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Daniel Allen
Daniel Allen's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Publications:
Movies reviews only
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Caught by the Tides (2024) |
Caught By The Tides is always an interesting watch, but mainly as an exercise in form and showing an evolving China. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 22, 2024
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Piece By Piece (2024) |
Telling the story of Pharrell Williams entirely in LEGO, Piece by Piece is not a deep documentary but it is full of unbound creativity. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 22, 2024
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Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) |
I fell in love with Grand Theft Hamlet almost immediately. It is a fantastic and wildly inventive documentary that plays into the absolute absurdity of its central mission, leading to unpredictable and extremely entertaining moments. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 17, 2024
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) |
[...] the emotion that Super/Man provokes cannot be denied. It is a potent film that is both overwhelmingly sad and hopeful, presenting Reeve with all his charisma and complexities whilst highlighting Dana’s compassion and enduring love. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 15, 2024
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Savages (2024) |
Savages may be light on emotion and plot, but it is a mesmerising film to look at. And its simplicity is by design, allowing the maturity of its message to shine through. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 13, 2024
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Julie Keeps Quiet (2024) |
A reserved but powerful drama that always has an acute focus on Julie and her pressures. That is enforced by an impressive Van den Broeck, who gives a conflicted and deeply sympathetic turn - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 13, 2024
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Blitz (2024) |
McQueen’s controlled direction over his films is part of the reason they are so masterful, and the filmmaker has a fine grasp of the tension, structure and scale of Blitz. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 13, 2024
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Timestalker (2024) |
A successfully ambitious film that is simple at times, but also a funny and enjoyable journey through time and into the future, where hope and enlightenment are on offer. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 08, 2024
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Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024) |
There is no corner that Radu Jude doesn’t cover in Eight Postcards from Utopia, with his acerbic touch shining through in a resourceful and head-spinning experimental film. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 08, 2024
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Memoir of a Snail (2024) |
A crushing but ultimately heartwarming story that breaks your soul into pieces and then puts it back together again. In a sense, it is cinematic kintsugi. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Oct 08, 2024
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My Old Ass (2024) |
It turns out that, with what's only her sophomore feature, Park has devised another mature and heartfelt coming-of-age tale. - In Review Online
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| Posted Sep 12, 2024
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In Camera (2023) |
[...] interesting, incisive and – above all – assured. Khalid knows the story he wants to tell and mostly pulls off the balance between challenging material and visuals. It is another strong debut from a British filmmaker forging their own unique path. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Sep 10, 2024
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Space Cowboy (2024) |
Space Cowboy tells the revealing and engaging story of pioneering skydive cinematographer Joe Jennings, with moments that take your breath away. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Sep 10, 2024
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Dìdi (2024) |
It’s a funny and nostalgic crowd-pleaser... but it also achieves a certain solemnity, registering as a more contemplative film than one might expect from the coming-of-age format. - In Review Online
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| Posted Sep 07, 2024
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Daughters (2024) |
These aesthetic flourishes add a pronounced emotional texture to Daughters... The film never feels insistent or instructive, introducing the main stories to us gradually and letting the human experiences at their center speak for themselves. - In Review Online
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| Posted Sep 07, 2024
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War Game (2024) |
An engaging and tense (if not wholly immersive) documentary about a test of national security and military extremism. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 30, 2024
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Green Border (2023) |
It is a bleak and brutal experience... But it is also an effective one, with fleshed-out characters and stories that intersect well. And Holland tries to find and present compassion alongside her anger at how refugees are treated. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Handling the Undead (2024) |
Handling the Undead is certainly an eerie and bleak film, taking the macabre subject matter of the undead and highlighting the intrinsic grief... However, at a certain point, glaring problems mean the film never grabs you as it should. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Never Look Away (2024) |
Lucy Lawless’ Never Look Away profiles the tenacious Margaret Moth and her remarkable story as a camerawoman covering conflicts for CNN. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Skywalkers: A Love Story (2024) |
The film is admittedly well-shot, full of death-defying imagery that will amaze most audiences. But the subtitle of Zimbalist’s film – A Love Story – implies an emotional hook that never arrives. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Your Monster (2024) |
Your Monster is a film that takes massive swings. Some of them work, some of them don’t... Yet even if this is a film that doesn’t stick the landing, it is still appealing thanks to Barrera and Dewey’s chemistry. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Kneecap (2024) |
Kneecap thankfully never feels overly important or self-serious. Original, hyperenergetic and entertaining, Peppiatt’s feature debut is a film that revels in how unruly it and its main characters are. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Gasoline Rainbow (2023) |
Gasoline Rainbow is a Gen Z road trip movie that blends fiction and non-fiction – but is hampered by a story that leaves you wanting more. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Universal Language (2024) |
Universal Language is a perfect film about the power of connection, surreal and abstract at times but extraordinarily likeable. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed (2024) |
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed is worth a watch for how it bends the documentary form, distorting the context of real footage to interrogate the notions of technology and memory. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Tiger Stripes (2023) |
Even at 95 minutes long, there isn’t much to Tiger Stripes, which loses itself by the end. But it is still a decent tiger tale that demonstrates the assuredness of Amanda Nell Eu with her first film. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) |
The best thing about Made in England is how a film about forever appreciating the genius of Powell and Pressburger also gets us to equally appreciate Scorsese’s knowledge and passion for cinema, and the fact that we can still access it. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Fantastic Machine (2023) |
Fantastic Machine is a transfixing essay telling the history of the camera and our society’s growing obsession with the moving image. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Monkey Man (2024) |
Whilst Patel’s first feature isn’t perfect, it is fairly accomplished. It is also a gritty and physical brawler of a film, combining influences from Asian action cinema and Indian mythology. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Commitment to Life (2023) |
Jeffrey Schwarz’s film Commitment to Life is a wonderful, all-encompassing documentary about the superstars and communities who mobilised to battle the AIDS epidemic. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Who'll Stop The Rain (2023) |
The big problem with Who’ll Stop the Rain is that it loses steam... [the] quiet emotions of Chi-Wei and Ching start to dominate the tone of Su I-Hsuan’s script but, as a result, it is almost as if the drive that propelled the film disappears. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Days of Happiness (2023) |
It slightly drags towards the end, but overall, Chloé Robichaud achieves a dramatically fulfilling balance between the heavier aspects of her story and the thrill of a symphony concert. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Brief History of a Family (2024) |
Jianjie Lin’s debut Brief History of a Family is an astonishing film dealing with the remnants of China’s one-child policy – and the expectations placed by parents. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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A Thousand and One (2023) |
There is something delicately novelistic in the way A Thousand and One tackles its themes of family and gentrification, helped by a range of nuanced performances (especially from Teyana Taylor). - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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The Delinquents (2023) |
Moreno first presents a heist as mundane as his characters’ lives before complexifying things. This is partly a film of hitches, the pressures and complications of staying in prison or keeping up appearances. Yet it is also ever-shifting. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) |
It may not leave you enthralled, but All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt shows the director has great promise, especially visually. Maybe from this, a great river of filmmaking will form in the future. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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The Taste of Things (2023) |
Trần Anh Hùng has cooked up a spectacular film that takes its time, placing the central relationship on a gentle simmer... The Taste of Things is romantic. It’s tragic. It’s simply magnifique. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Cobweb (2023) |
If Cobweb is supposed to be a satire on filmmaking, that element takes a back seat as the film enters absurdist territory near the end... Nevertheless, it is a frenetic and, at times, humorous film that works best as an enjoyable farce. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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All of Us Strangers (2023) |
Warm, compassionate, and melancholic in equal measure, All of Us Strangers is perfect... Andrew Haigh tackles love, loss and loneliness whilst crafting an absorbing and fairly complex story. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Stopmotion (2023) |
Aisling Franciosi is outstanding in Stopmotion, Robert Morgan’s creative horror debut about an animation director. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Priscilla (2023) |
A tender, poignant drama and an excellent continuation of her muted but no less intoxicating style. It shows Coppola at her most understanding as she presents a complex, multi-faceted love story where two lovers drift apart. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Memory (2023) |
An intimate and softly provoking dementia drama with some brilliant performances, it is genuinely interesting to see how Memory plays out. It teases darker directions the narrative could take but remains restrained. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
Jeff Nichols has proven to be a character-driven filmmaker ever since his debut... He continues that with The Bikeriders, burrowing down to the essence of these personalities as societal outsiders who want to be a part of something. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Animalia (2023) |
Opaque in a way that will frustrate some, depicting an alien invasion that is spiritual rather than physical, Animalia is a somewhat alluring rumination on privilege and religion through a woman’s journey. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Cassandro (2023) |
Despite the training montages and moments from your archetypal sports movie, Cassandro is more than a standard biopic. It is an engaging, often entertaining drama that treats pro wrestling and Mexican lucha libre with the reverence it deserves. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Sky Peals (2023) |
Sky Peals is an intriguing sci-fi drama and a very promising debut from Moin Hussain... once you strip the sci-fi elements and the multicoloured visions, you realise how measured and universal the story is. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Fairyland (2023) |
Fairyland is a well-filmed and interesting drama that is free-spirited in its structure and content. More often than not, Durham’s film works because of the terrific performances by Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Scrapper (2023) |
Scrapper is about opening up and how a girl who is so steadfastly independent learns it is okay to need someone. Yet Charlotte Regan adds fun and inventiveness to this, creating a kitchen sink drama with a modern visual style. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) |
Little Richard: I Am Everything is a scattershot but fairly interesting music documentary about one of the most dynamic, spirited men in rock and roll history. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Other People's Children (2022) |
Other People’s Children is a tapestry of love, a film about the obstacles in becoming part of a family and the painful act of detachment. And it is a film about the flow of life and time ticking away - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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