Steven Boone
Tomatometer-approved critic
A Crime on the Bayou (2020)
100%
4/4
“Filmmaker Nancy Buirski has an elegant, judicious way of imparting the facts of the case, taking not just the political temperature of the moment (boiling) but finely sketching the character and minds of the people involved.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jun 18, 2021
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Dear White People (2014)
91%
3.5/4
“There are no easy heroes or foils in this briskly cross-cutting ensemble piece, only blossoming adults and beleagured elders ...” –
RogerEbert.com
Oct 17, 2014
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Visitors (2013)
69%
3/4
“"Visitors" is the first Reggio feature that feels more inert and random than purposeful and propulsive. Yet it's refreshing for having mostly avoided the soapbox in order to concentrate on ambiguous imagery.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jan 24, 2014
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Lone Survivor (2013)
75%
2/4
“"The Passion of the Christ" for U.S. servicemen: a bloody historic episode recounted mainly in images of hardy young men being ripped apart, at screeching volume.” –
RogerEbert.com
Dec 26, 2013
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The New Rijksmuseum, Part 2 (2013)
87%
4/4
“"The New Rijksmuseum" proves that films can describe nuances of character and situation as finely as the finest novel or creative non-fiction.” –
RogerEbert.com
Dec 18, 2013
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Paradise: Hope (2013)
88%
4/4
“Seidl's camera always stands back to let the women's environments and their orientation within them tell their stories in a way that can inspire compassionate recognition.” –
RogerEbert.com
Dec 17, 2013
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Homefront (2013)
42%
2.5/4
“Fleder, who is a pretty standard button-masher as an action director, actually shows infectious relish and nuance in depicting Statham's slow return to his violent ways.” –
RogerEbert.com
Nov 27, 2013
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Narco cultura (2012)
88%
4/4
“The people in this documentary are beautiful, funny, flawed, desperate, intelligent, deluded... In other words, it never forgets that these are questions for all of us.” –
RogerEbert.com
Nov 22, 2013
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Detroit Unleaded (2012)
69%
1.5/4
“The filmmaker's cart is tugging frantically at a lazy horse.” –
RogerEbert.com
Nov 22, 2013
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Great Expectations (2012)
68%
2/4
“As the pages turn faster, focusing on the hows and whys of a major crime central to the plot, this concision and velocity make the film feel like a modern thriller. Booo.” –
RogerEbert.com
Nov 8, 2013
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I'm in Love With a Church Girl (2013)
10%
2/4
“For myself and most folks expecting a movie, it is too transparent an infomercial for the church to move the mountain.” –
RogerEbert.com
Oct 21, 2013
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Escape Plan (2013)
50%
1.5/4
“Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are relentlessly likeable, even when serving up plot and dialogue that would have been trampled on the writer's room floor of "Knight Rider" circa 1985.” –
RogerEbert.com
Oct 18, 2013
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Cassadaga (2011)
18%
1.5/4
“Anthony DiBlasi's "Cassadaga" is the state of the art in horror movie storytelling, and the state of the art is horrendous.” –
RogerEbert.com
Oct 11, 2013
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All Is Bright (2013)
48%
2/4
“I wish I could give four stars to Giamatti's big, sad eyes and outrageous Civil War beard.” –
RogerEbert.com
Oct 4, 2013
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The Grandmaster (2013)
78%
3/4
“A glorified trailer by Wong Kar Wai is still something to see.” –
RogerEbert.com
Aug 23, 2013
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Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)
71%
3/4
“Daniels directs in about five styles at once, like a Bollywood maestro. No, it's not a musical, but it makes plenty of visual music.” –
RogerEbert.com
Aug 16, 2013
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Lovelace (2013)
53%
2/4
“Scattered moments of heat and light just don't add up to a forceful or vital movie about a subject that deserves one.” –
RogerEbert.com
Aug 9, 2013
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The Artist and the Model (2012)
71%
3/4
“"The Artist and the Model" is a simple, straightforward film about the wonder and awe that the natural world inspires in us.” –
RogerEbert.com
Aug 5, 2013
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Breaking the Girls (2013)
11%
2.5/4
“Babbitt loves her actors and gives them fun stuff to do. If she works with similar themes in the future, I hope she gives her performers and her clearly fertile imagination more room to play.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jul 26, 2013
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R.I.P.D. (2013)
13%
1/4
“Images of Jeff Bridges enjoying himself are almost enough to make a movie work. "R.I.P.D." does its best to stop him dead in his tracks.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jul 24, 2013
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Evidence (2013)
6%
1/4
“[A] combination of chaotic phony found footage and whimpering models.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jul 24, 2013
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The Act of Killing (2012)
96%
4/4
“I have watched hundreds of hours of war crimes, genocides and miscarriages of justice carried out by unremarkable men with dimly lit souls. "The Act of Killing" bids to outdo them all.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jul 19, 2013
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Fruitvale Station (2013)
94%
4/4
“"Fruitvale Station" is about what we can imagine when we cast our gaze across the longstanding divides in this persistently, cancerously segregated American society.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jul 12, 2013
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V/H/S/2 (2013)
70%
1.5/4
“The horror movie equivalent of a wimp who relies on steroids to lend him a fearsome appearance while his eyes still tell the truth.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jul 11, 2013
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Byzantium (2012)
66%
3.5/4
“[An] exquisite, lovely film, in which contemporary characters struggle to suspend their disbelief in vampire lore while Jordan's eye for formal beauty and truthful performances suspends ours.” –
RogerEbert.com
Jul 3, 2013
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