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Jeannette Catsoulis

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
Las Vegas Mercury , New York Times , NPR , Reverse Shot
Critics' Group:
Las Vegas Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
823

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
5/5 78% Slingshot (Tirador) (2010) " The mood of scrambling desperation can be exhausting, but the filmmaking is never less than exhilarating. " — New York Times
Posted Jul 23, 2010
5/5 100% My Neighbor, My KIller (2009) " [A] restrained and ethically nuanced documentary." — New York Times
Posted Jan 20, 2010
5/5 88% Back to Normandy (2008) " Back to Normandy is never less than an extraordinary journey through time, memory and the repercussions of a baffling, bygone crime." — New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
5/5 84% Bridge to Terabithia (2007) " Consistently smart and delicate as a spider web, Bridge to Terabithia is the kind of children's movie rarely seen nowadays." — New York Times
Posted Feb 16, 2007
5/5 100% China Blue (2005) " A heartbreaking and meticulous documentary about life inside a blue-jeans factory in China, reveals more than we may care to know about the provenance of our most beloved item of clothing." — New York Times
Posted Jan 26, 2007
4.5/5 90% Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) " A thing of frigid beauty and twisted playfulness." — New York Times
Posted Dec 3, 2010
4.5/5 97% A Film Unfinished (2010) " Moving, mysterious and intellectually provocative, A Film Unfinished positions familiar Holocaust horrors (the R rating was unsuccessfully contested) within a philosophical commentary on the way we view images." — New York Times
Posted Aug 18, 2010
4.5/5 —— Shaft () " Tight and tender, this small family drama is so visually expressive that listening is always subordinate to looking." — New York Times
Posted Jan 22, 2010
4.5/5 79% Waiting for Armageddon (2010) " Respectfully and without dramatization (the ideas are electric enough), the directors observe a cross section of articulate evangelicals and accompany a Christian group on a revealing trip to Israel." — New York Times
Posted Jan 8, 2010
4.5/5 95% The Cove (2009) " The movie is a Trojan horse: an exceptionally well-made documentary that unfolds like a spy thriller, complete with bugged hotel rooms, clandestine derring-do and mysterious men in gray flannel suits." — New York Times
Posted Jul 31, 2009
4.5/5 83% Lake Tahoe (2008) " So different from the usual fare that it might have arrived from another galaxy." — New York Times
Posted Jul 10, 2009
4.5/5 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
4.5/5 95% Without the King (2007) " Without the King, Michael Skolnik's subtly perceptive documentary, avoids a tone of first-world outrage; leaning more toward understanding than blame, the film examines a country forced to choose between tradition and survival." — New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2008
4.5/5 98% Blindsight (2006) " Featuring exceptional people doing extraordinary things, Blindsight is one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life." — New York Times
Posted Mar 5, 2008
4.5/5 87% Liberty Kid (2008) " There's not a single wrong note in Liberty Kid..." — New York Times
Posted Jan 10, 2008
4.5/5 91% Strange Culture (2007) " Somewhere between documentary and dramatization, fact and impression, Strange Culture molds one manâ(TM)s tragedy into an engrossing narrative experiment." — New York Times
Posted Oct 5, 2007
4.5/5 88% Darkon (2006) " Eloquent and occasionally touching, Darkon is haphazardly photographed but unfailingly generous toward subjects who exhibit an astonishing degree of self-awareness." — New York Times
Posted Sep 22, 2007
4.5/5 93% Antonia (Antônia - O Filme) (2007) " Antonia explores cultural and sexual oppression with sensitivity and verve. The story may lack complexity, but it is loaded with irrepressible energy and a deep appreciation of female friendship. And that's always something to sing about." — New York Times
Posted Sep 21, 2007
4.5/5 79% 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2007) " "10 Questions for the Dalai Lama" is a tedious title for an anything-but-tedious film that expertly merges the mystical and the mundane." — New York Times
Posted Aug 31, 2007
4.5/5 36% Hollywood Dreams (2007) " Knowing but never jaded, Hollywood Dreams is driven by Ms. Frederick's no-boundaries commitment to her broken character, a performance that's as startling as it is touching." — New York Times
Posted May 25, 2007
4.5/5 —— Dying at Grace () " Allan King's wrenching record of five real deaths is a potent reminder of the fearful gap between fiction and reality." — New York Times
Posted May 24, 2007
4.5/5 83% Rock the Bells (2007) " The lively hip-hop documentary Rock the Bells demands neither familiarity with the music nor a hankering for rhyme." — New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2007
4.5/5 96% The Cats of Mirikitani (2006) " The title may suggest a wildlife documentary, but The Cats of Mirikitani is entirely, vibrantly human." — New York Times
Posted Mar 2, 2007
4.5/5 —— Santo Domingo Blues (2005) " A lively, sexy, insightful documentary about the musical style bachata, and its most prominent singer and songwriter, Luis Vargas." — New York Times
Posted Sep 30, 2005
4.5/5 40% Three Days of Rain (2005) " Inspired by Chekhov's short stories, Three Days of Rain belongs to the now-familiar genre of overlapping tales of urban desperation." — New York Times
Posted Sep 30, 2005
4.5/5 81% The Hours (2002) " 'In a sublime collaboration, David Hare and Stephen Daldry have created a delicate atmosphere of inchoate sadness.'" — Las Vegas Mercury
Posted Mar 22, 2005
4.5/5 78% 25th Hour (2003) " 'Spike Lee's love of New York, unlike Woody Allen's, has always been more tough than tender.'" — Las Vegas Mercury
Posted Mar 22, 2005
4.5/5 50% Vanity Fair (2004) " More daring, more unexpected, and more thoroughly alive than anything this stuffy genre has seen since Gosford Park" — Las Vegas Mercury
Posted Sep 8, 2004
3.5/4 78% Red White & Blue (2010) " An engrossing -- and profoundly distressing -- tale of random connection and specific revenge." — New York Times
Posted Oct 8, 2010
4/5 71% The Road (2012) " A powerfully atmospheric blend of ghostly encounters, horrific situations and missing-persons mysteries from the Philippine director Yam Laranas." — New York Times
Posted May 10, 2012
4/5 —— You Hurt My Feelings (2012) " Unfolding in New England over four vibrantly represented seasons, "Feelings" is a small-scale wonder." — New York Times
Posted May 3, 2012
4/5 60% Unraveled (2012) " Like the Upper East Side penthouse in which it unfolds, the documentary "Unraveled" is cool and elegant, echoing with spaces for our imaginations to fill." — New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
4/5 83% Player Hating: A Love Story (2012) " A sad chronicle of absent fathers and messed-up mothers, drugs as currency and violence as the period at the end of every argument." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
4/5 100% Tatsumi () " It's potent stuff, delving into pornography, incest, murder and mutilation in the company of alienated men and unhappy, sometimes cruel women." — New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2012
4/5 88% Turn Me On, Dammit! (2012) " [It] has a gentle oddness as unforced as its performances and as inoffensive as its dialogue." — New York Times
Posted Mar 30, 2012
4/5 —— Dissolution (2012) " Here, dreams and reality rub shoulders, and redemption seems as distant as peace itself." — New York Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
4/5 60% Scalene (2012) " While occasionally unpleasant, the film never crosses the line from bearably chilling to unbearably gruesome, keeping its characters credible and its events explicable." — New York Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
4/5 —— Le Père Noël est une Ordure (1982) " This irreverent classic earns its cult status by brilliantly timed performances and a script as funny as it is observant." — New York Times
Posted Dec 27, 2011
4/5 100% Porco Rosso (Kurenai no buta) (2003) " Mr. Miyazaki smooshes fantasy and history into a pastel-pretty yarn as irresistible as his feminism." — New York Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
4/5 100% Grandma, a Thousand Times (2011) " Warmhearted and defiantly unsentimental, "Grandma, a Thousand Times" gains lightness from Teta's tart observations ... and the director's stylistic sprightliness." — New York Times
Posted Dec 2, 2011
4/5 74% The Lie (2011) " Comprising small, near-perfect scenes played out largely at dinner tables and on couches, "The Lie" wonders if it's possible to rewrite lives and remake choices." — New York Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 91% Inni (2011) " The best concert films achieve a marriage of sound and image that feels effortlessly harmonious, and in that regard "Inni," a musical portrait of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, leaves most of its genre in the dust." — New York Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
4/5 88% Dragonslayer (2011) " Seamlessly dovetailing style and subject, "Dragonslayer," a poetic and affectionate portrait of the professional skateboarder Josh Sandoval, known as Skreech, vivifies a subculture of random hedonism and future myopia." — New York Times
Posted Nov 3, 2011
4/5 93% You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (2011) " An even-tempered glimpse behind a very dark curtain." — New York Times
Posted Sep 27, 2011
4/5 100% Thunder Soul (2011) " You may never have heard of the Kashmere Stage Band, but by the end of "Thunder Soul" you will wonder why." — New York Times
Posted Sep 22, 2011
4/5 96% Silent Souls (2011) " A melancholy poem to love, loss and the tug of tradition." — New York Times
Posted Sep 15, 2011
4/5 100% Position Among the Stars (2011) " Engrossing, poetic and often very funny, "Position," like its predecessors, uses the lens of a single family to view the tumult of an entire country." — New York Times
Posted Sep 14, 2011
4/5 100% The Inheritors (2011) " Eugenio Polgovsky's unvarnished portrait of the rural poor in modern-day Mexico." — New York Times
Posted Sep 9, 2011
4/5 81% Where Soldiers Come From (2011) " In its compassionate, modest gaze, the real cost of distant political decisions is softly illuminated, as well as the shame of a country with little to offer its less fortunate young people than a ticket to a battlefield." — New York Times
Posted Sep 9, 2011
4/5 90% Love Exposure (2011) " Exhibiting astonishing dexterity, Mr. Sono shapes all this trauma into a narrative that's completely coherent and surprisingly touching, never more so than in Yu's struggle toward sexual maturity." — New York Times
Posted Sep 1, 2011
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