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Bennett Campbell Ferguson

Bennett Campbell Ferguson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Challengers (2024) 88% EDIT “Challengers is less a film than a feast of sensual pleasures: alluringly crisp polo shirts, sweat dripping across masculine brows, muscles so taut they threaten to snap.” – Willamette Week Apr 23, 2024 Full Review Problemista (2023) 85% 2/4 EDIT “... A satire of immigrant dreams that too often parries when it should stab. ” – Willamette Week Mar 13, 2024 Full Review Robot Dreams (2023) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Robot Dreams is too wise and tender to deny, but for better or worse, there's a touch of sadism behind its sweetness. ” – Willamette Week Mar 6, 2024 Full Review Drive-Away Dolls (2024) 64% 3/4 EDIT “A cleverly comedic and romantic provocation.” – Willamette Week Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Astoria becomes an extension of a young woman’s soul in Sometimes I Think About Dying, an exquisitely restrained drama from director Rachel Lambert.” – Willamette Week Jan 31, 2024 Full Review Monster (2023) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A time-shifting tale of anguished parents, desperate teachers, and barely knowable youths, Monster is a beautifully slippery creation. ” – Willamette Week Jan 26, 2024 Full Review Mean Girls (2024) 68% 3/4 EDIT “Fans will debate whether Mean Girls '24 is a welcome refresh or a dishonest gloss on an inherently ugly tale, but at least two of the songs come respectably close to being bangers, and the new cast is surprisingly serviceable.” – Willamette Week Jan 18, 2024 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The quiet spectacle of ordinary life marching on in the shadow of the Holocaust makes you want to scream in helpless rage, an outcome Glazer stiffly guards against. ” – Willamette Week Jan 18, 2024 Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% 2/4 EDIT “By the time the director tacks on an extended homage to Freaks (1932), it’s excruciatingly clear that his affectations -- monotone dialogue, steampunkish visuals -- are a thin mask for his paucity of ideas.” – Willamette Week Dec 14, 2023 Full Review Maestro (2023) 78% 2/4 EDIT “Yes, Cooper ebulliently re-creates the 1973 performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 that Bernstein conducted at Ely Cathedral, but since the film shows barely any interest in the craft of conducting, he may as well just be an elegant arm waver.” – Willamette Week Dec 6, 2023 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% 4/4 EDIT “Napoleon is even better as a sex comedy than it is as a violent spectacle, which is really saying something...” – Willamette Week Nov 27, 2023 Full Review The Marvels (2023) 63% 3/4 EDIT “Amid its putative decline, the franchise has unleashed some of its liveliest and strangest films, from the oedipal Shang-Chi to the operatic Eternals. The trend toward general wackiness continues with The Marvels.” – Willamette Week Nov 15, 2023 Full Review Priscilla (2023) 84% 2/4 EDIT “Once it gets to Graceland, the beautifully measured pace of the Germany prologue evaporates. Rushing through years of betrayal and bliss, the film starts to feel as if it’s checking boxes on a timeline rather than evoking Priscilla’s experience.” – Willamette Week Nov 4, 2023 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Fincher trusts the faces of his actors... His faith in Fassbender is amply rewarded -- even the way the actor’s arms smoothly swing past his hips is expressive -- but Fincher is the true star of the film.” – Willamette Week Nov 3, 2023 Full Review Dicks: The Musical (2023) 68% 2/4 EDIT “If Charles knew how to film a musical, he might have been able to redeem the movie’s barely melodic songs, but you never feel movement of the music or the characters.” – Willamette Week Oct 25, 2023 Full Review TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023) 98% 4/4 EDIT “In just under three fleeting hours, the filmed version of Taylor Swift’s career-defining tour captures her countless artistic identities and the boundless sincerity that unites them... The Eras Tour is at once intimate and galactic.” – Willamette Week Oct 18, 2023 Full Review She Came to Me (2023) 48% 4/4 EDIT “She Came to Me is a purehearted paean to true love, be it vibrant and youthful or weathered and real.” – Willamette Week Oct 11, 2023 Full Review The Creator (2023) 67% 3/4 EDIT “[Director Gareth Edwards] has created an impressively hushed, serious meditation on humanity born from machinery. The Creator may not fully come to life, but at least it understands that life, in all its forms, is precious.” – Willamette Week Oct 5, 2023 Full Review The Attachment Diaries (2021) 92% 3/4 EDIT “The elegant black-and-white images of Carla’s fragile high heels being buffeted by rain may suggest an oh-so-tasteful art film, but The Attachment Diaries, which is set in 1970s Argentina, is something freakier, trashier and lustier.” – Willamette Week Sep 21, 2023 Full Review Passages (2023) 94% 3/4 EDIT “A caustically witty fable from director Ira Sachs.” – Willamette Week Aug 18, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% 4/4 EDIT “[Oppenheimer] submerges you in the violence of a guilt-ravaged soul, leaving you feeling unsettled and unclean. Confronting the film’s moral and spiritual weight is a fearsome challenge, and one well worth rising to.” – Willamette Week Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% 4/4 EDIT “It would be churlish to deny the charm of Gerwig’s buoyant creation. In an age when genuine cinematic joy is rare, we’re all lucky to be passengers in Barbie’s hot-pink plastic convertible.” – Willamette Week Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Danger is a drug -- and in his third Mission: Impossible film, director Christopher McQuarrie simultaneously shoves it up your nostrils and stabs it into your veins.” – Willamette Week Jul 12, 2023 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% 1/4 EDIT “The Anderson who chronicled Schwartzman’s mad romantic pursuit of Olivia Williams in Rushmore has been replaced by an automatonlike auteur so fastidious that he frames Asteroid City as a film within a play within a television broadcast.” – Willamette Week Jun 28, 2023 Full Review The Flash (2023) 63% 2/4 EDIT “This is the way the DC Extended Universe ends: not with a bang, but with grating comedy, momentumless action, and convictions so flimsy that they cancel themselves out.” – Willamette Week Jun 21, 2023 Full Review
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