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Filmmixtape is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Chris Feil.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
C-
The Courier (2020) Chris Feil Conceived without the benefit of imagination, The Courier is a microwaved and nutrient-free copy of similar Cold War spy dramas, tinny with the shine of its shrinkwrap packaging.
Posted Mar 18, 2021  Edit critic review
C-
Boogie (2021) Chris Feil Even with all the context it provides its protagonist, the film still reduces him to an average teenage asshole. It may be an inversion of the usual boring heart-of-gold bland sports movie hero, but it's still bland.
Posted Mar 04, 2021  Edit critic review
B-
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Chris Feil The wisdom of [the film] is that it doesn't lean in too hard on its most familiar elements, allowing its more unique thematic terrain and smartly textured worldbuilding to hold the spotlight.
Posted Mar 03, 2021  Edit critic review
A-
The World to Come (2020) Chris Feil The World to Come ignites something thrilling in its brief runtime.
Posted Feb 10, 2021  Edit critic review
B-
Land (2021) Chris Feil As a debut, Land shows Wright as a filmmaker with a precise insight into human nature and cautious hand on avoiding sentimentality, even when the script lacks her sophisticated balance.
Posted Feb 10, 2021  Edit critic review
C-
Supernova (2020) Chris Feil As it coasts along to its conclusion, it becomes increasingly likely that the film is just an elaborate stab at aspirational lifestyle in a weepy context.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
C
The Climb (2019) Chris Feil The Climb is mostly as shallow as its characters, and almost always as frustrating.
Posted Nov 10, 2020  Edit critic review
B
Ammonite (2020) Chris Feil What makes Ammonite register in satisfying ways are its flintier textures - the reservedness of its feeling, the unshowiness of its period detail, the soberness of its resolution.
Posted Nov 09, 2020  Edit critic review
D+
Let Him Go (2020) Chris Feil Like a Norman Rockwell painting of a public execution, Let Him Go is awfully quaint about the casual violence it accepts as everyday. As the film gets progressively more grim, it almost pathologically leans in toward chicken soup sentimentality....
Posted Nov 02, 2020  Edit critic review
B-
Kindred (2020) Chris Feil Marcantonio seems at peace with the film's blurred conclusion, but Kindred's final notes are muddied in ways that demand reexamination of everything before it, refusing simplified answers.
Posted Nov 02, 2020  Edit critic review
C
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) Chris Feil [M]ore cute than subversive.
Posted Oct 21, 2020  Edit critic review
B-
Possessor: Uncut (2020) Chris Feil [A] swan dive down a conceptual rabbit hole filled with wild imagery and pitch black pathology; it's all-consuming cinema, if frequently needlessly confusing.
Posted Sep 28, 2020  Edit critic review
B+
On the Rocks (2020) Chris Feil With Sofia Coppola at her most casual and unvarnished, On the Rocks settles in to its metropolitan melancholy and crackling comic sensibility without ever overplaying its hand.
Posted Sep 27, 2020  Edit critic review
B-
Kajillionaire (2020) Chris Feil If some audacity is lost in the softening of July's typically sharp edges, or credibility is strained in its logic, the film is still precise in how it examines slippery emotional terrain.
Posted Sep 22, 2020  Edit critic review
A-
The Nest (2020) Chris Feil Like a haunted house movie without the ghosts, The Nest thrills with a pervasive sense of unease and no catharsis, making for a special breed of melodrama that eschews the emotional demands of the genre.
Posted Sep 17, 2020  Edit critic review
C+
Tesla (2020) Chris Feil Its audacity merely registers as one-note insight, despite how Tesla offers sprinkles of the truly unique.
Posted Aug 20, 2020  Edit critic review
C-
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) Chris Feil [T]he film sullies its potential value by the broad, often inappropriate tone it strikes.
Posted Aug 20, 2020  Edit critic review
B
She Dies Tomorrow (2020) Chris Feil But the success of the film's queasy, perpetual low-hum terror belongs to Seimetz for her unique vision and focused execution.
Posted Jul 30, 2020  Edit critic review
D-
Irresistible (2020) Chris Feil [A] pungently toxic dose of cynicism...
Posted Jun 25, 2020  Edit critic review
C-
The King of Staten Island (2020) Chris Feil Uncharismatic in the extreme, [Davidson's] performance is entirely out of sync from the demands of Apatow's trademark lovable losers.
Posted Jun 11, 2020  Edit critic review
C-
Downhill (2020) Chris Feil It all rings of a lack of intention or clear point of view.
Posted Feb 13, 2020  Edit critic review
C+
Cats (2019) Chris Feil The ultimate effect of the neon and glitter-drenched CGI extravaganza is Hellraiser 2 by way of Roald Dahl, a family entertainment spectacularly drunk on its own supply of batshit.
Posted Dec 19, 2019  Edit critic review
D+
Richard Jewell (2019) Chris Feil Embarrasingly ill-conceived, Richard Jewell reductively characterizes all of its players to simplistic cliches, even (perhaps especially) its heroes.
Posted Dec 12, 2019  Edit critic review
C+
1917 (2019) Chris Feil 1917 becomes limited in its capacity for something visceral without deeper established roots in its characters.
Posted Dec 10, 2019  Edit critic review
B
Clemency (2019) Chris Feil There's a morose expressionism to Chukwu's approach to the material that will be tough for many to stomach, but carries a weight and intellectual vigor that shouldn't be ignored.
Posted Dec 05, 2019  Edit critic review
B
Dark Waters (2019) Chris Feil Haynes already has [safe], but now he might have a version of its ideas digestible for the masses.
Posted Dec 02, 2019  Edit critic review
B-
Honey Boy (2019) Chris Feil Honey Boy is more in the telling of its personal wounds than what it unfolds or how it resolves.
Posted Nov 30, 2019  Edit critic review
A
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Chris Feil Arresting the senses and stimulating the mind, Céline Sciamma has made one of the most breathtaking screen romances of the decade...
Posted Nov 29, 2019  Edit critic review
A
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) Chris Feil [T]his is a film more about our relationship with Rogers than the man himself, and that distinction reveals much of the film's ample emotional intelligence.
Posted Nov 21, 2019  Edit critic review
C+
Frozen II (2019) Chris Feil Maybe the only purpose Frozen 2's narrative expansion serves is to provide a more compelling foundation for another sequel than the original left for this one.
Posted Nov 20, 2019  Edit critic review
C
Ford v Ferrari (2019) Chris Feil It's missing a soul.
Posted Nov 15, 2019  Edit critic review
A
The Irishman (2019) Chris Feil Epic in its timeline and intellectual scope, Scorsese has made something funereal and absurdly funny, one that appears in surprising dialogue with his career and place in the modern cinematic landscape.
Posted Nov 14, 2019  Edit critic review
B-
The Report (2019) Chris Feil Burns isn't inventive, but he produces something stoically precise.
Posted Oct 31, 2019  Edit critic review
B+
Marriage Story (2019) Chris Feil Precise in moments, if softer as a whole, [Baumbach's] overarching attempt here still makes the film feel like a progression of sorts for the writer-director.
Posted Oct 28, 2019  Edit critic review
B+
Frankie (2019) Chris Feil Sachs' delicate touch in this beautifully meandering story of love, life, and death makes for something uniquely moving, particularly in the film's quiet final moments.
Posted Oct 25, 2019  Edit critic review
B+
Pain and Glory (2019) Chris Feil [Banderas'] work is exquisitely in sync with what Almodóvar is attempting to achieve, painting for us a soul aching to be released.
Posted Oct 24, 2019  Edit critic review
A
Parasite (2019) Chris Feil Surprising in its observations and developments, the film is has all the makings of one destined for rewatch and deeper examination in perpetuity - a film with the power to continue to reveal things about how we interact and how we survive.
Posted Oct 19, 2019  Edit critic review
C
Jojo Rabbit (2019) Chris Feil The film's certainty of its audacity only serves to underline its conceptual tepidness...
Posted Oct 17, 2019  Edit critic review
B-
First Love (2019) Chris Feil Is the master just coasting here? Maybe, but First Love still is an easy treat.
Posted Oct 11, 2019  Edit critic review
B
Monos (2019) Chris Feil Filled with sensory explosiveness, Monos is an incredibly evocative breakthrough for filmmaker Alejandro Landes.
Posted Oct 09, 2019  Edit critic review
C
Judy (2019) Chris Feil It's a blend of the somber and the splashy, a sometimes inelegant tonal soup that is nevertheless elevated by a transformative performance from Renée Zellweger as Garland in her most tragic days.
Posted Sep 26, 2019  Edit critic review
B
The Nightingale (2018) Chris Feil The Nightingale is bleak and uncompromising, an exhaustive polemic of staggering composition, if sometimes porously communicated.
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
B
Vita & Virginia (2018) Chris Feil It's something left-of-center in a traditional costume drama's clothing, and arrestingly so.
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
C+
Them That Follow (2019) Chris Feil [T]he characters and surroundings come off more cliche than probably intended.
Posted Aug 05, 2019  Edit critic review
A
The Farewell (2019) Chris Feil Wang crafts the kind of film you hate to let go of when you leave the theatre, wishing you could stay in the weight of its affections and its grace.
Posted Aug 01, 2019  Edit critic review
C
Consequences (2018) Chris Feil ... falls flat as both a gay narrative and a teen melodrama.
Posted Jul 31, 2019  Edit critic review
B
Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) Chris Feil [Tarantino's] risk is, above all, rather lovely - he's never felt more vulnerable and it oddly suits him.
Posted Jul 28, 2019  Edit critic review
C
The Art of Self-Defense (2019) Chris Feil The film may be wisest (not to mention funniest) when it views maleness as a cult, but it's also clumsy for how it makes itself a proud member.
Posted Jul 19, 2019  Edit critic review
B-
Pasolini (2014) Chris Feil What distinguishes Pasolini from other biopics is its willingness to get lost within the artist's creative perspective while detailing his life.
Posted Jul 11, 2019  Edit critic review
B
Wild Rose (2018) Chris Feil [O]ne of the summer's most joyous movie pleasures.
Posted Jul 11, 2019  Edit critic review
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