates the sharp comedic wit so frequently on display in the works of Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, and Chuck Jones.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 11, 2003
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Scary Movie 3 (2003)
35%
1/4
“The humor is confined to watching protagonists smack around the film's monster and listening to a lot of "whites and blacks are different" jokes.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 23, 2003
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Runaway Jury (2003)
73%
1/4
“A supremely smug experience, Runaway Jury begins as a thriller and ends as a tract that doesn't even have the decency to be well made propaganda.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 15, 2003
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The Fog of War (2003)
96%
3/4
“Morris allows McNamara the dignity of his memories, yet never allows the viewer to forget the deeply troubling moral questions bound to those memories.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 2, 2003
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Wonderland (2003)
34%
1.5/4
“Save for its basis in historical reality, there is little that is original in the visualizing of Wonderland's underbelly tour of compromised lives.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 1, 2003
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The Rundown (2003)
69%
1.5/4
“Johnson is a natural action hero, a point presumably made rather cheekily by way of an early cameo from none other than Ahhnold himself.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 25, 2003
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