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Jack Blackwell

Jack Blackwell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) 80% 5/5 EDIT “Everything about Kelly Gang feels dangerous in the most exciting way possible.” – One Room With A View Mar 4, 2020 Full Review Color Out of Space (2019) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Befitting the title, Stanley makes a magical use of colour, deep pinks and blues and greens visually stunning and eventually terrifying, before all this saturation and brightness gives way to a climactic explosion of grey.” – One Room With A View Mar 2, 2020 Full Review Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Birds of Prey has ambition and style to spare.” – One Room With A View Feb 10, 2020 Full Review Beirut (2018) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Not much that you haven't seen before, from the war-torn Middle Eastern city setting to exchanges illuminated by headlights, but it's still worth a look thanks to the intelligence and political clout of Gilroy's script combined with Hamm's star power.” – One Room With A View Nov 11, 2019 Full Review Uncut Gems (2019) 91% 5/5 EDIT “With Uncut Gems, the Safdies are operating on another level entirely, making a film that is, quite simply, a force of nature.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review The Laundromat (2019) 42% 2/5 EDIT “The Laundromat has no idea what story it wants to tell, nor how sincerely it wants to tell it, and isn't half as much fun to watch as it clearly was to make.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review The Painted Bird (2019) 81% 5/5 EDIT “Absolutely not for everyone, and very hard to outright recommend, The Painted Bird is a searing work of art that can be just as rewarding as it is harrowing.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Moffie (2019) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Set in 1981 but never feeling all that far away from the deeply damaging attitudes still held in male-dominated institutions today, Moffie can be a tough watch, but its glimmers of romance and genuinely moving friendship keep it very worthwhile.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Rocks (2019) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Informative and moving and thoroughly entertaining, Rocks should by all rights be a breakout hit with its immensely likeable cast and propulsive, involving story.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Greed (2019) 50% 3/5 EDIT “For the most part, you'll be perfectly entertained by Greed, and when it's on, it's very funny.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% 5/5 EDIT “An absolute must-see at the cinema, that The Irishman, with all its expense and soulful ambition, exists at all is a gift from the movie gods. And don't worry, you get used to the de-aging almost immediately.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Ordinary Love (2019) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Everything is completely believable, the relationship and the home clearly lived in, and it's this that gives Ordinary Love its quiet, but sometimes overwhelming, power.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Ema (2019) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Larrain is incapable of making an entirely uninteresting film, and Ema's sounds and visuals are top-notch. Yet, even so, you need a decent script to back your style up, a crucial ingredient that Ema too often lacks.” – One Room With A View Oct 15, 2019 Full Review The Two Popes (2019) 89% 2/5 EDIT “The Two Popes is handsomely shot, and the recreations of the Vatican are majestic, but this doesn't stop it from being rather boring, and its joviality translates to too few funny jokes.” – One Room With A View Oct 14, 2019 Full Review The Aeronauts (2019) 72% 2/5 EDIT “There's a lot of potential to The Aeronauts, and somewhere there exists a really great version of this film. Yet, what should be a rollicking good time at the pictures is instead an aggravatingly schlonky trudge.” – One Room With A View Oct 14, 2019 Full Review Luce (2019) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Luce may be flawed and sometimes ridiculous, but you are always desperate to see what's around the next corner in this compelling story.” – One Room With A View Oct 9, 2019 Full Review Judy (2019) 82% 3/5 EDIT “It might not be all that special from scene to scene, but when Judy focuses most tightly on its star, it shines.” – One Room With A View Oct 9, 2019 Full Review Joker (2019) 68% 4/5 EDIT “Joker is an effectively disquieting character study featuring a great Joaquin Phoenix performance that doesn't actually court any of the controversy it's received.” – One Room With A View Oct 7, 2019 Full Review The Lighthouse (2019) 90% 5/5 EDIT “The Lighthouse is utterly unlike anything else you could see this year, a resounding crash of myth and grime that absolutely has to be seen to be believed.” – One Room With A View Oct 7, 2019 Full Review Just Mercy (2019) 85% 4/5 EDIT “You might see it all coming, but Just Mercy will break and lift your heart regardless. [Destin Daniel] Cretton's steady, unshowy direction lets his story and actors speak for themselves, making for one of the better 'Oscar Bait' titles of the year.” – One Room With A View Oct 7, 2019 Full Review Harriet (2019) 74% 3/5 EDIT “If any true-life figure deserves the superhero movie treatment, it's Harriet Tubman, and [Cynthia] Erivo more than does her story justice. It's just a shame that the script and style can't always keep up.” – One Room With A View Oct 7, 2019 Full Review The Report (2019) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Though the journalistic thriller is often a genre that's too dry to really entertain, The Report avoids such pitfalls with powerful performances, a punchy script, and an admirable courage in its bipartisan convictions.” – One Room With A View Oct 2, 2019 Full Review Clemency (2019) 92% 5/5 EDIT “[Alfre] Woodard's performance is powerful without being showy or melodramatic, using her natural severity to sell both the inhumane strength and piercing regret in Bernadine's soul.” – One Room With A View Sep 26, 2019 Full Review Zombi Child (2019) 85% 2/5 EDIT “The music is a highlight of the film, as are [Bertrand] Bonello's crisp yet off-kilter visuals... Yet, it's all in service of a repetitive and confusing story that feels much, much longer than it is.” – One Room With A View Sep 26, 2019 Full Review Monos (2019) 93% 5/5 EDIT “It's tense, exciting, and affecting, as well as a true ensemble piece that does justice to all its players, ending with the perfect amount of ambiguity.” – One Room With A View Sep 20, 2019 Full Review
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