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JAY ANTANI

""It isn't work unless you'd rather be doing something else"
--James Barrie"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography: Well, I like long walks and poetry and watching sunsets. No, seriously, I do like those things on occasion, but, generally, I like movies, discovering cool new stuff to read and music to listen to, hanging out with fun, stimulating, intelligent, open-minded humans (and cats). Philosophically, I like to think of myself as a work-in-progress. But I'm gettin' there.

Publications: Boxoffice Magazine, Cinema Writer, Filmcritic.com, I.E. Weekly, Jaman, Los Angeles Alternative, Perihelion Journal, Reel.com, Slant Magazine

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 352
Total QuickRatings: 17

Location: Los Angeles

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Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" Pixar's magic still has sparks to spare." — Cinema Writer Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 95%	Herb & Dorothy (2009)	" *First-time filmmaker Megumi Sasaki's documentary Herb & Dorothy* is as simple and straightforward as the subjects of its title.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 88%	F For Fake (1976)	" gives the viewer the feeling that he's in Welles's expansive company...while he considers and pontificates on a pet topic. That in itself is a privilege, and reason enough to check out F for Fake" — Cinema Writer Posted May 29, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 79%	Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009)	" Keys succeeds in limning an engaging portrait of an artist and mentor who's spent a lifetime affirming the power of art to inform and delight, and, if he can help it, effect positive social change." — Slant Magazine Posted May 17, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" *a skilfully constructed studio picture that boasts a casting coup on par with The Lord of the Rings'." — Cinema Writer* Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 88%	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	" an essential entry in Hollywood's cultural chronicle" — Cinema Writer Posted May 8, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" The movie's rewards outpace its flaws by a mile and give us another reason to follow the career of a gifted young lead actor." — Cinema Writer Posted May 7, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 84%	Ghost Town (2008)	" *Gervais' rapport with his equally enjoyable co-stars Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni also keeps Ghost Town* on solidly funny ground.*" — Cinema Writer* Posted Apr 27, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 79%	Gran Torino (2008)	" Gran Torino is a smorgasbord of Eastwood's skills as filmmaker -- the good, the bad, and the ugly -- and how you well you digest it will depend on your appetite." — Cinema Writer Posted Apr 21, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 86%	Tyson (2009)	" Tyson may be the case of a subject not quite ready for primetime, a man still smarting from his past wounds, too narcissistic, frankly, to be very interesting." — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 21, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 50%	Perestroika (2007)	" one of the year's strangest and most compelling narratives." — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 19, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 64%	Moonraker (1979)	" ludicrous but enjoyable hooey" — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 55%	Shuttle (2009)	" a pile of stinking turpitude" — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 11, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	Sunshine Cleaning (2009)	" *One is hard pressed to find any cinematic personality to Sunshine Cleaning." — Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 9, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 74%	Tokyo! (2009)	" At its best, the movie is a stylish spin through the Tokyo universe, a play on the psychology and realities of one of the world's most urbanized societies" — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 26, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 87%	A Christmas Tale (2008)	" an endlessly busy and stylish film with a hollow emotional and spiritual core." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 26, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 17%	The Lodger (2009)	" Ondaatje's lack of certainty seeps from the dialogue and characterizations to his choice of an overwrought aria-heavy score and a shoddy sense of style that recalls episodic television and myriad Silence of the Lambs rip-offs." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 100%	El Norte (1984)	" the definitive portrait of the experience of undocumented Latin-American workers in the United States" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 12, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" Aronofsky's film demands much from its audience but, unlike the great majority of films, it repays with its tenderness of heart and soul, its wrenching and disarming sincerity." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 1, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 94%	Milk (2008)	" It's filled with so much vitality...that one comes away admiring the filmmaking while feeling deeply touched, even inspired, by the fiery life at the film's center." — Cinema Writer Posted Dec 29, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 92%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" Frost/Nixon acquits itself through Langella's performance and Morgan's tight script, but Howard fails to give the material a pointed spin." — Cinema Writer Posted Dec 26, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 94%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" It's about time we come up with a name for how...Third World cultures are exploited by Western filmmakers. Thirdploitation, anyone?" — Cinema Writer Posted Dec 25, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 100%	Hot House (2006)	" Particularly striking is the astonishing level of access Dotan seems to have had." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 24, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 65%	Quantum of Solace (2008)	" *Craig is the sole reason Quantum of Solace* passes muster.*" — Cinema Writer* Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 90%	Transsiberian (2008)	" as Hitchcockian thrillers go, it's one of the smarter and more absorbing ones made in recent years" — Cinema Writer Posted Dec 22, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 80%	Nothing But the Truth (2008)	" Among the many achievements in Lurie's script is how it manages to swing the viewer's sympathies toward Armstrong." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 17, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 100%	Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)	" Inevitably, Reticker's style falls into monotony that works against the material. Ultimately, though, the power of that material overcomes flaws in presentation." — Reel.com Posted Nov 13, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 100%	Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)	" the power of the material overcomes flaws in presentation" — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 9, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 73%	Eden (2008)	" like channeling Mike Leigh or John Cassavetes in bringing this marital drama to the screen." — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 28%	The World Unseen (2008)	" Race, gender, tradition, politics and sexuality get thrown together into a bright but bland masala mix in Shamim Sarif's debut feature." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 71%	Splinter (2008)	" a nifty example of the horror-movie as thrill ride" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 30, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 72%	Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)	" a daring, unusual Halloween treat" — Cinema Writer Posted Oct 24, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 58%	Humboldt County (2008)	" the whole thing feels wrong and cheeky" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 20, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 30%	Morning Light (2008)	" *For those of us attuned to the punched-up presentation of The Amazing Race* and Survivor, built week by week to maximize human drama and suspense, Morning Light is just reality lite.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Oct 11, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 34%	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	" *A dollop of Saving Private Ryan, a dash of Letters from Iwo Jima, and a sprinkle of Italian neorealism characterize the style and sentiment of Miracle at St. Anna." — Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 24, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 71%	Bart Got a Room ()	" can't decide how irreverent it wants to be, and settles for a neither-here-nor-there attitude that, luckily, scores with a few genuine laughs" — Jaman Posted May 4, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Strangers (2008)	" A tender cross-cultural love story that nearly founders under the weight of contrived polemics and Mideast politics" — Jaman Posted May 4, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 48%	Before the Rains (2008)	" an impressive cross-cultural achievement for director-cinematographer Sivan" — Jaman Posted May 4, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 71%	The Cottage (2008)	" an expertly witty, often hilarious gorefest" — Jaman Posted May 4, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 98%	Let the Right One In (2008)	" *Let the Right One In wasn't my favorite movie at Tribeca 2008, but it's definitely the one that's stuck with me" — Jaman* Posted May 4, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Late Fragment (2008)	" *Brilliantly atmospheric, beautifully and lyrically made, Late Fragment* might've been a strong movie even without the interactive element.*" — Jaman* Posted Mar 17, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	They Killed Sister Dorothy (2008)	" beautifully shot, and shrewdly edited for maximum emotional impact" — Jaman Posted Mar 17, 2008
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Shot in Bombay (2008)	" a rare and illuminating look at life on a Bollywood movie set" — Jaman Posted Mar 17, 2008
Fresh 2.5/5	Fresh 84%	Frontrunners (2008)	" [a]neatly made but, ultimately, tepid high-school election documentary" — Jaman Posted Mar 17, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 80%	The Matador (2008)	" fabulous" — Jaman Posted Mar 17, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 48%	Towelhead (2008)	" A clumsy, witless, tedious trudge." — Jaman Posted Jan 30, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 54%	Choke (2008)	" a reasonably enjoyable, and very twisted romantic comedy" — Jaman Posted Jan 30, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 48%	Bottle Shock (2008)	" [a] thoroughly safe, slow-footed comedy" — Jaman Posted Jan 30, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 86%	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	" one of the year's most pleasing films, intelligently written and directed, and featuring a veteran actor giving the performance of his career" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 9, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 93%	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	" *the style feels utterly organic...rigorous yet unforced, always giving the sense that this is not only the best way, but the only* way, to tell this particular story.*" — Cinema Writer* Posted Jan 9, 2008

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