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Sean Fennessey

Sean Fennessey's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Dune (2021) 83% EDIT “In Dune, Villeneuve dreams big and boldly.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review Licorice Pizza (2021) 90% EDIT “Licorice Pizza is a showbiz movie about all the reckless, dangerous ghouls who haunted the industry, and also a pie-eyed picture of kids just trying to make something of themselves.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) 99% EDIT “No movies this year took more pleasure in the architecture and engineering of narrative.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review The Worst Person in the World (2021) 96% EDIT “This movie knocked me over. Everyone should see it.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review The Card Counter (2020) 88% EDIT “I can count on one hand the number of filmmakers who are capable of ripping out the insulation of our daily lives and dragging it into view for everyone to wince at.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review Bergman Island (2021) 84% EDIT “Bergman Island is not a movie with thunderous conclusions. But it has something that few examples of autofiction can claim: humility.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review The Velvet Underground (2021) 98% EDIT “It adopts the ecstatic visual style of an Andy Warhol picture and the spelunking delight of an academic deep in his thesis to render a story about one of the more iconic, if not chronicled, bands of the 20th century...” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review Red Rocket (2021) 90% EDIT “...while Baker doesn't judge his characters, even when they're monstrous, he's manifested a unique confrontation for audiences, and perhaps the dreaded discourse, too...” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review Drive My Car (2021) 97% EDIT “Its mystery propels it forward to a feeling of autonavigation, the sense that life keeps hurtling toward you even if you want to run from it. Better to have seen it without the distractions of a life at home and a second screen in reach.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review The Lost Daughter (2021) 94% EDIT “In Maggie Gyllenhaal's often unsettling adaptation of Elena Ferrante's novel, she crafts a portrait of mothers at the end of their wits that is perceptive and relatable and fearless.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review C'mon C'mon (2021) 94% EDIT “Shot in gorgeously creamy black and white across L.A., New York, and New Orleans, it's a movie not without scares or drama, but ultimately warm and refreshingly free of guile.” – The Ringer Dec 21, 2021 Full Review A Quiet Place Part II (2021) 91% EDIT “It's an interesting thread for A Quiet Place to pull on, but also in many ways a necessary one: You can watch the heroes quietly evade hypersensitive aliens only so many times before the "don't make a sound" novelty wears thin.” – The Ringer Jun 1, 2021 Full Review 28 Days Later (2002) 87% EDIT “The vanished London society that Cillian Murphy wakes up to at the start of this movie is one of the most brilliantly staged horror movie openings ever, and the survivalist battle that closes it caps a powerful story of disease paranoia.” – The Ringer Mar 22, 2021 Full Review The Host (2006) 93% EDIT “The Host filled a crucial hole in our horror life: a big, hulking, unstoppable force that we accidentally created and can't control.” – The Ringer Mar 22, 2021 Full Review Soul (2020) 95% EDIT “As per the Pixar mandate, there are laughs and plucked heartstrings, but Soul is after something deeper-an unusually curious examination of why we are the way we are...” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review Nomadland (2020) 93% EDIT “Nomadland, with its nods to Terrence Malick, transcendental masters, and the overwhelming splendor of the natural world, feels like a movie out of time and right on time.” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) 99% EDIT “Portraits of youthful confusion and fear. Eliza Hittman, who specializes in an intimate, almost procedural approach to emotional disorientation, made a road movie about a young Pennsylvania woman” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review Boys State (2020) 95% EDIT “Their casting is remarkable, editing energizing, and conclusions authentically scary.” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review Palm Springs (2020) 94% EDIT “Watch [Palm Springs] when you're down and need to climb back up” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) 97% EDIT “Lee captures Byrne and his team of musicians, dancers, and vocalists as they bend, wobble, and declaim collectively.” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review City Hall (2020) 98% EDIT “Wiseman's patient epic (run time: 272 minutes) of local government shows nearly every nook and cranny of the Boston political machine-including the dullest and most mundane aspects in all of their banality.” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review Tenet (2020) 70% EDIT “Tenet asks for patience as it winds forward and backward through its narrative accordion structure...savor, even [its] flaws.” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review Mank (2020) 83% EDIT “It's his most modest yet ambitious work in years-not so much an ode to classic moviemakers as it is a lye burn on its black-and-white majesty, and a political screed to boot.” – The Ringer Jan 27, 2021 Full Review The Hunt (2020) 57% EDIT “There's a movie about how divided we are out there somewhere, without the fear of reprisal and the bothsidesism that softens The Hunt's brute force, less interested in self-scolding than in making something authentically brazen.” – The Ringer Mar 20, 2020 Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% EDIT “This is a new and perhaps final journey for Scorsese, about not just mortality but the enormity of regret.” – The Ringer Dec 9, 2019 Full Review
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