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.

TV Review: The Flash (1×03) – “Things You Can’t Outrun”

“Things You Can’t Outrun” doesn’t do much to change the show’s structure, but it does allow a supporting character some development and it doesn’t slow the fun pace that the show has embraced. If The Flash is dead set on…

TV Review: Sleepy Hollow (2×05) – “The Weeping Lady”

Let’s get this nugget of the episode out of the way real quick. I can’t say I was too fond of the use of the “jilted woman” trope this week, even if it was pushed to the extreme. It’s a…

TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2×04) – “Halloween II”

Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta gets to cut loose in this week’s episode, “Halloween II,” but that’s not necessarily a good thing. “Halloween II” isn’t quite a rehash of last year’s Halloween episode, but it’s pretty close. Jake and Captain Holt…

TV Review: The Legend of Korra (4×03) – “The Coronation”

Friendship has been an integral part of the Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend or Korra series, and for the latter it was hard fought for. Off the tails of the first, where we watched core relationships develop over three seasons…

Ally’s Movie Review: Rudderless

I’ve been a little bit in love with Billy Crudup ever since I watched Almost Famous six years ago and Russell Hammond walked onstage to perform “Fever Dog”. Imagine my delight, then, to hear that Crudup was once again going…

Ally’s Movie Review: St. Vincent

I’m having a difficult time coming up with anything interesting to say about Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent that hasn’t been said before due to the film doing nothing we haven’t seen before. Bill Murray plays Vincent, a cantankerous old grump…

TV Review: Gracepoint (1×03) – “Episode Three”

I cannot express just how ridiculous I find the whole medium plotline. It annoys me to a point that I don’t even want to write about it out of frustration, because the show really should have cut it; it was…