ROTTEN TOMATOES: Fr. Chris Carpenter

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FR. CHRIS CARPENTER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography: Prior to entering seminary and becoming a Catholic priest, I studied film theory & production and theater. I won screenwriting and directing awards for several student films I made in college. I reviewed movies for The Catholic Sun in Phoenix, Arizona from 1996-2006, and now write for the Orange County & Long Beach Blade (www.gayblade.com). I also contribute weekly film, DVD & theatre reviews to www.moviedearest.blogspot.com.

Favorites: Citizen Kane; E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; Dancer in the Dark; Doctor Dolittle (1967); Superman: The Movie; The Wizard of Oz; Friendly Persuasion; Gone With the Wind; old Universal horror movies (Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, et al); anything by directors Robert Altman and Peter Greenaway

Publications: Catholic Sun, Movie Dearest, Orange County and Long Beach Blade

Critics' Group: Phoenix Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 107
Total QuickRatings: 42

Location: Long Beach, California

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Fresh B	N/A	Redwoods (2009)	" Sexy and touching...(The film) becomes predictable and a little trite at the end, but its climax is undeniably moving." — Orange County and Long Beach Blade DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 30, 2009
Rotten D	N/A	Shank (2009)	" I don't recommend this London-set tale of sexually conflicted, teenage sociopaths" — Orange County and Long Beach Blade DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 30, 2009
Fresh C+	N/A	Make the Yuletide Gay (2009)	" Sometimes strained but thoroughly enjoyable...(The film) has fun overturning some coming-out story conventions." — Orange County and Long Beach Blade DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 30, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 76%	A Single Man (2009)	" Not only one of the best films of 2009, but one of the best gay-themed films ever...The most authentically detailed period film since 2002's "Far from Heaven"" — Orange County and Long Beach Blade Posted Nov 30, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 71%	The Road (2009)	" A powerful film adapted from Cormac McCarthy's powerful apocalyptic novel...One of the most faithful translations of a novel to cinema that I've ever seen." — Movie Dearest Posted Nov 25, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 72%	That Evening Sun (2009)	" Holbrook is great as usual...Well-adapted from a William Gay short story by writer-director Scott Teems." — Movie Dearest Posted Nov 20, 2009
Rotten C-	Fresh 85%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" (The film) has a hard time settling on such simple things as characters' motivations, needs and accents (Cage's changes inexplicably midway through)." — Movie Dearest Posted Nov 20, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 18%	Oh My God (2009)	" One reaches the conclusion fairly early in Rodger's gorgeously photographed but obnoxiously quick-cut-edited film that the question "What is God?" has no satisfactory nor universally agreeable answers." — Movie Dearest Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten C-	N/A	Lake Tahoe (2008)	" Mexican writer-director Eimbcke takes an unfortunate if not unusual route other filmmakers have traveled following a successful debut and gets self-indulgent with his follow-up." — Movie Dearest DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten C	N/A	Gravestoned (2009)	" Though "Gravestoned" falls short in the horror and hilarity departments, it isn't awful and wasn't painful to watch, thankfully." — Movie Dearest DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 3, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 87%	Skin (2009)	" The film's excellent screenplay and extraordinary acting trio of Okonedo, Neill and Krige bring a little-known historical episode to vivid life." — Movie Dearest Posted Oct 29, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 38%	2012 (2009)	" I enjoyed "2012" for its mother-of-all-disaster-movie pretensions and amazing special effects." — Movie Dearest Posted Oct 24, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 20%	Hannah Free (2009)	" Sharon Gless...gives a fine performance, but this is an otherwise schmaltzy movie that is hard to swallow." — Movie Dearest Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh B	N/A	Pageant (2008)	" Inspiring...Even if one isn't a fan of drag, "Pageant" is definitely worth a view." — Movie Dearest DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 19, 2009
N/A	Fresh 97%	The Maid (2009)	" Cleaning Up with Director Sebastian Silva" — Movie Dearest INTERVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2009
N/A	Rotten 20%	Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009)	" Eating Out with Mink Stole" — Orange County and Long Beach Blade INTERVIEW Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh B	N/A	The Love of Siam (2008)	" As a coming of age story, the film is sweet and inoffensive if overlong at 150 minutes and often melodramatic." — Movie Dearest DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 50%	The Providence Effect (2009)	" Objective viewers may criticize the filmmakers' tendency to view their subject through rose-colored glasses. Still, the subject is fascinating." — Movie Dearest Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 67%	The Bluetooth Virgin (2009)	" Russell Brown's script can be accused of being all talk and no action, but it is intelligent, insightful and often quite funny." — Movie Dearest Posted Sep 26, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 65%	Coco Before Chanel (2009)	" Elegant and evocative...Tautou reveals a growing maturity both as a woman and as an actress." — Movie Dearest Posted Sep 24, 2009
N/A	Rotten 28%	Fame (2009)	" Bebe Neuwirth on "Fame" and Art" — Movie Dearest INTERVIEW Posted Sep 20, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 57%	9 (2009)	" Much of the action in 9 becomes repetitive, and the storyline takes an odd turn toward the metaphysical in the final act." — Movie Dearest Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh C+	Rotten 49%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" The first half of "Taking Woodstock" is wonderful. Unfortunately, the tone becomes more serious and the pacing meanders in the second half." — Movie Dearest Posted Sep 1, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 74%	Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)	" Excellent...both Neeson and Nesbitt should be worthy end-of-the-year award contenders for their fine, challenging work here." — Movie Dearest Posted Aug 28, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Generally thrilling, even if some stretches of conversation tend to the long side." — Movie Dearest Posted Aug 28, 2009
Fresh B-	N/A	Lovely By Surprise (2007)	" Lovely, if odd...with a remarkable performance by Carrie Preston." — Movie Dearest DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 27, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 85%	Flame & Citron (2008)	" A very well-made and engrossing...cinematic tribute to two Danish freedom fighters" — Movie Dearest Posted Aug 15, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 75%	Julie & Julia (2009)	" Thoroughly wonderful" — Movie Dearest Posted Aug 10, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 96%	Somers Town (2009)	" Sweet...at times reminiscent of "Y Tu Mama Tambien."" — Movie Dearest Posted Aug 6, 2009
Fresh A-	N/A	Smile 'til it Hurts: The Up With People Story (2009)	" Fascinating...director Lee Storey wisely resists criticizing individual Up With People members, she doesn't hold back recounting its leaders' excesses." — Movie Dearest Posted Aug 2, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" A good but not great entry in the seemingly endless movie series." — Movie Dearest Posted Jul 23, 2009
Rotten C-	Fresh 67%	Dare (2009)	" (The film) failed to ring true for me...Too many of the sexual situations struck me as contrived." — Movie Dearest Posted Jul 22, 2009
Rotten C	N/A	Mississippi Damned (2009)	" Unrelentingly grim...Despite some excellent performances, (the film) offers little that hasn't been shown or said before." — Movie Dearest Posted Jul 22, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 29%	Severed Ways (2009)	" One of the more beautifully shot films of the year...so long as the camera is standing still." — Movie Dearest Posted Jul 19, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 67%	Bruno (2009)	" While decidedly more secular--and bordering on the X-rated--Baron Cohen's flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista serves a Scripturally-prophetic function of sorts." — Movie Dearest Posted Jul 15, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 75%	Humpday (2009)	" More sophisticated than a brief plot synopsis indicates, and it is one of the most observant and intelligent movies ever about male relationships." — Orange County and Long Beach Blade Posted Jun 30, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 76%	Outrage (2009)	" Director Kirby Dick's most ambitious and accomplished expose yet." — Movie Dearest Posted Jun 18, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 0%	Dim Sum Funeral (2009)	" Too simplistic to be believable." — Movie Dearest Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 89%	S�raphine (2008)	" As the works of Seraphine the artist have stood the test of time and grown in value, I expect this account of her little-known life to do the same." — Movie Dearest Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 38%	The Art of Being Straight (2009)	" The director's inexperience shows at times...but his writing and acting are fine. Indeed, everyone in the cast is quite good." — Orange County and Long Beach Blade Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 82%	The Country Teacher (2009)	" Sometimes predictable, but it takes a number of surprising turns." — Orange County and Long Beach Blade Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 81%	Departures (2009)	" Easily the best movie I've seen thus far this year...beautifully done." — Movie Dearest Posted May 28, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 37%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" A pretty darn good, worthy prequel." — Movie Dearest Posted May 24, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 77%	Big Man Japan (2009)	" Smart spoof of the Japanese giant-monster genre." — Movie Dearest Posted May 19, 2009
Fresh A	N/A	Solos (2007)	" An extraordinary film" — Movie Dearest Posted May 17, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" Well-cast and well-acted...however, (the script) falls short of engaging viewers as intellectually or emotionally as the best prior movies and TV episodes have done." — Movie Dearest Posted May 17, 2009
Rotten C-	N/A	Finding Me (2009)	" *From any perspective -- gay or straight, black or white -- Finding Me* can't be judged a very good movie.*" — Movie Dearest* Posted May 4, 2009
Fresh B+	N/A	Pick Up The Mic (2005)	" Exciting & insightful" — Movie Dearest DVD REVIEW Posted May 3, 2009
Fresh A	N/A	Solos (2007)	" Extraordinary, wordless depiction of seduction and recovery" — Movie Dearest DVD REVIEW Posted May 3, 2009

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