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Critics / Jeannette Catsoulis
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JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications: Las Vegas Mercury, New York Times

Critics' Group: Las Vegas Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 444

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Rotten
1/5

Rotten
18%

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

" Suffers from abusive close-ups, repetitive fight sequences and uninspired demon design." — New York Times

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Fresh
4.5/5

Fresh
90%

Lake Tahoe (2009)

" So different from the usual fare that it might have arrived from another galaxy." — New York Times

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
33%

The Last International Playboy (2009)

" “He’s having an existential crisis,” explains Sophie. Too bad it’s not a very cinematic one." — New York Times

Posted Jun 12, 2009

Fresh
3.5/5

Rotten
38%

The Art of Being Straight (2009)

" Smart without being smart-alecky, Mr. Rosen’s writing avoids the aggressive cleverness and gummy politics of many similarly themed movies, focusing instead on realistic dialogue and low-key interaction." — New York Times

Posted Jun 5, 2009

Fresh
4/5

N/A

Autumn Ball (2009)

" Emboldened by alcohol and steeped in despair, the characters in Sugisball lunge for love but would settle for understanding." — New York Times

Posted Jun 3, 2009

Fresh
4.5/5

Fresh
93%

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

" At a time when horror is defined by limp Japanese retreads or punishing exercises in pure sadism, Drag Me to Hell has a tonic playfulness that's unabashedly retro, an indulgent return to Mr. Raimi's goofy, gooey roots." — New York Times

Posted May 29, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
33%

Offshore (2009)

" Hampered by a script that veers from infantile to ugly and a director who doesn't know when to say "cut."" — New York Times

Posted May 29, 2009

Fresh
3.5/5

Fresh
83%

Kabei: Our Mother (2009)

" Enriched by Mutsuo Naganuma’s velvety photography, the director’s restrained emotional grammar is surprisingly affecting." — New York Times

Posted May 22, 2009

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
20%

Ghosts of the Heartland (2009)

" Might have been more effective with a little more honey and a lot less vinegar." — New York Times

Posted May 22, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
100%

Revue (2009)

" Revue melds disparate images of Soviet life during the 1950s and ’60s into a luminous time capsule of patriotic fervor and political fealty." — New York Times

Posted May 13, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
78%

The Garden (2009)

" This intricate and compelling documentary paints a saddening portrait of American politics." — New York Times

Posted May 8, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
67%

Nursery University (2009)

" If you thrill to the sight of a preschool teacher bringing an investment banker to his knees, then Nursery University is for you." — New York Times

Posted Apr 24, 2009

Rotten
1/5

Fresh
62%

Crank High Voltage (2009)

" Crank: High Voltage, starring Jason Statham as a man with a machine instead of a heart, is boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic." — New York Times

Posted Apr 20, 2009

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
29%

The Golden Boys (2009)

" The Golden Boys is an object lesson in how to squander a seasoned cast, a charming premise and a breathtaking location." — New York Times

Posted Apr 17, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
88%

The Pope's Toilet (2007)

" The Pope’s Toilet cloaks religious critique in the scrappy tempo of irremediable poverty and irrepressible enterprise." — New York Times

Posted Apr 8, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
71%

Bart Got a Room ()

" A teenage comedy with an old-fogy scent." — New York Times

Posted Apr 3, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
35%

Alien Trespass (2009)

" A charmingly sentimental but ultimately pointless homage to the sci-fi classics of yesteryear." — New York Times

Posted Apr 3, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
90%

Forbidden Lie$ (2009)

Cool-headed, lighthearted and outrageously entertaining, Forbidden Lie$ is documentary-as-striptease. — New York Times
Posted Apr 3, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
70%

The Escapist (2009)

" Shapes a standard prison-break drama into a metaphysical study of freedom and reparation." — New York Times

Posted Apr 3, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
36%

The Perfect Sleep (2009)

" Easy on the eyes but brutal on the ears, The Perfect Sleep fuses Shakespearean tragedy and noir iconography into a strange, lovely, leaden ball of confusion." — New York Times

Posted Mar 27, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
50%

The Education of Charlie Banks (2009)

" Thanks to sincere performances (most notably from Mr. Ritter and Eva Amurri as Charlie’s upper-crust crush) and clever writing (by Peter Elkoff), the movie never becomes maudlin." — New York Times

Posted Mar 27, 2009

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
18%

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

" Gives you the creeps, the giggles and the groans in almost equal measure." — New York Times

Posted Mar 27, 2009

Rotten
.5/5

Rotten
0%

Steam (2009)

" So cheesy and so poorly acted that it should never have seen the light of day." — New York Times

Posted Mar 20, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
58%

Skills Like This (2009)

" Skills Like This gazes indulgently on 20-something aimlessness and the comfort of assigned roles. In Mr. Miranda’s hands sloth can be more appealing than you might think." — New York Times

Posted Mar 20, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
33%

We Pedal Uphill (2009)

" The performances are across-the-board solid (most of the cast is theater-based)." — New York Times

Posted Mar 20, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
42%

The Last House on the Left (2009)

" I suspect the movie's sound designers deserve some kind of an award: thanks to them, the damage one can inflict with small appliances and a giant grudge is all too clear." — New York Times

Posted Mar 13, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
33%

Sherman's Way (2009)

" Like an annoying new puppy, Sherman's Way just wants to run around in circles and lick your face. After a while, though, you kind of fall in love with it." — New York Times

Posted Mar 6, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
4%

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)

" Daddies and daughters lend a wistful emotional core to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, an otherwise generic martial-arts movie with video-game credentials." — New York Times

Posted Mar 2, 2009

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
18%

The Trouble with Romance (2009)

" An airless, fragmented feature that's been kicking around since 2007." — New York Times

Posted Feb 27, 2009

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
22%

Push (2009)

As far as I can tell, the only ability in short supply is acting. — New York Times
Posted Feb 6, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
78%

Life. Support. Music. (2009)

" If you can get past the excruciating title, Life. Support. Music. is a blessedly nimble journey from loss to reclamation." — New York Times

Posted Feb 6, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
71%

Our City Dreams (2009)

" Our City Dreams is a lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination." — New York Times

Posted Feb 4, 2009

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
65%

Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (2009)

Roberta Grossman’s Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh documents courage, but steers clear of character. — New York Times
Posted Jan 28, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
38%

The Toe Tactic (2008)

Depending on your tolerance for relentless whimsy and unflagging eccentricity, The Toe Tactic will make you gurgle with delight or groan with exasperation. — New York Times
Posted Jan 28, 2009

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
17%

The Lodger (2009)

" The Lodger is a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both." — New York Times

Posted Jan 23, 2009

Fresh
4/5

N/A

The Photograph (2009)

" In The Photograph, an unlikely friendship eases an old man’s death and a young woman’s life." — New York Times

Posted Jan 21, 2009

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
59%

My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)

" A strange synergy of old and new, My Bloody Valentine 3D blends cutting-edge technology and old-school prosthetics to produce something both familiar and alien: gore you can believe in." — New York Times

Posted Jan 20, 2009

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
76%

Cargo 200 (2008)

Art house meets grind house in Cargo 200, Alexey Balabanov’s morbidly compelling thriller set in the Soviet Union. — New York Times
Posted Jan 2, 2009

Rotten
1.5/5

Rotten
23%

Bedtime Stories (2008)

In Bedtime Stories the pain of this artistic limbo is written all over Adam Sandler's character, a resentful hotel handyman named Skeeter. — New York Times
Posted Dec 25, 2008

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
87%

Timecrimes (2008)

" Proof positive that a naked hottie and whiz-bang pacing can disguise gaping narrative cracks, Timecrimes makes sci-fi lemonade out of low-budget lemons." — New York Times

Posted Dec 12, 2008

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
45%

Antarctica (2008)

" While the director ogles his cast and busies himself with hackneyed visual metaphors, Antarctica wallows in casual lust and bored disaffection." — New York Times

Posted Nov 28, 2008

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
13%

I Can't Think Straight (2008)

Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one. — New York Times
Posted Nov 21, 2008

Rotten
1/5

Rotten
29%

House of the Sleeping Beauties (2007)

Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties. — New York Times
Posted Nov 14, 2008

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
73%

Eden (2008)

Eden is a picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop. — New York Times
Posted Nov 14, 2008

Rotten
2.5/5

Rotten
28%

The World Unseen (2008)

" Never begins to tap the talent at its disposal." — New York Times

Posted Nov 7, 2008

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
3%

The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)

" God and Satan duke it out for the soul of a young girl in The Haunting of Molly Hartley, an unexpectedly cynical addition to the teen-scream genre." — New York Times

Posted Nov 3, 2008

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
80%

The Matador (2008)

Stripping away centuries of civilization, The Matador confronts something primal in human nature, daring us to do the same. — New York Times
Posted Oct 31, 2008

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
81%

Saving Marriage (2008)

" Saving Marriage is an in-the-trenches, defiantly partisan and exuberantly big-hearted movie." — New York Times

Posted Oct 24, 2008

Rotten
2.5/5

Fresh
66%

Ben X (2008)

There's not a moment of warmth or ease in Ben X, Nic Balthazar's punishingly cacophonous debut. — New York Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
72%

Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)

Fear(s) of the Dark is an animated anthology that tells its stories with an inventiveness that’s seldom scary but never less than mesmerizing. — New York Times
Posted Oct 22, 2008
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