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Film Frenzy is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Matt Brunson.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/4
Baby Doll (1956) Matt Brunson A movie so contentious that it was banned in a few countries, pulled in several U.S. cities, and denounced by the Archbishop of New York, who forbade his flock from seeing it "under pain of sin" (now there’s a pull quote for the ads!).
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Spartacus (1960) Matt Brunson An epic that engages the intellect as well as the eyes and the emotions.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Rabbit Hole (2010) Matt Brunson Rabbit Hole makes sure to never betray the material with maudlin melodrama or cheap theatrics.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
Paranoia (2013) Matt Brunson I saw worse films in 2013 (albeit not many), but I saw nothing that year as soul-crushingly boring as this ridiculous and risible techno-turkey.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The King and I (1956) Matt Brunson While Brynner's flamboyant turn borders on hammy, his exuberance and sheer delight in tackling the role is impossible to resist.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Carousel (1956) Matt Brunson It frequently plays like a dour version of It’s a Wonderful Life.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
The Big Chill (1983) Matt Brunson As universal in its ambitions and appeal as it is specific in its characterizations and timeframe.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Matt Brunson An unqualified masterpiece.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Mogambo (1953) Matt Brunson While Mogambo pales in comparison to Red Dust, it works well enough on its own.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Red Dust (1932) Matt Brunson Cheerfully vulgar in almost every respect.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Donnie Darko (2001) Matt Brunson Like Being John Malkovich and 2001: A Space Odyssey and too few others, this is one of those mind-melting cinematic achievements.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Boy Friend (1971) Matt Brunson The original numbers are far more entertaining than the ones which merely borrow heavily from Busby Berkeley.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Gypsy (1962) Matt Brunson As a theatrical property, Gypsy is considered one of the greatest of all stage musicals. As a motion picture, Gypsy isn’t bad, although greatness clearly remains out of its reach.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Damn Yankees (1958) Matt Brunson The mise-en-scenes are often found wanting (almost certainly from calls made by stage director Abbott rather than film director Donen).
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Guys and Dolls (1955) Matt Brunson Brando is an interesting — and successful — choice, bringing his Method maneuvers (Sinatra derisively nicknamed him "Mumbles") to the role of Sky Masterson.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Brigadoon (1954) Matt Brunson The artificiality is pronounced to a distracting degree -- sets don’t look like magical, off-kilter locations in Scotland but merely like sets.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
She Said (2022) Matt Brunson One of the 10 best films of 2022, She Said isn’t a flashy flick about hotshot journalists; rather, it takes the nose-to-the-grindstone approach of 1976’s All the President’s Men.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Sleuth (2007) Matt Brunson Sleuth is no longer a fun whodunnit; it’s been transformed into a baffling whatthehellweretheythinking?
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sleuth (1972) Matt Brunson A delicious adaptation of Anthony Shaffer’s stage hit.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Secretary (2002) Matt Brunson An honest and nonjudgmental movie about the unorthodox ways that lonely people often connect in an increasingly disconnected world.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Retribution (1987) Matt Brunson The film displays some humanizing grace notes usually exempt from this sort of gory thriller.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Silk Stockings (1957) Matt Brunson The picture effectively marked Astaire’s retirement from dancing -- it was his last significant on-screen hoofing, and he’s as sublime as ever.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Band Wagon (1953) Matt Brunson It offers plenty of astute observations in its skewering of backstage shenanigans among artists.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Easter Parade (1948) Matt Brunson It allowed two of our greatest stars their only opportunity to make movie magic together.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
Garfield: The Movie (2004) Matt Brunson The movie will feel like a slow crawl through broken glass for anyone old enough to have mastered the fine art of shoelace-tying.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Ellery Queen (1975) Matt Brunson The pilot for what ranks as one of the top detective shows of the 1970s.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
City Lights (1931) Matt Brunson The film is one superb vignette after another.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Somewhere in Time (1980) Matt Brunson It was savaged by critics and performed poorly at the box office. Yet according to Andrew Lloyd Webber, love never dies, and apparently neither does Somewhere in Time.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Ghost (1963) Matt Brunson Director Riccardo Freda offers interesting visuals that help sustain the proper mood of Gothic ghoulishness.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Finian's Rainbow (1968) Matt Brunson Then as now, Finian’s Rainbow remains one of Coppola’s most debated pictures, with many finding it enchanting and others declaring it execrable.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Dead Again (1991) Matt Brunson A murder-mystery, a supernatural yarn, and a love story all rolled into one irresistible package.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) Matt Brunson An animated exercise in existentialism.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Cinderella Man (2005) Matt Brunson No filmmaker in his right mind would want his boxing picture released a scant few months after Million Dollar Baby, but Cinderella Man is so structurally and tonally different that it might as well be about jai alai.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
First Reformed (2017) Matt Brunson A haunting and meditative work.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) Matt Brunson Caught in the right frame of mind, it offers plenty of groovy sights. But the violent climax is highly problematic.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Valley of the Dolls (1967) Matt Brunson The newfound envelope-pushing in cinema, tested so brilliantly in 1967 by Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, is botched here.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Team America: World Police (2004) Matt Brunson Once the novelty of the marionettes wears off, the movie has trouble sustaining its length, its laughs, and even its level of outrageousness.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Offside (2006) Matt Brunson It introduces us to a handful of endearing characters, in the process humanizing a nation that is only presented to the U.S. as a boogeyman threatening -- what’s the popular term? -- "our American way of life."
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Ice Pirates (1984) Matt Brunson For a far superior mix of science fiction and satire, just watch Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs again.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Uncut Gems (2019) Matt Brunson I’m not on the "Give Adam Sandler an Oscar nomination" bandwagon —- I’ve easily seen at least five leading male performances more varied and more interesting —- but he’s certainly up to the task presented to him by the Safdies.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
The Hustler (1961) Matt Brunson Paul Newman clearly should have won the Oscar for his initial portrayal of Fast Eddie Felson (instead, fifth-billed Maximilian Schell won for a supporting role in Judgment at Nuremberg).
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
O (2001) Matt Brunson Director Tim Blake Nelson and writer Brad Kaaya try to connect the movie to the ever-present dilemma of school violence, but in the process, they have stripped the Bard’s tale of its power.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Richard III (1995) Matt Brunson A bold revision, and one that works quite well.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Forbidden Planet (1956) Matt Brunson One of the undisputed classics of sci-fi cinema, Forbidden Planet is a far-flung adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with a smattering of Freud tossed in for good measure.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Tarzan and His Mate (1934) Matt Brunson The first sequel to 1932’s Tarzan the Ape Man isn’t just the best Tarzan flick in the Johnny Weissmuller series -- it’s the best Tarzan movie ever made.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Verdict (1946) Matt Brunson Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet were a popular screen team, eventually appearing in nine films together. The final one was The Verdict.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) Matt Brunson The very first film noir? Good luck finding a definitive answer. Yet in recent times, the frontrunner for that title would seem to be Stranger on the Third Floor.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Pulse (1988) Matt Brunson A bit on the bland and predictable side but with better pacing, better performances, and better effects than one might reasonably expect.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Hamnet (2025) Matt Brunson While most will fully absorb this film’s three-hanky credentials, there will also be a good chunk of viewers who find its stately studiedness too obvious.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
Deliverance (1972) Matt Brunson The Appalachian terrain is the setting for this gripping drama in which the notion of the "civilized" man bumps up against nature and barely makes it out alive.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
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