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R. Kurt Osenlund

R. Kurt Osenlund's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Küf (2012) 3/4 EDIT “Küf's strongest elements may be its seemingly aimless subplots, which are essentially dismissed just as they're introduced, with minimal warning or explanation.” – Slant Magazine Aug 11, 2020 Full Review Miss You Already (2015) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “It winningly reflects how to utilize quiet understandings and, yes, very loud laughter.” – Slant Magazine Nov 6, 2015 Full Review Grandma (2015) 92% 2/4 EDIT “Writer-director Paul Weitz's proudly boisterous star vehicle for Lily Tomlin has about as many ambitions as it does delusions.” – Slant Magazine Aug 19, 2015 Full Review Magic Mike XXL (2015) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “Magic Mike XXL plays like the party bus whose road was charitably paved.” – Slant Magazine Jul 1, 2015 Full Review The D Train (2015) 55% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film uses its male-on-male boundary-leaping to give the shopworn man-boy narrative a refresh.” – Slant Magazine May 6, 2015 Full Review Bare (2015) 56% 3/4 EDIT “Director Natalia Leite, with the aid of cinematographer Tobias Datum's handheld camera, dutifully follows her on her id-driven journey.” – Slant Magazine Apr 25, 2015 Full Review Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% 2/4 EDIT “Jamie Dornan somehow manages to render his sculpted beauty moot, which throws a major wrench in the gears for a film dependent on eroticism.” – Slant Magazine Feb 11, 2015 Full Review Into the Woods (2014) 70% 2.5/4 EDIT “This PG-rated romp is, refreshingly, less notable for its happily-ever-afters than its oh-no-they-didn'ts.” – Slant Magazine Dec 19, 2014 Full Review Unbroken (2014) 53% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film's chief misstep is taking its title too literally, and ultimately depicting Louie as an indestructible, and thus largely inhuman, superhero.” – Slant Magazine Dec 16, 2014 Full Review Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) 91% 2/4 EDIT “It places regurgitated ideas into the mouths of gifted actors, then drops them amid a kooky story that plays like an elaborate distraction from what little the film actually has to say.” – Slant Magazine Oct 12, 2014 Full Review One Chance (2013) 64% 2.5/4 EDIT “David Frankel crams his story with predictable developments, yet he matches his subject in spirit, pushing something into the spotlight that, however unlikely, elicits irresistible glee.” – Slant Magazine Oct 10, 2014 Full Review Saint Laurent (2014) 63% 2/4 EDIT “No matter how much Bertrand Bonello varies his split screens, triptychs, and geometric screen divisions, he forgets that one of the most fashionable virtues is knowing when to leave.” – Slant Magazine Sep 30, 2014 Full Review Foxcatcher (2014) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “Of Bennett Miller's many directorial feats, his canniest is his depiction of the precariousness of bonds, and how those bonds can shift, drastically yet almost imperceptibly.” – Slant Magazine Sep 23, 2014 Full Review Frank (2014) 92% 3/4 EDIT “The film boldly raises the unanswerable question of whether it's better for an artist to safely isolate his work or tweak it a bit so as to share it with the world.” – Slant Magazine Aug 11, 2014 Full Review Maleficent (2014) 54% 1.5/4 EDIT “We may have all wanted to know the story behind those famed horns, but the mystery was far preferable to having Maleficent defanged and declawed in the process.” – Slant Magazine May 29, 2014 Full Review Dear White People (2014) 91% 4/4 EDIT “The film doesn't aim to condemn the fools who believe racism in America has ended, but rather open a vast discussion of how the subject of race--and merely identity--in our country has evolved.” – Slant Magazine Mar 17, 2014 Full Review Of Horses and Men (2013) 100% 3/4 EDIT “On one hand, the film is surely a celebration of a land's distinct creatures and the people who live among them, but on the other, it's a culture's biting auto-critique.” – Slant Magazine Mar 15, 2014 Full Review Non-Stop (2014) 62% EDIT “The latest collaboration between director Jaume Collet-Serra and star Liam Neeson is made with far more care and visual detail than you might expect.” – Slant Magazine Feb 26, 2014 Full Review Pompeii (2014) 27% 1/4 EDIT “Shockingly, the violent release of smoke, fire, and meteoric debris is positioned more as a climactic afterthought than as the main attraction.” – Slant Magazine Feb 20, 2014 Full Review Endless Love (2014) 16% 2/4 EDIT “Shana Feste's film seems blissfully unaware that great fights require truly substantial conflicts.” – Slant Magazine Feb 12, 2014 Full Review The LEGO Movie (2014) 96% 2.5/4 EDIT “Appreciation of the film lies, perhaps aptly, in the pieces built on a pillaged foundation.” – Slant Magazine Feb 4, 2014 Full Review That Awkward Moment (2014) 23% 1.5/4 EDIT “Its obsession with male genitalia, or, more specifically, penis receptacles, is emblematic of its overall aura of male entitlement and its consideration of women as prizes to be lanced.” – Slant Magazine Jan 29, 2014 Full Review Gimme Shelter (2014) 27% 0/4 EDIT “Writer-director Ron Krauss's Gimme Shelter is wretched long before its odious ulterior motives come to light.” – Slant Magazine Jan 22, 2014 Full Review Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) 55% 3/4 EDIT “In keeping his actors on his sober-yet-buoyant plane, Kenneth Branagh presents a convincing romance that doesn't stall the film's brisk clip.” – Slant Magazine Jan 15, 2014 Full Review The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013) 20% 2/4 EDIT “The film gradually reveals a lot of unsavory motives, which ultimately deflate the buoyant virtues on which the film had blithely coasted.” – Slant Magazine Jan 7, 2014 Full Review
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