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Brandon Judell

Brandon Judell

"Writing is one-tenth perspiration and nine-tenths masturbation. (Gary Oldman as Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears)"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography:
Cinema editor of New York Theatre Wire and contributor to CultureCatch.com and indieWire. My articles have also appeared in THE BAY AREA REPORTER; Detour, aRude, Filmmaker, The Bay Area Reporter, SOHO STYLE; SMOKE AFFAIR; The Advocate, and FLAIR. My short stories have been anthologized in Libido, and A Member of the Family (Dutton).
Favorites:
Central Station;The Celebration; Beautiful Thing; Battle of Algiers; Another Country; Ghost Dog; Surrender, Dorothy; The King is Alive: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Boys Don't Cry; Keep the River on the Right; I Love You, Alice B. Toklas; Laurel and Hardy's The Brats; Jules and Jim; Once Were Warriors; Ladybird, Ladybird; You're a Big Boy Now; Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
Publications:
aRude , Aufbau , Bay Area Reporter , Black Bear Film Festival , Critics Inc./America Online , CultureCatch , Cyberlinc , Detour Magazine , Entertainment Asylum , Fashion Wire Daily , Filmmaker , Forward , Gay City News , Gay.com UK , GreenCine , Hollywood.com , IFC Rant , indieWIRE , Jednet , Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care , New York Theatre Wire , PlanetOut , PopcornQ , scotsgay.com , Soho Style , The New Lesbian and Gay Voice
Critics' Group:
New York Film Critics Online
Total Reviews:
662
Total QuickRatings:
250
Location:
New York City

Best Reviewed Films

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10/10 97% A Film Unfinished (2010) " Painful, eye-opening, and extraordinarily necessary to view, especially by the young to whom the Holocaust is nowadays too abstract a notion to fully mentally envision in all of its grotesqueness" — GreenCine
Posted Mar 22, 2011
10/10 91% Up in the Air (2009) " The highest compliment for Up in the Air is it's not looking back on this era of insanity, ineptitude, and seesawing hope. Instead, this magnificent film has captured, with nonstop laughter and a few tears, our times while they're actually happening." — CultureCatch
Posted Dec 1, 2009
10/10 25% Tehilim (2007) " The cast is superb, the direction flawless, and the film unmistakably consequential." — CultureCatch
Posted Jan 24, 2008
5/5 86% The Member of the Wedding (1952) " Classic performances." — PopcornQ
Posted Jan 19, 2006
5/5 92% Howards End (1992) PopcornQ
Posted Jul 3, 2005
5/5 100% Witness for the Prosecution (1957) PopcornQ
Posted Jul 3, 2005
A+ 84% Mysterious Skin (2005) " Araki takes on child abuse and a few other institutions with a sledgehammer. The image of a "shattered kaleidoscope" is mentioned. The perfect representation for this America." — New York Theatre Wire
Posted Jul 3, 2005
5/5 94% Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957) PopcornQ
Posted Apr 11, 2005
5/5 89% Come and Get It (1936) PopcornQ
Posted Apr 11, 2005
5/5 100% Atlantic City (1980) " If you don't already love Sarandon, this is the feature that would do it. Director and the 2 stars mesh their talents beautifully." — PopcornQ
Posted Jan 30, 2005
5/5 100% Room at the Top (1959) PopcornQ
Posted Sep 19, 2003
5/5 47% The Doom Generation (1995) PopcornQ
Posted Sep 19, 2003
5/5 80% The Rose Tattoo (1955) PopcornQ
Posted Sep 19, 2003
5/5 90% L' Amour l'Après-Midi (Chloe in the Afternoon) (Love in the Afternoon) (1972) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 23, 2003
5/5 90% Network (1976) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 23, 2003
5/5 100% A Room With A View (1985) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
5/5 90% Show Me Love (Fucking Amal) (1999) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
5/5 97% Jules and Jim (1962) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
5/5 97% 8 1/2 (1963) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
5/5 —— Madagascar Skin (1996) PopcornQ
Posted May 28, 2003
5/5 57% Crash (1996) PopcornQ
Posted May 28, 2003
5/5 77% Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) PopcornQ
Posted May 8, 2003
5/5 92% Funny Girl (1968) PopcornQ
Posted May 8, 2003
5/5 97% Yojimbo (1961) PopcornQ
Posted May 8, 2003
5/5 93% West Side Story (1961) PopcornQ
Posted May 8, 2003
4/4 84% In the Realm of the Senses (1976) " In her essay, "A Theory on Female Sexuality" (1966), American psychiatrist Mary Jane Sherfey noted that "the strength of the [sex] drive determines the force required to suppress it."" — Critics Inc./America Online
Posted May 8, 2003
5/5 90% Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) PopcornQ
Posted May 6, 2003
5/5 88% Le Fantôme de la Liberté (The Phantom of Liberty) (The Specter of Freedom) (1974) PopcornQ
Posted Mar 3, 2003
5/5 100% I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) (1995) PopcornQ
Posted Mar 3, 2003
5/5 97% Wings (1927) PopcornQ
Posted Mar 3, 2003
5/5 93% The King of Comedy (1983) PopcornQ
Posted Mar 3, 2003
5/5 74% The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) PopcornQ
Posted Mar 3, 2003
5/5 89% McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) PopcornQ
Posted Jan 4, 2003
5/5 100% The Dentist (1932) PopcornQ
Posted Jan 4, 2003
5/5 100% The Wizard of Oz (1939) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 26, 2002
5/5 86% The Man Who Knew Too Much (2003) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 26, 2002
5/5 90% Lamerica (1995) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 26, 2002
5/5 100% Europa Europa (1990) Entertainment Asylum
Posted Dec 26, 2002
5/5 100% Odd Man Out (1947) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 26, 2002
5/5 87% Poltergeist (1982) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 26, 2002
5/5 100% Il conformista (The Conformist) (1970) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 26, 2002
5/5 100% The Decalogue (2000) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 19, 2002
5/5 83% Nenette and Boni (Nénette et Boni) (1996) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 19, 2002
5/5 86% Breaking the Waves (1996) " mesmerizing, harrowing and in the end euphoric" — Critics Inc./America Online
Posted Dec 19, 2002
—— Three Sisters (1997) " Chekhov's assurances that our current sufferings might become the foundation for a better society, if they are really meant as assurances, have never been better realized." — Entertainment Asylum
Posted Nov 4, 2002
10/10 68% Dahmer (2002) " The film is also sexy in parts. Just don't tell anyone you respect you're turned on. " — PopcornQ
Posted May 23, 2002
10/10 94% Central Station (Central do Brasil) (1998) " Watching this delectably humane road movie incites the same emotions as discovering the works of Truffaut" — Entertainment Asylum
Posted Nov 23, 2001
10/10 77% La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins) (2001) " Here is an equal indictment of the vapidity, moral bankruptcy and violence slathering modern society. " — PopcornQ
Posted Sep 4, 2001
10/10 90% Andy Warhol's Trash (1970) " The still shocking film that brought the underground and Little Joe's privates uptown is as hilarious and poignant as ever." — PlanetOut
Posted Apr 25, 2001
10/10 97% Ran (1985) " But is an Eastern drag performer also homosexual? Or are our Western minds tingeing other cultures with our need to find gays in every closet?" — PlanetOut
Posted Apr 20, 2001
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