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Paul Matwychuk

Paul Matwychuk's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% EDIT “Almost none of Jackson's low-budget quirkiness shows up in The Fellowship of the Ring, which he approaches with the kind of head-bowed reverence most people don't even bestow upon Hamlet anymore.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% EDIT “The plot feels as if it were reverse-engineered, a series of contrivances to get another group of people marooned on the island and subjected to a series of dinosaur attacks, instead of a story with an energy and drive all its own. ” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Mississippi Burning (1988) 79% 1/5 EDIT “” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Talk Radio (1988) 84% 4/5 EDIT “” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review An Actor's Revenge (1963) 95% 5/5 EDIT “” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review The Return (2003) 95% EDIT “The Return feels like an experiment designed to find out how much basic plot information you can withhold from an audience and still have an interesting movie.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Saw (2004) 50% EDIT “Capped by a final plot twist so insane I almost feel obligated to salute it out of respect for its sheer lunacy.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Birth (2004) 42% EDIT “Birth is the beigest, most suffocatingly tasteful film I've seen since Woody Allen's Another Woman.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Stage Beauty (2004) 64% EDIT “Stage Beauty pretends to be a celebration of acting, but in fact it's saying you'll be happiest if you go through life playing the most conventional role you can find.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Closer (2004) 67% EDIT “To quote the haunting Damien Rice song that bookends the film, you can't take your eyes off of it.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review The Machinist (2004) 77% EDIT “You can't stop thinking about how awful Bale looks-partly because his transformation is so unnerving, but also because the film doesn't give you anything else to think about.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Gozu (2003) 71% EDIT “Anyone in the mood for a gender-bending yakuza comedy/horror film and who doesn't mind seeing a lot of bodily fluids spewing onto the screen ought to give Gozu a whirl.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Enduring Love (2004) 58% EDIT “The notion that being stalked can lead to a spiritual rebirth is pretty goofy, but Enduring Love is skillful enough to make it seem like a reasonable proposition.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Nobody's Fool (1994) 91% 5/5 EDIT “” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Kinsey (2004) 90% EDIT “I don't think you could ask more from a biopic than what Bill Condon accomplishes with Kinsey.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review The Pianist (2002) 95% EDIT “There's a rock-solid authenticity to every scene of The Pianist that seems utterly unquestionable to me.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 23, 2003 Full Review Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) 91% EDIT “Standing in the Shadows of Motown takes one of the great unknown stories in music history and translates it to the screen in the blandest way possible.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 19, 2003 Full Review Evelyn (2002) 64% EDIT “I can't say as I was surprised by a single scene in Evelyn, and yet, despite all the manipulations of the script, the film is so sincere and good-hearted that it won me over anyway.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 19, 2003 Full Review Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O. (2002) 85% EDIT “Notorious C.H.O. made me laugh as long and hard as any movie I've seen this year.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 19, 2003 Full Review The Hot Chick (2002) 21% EDIT “Couldn't someone take Rob Schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person?” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 19, 2003 Full Review Happy Times (2001) 72% EDIT “Happy Times sounds like any of the dozens of heart-tugging comedies that Miramax seems to release every month, but it has such a peculiar premise and the central performance by Zhao Benshan is so winning that Zhang gets away with it by the skin of” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 19, 2003 Full Review Little Otik (2000) 84% EDIT “Like many Disney films, Little Otik is based on a classic European folktale, but while Disney cleans these stories up into candy-coloured moral fables ready to be adapted into breakfast cereals and ice shows, Svankmajer eagerly plunges into their d” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 19, 2003 Full Review Audition (1999) 81% EDIT “The Audition DVD includes a director's audio commentary for the final half-hour. You may as well turn the commentary on-you'll be clamping your eyes shut for most of it anyway.” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Jan 19, 2003 Full Review My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) 20% 1/5 EDIT “” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Nov 29, 2002 Full Review Turtle Diary (1985) 82% 4/5 EDIT “” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Nov 29, 2002 Full Review
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