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Portland Mercury is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Andrew Wright, Chase Hutchinson, Elinor Jones.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
New Life (2023) Chase Hutchinson Though New Life's characters may not find the world they are desperately running towards, it is Rosman’s work that contains entire worlds of its own.
Posted May 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Somebody I Used To Know (2023) Chase Hutchinson The film is rather naked in its ambitions, and there aren’t many surprises to the plot, but there's joy to be found in the script's riffs on the fraught relationships, and it remains sharply funny where it counts.
Posted Feb 10, 2023  Edit critic review
I Am D.B. Cooper (2022) Chase Hutchinson While the story of the disappearing parachuting man will endure, I Am DB Cooper will barely be a footnote.
Posted Dec 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Chase Hutchinson Rich in detail and often darker in tone, del Toro's Pinocchio breathes new life into a fantasy story done to death. However, the awe-inspiring animation can't smooth out an, at times, inconsistent handling of the film's subject matter.
Posted Nov 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Tár (2022) Chase Hutchinson TÁR is Field’s most formally disciplined, ultimately enigmatic work to date.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
The Dark Tower (2017) Andrew Wright Yes, it's unlikely a 95-minute movie could ever capture the gargantuan scope of the source material. But, jeez, couldn't it at least try?
Posted Aug 03, 2017  Edit critic review
13 Minutes (2015) Andrew Wright Although its depiction of courage under titanic pressure is both harrowing and heroic, it never really pinpoints the central character's defining moment.
Posted Aug 02, 2017  Edit critic review
Rings (2017) Andrew Wright Even if there are few surprises for fans of the series, the first half of Rings does locate enough of that uneasy nexus between technology and the supernatural to warrant a matinee.
Posted Feb 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Elle (2016) Andrew Wright A breathtakingly twisted piece of work ... that bridges some markedly taboo fault lines concerning power and sexuality. And somehow the damned thing is also funny, usually at the least opportune moments.
Posted Dec 21, 2016  Edit critic review
Demon (2015) Andrew Wright Ultimately, what lingers most strongly in Wrona's impressive film is less the actual aberration, and more the examination of how people as a group react to it being in their midst.
Posted Oct 26, 2016  Edit critic review
Morgan (2016) Andrew Wright If you're a sucker for movies where scientists tamper in God's domain, this should give you plenty to chew on.
Posted Sep 01, 2016  Edit critic review
Don't Breathe (2016) Andrew Wright [Stephen Lang] delivers a Pantheon boogeyman here, conveying with every thought and gesture that this is absolutely not a man with whom to screw. This movie should be played loud.
Posted Aug 25, 2016  Edit critic review
Ben-Hur (2016) Andrew Wright Suffers from both a curiously passive central character and the faith-based dramatic flattening that seems to be a hallmark of producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey ... The plot still has enough juice to work, but only just.
Posted Aug 18, 2016  Edit critic review
Lights Out (2016) Andrew Wright Contains more than enough flickeringly lit yelps to justify its existence. How many variations can be successfully run on the same gag? Quite a few, as it turns out.
Posted Jul 21, 2016  Edit critic review
The Infiltrator (2016) Andrew Wright A solid, mid-level walk on the seedy side ... when you factor in a terrific-even-for-him lead performance by Bryan Cranston, however, it zooms up the ranks into something well worth leaving the couch for.
Posted Jul 13, 2016  Edit critic review
The Conjuring 2 (2016) Andrew Wright This is a movie where virtually every scene is designed expressly for the purpose of causing the viewer's colon to have an out-of-body experience.
Posted Jun 08, 2016  Edit critic review
Money Monster (2016) Andrew Wright A satire about television that feels like it was made by the kind of people who claim they don't even watch TV.
Posted May 12, 2016  Edit critic review
Ratchet & Clank (2016) Andrew Wright Keeps the basic charm of the source material, fitting snugly in the tier of movies for kids located somewhere just below Pixar.
Posted Apr 29, 2016  Edit critic review
Green Room (2015) Andrew Wright Gathers up [Blue Ruin's] earlier promise and just goes sick with it, taking an intentionally stripped-down premise and jacking it up to ferocious speeds.
Posted Apr 20, 2016  Edit critic review
Midnight Special (2016) Andrew Wright Nichols' built-for-speed tribute to Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter does his influences proud, while also suggesting he's still expanding his horizons. Right now, he's as good as we've got.
Posted Mar 30, 2016  Edit critic review
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) Andrew Wright Takes an instantly fraught premise and never stops stripping the screws. Within its narrow self-imposed parameters, it's just about perfect.
Posted Mar 10, 2016  Edit critic review
London Has Fallen (2016) Andrew Wright Jingoistic enough to make the members of Team America stumble towards the woodchipper in disbelief.
Posted Mar 03, 2016  Edit critic review
The Witch (2015) Andrew Wright By the final enigmatic scene, a sustained state of magic terror has been achieved that more than justifies the acres of hype.
Posted Feb 17, 2016  Edit critic review
Deadpool (2016) Andrew Wright A terrifically faithful adaptation of some awfully obnoxious source material.
Posted Feb 10, 2016  Edit critic review
Ip Man 3 (2015) Andrew Wright A bit pokey at times, with Yen struggling to keep the historical sereneness of his character interesting ... When the throwdowns do occur, though, Oh Holy Mother of God.
Posted Jan 20, 2016  Edit critic review
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) Andrew Wright While the talented cast occasionally gets a screwball, smiling-dagger rhythm going, the narrative's insistence on staying on point certainly could have benefited from some of Green's old what the hell wobbliness.
Posted Oct 28, 2015  Edit critic review
Bridge of Spies (2015) Andrew Wright A deliberately old-fashioned hybrid of courtroom drama and Cold War skullduggery that's so expertly put together that you may not realize the beauty of its construction until after the fact.
Posted Oct 14, 2015  Edit critic review
Black Mass (2015) Andrew Wright [Depp] festoons himself with bad teeth, an elfin nose, and malamute eyes with fascinatingly grotesque results. What's new, however, is that he doesn't seem content with just pleasing himself this time.
Posted Sep 16, 2015  Edit critic review
Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) Andrew Wright When your movie is about a guy who can take out an entire room of thugs without breaking stride, it sure would be nice to actually see it.
Posted Aug 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Fantastic Four (2015) Andrew Wright This is a movie where a superhero famed for his amazing powers of elasticity can be choked out like a henchman in a Swayze flick.
Posted Aug 06, 2015  Edit critic review
Tangerine (2015) Andrew Wright Conjures up a world where an illegal business transaction in a carwash can somehow come off as silly, raw, and touching all at once. After the credits roll, the dizzy crackle remains.
Posted Jul 15, 2015  Edit critic review
Terminator Genisys (2015) Andrew Wright Comes off as serviceable at best and officially sanctioned fan wankery at worst. In trying to freshen up the ingredients for a new generation, it just clunks up the batter.
Posted Jul 01, 2015  Edit critic review
Poltergeist (2015) Andrew Wright Offers enough tweaks to the source material to justify its existence. Besides, even if you already believe clown dolls should be expunged from the earth, a little more confirmation can't hurt.
Posted May 22, 2015  Edit critic review
While We're Young (2014) Andrew Wright Makes for a fantastically entertaining character study, even if you'd flee from these characters on the street. Look at these hipsters.
Posted Apr 08, 2015  Edit critic review
It Follows (2014) Andrew Wright One of those rare scary machines where everything just clicks together, with a ferociously single-minded rightness that keeps the nerves in a state of high, perpetual thrum.
Posted Mar 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Run All Night (2015) Andrew Wright Deserves a healthy measure of respect for unearthing a rich, world-weary vein of noir fatalism. It'd punch you if it could.
Posted Mar 12, 2015  Edit critic review
What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Andrew Wright Expertly paced, consistently inventive, and exceedingly good natured. Especially when the splatter is hitting the rafters.
Posted Mar 07, 2015  Edit critic review
Tusk (2014) Andrew Wright An initially creepy slice of body horror that repeatedly fritters away its mounting bad vibes through shoe-horned flashbacks and lengthy improv digressions.
Posted Sep 18, 2014  Edit critic review
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) Andrew Wright Nails the mournful cynicism of the source material. If the sight of a man in a trenchcoat doggedly chasing down leads dings your particular pleasure centers, get to the theater as soon as you can.
Posted Sep 18, 2014  Edit critic review
2/5
Colombiana (2011) Jamie S. Rich A half-hearted backstory overburdens the pyrotechnics, putting the supporting cast in awkward situations they are ill equipped to handle.
Posted Jul 28, 2014  Edit critic review
3 Days to Kill (2014) Andrew Wright Takes Luc Besson's two favorite subjects and merrily glomps them together, along with, well, whatever may have passed by his window during the creative process.
Posted Feb 21, 2014  Edit critic review
1/5
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Jamie S. Rich In its prior forms, Grinch is storytelling as pure perfection; as a Universal picture, it's storytelling as pure poop. To look at the names of its makers is to look on a list of naughtiness most heinous.
Posted Sep 25, 2013  Edit critic review
2.5/5
J. Edgar (2011) Jamie S. Rich It took Hoover two years to arrest a suspect for kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, and at times, J. Edgar feels equally as drawn out.
Posted May 31, 2013  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Artist (2011) Jamie S. Rich Both Dujardin and Bejo are fetching, and Hazanavicius never demands they go too far with their imitation, avoiding caricature or parody.
Posted May 31, 2013  Edit critic review
3/5
Le Havre (2011) Jamie S. Rich It's blandly enjoyable, but really, Le Havre is just old-school Hollywood cheese filtered through a semi-ironic lens.
Posted May 31, 2013  Edit critic review
Pieta (2012) Andrew Wright Ki-duk's having his cake, and chewing it with his mouth open, too.
Posted May 30, 2013  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Rampart (2011) Jamie S. Rich As loosely structured as Dave's damaged psyche, it's more than just another riff on Training Day-the emotional violence is more unsettling than the physical punch-ups.
Posted May 08, 2013  Edit critic review
3/5
Friends With Kids (2011) Jamie S. Rich ...funny and crass and, at times, more than a little schmaltzy. Yet, there's something refreshing about seeing grownups talk about grown-up things in real ways.
Posted Apr 24, 2013  Edit critic review
4/5
The Imposter (2012) Jamie S. Rich Frdric's tale has enough salacious pulp that it remains interesting despite Layton's heavy-handed filmmaking.
Posted Apr 24, 2013  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Deep Blue Sea (2011) Jamie S. Rich Weisz is breathtaking...relying neither on blame nor self-pity. She and the film walk a precarious line, but watching them work their way across is a powerful experience.
Posted Apr 24, 2013  Edit critic review
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