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Michelle Orange

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , L.A. Weekly , Movieline , Reeler , Village Voice
Critics' Group:: New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews:: 476

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
5.5/10	86%	In Darkness (2012)	" The idea seems to be to try and make the experience of the 12 Polish Jews who hid in a sewer for 14 months as uncomfortable for the audience as it was for them." — Movieline Posted Feb 9, 2012
	92%	Chico & Rita (2012)	" A dazzling thing to behold." — Village Voice Posted Feb 7, 2012
7.5/10	85%	Chronicle (2012)	" This uneven but earnest, often exhilarating film derives its greatest interest from the way it turns the found-footage format inside out..." — Movieline Posted Feb 3, 2012
7/10	76%	The Innkeepers (2012)	" More so than in West's previous film, which worked on its own steam right up until the end, The Innkeepers feels like a devoted horror fan's attempt to reinvent a classic genre by sheer force of quality." — Movieline Posted Feb 1, 2012
6.5/10	55%	The Front Line (2012)	" Hollywood clich�s pervade The Front Line, from its slate and sepia tones to its stock company of characters and dialogue that translates macho posturing into present-day slang." — Movieline Posted Jan 19, 2012
	60%	Scalene (2012)	" Strong performances and a Hitchcock-trained eye build unnerving tension into its depiction of the intimate stress of caring for an invalid and the ways people might or might not crack under it." — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2012
6/10	14%	Don't Go in the Woods (2012)	" Outside of the proxy satisfaction it will give those who are dying to see the grim reaper let loose on the set of a very special episode of Glee, the pleasures of Don't Go in the Woods can't quite compensate for its straggly bits." — Movieline Posted Jan 12, 2012
	48%	Albatross (2012)	" Albatross shifts from indie fairy tale to farce, only to accept its fate as a coming-of-age melodrama." — Village Voice Posted Jan 10, 2012
8.5/10	88%	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012)	" Silence and sound are deployed as artfully as Ceylan's sweeping master shots are." — Movieline Posted Jan 5, 2012
6.5/10	53%	Albert Nobbs (2012)	" This story of literal and figurative female sexual repression feels curiously unfinished, its many layers rather decorously undisturbed." — Movieline Posted Dec 21, 2011
4/10	13%	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)	" Number of chipmunks who speak fluent chola when necessary: three. Number of Spider-Man/Pepe Le Pew mash-ups I can't really get into: one." — Movieline Posted Dec 15, 2011
8/10	94%	Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011)	" The most poignant idea to emerge from Corman's World is that in fact neither man nor mogul can control quite everything, perhaps nothing less than his legacy." — Movieline Posted Dec 15, 2011
3.5/10	13%	I Melt with You (2011)	" Although a stark performative moment here and a cold, sexy shot there slip through, all of the film's lesser ambitions are undone by its most risible one - to be serious, and thus be taken seriously." — Movieline Posted Dec 8, 2011
	90%	London River (2011)	" Bouchareb brings a measured hand to this intimate, occasionally overdetermined sketch of the aloneness at the center of our global confluence." — Village Voice Posted Dec 6, 2011
5/10	38%	The Lady (2011)	" A kind of Botoxed biopic with an unlikely director - Luc Besson - manning the syringe." — Movieline Posted Dec 1, 2011
	56%	Lads & Jockeys (2011)	" Marquet mingles black-and-white footage of students past with that of his current focus-three 14-year-olds in their first year of a jockey apprenticeship-to build a sense of specificity and continuum into a timeless passage." — Village Voice Posted Nov 29, 2011
8.5/10	92%	Arthur Christmas (2011)	" I'd be satisfied if Arthur Christmas primed kids for nothing more than expecting nothing less from holiday entertainment than this fleet, sweet-natured film." — Movieline Posted Nov 22, 2011
6.5/10	74%	The Lie (2011)	" Embedded in The Lie is a sharp look at the moral limbo of a complacent life, the self-defeat of committing by halves, the self-interest of false equivalencies - but only the shallowest attempts are made to chip its themes out." — Movieline Posted Nov 17, 2011
	89%	Into The Abyss (2011)	" An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small Southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul." — Village Voice Posted Nov 8, 2011
	73%	Revenge of the Electric Car (2011)	" In lieu of a business case for ethics, it tells the story of that rare moment when the bottom line finally dovetails with the greater good." — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2011
	33%	America The Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments (2011)	" A choppy, unfocused, intermittently compelling report on the tortured, fluctuating state of the national backside." — Village Voice Posted Oct 11, 2011
	100%	Hell and Back Again (2011)	" Working alone with a camera and his ingenuity, Dennis captured the surreality of firefights with an invisible enemy and the frustration of displaced civilians." — Village Voice Posted Oct 4, 2011
	60%	Surrogate Valentine (2011)	" Cultivates a sweet, shucksy tone that wears thin in some of the early scenes but ultimately deepens into genuine heart." — Village Voice Posted Sep 27, 2011
—	——	There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho ()	— Village Voice Posted Sep 21, 2011
	——	There Was Once... (2011)	" A vitally personal version of a story often told in anonymous terms." — Village Voice Posted Sep 20, 2011
	——	Art History (2011)	" Swanberg has discovered lighting and mood -- to occasionally stunning effect. Perhaps in some future memo from the front lines of indie-sploitation, he will unite them with story and more than a superficial nod to character. " — Village Voice Posted Sep 20, 2011
	——	Back Door Channels: The Price Of Peace (2011)	" Human characters emerge from photo ops and heroes from the shadows." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2011
	71%	Echotone (2011)	" Too vital for elegy, Echotone tells an old story whose beginning -- the inception of a vibrant creative hub -- remains mysterious, although the end is easy to predict." — Village Voice Posted Sep 6, 2011
6.5/10	71%	Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011)	" A few shots of full frontal and an actual devil to point to are poor substitutes for exposure and depth of character." — Movieline Posted Sep 1, 2011
	32%	A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)	" Is the world of the film ruled by its high concept, its low comedy, its demographic credibility, or its romantic screwball realism? Ultimately, Orgy's refusal to be any one thing-including good or bad-forms a kind of epochal statement." — Village Voice Posted Aug 30, 2011
7.5/10	27%	Colombiana (2011)	" Along with a spectacularly physical performance by Zaldana, Colombiana features some of the best frame-for-frame shots you will see this year." — Movieline Posted Aug 25, 2011
8/10	81%	Higher Ground (2011)	" Farmiga closes in on moments that express mood and character so lightly and perceptively that you don't notice them gently - sometimes too gently - moving the story forward." — Movieline Posted Aug 25, 2011
5/10	23%	Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011)	" The rhythm is off, a predicament Rodriguez addresses with copious - nearly constant - excrement and evacuation humor, and sudden turns into wide-eyed sincerity." — Movieline Posted Aug 22, 2011
5.5/10	62%	Amigo (2011)	" Rather than digging into a character-driven narrative and allowing the resonances to flow naturally from it, Sayles seemed to begin with a set of inferences to modern American imperialism and work backwards." — Movieline Posted Aug 18, 2011
6.5/10	74%	Fright Night (2011)	" Though the will was clearly there to reinvent an '80s classic in style, Fright Night never quite lives up to the promise of its upscale cast." — Movieline Posted Aug 18, 2011
	61%	Griff the Invisible (2011)	" An Australian misfits-in-love story manufactured from whole quirk, Griff the Invisible is more mannerism than movie." — Village Voice Posted Aug 16, 2011
8/10	60%	Final Destination 5 (2011)	" A hugely satisfying tension comes from tapping the dread we push down to get through a life of constant negotiation with danger, whether it's crossing a suspension bridge or crossing the street. Who needs Freddy when routine plane travel is so fraught?" — Movieline Posted Aug 11, 2011
4/10	25%	The Change-Up (2011)	" A flurry of low-grade humor where the men rarely feel at risk and the women, revealed as the gory other lurking underneath all that verdant green grass, are ritually humiliated." — Movieline Posted Aug 4, 2011
6.5/10	72%	Magic Trip (2011)	" A pretty definitive argument for the supremacy of literature when it comes to mythologizing pivotal moments in American culture." — Movieline Posted Aug 4, 2011
	63%	Protektor (2011)	" Najbrt gets the look and feel of noir fatalism down, but storytelling that alternates between roughshod and lethargic means the film doesn't hold together as much more than pretty fragments." — Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2011
8.5/10	73%	Mei loi ging chaat (Future X-Cops) (2010)	— Movieline Posted Aug 1, 2011
8.5/10	71%	The Future (2011)	" A provocative example of a filmmaker in complete control of her interests and her talents." — Movieline Posted Jul 28, 2011
5.5/10	95%	The Guard (2011)	" From its assaultive, nihilistic prologue to its last flat invocation of American culture, The Guard foregrounds the extent to which it is leaning on artifice and affect to get over." — Movieline Posted Jul 28, 2011
7/10	52%	The Devil's Double (2011)	" A handsome and occasionally dazzling thriller with at least one dynamo performance from its star..." — Movieline Posted Jul 28, 2011
6/10	44%	Cowboys & Aliens (2011)	" The B-movie marquee title of Cowboys and Aliens suggests a picture that's more irreverent, imaginative, and fun than the turgid movie that stands behind it." — Movieline Posted Jul 27, 2011
	69%	sleep furiously. (2011)	" A lingering, mildly lyrical look at village life." — Village Voice Posted Jul 26, 2011
	67%	Good Neighbors (2011)	" Tierney offers what preparations he can for the offbeat darkness to come, but at least one part of the perfect, triple-crossing crime that plays out is so black you may want to wear shades. " — Village Voice Posted Jul 26, 2011
8/10	79%	The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2011)	" It looks more like your teenage world than such films generally allow, and it's not pretty. It's beautiful." — Movieline Posted Jul 21, 2011
6/10	73%	Sarah's Key (2011)	" There are too many dangling and swiftly clipped threads for the film to amount to more than another tasteful Sunday matinee set against one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century." — Movieline Posted Jul 21, 2011

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