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Draftkings Nation is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Murjani Rawls.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
Clock (2023) Murjani Rawls 'Clock' gets to the root of the patriarchal standards women have to operate within with a sometimes grim filter.
Posted Feb 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Raging Grace (2023) Murjani Rawls The rage isn’t blunt or swift – it runs throughout bloodlines, finding a way to get out of generations of service to people who only look at others through the views of lazy stereotypes and certain gain.
Posted Nov 29, 2023  Edit critic review
Good Burger 2 (2023) Murjani Rawls It’s the same order inside new packaging that you may or may not still have a taste for.
Posted Nov 29, 2023  Edit critic review
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) Murjani Rawls 'Songbirds & Snakes' won't make you feel any more resentful of the fact that fictitious barbaric competition exists inside this world, but perhaps it will make you understand why it was able to grow into the thing we know in later stories.
Posted Nov 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Wish (2023) Murjani Rawls It’s not as if Disney doesn’t know how to love on its accolades. They just did it with the short Once Upon A Studio. Wish is where they allowed the celebration to get in the way of telling the stories they have always managed to bring home.
Posted Nov 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Saltburn (2023) Murjani Rawls It feels as though Saltburn pulls you in two directions, asking you to keep an eye on this outsider and feeling some contempt for these people with a massive amount of fortune.
Posted Nov 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Thanksgiving (2023) Murjani Rawls You have a film that knows what it is and what has come before it and provides its own switches. There’s nothing to contemplate after the credits roll other than the good time you had.
Posted Nov 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Next Goal Wins (2023) Murjani Rawls The main struggles of the man supposed to lead his team to glory ultimately drag down any of the “we did it” motion this film tries to earn.
Posted Nov 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Divinity (2023) Murjani Rawls There’s a more thematic richness to this world that is too shielded to bring everything into fuller form.
Posted Nov 13, 2023  Edit critic review
The Marvels (2023) Murjani Rawls The Marvels excites you to see the main characters again first and where the overall “phase” is going as the cherry on top. I feel the MCU has lost some of that in the turnover but has regained some of that luster with the three they showcase here.
Posted Nov 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Quiz Lady (2023) Murjani Rawls It’s not always perfect, and many roads it chooses to go down are left hanging as outliers. But the film nails the parts it’s good at and allows its leads to enhance their overall arcs to satisfying effect.
Posted Nov 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Fingernails (2023) Murjani Rawls Just when you think 'Fingernails' is ready to divulge the answer to what it feels about the game of love and the roles we play, it pulls back and elects for ambiguity.
Posted Nov 07, 2023  Edit critic review
The Mill (2023) Murjani Rawls We’re supposed to be as furious as Joe is and heed the call to action to recontextualize where we are as workers. It just wastes the urgency that it looks to build earlier in the film so much that the fire and fury wear off.
Posted Nov 07, 2023  Edit critic review
Nyad (2023) Murjani Rawls We have a story of a person channeling all the doubt, hurt, and trauma to push them to climb the top of their mountain. Those themes hit harder if you give space to all sides of the subject – something Nyad goes in a touch-and-go manner.
Posted Nov 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Sly (2023) Murjani Rawls The documentary doesn’t allow itself to languish in despair or potential criticisms (if any) for too long.
Posted Nov 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Priscilla (2023) Murjani Rawls Once Priscilla gets the resolve to walk out that door, the other story of the man himself careens down the rabbit hole of tragedy. What matters to Coppola provides Priscilla with the last frame and say.
Posted Nov 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Pain Hustlers (2023) Murjani Rawls Essentially, 'Pain Hustlers' realization isn’t as eye-opening as it should be – considering there are other films and series that have told the same story.
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Story Ave (2023) Murjani Rawls 'Story Ave' throws just enough surprises and room for the performances to do the work in making this a meaningful experience.
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023) Murjani Rawls The easter eggs may make you want to watch all the Hell House films to see the connections and why. It doesn’t look like the franchise intends to slow down, and if things are still entertaining, why should it?
Posted Oct 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) Murjani Rawls The complications pile up, and the investment in building up so much backstory comes at the expense of the scares.
Posted Oct 26, 2023  Edit critic review
The Holdovers (2023) Murjani Rawls The Holdovers understand that it’s important to find the people in your life who will reinforce good things by being willing to show their flaws rather than constant reassurance despite not giving themselves that grace.
Posted Oct 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Appendage (2023) Murjani Rawls Rennard does a particularly good job in scenes where Hannah has to battle with her mother over a past mistake to see there’s always time to make a change. However, Appendage doesn’t feel like it can juggle its major themes once they are placed together.
Posted Oct 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Old Dads (2023) Murjani Rawls What’s considered fun and acceptable may not be anyone, so where do I fit in? However, things feel included to have something to shake a fist at.
Posted Oct 24, 2023  Edit critic review
May December (2023) Murjani Rawls Todd Haynes May December 'pits your emotions against each other, basking in situations that walk a fine line to where morality should land. When you think that you can enjoy yourself, the film acts like a Venus fly trap closing in on you.
Posted Oct 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Fancy Dance (2023) Murjani Rawls The final images revolve around what the film looks to return to. That’s one of finding solace in community and ritual, even when struggles break you down.
Posted Oct 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Ferrari (2023) Murjani Rawls To actively describe the overall ethos of Michael Mann’s Ferrari is to picture the hard crashing to earth of a compelling figure from all sides of his life within a three-month period in 1957.
Posted Oct 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Milli Vanilli (2023) Murjani Rawls If you told somebody the story of Milli Vanilli, who had no idea the story was real, they would probably think it was a parody.
Posted Oct 23, 2023  Edit critic review
The Devil on Trial (2023) Murjani Rawls 'The Devil On Trial' is sparse on deep diving into the details, but if anything, it chronicles a family broken by a shared experience and a person who is no longer here in connection to it.
Posted Oct 19, 2023  Edit critic review
Dream Scenario (2023) Murjani Rawls 'Dream Scenario' is entirely zany, but has its feet firmly planted on the floor.
Posted Oct 19, 2023  Edit critic review
She Came to Me (2023) Murjani Rawls Love can heal and push buried creative endeavors to the forefront, but can’t save the world. At least not in the way 'She Came To Me' intends for it to.
Posted Oct 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Rustin (2023) Murjani Rawls The format might feel familiar, but the sense to look back and take heed of the pioneers of the fights still raging today is as relevant as ever.
Posted Oct 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Aggro Dr1ft (2023) Murjani Rawls As I live and breathe, I’m unsure what to call AGGRO DR1FT. It’s not a feature film in the conventional sense, but rather a moving, flowing, frustrating piece of art that is enticing enough to witness.
Posted Oct 17, 2023  Edit critic review
Poor Things (2023) Murjani Rawls It’s to the audience's delight to see a woman completely unfazed by what society expects from her in Poor Things. Its inhabitants are shaping around that rather than looking to snuff that fire out. Oh, what a world that would be.
Posted Oct 17, 2023  Edit critic review
The Killer (2023) Murjani Rawls There are some slight indications of discretion, expertly defined to Fassbender’s physicality – but he’s a man on a murderous clean-up mission, and nothing will deter him from completing the mission.
Posted Oct 16, 2023  Edit critic review
Dear David (2023) Murjani Rawls Everything laid out here is touched upon before ultimately, 'Dear David' decides it wants to be a haunting horror film– throwing much of its well-positioned themes away.
Posted Oct 16, 2023  Edit critic review
Dark Harvest (2023) Murjani Rawls With much of the technology at their disposal and perhaps an ability to get the word out, it’s hard not to think the characters within Dark Harvest have just accepted defeat.
Posted Oct 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Murjani Rawls 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is Scorsese’s epic western chronicling America’s original sin of an unquenchable thirst for control over the many resources people can use to escape its grip.
Posted Oct 12, 2023  Edit critic review
Totally Killer (2023) Murjani Rawls While Totally Killer knows the themes it’s drawing upon (and doesn’t forget to tell you about it), the story's twists and devotion in fleshing its extensive character base out sets it apart from being not another teen parody.
Posted Oct 11, 2023  Edit critic review
V/H/S/85 (2023) Murjani Rawls 85's stories would be better serviced as a more full-length feature or shortened to increase the effect of what it’s looking for. It’s a tricky balance to strike in a way where things could have been a little more memorable.
Posted Oct 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Hit Man (2023) Murjani Rawls 'Hit Man' speaks to the folly of the near-entrapment stylings of the job Gary falls into and even goes far as to say contract killers only exist in the movies. Maybe you can find a partner and parts of a person you aspire to be along the way.
Posted Oct 11, 2023  Edit critic review
When Evil Lurks (2023) Murjani Rawls Rugna could have elected to take the easy way out, but carved out his tense path to a place of no return.
Posted Oct 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Evil Does Not Exist (2023) Murjani Rawls How can an entity look to bulldoze over something without understanding everything inside it? Evil Does Not Exist utilizes its measured storytelling cadence to tell us it’s impossible and perhaps downright cruel when one tries to.
Posted Oct 07, 2023  Edit critic review
Foe (2023) Murjani Rawls The saying is three’s a crowd, and that’s precisely what it feels like in this particular narrative.
Posted Oct 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) Murjani Rawls All the players in 'Anatomy of a Fall' have a story to tell and write them in ways that highlight the complexities of human nature.
Posted Oct 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Saw X (2023) Murjani Rawls The man who says he helps people overcome personal obstacles also engineers the games that might lead to their demise. This continuance/prequel shows there’s creative meat to the bone regarding the dubious nature of what that story means.
Posted Oct 04, 2023  Edit critic review
The Exorcist: Believer (2023) Murjani Rawls Believer’s message is to have faith through it all – something that never feels right or as deep as the film intends to be.
Posted Oct 04, 2023  Edit critic review
The Creator (2023) Murjani Rawls Edwards has put so much effort into the aesthetic here that it’s almost fathomable – even if some plot points ebb and flow.
Posted Sep 28, 2023  Edit critic review
The Zone of Interest (2023) Murjani Rawls 'The Zone of Interest' might feel foreign because it exhibits restraint, but the things it’s saying are as loud of a warning as they’ve ever been.
Posted Sep 27, 2023  Edit critic review
No One Will Save You (2023) Murjani Rawls If 'No One Will Save You' had been longer, the stage would have thinned out. However, the feature is just the right length for jolts and character development to keep you locked in past the bleeps and bloops
Posted Sep 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023) Murjani Rawls 'Pet Sematary: Bloodlines' is not an expansion upon what we already know about this community. It traces it in a matter that doesn’t justify why we are revisiting things at another time.
Posted Sep 24, 2023  Edit critic review
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