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BRIAN MILLER Movie Reviews

52 reviews, averaging 46.6% positive
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1. 02/23/12 Outstanding "The flat, snowy landscape strips away all but the essentials from its tale: Two teens, best buddies from different families, have a bloody encounter on a hunting trip."
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On the Ice (2012)

Village Voice
02/15/12 Outstanding "...a marvel of concentrated, classical storytelling.... call this ethnodocumentary noir... The film is like a meeting of 'River's Edge' and 'The Fast Runner.' "
3. 03/14/12 Very Good "...a surprisingly mutable, ultimately poignant day-in-the-life drama... It's not a major film, but an endearing adventure in hope nonetheless."
4.

Micmacs

LA Weekly
06/03/10 Very Good "An exploded grandfather clock of a movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's intricately antic 'Micmacs' hurls gears, gizmos, and other trash-heap objets d'art at the audience."
5.

Micmacs

Village Voice
05/26/10 Very Good "...intricately antic... more fantasia than violent revenge tale. And its pleasing curlicues -- like a bouquet of spoons -- linger long after the predictable outcome."
6.

Black Dynamite

Village Voice Alternative Weeklies
10/15/09 Very Good "Thoroughly silly and enjoyable for film geeks who know the old '70s blaxploitation canon..."
7.

Zombieland

Village Voice Alternative Weeklies
10/01/09 Very Good "Consistently funny and brisk between its gags and gore scenes... owes its being to two writers from Spike TV's old 'Joe Schmo Show,' Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick."
8. 02/11/10 Good "...slow, realistic, and excruciating in its latter stages."
9. 01/27/10 Good "Stölzl makes the movie a tad more political (i.e., anti-Nazi) than it needs to be, but Benno Fürmann's stoic performance reduces the story to its harsh, true fundamentals."
10.

Walt & El Grupo

Village Voice Alternative Weeklies
09/24/09 Good "...a very boosterish, company-sanctioned documentary. But what's wonderful about 'El Grupo' are the sourcing and archives..."
11.

Walk Away Renee

Village Voice
11/28/12 Good (Not Great) "...autobiographical, messy, and ultimately touching.... The candor can be excruciating, the intimacy embarrassing. It's like 'Crumb' without the genius..."
12. 09/06/12 Good (Not Great) "...occasionally suspenseful, ultra-bloody (check out the bride's expert chain saw work!) attack-of-the-undead with some Catholic mumbo jumbo thrown in..."
13. 05/17/12 Good (Not Great) "...well directed.... There is a bright line, likely determined by age, between those who game and those who don't, and the film makes no concessions to the latter camp."
14. 05/16/12 Good (Not Great) "...insightful... well directed by first-timers Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky.... [however,] it tells us nothing about the success-failure ratio of indie entrepreneurs..."
15. 01/19/12 Good (Not Great) "Every pimply teen will know just how protagonist Edward feels."
16. 01/18/12 Good (Not Great) "It's silly and excessive, but 'Fullmetal Alchemist' occasionally strikes a note of adolescent truth..."
17. 09/29/11 Good (Not Great) "It's narrated by Vancouver's favorite son, Ryan Reynolds, and co-produced with Scarlett Johansson, who recently divorced him. Now that's sad."
18. 09/29/11 Good (Not Great) "...if you drive a wood chipper into the forest where dumb co-eds are partying in the vicinity of suspicious hillbillies, that chipper must be used on human flesh."
19. 09/28/11 Good (Not Great) "...piquantly tweaks every '80s ax-murderer flick you've ever seen, though it provides the same satisfaction of watching bratty undergrads perish one by one."
20.

The Whale (2011)

Village Voice
09/21/11 Good (Not Great) "If your children love animals, by all means, take them... If you appreciate gorgeous scenery, the movie doubles as a picture postcard for the region."

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