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Matt Kelemen

Matt Kelemen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
AlterNet , Las Vegas CityLife
Critics' Group:
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
190
Total QuickRatings:
9

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 33% Thank God It's Friday (1978) — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 15, 2004
0/5 50% Oh God! Book II (1980) — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 11, 2004
28% Dear John (2010) " Dear John may seem like a tearjerker romance aimed at the demographic that left piles of wet tissues at screenings of The Notebook, but it's not. It's a morality tale that demonstrates the consequences of c**k-blocking" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 11, 2010
35% 21 (2008) " ... it seems they used Film Adaptations for Dummies and thus missed an opportunity to make a great movie with style and atmosphere." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 31, 2008
—— Diary of the Dead () " GEORGE ROMERO REALLY HAD NOWHERE to take his zombie franchise after 2005's Land of the Dead -- but he made this year's Diary of the Dead anyway." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
11% Fool's Gold (2008) " IF THERE IS A ROMANTIC-COMEDY HELL, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson surely stand at the gates waving people in." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
—— Fool's Gold (1995) " IF THERE IS A ROMANTIC-COMEDY HELL, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson surely stand at the gates waving people in." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
56% Weirdsville (2007) " If there was more vision on the front end, with more thought put into shot composition and less adherence to trendy, attention-deficit filmmaking, Weirdsville might have been an innovative indie gem" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
40% The Bucket List (2007) " doesn't a by-the-numbers Rob Reiner buddy movie about dying just about say it all? This is for the hardcore Nicholson and Freeman fans who don't mind considering the mortality of their idols." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
52% Margot at the Wedding (2007) " a dysfunctional family portrait that, at best, shows how far sisterly bonds can stretch without breaking. At worst, it demonstrates what happens when a writer with nothing to say continues to produce after his supply of bio fuel is exhausted" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
74% Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) " a perfect storm of incompetent idiocy that might kill off mockumentaries altogether." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
16% The Perfect Holiday (2007) " Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard just show up enough in The Perfect Holiday to either pick up a paycheck or return some kind of mysterious unpaid debt to writer-director Lance Rivera." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
62% Grace Is Gone (2007) " the mood is as overcast as the sky that follows the Phillips' as they head for Florida and the inevitable moment of revelation. Grace Is Gone is a downer worthy of a super-sized box of Kleenex" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
56% What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) " Seeing WWJB? in a theater is not necessary, although seeing him and the choir hijacking a mall in person would be better than Beowulf in IMAX." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
27% Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) " Never read García Márquez and still waiting for a sequel to The Notebook? There's something here for you." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 17, 2008
36% Sleuth (2007) " By the time the film ends on a flat note, it is long past the point of failing to effectively showcase a meeting of minds between two great actors." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Dec 1, 2007
29% The Heartbreak Kid (2007) " The elements with which the Farrellys transcend mere gross-out -- pacing, inspired and quirky performances, good writing with an underlying heart -- are missing here, which exposes the underlying creepiness at the heart of the film." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Nov 15, 2007
58% Resurrecting the Champ (2007) " Success, adulation, temptation, disgrace, redemption -- it's all there, expressed mostly through the predictably non-expressive Hartnett." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Oct 23, 2007
47% Rendition (2007) " The film's message is still relevant, but it's already universally recognized how far the executive branch will go to get its latest war on." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Oct 23, 2007
76% Being Julia (2004) " While I'm glad that Annette Bening gets a juicy role in István Szabó's Being Julia, I don't find her character sympathetic or charismatic whatsoever." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Nov 18, 2004
55% Undertow (2004) " The substance doesn't live up to the style. Green was trying to create a thriller, and, although all of the elements are in place, Undertow doesn't thrill." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Nov 18, 2004
39% Birth (2004) " After building anticipation throughout most of the film, Glazer fizzles out near the end. ... Once again, a brilliant filmmaker falls victim to the sophomore slump." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Oct 29, 2004
91% Shaun of the Dead (2004) " The main problem is that Shaun feels like a high-budget, season-ending, extended-length TV episode. Once the situation itself is milked for laughs, the film falls flat." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Sep 24, 2004
66% The Door in the Floor (2004) " The most interesting character in the book remains 4-years-old [in the film], never growing up into the anguished heart of the novel." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Sep 3, 2004
76% L'Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)(Euro Pudding)(The Spanish Apartment) (2003) " There isn't enough story or character development to make this into the breathtaking escapade Klapisch seems to have aspired to." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted May 21, 2004
31% Underworld (2003) " Wisemen started out with a great idea and couldn't summon the vision to make it happen." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted May 21, 2004
53% The Legend of Suriyothai (2003) " American audiences expect crouching tigers and hidden dragons in their Asian fare, so plodding elephants may be a little anti-climactic. This one is for the history buffs." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted May 21, 2004
77% The Housekeeper (2003) " Dequenne fills the free-spirited role of Laura adequately enough. But there's precious little chemistry or understanding as to why she's attracted to Jacques..." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted May 21, 2004
76% Respiro (2003) " Crialese's stated purpose is to create a sense of magical realism, and even as he draws on an actual fable to do so, there's an incomplete feeling to the production." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted May 21, 2004
35% Levity (2003) " Why do filmmakers continue to let Billy Bob Thornton sleepwalk through their productions?" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 30, 2004
78% Owning Mahowny (2003) " Watching Hoffman completely give himself over to his addiction is pretty draining. Although the film has a subtext ... it's basically a ride down to the bottom with an addict." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 30, 2004
21% Basic (2003) " McTiernan's bitten off way more than he could chew, spicing up the Usual Suspects approach with a dash of Rashomon and a little of help from A Few Good Men." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2004
22% Bulletproof Monk (2003) " ... bringing music-video director Paul Hunter was a good move for pacing, but he could use a few lessons in filming fight scenes." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2004
25% Till Human Voices Wake Us (2003) " Petroni may have chosen to move the plot along at a snail's pace to reflect the mood of Prufrock's poem, but there isn't enough lyricism in the film to save the story." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2004
60% Gerry (2003) " Although the images from the film are poetic and are more fondly recalled in hindsight, in this case art film for art film's sake doesn't fly very high." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2004
85% Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) " Is this what we were waiting for? Now we know why Miramax took a Hattori Hanzi sword to Quentin Tarantino's latest production and divided it in two." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 15, 2004
40% The Reckoning (2004) " ... the premise and setting that are intriguing, but the obvious foreshadowing and labored attempt to slowly unravel the facts surrounding the plot are drawbacks." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 9, 2004
62% Identity (2003) " The characters are mostly slices of a whodunit pie, and once the real revelation that spins the story around happens, there isn't much reason to care about them anymore." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 5, 2004
64% The Eye (Gin gwai) (2002) " The Eye is a haphazardly constructed horror movie based on a premise that the Thailand-based brothers couldn't figure out an ending for." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 5, 2004
48% Demonlover (2003) " While Assayas is masterful at creating an eerie mood and has a far-sighted grasp of future shock, he seems to have left orbit while trying to tie up Demonlover's loose ends" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 30, 2004
28% Party Monster (2003) " Rule No. 1: If you use black humor in a film about real-life characters and events, make sure you have a feel for it first." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 30, 2004
36% The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003) " Despite claims to the contrary, The Gospel does come off as a three-hour long Sunday School lesson." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 11, 2004
68% Laurel Canyon (2003) " 'We're left with a film that doesn't create enough interest in what went on in those Laurel Canyon backyards to justify pulling over and watching.'" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 3, 2004
2/5 70% Army of Darkness (1993) — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 11, 2004
3/5 82% Colors (1988) — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 15, 2004
3/5 83% The Jerk (1979) — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 1, 2004
3/5 50% The Principal (1987) — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 1, 2004
3/5 100% The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 11, 2004
90% The Messenger (2009) " %u2026 while several [Irag war movies] have touched on the soldiers' internal experience, none have stayed with it for the duration of the film the way The Messenger does." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 11, 2010
78% The Hangover (2009) " If The Hangover sounds like a hybrid of Bachelor Party and Dude, Where's My Car, its kind of is. It has its share of both laugh-out-loud and WTF moments, but also contains scenes that deflate the comic momentum." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jun 4, 2009
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