Mike Usinger
Mike Usinger's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
The Mission (2023)
94%
“In the National Geographic documentary The Mission, the results are as fascinatingly horrible as they are predictable -- even if you’re unfamiliar with the story that shocked the secular world a half-decade ago.” –
Georgia Straight
Nov 6, 2023
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Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (2023)
89%
“Director Robert McCallum’s documentary serves as a gentle love letter to the man who kept Canadian kids entertained for four decades.” –
Georgia Straight
Nov 6, 2023
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Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party (2023)
100%
“The greatness of Mutiny in Heaven is that White understands the importance of gory details. Instead of sanitizing things to protect the innocent, the film embraces the darkness and danger that defined the Birthday Party.” –
Georgia Straight
Sep 29, 2023
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Kung Fu Jungle (2014)
74%
“This is martial-arts moviemaking for purists, the emphasis on speed-fuelled combat between fighters for whom honour trumps all.” –
Georgia Straight
Mar 20, 2020
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
98%
“It understands that the greatest backdrops in the world are useless if we don't care about the people in them.” –
Georgia Straight
Aug 2, 2018
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Mind Game (2004)
100%
“But for all the insanity-smoking koi, giant talking flowers living on dinosaur poop... there's also a beautiful poetry to Mind Game.” –
Georgia Straight
Jun 28, 2018
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (2017)
“Marked by endless strangely humourless and self-important philosophizing... the doc drags.” –
Georgia Straight
May 7, 2018
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The Punk Voyage (2017)
“Prepare to be inspired.” –
Georgia Straight
May 7, 2018
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Desolation Center (2018)
100%
“It somehow manages, against almost impossible odds, to capture the power of events that revolutionized pop music as we knew it.” –
Georgia Straight
May 3, 2018
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Wizard Mode (2016)
“Sometimes the smallest of events can alter the course of a person's life in ways that are nothing less than fantastical.” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 4, 2018
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Trench 11 (2017)
93%
“Smartly, director Leo Scherman never goes for laughs in this sepia-toned period piece, instead creating a sense of 78-feet-below-ground claustrophobia that finds middle ground between The Thing and The Descent.” –
Georgia Straight
Dec 1, 2017
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All Eyez on Me (2017)
17%
“The man never pretended to be a saint. Too bad All Eyez on Me treats him like one.” –
Georgia Straight
Jun 16, 2017
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Vers la tendresse (2016)
“Nobody enjoys spending time with the relentlessly self-absorbed, so who is the target audience for Vers la Tendresse?” –
Georgia Straight
May 8, 2017
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Praia (2016)
“You can learn a lot about a culture by people-watching.” –
Georgia Straight
May 8, 2017
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Quest (2017)
98%
“The genius of Quest is that-perhaps much like life-you're never quite sure where it's going to go.” –
Georgia Straight
May 5, 2017
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Victor Walk (2016)
“Prepare to be moved.” –
Georgia Straight
Dec 2, 2016
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Allied (2016)
60%
“Allied's ultimate triumph? That would be making us long for that long-gone time captured in the film.” –
Georgia Straight
Nov 29, 2016
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Gimme Danger (2016)
95%
“Gimme Danger is content to be a sanitized history lesson -- the last thing you'd expect from [this] band.” –
Georgia Straight
Nov 4, 2016
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Wild Life (2014)
“If your family made a complete mess of you, it's nice to know that you're anything but alone.” –
Georgia Straight
Feb 22, 2016
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
74%
“Get past the buckets and buckets of blood in The Hateful Eight, and there's a good argument to be made that -- once the shock value has worn off -- this is Quentin Tarantino at his most philosophical and clever.” –
Georgia Straight
Jan 1, 2016
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Fantastic Four (2015)
9%
“Ultimately, Fantastic Four comes off as a laboured setup to a sequel that's predictably already in the works. That, of course, raises another mammoth question: who the hell will want to see it?” –
Georgia Straight
Aug 25, 2015
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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
92%
“Although genuine frights are in short supply, there's plenty of gory goodness to compensate.” –
Georgia Straight
Sep 26, 2004
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