Allyson Johnson

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Allyson is a New England based writer, who has been a film critic since 2012. She is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, and the Online Film Critics Society, along with being a Tomatometer approved critic on Rotten Tomatoes. Her writing can also be found at CambridgeDay.com, ThePlaylist.net, VagueVisages.com, RogerEbert.com, TheMarySue.com and elsewhere.

Ally’s Movie Review: Foxcatcher (2014)

Foxcatcher is so dreary, so haunting, that I didn’t process just how much I liked this film until moments before I started typing out this review. “Like” is a relative term here. I find myself hard-pressed to believe anyone could…

TV Review: Gracepoint (1×07) – “Episode Seven”

Michael Pena is really phoning it in, and it’s beginning to distract me from the episode, so much so that it pulls me out entirely. Other than that, it isn’t a bad episode at all, if not quite as good…

TV Review: The Flash (1×05) – “Plastique”

This week on The Flash, Barry Allen and the Star Labs crew deal with a woman who can create bombs with a single touch, and Joe and Barry try to convince Iris to quit searching for the Streak. Despite breaking…

TV Review: Sleepy Hollow (2×08) – “Heartless”

Okay, so first things first: I need all of the GIFs in the world of the look Abbie gives the Crane’s whenever they speak of the good in Henry, because I’d like to believe it’s a collective look we’re all…

Ally’s Movie Review: Life Partners

I’m turning 23 this week and I’m a little worried. I mean really, truly, concerned over the state of the start of my “adult life” that has seemingly regressed since graduating college rather than moved forward. While a great film…

Music Review: Damien Rice – “My Favorite Faded Fantasy”

Few voices are as emotionally evocative as singer-songwriter Damien Rice’s. It’s never quite what he’s saying or the words he’s written but how he says them, or in this case, sings them. His music has a poetic rhythm to it,…

TV Review: The Legend of Korra (4×06) – “Battle of Zaofu”

Cool, contained logic faces off against festering, uninhibited emotion. It’s Kuvira and her army versus Korra with Jinora and Opal, two nomadic Airbenders, on her side. The stakes are uniformly, excruciatingly high as the two forces of power stand off…