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Brian Orndorf
Tomatometer-approved critic
East Coast
brianorndorf.com
Movies reviews only
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) |
Struggles with tonal balance and repetition. However, it’s hard to deny the spirit of the endeavor, which is meant to be wild and surprising. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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The Last Breath (2024) |
It's eager to meet marketplace demands for rowdy shark action and bloody messes, but such combat is the least interesting element in the endeavor, which finds a decent amount of tension in the dive itself, not the horrors of the deep. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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The Beast Within (2024) |
Has mood and competent performances, but there’s very little to the production that’s meant to grab the viewer, often caught struggling to find intensity with a tale of growing threat. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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Spread (2024) |
Doesn’t do enough with its central concept of female gaze interests in the world of X-rated entertainment. There’s room for sharpness and enlightenment, but Charlet would rather play dumb instead. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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Find Me Falling (2024) |
Thespian charm certainly helps the cause here. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Clear Cut (2024) |
“Clear Cut” falls apart fairly quickly, making for a tough viewing experience, with the endeavor skipping an opportunity to become something lean and mean in the world of logging. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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My Spy the Eternal City (2024) |
A sloppy, ill-conceived sequel, and it’s debatable if anyone wanted it in the first place. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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Oddity (2024) |
Frights remain in play in the movie, which connects with genre formula and many inspired moments of pure filmmaking. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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Twisters (2024) |
“Twisters” isn’t a grand reimagining of tornado alley terror, but as pure entertainment with several menacing storm and rescue sequences, it works, reviving large-scale weather nightmares for the masses. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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Widow Clicquot (2023) |
It’s elegantly made by Napper and gracefully acted by lead Haley Bennett, who offers a complex understanding of stress, adding some emotional sophistication to an interesting picture. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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Sing Sing (2023) |
“Sing Sing” takes chances with acting and tone, and it mostly hits the mark. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Longlegs (2024) |
What’s here is…a bit goofy. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Divorce in the Black (2024) |
“Divorce in the Black” is a baffling viewing experience, and while it opens with a comfortable sense of theatrical nonsense, it quickly dissolves into tediousness. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Girl You Know It's True (2023) |
Verhoeven goes for glossiness, which accurately reflects the Milli Vanilli experience, but there seems to be a lot more to this tale than the film is willing to share. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) |
“Sorry/Not Sorry” isn’t a crude hit piece, but a necessary refresher on common cruelties facing those who don’t have the finances and influence to secure their voice when personal safety and security is threatened. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Faye (2024) |
She’s bruised but present, and Bouzereau does a commendable job reintroducing a habitually misunderstood person to viewers. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Fly Me to the Moon (2024) |
It’s meant to be easily digestible with a certain broadness to keep it accessible, but Gilroy loses the battle of balance, making for an uneven and somewhat bewildering movie. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Despicable Me 4 (2024) |
It doesn’t take long before the sequel starts to feel overstuffed, and a lack of teamwork, or even family time, makes the movie play like a collection of “Despicable Me” shorts stitched together. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) |
Murphy is awake and the supporting cast helps the cause, giving the movie some snap as it tries to balance the needs of a modern actioner with the hits of nostalgia the public loves these days. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Mother, Couch (2023) |
There’s plenty of itchiness to the feature, but for those willing to stick with the oddity and intensity of the journey, moments of clarity manage to emerge. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Space Cadet (2024) |
An entertaining, but not remarkable feature that’s light on laughs, but has a certain charm when viewed with lowered expectations. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Boneyard (2024) |
The feature seems rather clueless when it comes to good taste and performances, leaving viewers with a limp whodunit. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024) |
Weigel is somewhat attentive to the struggle of the story, which gives “Sound of Hope” needed authenticity. It doesn’t last long, but in the realm of faith-based cinema, a glimpse of reality is a rare event. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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A Family Affair (2024) |
LaGravenese aims for the finish line, hoping to leave on a high note of fairy tale love, but there’s just too much that doesn’t sit right in “A Family Affair.” - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) |
Sarnoski mostly scores with the endeavor, which retains most of the intensity of the brand name while gently opening the scope of the premise. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 27, 2024
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) |
Instead of kickstarting a stimulating overview of survival and antagonism, the feature just lays on the screen, mostly lacking dramatic inspiration and concise writing. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 27, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
It’s a black comedy that’s surprisingly low on laughs, but the production does have the commitment of the cast, who do their best to bring Lanthimos’s peculiarities and fetishes to life. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 27, 2024
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Reunion (2024) |
Instead of a tightly directed tale of suspicion, the picture is more improvisational in nature, setting the actors loose to play with the weirdness and rising concerns of these personalities. The laughs just don’t arrive. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 27, 2024
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A Sacrifice (2024) |
Performances are communicative and, with Hoeks, compellingly cracked, generating some necessary instability in a picture that’s properly rattling at times, but not distressing enough. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Daddio (2023) |
The endeavor isn’t profound, but Hall locates pockets of pain to explore, delivering a compelling examination of guarded people developing a powerful sense of trust during a ride home from the airport. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Agent Recon (2024) |
The reality here is how Norris-less the feature is, and admirers of the actor should take that into consideration before enduring this painfully clumsy endeavor. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Trigger Warning (2024) |
Hopes to summon the spirit of Chuck Norris, but only gets as far as Joe Don Baker. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 21, 2024
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The Exorcism (2024) |
It feels like a crude reworking of a deeper idea, slathered with horror formula to make it palatable to the mass audience. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 20, 2024
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Fancy Dance (2023) |
The picture does have its moments of investigation and confession, and a talented cast is more than capable of bringing the material to life, even during its clumsiest scenes. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 20, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
“Thelma” is fresh, heartening, and hilarious, with Margolin skillfully making a feature that’s wildly entertaining but also softer when necessary, offering a touch of reality to go with all the craziness. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 18, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
It’s not always a hypnotic movie, but there are moments where the endeavor feels lived-in, capturing a time in American life. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 18, 2024
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The Present (2024) |
Ditter makes a Disney Channel-type of viewing experience instead, going broad and borderline obnoxious with this feature, which establishes adult concerns but offers childish antics. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Life After the Navigator (2020) |
“Life After the Navigator” is an easy fit for Downs’s series, but it’s also a tale that doesn’t always deal smoothly with the extreme ways of the subject. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 17, 2024
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The Imaginary (2023) |
It’s not always a riveting study of heroes and villains, but the production aims for details with the effort, holding attention with a significant creative achievement that makes full use of the art form. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Latency (2024) |
Croke isn’t too confident when it comes to scares, preferring to hit viewers with loud noises instead of nailing them with more interesting acts of terror. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Brats (2024) |
Viewers will likely want quality time with the actors as they process the weirdness and maybe the wonderfulness of it all. McCarthy only offers fleeting moments of reconnection. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Inside Out 2 (2024) |
It’s hard to replicate the brilliance of “Inside Out,” but the next chapter in the development of Riley gets pretty close to greatness, remaining familiar but also charting new creative and emotional territory. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Tuesday (2023) |
There’s a rich sense of inspired filmmaking driving the effort, with Oniunas-Pusic overseeing outstanding performances and imaginative storytelling with this often stunning exploration of life and loss. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 11, 2024
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Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024) |
A hilarious odyssey into major trouble for the characters, losing none of the charm and mischief of the original series. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 11, 2024
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Cora Bora (2023) |
“Cora Bora” is a little lumpy at times with pace, and a few supporting characters seem superfluous to the odyssey, but the feature remains involving and empathetic, detailing a specific stretch of emotional unrest. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 11, 2024
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Reverse the Curse (2023) |
It ends up a mushy pile of moods, but, once again, acting is the highlight of the effort. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 11, 2024
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Ride (2024) |
“Ride” is an editorial pass away from greatness, but the effort does hit a few gut-rot moments of regret worth sticking around for, and its central idea of generational guilt occasionally reaches its potential. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 11, 2024
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Ultraman: Rising (2024) |
Captures an interesting atmosphere of heroism in many forms, keeping Ken a layered character dealing with most unusual responsibilities. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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The Watchers (2024) |
It’s a long wait for something special to happen, and while Shine has ideas, Shyamalan struggles to make them come alive. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Longing (2024) |
Gabizon launches an interesting mystery of behavior with the tale, adding a few turns along the way to keep the viewing experience involving and enjoyably weird before the whole thing sobers up in the end. - Blu-ray.com
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| Posted Jun 05, 2024
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