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Petr Navovy
Petr Navovy's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Union (2024) |
The Union is a bad film. It’s not good. It’s awful, as a matter of fact. Devoid of any craft, heart, humor, or point of view other than that of, ‘America good. Military good. Enemies bad’. - Pajiba
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| Posted Aug 21, 2024
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Gasoline Rainbow (2023) |
The scale of possibilities, the sense of a future yet unwritten -- it’s powerful stuff! Gasoline Rainbow captures this with an epic sweep that’s an almost natural byproduct of road movies. - Pajiba
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| Posted Aug 01, 2024
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Vanished Into the Night (2024) |
Vanished Into the Night has big ‘Dubious Food’ vibes. You won’t get food poisoning, but you’ll also get basically nothing out of it. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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A Family Affair (2024) |
A mostly forgettable bit of fluff that ludicrously goes on for an hour and fifty-four minutes, and which features one genuinely funny joke in all that time - Pajiba
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| Posted Jul 16, 2024
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The Coffee Table (2022) |
If you have a strong stomach and have had your curiosity piqued, The Coffee Table is worth your time. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jun 24, 2024
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The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) |
Clocking in at exactly ninety minutes with a rhythm that is thrilling and full of twists and turns, this is a film that is also unafraid to slow things to a crawl and to build tension with craft and patience. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Influencer (2023) |
In diving headfirst into the horrors of the social media economy, director Kurtis David Harder delivers a lean and effective story that remembers to critique the game more so than the players trapped within it. - Pajiba
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| Posted May 09, 2024
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The Greatest Hits (2024) |
Unfortunately, the film -- while serviceably acted -- lacks any sense of fun or inspiration, refusing or unable to expand on its premise in a way that would justify being a feature film rather than a ten or fifteen-minute short. - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 23, 2024
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Perfect Days (2023) |
The subtlety and lyrical beauty of Perfect Days is going to stay with me for a long, long time. As will one of the one of the most remarkable ending shots in recent memory. See this film. - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 15, 2024
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The Settlers (2023) |
Its relatively brief running time and patient pace combined with spare, subtle character work give it the feel of a parable or folk tale, even as it confronts the horrors of imperial subjugation with, at times, nearly unbearably frank realism. - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 10, 2024
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Spaceman (2024) |
Unfortunately, after a relatively promising opening five or ten minutes, Spaceman proceeds to fail to live up to any of that potential, delivering a cosmic voyage that might not be an outright disaster but which is nothing to write home about either. - Pajiba
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| Posted Mar 05, 2024
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Miller's Girl (2024) |
Miller’s Girl makes the critical mistake of taking bad sex writing and then layering it on top of the attempts it makes at cinematic eroticism, stopping dead in its tracks any visceral engagement the audience could otherwise feel from the latter. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 28, 2024
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Society of the Snow (2023) |
While you’re in the thick of it, Society of the Snow’s horrific immediacy and narrowed and shrunken horizons of survival foregrounded against the limitless, imposing white of the Andean peaks, will have you on the edge of your seat. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Players (2024) |
The latest ‘Netflix film’ that adds yet more evidence to the pile that the streaming giant is farming out its ‘content creation’ to an AI that hasn’t fully grasped the concepts of ‘humanity’, ‘cinema’, or ‘humor’ just yet. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 21, 2024
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Return to Seoul (2022) |
Like the best stories, Return to Seoul understands that people contain multitudes, that in our quest for ourselves we don’t always do everything the most pragmatic way, and that can make us tough to like sometimes. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 25, 2024
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The Night of the 12th (2022) |
Treating the subject with the gravity that it deserves, it is an unsparing yet un-exploitative look at the rotten fabric of our society. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 08, 2024
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Ferrari (2023) |
Ferrari is a damn good film from a master filmmaker. I’m already looking forward to seeing it again to see how my relationship with it matures over time. - Pajiba
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| Posted Dec 29, 2023
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Nimona (2023) |
It is an animated film, yes, suitable for children, but -- unlike much children’s entertainment these days -- it isn’t afraid of tackling the heavier stuff, sometimes quite viscerally. It’s all the better for it. - Pajiba
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| Posted Dec 06, 2023
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PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023) |
Thus is the fascist dream fulfilled: The soft, empathetic human (well, okay, dog in this case) is absorbed into a system based purely on power relations. - Pajiba
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| Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Best. Christmas. Ever! (2023) |
I gave Best. Christmas. Ever! my undivided attention. What I found was an uncanny valley-esque experience that I have to confess I found difficult to translate into the usual form of what we humans know as a ‘film review’. - Pajiba
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| Posted Nov 20, 2023
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Pain Hustlers (2023) |
There is some snappy editing here and a handful of lively directing choices that threaten to push the film into more inspired territory, but it’s not enough to overwhelm the workmanlike, by-the-numbers construction of the rest of the project. - Pajiba
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Fremont (2023) |
Fremont is a film that treads the line of 'slight, not superficial’. It has plenty to say without veering into didacticism, and it’s shot with a great eye for black and white photography, featuring some strikingly memorable compositions. - Pajiba
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| Posted Oct 20, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
It is a movie that carries the weight of years upon its shoulders, of ineffable longing and the possibility of cosmic alignment, but it does so with a cinematic spring in its step. - Pajiba
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| Posted Aug 31, 2023
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Hypnotic (2023) |
There’s no balance in Hypnotic. It’s all bad. The only saving grace is that the movie bucks the modern trend of overlong run times and winds up after a blessed ninety-three minutes. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jun 02, 2023
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The Mother (2023) |
It wasn’t long before things took a slow and unfortunate tumble off a steep cliff, however, and after the first ten minutes or so The Mother turns into a drag. - Pajiba
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| Posted May 16, 2023
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Ghosted (2023) |
Aside from the gaping chasm where the chemistry between the leads should be, Ghosted fails in just about every other metric of filmmaking too. - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 25, 2023
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) |
What Goldhaber and crew have crafted here isn’t just a timely snapshot of where we stand as a species, but a finely tuned, breathlessly entertaining thriller, structured like a classic heist movie. - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 18, 2023
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Inside (2023) |
Fundamentally the problems here can be boiled down to: Dafoe is interesting, but his character and the film? Mostly forgettable. - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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Kill Boksoon (2023) |
Kill Boksoon has some interesting ingredients and hints of delicacy, but it lacks the main quality that all good cocktails must have: Balance. - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 04, 2023
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Utama (2022) |
Utama is not an easy watch. Why would it be? The topics it covers are as sad as it gets. But it is not a miserablist indulgence either. There is great joy and life here too. - Pajiba
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| Posted Mar 28, 2023
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) |
Operation Fortune stalls after a relatively promising opening and never recovers. By the end, I was completely disengaged from what was happening on screen. - Pajiba
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| Posted Mar 14, 2023
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The Strays (2023) |
The Strays has an interesting and resonant message at its heart, in theory. It has a lot to say, in theory. Yet after the first few minutes, theory is all that’s left. - Pajiba
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| Posted Mar 01, 2023
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We Have a Ghost (2023) |
In the ’90s, this might have been good. That’s not to say that the movie is terrible, but it’s not good either, and the hypothetical contrast that it encourages doesn’t do it any favors. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 27, 2023
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Your Place or Mine (2023) |
I didn’t laugh once in this movie. A shadow of the memory of the rumor of a smile never once threatened to appear on my face. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 13, 2023
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Alice, Darling (2022) |
Alice, Darling is a decent enough debut, sincere and heartfelt, shot competently, with an important message that isn’t quite matched by its quality. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 06, 2023
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When You Finish Saving the World (2022) |
When You Finish Saving the World is not good. It’s not terrible, but I felt every one of its eighty-eight minutes keenly, struggling the entire time to get invested in any part of its meandering story or in any one of its unengaging characters. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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The Old Way (2023) |
I had a mild revelation while watching The Old Way, a new Western revenge drama with comedic overtones directed by Brett Donowho and written by Carl W. Lucas: ‘Oh, I guess it is possible to make Nicolas Cage boring. Who knew!’ - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 23, 2023
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Murina (2021) |
Films like Murina make me incredibly happy. They are, to me, what cinema is meant to be about. Resonant stories full of rich emotion and complicated humanity. - Pajiba
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| Posted Dec 28, 2022
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Nanny (2022) |
While it ultimately doesn’t come together strongly enough as it first appears it might, it still stands as a promising debut and a sign of a director to watch. - Pajiba
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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Bar Fight! (2022) |
Unfortunately, nothing works here. The characters don’t make sense. The emotional arc is minimal and poorly executed. The pathos falls flat. The "jokes" seem uninterested in themselves. - Pajiba
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| Posted Nov 23, 2022
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Causeway (2022) |
As predictably capable as Lawrence is in the role, the story only threatens to come to life in the moments that the titanically charismatic Brian Tyree Henry is onscreen. But it never really does. - Pajiba
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| Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Stars at Noon (2022) |
[Stars at Noon] provides glimpses of a dramatic and gripping denouncement of 21st-century imperialism that are ultimately overshadowed by the gaping maw of nothingness where the chemistry between its leads should be. - Pajiba
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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The Stranger (2022) |
Sean Harris further cements his reputation as one of the most magnetic screen actors today; sporting a colossal beard and shoulder-length hair, his character here is an endlessly watchable presence and enigma. - Pajiba
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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Athena (2022) |
This is ferocious, supremely confident filmmaking-as-spectacle from director Romain Gavras, that uses that spectacle to rip you from your sofa, transporting you onto the makeshift barricades erected on and around the Athena estate. - Pajiba
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| Posted Sep 28, 2022
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Lou (2022) |
It all adds up to a project that feels like an actual film that had some thought and craft put into... So that’s worthy of praise by itself. I just wish I’d had as good a time as the idea of ‘Alison Janney’ kicking ass promises. - Pajiba
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| Posted Sep 27, 2022
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End of the Road (2022) |
Through weaknesses in its writing, pacing, and staging, we never feel even the beginnings of an involuntary slide to the edge of our seat. My backside, for one, remained firmly in that comfortable wedge right at the back of the sofa. - Pajiba
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| Posted Sep 13, 2022
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The Gray Man (2022) |
The Gray Man is not the worst film Netflix has put out by any means, but it is yet another example of the kind of bland and insipid anti-cinema that has become their trademark. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jul 26, 2022
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Emergency (2022) |
Excellently weaved together in a gripping story in which action leads devastatingly into consequence, this is far above what you’d expect from filmmakers this early into their careers, and it deserves as many eyes on it as it can get. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Spiderhead (2022) |
It’s almost pointless listing the individuals involved in its creation, however, because whether skilled or not, their contributions and imprint appear to be sanded down and compacted into a frictionless cube by the Netflix machine. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jun 22, 2022
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Green Room (2015) |
Green Room has sensitivity and empathy to spare, but it’s also hard and unforgiving as steel, because it knows that’s the way the world is. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jun 16, 2022
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