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Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , L.A. Weekly , Seattle Weekly , Village Voice

Total Reviews:: 50

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	Greyfriars Bobby (2005)	— Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2012
	32%	Man on a Ledge (2012)	" With his pickled shark's smile, Harris is a welcome presence left with regrettably little to do." — Village Voice Posted Jan 24, 2012
	53%	How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? (2012)	" It's essentially an infomercial for the company he unsuccessfully tried to sell before the 2008 crash." — Village Voice Posted Jan 24, 2012
	77%	The Grey (2012)	" I was told there would be more wolf-punching." — Village Voice Posted Jan 24, 2012
	86%	Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2012)	" It's silly and excessive, but Fullmetal Alchemist occasionally strikes a note of adolescent truth, as when Ed wishes for "some way to get our bodies back."" — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2012
	56%	Seducing Charlie Barker (2011)	" In adapting her recent play The Scene, Theresa Rebeck can't find a consistent tone for her material or players." — Village Voice Posted Dec 6, 2011
	79%	Pianomania (2011)	" Directors Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis fail to plumb their subject's frustrations or any other insightful biographical details." — Village Voice Posted Nov 1, 2011
—	33%	All Good Things (2010)	— Village Voice Posted Oct 19, 2011
	36%	The Thing (2011)	" John Carpenter should approve of this reasonably respectful and tough-minded prequel to his 1982 The Thing." — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2011
	85%	Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2011)	" Strikes an enjoyable tone of congenial gore." — Village Voice Posted Sep 27, 2011
	82%	The Whale (2011)	" While they fluff up the conflict between the "no touching" feds and Luna-besotted locals, all parties are simply too polite, decent, and Canadian for any real drama." — Village Voice Posted Sep 20, 2011
	40%	Yellowbrickroad (2011)	" The film is caught in the fatal demographic desert between the Scream and Baghead crowds -- neither funny nor quirky enough to sustain interest during its long march." — Village Voice Posted May 31, 2011
	11%	Atlas Shrugged Part I (2011)	" Apart from its deficiencies as fiction, whatever its philosophical limitations (the rich and able should only help themselves in Rand's "Objectivism"), the book proves proudly indigestible on film. " — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 20, 2011
	37%	I Am (2011)	" Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky are among the boldface-name philosophers he interviews, but their voices are soon drowned out by a torrent of pseudoscience from experts at places like the Institute of HeartMath and the Institute of Noetic Sciences." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 11, 2011
	60%	Everything Strange and New (2011)	" The film conveys the intimate sense of reading a diary and provides no more consolation than we feel in writing in our own." — Village Voice Posted Feb 22, 2011
	71%	Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2011)	" The laser blasts and shimmering force fields in these contests are less violent than the repressed feelings of sensitive Shinji." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 27, 2011
	53%	The Mechanic (2011)	" The Company Men with guns, but no families or pensions. All they have is their job, and retirement literally equals death." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 27, 2011
	86%	Unstoppable (2010)	" It's like a mashup of classic commercials for Ford pickup trucks." — Village Voice Posted Nov 9, 2010
	60%	A Marine Story (2010)	" Relentlessly clumsy and predictable, A Marine Story is set in late 2008, just as a new political breeze is blowing. But its abrupt, wishful postscript is still just a fairy tale." — Village Voice Posted Nov 2, 2010
	54%	Mao's Last Dancer (2010)	" Mao's Last Dancer means well, but it stumbles between genres." — Village Voice Posted Aug 17, 2010
	76%	The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest (2010)	" Everest looks suitably majestic in this IMAX documentary, though five different expeditions on the peak are awkwardly cobbled into one dubious narrative." — Village Voice Posted Aug 3, 2010
	11%	Killers (2010)	" If you count the number of hairstyles Katherine Heigl wears in this dreary romcom-with-guns, the tally is likely to be four or five. Ashton Kutcher's facial expressions, one. " — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 10, 2010
	74%	Micmacs (Micmacs � tire-larigot) (2010)	" Allusions are made to recent European arms deals in the Balkans and Afghanistan, but Micmacs is more fantasia than violent revenge tale. And its pleasing curlicues -- like a bouquet of spoons -- linger long after the predictable outcome." — Village Voice Posted May 26, 2010
	5%	Multiple Sarcasms (2010)	" A vanity production by Branch, previously a studio branding consultant, it's the kind of odious, self-validating wish fulfillment that actually makes you appreciate the more generous self-absorption of Henry Jaglom films." — Village Voice Posted May 4, 2010
	9%	The Bounty Hunter (2010)	" On the soundtrack, Jerry Reed sings "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)." Viewers will know exactly the same feeling." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 18, 2010
	53%	Mystery Team (2009)	" Just because you're a hit on YouTube doesn't mean you should be making movies." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 11, 2010
	74%	Banlieue 13 - Ultimatum (District 13: Ultimatum) (2009)	" Besson explains the plot three times more than necessary." — Village Voice Posted Feb 2, 2010
	60%	San suk si gin (The Shinjuku Incident) (2009)	" Shinjuku Incident forgoes flashy action scenes in favor of old-fashioned moralism. Warner Bros. could have made it in the 1930s, and that's a compliment." — Village Voice Posted Feb 2, 2010
	83%	North Face (Nordwand) (2010)	" Climbers who know the famous tale needn't be warned of spoilers: Shot on location, the film is slow, realistic, and excruciating in its latter stages." — Village Voice Posted Jan 26, 2010
	21%	Leap Year (2010)	" Adams and Goode are both appealing, but you can write Leap Year's opposites-attract itinerary yourself." — Village Voice Posted Jan 5, 2010
	25%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" Shouldn't throwing stars be silent? If they're gonna sound like gunshots, why not just use guns?" — Village Voice Posted Nov 25, 2009
	22%	Planet 51 (2009)	" Planet 51 mainly succeeds at reminding you of all the better movies that inspired it." — Village Voice Posted Nov 17, 2009
	72%	The Boys Are Back (2009)	" Carr's original anecdotes don't supply much storyline, so Hicks spans the gaps with golden-lit montages set to Sigur R�s. They're a great advertisement for Australian vacations. And vasectomies." — Village Voice Posted Sep 23, 2009
	72%	Fuel (2008)	" There's not a single (even moderately) dissenting voice in Fuel; you're either on the biodiesel bandwagon or raping the planet." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009
	58%	Art & Copy (2009)	" Everyone quoted here, and perhaps Pray himself, wants to be seen as an artist. But in this economy, those of us who pay for ordinary stuff might not be so inclined to worship this particular art form." — Village Voice Posted Aug 18, 2009
	88%	Ice People (2008)	" Global warming is the subtext, I suppose, but Anne Aghion's film is really about the gritty, quotidian nature of science." — Seattle Weekly Posted Apr 29, 2009
	14%	Steam (2007)	" Writer-director Kyle Schickner embraces every cliche with gusto. (Behold the cruel intolerance of the patriarchy!)" — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009
	72%	Fuel (2008)	" Those outside the bio-church aren't likely to drive (at less than $2 per gallon) to see it at their local theater." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 12, 2009
	27%	New In Town (2009)	" The movie wrong-foots Zellweger from the start." — Village Voice Posted Jan 27, 2009
	68%	Ben X (2007)	" The best movie I've seen about teen angst since Donnie Darko comes from Belgium?" — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 26, 2008
	65%	The Universe of Keith Haring (2008)	" Equally a portrait of the artist and a portrait of a decade, this celebratory documentary makes the short, accelerated life of Keith Haring (1958-1990) inseparable from that short, accelerated period we know as '80s New York." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008
	68%	Ben X (2007)	" The best movie I've seen about teen angst since Donnie Darko comes from Belgium?" — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008
	83%	Call + Response (2008)	" Commendable if not compelling." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 9, 2008
	87%	Bomb It (2008)	" Bomb It's uncritical survey of world graffiti culture nods to history and cave art, then basically repeats itself." — Village Voice Posted Apr 23, 2008
	95%	Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)	" Shallow, very officially sanctioned, and overly compressed." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007
	74%	Outsourced (2007)	" Outsourced has a gentle touch with the obvious fish-out-of-water touchstones." — Village Voice Posted Sep 28, 2007
	48%	Macbeth (2006)	" The rush into gunfights and car chases pushes the text in all the wrong directions." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2007
	92%	Short Life of Jose Antonio Guiterrez (2007)	" With only a few letters and family photos, director Heidi Specogna never brings her subject to life." — Village Voice Posted Apr 24, 2007
	35%	Reno 911!: Miami (2007)	" The TV show excels with its short squad-car bursts of random inanity; here, the plot -- stretched out to 84 minutes -- feels like a dime bag tossed aside by a fleeing perp." — Village Voice Posted Feb 20, 2007

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