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Annlee Ellingson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:: Boxoffice Magazine , FilmStew.com , L.A. Weekly , Los Angeles CityBeat , Moving Pictures Magazine , Paste Magazine

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	29%	Girl In Progress (2012)	" There's little to complain about here, but there's also little to cheer about. Benignly enjoyable during viewing, the production ultimately takes too few risks." — Paste Magazine Posted May 8, 2012
	82%	Last Call at the Oasis (2012)	" Startling statistics and memorable personalities that leave a distressing impression--if not complete understanding--of the decline of the world's water supply." — Moving Pictures Magazine Posted May 3, 2012
	21%	Darling Companion (2012)	" It might be a safe bet for your mom's movie group because, well, it plays it safe." — Paste Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2012
	——	Playback (2012)	" Playback takes a potentially intriguing concept and punctuates it with extreme gore rather than thrilling suspense." — Paste Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2012
	43%	American Reunion (2012)	" Like the East Great Falls Class of 1999, viewers soon realize that this isn't high school anymore, and we can't go back to the way it was." — Paste Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2012
	87%	Bully (2012)	" For despite the strong language that garnered it an R, Bully deserves--nay, demands--to be seen." — Paste Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2012
	77%	Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)	" The Duplasses make films about ordinary people and shoot for realism with moving results, but their style ... may suffer as their movies play wider on bigger screens." — Paste Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2012
	100%	This Is Not a Film (2012)	" A snapshot of a filmmaker in exile, yes, but also a poignant portrait of a country under a repressive regime and a compelling manifesto on the perseverance of art." — Paste Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2012
7.2/10	33%	The Lady (2012)	" Ambitious and slightly lengthy, the film presents a sequence of events that, though in hindsight a bit of a muddle, leaves an unforgettable impression of a fascinating couple." — Paste Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2012
7.9/10	98%	The Island President (2012)	" Those who learn of his and his country's plight through Shenk's smartly crafted film can't help but sit up and pay attention to the course of his career, the fate of Maldives and the threat of global warming." — Paste Magazine Posted Mar 30, 2012
	80%	Attenberg (2012)	" Attenberg gets down in the emotional muck where life, death and sex intertwine. And like those life experiences, watching it can be both awkward and poignant." — Paste Magazine Posted Mar 9, 2012
7.4/10	63%	Friends With Kids (2012)	" Friends with Kids is not a lecture, though -- rather, a romantic comedy for adults for whom issues like family planning are a reality." — Paste Magazine Posted Mar 9, 2012
	56%	The Lorax (2012)	" There's something tedious about this film, partly because the Lorax is sidelined, partly due to a pointed environmental message that ultimately overrides all the characters." — Paste Magazine Posted Mar 6, 2012
	83%	Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts (2012)	" 2012's slate of Oscar-nominated live-action shorts are a diverse lot that uniformly focuses limited screen time on character. There's not a disingenuous moment in the bunch." — Paste Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2012
	63%	Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts ()	" These are certainly important topics worthy of our attention. Keeping that attention, however, is another matter with uneven results." — Paste Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2012
	90%	Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts (2012)	" A consistently strong category that this year once again demonstrates a range of stunning styles from simple line drawings to computer-generated imagery." — Paste Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2012
	86%	Chico & Rita (2012)	" Unfortunately, an evocative setting--the evolution of Afro-Cuban jazz in Havana and New York--sets the stage for a rather slight romance." — Paste Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2012
	80%	Haywire (2012)	" It remains to be seen whether Carano can do more than kick ass. But for now, she's a compelling candidate to join the pantheon of female action stars." — Paste Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2012
	33%	Joyful Noise (2012)	" The rousing arrangements performed by both industry icons and fresh faces are the only saving graces in what's otherwise a mess of slight plot and lazy dialogue." — Paste Magazine Posted Jan 16, 2012
	——	Northeast (2012)	" As irritating as his exposition-less cinema v�rit� style is, Kohn's thematically autobiographical script builds to an emotional impression that is increasingly universal." — Paste Magazine Posted Jan 13, 2012
	92%	Beauty and the Beast (2012)	" Beauty and the Beast is just as enchanting 20 years after its initial release." — Paste Magazine Posted Jan 13, 2012
	54%	The Iron Lady (2012)	" The highlights of Thatcher's controversial career are managed in abbreviated montages that don't do the woman or these events justice." — Paste Magazine Posted Jan 13, 2012
	55%	In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)	" It's a brutal, upsetting viewing experience that parses the physical, emotional and moral tolls of war and indicts world-governing bodies for failing to intervene." — Paste Magazine Posted Jan 13, 2012
	87%	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)	" Ultimately it's Mara who has to pull it off and deliver Lisbeth's unique brand of cunning and power fueled by revenge. She's a knockout." — Paste Magazine Posted Dec 15, 2011
	55%	Albert Nobbs (2012)	" A modest film with memorable characters tackling big themes." — Paste Magazine Posted Dec 15, 2011
	13%	I Melt with You (2011)	" Instead of sympathizing with these jackasses, one wants to scream exactly what they don't want to hear: "Oh, grow up."" — Paste Magazine Posted Dec 15, 2011
	80%	Young Adult (2011)	" Re-teaming with her Juno director Jason Reitman, Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody refreshingly favors sour over sweet." — Paste Magazine Posted Dec 8, 2011
	50%	Sleeping Beauty (2011)	" Leigh strikes an observational, artful tone that builds to an emotional climax as fittingly yet frustratingly enigmatic as anything that's come before." — Paste Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2011
	93%	Coriolanus (2011)	" A powerful, rapturous viewing experience that strikes the delicate balance between Shakespeare's iconic iambic pentameter and ultra-modern [storytelling]." — Paste Magazine Posted Nov 30, 2011
	76%	Rampart (2012)	" Harrelson may have given another award-worthy performance here, but it's lost amid the oblique visuals and storytelling." — Paste Magazine Posted Nov 30, 2011
	98%	The Artist (2011)	" A beautiful, ambitious, nostalgic endeavor that demonstrates its makers are, indeed, artists." — Paste Magazine Posted Nov 22, 2011
	83%	In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (2011)	" It's far too much ground for one 90-minute documentary to cover ... In Heaven, Underground, though, is gorgeously photographed." — Paste Magazine Posted Nov 22, 2011
	97%	Tomboy (2011)	" The awful inevitability that Laure could be found out at any moment--by her parents, by her friends--renders Tomboy an excruciating viewing experience." — Paste Magazine Posted Nov 22, 2011
	44%	J. Edgar (2011)	" J. Edgar connects with viewers on an emotional level, charting the man's complicated love affairs-with his mother, his secretary, his deputy and his country." — Paste Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2011
	20%	The Double (2011)	" A throwback genre flick, complete with a throwback lead, that gives away its double cross early yet maintains enough mystery to keep viewers moderately intrigued." — Paste Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2011
	81%	Klitschko (2011)	" Despite a confusing opening sequence and a disappointingly anticlimactic ending, Klitschko makes for a thrilling boxing documentary." — Paste Magazine Posted Oct 25, 2011
	70%	Oranges And Sunshine (2011)	" The script occasionally employs a clumsy voiceover, but later the same technique works wonderfully, pairing the most dramatic plot points with its most emotional monologues." — Paste Magazine Posted Oct 25, 2011
	90%	Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)	" Ultimately, script, style and performance coalesce in Martha Marcy May Marlene for a riveting yet excruciating viewing experience." — Paste Magazine Posted Oct 25, 2011
	25%	Dirty Girl (2011)	" Enjoyable to a fault, Dirty Girl struggles at times with tone, unable to find an effective balance between scenes that border on farce and those with weightier themes." — Paste Magazine Posted Oct 9, 2011
	93%	50/50 (2011)	" [The filmmakers] tap into the wonderful complexity of the material: Cancer is awful, but it's instructive and loving and funny, too." — Paste Magazine Posted Oct 4, 2011
	47%	3 (2011)	" Narratively and stylistically, Tykwer turns the love triangle on its head, crafting an emotionally mature and complex film that's dense with the stuff of life." — Paste Magazine Posted Sep 27, 2011
6.3/10	36%	Restless (2011)	" It's a disappointing, maudlin development in a career that's been fascinating ever since he followed up Finding Forrester with Gerry." — Paste Magazine Posted Sep 17, 2011
	35%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)	" The plot, dialogue, action and humor all fly at a wicked pace, but Michael Bay keeps tight control, choreographing the combat especially so that's it's clear and engaging." — Moving Pictures Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2011
	——	Sex Crimes Unit ()	" Unfortunately, primetime dramas have rendered the film rather dry by comparison, and the filmmaking style, coupled with logistical limitations, keeps the viewer at a distance." — Moving Pictures Magazine Posted Jun 26, 2011
	80%	Familiar Ground ()	" With a synth-pop soundtrack against a dreary winter backdrop, Stephane Lafleur crafts a sharply funny portrait of prosaic life that's not without moments of light and magic." — Moving Pictures Magazine Posted Jun 26, 2011
	44%	Bad Teacher (2011)	" Bad Teacher isn't really bad enough. The R-rated elements don't jibe with the otherwise PG-13 tone of the film." — Moving Pictures Magazine Posted Jun 22, 2011
	13%	The Big Bang (2011)	" Film noir for physics geeks, The Big Bang ... is a clever, if relentlessly dramatic (despite stabs at levity), existential detective story." — Moving Pictures Magazine Posted Jun 22, 2011
	——	Escort in Love (Nessuno mi pu� giudicare) ()	" A familiar scenario packaged in an Italian sitcom sensibility nonetheless exudes charm while touching on some of the more pressing issues of contemporary Western society." — Moving Pictures Magazine Posted Jun 22, 2011
	85%	Under The Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2011)	" A slick documentary that juxtaposes the history, politics and cultural influence of the ever-popular Parker Brothers game with brief profiles of the people who play it." — Moving Pictures Magazine Posted May 9, 2011

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