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Chris Chang

Chris Chang's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Being John Malkovich (1999) 94% EDIT “The beauty of the film is the way it elevates John Malkovich from an actor to an axiom.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 22, 2018 Full Review 9 (2009) 57% EDIT “The new version stays so true to the original you could describe it as a feature-length short-which is not the most staggering accomplishment.” – Film Comment Magazine Oct 20, 2014 Full Review Sin nombre (2009) 88% EDIT “[F]or all its raw simplicity, the film manages to conjure a veritable library of references.” – Film Comment Magazine Oct 20, 2014 Full Review Bronson (2008) 75% EDIT “...the film can barely contain Tom Hardy's performance. It's a Method turn so bloodily immersive it's hard to imagine the actor getting his head straight afterwards.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 26, 2014 Full Review Until the Light Takes Us (2008) 46% EDIT “A morbidly hypnotic yet generally disorganized affair. To be fair, you could argue that it stays purposefully true to the pervasive murk of its subject.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 24, 2014 Full Review Act of God (2009) 63% EDIT “[Jennifer] Baichwal's point of view is not religious; in fact, the strength and beauty of her project resides in its stubborn insistence on agnostic fuzziness.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 24, 2014 Full Review Mine (2007) 81% EDIT “The impassioned wrangling between individuals, their pets, and the ad hoc organizations trying to do the right thing makes for a most perturbing film.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 24, 2014 Full Review Ajami (2009) 97% EDIT “Its sense of ambiance, most apparent during scenes of simple conversation between characters, more than compensates for the cinematic overdetermination.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 24, 2014 Full Review Bethlehem (2013) 79% EDIT “Unpacked, Bethlehem could easily spread out over an entire TV season, but it's refreshing to be reminded how much can be accomplished in a mere 99 minutes.” – Film Comment Magazine Jan 14, 2014 Full Review Big Bad Wolves (2013) 75% EDIT “In addition to its accomplished visual style and pacing, and its excellent cast, special mention should be made of the writing, particularly the way in which it manages to inject all sorts of comedy into the gaps between the mayhem” – Film Comment Magazine Jan 14, 2014 Full Review Last Days (2005) 58% EDIT “Last Days is a strange creature: it's an extremely abbreviated biopic with zero details, a tribute to a man and his music without a trace of his songs, a tragedy without an arc, etc. It's also dynamite artistry.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 19, 2013 Full Review Walk the Line (2005) 83% EDIT “It's a tidy Hollywood arc imposed on a messy real life, but it gets the job done.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 19, 2013 Full Review Louise-Michel (2008) 81% EDIT “Who knew empowerment could be so winning and so simultaneously grotesque?” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 17, 2013 Full Review The Secret of Kells (2009) 90% EDIT “Kells has a decidedly pleasing-to-the-eye, retro-cartoon vibe ( ... ) an intriguing and rare artistic subgenre” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 13, 2013 Full Review Brooklyn's Finest (2009) 44% EDIT “the film's remarkable cast helps Fuqua bring his sprawling web of nastiness to another level” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 13, 2013 Full Review Solitary Man (2009) 77% EDIT “The film begins and ends with scenes of acute existential reflection, a state actors rarely convey convincingly-least of all in a contemporary American film.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 13, 2013 Full Review Double Take (2009) 76% EDIT “Double Take is a cunning hybrid-call it a psycho-doc. Playful yet tempered with paranoia, curiously the whole thing nevertheless seems more nostalgic than cautionary.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 13, 2013 Full Review Tiny Furniture (2010) 79% EDIT “an interpersonal chamber-piece that succeeds as well as it does thanks to the unabashed intimacy it has with its own diminutive subject matter. Call it a mumblecore mumblepiece.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 13, 2013 Full Review A Film Unfinished (2009) 98% EDIT “a new and uniquely disturbing perspective on the Shoah” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 13, 2013 Full Review Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) 89% EDIT “By the end, Helandar's movie feels more like an elaborate punchline to an overwrought joke, a thematic gibe more appropriate for a short film.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 7, 2013 Full Review Robinson in Ruins (2010) 79% EDIT “Not only is this elegiac work filled with paradoxical hope for humanity's future, it's also an encouraging sign of life-an indication of the robust health of documentary art” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 7, 2013 Full Review Disorder (2006) EDIT “Grainy black-and-white footage, captured by amateur on-the-scene videographers, has been spliced together to create a nonstop portrait of a metropolis gone berserk-a city symphony from hell.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 7, 2013 Full Review Viva Riva! (2010) 86% EDIT “Meet Riva (the spectacular Patsha Bay), a man who thrives on scarcity: he smuggles gas, and has recently come upon a mother lode-which becomes, of course, a powder keg.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 7, 2013 Full Review You Are Here (2010) 83% EDIT “A twisted exegesis on the dissolution of identity, the disappearance of will, and, eventually, the loss of mind.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 7, 2013 Full Review Tomboy (2011) 96% EDIT “Since we are dealing with fresh-faced tweens, we are spared the gender histrionics to be found in the likes of The Crying Game or Boys Don't Cry. Those are indeed bigger films. But sometimes small things can pay off quite nicely.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 5, 2013 Full Review
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