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Michael Fairbanks

Michael Fairbanks's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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High School Musical 2 (2007) 83% 7/10 EDIT “High School Musical 2 is more confident in its absurd premise and as such, is a much more entertaining film than the first. It's a goofy summer romp that knows exactly what it is and relishes in that.” – The Young Folks Sep 10, 2019 Full Review The Dead Don't Die (2019) 55% 6/10 EDIT “Even when it's falling short of its potential, The Dead Don't Die is oddly adorable for a zombie film.” – The Young Folks Jun 17, 2019 Full Review Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) 68% 6/10 EDIT “[Pokémon: Detective Pikachu] is a love letter to those who spent years catching Pokemon on the school bus, on their couch, and outside a Starbucks.” – The Young Folks May 13, 2019 Full Review After (2019) 18% 3/10 EDIT “It just...lingers, futilely praying that the leads can wring something out of this material.” – The Young Folks Apr 15, 2019 Full Review Wonder Park (2019) 35% 2/10 EDIT “A group of characters so flat that 3-D can only give them one dimension. A film about creative inspiration that has absolutely none.” – The Young Folks Mar 18, 2019 Full Review Greta (2018) 61% 4/10 EDIT “This is such a tragic waste of Huppert and Moretz, who both deserve a better vehicle. Perhaps the best person to bring this unique female driven take on the stalker subgenre was not a man.” – The Young Folks Mar 4, 2019 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) 90% 6/10 EDIT “If you've been in love with these characters from day one, there's little doubt that watching them fly off into the sunset will light a fire in your heart.” – The Young Folks Feb 25, 2019 Full Review Bumblebee (2018) 91% 7/10 EDIT “Against all odds, Bumblebee is a promising new beginning for the Transformers franchise. If they can continue with this more character driven approach and remove it completely from Bay's continuity, they definitely could have something here.” – The Young Folks Dec 21, 2018 Full Review Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) 52% 4/10 EDIT “A frustrating failure built on an ambitious filmmaker with both a lack of support from a studio who clearly wanted to wash their hands of his work, and a misguided tonal sensibility that clashes with his material.” – The Young Folks Dec 10, 2018 Full Review Creed II (2018) 83% 7/10 EDIT “Creed II is not nearly as rousing, heartbreaking, and life affirming as the original. However, on it's own terms, it's an enjoyable sequel that nimbly brings Adonis into the fold of the original films.” – The Young Folks Nov 26, 2018 Full Review The Front Runner (2018) 58% 5/10 EDIT “The film isn't terrible, but it's hard to shake the feeling that we're being robbed of an important story for this moment.” – The Young Folks Nov 9, 2018 Full Review Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) 98% 7/10 EDIT “While it never quite finds enough of a voice to be considered a must see, Can You Ever Forgive Me? is often as compelling as the fake letters Isreal wrote for her victims.” – The Young Folks Oct 29, 2018 Full Review The Oath (2018) 63% 4/10 EDIT “While The Oath does have occasional moments of intensity and wit, they are almost always undercut by Barinholtz's chronically weak storytelling.” – The Young Folks Oct 22, 2018 Full Review The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018) 65% 7/10 EDIT “Watching The House With A Clock In Its Walls feels like flipping through the cooky 150 page children's books a grade schooler buys at their library book fair. You can practically see the peanut butter and jelly stains at the edge of every frame.” – The Young Folks Sep 21, 2018 Full Review The Happytime Murders (2018) 23% 3/10 EDIT “This is an anti comedy, the kind of film that will make an entire generation wonder why we ever bothered making hand puppets into full fledged creatures.” – The Young Folks Aug 27, 2018 Full Review The Meg (2018) 47% 6/10 EDIT “This would've likely been best served as a ninety minute, blood spattering, joke cracking roller coaster. While it obviously has some awareness of this, it still has a fool hearted notion that it should be all things to all people.” – The Young Folks Aug 13, 2018 Full Review Skyscraper (2018) 48% 5/10 EDIT “It's likable enough to make for an enjoyable watch as long as your brain is in deep sleep mode, but it never reaches for anything that might make it stand out.” – The Young Folks Jul 13, 2018 Full Review Ideal Home (2018) 68% 8/10 EDIT “This is the kind of LGBTQ + film that could both exist and succeed in the mainstream.” – The Young Folks Jul 2, 2018 Full Review Adrift (2018) 69% 6/10 EDIT “It never dares to be as dangerous as the story it depicts but does an admirable job of playing it safe.” – The Young Folks Jun 5, 2018 Full Review Breaking In (2018) 27% 1/10 EDIT “What a waste of Union, who has been a good soldier in crap movies for a long time, obviously deserving a better opportunity than this to show us what she's made of.” – The Young Folks May 16, 2018 Full Review Rampage (2018) 51% 4/10 EDIT “Rampage just might be the most blasé monster movie you could ever sit through.” – The Young Folks Apr 13, 2018 Full Review The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017) 12% 4/10 EDIT “Perhaps the greatest tragedy of The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is that nobody told writer/director Shawn Christensen that his gag-on-impact green smoothie of dated arthouse tropes was, in fact, a comedy.” – The Young Folks Mar 7, 2018 Full Review Black Panther (2018) 96% 8/10 EDIT “Black Panther is going to be a cornerstone of blockbuster cinema, giving a criminally undervalued community the chance to not just be on-screen but to thrive on-screen.” – The Young Folks Feb 16, 2018 Full Review 12 Strong (2018) 50% 4/10 EDIT “12 Strong is about as basic a film as one could make about something as complex as war.” – The Young Folks Jan 19, 2018 Full Review Bright (2017) 26% 3/10 EDIT “It doesn't even come close to tapping into the potential of its premise, instead opting for cheap shock value and a generic story.” – The Young Folks Dec 28, 2017 Full Review
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