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Matthew Dessem

Matthew Dessem's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) 95% “When your show's premise is tap dancing over an abyss, you have to be a spectacular tap dancer, and fortunately, Burnham is.” – Slate Jun 1, 2021 Full Review The Little Things (2021) 44% “If Hancock had made it in the 1990s, it would have been a solid middle-of-the-pack entry. In 2021, it's a throwback.” – Slate Jan 28, 2021 Full Review The Vast of Night (2019) 92% “Every scene has been staged and shot with intelligence, intent, inventiveness, and a sense of play. To watch it is to get excited about the billions of different ways you can combine sound and moving images to tell a story.” – Slate May 26, 2020 Full Review Sincerely Louis C.K. (2020) 80% “I find it so depressing and boring-the special, Louis' new fans, Louis himself-that I don't ever want to give any of it my time or attention again.” – Slate Apr 28, 2020 Full Review Guava Island (2019) 74% “Murai's "This Is America" video made Glover's music sharper and more specific; Guava Island glops up the same music with a half-baked allegory that dulls every note. Steer clear.” – Slate Apr 14, 2019 Full Review Dumbo (2019) 46% “There's a lot going on in the movie, none of it entirely coherent...” – Slate Mar 29, 2019 Full Review Stan & Ollie (2018) 93% “It's a little disappointing to see a film whose tight focus seems tailor-made to free it from the constraints of the genre color so vehemently inside the lines. Inside those lines, though, the colors are remarkable.” – Slate Dec 29, 2018 Full Review The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018) 65% “The House With a Clock in its Walls is a bullseye, perfectly balanced between funny and scary.” – Slate Sep 20, 2018 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) 89% “Your reaction to John Wick: Chapter 2 will depend on whether you find that sort of "why are you hitting yourself?" thing funny or not-and how many times in a row you find it funny.” – Slate Feb 9, 2017 Full Review Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) 37% “If you watched Cruise bruise his way through the first Reacher film and thought, "I wonder if that guy's good with kids?" this is exactly the movie you've been waiting for. Otherwise: Run run run run run.” – Slate Oct 19, 2016 Full Review Glass Chin (2014) 85% 4/5 “Stoll and Ireland are both in top form-Ireland, in particular, brings heartbreaking depth to a part that usually gets short shrift in noirs.” – The Dissolve Jun 24, 2015 Full Review Phantom Halo (2014) 9% 1.5/5 “Phantom Halo is overstuffed even before Bogdanovich starts layering in the soliloquies and comic book metaphors.” – The Dissolve Jun 17, 2015 Full Review Love at First Fight (2014) 82% 3.5/5 “The title does a real disservice to the film, a romantic comedy made with both visual and narrative intelligence, centered by great performances from Kvin Azas and Adle Haenel.” – The Dissolve May 20, 2015 Full Review Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed (2013) 93% 3/5 “Cámara's performance is excellent, suggesting a deep melancholy that's only hinted at in the script.” – The Dissolve May 4, 2015 Full Review Alex of Venice (2014) 74% 2.5/5 “The whole enterprise is at the mercy of an outline that doesn't entirely suit it.” – The Dissolve Apr 15, 2015 Full Review Batched (2014) 66% 2/5 “They've made an unpleasant film about unpleasant people behaving unpleasantly. Unfortunately, nothing else about The Riot Club is as clean as its tone.” – The Dissolve Mar 25, 2015 Full Review '71 (2014) 96% 4/5 “It's a master class in structure, a meticulously built period piece, a powerful anti-war film, and rarest of all, a thriller whose tension and suspense feel genuinely earned.” – The Dissolve Mar 2, 2015 Full Review Call for Help (2013) 2.5/5 “Call For Help drags in its second half, particularly in an interlude back in the States that makes the same point over and over again.” – The Dissolve Feb 4, 2015 Full Review Something, Anything (2014) 93% 4/5 “Something, Anything is the rare film that gently asks the big questions, then gives us space, and room.” – The Dissolve Jan 7, 2015 Full Review Comet (2014) 44% 1/5 “There's no way to sell this sort of garbage, but everyone involved tries valiantly.” – The Dissolve Dec 5, 2014 Full Review Late Phases (2014) 60% 1.5/5 “Late Phases transforms from laughably non-frightening horror film to self-serious family drama and back again, all the while remaining ferociously, ravenously boring.” – The Dissolve Nov 19, 2014 Full Review We Gotta Get Out of This Place (2013) 80% 3.5/5 “Bad Turn Worse takes its best shot at the slow-motion apocalypse that was Jim Thompson's specialty, and most of the film is beautifully claustrophobic.” – The Dissolve Nov 12, 2014 Full Review The Lookalike (2014) 20% 2/5 “it's neither clever enough to get away with being stupid, nor stupid enough to just be nasty fun.” – The Dissolve Nov 5, 2014 Full Review A Thousand Times Goodnight (2013) 71% 3/5 “When Poppe is filming the things he cares about-war, domestic battles, or even the planes of Juliette Binoche's face-1,000 Times Good Night is exquisite.” – The Dissolve Oct 22, 2014 Full Review Diplomacy (2014) 94% 3/5 “Schlndorff does the expected thing with handheld cameras, slowly circling the combatants, but he also finds interesting and exciting ways to use the space.” – The Dissolve Oct 15, 2014 Full Review
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