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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

Worst Reviewed Films

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0/5 50% The Château (2001) " Unfunny from beginning to even after the end." — PopcornQ
Posted Apr 11, 2005
0/5 75% Fletch (1985) PopcornQ
Posted May 8, 2003
0/10 —— Bird of Prey (1996) " At one point, Kily/Tilly notes: "Parents! You can't live with them. You can't live without their Mastercard." Hopefully, that will be the only sentence I remember from this abomination, and if the Lord is merciful, not even that." — Critics Inc./America Online
Posted Jan 4, 2003
0/5 26% Under the Cherry Moon (1986) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 19, 2002
0/5 11% Weekend at Bernie's II (1993) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 19, 2002
0/10 27% Amy's O (Amy's Orgasm) (Why Love Doesn't Work) (2002) " Julie Davis is the Kathie Lee Gifford of film directors, sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent." — Bay Area Reporter
Posted Nov 27, 2002
1/10 88% Titanic (in 3D) (2012) " If when you see this film, you believe it's credible, God bless you and your unfortunate offspring with their damaged gene pool." — Critics Inc./America Online
Posted Jul 9, 2001
1/10 25% Pearl Harbor (2001) " "Titanic" meets "Saving Private Ryan" with a good dose of "Gomer Pyle" added to the brew... could have been subtitled "World War II for Dummies." " — PopcornQ
Posted May 24, 2001
2/10 47% MacGruber (2010) " Do you remember when you first learned the word "kahkah" and then kept repeating the term incessantly for days? If so, you have a handle on the woefully unfunny, extended Saturday Night Live sketch, MacGruber." — CultureCatch
Posted May 21, 2010
2/10 38% Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) " What we have here is a commercial product geared possibly for boys of pre-bar-mitzvah age. It lacks art. It lacks wit. It lacks erythrocytes and leukocytes. It's just a bloody, bloodless mess." — CultureCatch
Posted Oct 24, 2009
2/10 37% The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) " It's sort of soft-core porn for pederasts who are into sci fi." — CultureCatch
Posted Aug 14, 2009
2/10 25% Bedtime Stories (2008) " It's no wonder when Sandler vows, "I'm like the stink of your feet. I'll always be around," you just might cringe and shout, "Where's Dr. Scholl?"" — CultureCatch
Posted Dec 28, 2008
2/10 61% Valkyrie (2008) " There's the absurdity of Cruise intoning to Adolph in his broad American accent, "My Führer, if I may . . ." while the rest of the Germans are sounding as if they're auditioning for Henry Higgins in a touring company of My Fair Lady." — CultureCatch
Posted Dec 22, 2008
1/5 40% Stag (2005) Critics Inc./America Online
Posted Jul 3, 2005
1/5 20% Circuit (2001) Critics Inc./America Online
Posted Jul 3, 2005
1/5 33% Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988) " Stupidity with a cleavage." — PopcornQ
Posted Apr 1, 2005
1/5 8% Supergirl (1984) " Super-vacuous." — PopcornQ
Posted Jan 30, 2005
1/5 14% Molly (1999) PopcornQ
Posted Sep 19, 2003
1/5 22% Hudson Hawk (1991) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 23, 2003
1/5 44% Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (1990) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 23, 2003
1/5 16% Assassins (1995) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 23, 2003
1/5 20% Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 23, 2003
1/5 48% Love & Sex (2000) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
1/5 31% Love Affair (1994) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
1/5 0% Vibes (1988) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
1/5 19% City Slickers 2 - The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
1/5 53% The Day of the Dolphin (1973) PopcornQ
Posted Aug 19, 2003
1/5 27% Trixie (2000) PopcornQ
Posted May 8, 2003
1/5 75% Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1992) PopcornQ
Posted Mar 3, 2003
1/5 47% Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) PopcornQ
Posted Mar 3, 2003
1/5 71% Ransom (1996) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 26, 2002
1/5 20% Caveman (1981) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 19, 2002
1/5 89% Godzilla vs. Mothra (Mosura tai Gojira) (1964) PopcornQ
Posted Dec 19, 2002
2/10 71% Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (Bowie '73 with the Spiders from Mars) (1973) " It, however, wasn't until years later when his former wife Angie wrote her memoirs did we learn that she once found Bowie in bed with Mick Jagger." — PopcornQ
Posted Jul 11, 2002
6.7 43% Blue Like Jazz (2012) " Lost in a "sea of individuality," the hero evolves, devolves, and is born again. It's a painless, not highly memorable journey that is tailor-made for Young Christian discussion groups -- and that is not bad in itself." — CultureCatch
Posted Apr 12, 2012
86% Inception (2010) " If you recall the scene in Dahmer (2002) where Jeremy Renner as the deranged killer drills holes into his victims' heads, you'll know what watching this Freudian claptrap of a thriller is like." — CultureCatch
Posted Jul 16, 2010
64% Predators (2010) " When Mr. Brody starts running about bare-chested near the finale -- you'll want to applaud his exquisitely chiseled torso. Sadly, a six-pack does not a movie make." — CultureCatch
Posted Jul 13, 2010
69% Shutter Island (2010) " An empty-headed, grotesquely dissatisfying cinematic journey." — CultureCatch
Posted Feb 26, 2010
90% Red Riding: 1980 (2010) " If Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, and Lovely Bones haven't sated your hunger for watching entertainments showcasing the abuse, torture, and murder of children and women, you are in luck." — CultureCatch
Posted Jan 19, 2010
89% Red Riding: 1983 (2009) " Exposing a society where every institution is rank with moral disease, and where the innocent serve out the sentences of the culpable, it's hard to tell whether those involved in this project are horrified by the goings-on or are just exploiting them." — CultureCatch
Posted Jan 19, 2010
70% Last Chance Harvey (2009) " The proceedings are almost painless, the acting/mugging is acceptable, especially if you adore the stars, and the message is quite applaudable: No matter how over the hill you are physically or mentally, Cupid still has an arrow left for you." — CultureCatch
Posted Jan 19, 2009
66% Ping Pong Playa (2007) " To be perfectly blunt, Ping Pong Playa is third-rate crap. Unfunny crap. Unnecessary crap. This little entertainment is also unintentionally racist, misogynistic, homophobic, poorly acted, and shapeless." — CultureCatch
Posted Sep 4, 2008
15% Hounddog (2008) " This apparently intended, cliche-ridden heavy-handedness . . . at times pushes 'Hounddog' into the realm of absurdity. But then the skill of the actors and the cinematographer nearly make up for the director's lack of judgment." — CultureCatch
Posted Aug 22, 2008
88% Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks) (2007) " Where's Agatha Christie when you need her?" — New York Theatre Wire
Posted Apr 22, 2008
—— Tout Est Pardonné () " That the lead character is inert is no reason for the film to follow suit." — CultureCatch
Posted Feb 17, 2008
43% The Brave One (2007) " In this dreary, cockamamie Valentine to New York City haters, concocted by the father/son team of Roderick and Bruce A. Taylor--a good argument for the government sterilization of a certain family's genes--radio personality Erica Bain (Foster) is confront" — New York Theatre Wire
Posted Dec 18, 2007
66% Smiley Face (2007) " A tedious, empty-headed stoner film focusing on a female pothead, who's limited to one facial expression and lines such as "I'm totally vibing on you, dude," has arrived just in time to greet the New Year. Santa must have thought we were very, very bad." — CultureCatch
Posted Dec 13, 2007
36% Sydney White (2007) " As for the creators' notions that all Jewish boys are Orthodox nerds with flopping peyos and that all homosexuals are drag queens, what the hell! It's only 2007." — New York Theatre Wire
Posted Sep 22, 2007
43% Splinter (2006) " As for Olmos, he has achieved more than most could have with an often cliched screenplay ("Homies are getting killed every day. It's sad." "Those are our f***en homeboys back there. Why don't you show a little respect?")." — New York Theatre Wire
Posted Aug 22, 2007
90% Knocked Up (2007) " There's no doubt director/writer Apatow is supplying a national service by allowing the inept to feel adequate about themselves." — Entertainment Asylum
Posted Aug 3, 2007
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