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Michael C. Walsh

Michael C. Walsh's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Knuckleball! (2012) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “For a film that's centered around such a silly-looking pitch, Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's documentary is packed with considerable drama.” – Boston Phoenix Sep 19, 2012 Full Review Lockout (2012) 38% 3/4 EDIT “It's Pearce's film, and he chews and spits the one-liners like a hardened wise-ass. Han Solo would be proud.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 19, 2012 Full Review Detention (2011) 44% 2.5/4 EDIT “Sort of like The Breakfast Club meets Donnie Darko, except without a hint of subtlety.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 13, 2012 Full Review Rapt (2009) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Belvaux, who wrote the script, defies genre expectations at every turn while still providing apt doses of tension and depravity.” – Boston Phoenix Sep 13, 2011 Full Review Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) 23% 1.5/4 EDIT “A daft plot seemingly jacked from the most brainless of Saturday morning cartoons.” – Boston Phoenix Aug 24, 2011 Full Review Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (2010) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Instead of going all Al Gore and casting stones from his soap box, Siegel takes an evenhanded approach in getting both sides of the story...” – Boston Phoenix Jun 16, 2011 Full Review YellowBrickRoad (2010) 44% 1.5/4 EDIT “We arrive at something resembling a mid-'90s Marilyn Manson music video. Just bizarre.” – Boston Phoenix Jun 2, 2011 Full Review A Beautiful Life (2008) 0% 1.5/4 EDIT “Unfortunately, Lau throws in one too many wrinkles, squandering our empathy by forcing us through a long-winded relationship involving betrayal and illness.” – Boston Phoenix May 19, 2011 Full Review The Double Hour (2009) 82% 3/4 EDIT “The knockout climax comes about two-thirds of the way through the film, rendering the tail end a punch-drunk afterthought, but that doesn't detract from the clinic in critical suspense that Capotondi gives in the film's first hour.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 28, 2011 Full Review Nine Nation Animation (2010) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Each would be headache-inducing if any longer than 10 minutes, but they work here, tying their eclectic but masterful exercises in the medium to pointed messages.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 13, 2011 Full Review Happythankyoumoreplease (2010) 42% EDIT “What will they do? And, more important, why should we care about their trivial hipster quandaries?” – Boston Phoenix Mar 31, 2011 Full Review Faster (2010) 41% 0.5/4 EDIT “What sends Faster into headache-inducing territory long before the uninspired-twist climax are the nauseatingly edited chase scenes and plot holes large enough to drive a Mustang through.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 1, 2010 Full Review The Virginity Hit (2010) 26% 3/4 EDIT “There's no suave dork or sensitive jock. Rather, the high-school kids act like high-school kids -- relentlessly immature and all the better for it.” – Boston Phoenix Sep 18, 2010 Full Review Bran Nue Dae (2009) 56% 1.5/4 EDIT “Bran Nue Dae isn't just hurting in the spelling department -- it's also lacking the feel-good story that musicals rely on to support their ethos in the absurdist environment of spontaneous song and dance.” – Boston Phoenix Sep 9, 2010 Full Review Charlie St. Cloud (2010) 27% 0.5/4 EDIT “Zac Efron should consider a new agent.” – Boston Phoenix Aug 5, 2010 Full Review Breaking Upwards (2009) 60% 3/4 EDIT “Wein's debut feature is kind of a mess: he withholds and warps the emotions of the main characters till there's little sympathy to be had. But though this tactic is usually enough to derail a film, it works here...” – Boston Phoenix Jul 14, 2010 Full Review Don McKay (2009) 38% 2.5/4 EDIT “The plot unfolds like a numbed-down neo-noir, and the actors treat it as such, using overwrought dramatic turns as a springboard for delightfully hammy performances.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 31, 2010 Full Review City Island (2009) 83% 2/4 EDIT “De Felitta knows how to depict family dysfunction, but he lards his film with asinine quips and too many headache-inducing dinner-table shouting matches, and the humor is so contrived, Garcia's Bronx accent sounds channeled through Fred Flintstone.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 31, 2010 Full Review Our Family Wedding (2010) 15% 1/4 EDIT “Yikes.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 17, 2010 Full Review
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