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HARVEY S. KARTEN

""If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself only, what am I?" -Hillel"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Biography: After teaching high school for quite a while, I took an M.A. in Film and Theater from Hunter College in New York and a Ph.D. in Theater from the City University Graduate Center, also in the Big Apple. Having sat through one innocuous Broadway show after another and a great deal of talky off-Broadway productions as a so-called second-night critic, I realized that you don't always get what you pay for. Broadway shows may be $75 a ticket and movies just $9.50 (in New York), but you're more likely to have fun AND take away something of substance from the big screen. The switch from reviewing theater to reviewing movies was an easy one to make.When my application for membership in the New York Film Critics Circle was circular-filed (print media only, sorry), I founded the Online Film Critics Society in January 1997 and three years later, NYFCO (New York Film Critics Online).

Favorites: Favorite films: Amadeus, Schindler's List, Lassie Come HomeBest of 2006: Thank You for Smoking

Publications: Compuserve, Film Journal International, Modamag.com, Rotten Tomatoes, The Cinema Source

Critics' Group: New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews: 2854

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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Fresh B	N/A	NoBody's Perfect (2009)	" This insight documentary takes its place among all features that call upon us to be ourselves, to 'come out' and help prove to all that nobody's perfect." — Compuserve Posted Mar 18, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 20%	Repo Men (2010)	" Cliches abound: frantically edited fights, gore, lethargically acted" — Compuserve Posted Mar 17, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 64%	City Island (2010)	" Overflowing with ethnic energy." — Compuserve Posted Mar 17, 2010
Fresh A-	Fresh 100%	The Secret In Their Eyes (2009)	" This Oscar-winning film deftly conflates a crime thriller with a smoldering romance." — Compuserve Posted Mar 16, 2010
Fresh B+	N/A	After.Life (2010)	" A tense, elegant, intelligent thriller that will have audiences debating whether Liam Neeson's character is a serial killer or a kindly mortician." — Compuserve Posted Mar 15, 2010
Fresh B	N/A	Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010)	" A sometimes plodding but often vibrant look at the fall and rise of Walt Disney Pictures" — Compuserve Posted Mar 11, 2010
Fresh B-	Rotten 53%	Green Zone (2010)	" A poor man's 'Hurt Locker' but vivid nonetheless" — Compuserve Posted Mar 10, 2010
Fresh B+	Rotten 50%	Chloe (2010)	" Hiring a hooker to entrap your husband makes for good entertainment." — Compuserve Posted Mar 10, 2010
Fresh B	Fresh 87%	Mid-August Lunch (2009)	" In just 75 minutes the director convinces us that girls just want to have fun--even when they're 90." — Compuserve Posted Mar 9, 2010
Rotten C+	Rotten 16%	Our Family Wedding (2010)	" A broad rom-com that trods over old territory of cultural clashes." — Compuserve Posted Mar 8, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 60%	Kimjongilia (2010)	" An effective broadside against the regime of the world's most isolated nation." — Compuserve Posted Mar 6, 2010
Fresh B+	Rotten 52%	Hachiko: A Dog's Story (2009)	" If I had a car, this movie would inspire me to get a bumper sticker: 'The more I know people, the more I love my dog.'" — Compuserve Posted Mar 5, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 52%	Alice in Wonderland (2010)	" Repetitive, lacking narrative momentum" — Compuserve Posted Mar 4, 2010
Fresh B-	Rotten 40%	Brooklyn's Finest (2010)	" Off the wall it may be, but it's a policier as only Hollywood can do" — Compuserve Posted Mar 4, 2010
—	Fresh 92%	Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss (2010)	Click here to read article — Compuserve Posted Mar 4, 2010
Rotten C+	Rotten 17%	Shutterbug (2010)	" A photographer looks at a Dante-esque New York late at night and runs into trouble in a micro-budget movie that's more doggerel than poetry." — Compuserve Posted Mar 2, 2010
Fresh B	Fresh 89%	Looking for Eric (2010)	" Ken Loach again glorifies the working class in his most commercial film to date." — Compuserve Posted Feb 23, 2010
Fresh B	N/A	Lord, Save Us from Your Followers (2009)	" Has perhaps the most apropos title of any movie you'll see this year." — Compuserve Posted Feb 19, 2010
Fresh B	Fresh 100%	No One Knows About Persian Cats (2010)	" Of special interest to viewers who are into international politics or indie rock." — Compuserve Posted Feb 18, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 67%	Shutter Island (2010)	" A tense psychological thriller that recalls fare of similar genres from The Snake Pit to The Shining." — Compuserve Posted Feb 18, 2010
Fresh B	Fresh 82%	Ghost Writer (2010)	" An intelligent person's political thriller anchored by Ewan McGregor's strong performance in the title role." — Compuserve Posted Feb 17, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 82%	Lourdes (2010)	" A deeply respectful look into a pilgrimage to the holy city of Lourdes anchored by a sensitive story." — Compuserve Posted Feb 12, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 89%	Mother (2010)	" If Bong does not provide airtight evidence that a mom will do anything for her child, who does?" — Compuserve Posted Feb 11, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 18%	Valentine's Day (2010)	" Cliche piles upon cliche in this tepid comedy." — Compuserve Posted Feb 10, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 32%	The Wolfman (2010)	" Nothing wrong here that a silver bullet couldn't fix." — Compuserve Posted Feb 10, 2010
Fresh B	N/A	Jew Suss (1934)	" Too many talking heads, not enough archival film, but mandatory viewing for anyone interested in the Nazi era or in the history of directing." — Compuserve Posted Feb 5, 2010
Fresh B	Fresh 82%	The Art of the Steal (2009)	" We in audience leave the theater debating whether in this case, stealing was actually merited." — Compuserve Posted Feb 3, 2010
Fresh B-	Fresh 63%	Videocracy (2010)	" Erik Gandini's documentary indicts Italy's prime minister for controlling the lion's share of TV stations and magazines but less convincingly connects the dots between the PM's media empire and his political power." — Compuserve Posted Feb 2, 2010
Rotten D	N/A	To Die for Tano (2010)	" To Die for Tano (Tano da morire in its original Italian-language title) seems to have been on the shelf for a long, long time -- since 1997. The movie should have stayed there." — Compuserve Posted Feb 2, 2010
Rotten C+	Rotten 55%	Edge of Darkness (2010)	" A byzantine plot sinks the movie." — Compuserve Posted Jan 28, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 35%	From Paris With Love (2010)	" You've never seen Travolta like this. Do not consider that to be a compliment." — Compuserve Posted Jan 28, 2010
Fresh B	Rotten 43%	The Good Guy (2010)	" A light romantic comedy about a relationship between a hot-shot investment banker and a perky conservationist who learns in time that her boyfriend is a cad." — Compuserve Posted Jan 27, 2010
Fresh B+	Rotten 48%	Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)	" A solid, inspirational tale based on a true story of the murder of a black Vietnam veteran in North Carolina which led an all-white jury to free the obvious killers." — Compuserve Posted Jan 25, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 77%	Eyes Wide Open (2010)	" Hanky panky among Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox is treated with restraint and authenticity, deserving an audience beyond the assumed target of gays, Jewish-interest, and cinephiles." — Compuserve Posted Jan 22, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 82%	7 Days (2010)	" In directing this torture porn, Daniel Grou is intent on dismissing the doctor's oath, 'primum non nocere,' and he does that quite well." — Compuserve Posted Jan 22, 2010
Fresh A-	Fresh 100%	The Most Dangerous Man in America (2009)	" A gut-punching doc that will make its audience consider that substituting the word 'Iraq' for 'Vietnam' makes this a timely lesson. Don't we learn from history?" — Compuserve Posted Jan 21, 2010
Fresh A-	Rotten 56%	The Shock Doctrine (2010)	" A stunning, exquisitely photographed and narrated diatribe against the excesses of capitalism." — Compuserve Posted Jan 20, 2010
Fresh B	Rotten 50%	Eclipse (2010)	" A ghost story, a romance, a gentle film with a leisurely pace against a lovely background in seaside Ireland." — Compuserve Posted Jan 14, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 45%	The Book of Eli (2010)	" Nothing novel or unpredictable, despite an unnecessary twist at the conclusion: at least it's more entertaining than 'The Road.'" — Compuserve Posted Jan 13, 2010
Fresh B-	Fresh 83%	North Face (2010)	" Awesome scenery and bourgeois banality combine to produce an overlong, occasionally scary film about extreme mountain climbing." — Compuserve Posted Jan 12, 2010
Fresh B-	Rotten 46%	Creation (2010)	" A great performance by Bettany as the Darwin you've never before seen is married to an awfully slow production." — Compuserve Posted Jan 11, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 17%	Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)	" A trite, unfunny, road-and-buddy movie." — Compuserve Posted Jan 7, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 39%	44 Inch Chest (2010)	" The interminable macho bluster overwhelms the senses and makes for a dull time at the movies." — Compuserve Posted Jan 6, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 75%	The Girl on the Train (2010)	" A delightfully complex plot brings to life an actual event that consisted of a young woman's false accusation of an anti-Semitic attack." — Compuserve Posted Jan 6, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 90%	Terribly Happy (2009)	" An eerie spellbinder featuring inbred folks from a small, evil, Danish town." — Compuserve Posted Jan 4, 2010
Fresh A-	Fresh 69%	Youth in Revolt (2010)	" The frustrations of puppy love are on greatly entertaining display." — Compuserve Posted Jan 2, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 82%	Waiting for Armageddon (2010)	" It's scary to see how many of my fellow Americans believe this stuff." — Compuserve Posted Dec 24, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 28%	Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009)	" Tennessee Williams fans will eat it up." — Compuserve Posted Dec 19, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 13%	Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)	" This fish out of water rom-com is predictable and sappy but the contrast between New York and Wyoming, filmed with fine production values, makes for some interest." — Compuserve Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 100%	Vincere (2009)	" Exquisite mixture of archival film and current takes on a doomed romance between Benito Mussolini and his alleged first wife." — Compuserve Posted Dec 14, 2009

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