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Collin Brennan

Collin Brennan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017) 89% B+ EDIT “Blair's neo-noir-comedy-thriller is that rare story that seems to have come along at just the right time.” – Consequence Feb 26, 2017 Full Review Girlfriend's Day (2017) 50% C EDIT “Stephenson has a rocky time bringing this alternate reality to life, if only because the premise at its core is such an inherently silly (and oddly specific) one.” – Consequence Feb 15, 2017 Full Review The Land (2016) 70% B EDIT “The Land is dedicated to exposing the human story behind inner-city crime, and the film deserves credit for exploring a diverse cross-section of humanity.” – Consequence Aug 4, 2016 Full Review The Infiltrator (2016) 72% B EDIT “The Infiltrator works best when it sticks to that strange moral grey area that everyone - regardless of their experience busting drug cartels - can relate to.” – Consequence Jul 12, 2016 Full Review Belladonna of Sadness (1973) 90% C EDIT “Belladonna of Sadness is a delirious hodgepodge of ideas that lands somewhere between Faustian fantasy and feminist screed. If you're looking for an experiential analogy, imagine dropping acid before heading into a Women's Studies course.” – Consequence Jul 7, 2016 Full Review Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016) 92% C- EDIT “Zappa's fans and true believers will already be familiar with many of these clips, so the most Eat That Question can offer is fresh context. The fact that it seems to actively avoid contextualizing, then, is a problem.” – Consequence Jun 29, 2016 Full Review The Do Over (2016) 9% D+ EDIT “A central plot device in the film is a key that's been stuffed up a corpse's rectum, and that's a decent metaphor for Sandler's Netflix-era output: Sure, it stinks, but it still fits somewhere.” – Consequence May 27, 2016 Full Review Dheepan (2015) 88% C EDIT “What begins as an uncommonly nuanced portrayal of the immigrant experience ends as a glorified, arthouse version of Taken.” – Consequence May 19, 2016 Full Review Back Home (2015) 73% B- EDIT “Louder Than Bombs doesn't provide much catharsis. There are no grand speeches, no violent screaming matches, and only quiet modes of resolution.” – Consequence Apr 7, 2016 Full Review Embrace of the Serpent (2015) 97% A EDIT “Embrace of the Serpent is a clearly beautiful film, with images as poetic as its study of humanity's destructive impact on the earth and on each other” – Consequence Mar 10, 2016 Full Review Hail, Caesar! (2016) 86% B- EDIT “Hail, Caesar! satisfies that one criterion that matters most in Hollywood, and will for time immemorial: it's entertaining as hell.” – Consequence Feb 5, 2016 Full Review Theeb (2014) 97% C EDIT “Theeb is a frustrating, undeniably beautiful piece of art that gets a lot of things right and a few crucial things wrong” – Consequence Dec 8, 2015 Full Review Krampus (2015) 67% B EDIT “Krampus may be the feel-bad movie of the holiday season, but its horrors come gift-wrapped in a surprisingly attractive package.” – Consequence Dec 3, 2015 Full Review Brooklyn (2015) 97% A- EDIT “Director John Crowley has fashioned a film that feels like a natural evolution from the Victorian novel, one in which the circumstances are deceptively modern even if everything else feels somewhat old-fashioned.” – Consequence Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Experimenter (2015) 85% B- EDIT “...a strange, disjointed, and occasionally beautiful biopic about the controversial social psychologist Stanley Milgram.” – Consequence Oct 19, 2015 Full Review Beasts of No Nation (2015) 91% B+ EDIT “The world depicted in Beasts is almost certainly like nothing you've ever seen. It will leave you appalled, restless, upset, and emotionally disheveled...” – Consequence Oct 16, 2015 Full Review Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) 57% C- EDIT “Hotel Transylvania needed a sequel about as much as Kevin James needs a hamburger.” – Consequence Sep 25, 2015 Full Review Straight Outta Compton (2015) 89% B EDIT “Straight Outta Compton's ambition occasionally exceeds its grasp, and it's probably too clumsy to be considered a great film. But it never stops feeling important.” – Consequence Aug 12, 2015 Full Review Tangerine (2015) 96% B+ EDIT “"Los Angeles is a beautifully wrapped lie," one character says, and Tangerine is perhaps the direct inverse of that: a slippery kind of truth, minus the gift wrapping of a major studio film.” – Consequence Jul 17, 2015 Full Review The Gallows (2015) 15% D EDIT “The Gallows is the kind of film that drives a man to drink after a noontime screening, and it might be what finally turns me off found-footage horror.” – Consequence Jul 9, 2015 Full Review The Face of an Angel (2014) 38% D+ EDIT “The Face of an Angel takes too many detours and breaches its viewers' trust too many times to be taken seriously.” – Consequence Jun 25, 2015 Full Review Rubble Kings (2015) 73% B EDIT “Real life is a messy, bloody, haphazard affair, punctuated by soaring highs and crushing lows. Bless the documentarian who strives to make his work the same.” – Consequence Jun 22, 2015 Full Review Poltergeist (2015) 29% D+ EDIT “Poltergeist's obsession with gimmicks stems from its near-pathological desire to feel "new." It doesn't feel new, and the sad irony is that, 30 years from now, this film will likely feel hopelessly dated.” – Consequence May 22, 2015 Full Review Iris (2014) 98% B+ EDIT “Iris is much more a celebration of life than it is a rumination on death, and it packs more laughs into its lean 78 minutes than most comedies manage in two hours.” – Consequence May 14, 2015 Full Review Little Boy (2015) 27% D- EDIT “A confused mess of Christian morality parading as entertainment, and one that no benevolent God would wish upon the world.” – Consequence Apr 23, 2015 Full Review
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