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Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Nightingale (2014) 82% EDIT “It captures the anomie of screened-in life only too well. It seethes with the sense of boredom and self-obsession and confusion we all live with. But how much of that do you really want to surround yourself with?” – Esquire Magazine Oct 19, 2018 Full Review Any Given Sunday (1999) 51% EDIT “After you've seen the first ten minutes, you could probably write out the plot yourself, beat by beat. But inside all that cliche is actually a very interesting, and very pertinent, vision of football.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review Lincoln (2012) 89% EDIT “Day-Lewis appears historical even when he's cuddling his son. He just can't manage to seem normal. Both aspects of the character seem hokey, and empty - missing the essential humanness that saves historical drama from just being costumes and ideas.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review The Master (2012) 85% EDIT “The Master is a perfectly articulated, perfectly plotted, perfectly acted depiction of the origin of a religion.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review Argo (2012) 96% EDIT “A film supposedly about the Middle East that actually turns out to be a film about the relationship between Canada and the United States and yet somehow remains interesting.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) 64% EDIT “the movie is so visually entrancing, thrilling really... It's truly a pity that all this loveliness should go to serve such a slight, badly-made waste of a story.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review The Lone Ranger (2013) 31% EDIT “The Lone Ranger is a film that manages to be bad in many ordinary ways and, also, to be bad in a rather extraordinary way.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review The Great Gatsby (2013) 48% EDIT “The illusions that Gatsby and Luhrmann create are lies and ultimately cheap and corrupt, but their spell is nonetheless powerful.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Full Review Room 237 (2012) 94% EDIT “The people behind the theories in Room 237 all share an intense capacity to infer connections. What is so maddening is that those connections are clearly there, though their significance is ultimately hidden.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Gravity (2013) 96% EDIT “May be the densest visual experience ever made. The disorientation is physical, visceral -- the audience I was with limped out of the cinema grasping at chair arms for balance.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review The Paperboy (2012) 45% EDIT “Whether you want to see it or not is more or less the same the decision as whether you want to go to Florida itself. You probably do, even if you don't care to admit it. Like the state itself, it's just so much trashy fun.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review To the Wonder (2012) 47% EDIT “To the Wonder is intoxicating, no doubt, but not as a movie. Watched in a theater, it's boring and pretentious. It would actually serve much better playing on a wall at a party.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015) 72% EDIT “The birth of Israel is so much more than a setting here -- it is the existential reality that shapes the characters.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Phil Spector (2013) 51% EDIT “Victims' rights groups have openly worried that the movie will call into question the nineteen-year sentence Spector received... They needn't worry. The film is no challenge to anything except the careers of those involved with it.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016) EDIT “This is the moment to declare it official: Political satire in the United States in 2016 is impossible. No one should even try.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Skyfall (2012) 92% EDIT “Bond has doubled down on the blandness. Skyfall is one of the most smoothly manufactured acts of purely forgettable filmmaking we are likely to see this or any year.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 16, 2018 Full Review The Ivory Game (2016) 77% EDIT “It is a film that explains more than it judges, which makes it much more powerful than the standard hand-wringing environmental documentary.” – Esquire Magazine Nov 8, 2016 Full Review Amanda Knox (2016) 82% EDIT “It is fascinating, if only for the clarity of vision that the young woman at the center of the lunacy possesses.” – Esquire Magazine Sep 30, 2016 Full Review Bleed for This (2016) 70% EDIT “Bleed for This is macho taken to the point of existential absurdity.” – Esquire Magazine Sep 19, 2016 Full Review Brain on Fire (2016) 13% EDIT “Brain on Fire could also serve as an SNL parody.” – Esquire Magazine Sep 19, 2016 Full Review Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016) 77% EDIT “Celebrity culture eventually swallows everything. It's swallowing American politics right now. The JT LRroy story was the moment it swallowed American literature.” – Esquire Magazine Sep 14, 2016 Full Review The Birth of a Nation (2016) 72% EDIT “The Birth of a Nation is a great and necessary film, essential to understanding both American history and our current moment.” – Esquire Magazine Sep 14, 2016 Full Review La La Land (2016) 91% EDIT “There is no way for me to explain this movie's pleasures in a way that makes sense.” – Esquire Magazine Sep 14, 2016 Full Review Pervert Park (2014) 95% EDIT “Pervert Park is full of unforgivable people, but the unforgivable is part of us, part of who we are collectively. And the unforgivable have to live somewhere, too.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 11, 2016 Full Review Deadpool (2016) 85% EDIT “It's a meta-superhero movie in which the superhero is aware that he is in a superhero movie. The hate-written script is crafted with love.” – Esquire Magazine Feb 18, 2016 Full Review
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