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Greg Cwik

Greg Cwik's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023) 92% EDIT “Mr. Monk's Last Case is a work of love made for fans, but refuses to stay shackled to the demands of its sizable mainstream fandom. It's darker than expected, in a very appealing way.” – In Review Online Dec 14, 2023 Full Review Somewhere in Queens (2022) 92% EDIT “Following in those footsteps, Somewhere in Queens, which Romano co-wrote, directed, and in which he stars, is likewise wholly unremarkable, a true case of writing what you know, playing it safe (or, perhaps, he’s an auteur?).” – In Review Online Apr 21, 2023 Full Review Tetris (2023) 81% EDIT “That sense of apathy that plagues the film’s conception is what will ultimately register most with viewers — there’s simply nothing to be excited about here.” – In Review Online Apr 3, 2023 Full Review Children of the Corn (2020) 11% EDIT “Wimmer's film isn't particularly memorable, and the Children of the Corn series has yet to summon a single indelible moment in 40 years, but you have to appreciate a horror film that aspires to entertain, and often succeeds.” – In Review Online Mar 6, 2023 Full Review Hamilton (2020) 98% EDIT “There is an implicit experience of theater...one that makes Hamilton enjoyable to the degree that it is, and one that does not translate, here, to film.” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2021 Full Review Shirley (2020) 88% EDIT “Decker's film presents the psychosexual obsession...but the salacity feels perfunctory rather than passionate.” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2021 Full Review Martin Eden (2019) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “Martin Eden works better as a story of self-loathing and self-destruction than it does as a social critique or political statement.” – Slant Magazine Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Domino (2019) 34% EDIT “Considering the problems that plagued the film, it's a testament to the vivacity of the director's style that Domino isn't a complete disaster.” – MUBI Jun 3, 2019 Full Review Welcome to Marwen (2018) 33% 1.5/4 EDIT “The whole endeavor feels like a disservice to Mark Hogancamp's story, in no small part because no one in the film feels human, even outside doll form.” – Slant Magazine Dec 19, 2018 Full Review The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) 38% .5/4 EDIT “Fede Álvarez's film suffers from a compulsion to be capital-C cool, and all of its ostensibly stylish shots are untethered to any semblance of a sustained reality.” – Slant Magazine Nov 6, 2018 Full Review Suspiria (2018) 65% 1.5/4 EDIT “Luca Guadagnino's remake of Dario Argento's film is silly and self-serious, a funereal pseudo-realist drama about political upheaval and the violence of systems that's at odds with itself.” – Slant Magazine Oct 21, 2018 Full Review The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “A few sharp one-liners seem to be anchoring a meandering story that, however beautifully filmed, fails to linger in the mind, dissipating quickly like all that gunsmoke.” – Slant Magazine Oct 8, 2018 Full Review Her Smell (2018) 83% 2.5/4 EDIT “A story of filth and fury and, eventually, of placidity and peace, Her Smell is Alex Ross Perry's most chaotic and unmuffled film—until it isn't.” – Slant Magazine Sep 25, 2018 Full Review At Eternity's Gate (2018) 79% 2/4 EDIT “This is both a fitting tribute to an artist who rebuffed conventional painting techniques, and a disappointingly self-indulgent exercise, the efforts of a filmmaker whose affinity for abstractions often interfere with the story he's trying to tell.” – Slant Magazine Sep 24, 2018 Full Review Wildlife (2018) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Wildlife is at once loquacious and laconic, a film in which simple words hold unspoken and unequivocal power, and the space between banal utterances become chasms.” – Slant Magazine Sep 7, 2018 Full Review First Reformed (2017) 94% 4/4 EDIT “After more than 20 features, Paul Schrader has been reborn with First Reformed, an unhurried, furious, deeply agonized look at faith and skepticism that's as reverent as it is blasphemous.” – Slant Magazine May 11, 2018 Full Review Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017) 98% 1.5/4 EDIT “It too often relies on lazy synchronicity, drawing awkward parallels between Sakamoto and the films he's worked on.” – Slant Magazine Apr 26, 2018 Full Review Duck Butter (2018) 55% 2.5/4 EDIT “The setup of a 24-hour relationship that bypasses the getting-to-know-you phase speaks to the nature of expedited modern dating culture, but despite its attempts at intimacy, Duck Butter is difficult to fall in love with.” – Slant Magazine Apr 23, 2018 Full Review Marrowbone (2017) 49% 2/4 EDIT “An incessant deluge of subplots drowns what could have been a sparse and beautiful ghost story.” – Slant Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review You Were Never Really Here (2017) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here could be considered artsy exploitation, a film whose formal dexterity belies its debts to its chosen, and quite squalid, genre.” – Slant Magazine Apr 3, 2018 Full Review Golden Exits (2017) 67% EDIT “In Golden Exits, Browning is finally given material worthy of her talents. She evinces a vague unhappiness, the tedium of a life spent going from place to place, infatuation to infatuation.” – Reverse Shot Feb 15, 2018 Full Review Double Lover (2017) 70% 2.5/4 EDIT “Though Double Lover has a slight oneiric quality from the start, it grows increasingly delirious, the plot threads knotting in convoluted patterns and the overall mood more and more ridiculous.” – Slant Magazine Feb 14, 2018 Full Review Legend of the Mountain (1979) 100% 4/4 EDIT “Every pan and snap zoom and dissolve is exact, every whorl of smoke and wind-thrown swath of leaves pulled from a dream and placed methodically before our eyes.” – Slant Magazine Jan 29, 2018 Full Review Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.” – Slant Magazine Nov 9, 2017 Full Review 1945 (2017) 97% 2.5/4 EDIT “The fractured rhythm of 1945 and the desolate aesthetic are engrossing, but Ferenc Török's film doesn't linger.” – Slant Magazine Oct 31, 2017 Full Review
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