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Ray Greene

Ray Greene

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Publications:
Boxoffice Magazine , Reel.com
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
212

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
5/5 64% Another Earth (2011) " Mike Cahill's Another Earth is such a superb and original narrative film debut that people who write about movies think they're doing it a favor by comparing it to other movies and directors they love." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 22, 2011
5/5 77% Here (2012) " One of those movies so fully achieved it restores your faith in the cinema." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2011
5/5 100% Sita Sings the Blues (2008) " The brilliance of Paley's achievement is both graphic and structural-she has not only given Sita the visual specificity of a museum-grade gallery painting but also the intricate and inimitable voice of a classic Modernist novel." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2010
5/5 70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " Brisk and brainy reworking of the legendary detective's mythos makes the delightful Robert Downey Jr. into a rumpled, complicated and alternately swashbuckling and pratfalling Holmes for our time." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 8, 2009
5/5 100% Passing Strange (2009) " Tender, sexy , funny, moving and profound, Passing Strange bears comparison not just to the great works of the American musical theatre but to literary landmarks like James Baldwin's Another Country and (especially) Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2009
4/4 88% Waitress (2007) " Waitress is a real actor's movie, with each part written with great elan to have its own psychology and even its own dialect." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2007
4/4 85% War Dance (2007) " The mechanics of Spellbound transplanted to the site of Ugandan civil slaughter becomes a testament to human renewal." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2007
4/4 97% Once (2007) " This touching Irish re-imagining of the classic backstage musical has a filmmaker's eye and a poet's heart." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2007
5/5 83% Rize (2005) " A brilliant new documentary by David LaChapelle, ably and exuberantly demonstrates how fertile and renewing the hip-hop world is by chronicling the rise of a startling new hip-hop subculture." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 30, 2005
5/5 84% Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) " A paean to the essential goodness of so many unsung heroes of American education, and to the frailty of the innocence all children carry with them." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 9, 2005
5/5 95% End of the Century - The Story of the Ramones (2004) " Ranks with Terry Zwigoff's Crumb as one of the most searing, disturbing and oddly celebratory depictions of popular artists ever committed to film." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 5, 2004
4/4 68% Titus (1999) " The single most visually dazzling movie of the last half-decade." — Reel.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
4.5/5 89% Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012) " Seek this one out though, because it's too unique and too defiantly strange to survive for long in today's Darwinian and consumerist exhibition environment." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2012
4.5/5 94% Winter's Bone (2010) " Deserves to be the major commercial breakthrough for both director Debra Granik and Jennifer Lawrence, its luminous, moon-faced star." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2010
4.5/5 92% Frost/Nixon (2008) " Where other Nixon movies have focused on high drama and constitutional crisis, this one finds the most compelling truths in anecdotal detail -- an approach Morgan has raised to the level of high art." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 18, 2008
4.5/5 59% The Fall (2006) " A paean to the art of storytelling as it existed before mass-produced visual media replaced the spoken word as the primary creative medium." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 9, 2008
3.5/4 79% Teeth (2007) " It's the stuff of primal phobia and nightmare, and, by presenting it in a way that makes us laugh as well as scream, Teeth actually takes it easy on us, no matter how explicit its presentation may be." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2007
4/5 67% Red Hook Summer (2012) " It's a film that makes you laugh, weep, rage and gasp, and, love it or hate it, you will definitely talk about it afterward." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 24, 2012
4/5 100% The Surrogate (2012) " The emotional journey is articulated with so much nuance, and such a vigorous belief in human possibility, that everything The Surrogate touches becomes its own, and is made new." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 24, 2012
4/5 51% Perfect Sense (2012) " David Mackenzie's quietly accomplished film straddles the arthouse world and cult movies with a unique poetic vision." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2011
4/5 93% The Tillman Story (2010) " That screening was for the people of Park City -- normal folks, not the Hollywood types who make up 99 percent of the temporary Sundance population. These average Utah citizens thought The Tillman Story was terrific, and I did too." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 27, 2010
4/5 94% Sugar (2008) " In a world where too many filmmakers are content to bunt their way onto second base, Sugar swings for the fences, and knocks one out of the park." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 17, 2009
4/5 78% Doubt (2008) " A terrific and troubling drama of ideas bristling with nuance and grief. Instantly a leading contender for some of the year's biggest acting prizes." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 10, 2008
4/5 84% Rocket Science (2007) " This is bleak, graveyard humor, bordering on nihilism, but Rocket Science manages to put it across and still retain its essential sweetness." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2007
4/5 94% Unser täglich Brot (Our Daily Bread) (2006) " Blandly surreal and mundanely terrifying -- a beautifully photographed glimpse inside a science-driven and machine-infested parallel reality as hypnotic as it is impersonal." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2006
4/5 75% A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) " If John Cassavetes had made coming-of-age stories, they might have turned out a lot like first-time writer/director Dito Montiel's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2006
4/5 93% Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) " With a few adjustments of plot and premise, Gondry and Kaufman might have made their masterpiece here." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2004
4/5 26% Slipping Down Life (1999) " Confirms what many art-house moviegoers of the '90s have suspected for some time now: that Lili Taylor is perhaps the best American actress of her generation." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2004
4/5 41% Freddy vs. Jason (2003) " A feast for hardcore fans of either character, and likely to bring a new generation of gorehounds into the fold." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2003
50% Reversion (2011) " Mia Trachinger's thought-provoking lo-fi science fiction movie/rumination on mortality, memory and destiny, does what any low-budget independent film ought to do, which is to assure the viewer that its maker is capable of great things." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 24, 2008
—— Recycle (2008) " Though Recycle fails to visually dramatize many of the issues it seeks to address, simply taking the viewer on a journey into a mundane reality that has been so sensationalized by the global press borders on something higher than a good film." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 24, 2008
91% There Will Be Blood (2007) " When a director who is not yet 40 creates a masterful work that extends his own vocabulary while enlarging our appreciation of earlier masters, the time has come to start comparing that filmmaker primarily against himself." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2007
30% Youth Without Youth (2007) " Youth Without Youth is a clear indication that Coppola is as far from a spent force as any world-class filmmaker can be." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 12, 2007
3/4 92% An Unreasonable Man (2007) " Filmmakers Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan sense the inherent drama in such a story of triumph and betrayal, and in their long-winded fashion, they manage to capture something tragic in the unflappable Nader's uncompromising commitment." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 20, 2006
97% Unforgiven (1992) " A film that can stand proudly in the rarefied company of the very best westerns ever made." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 5, 2002
90% Jurassic Park (1993) " The plot is equal parts Westworld and (believe it or not) Jaws 3-D." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 5, 2002
74% Next Stop Wonderland (1998) " Cheerful, accomplished and straightforwardly commercial, Next Stop Wonderland is basically the second best version of "Sleepless in Seattle" ever made!" — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
79% Rumble in the Bronx (1995) " Chan is his usual amazing self onscreen." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
83% Tumbleweeds (1999) " A slight but likable movie." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
3/4 25% Mission To Mars (2000) " An exceptionally tasteful and erudite popcorn spectacle, thanks in large part to a great cast and to director De Palma, who is in top form." — Reel.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
85% The Blair Witch Project (1999) " An almost flawless 'mockumentary'!" — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
3.5/5 —— The Invisible War (2012) " So powerful it's apt to change minds" — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 28, 2012
3.5/5 80% Keep the Lights On () " Here's hoping critics and festival programmers can find a way to help Sachs keep the lights on." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 27, 2012
3.5/5 78% The Queen of Versailles (2012) " Greenfield's fly on the wall view of obscene wealth punctured like a toy balloon is as current as a blog or a headline." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 27, 2012
3.5/5 80% Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011) " Whether Rossi's cautious optimism about the future of a legendary but troubled journalistic institution is justifiable is a story yet to be written, but Page One assures us that if the paper goes down, it will go down swinging." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 17, 2011
3.5/5 87% Submarine (2011) " Richard Ayoade's Submarine is an auspicious, controlled and altogether droll debut film that resembles Wes Anderson's Rushmore without being derived from it." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 3, 2011
3.5/5 88% Buck (2011) " Its emphasis on spectacular landscapes populated by barns, corrals and rolling grass, and on values like family and community, holds a mirror up to lives rarely chronicled with such sympathy in American nonfiction film." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 5, 2011
3.5/5 72% The Future (2011) " The fearless creative energy [Miranda July] displays and her unflinching honesty about not just the outer but also the inner world of romantic despair, make The Future a unique and rewarding experience." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jan 31, 2011
3.5/5 86% Bhutto (2010) " This is a strong effort with a riveting protagonist." — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 30, 2010
3.5/5 85% Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) " A fine, visually handsome biographical documentary about the brief life and even briefer career of the great 20th Century artist, and a film that demonstrates all the strengths and weaknesses of what might be called the "cinema of personal affiliation."" — Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2010
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