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Jay Horton

Jay Horton's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Beach Boys (2024) 89% EDIT “A crisp, even-handed, always-watchable Behind the Music-style tribute illustrating how the untutored sock-hop darlings atop America’s silliest genre would both rewrite the rules of popular song with transcendent masterwork Pet Sounds...” – Willamette Week Jun 26, 2024 Full Review The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) 68% EDIT “The uncomplicated heroics of charismatic sadists trading endlessly watchable flourishes of deadpan repartee couldn’t be more perfectly tailored to the talents of our breezily brutal heist auteur...” – Willamette Week May 1, 2024 Full Review Arthur the King (2024) 70% 2/4 EDIT “A more humane interpretation of events would've at least questioned the wisdom of a career spent so ferociously chasing one's own tail—though self-prescribed incredible journeys are rarely about the destination. ” – Willamette Week Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) 71% 2/4 EDIT “As with that other express Panda franchise hawking oversugared flavors plucked out of context, a creative vision ungrounded by larger perspective and unconnected to cultural context leaves a nauseating aftertaste.” – Willamette Week Mar 20, 2024 Full Review Your Fat Friend (2023) 83% EDIT “[Gordon] makes for an instantly rootable protagonist, and her tale—lifelong wallflower finds her own voice speaking out against an insidious mass bigotry—hits all the crowd-pleasing notes with a textured authenticity.” – Willamette Week Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023) 83% 3/4 EDIT “This Netflix-financed romp blessedly preserves the original’s thumbprint-smeared, dad-joke-peppered charms and ignores recent trends toward bloodless kids’ fare in favor of another jerry-rigged thrill ride.” – Willamette Week Dec 20, 2023 Full Review The Boys in the Boat (2023) 57% 1/4 EDIT “The appeal of lads propelled forward through laborious craft is obvious, but The Boys in the Boat fails to do more than skim the surface both literally and metaphorically.” – Willamette Week Dec 20, 2023 Full Review Strange Way of Life (2023) 78% 3/4 EDIT “[A] soulful, frothy amuse bouche.” – Willamette Week Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Strays (2023) 54% 3/4 EDIT “While cinematic canines have wagged across the silver screen since Rin Tin Tin’s heyday, Strays stands out by recognizing that any “man’s best friend” sentiment does neither side any favors.” – Willamette Week Aug 31, 2023 Full Review Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023) 72% 1/4 EDIT “Landscape With Invisible Hand wastes the reputation of the YA novel it adapts and the charm of stars Asante Blackk and Kylie Rogers, devolving into a cinematic lecture on economic stratification and celebrity worship.” – Willamette Week Aug 31, 2023 Full Review Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) 51% 2/4 EDIT “[Director] Steven Caple Jr. [lets stars] Ramos and Fishback develop their characters and minimize the damage wrought by a uniformly awful screenplay. But doesn’t that make the inevitable downshift to robot-on-robot violence all the more joyless?” – Willamette Week Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Elemental (2023) 73% 3/4 EDIT “As newly humanized dramatic personae, the classical cornerstones of our universe are easily enough rendered recognizable tropes yet nimbly evade the worst ethnic stereotypes.” – Willamette Week Jun 14, 2023 Full Review About My Father (2023) 37% 2/4 EDIT “About My Father seems a poor bet to nudge the uninitiated toward Sebastian Maniscalco’s touring act -- and it probably won’t do much for his surely doomed bid for rom-com lead legitimacy.” – Willamette Week Jun 7, 2023 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 94% 4/4 EDIT “[Is the film] a profoundly inane exercise in empty violence or a transcendent ballet replacing exposition with movement? ... To quote Wick, "Yeah."” – Willamette Week Mar 30, 2023 Full Review Champions (2023) 59% 2/4 EDIT “[It's] too foulmouthed for family viewing, too saccharine for the Farrellys’ usual fan base, and too shallow to let the measured relationship between Harrelson and team chauffeur Kaitlin Olson take center stage.” – Willamette Week Mar 23, 2023 Full Review Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) 46% 2/4 EDIT “With very small powers come no real responsibilities.” – Willamette Week Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Plane (2023) 78% 1/4 EDIT “A lack of pretension shouldn’t excuse the utter absence of creative ambition. ” – Willamette Week Jan 26, 2023 Full Review The Whale (2022) 64% 2/4 EDIT “[Brendan Fraser's performance] can’t quite lift this turgid chamber drama up from the depths of director Darren Aronofsky’s bloated pretensions.” – Willamette Week Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Pearl (2022) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Co-screenwriter and star Mia Goth’s Baby Jane/Norma Desmond rictus grins and disarming naturalism make it hard to root against Pearl, and the playful but never jokey film draws strength from the persistent dread roused by our darkest fears.” – Willamette Week Sep 21, 2022 Full Review Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Ada’s journey is relentlessly pleasant enough to thrill that twinkly great aunt that lives within us all.” – Willamette Week Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Jurassic World Dominion (2022) 29% 1/4 EDIT “In order to keep visual track of all the famous faces, the sweeping vistas that defined the first Jurassic Park film have been chopped up into ‘80s TV-styled midrange shots, leaving a gazillion-dollar production looking cheap.” – Willamette Week Jun 23, 2022 Full Review The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) 87% 3/4 EDIT “The best possible version of a comfort staple rendered fresh, flavorful and well done.” – Willamette Week Jun 1, 2022 Full Review Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) 46% 3/4 EDIT “[Mikkelsen's] Hannibal/Bond villain brand of drolly effete cruelty brings a necessary gravitas to a story that moves through a Disney-fied Weimar Berlin with bounce and verve.” – Willamette Week Apr 14, 2022 Full Review Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Everything Everywhere All at Once will be absolutely adored by some moviegoers from its very first moments. It’s a film made to be loved—and, given the sheer eye-popping technical wizardry at play throughout, nearly impossible to hate.” – Willamette Week Apr 7, 2022 Full Review X (2022) 94% 3/4 EDIT “A skillful, clever, not entirely satisfying homage to the heyday of both skin flicks and slasher cinema.” – Willamette Week Mar 24, 2022 Full Review
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