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Tom Meek

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Biography:

Tom Meek is a writer living in Cambridge. His reviews, essays, short stories and articles have appeared in The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, Cambridge Day, The Charleston City Paper and SLAB literary journal. Tom is also a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and teachers writing and journalism in the Boston Area.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Not all of the pacing and tonalities coalesce but Gosling is the glue for any bumps.” – Cambridge Day Mar 20, 2026 Full Review The Dutchman (2025) 64% EDIT “The film’s title evokes the legend of the doomed Flying Dutchman ship and the legacy of European colonialism: slavery and its corrosive downstream residues. Gaines’s take on Baraka is a daring revival that provokes more than it persuades. ” – Cambridge Day Mar 16, 2026 Full Review War Machine (2026) 69% EDIT “As gonzo as that pivot is, it’s the defibrillator jolt needed to make the film remotely interesting again. ” – Cambridge Day Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “The ensemble’s nuanced performances are restrained and inward, grounding the film’s metaphysical inquiry in palpable human vulnerability. ” – Cambridge Day Mar 16, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “Gyllenhaal’s reimagining is a feminist anthem that screams at the patriarchy. Her aim is true, but it’s buried in spectacle.” – Cambridge Day Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Neville’s post-Beatle portrait props up a McCartney who’s puckish and brash but also complex and vulnerable” – Cambridge Day Mar 12, 2026 Full Review The Bluff (2026) 54% 2/4 EDIT “It’s half-baked, hackneyed mid-1800s high seas mush.” – Cambridge Day Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% 3.5/4 EDIT “Both Ray and Colin display a complex vulnerability, and have a nuanced chemistry that gives the film for all its an uneasy tenderness. Leather and lash may not be your cup of tea, but the exposed, yearning heart is universal.” – Cambridge Day Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Layton and crew tie things up neatly, but the ending is where the movie is least compelling. The gems in “Crime 101” are stashed along the road.” – Cambridge Day Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 82% 2.5/4 EDIT “For a déjà vu movie, “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” is spry and packed with enough punchy humor and twists to keep it feeling fresh. ” – Cambridge Day Feb 13, 2026 Full Review The Wrecking Crew (2026) 74% 2/4 EDIT “Much gets wrecked by this crew, but mayhem without meaning just leaves debris. ” – Cambridge Day Feb 13, 2026 Full Review David (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s crisp animation and tight story-telling.” – Cambridge Day Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Melania (2026) 11% 0.5/4 EDIT “Serves as something of a freakish cultural time capsule and an intriguing bit of social commentary—as much for what it says as for what it doesn’t.” – Cambridge Day Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Arco (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “The tender bond between Arco and Iris, two lonely kids centuries apart, longing for companionship, holds our attention against the environmental degradation. ” – Cambridge Day Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “Send Help is whimsically entertaining. McAdams’s bravado carries the paunchy plot. ” – Cambridge Day Feb 2, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a bittersweet exploration of loneliness and self-doubt that soars on the strength of its restraint and Foy’s full embodiment of Helen’s emotional state.” – Cambridge Day Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “Affleck and Damon lean into their parts, though most of the rest of the cast, save Calle, hang in the orbit of their swagger. ” – Cambridge Day Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “Movement and mime specialist Miguel Torres Umba does an impressive and convincing turn in a monkey suit as Ben (bonus points for not going CGI, even if the facial prosthetics stand out).” – Cambridge Day Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Mannequin (2025) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “The hokey exorcism shatters the spell Berardo casts early on.” – Cambridge Day Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 49% 2/4 EDIT “I found myself reflecting that the only reason to make this movie is to give people more reasons to dislike making Greenland a U.S. territory.” – Cambridge Day Jan 15, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “The tenuous bond with Clay helps drive the action too, even if it is predictable. No real guts are spilled per se, just emotional ones. ” – Cambridge Day Jan 7, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “What ensues are some slow, sloppy offings that Park stages with great comedy despite their grim affect.” – Cambridge Day Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “This bold, poetic nightmare resonates with humanity and wonder.” – Cambridge Day Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Great Flood (2025) 58% 3/4 EDIT “There’s a lot of threads that director Kim Byung-woo throws into the vortex. Some of it’s confounding and confusing, but it’s never dull.” – Cambridge Day Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% 2.5/4 EDIT “ Law and Brühl’s righteous lads give the film its anchor as resolute ideologue and man willing to go to all ends to protect his family, while de Armas... turns the dial up to eleven.” – Cambridge Day Jan 5, 2026 Full Review
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