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Troy Patterson

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Slate movie critic.

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Bulworth (1998) 76% B “Bulworth marks Beatty’s happiest stab at political farce since Shampoo.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 7, 2025 Full Review McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) 85% A “As John Q. McCabe, another blustery hustler out of his depth, he projects — with comically furrowed brow and tragically boyish eyes — first a terribly magnetic charm and then a terror at the knowledge that charm alone will never suffice. ” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 91% A- “The story’s simple; what’s complex... is its tragicomic tone: Director Arthur Penn channels the social unease of the ’60s through these folk heroes of the ’30s, allowing the counterculture to indulge a violent fantasy of social rebellion.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% A “A sex farce elevated to romantic tragedy, Shampoo... made political concerns indistinguishable from personal ones — made them immediate and moving. ” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Wild Things (1998) 64% B+ “Smooth, cheap exploitation flicks slake our thirst for smut as fully as great films sate our taste for the sublime. The new master of the craft may be John McNaughton.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 2, 2023 Full Review The Girl (2012) 70% “Clean and smart and dull.” – Slate Aug 4, 2020 Full Review Cinema Verite (2011) 61% “The relationship between Gilbert and Pat is the strange, sexy mechanism that makes Cinema Verite work... And the movie is nicely ambiguous about what Gilbert wrought as the inventor of the reality-온라인카지노추천 show.” – Slate Jun 3, 2020 Full Review Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) 49% “Hemingway & Gellhorn's daft romanticization of its subjects proves central to its overwrought sense of self. This is the kind of film where the protagonists consummate their affair while Fascists are shelling their hotel.” – Slate May 29, 2020 Full Review When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) 94% “Think of the film as a companion in mourning.” – The New Yorker May 9, 2020 Full Review There Will Be Blood (2007) 91% 3/4 “Though Day-Lewis seethes juicily, under the weight of all that allegory, Plainview steadily grows more vicious and less fascinating, wasting away to just a cackle and an empty leer.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) 94% 4/4 “Its flow of memory and imagination transforms the hero's nightmare into a dream, where a glance at the radiance of sunlight in a curtain is an elemental vision of what it means to be alive.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Juno (2007) 93% 4/4 “As directed by Jason Reitman, the movie builds from sitcom setups to wistful payoffs.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Orchestra Seats (2006) 74% 3/4 “Because the movie -- bright as a postcard and flooded with music ranging from richest Beethoven to bittersweet ballads -- is enchanting at its core, the creaky plot doesn't matter that much.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Starter for 10 (2006) 90% 3.5/4 “Adhering to every convention of the coming-of-age film in a sneakily alluring way and flirting with cliche without slobbering all over it, this sweet little date-night flick is built to charm everyone's inner 18-year-old.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Black Snake Moan (2007) 66% 1/4 “Writer/director Craig Brewer has whipped up a controversy magnet that will make some fans of his first film, Hustle & Flow, retract anything they said in defense of its depiction of women.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review RENO 911!: Miami (2007) 35% 2.5/4 “Maddeningly hit-or-miss, Reno 911! plays as if the filmmakers were aiming simply to outclass Police Academy 5.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Crazy Love (2007) 79% 4/4 “Dan Klores shapes their tale into a documentary as arresting as a Weegee crime-scene photo.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Youth Without Youth (2007) 33% 3.5/4 “The first half of Youth has the tension of a crack thriller. But director Francis Ford Coppola has rigged things so that the suspense story melts into a New Age puddle.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Paprika (2006) 87% 3.5/4 “Though Kon sometimes hits on startling visions ripped straight from your head last night, he's ultimately more interested in film theory than the Freudian sort, evoking dreams in a way that's most faithful to dream sequences.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Knocked Up (2007) 90% 3/4 “Knocked Up must be the funniest Hollywood romantic comedy since Apatow's 40-Year-Old Virgin. Granted, there are higher compliments, but the movie undeniably offers audiences many abdomen-impairing moments they'll talk (and talk and talk) about.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Black Sheep (2006) 71% 3.5/4 “A genre mash-up... director Jonathan King's first feature doubles as a fable about two grown brothers and triples as a fresh national myth for his native New Zealand.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (2009) 40% 2.5/4 “The urgency of the tales gets lost along the way, weighed down by staginess and an inconsistent tone, although Krasinski's ambition suggests a noble failure.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review A Serious Man (2009) 89% 3.5/4 “The movie develops into a pretty good rabbi joke about the meaninglessness of the universe.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review An Education (2009) 93% 2.5/4 “Nick Hornby wrote the screenplay by inflating a fragment of Lynn Barber's memoir, failing to disguise the thinness of the material.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Whip It (2009) 86% 3/4 “Though Whip It celebrates risk-taking ladies, its plot turns gently from one formulaic moment to the next. The only surprise is just how much silliness Barrymore is willing to commit.” – Spin Oct 25, 2019 Full Review
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