Patrick Dahl
Patrick Dahl's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Belly (1998)
23%
“Sanctimonious, silly, occasionally brilliant and exquisitely vivid, Hype Williams’s Belly (1998) crowned the decade in which hip-hop swallowed popular culture, and we never looked back.” –
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Sep 14, 2022
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Chuy, The Wolf Man (2014)
“As it expands beyond the portrait of a medical curio, Chuy, The Wolf Man details pregnancies, immigration attempts, and marital troubles. The richness of these stories doesn’t require a physical abnormality to resonate.” –
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Aug 9, 2022
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2nd Chance (2022)
91%
“[Davis] is ultimately that archetypal American figure, the unflappable charlatan amassing wealth by carving breaches in the membrane separating media fantasy and political reality.” –
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Jun 30, 2022
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Tank Girl (1995)
45%
“Tank Girl failed critically and commercially, a badge of honor for a mid-90s postapocalyptic-feminist-punk carnival” –
Screen Slate
Aug 18, 2021
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The Happening (2008)
17%
“Filtering Hitchcock through Spielberg, Shyamalan offers two righteous gimmicks ... that compensate for the script's grating sentimentality and a mutinous star performance.” –
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Aug 18, 2021
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White Line Fever (1975)
29%
“Despite a bone structure to rival Alain Delon, Vincent makes for a credible working class hero, replete with a vague southern twang and grit in his eyes.” –
Screen Slate
Jun 21, 2021
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What Happened Was... (1994)
91%
“A largely forgotten triumph from the margins of the mid-90s Sundance boom.” –
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Feb 24, 2021
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Hubie Halloween (2020)
52%
“You can contrast the endeavor's laziness positively against the life-threatening pretenses of Christopher Nolan's Tenet.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 19, 2020
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Io Island (1977)
“Director Kim Ki-young wraps a relentlessly tense atmosphere like a fog around a promiscuous plot that veers from gumshoe mystery to body horror.” –
Screen Slate
Jan 14, 2020
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The Hottest August (2019)
84%
“Attempting to make the abyss legible, The Hottest August might be the most devastating film ever made.” –
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Jan 14, 2020
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Bacurau (2019)
93%
“Tired of seeing countless people of color fall to anonymous deaths in the background of globe-trotting franchise extravaganzas? Here's the righteous inverse.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 30, 2019
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Chained for Life (2018)
100%
“Aaron Schimberg's howlingly funny and deeply affecting second feature considers the ethical tightrope of transforming flesh-and-blood human beings into fodder for cinema.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 11, 2019
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Juice (1992)
81%
“Juice captures the traumatic and anxious roots of American gangsterism better than just about any other entry in the evergreen genre.” –
Screen Slate
May 31, 2019
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Suburban Birds (2018)
84%
“Recalling Stand By Me, Jia Zhangke and David Lynch, [Suburban Birds] announces Qui as an astute chronicler of early adolescence and a filmmaker of promising lyrical vision.” –
Screen Slate
Apr 1, 2019
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Gummo (1997)
39%
“Somehow, often within a single scene or image, [Gummo] manages to be simultaneously indefensible, dismissible, exploitive, heartbreaking and completely revivifying.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 27, 2019
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Room at the Top (1959)
100%
“Francis and Clayton swing and glide their furtive camera through exquisitely blocked scenes in which characters are handsomely planted across multiple planes like a topiary.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 9, 2019
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An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
94%
“Epic at 230 minutes, yet deeply intimate in its proximity to its central characters.” –
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Mar 9, 2019
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Gamer (2009)
30%
“Gamer doesn't import gaming aesthetics to the movies so much as it considers the gaming medium with every weapon in the cinematic arsenal.” –
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Mar 5, 2019
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The Hours and Times (1991)
81%
“Easily the most engaging fiction film made about The Beatles.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 2, 2019
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