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Abhimanyu Das

Abhimanyu Das's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Force majeure (2014) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “It comes down on the essential hollowness of traditional gender roles like the avalanche that proves to be its inciting event.” – Slant Magazine Oct 20, 2014 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “For every scene that soars into the dizzying heights of the pop sublime, there's another that crashes back down into the mundane troughs of studio-mandated formula.” – Slant Magazine Jul 30, 2014 Full Review Lucy (2014) 67% 3/4 EDIT “Vulgar auteurist Luc Besson finally commits wholeheartedly to his decades-long preoccupation with waifish young women discovering their inner Shiva, spinning the concept out to its most delirious possible extremes.” – Slant Magazine Jul 23, 2014 Full Review Million Dollar Arm (2014) 65% 1.5/4 EDIT “Bafflingly, the Indian athletes become supporting players in their own movie, which is, in actuality, the account of one rich white guy's journey toward realizing that baseball is supposed to be fun and Lake Bell is cute enough to settle for.” – Slant Magazine May 13, 2014 Full Review Match (2014) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “Patrick Stewart's performance is practically an argument for Belber to jettison everything else and take the actor on the road as a one-man spoken-word act.” – Slant Magazine Apr 23, 2014 Full Review Lucky Them (2013) 78% 2/4 EDIT “It labors under the illusion that an abundance of Sub Pop memorabilia is adequate substitute for the honest evocation of a creative subculture and the personalities of which it's composed.” – Slant Magazine Apr 22, 2014 Full Review Life Partners (2014) 72% 3/4 EDIT “These characters, all of whom feel fleshed out and thoroughly lived-in, constitute the foundation of a story that unfolds organically, blessedly free of the twee self-regard common to films about millennials in flux.” – Slant Magazine Apr 18, 2014 Full Review Blood Ties (2013) 54% 2/4 EDIT “Jame Gray and the ghost of Sidney Lumet are just along for the ride, adding a grimy layer of old-school New York scuzz to a film that's too overstuffed, fractured, and redolent with clich to every compellingly hang together.” – Slant Magazine Mar 20, 2014 Full Review The Babadook (2014) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “Its horrors go beyond any single raggedy phantom, reaching back to the primordial fear of death and loss: of a child, of a loved one, of one's own sense of self.” – Slant Magazine Mar 20, 2014 Full Review Veronica Mars (2014) 80% 3/4 EDIT “For all its references to the show's history, the film never panders. It's an evolution of the core concept as opposed to a nostalgia-tinged reproduction, and is all the better for it.” – Slant Magazine Mar 12, 2014 Full Review Son of God (2014) 17% .5/4 EDIT “The film plays for much of its length like a terrible sketch comedy with one-dimensional caricatures shuffling listlessly through a succession of stilted tableaux.” – Slant Magazine Feb 27, 2014 Full Review Homefront (2013) 42% 1.5/4 EDIT “The material plays out like a particularly busy episode of Sons of Anarchy, possessing a peculiar joylessness that's anathema to the success of films like this.” – Slant Magazine Nov 23, 2013 Full Review Last Vegas (2013) 45% .5/4 EDIT “The film is depressing, sub-sitcom fodder that will dull whatever affection you may still harbor for these legendary actors.” – Slant Magazine Oct 28, 2013 Full Review Closed Circuit (2013) 43% 1.5/4 EDIT “It fails as a critique of draconian security states and surveillance culture, moving too fast to properly consider any of the well-worn ideas it glosses over.” – Slant Magazine Aug 26, 2013 Full Review Wish You Were Here (2012) 71% 2/4 EDIT “From the opening montage alone, it's clear that Australian director Kieran Darcy-Smith plans to play his cards close to the vest in this maddeningly underwritten thriller/domestic-drama hybrid.” – Slant Magazine Jun 3, 2013 Full Review Now You See Me (2013) 51% 2/4 EDIT “There's nothing behind all this sturm und drang but a lineup of insubstantial ciphers, all false fronts and empty words in a pretend world not quite conducive to emotional investment.” – Slant Magazine May 31, 2013 Full Review Aftershock (2012) 42% 1.5/4 EDIT “There's plenty of gore, but none of it is particularly inventive, nor does it engender any visceral or emotional reactions beyond jaded disgust.” – Slant Magazine May 7, 2013 Full Review Sunlight Jr. (2013) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “Crafting another well-intentioned, socially conscious film built around a strong female performance, Laurie Collyer drops Sunlight Jr. on audiences like a bomb.” – Slant Magazine Apr 25, 2013 Full Review The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) 56% 2/4 EDIT “The laziest sort of political cinema, full of straw men and finger-pointing, wrapped up in an awards-friendly bow by its beautiful cinematography and a manipulative world music-y score.” – Slant Magazine Apr 15, 2013 Full Review V/H/S/2 (2013) 70% 3/4 EDIT “A welcome contrast to the first film's snuff-y atmosphere and general mean-spiritedness, featuring more humor, fewer hateful characters, and occasional twinges of relatable human emotion.” – Slant Magazine Apr 15, 2013 Full Review K-11 (2012) 20% 1.5/4 EDIT “It careens from one tonal extreme to the next, uncertain about whether it wants to be a gritty drama, camp artifact, or violent prison-sploitation flick.” – Slant Magazine Mar 12, 2013 Full Review Stand Up Guys (2012) 37% 2.5/4 EDIT “Fails to plumb the dramatic depths of its setups, but every now and then the actors pick up the slack, filling in the blanks with three decades's worth of mythic resonance.” – Slant Magazine Dec 13, 2012 Full Review Gottfried Helnwein & the Dreaming Child (2011) 0% 2.5 EDIT “Much of the doc plays like a moderately well produced but tediously uncritical making-of feature that could easily have been included on the opera's DVD release.” – Slant Magazine Nov 18, 2012 Full Review Hotel Transylvania (2012) 45% 2/4 EDIT “Yet another instance of a decent, potentially thorny premise bogged down in a mess of treacly sentiment and tedious moralizing.” – Slant Magazine Sep 24, 2012 Full Review
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