Mark Abraham

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Jul 1, 2016 6/10 The Phenom has some good scenes and performances, but there are too many annoying things and too little point. Go to Full Review The Phenom (2016) 78% 38%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine May 13, 2016 3/10 This movie is just over 80 minutes, and it feels like (a) they're stretching to fill that much, since so much of what happens is redundant; and (b) that they didn't actually do a lot of takes, since so many of these conversations are stilted. Go to Full Review The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016) 17% 31%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Dec 30, 2015 3.2/10 Ultimately, Fifty Shades of Grey spends two hours describing a relationship that is bound to fail and doesn't even seem all that fun while it's occurring. Go to Full Review Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% 41%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Nov 12, 2015 3.8/10 At every minute in this film, you know where it's going, because nothing that happens in any of the 130 minutes of this film works at all if the movie doesn't get there. Go to Full Review Lost in the Sun (2015) 20% 36%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Oct 23, 2015 6/10 Jem and the Holograms is a movie about sisterhood, which is cool, and to be honest it nails a kind of easy, natural interaction between its four characters, which is one saving grace, because the movie looks pretty cheap. Go to Full Review Jem and the Holograms (2015) 22% 40%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Aug 19, 2015 7.6/10 Fort Tilden's quite charming, though filmmakers Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers never let their charmless subjects... gain too much of their audience's sympathy. Go to Full Review Fort Tilden (2014) 91% 48%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Jun 25, 2015 7/10 Truly, Runoff can be an uncomfortable film to watch -- both because Levin's subject matter is supposed to make us uncomfortable and because her film leaves so much untended, is in the end so uneven. Go to Full Review Runoff (2014) 79% 79%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Jun 18, 2015 7.5/10 If you aren't familiar with any of the stories Berg presents, I suspect you'll find the material covered in An Open Secret horrific and shocking. If you are familiar, you'll still find it horrific and shocking. Go to Full Review An Open Secret (2014) 89% 76%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine May 15, 2015 7.5/10 Like most sequels, Pitch Perfect 2 takes the blueprint of the original and fills it with new-yet-similar things. It's not redundant, and it is still very funny, but neither does it elevate the material it borrows from the first film into something better. Go to Full Review Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) 66% 64%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine May 7, 2015 6/10 As it is, it's hard to judge this as much more than a PSA for certain audience members: Hey everyone, gerontophilia is a thing that exists. Go to Full Review Gerontophilia (2013) 50% 42%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine May 7, 2015 3/10 Everything in Any Day is portentous and presented as if it is loaded with meaning; none of it is, because everything is either so obvious or so arbitrary that nothing actually means anything. Go to Full Review Any Day (2015) 0% 24%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Apr 28, 2015 3/10 The tension between grandfather and father and son is so fabricated and baseless that the film just kind of shrugs it off, like a coat it thought it should wear because that's what all the other gritty urban crime dramas are wearing these days. Go to Full Review The Forger (2014) 9% 33%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Apr 23, 2015 5.5/10 The problem with Chris Messina's directorial debut isn't so much badness as it is superfluousness -- that it is less its own discrete thing than a redundant genre study in This Type of Movie. Go to Full Review Alex of Venice (2014) 74% 43%

Mark Abraham Paste Magazine Apr 10, 2015 4/10 While the story wants to pretend it's about two fully realized individuals who battle their obstacles and fight for their love, it isn't. Go to Full Review The Longest Ride (2015) 31% 71%