Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Feb 5, 2021 44/100 Imagine a downbeat cross between historical romance, rape-revenge thriller and what's become known as folk horror and you'll have a pretty good idea of the overall mood. Go to Full Review The Reckoning (2021) 20% 26%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Jan 31, 2021 75/100 A threadbare narrative that's gorgeously shot, beautifully performed and spooky as hell. Go to Full Review Knocking (2021) 80% 61%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Jan 30, 2021 54/100 It runs a bare 84 minutes and yet manages to feel draggy in its slow-moving first hour and rushed in its eventful climactic segment. Go to Full Review Censor (2021) 89% 56%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Jan 28, 2021 95/100 A horrifying but finely observed thriller about psychology, cyberintelligence, and that old chestnut, the duality of mind and body. Go to Full Review Possessor (2020) 94% 59%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Sep 2, 2020 C+ Diverting if overly familiar crime drama with horror-movie undertones comes to life when Sylvester McCoy and Rita Tushingham arrive. Go to Full Review The Owners (2020) 60% 30%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Aug 13, 2020 B+ A gorgeous and evocative piece of entertainment that takes a deliberately playful approach to its genre. Go to Full Review Zatoichi (2003) 87% 88%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Apr 8, 2020 46/100 Simply can't wring suspense from a scenario that ends up isolating the murderers from their murderees on either side of a locked door for a long, dull section of the film. Go to Full Review We Summon the Darkness (2019) 68% 34%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Jan 17, 2020 C+ In quieter moments, Martin Lawrence turns in a genuinely touching performance as a man torn between duties to his family and his friend, but Smith is more reliant on a constant feed of mild one-liners. Go to Full Review Bad Boys for Life (2020) 76% 96%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Dec 6, 2019 B- The film's style can be frustratingly mannered, but Reeder's teenaged characters have some heart and soul. Go to Full Review Knives and Skin (2019) 69% 28%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Jan 31, 2019 B- Dark, contrasty imagery complements increasingly uncomfortable action on-screen, as Piercing settles into an entertainingly twisted groove and a compelling rhythm of give and take. Go to Full Review Piercing (2018) 72% - -

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Aug 9, 2018 B Director Sebastián Lelio's portrayal of the orthodox community is exceptionally even-handed; he doesn't soft-pedal its stifling and anachronistic nature, but neither does he present it as hopelessly cruel or unyielding. Go to Full Review Disobedience (2017) 84% 75%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Mar 10, 2017 C It's Gaspar Noe without the freaky-deaky audacity and grandiose concern for the human condition or, maybe more to the point, Lars Von Trier without the formal elegance. Go to Full Review Brimstone (2016) 45% 53%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Sep 26, 2016 B Elle is as entertaining as any film Verhoeven has made, which might seem like an odd thing to say about a film that conjures a brutal rape scene abruptly and repeatedly. Go to Full Review Elle (2016) 91% 73%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Sep 19, 2016 B- A pretty good example of a 21st-century grindhouse film. Think Luis Buuel crossed with Jrg Buttgereit. Go to Full Review Vlees (Meat) (2010) - - - -

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Jun 23, 2016 61/100 Part tragedy and part comedy, but also part horror movie and part pornography. Go to Full Review The Neon Demon (2016) 59% 51%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus May 29, 2015 Buster Keaton's artistic breakthrough remains to this day absolutely the funniest film ever made. Go to Full Review Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 87% 95%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Dec 29, 2014 58/100 The compelling moral dimension is matched in a couple of places by fairly riveting action, but the film lacks any commanding narrative insight into its milieu. Go to Full Review A Most Violent Year (2014) 89% 69%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Jun 17, 2014 84/100 Director Richard Linklater approached this decade-spanning project with a novelist's ambition and patient determination -- it's unique in its rhythms. Go to Full Review Boyhood (2014) 97% 77%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Apr 13, 2014 94/100 As avant garde in execution as any narrative film I can think of. Go to Full Review Under the Skin (2013) 84% 55%

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Mar 14, 2014 C+ More than any other element, Eva Green's performance singlehandedly elevates the film from the doldrums of its hermetic conception and execution. Go to Full Review 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) 44% 51%