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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: 2639
Total QuickRatings: 16

Location: Portland, OR

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Fresh A	Fresh 85%	A Serious Man (2009)	" It's all about the uncertainty of life, yet the film itself is very certain, carefully crafted, impeccably written and acted." — EricDSnider.com Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 95%	In the Loop (2009)	" The sharpest, funniest political satire in years." — EricDSnider.com Posted Aug 13, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 87%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" It's as close to perfect a romantic comedy as I've ever seen." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jul 15, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 91%	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 A	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" Has a lot to say about America's entertainment and celebrity culture, and it tells a poignant story in the process." — EricDSnider.com Posted Dec 20, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 67%	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	" It's an utterly brilliant film in that it evokes its intended feelings with apparent effortlessness -- not like a staged, contrived snapshot but like a wholly unique piece of art." — EricDSnider.com Posted Nov 13, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)	" It is almost indescribably painful, yet just as powerfully inspiring, a mix of good and evil and victories and setbacks that are sure to move even jaded viewers." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jul 21, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 96%	WALL-E (2008)	" Here I am, surprised and delighted all over again at just how well these people can tell a story." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 26, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 74%	Son of Rambow (2008)	" Son of Rambow is filled with small surprises and treasures, a veritable bounty of delight." — Film.com Posted May 13, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 71%	American Teen (2008)	" More entertaining, funny, and hopeful than almost any fictional film I've seen this year." — EricDSnider.com Posted Mar 29, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 85%	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	" A fantastically haunting tale, a nightmare musical ... that's gripping from the first minor chord on the organ to the bloody, inevitable resolution." — EricDSnider.com Posted Dec 20, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	No Country for Old Men (2007)	" It's as close to a perfect film as I've seen all year: ingeniously crafted, thematically consistent, and haunting in its implications." — EricDSnider.com Posted Nov 15, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 88%	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	" Consistently engaging and suspenseful, tragic in a grand, Greek way, and loaded with sharp performances." — EricDSnider.com Posted Nov 8, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 89%	Waitress (2007)	" The ending is both realistic and happy -- and I do mean happy, as in, make-you-cry, exit-the-theater-skipping-and-dancing, that kind of happy." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 9, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 97%	The Queen (2006)	" A completely absorbing and meticulously well-acted drama." — EricDSnider.com Posted Oct 26, 2006
Fresh A	Fresh 91%	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	" It's scathing satire, audacious, ridiculous and screamingly riotous -- but it's not mean-spirited. It's just funny. Good heavens, is it ever funny." — EricDSnider.com Posted Sep 27, 2006
Fresh 5/5	N/A	Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie (2006)	Click here to read article — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 6, 2006
Fresh A	Fresh 90%	United 93 (2006)	" It's a sensitive, brilliant, uncynical re-creation, one that seeks not to exploit the dead but to commemorate them." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 28, 2006
Fresh A	Fresh 91%	Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006)	" Demme's idea is to let the songs speak for themselves, and to give us a fly-on-the-wall view of Young's intimate performance.... One of the best concert films ever made." — EricDSnider.com Posted Feb 17, 2006
Fresh A	Fresh 91%	Take My Eyes (2006)	" There's no melodrama anywhere in the film, only drama, with every single moment superbly acted and startlingly believable." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jan 17, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 86%	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	" Powerful and moving enough to be one of the best films of the year" — EricDSnider.com Posted Dec 15, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 95%	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)	" Heavens, the whole thing is just a cracking good time, so funny and clever and madly entertaining." — EricDSnider.com Posted Oct 7, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 87%	A History of Violence (2005)	" The movie is enthralling, with secrets, surprises, turns and twists, all in the service of a psychologically thrilling story." — EricDSnider.com Posted Sep 29, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 98%	Murderball (2005)	" Every bit as exciting, funny, heartwarming and uplifting as any Hollywood sports movie." — EricDSnider.com Posted Apr 20, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 77%	Sin City (2005)	" The film retains not just the look of its source material but its tone, too -- its dark mood swings, its hard-boiled love affairs, its grimly funny violence." — EricDSnider.com Posted Mar 31, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 89%	Kung Fu Hustle (2005)	" Wildly funny and inventive, a giddy re-imagining of martial-arts flicks that might be one of the most audaciously entertaining films of the year." — EricDSnider.com Posted Mar 17, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 83%	The Execution Of Wanda Jean (2005)	Click here to read article — EricDSnider.com Posted Sep 18, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 91%	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	" The boxing-as-life metaphors that have permeated a thousand other stories never felt as true as they do in this beautiful, understated film. It is destined to become a classic" — EricDSnider.com Posted Jan 10, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 65%	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)	" This is a masterpiece of comedy, ready to be watched, re-watched, quoted and imitated for years to come." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jul 9, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	" It isn't all action, or all laughs, or all drama. It's an ingenious combination of the three. It's some of the most fun I've had in a theater in a while." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 29, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 93%	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	" The movie is so inventive and beautiful that I don't see how it can be overlooked when next year's awards are given out." — EricDSnider.com Posted Mar 21, 2004
Fresh A	Rotten 50%	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	" The Passion of the Christ is a rare thing indeed, then: a work of art that succeeds as a film, as a message, and, yes, as a labor of love." — EricDSnider.com Posted Feb 25, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 93%	Super Size Me (2004)	" What could have been just an anti-fast food screed is instead a remarkably watchable, high-spirited, persuasive film that is as entertaining as it is alarming." — EricDSnider.com Posted Feb 4, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	The Triplets of Belleville (2003)	" *Animation was invented so that movies like The Triplets of Belleville* could be made.*" — EricDSnider.com* Posted Feb 13, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	" This is a trilogy to be treasured, and the final chapter is a fitting capstone." — EricDSnider.com Posted Dec 17, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 85%	Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)	" An indulgent, outlandish, and thoroughly entertaining ballet of blood." — EricDSnider.com Posted Oct 19, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 98%	Spellbound (2003)	" I almost hate to tell you it's a documentary, because I'm afraid you won't believe me that it's the most entertaining, suspenseful film I've seen all year." — EricDSnider.com Posted May 31, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 96%	Raising Victor Vargas (2003)	" One of the most deliciously authentic films I've ever seen." — EricDSnider.com Posted Mar 16, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 97%	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)	" It is more intriguing than a lot of fiction, and told in a more compelling manner than most film stories." — EricDSnider.com Posted Mar 1, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 88%	28 Days Later (2003)	" The film is endlessly suspenseful, but it is more than thrilling; it's satisfying and whole." — EricDSnider.com Posted Feb 8, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 69%	Manic (2003)	" I couldn't detect a single false moment in the entire movie." — EricDSnider.com Posted Sep 18, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 80%	The Hours (2002)	" A masterful piece of work whose emotional resonance is so natural, you wonder why more films can't accomplish it." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jan 4, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 85%	About Schmidt (2002)	" The sharp comedy that occupies most of the film melts into a sentimental -- but not syrupy -- conclusion that is one of my favorite movie endings of the year." — EricDSnider.com Posted Dec 23, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 91%	Far From Heaven (2002)	" Haynes has tapped into that most tragic of ideas -- forbidden love -- and mined some excellent melodrama from it." — EricDSnider.com Posted Nov 23, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 96%	Bowling for Columbine (2002)	Click here to read article — EricDSnider.com Posted Nov 9, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 79%	Tadpole (2002)	Click here to read article — EricDSnider.com Posted Sep 18, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 92%	Nine Queens (2002)	" The film is witty, exciting and entertaining." — EricDSnider.com Posted Sep 18, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 82%	Road to Perdition (2002)	" A film where all the elements come together so organically that you can't imagine it succeeding without every part intact." — EricDSnider.com Posted Sep 18, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 82%	One Hour Photo (2002)	" Haunting and ominous, written, directed and acted nearly to perfection." — EricDSnider.com Posted Aug 17, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 75%	My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)	" One of the funniest, most joyous comedies to come along since the Greeks invented comedy." — EricDSnider.com Posted Jun 5, 2002

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