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Quartz is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Adam Epstein.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Ghostbusters (2016) Noah Berlatsky It's as if, in exorcizing the original's misogyny, Ghostbusters has at last managed to find the soul it thought it had all along.
Posted Sep 23, 2019  Edit critic review
Total Recall (2012) Noah Berlatsky It's nothing but a third-rate genre exercise.
Posted Sep 16, 2019  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (2016) Noah Berlatsky Through successive rounds of whitewashing, one of the great works of cinema has been transformed into a bland, brainless multiplex shoot-em-up.
Posted Sep 16, 2019  Edit critic review
War Dogs (2016) Noah Berlatsky Efraim and David's casual callousness is supposed to be funny... But the uncomfortable truth is that War Dogs, perhaps unconsciously, provides an accurate picture of current US attitudes towards war.
Posted Sep 16, 2019  Edit critic review
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Noah Berlatsky Rogue One is not a terrible film-especially compared to the Star Wars prequels. But its energy and its imagination are all focused on nostalgic fan service and Easter eggs.
Posted Sep 16, 2019  Edit critic review
Loving (2016) Noah Berlatsky By focusing on community, rather than just on Richard and Mildred, the film pushes back against multiple stereotypes.
Posted Sep 16, 2019  Edit critic review
Atomic Blonde (2017) Noah Berlatsky tomic Blonde easily surpasses the last umpty-ump Bond films in dash, inventiveness, and delivering on those empowerment fantasies.
Posted Sep 16, 2019  Edit critic review
Ricki and the Flash (2015) Noah Berlatsky In the end, the film insists that there's no contradiction between domesticity and biker jackets. As a mom, Ricki rocks.
Posted Aug 29, 2019  Edit critic review
Southpaw (2015) Noah Berlatsky While Southpaw takes care to land punches on all the familiar targets, it also ducks and weaves around masculine stereotypes in some unexpected ways.
Posted Aug 29, 2019  Edit critic review
Tomorrowland (2015) Noah Berlatsky If dreams can change the future, then maybe a first step towards Tomorrowland is finding alternatives to Tomorrowland and its action film heroic status quo.
Posted Aug 29, 2019  Edit critic review
A
Apollo 11 (2019) Adam Epstein It is a depiction of a wondrous human experience, told with startling clarity. It's as close as any of us will ever get to that big gray rock floating far above our heads.
Posted Mar 23, 2019  Edit critic review
A-
Us (2019) Adam Epstein Us puts a huge, can't-miss spotlight on Peele's acute sense of the iconic moment. Every other scene, line, image, and music cue seem destined to live on in the collective cultural psyche.
Posted Mar 14, 2019  Edit critic review
B+
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Adam Epstein Despite having only the Western genre and a vague thematic through-line of "death" in common, the stories build on one another, subtly cohering into something greater than the sum of its parts.
Posted Nov 20, 2018  Edit critic review
C
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Adam Epstein It's cautious and inoffensive. And that's exactly why it's so disappointing. The Freddie Mercury biopic is the antithesis of its subject's abundant energy, his fearless artistry.
Posted Nov 02, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
Suspiria (2018) Adam Epstein Guadagnino bounces around from calm to frenetic and back again, instilling each scene with a sense of unpredictability-it can all cohere or implode at any moment.
Posted Oct 26, 2018  Edit critic review
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977) Jenni Avins It preceded the Muppet movie, and without those otters we may never have had the fantastic creatures of Labyrinth.
Posted Oct 23, 2018  Edit critic review
B
Mid90s (2018) Adam Epstein Without this believable group of kids, Mid90s would have fallen apart. It's a testament to Hill's ability as a writer and director that it didn't, that he was able to elicit such strong performances.
Posted Oct 19, 2018  Edit critic review
B
22 July (2018) Adam Epstein Greengrass manages to avoid turning the film into an utterly dire, hopeless watch. It's devastating, to be sure, but not defeatist.
Posted Oct 19, 2018  Edit critic review
A
First Man (2018) Adam Epstein First Man isn't the giant leap for mankind. It's Armstrong's one small step, and it's all the better for it.
Posted Oct 10, 2018  Edit critic review
A-
A Star Is Born (2018) Adam Epstein Cooper finds a new voice too, as a director. The actor understands how to stage a scene (as well as stage a literal stage-the concert scenes are stunning) in ways that, like the acting, feel instinctive.
Posted Oct 07, 2018  Edit critic review
A
Eighth Grade (2018) Adam Epstein Beneath the veneer of a quippy teenage dramedy, Eighth Grade is a devastating study of anxiety, depicting with keen insight the crushing weight of the disease.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
A-
BlacKkKlansman (2018) Adam Epstein Stallworth's operation is just one small victory in an ongoing struggle, and Lee makes sure we leave the theater knowing that struggle is far from over.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
The Shape of Water (2017) Adam Epstein The film proves that intentional ambiguity doesn't necessarily mean a story ends unsettled. That it doesn't explicitly tell you which interpretation to have makes all of them more powerful.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
A
Annihilation (2018) Adam Epstein It's a thrilling, original, relentlessly disquieting existential nightmare of a movie.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
Black Panther (2018) Adam Epstein It's the most formidable Marvel film to date; a cinematic artifact that feels like it shouldn't belong to the corporate superhero apparatus. But it's really exciting to know that it does.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
A-
Dunkirk (2017) Adam Epstein Dunkirk ends on the burning remnants of Tom Hardy's Spitfire, an emblem of the fire of the human spirit that rages wherever injustice might try to put it out.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
The Disaster Artist (2017) Adam Epstein As a meta commentary on the misunderstood visionary, The Disaster Artist is a triumph. Yes, it's another of Franco's earnest forays, but this one works because it's so deeply personal.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
B-
mother! (2017) Adam Epstein Mother! feels like a terrible dream you had when you were younger-one you thought was about one thing but realize years later that it was actually about something else.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Adam Epstein Directed by Arrival maestro Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 is a film that, like all of us-human and replicant alike- actively wrestles with its own existence.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
A-
The Florida Project (2017) Adam Epstein Moonee is somehow relentlessly entertaining without ever, even in the slightest bit, coming across like a child mascot dreamed up solely for our amusement.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
A-
Arrival (2016) Adam Epstein Villeneuve and company change the game right in front of your eyes, and you don't realize it until the exact moment that you need to.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
Tour De Pharmacy (2017) Adam Epstein Tour de Pharmacy is exactly the type of utterly silly and self-aware comedy that seems to work well in contrast to our dour reality at present.
Posted Aug 27, 2018  Edit critic review
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