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Dan Fainaru

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Publications:: Screen International , Screendaily

Total Reviews:: 44

Worst Reviewed Films

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
75%	$9.99 (2008)	" Like most episode pieces, Rosenthal and Keret seem to have chosen the easy way out by not taking the trouble to develop any of the ideas beyond the basic anecdote." — Screen International Posted Dec 16, 2009
——	Visage (Face) (2009)	" Face will appeal exclusively to Tsai Ming-liang's devoted fans who find themselves in familiar territory here, but the rest of the audience may be baffled -- to say the least." — Screen International Posted Sep 15, 2009
50%	Jaffa (2009)	" Jaffa's schematic plot, predictably developed with stock characters that are never fleshed out, is insufficient to carry her pallid observations." — Screen International Posted May 17, 2009
46%	Cassandra's Dream (2007)	" If there is a black comedy hiding deep within the folds of this tragic tale, it is so subtly dissimulated that very few will ever manage to unveil it." — Screen International Posted Sep 15, 2007
89%	California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) (Endless) (2007)	" As it looks now, the film lacks any pace to speak of, but much more serious are the absence of a distinct narrative style and an abundance of hesitant directorial decisions, badly in need of an editing table, if the plot has to make sense at all." — Screen International Posted May 28, 2007
38%	Ye yan (Legend of the Black Scorpion) (The Banquet) (2006)	" Staunch in its belief that bigger is better, The Banquet piles up enough condiments for a dozen meals but never really tries to cook them into one satisfactory repast." — Screendaily Posted Sep 13, 2006
94%	A Room and a Half (2009)	" A lively, dense and richly imaginative portrait not only of a great writer but also of the post-Second World War cultural world of the Soviet Union." — Screen International Posted Jan 20, 2010
91%	Maria Larssons eviga �gonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2009)	" Discreet, old-fashioned, traditional and altogether admirable, this is Jan Troell at his best." — Screen International Posted Dec 17, 2009
94%	Tokyo Sonata (Tokyo Sonata) (2009)	" Taking a break from his regular diet of fantasy and horror, Japan's Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivers here a fierce indictment of modern-day Japan." — Screen International Posted Dec 16, 2009
81%	Taxidermia (2006)	" To Palfi's credit, he never attempts to titillate. His mind-boggling visual imagination is ably supported by Gergely Poharnok's camera and the art direction." — Screen International Posted Aug 14, 2009
48%	La Fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco) (2009)	" Luchini, who could read the phone directory and make it sound exciting, has completely nailed the soft-skinned, flabby, middle-aged lawyer who hides his hang-ups behind a barrage of verbiage." — Screen International Posted Jul 24, 2009
45%	Air Doll (K�ki ningy�) (2009)	" Although the bill may be too ambitious and Kore-eda's approach too diffused, Air Doll does offer food for thought." — Screen International Posted May 15, 2009
96%	Revanche (2009)	" The intricate plotting sometimes stretches credibility but exemplary performances from the entire cast and superlative camera work by Martin Gschlacht keep the ship afloat." — Screen International Posted Jan 28, 2009
69%	Delta (2009)	" Kornel Mundruczo is back on his feet with his best rounded and most mature work to date." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
96%	Les Plages d'Agn�s (The Beaches of Agnes) (2008)	" This feels like the work of an octogenarian who wishes to be leave those close to her a well rounded self-portrait to remember her by." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
72%	Love Comes Lately (2008)	" Though Schutte doesn't quite rise to the challenge, he is greatly helped by the presence of veteran Viennese stage actor Otto Tausig, who inhabits the character of Max Kohn as if were been born into it." — Screen International Posted Sep 29, 2007
84%	Sun Taam (Mad Detective) (2008)	" The prolific Johnny To and his occasional collaborator Wai Ka Fai here put a new twist on the standard police yarn." — Screen International Posted Sep 29, 2007
94%	M�rin (Jar City) (2006)	" This is possibly Kormakur's best effort to date, strongly confirming his position as one of Iceland's leading filmmakers." — Screen International Posted Jul 31, 2007
86%	Meduzot (Jellyfish) (2008)	" A surprisingly accessible and easy to watch feature that deservedly won the Critic's Week prize at Cannes." — Screen International Posted May 31, 2007
88%	El Ba�o del Papa (The Pope's Toilet) (2007)	" A pseudo-documentary that focuses on the hardships and penuries of their characters with such visual and dramatic intensity that its irony is often pushed aside." — Screen International Posted May 24, 2007

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