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Graffiti With Punctuation

Graffiti With Punctuation is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Blake Howard, Cameron Williams.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Take the Night (2022) Blake Howard "Take the Night" is a concertina, a family crime drama of second chances, worth a look to see if they're secured or squandered.
Posted Dec 18, 2022  Edit critic review
'Til Madness Do Us Part (2013) Laurence Barber A deliberately bland, apolitical excoriation of a system failing its people.
Posted May 25, 2022  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rom Boys: 40 Years of Rad (2020) Blake Howard For anyone who has ever been a skater or a BMX-er, this critic included, you'll have another sub-cultural mecca to add to the list of places to see before you die. Long may ROM reign.
Posted Nov 30, 2020  Edit critic review
The Beach Bum (2019) Blake Howard I can't fathom a world that "The Beach Bum" exists where it wasn't some instant cult classic.
Posted Mar 03, 2020  Edit critic review
2/4
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) Blake Howard The Terminator Series like The Godfather and The Godfather Part II before it, are burdened by staggering, genre and cinema redefining perfection. The rest of the franchise, including Dark Fate, are frozen.
Posted Jan 30, 2020  Edit critic review
4/4
Little Women (2019) Blake Howard Little Women is a triumph. Gerwig is a talent.
Posted Jan 30, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) Blake Howard It's impossible to think of another actor who could pair desperation, care and naked compassion in the way that LaBeouf delivers in this film.
Posted Jan 30, 2020  Edit critic review
2/4
Joker (2019) Blake Howard This film is a Joker cosplay more than Joker. A cipher elevated to saviour by the disenfranchised and angry. It's not only a bad joke, but it's also a sad joke.
Posted Dec 20, 2019  Edit critic review
1/4
Rambo: Last Blood (2019) Blake Howard "Rambo: Last Blood" has the earnestness of a eulogy, and it lands like the most inappropriately hilarious roast.
Posted Dec 20, 2019  Edit critic review
Locusts (2019) Blake Howard LOCUSTS is director Heath Davis and writer Angus Watts' exhilarating crime thriller. And it's also about orphans in many ways. Orphaned by whom is an important question.
Posted Dec 20, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
Monos (2019) Blake Howard MONOS takes the audience into the extreme unseen. MONOS is bold, confronting and impossible to forget.
Posted Nov 14, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Dead Don't Die (2019) Blake Howard The repeated use of the word "ghouls" spoken by Adam Driver is worth the price of admission alone in Jim Jarmusch's delightfully bent tale of the zombie apocalypse.
Posted Jun 15, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
Deadwood: The Movie (2019) Blake Howard We've had our chance to view the resurrection and synthesis of Milch's genius, and once again Al's words are left ringing in our ears. Last time it was don't go, this time it's rest easy.
Posted Jun 07, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
Palm Beach (2019) Blake Howard In 2019, this snapshot of affluence arrives with the stellar timing of Russell Brand's Arthur remake surfing the wave of the Global Financial Crisis.
Posted Jun 06, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) Blake Howard Pokémon Detective Pikachu has Ryan Reynolds making one of the cutest characters ever conceived say the word "dame" and also "I feel it in my jellies"; that's enough.
Posted May 21, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Arctic (2018) Blake Howard Arctic is an enthralling, matter of fact tale of survival told with a kind of straight-faced defiance. Mikkelsen is a rare performer with the physical and emotional durability to carry the film.
Posted May 21, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Free Solo (2018) Blake Howard I cannot remember a time that I've ever sweated so much watching a film. I squirmed in my seat trying to have as little of my body touching my seat as possible.
Posted Jan 31, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Old Man & the Gun (2018) Blake Howard David Lowery's cinematic farewell to one of the greatest living movie stars, Robert Redford, is an utter delight in every conceivable way.
Posted Jan 31, 2019  Edit critic review
3/5
Watch the Sunset (2017) Blake Howard "Watch the Sunset" is an anxiety-inducing single take film that uses its form to amplify the dramatic stakes.
Posted Dec 14, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
Burning (2018) Blake Howard Director Chang-dong Lee's "Burning"; a scintillating masterwork of class warfare, contemporary existential pressures and an agonising pursuit for truth in the haze of manipulated perception; contains a single staggering scene.
Posted Dec 14, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Boy Erased (2018) Blake Howard "Boy Erased" features great performances and tells an essential story; which makes it all the more conflicting that it leaves you pretty vacant.
Posted Nov 14, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) Blake Howard "The Girl in the Spider's Web" does for Lisbeth Salander what "Jason Bourne" did for the Bourne franchise, and that's not a compliment.
Posted Nov 10, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
Hotel Mumbai (2018) Blake Howard When I saw Maras' short film "The Palace," I called it "one of the most emotionally effective and powerful short films that I've ever seen." In retrospect, it's a little entree for Maras' potential.
Posted Nov 10, 2018  Edit critic review
3/5
The Merger (2018) Blake Howard Just as Australia's current coalition government nominated Scott Morrison as their leader; a man who has a boat-shaped sculpture in his office that proclaims "I stopped these"; a movie embracing humanity like "The Merger" is right on time.
Posted Nov 10, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Ready Player One (2018) Blake Howard RPO is a movie with a tsunami of these moments from about 40 years of film, T.V and gaming. If you're a collector, you may relish trying to catch them all.
Posted Sep 23, 2018  Edit critic review
2/5
Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) Blake Howard "Ant-Man and the Wasp" is beige; but (in the words of Australian comic Billy Birmingham as beloved cricket commentator Richie Benaud), it's also cream, bone, off-white and perhaps ivory.
Posted Sep 23, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
The Second (2018) Blake Howard Director Mairi Cameron creates an prestige aesthetic that affects a sense of haunting isolation, and writer Stephen Lance's script manipulates time and memory to weave a disturbing tale of creation. What secrets are entangled in this fiction?
Posted Sep 23, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
The Breaker Upperers (2018) Blake Howard "The Breaker Upperers" is a film that I had a chance to see twice in one day. After the first viewing, with a second helping on offer, I did not hesitate, not for a second.
Posted Sep 23, 2018  Edit critic review
4.5/5
BlacKkKlansman (2018) Blake Howard "BlackKKlansman" Lee gives a dissertation on the potency of satire before hitting the audience with a K.O. It's a movie "rope a dope," from the canvas look up and Spike Lee is daring us to wake up.
Posted Sep 23, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) Blake Howard Desiree Akhavan's "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" is a laughable AND disturbing vision of life behind the lines of gay conversion therapy.
Posted Aug 18, 2018  Edit critic review
4.5/5
You Were Never Really Here (2017) Blake Howard Dizzying pulsating soundscapes seamlessly edited around fleeting glimpses into disturbing past events and a subversive vision of vengeance; Ramsay and star Joaquin Phoenix have delivered something that refuses to be forgotten.
Posted Aug 18, 2018  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) Blake Howard Mission: Impossible - Fallout is a ferocious heart-pounding cardio workout in your cinema sweat.
Posted Aug 03, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Molly's Game (2017) Blake Howard "Molly's Game" suffers from a distinct lack of style to compliment the focus and bristling snap of Sorkin's writing.
Posted May 22, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
Miss Sloane (2016) Blake Howard "Miss Sloane" is a film and a character that isn't just one step ahead of you, it's lapping you around the running track like Captain America at the beginning of "The Winter Soldier."
Posted May 22, 2018  Edit critic review
3/5
Breath (2017) Blake Howard Simon Baker (from T.V's The Mentalist and L.A. Confidential) charges into the director's chair with dramatic intensity and confidence...
Posted May 22, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
Gurrumul (2018) Blake Howard Seeing this film makes you deeply grateful that we can continue to celebrate this once-in-a-generation artist.
Posted May 22, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
It (2017) Blake Howard Muschietti does not pull any punches, these kids are in the deepest trouble.
Posted May 22, 2018  Edit critic review
3/5
Red Sparrow (2018) Blake Howard "Red Sparrow" is an entertaining espionage film that works because of its candid and cynical worldview ... unfortunately (Red Sparrow is) attempting to portray the exploitation by the villains from an exploitative perspective.
Posted May 22, 2018  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Raw (2016) Blake Howard It's a mesmerising film that leaves you filled with discomfort. Justine's journey of self discovery walks a twisted path.
Posted May 22, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) Blake Howard Branagh has orchestrated the perfect actor/director vehicle for himself that finds the perfect tone between prestige and pulp cinema.
Posted Mar 19, 2018  Edit critic review
5/5
Brigsby Bear (2017) Blake Howard "Brigsby Bear" is a stunning, uplifting, hilarious and original film told with heart and warmth and so far it's one of my favourite films of the year.
Posted Mar 14, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Blake Howard It's undeniable; having Taika Waititi involved in your project will make it better.
Posted Mar 14, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Bright (2017) Blake Howard In "Bright" humanity is as ugly and careless as the filmmakers.
Posted Jan 23, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
The Shape of Water (2017) Blake Howard "The Shape of Water" feels like it's yet another Del Toro work that would not be denied. Set amongst the ideological flux beneath the shiny cordiality of 60s post war America, instead of the Spanish Civil War, lies an escapist wonder.
Posted Jan 23, 2018  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017) Blake Howard Carrey may have a touch of madness, but there's no doubt that's the burden of great genius.
Posted Jan 22, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Blake Howard Francis McDormand is undeniable as Mildred in "Three Billboards." Her performance as Mildred is the glue that prevents this muddy, Middle American morality tale from navigating McDonagh plot dalliances
Posted Jan 09, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Justice League (2017) Blake Howard "Justice League" is a mutant.
Posted Dec 29, 2017  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Blake Howard "The Last Jedi" is not a crude predictable entry to the series; Rian Johnson has delivered a luminous spark that's left the future of the franchise looking bright.
Posted Dec 21, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) Blake Howard "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" has a lot of the same ingredients that made the first outing so satisfying, but there's something missing at every turn.
Posted Oct 23, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
mother! (2017) Blake Howard "mother!" is a battery of your mind and soul. It's a film that's easy to respect and hard to like.
Posted Oct 23, 2017  Edit critic review
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