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Dr. Filmlove's Film Reviews and Ratings

Dr. Filmlove's Film Reviews and Ratings is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Luke Parker.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2.5/4
Spiral Farm (2019) Luke Parker A transient drama concerning our worlds and the worlds we have yet to know.
Posted Aug 07, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Greyhound (2020) Luke Parker As the captain and crew of Greyhound scoured for foes, I couldn't help but feel I was also missing something beneath the surface.
Posted Jul 17, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Gettysburg (1993) Luke Parker More frenetic than a re-enactment, less assuming than a lecture, and even less sentimental than a Hollywood drama.
Posted Jul 16, 2020  Edit critic review
4/4
Hamilton (2020) Luke Parker Great care went into making this project as cinematic, encompassing, and true [to the theater] as possible.
Posted Jul 06, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Old Guard (2020) Luke Parker The Old Guard, as much as it is dedicated to an explosive popcorn experience, is just as devoted to the compassion holding up the sword.
Posted Jul 04, 2020  Edit critic review
4/4
The Grey Fox (1982) Luke Parker It's an adventure as bountiful as any, set in a world where appreciation and innovation left the Wild West behind, but allowed its sentiments to linger a little while longer.
Posted Jun 18, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Hammer (2019) Luke Parker It possesses such a strong understanding of its characters that if its half-dead catalyst was sprawled out in their living room instead of a cornfield, the heart behind the decisions wouldn't flake.
Posted Jun 16, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Shirley (2020) Luke Parker While the film's quest to irk is regularly fulfilled and Elisabeth Moss shines as the titular author, the pretentious pomp of the onscreen academics and the overall lack of thrills makes this "thriller" a promising dud.
Posted Jun 14, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Judy & Punch (2019) Luke Parker Its well-flowed tempo and constant barrage of gut-wrenching humor, sickening abuse, and medieval ignorance is sometimes compromised by an awkward rudder...but is otherwise great fun.
Posted Jun 06, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Faith Based (2020) Luke Parker A surprisingly affectionate and compassionate tale of bum-luck charisma, uphill determination and lasting friendship.
Posted May 28, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Capone (2020) Luke Parker The film is founded on some great ideas. But by fiendishly avoiding examinations beyond surface-level sentiments, it lays an egg.
Posted May 15, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/4
True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Luke Parker In trading the American frontier for barren branch graveyards and facts largely for fiction, this stylized folk tale is patched together by the same needles that weave myths.
Posted May 13, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Banana Split (2018) Luke Parker All it takes is the film's obligatory blow-up scene to confirm any suspicion that April and Clara's friendship is made of hay.
Posted Apr 24, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Sharks (2019) Luke Parker Cool gazes and strikingly extended shots work together to harness a steady sense of uneasiness in the viewer, who's forced to sink in their seat and doubt how far Rosina can go.
Posted Apr 19, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Why Don't You Just Die! (2018) Luke Parker Why Don't You Just Die!, a red-soaked blood fest sometimes axed by its own relentless stamina, is a grim and smartly constructed mound of chaos
Posted Mar 27, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Phoenix, Oregon (2019) Luke Parker The movie never crisps out of its doughy form. And watching it try to rise is not too blazing a task.
Posted Mar 26, 2020  Edit critic review
1/4
The Hunt (2020) Luke Parker A blistering sore of a production and a political party pooper.
Posted Mar 14, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) Luke Parker The film strikes oil over and over again, shaping a sharp narrative around a typically chained character and impressively grating a DCEU well that's felt tapped for years.
Posted Feb 08, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/4
What Did Jack Do? (2020) Luke Parker It's simply an excursion of style, one which deserves as many logical rematches as your brain can handle.
Posted Jan 30, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Underwater (2020) Luke Parker Its current proudly flows in the same direction as Hollywood's greatest and quirkiest monster movies.
Posted Jan 21, 2020  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Dolittle (2020) Luke Parker Dolittle impresses neither the kid (who may giggle), the adult (who will grunt), nor the kid inside the adult (who never shows up).
Posted Jan 19, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Just Mercy (2019) Luke Parker While there's something to be said for a historical film that articulates its timely purpose and connection so coherently...Just Mercy's spoon-fed approach is not only unappreciated, uncreative, and unartistic, but degrading as well.
Posted Jan 14, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
1917 (2019) Luke Parker 1917 is an atmospheric appendage of tragedy, horror, soul, and devastation, one whose...evident obsession with technique often overrides other important factors of the creative body.
Posted Jan 10, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
A Hidden Life (2019) Luke Parker Its throbbing narrative basks, and basks, and basks in the nefarious interference of belief...and that sort of ambition, while well-fostered, runs the serious risk of driving audiences towards indifference of its reigning principles.
Posted Jan 01, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Bombshell (2019) Luke Parker Fair and balanced. Ha!
Posted Dec 21, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
The Garden Left Behind (2019) Luke Parker It's easy enough to make a film that elicits the target that comes with this seemingly and shamefully cursed set of demographics, but it's much harder to present that story as innately and gracefully as The Garden Left Behind
Posted Dec 18, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Richard Jewell (2019) Luke Parker Wading through a pool of snap-happy reporters and bloodthirsty gumshoes, it is a timely and polarized tale of trial-by-fire accusations.
Posted Dec 13, 2019  Edit critic review
10/10
Marriage Story (2019) Luke Parker With a persistent and frankly remarkable sense of compassion...[Baumbach elects] the more mature stance that there are simply no winners in divorce.
Posted Dec 08, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Queen & Slim (2019) Luke Parker A protruding lack of realism turns a great deal of the film's authenticity sour.
Posted Nov 30, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
For Sama (2019) Luke Parker It is here, in the youth's reactions to the turmoil surrounding them that Waad exposes the underlying, strikingly unexplored devastation at hand.
Posted Nov 11, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Doctor Sleep (2019) Luke Parker [Doctor Sleep's] biggest fault in entering an arena of bickering and strong-minded visions is that it only offers a few of its own.
Posted Nov 08, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) Luke Parker Miller, whose work at the helm of Deadpool saw a pleasant balance between action and comedy, cannot groom the three-man-teamed screenplay to satisfy as anything other than a well-executed, if cyclic game of cat and mouse.
Posted Nov 02, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Luke Parker The words in both its melodies and dialogues have become a part of the vernacular, and their simply-put lessons ("there's no place like home") still ring true. [February 4, 2019]
Posted Oct 22, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
The General (1926) Luke Parker Artistic perfection. [February 19, 2019]
Posted Oct 22, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Shining (1980) Luke Parker [The Torrence's] night of anarchy, spearheaded by Nicholson's ferocity, has become one of cinema's most iconic and deranged events.
Posted Sep 26, 2019  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Judy (2019) Luke Parker Not even Renee Zellweger can hide the indelible fact that Judy comes far from even reaching the rainbow.
Posted Sep 10, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Luke Parker The journey...is slow, deliberate, and well thought out, spending most of its time on drawing questions out of the audience than making an action-filled juggernaut. [February 1, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Thank You for Your Service (2017) Luke Parker [Teller] drags the emotional turmoil of a thousand men, making Schumann a living martyr of a broken system. [February 1, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Happy Death Day (2017) Luke Parker [Happy Death Day] has a very indolent and superficial perception of what it's like to be a young woman at college. [February 1, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
Brokeback Mountain (2005) Luke Parker The passion created here...makes no restrictions on who can understand and appreciate it. This is as fine a love story as there is. [May 10, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
The Snowman (2017) Luke Parker The final takeaway is nothing more than a feeling of dread towards the egregious and bountiful missed opportunities. [February 1, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Hostiles (2017) Luke Parker Hostiles is unyielding and brutal, and is a fine addition to the masterclass of modern westerns. [February 1, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) Luke Parker [Alvarez] does an excellent job encapsulating the intense, dehumanizing, and claustrophobic nature of the experiment. [July 10, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) Luke Parker Solo, as far as unnecessary prequels go, is not bad. [May 25, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) Luke Parker [Fallout] has a star who takes the risks...that, until someone gets really hurt, create an experience unlike any other. [July 28, 2018]
Posted Aug 22, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
The King of Comedy (1983) Luke Parker With laughs that feel more self-inflicted than involuntary, The King of Comedy is an incredibly eerie film to experience. [August 28, 2018]
Posted Aug 20, 2019  Edit critic review
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