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ERIC D. SNIDER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography: I was born and raised in Lake Elsinore, Calif. (it's boring; don't go there!). I graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.A. in journalism, and once killed a guy with my bare hands in a bar fight in Tijuana. I was film critic and various other entertainment-y things for a daily paper in Utah, and now work as a freelance writer. I have a column called "Snide Remarks" that I publish on my Web site, as well as an e-zine (fancy word for "e-mail newsletter") of movie reviews called "In the Dark." In addition to my own site, I write for Film.com and Cinematical. When I grow up, I want to be Scott Weinberg.

Favorites: Memento, Fight Club, Toy Story 2, Mary Poppins, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Raising Arizona, Anchorman, Jaws, Psycho

Publications: Cinematical, DVDTalk.com, eFilmCritic.com, EricDSnider.com, Film.com

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 2577
Total QuickRatings: 16

Location: Portland, OR

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Rotten F	Rotten 13%	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)	" Wants to emulate a John Hughes film, in much the same way that a crack whore wearing a dime-store tiara wants to emulate Queen Elizabeth." — Film.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 69%	Bruno (2009)	" Funny, yes. Astute in its satire, not as much." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 96%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" As tense and compelling an action drama as you're liable to see all year." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jul 6, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 89%	Il Divo (2009)	" Even with no knowledge of Italian government, you can enjoy this hip, un-stodgy, grimly entertaining dissection of it." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 45%	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)	" Serves its target audience well enough and offers a series of pleasant smiles, if not a lot of gut-busting laughs." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" An impeccably produced crime drama that doesn't trade intelligence for excitement and offers plenty of both." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 30, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 75%	Adoration (2009)	" Another well-wrought and intriguing drama by Egoyan." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 29, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 75%	Adoration (2009)	" Another well-wrought and intriguing drama by Egoyan." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 29, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 46%	Whatever Works (2009)	" Larry David's caustic, neurotic misanthropy fits with Allen's own nebbishy pessimism like onions fit in a knish." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 44%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" Once the bizarre premise is established, all the movie can do is wait for the story to play out -- it has a beginning and end, but no middle." — Film.com Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" While the loudness is periodically entertaining, it just becomes white noise after a while." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 24, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 50%	Easy Virtue (2009)	" If Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas firing snarky bon mots at people for 90 minutes doesn't sound entertaining, I don't know what to tell you." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 22, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 17%	Year One (2009)	" If you can't take this premise and these actors and come up with anything funnier than Jack Black eating poop, then you have no business making comedies." — Film.com Posted Jun 18, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 46%	The Proposal (2009)	" Given the plot summary, you have to admit that anything better than 'I took my own life halfway through the screening' is impressive." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 18, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski are so down-to-earth they seem like two of your closest friends." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 12, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 50%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" Not a bad way to pass a couple hours, as long as you don't sit too close to the screen and are inured to a steady barrage of loud dialogue that doesn't bother to be clever." — Film.com Posted Jun 11, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 80%	Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009)	" It has little to say about humanity in general, or even Valentino specifically, but it is fun and glitzy." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 9, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 78%	The Hangover (2009)	" As gleefully dirty as Old School, and maybe funnier." — Cinematical Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 28%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" A wildly bizarre and frequently hilarious adventure that appears to be whacked-out by design, not out of sloppiness." — Film.com Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 88%	Moon (2009)	" Should be enthusiastically greeted by serious sci-fi devotees, because it's a smart story that doesn't spell everything out but isn't maddeningly ambiguous, either." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 2, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 58%	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)	" The conversations it provokes will probably be more enjoyable than the ones it depicts." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 31, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" It's outrageously dark and twisted in the most delightful ways, a frenetic funhouse of terrors that causes almost as much laughter as pants-wetting." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 29, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" It's breezy, clever, hilarious, and entertaining -- all par for the course at Pixar -- and has the depth and intelligence that separate Pixar from every other animation factory." — Film.com Posted May 28, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" You know how it goes: the plot is inane, but a lot of the dialogue makes you laugh." — Cinematical Posted May 21, 2009
Rotten F	Rotten 27%	Dance Flick (2009)	" So to all the world's 8th-graders I say this: Don't give up hope! Keep making the same jokes you're making now, and you may one day be a filmmaker, too!" — EricDSnider.com Posted May 21, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" Suffers from pedestrian dialogue and a surfeit of bad plot devices ranging from the merely too-convenient to the laugh-out-loud preposterous." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 20, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" I get that saving the world from disaster is important business. But is it too much to ask for it to be fun for the audience?" — Cinematical Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 47%	Management (2009)	" *They make an intriguing pair, and Management, for all its hard-to-define mix of melancholy and absurdity, makes for an intriguing movie." — Film.com* Posted May 14, 2009
Rotten D-	Rotten 33%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" It is a film full of nothing. Why is anyone supposed to watch it?" — EricDSnider.com Posted May 11, 2009
Rotten D-	Rotten 18%	Next Day Air (2009)	" I barely detected moments that even seemed like they were supposed to be funny, let alone ones that actually were." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 10, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 38%	Gigantic (2008)	" *Aselton seems to have ingested a hundred forgettable indie comedies, regurgitated them, and applied the random title Gigantic* to what came up.*" — EricDSnider.com* Posted May 7, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" Spectacularly entertaining -- fast-paced, glib, thrilling, and slickly produced. It's better than most summertime action romps even bother trying to be." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 28%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" The screenplay never comes to grips with the fact that Connor IS A LOATHSOME HUMAN BEING." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" *Its generic and lazy title notwithstanding, Fighting* is almost a good movie.*" — EricDSnider.com* Posted May 6, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 18%	Obsessed (2009)	" Are people not aware of the Lifetime Movie Network, which shows films like this 24 hours a day for free?" — EricDSnider.com Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 46%	Battle for Terra (2009)	" The technical quality would have been terrific 10 years ago but looks cheap now, and while the basic story has potential, the execution is mediocre." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" It's loud, chaotic, and goofy, one of the more negligible entries in the comic-book genre." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 76%	Outrage (2009)	" Hypocrites beware: Kirby Dick will have none of your shenanigans." — Cinematical Posted Apr 29, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 73%	Departures (2009)	" A fine film that's gently funny and moving and not the least bit challenging or controversial." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 28, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 15%	The Informers (2009)	" Brazenly befouling cinemas with its sub-soap-opera acting, melodramatic dialogue, and thoroughly unlikable characters." — Film.com Posted Apr 27, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" One false move here or there and it would have come off as sappy or contrived, but no -- it works." — Film.com Posted Apr 23, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 56%	17 Again (2009)	" Very little creative energy was expended in making this film." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 19, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 62%	Crank High Voltage (2009)	" You're liable to watch the whole thing with an expression of bafflement on your face, surprised, delighted, and alarmed by what you're seeing." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 18, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 85%	State of Play (2009)	" A taut and efficient thriller that, unlike so many of its genre, actually has a brain in its head." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 17, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 94%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" A poignant work of great beauty." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 16, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 13%	Dragonball: Evolution (2009)	" It's not aggressively bad. It's more like a dumb, energetic puppy." — Cinematical Posted Apr 12, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 46%	Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)	" You grant a little leeway for a movie aimed at kids, but come on. Plenty of kids' movies are clever and make sense. This one isn't and doesn't." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" A fascinatingly bizarre dark comedy, an abrasive and occasionally mean-spirited tale that succeeds by being completely committed to its ideas." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 66%	Duplicity (2009)	" Gilroy handles it expertly and maintains a light, jaunty tone." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 8, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 89%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" Fukunaga expertly shapes a variety of elements -- gangland thriller, immigration drama, social commentary -- into a rich, compelling story about redemption." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 8, 2009

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