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Paul Attard

Paul Attard's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025) 62% 2/4 EDIT “Pantera feels far more anonymous, sleeker and less outlandish, than its predecessor. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Silent Night (2023) 60% 3/4 EDIT “Silent Night is as much a revenge-thriller as it is a thorny look at how the voiceless, when pushed far enough, will do whatever they can and by whatever means necessary, to make themselves heard.” – Slant Magazine Nov 27, 2023 Full Review The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) 59% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film feels like it’s content to check off to-do notes and scratch the viewer’s nostalgia itch.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2023 Full Review Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) 91% 1.5/4 EDIT “The overreliance on wisecracks and employing, and then mocking, clichés make it seem as if Honor Among Thieves is outright embarrassed by its source material and wants you to know it.” – Slant Magazine Mar 28, 2023 Full Review Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (2023) 90% 2/4 EDIT “Like many artist documentaries, Moon Is the Oldest TV is an exercise in selection and emphasis.” – Slant Magazine Mar 19, 2023 Full Review Cocaine Bear (2023) 65% 1/4 EDIT “Cocaine Bear starts running on fumes almost immediately and peters out before the second brick of cocaine is even devoured.” – Slant Magazine Feb 23, 2023 Full Review White Noise (2022) 64% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film rarely articulates the book's ideas with any real sense of the outside world without resorting to the easy exaggerations that Don DeLillo peddled in the name of satire, which, while maybe fresh back in 1985, ring completely hollow today.” – Slant Magazine Oct 5, 2022 Full Review Amsterdam (2022) 31% EDIT “[Amsterdam is] Russell’s first film where its perfunctory elements almost entirely outweigh anything resembling dramatic depth or thematic substance. ” – In Review Online Oct 3, 2022 Full Review A Jazzman's Blues (2022) 67% EDIT “There’s something so internally off about nearly everything here that it implies passivity; there’s very little that suggests this was a passion project, which can realistically be the sole reason why this screenplay wasn’t left to further collect dust.” – In Review Online Sep 23, 2022 Full Review The Blue Caftan (2022) 96% EDIT “Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan, like many movies of a similar ilk, has nothing but the best of intentions — though, that’s about all it really has going for it, save for a few solid lead performances. ” – In Review Online Sep 19, 2022 Full Review Butcher's Crossing (2022) 72% EDIT “While doing the original Butcher’s Crossing justice would be difficult under most circumstances, the end results can be chalked up to the source material being simply too good, too graceful for talent this amateurish.” – In Review Online Sep 16, 2022 Full Review The Woman King (2022) 94% EDIT “Surface-level feminist subtext gives [The Woman King] a pass to indulge the same conventional clichés as other films of its ilk...[but] the formulaic action and predictable storytelling beats...are now in service of a lot of Disney-fied girlboss energy.” – In Review Online Sep 14, 2022 Full Review Nuclear Now (2022) 75% EDIT “Basically, it’s the type of inoffensive educational video you’d throw on while substituting for a third-grade science class, except it goes on a bit longer than the allocated 45-minute period would allow. ” – In Review Online Sep 12, 2022 Full Review Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva (2022) 47% EDIT “Like all movies of this ilk, there’s a cyclical nature to the film’s narrative rhythms that moves endlessly between defeat and success. It's still just fill-in-the-blanks "superhero" franchising masquerading as something more singular.” – In Review Online Sep 12, 2022 Full Review Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby (2022) 80% EDIT “Considering all he’s come from, there’s never a doubt as to whether he deserves what he’s gotten. But Untrapped frustratingly isn’t interested in probing the artist much beyond that easy narrative.” – In Review Online Aug 30, 2022 Full Review Funny Pages (2022) 82% EDIT “Right when things begin to get interesting — when tensions begin to fly, alliances start to crumble — the film meekly ends, choosing to go out on a note as unremarkable as our lead hero’s journey.” – In Review Online Aug 24, 2022 Full Review Piaffe (2022) 92% EDIT “So while Piaffe may not click in exactly the right way for all viewers, it's still a thrillingly indefinable achievement that demands your attention and...respect. This is about as radical and forward-thinking as contemporary cinema gets.” – In Review Online Aug 13, 2022 Full Review INU-OH (2021) 91% EDIT “[Inu-Oh] joins a list of titles that regularly trade in Yuasa’s sloppiest storytelling tendencies, none of which are deal-breakers, but they do make things increasingly difficult to wholesale accept on a thematic level.” – In Review Online Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Fourth of July (2022) 38% EDIT “With the Louis name brand attached, Fourth of July has become a curious media item for a week: something to be laughed at and then forgotten immediately after.” – In Review Online Jul 1, 2022 Full Review Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022) 97% EDIT “More of a victory lap for ... Mike Judge and his sustained viability than actual cinematic achievement, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is the type of low-stakes low humor that doesn’t demand much but gives endlessly for those willing to engage.” – In Review Online Jun 29, 2022 Full Review Elvis (2022) 77% EDIT “Regardless of its qualitative merits ... there’s an intensity to the vision here that feels all too lacking in contemporary blockbusters of this size and scale.” – In Review Online Jun 23, 2022 Full Review Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) 94% EDIT “ Good Luck to You, Leo Grande hardly reads like a project worthy of much interest, instead choosing to play things safe with a subject that requires anything but. ” – In Review Online Jun 13, 2022 Full Review Hustle (2022) 94% EDIT “For the critics who claimed Sandler was the antichrist for the last few decades, this is a movie explicitly made for you.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2022 Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) 69% EDIT “Sonic's writers have bogged down what should be a relatively straight-up childrens adventure flick into a flabby two-hour exercise in world-building.” – In Review Online Apr 22, 2022 Full Review Wood and Water (2021) 100% EDIT “ The film itself is a smooth stitching of narrative and documentary modes, where the real-life events of the world serve as a haunting backdrop to the mundane lives of everyday citizens ... who want nothing more than to go about their lives unbothered.” – In Review Online Mar 23, 2022 Full Review
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