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Stylus Magazine is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Bill Weber, Sky Hirschkron.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B+
127 Hours (2010) Jeffrey Bloomer The camera soars through canyons and beyond, and the picture is often split into two screens or more, probably because [Boyle] simply couldn't contain himself.
Posted Dec 25, 2010  Edit critic review
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) Jeffrey Bloomer The beguiling warmth Carrey and McGregor generate becomes muddled with the carefree irreverence of Steven's crimes.
Posted Dec 25, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) Jeffrey Bloomer The movie is at once angry and serious, lurid and glib.
Posted Nov 23, 2010  Edit critic review
A-
Bug (2006) Jeffrey Bloomer Bug has a simpler, more primal, and basically as honorable intention: It wants to drive us out of our heads.
Posted Jul 06, 2010  Edit critic review
A-
If... (1968) Bill Weber Its poetics of insurrection still resonate with any armchair anarchists who've even fleetingly wished death to their oppressors.
Posted Sep 16, 2008  Edit critic review
B+
Brand Upon the Brain (2006) Bill Weber The mythic nuttiness gets under your skin just as these archetypal figures gradually penetrate each other's subterfuges, skulls, and orifices.
Posted Dec 01, 2007  Edit critic review
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Bill Weber This watchable but indulgent curio blings up the petty vanities and ambitions of the criminal class, and lays greater themes in their graves.
Posted Dec 01, 2007  Edit critic review
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) Bill Weber Both technical grace and an efficient ensemble smooth over some...clunky plotting.
Posted Dec 01, 2007  Edit critic review
B
Syndromes and a Century (2006) Bill Weber A quieter, shorter but scarcely less idiosyncratic specimen of Rorschach cinema than Inland Empire.
Posted Dec 01, 2007  Edit critic review
Otoshiana (1962) David Phelps Once the premise is up, it's never as uninteresting as it should be.
Posted Nov 05, 2007  Edit critic review
B+
Snow Angels (2007) Sky Hirschkron Green doesn't want the viewer dumbfounded as to how to react so much as to match every laugh with a shudder. It's a balance of humiliation and empathy that ultimately works.
Posted Nov 05, 2007  Edit critic review
71/100
Quiet City (2007) Sky Hirschkron Quiet City was the festival highlight, for me.
Posted Jun 27, 2007  Edit critic review
60/100
Life is a Bed of Roses (1983) Sky Hirschkron What happens when a skeptic tackles tranquility? He makes it look dangerous.
Posted Jun 27, 2007  Edit critic review
70/100
Zoo (2007) Sky Hirschkron Zoo is the formal antithesis of To Catch a Predator-like exposés in its presentation of outcasts.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
64/100
Monkey Warfare (2006) Sky Hirschkron A self-professed student of Godard, [Reginald] Harkema more closely resembles another Godard acolyte, Tarantino, right down to the latter's love of weed, foxy chicks, and subtle deceptiveness.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
61/100
Congorama (2006) Sky Hirschkron The film's catalogue of absurdity is so colorful that it needn't be mined for impact, and [Phillippe] Falardeau takes the matter-of-fact route, merely gawking at the wreckage.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
33/100
Gretchen (2006) Sky Hirschkron As Steve Collins' Gretchen proves, not all Amerindies on the festival circuit are made by guys you'd expect to run into in a John Cassavetes festival.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
53/100
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) Sky Hirschkron The result is a mesh of creative sensibilities that never quite congeals.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
C
Dans Paris (2006) Sky Hirschkron [Romain] Duris is well and fine, and [Dans Paris] would do well to stick with him, but [Christophe] Honoré seems so wary of the pitfalls of the psychological drama that he has declined to make one at all.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
B
Honour of the Knights (2006) Sky Hirschkron It is [worth seeing], but [Albert] Serra's watch-or-****-off contempt remains present throughout.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
74/100
The Spy in Black (1939) Sky Hirschkron It's a peculiar and rather wonderful mismatch of subject matter and tone that, if not a success at elucidating great moral complexities of war, asks us to take unusual and perhaps unflattering pleasure in old intrigues.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
Match Point (2005) Sky Hirschkron A filmmaker out of touch with his own neuroses, making a final bid for recognition by exacerbating lives beyond his reach.
Posted Oct 30, 2006  Edit critic review
C-
The New World (2005) Sky Hirschkron Lazily reassuring, a dime-store haiku, and a master's nadir.
Posted Oct 30, 2006  Edit critic review
B
The Young Lieutenant (2005) Sky Hirschkron So, it can't quite be said that [Xavier Beauvois] is bereft of novel, impressively lurid ideas for murders, because he's expressly against them, if we're to take Antoine's lust for intrigue as our own.
Posted Sep 06, 2006  Edit critic review
B+
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) Sky Hirschkron [The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things] has a deceptively desultory structure where no moral system or 'new daddy' seems to hold much water upon introduction, but each accumulates ideas which make an atavistic reappearance at the most inopportune of tim
Posted Sep 06, 2006  Edit critic review
B+
Bubble (2005) Sky Hirschkron The film is called Bubble, but it represents the first time in ages Steven Soderbergh has worked outside of his personal territory.
Posted Sep 06, 2006  Edit critic review
A
Mutual Appreciation (2005) Sky Hirschkron More than an effortlessly perceptive observer, Bujalski has honed deceptively stylized visuals to serve deceptively stylized drama. Isolated by their lonesome, compositions are so inert as to seem intentionally inexpressive, but altogether, a visual strat
Posted Sep 06, 2006  Edit critic review
C
The Hole Story (2005) Sky Hirschkron For a tale of single-minded devotion, [The Hole Story] shines in those few occasions when Alex [Karpovsky]'s nerve is overtaken by booze, love or despair -- a lot like life.
Posted Jun 12, 2006  Edit critic review
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