ROTTEN TOMATOES: Gary Mairs

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GARY MAIRS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography: Gary Mairs writes film and music criticism for culturevulture.net. He is also a film editor and an instructor at the California Institute of the Arts.

Favorites: The Wild Bunch, The Mother and the Whore, Hail the Conquering Hero, Band of Outsiders, The Long Goodbye, Breathless, The Lady Eve, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, A Day in the Country, Shop Around the Corner

Publications: culturevulture.net

Total Reviews: 83

Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Fresh	Fresh 86%	The Road to Guantanamo (2006)	" The film is paced and edited like a news special, and in fact, there is no indication in the film as to whether any of its disparate sections are 'real.'" Posted Jun 21, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 24%	9 Songs (2005)	" For all its problems and incoherence, 'Nine Songs' is both original and daring. It's worth a dozen 'better' films. " Posted Jul 21, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 66%	Notre Musique (2004)	" The rueful work of a man who once fell hard for simplistic, murderous politics and has come to see his mistake." Posted Dec 2, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Rosenstrasse (2004)	" The tears...generated feel earned rather than forced; it's as good a fiction film on the subject as can be imagined." Posted Aug 30, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 33%	The United States of Leland (2004)	" It�s tidy in all the least important ways, with all the questions that don�t demand answers explained and all those that do left open." Posted Apr 22, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Eyes Without a Face (1959)	" A modernist horror film infused with the spirit of the silent avant garde" Posted Oct 31, 2003
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Demonlover (2003)	" A film so chic you should see it right now, because it will start looking dated sometime next week." Posted Sep 18, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Alice et Martin (1998)	" Its mystery resonates long after the film ends." Posted Sep 7, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 90%	The Magdalene Sisters (2003)	" 'The Magdalene Sisters' suggests Dickens as reimagined by Kafka." Posted Aug 1, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 86%	A Woman Is a Woman (1960)	" There's more vitality, more reckless love of the cinema, in any one scene than in a dozen current films." Posted Jul 3, 2003
Rotten	Fresh 61%	Hulk (2003)	" Clever, formally inventive and so respectful of its source material that it's dead on the screen" Posted Jun 19, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 62%	Cremaster 3 (2002)	" Awesome work: ineffable, elusive, yet inexplicably powerful" Posted Apr 29, 2003
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Dark Blue (2003)	" A good cop movie that hints at how much more it could have been." Posted Feb 25, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Gangs of New York (2002)	" *Scorsese's best fiction film since Goodfellas.*" Posted Dec 23, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 33%	The Truth About Charlie (2002)	" *For all its inventiveness, The Truth About Charlie* is less a good movie than a good idea for one.**" Posted Oct 25, 2002
Fresh	Rotten 51%	In Praise of Love (2001)	" Godard has pared down his extravagances into a densely concentrated, resonant simplicity." Posted Sep 5, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 82%	The Bourne Identity (2002)	" State of the art Hollywood genre filmmaking: impersonal, efficient and exciting." Posted Jun 14, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Time Out (2002)	" Recoing is an astonishing actor, capable of making scenes in which nothing at all happens mesmerizing." Posted Apr 16, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 83%	The Others (2001)	" [Kidman's performance turns] Amen�bar's simple genre piece into a suggestive fairy tale meditation on mothers and their children." Posted Apr 2, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)	" There's real power in the way Y Tu Mama Tambien works within the most pandering and trivial of genres, accepting its conventions before exploding them, moving from flatulence jokes to a final act that's by turns shocking and devastating." Posted Mar 14, 2002
N/A	N/A	2001 Year-in-Review (2001)	" culturevulture.net's Ten Best Films of 2001" MISCELLANEOUS Posted Dec 28, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 80%	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)	" Miraculous, the richest, most exciting work to appear in the American cinema in years." Posted Dec 14, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 93%	No Man's Land (2001)	" 'Who's On First?' in a corpse-riddled trench, with moral culpability for a genocidal civil war rather than the identity of a first baseman as the punchline. A staggering debut." Posted Dec 7, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Donnie Darko (2001)	" *Unsettling and audacious, Richard Kelly's debut feature Donnie Darko* is, without question, this year's best apocalyptic time travel movie featuring a malevolent giant bunny.**" Posted Nov 26, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 46%	Life as a House (2001)	" Life as a House is a very well-made film, but the fussy perfectionism of its makers all but snuffs the life out of it." Posted Oct 29, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 100%	My Voyage to Italy (2001)	" A love letter...to the movies...passionate, reckless and beautiful." Posted Oct 22, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Our Lady of the Assassins (2001)	" Death in Venice with 9mm Berettas...one of the best of Barbet Schroeder's career" Posted Sep 3, 2001
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 95%	Band of Outsiders (1964)	" 35 years after its release it still retains its heady air of risk and endless capacity to surprise." Posted Aug 19, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Session 9 (2001)	" We're left with nothing to do but guess who'll die next." Posted Aug 10, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Ghost World (2001)	" There's never been a better look at high school malcontents" Posted Jul 22, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Legally Blonde (2001)	" Witherspoon is so inventive that she pulls laughs from even the lamest lines." Posted Jul 13, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Jump Tomorrow (2001)	" With its lollipop colors and the breezy la-la-la's on the soundtrack, Jump Tomorrow is a charmingly kitschy trifle." Posted Jul 5, 2001
Fresh	Rotten 58%	Pandaemonium (2001)	" Buried in the mess is a modest, thoughtful film." Posted Jun 27, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Eureka (2001)	" A meditation on death played out in crisp, sepia-toned images of such evocative power that they linger for days after seeing the film." Posted May 2, 2001
Fresh	Rotten 59%	The Low Down (2001)	" It's a rare film that contains this much good material, all of it incidental." Posted Apr 16, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Amores Perros (2001)	" Cannily balances the melodrama with starkly naturalistic detail." Posted Mar 27, 2001
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 100%	The Decline of Western Civilization III (1998)	" *There's nothing funny at all in the relentless final hour of Decline of Western Civilization III, just grim episodes in the lives of abandoned children.*" Posted Mar 22, 2001
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 81%	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)	" Both a return to form and a heartening attempt to move beyond Jarmusch's increasingly restrictive formal style." Posted Mar 18, 2001
Rotten 5/10	Rotten 52%	Waking the Dead (2000)	" A good story, undermined by its telling." Posted Mar 18, 2001
Rotten 4/10	Rotten 44%	Where the Money Is (2000)	" Plodding, dull and endless at a short 89 minutes." Posted Mar 18, 2001
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 94%	The Filth and the Fury (1999)	" One can pay it no greater compliment than to say that it is worthy of its subject." Posted Mar 18, 2001
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 78%	Shanghai Noon (2000)	" An entertaining comedy that far surpasses his previous American films." Posted Mar 18, 2001
Rotten 7/10	Fresh 85%	An Affair of Love (2000)	" Baye is left stranded, a performance too strong for a film this slight to contain." Posted Mar 18, 2001
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 80%	The Tao of Steve (2000)	" The best movie about slacking since 'The Mother and the Whore.'" Posted Mar 18, 2001
Rotten 3/10	Rotten 0%	The Price of Air (2000)	" The sort of independent film that makes you crave Hollywood." Posted Mar 18, 2001
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 90%	42 Up (1998)	" If only because its foreignness allows it to come to terms with one of the great taboo subjects in our national life, 42 Up is a tremendously valuable film." Posted Mar 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 67%	Too Much Sleep (2001)	" *For all its strengths, Too Much Sleep* is ultimately uninvolving.**" Posted Mar 12, 2001
Rotten 2/10	Rotten 38%	Hannibal (2001)	" We flinch, we cover our eyes. Mostly, we just retch." Posted Feb 9, 2001
Fresh 7/10	Rotten 57%	Venus Beauty Institute (2000)	Click here to read article Posted Feb 1, 2001
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 75%	It All Starts Today (2000)	" A model of politically engaged cinema, offering a clear-eyed view of a social problem without pretending to have any easy solutions." Posted Feb 1, 2001

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