About Chris Sawin

Chris Sawin is a Tomatometer-approved film critic who has been writing about film for over a decade. Chris has an unabashed admiration for weird and eccentric cinema, the nastiest of horror films, and particularly loves animation when it's done right. Check him out on Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/chris-sawin/movies

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March 8, 2022
Uncharted is a gold mine filled with disappointment. It has extraordinary source material that is squandered, soured, and spit on throughout the course of this lackluster film.
February 4, 2022
With Moonfall, Roland Emmerich has essentially made an even dumber version of Michael Bay’s Armageddon. There’s not a lot to enjoy here apart from K.C. Houseman’s house cat being named Fuzz Aldrin
December 31, 2021
The King’s Man is a prequel that lacks what made the original film and its sequel so entertaining. Its second half is somewhat worthwhile, but its painfully slow war of handlebar mustaches makes it a real chore just to reach that goat infested free fall of a final explosive mountaintop fight. 
December 18, 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home is a nostalgic extravaganza that exceeds expectations and is a perfect and satisfying bookend for the first three Tom Holland Spider-Man movies.
December 13, 2021
Nightmare Alley is expertly crafted in a way that every sequence feels relevant later on and it leaves you with a lot to ponder after it ends.
November 16, 2021
Marvel’s Eternals is an ugly looking film featuring relatively light action and a cast that is collaboratively horrendous.
November 14, 2021
Antlers is a wickedly gruesome body horror film that is both wonderfully devastating and unapologetically fear inducing.
October 5, 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage ultimately feels like the lobster scene from the original film stretched out across 90-minutes of absurdity.
October 4, 2021
No Time to Die has some really fantastic cinematography and Ana de Armas is superb for the short amount of time she’s around, but the 25th James Bond film overall is painfully formulaic, predictable, and corny.
September 26, 2021
Kate thrusts Mary Elizabeth Winstead into a flat cinematic world filled with nothing but dull predictability and boring fight scenes.