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Michelle Orange

Michelle Orange

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% 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:
507

Worst Reviewed Films

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2/10 14% Zookeeper (2011) " Pushes past banality and onto the surreal plane being staked out by bad movies that are bad in a new and genuinely dispiriting way." — Movieline
Posted Jul 7, 2011
2/10 35% Battle: Los Angeles (2011) " On the whole Battle: Los Angeles is the emptiest form of sci-fi action: Just one bloody (or alien gooey) thing after another." — Movieline
Posted Mar 10, 2011
70% Ramona and Beezus (2010) " Feels like being bound in a thick, homemade quilt, rolled up to a campfire, and smothered in toasted marshmallow goo." — Movieline
Posted Jul 22, 2010
20% Contenders () " A classic example of a director who wanted to make a film but lacked a story that demanded telling." — Movieline
Posted Jul 16, 2010
51% Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2010) " The ostensibly torrid affair at the film's center plays out as a series of limply held (if urgently photographed) poses." — Movieline
Posted Jun 10, 2010
26% Finding Bliss (2009) " It is particularly painful to watch Sobieski -- whose unnervingly symmetrical, Botticelli face and supernatural poise can't help but hold the screen -- put through the paces of Davis's almost unbearably labored script." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 1, 2010
36% Boogie Woogie (2010) " Neither a wholly realized satire or a successfully drawn ensemble piece, Boogie Woogie's got the moves but can't quite find the beat. " — Movieline
Posted Apr 21, 2010
29% Paper Man (2010) " An artist-in-crisis piece run through a drab but quirk-conscious indie processor." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 20, 2010
76% Kick-Ass (2010) " Knowing, impatient, and prone to shuddering violence as both a substitute for plot and shorthand for exhilaration, Kick-Ass oozes a supreme confidence in the knowledge of its audience. " — Movieline
Posted Apr 15, 2010
29% Pornography: A Thriller (2010) " Ambitiously layered and almost completely incoherent." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 14, 2010
40% Don McKay (2010) " A strange, largely inert indie thriller." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 31, 2010
59% Dancing Across Borders (2010) " We get white folks ruminating lyrically on the peasant Asian's role as a kind of grand jeté bridge between East and West, and long performance sequences that are dazzling to behold but quite troubling to contemplate." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 24, 2010
19% Cop Out (2010) " Straining to give limp quotation the luster of homage, Kevin Smith's Cop Out pays tribute mostly to the director's rich heritage of self-amusement." — Movieline
Posted Feb 24, 2010
34% The Wolfman (2010) " Gallingly leaden remake of the 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. classic both lives and dies by its transformations." — Movieline
Posted Feb 16, 2010
16% When in Rome (2010) " A romantic comedy without much to offer in the way of character, conflict, or canoodling." — Movieline
Posted Jan 29, 2010
40% For My Father (Sof Shavua B'Tel Aviv) (2010) " Israel seems to have its own form of prestige cinema, where tortured suicide bombers and rending intergenerational conflict signal what period costumes and booming accents might to American viewers." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 26, 2010
40% Carmel (2009) " Unfortunately, the viewer is left out of the equation." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 12, 2010
75% The Road (2009) " In attempting to realize McCarthy's vision of the planet in chaos, Hillcoat delves so deeply into his source material that he loses sight of the audience." — Movieline
Posted Dec 1, 2009
67% The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) " If anything the film suffers, appropriately if unfortunately enough, from being too eager to please." — Movieline
Posted Dec 1, 2009
81% Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces) (Broken Hugs) (2009) " Even beautifully executed, formally flawless constraint does not quite suit Almodovar." — Movieline
Posted Dec 1, 2009
45% The Box (2009) " An allegorical hash that fails as often as it succeeds in articulating its one core, coherent point: we are as moral as our options." — Movieline
Posted Dec 1, 2009
48% Antichrist (2009) " The film's incoherence breaks von Trier's trademark wave of sensibility into something lesser, something all too easily understood." — Movieline
Posted Oct 25, 2009
21% Amelia (2009) " Every scene is glazed with a kind of Cheez Whiz glow." — Movieline
Posted Oct 23, 2009
20% Motherhood (2009) " Dieckmann nails the look of a certain niche of urban neo-middle-class living, but the film's hyper-earnest tone and reliance on "day-from-hell" New York clichés overwhelm those details." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 20, 2009
25% Law Abiding Citizen (2009) " Has the audience for these kinds of films demanded this sort of torture-porn titillation from their popcorn thrillers?" — Movieline
Posted Oct 20, 2009
28% Adventures of Power (2009) " The film -- despite some successful goofs and a defiantly dorky Phil Collins tribute -- can't quite win for trying." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 6, 2009
25% Fame (2009) " Members of the class of '80 struggled to stay in school despite homelessness and crime; the greatest crisis in '09 finds a student's Sesame Street work schedule affecting her GPA." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 1, 2009
56% As Seen Through These Eyes (2008) " Distractingly tortured metaphors are given a distractingly affected narration by Maya Angelou." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 29, 2009
22% Sorority Row (2009) " Call me the sarcastic sister, but the only thing screaming in any convincing way here are the cheap look, epileptic direction, and off-key, "edgy" humor." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 15, 2009
37% The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) " The book alternates between the first person narration of both characters, and the film attempts to replicate that balance, but the difference is split, and we can't relate to either one." — Movieline
Posted Aug 15, 2009
21% Next Day Air (2009) " There are no cops, not much farcical energy, and none of the satiric edge it would take to pull off the film's grim denouement." — Village Voice
Posted May 13, 2009
50% A Wink and a Smile (2008) " The tension between wanting to root for these women and ultimately being faced with what you're rooting for goes completely unresolved." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 28, 2009
55% Enlighten Up! (2009) " Its director winds up focusing on the least interesting/most predictable tension of them all, that which arises between herself and her handpicked, inflexible star." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 1, 2009
11% Lake City (2008) " Mother and son have an uneasy bond that should be familiar to anyone who has ever seen a movie in which a child's room has been preserved and locked tight." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 26, 2008
11% Lake City (2008) " Added to the general torpidity and twangy tropes of this Southern family drama is the discomfort of watching a natural actor force it." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 19, 2008
81% Azur et Asmar (Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest) (2006) " Adults will find the elegant combination of cut-out and CGI animation bewitching but the thematics unsubtle, at best." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 15, 2008
29% Ripple Effect (2008) " Several ordinarily banal movies soldered into one amazingly bad one." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 24, 2008
15% Hounddog (2008) " The symbolism [is] clobbering." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2008
40% Able Danger (2008) " Able Danger's various generic elements and ambitions, while successful on their own, resist melding into a successful pastiche." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2008
30% Forgiveness (2006) " David's trauma, madness, and recovery is arranged as a puzzle of dreams, flashbacks, hallucinations, and strikingly choreographed numbers that, while occasionally dazzling, remains in pieces at film's end." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2008
50% Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet (2005) " As the artist affects a symposium nearly as towering as his Promenade, always returning to process, the camera endlessly skims the narrow corridors of his planed steel walls, to increasingly fruitless effect." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 19, 2008
21% The Doorman (2008) " Not until the goofy closing credits does the film hit its tonal stride and nail what could have been its saving, salient theme: the absurd lines that fancy people draw (and obey) to make themselves feel special on a Saturday night." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2008
44% Das Wilde Leben (Eight Miles High!) (2008) " The biggest buzzkill that could possibly come of so much raw material." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2008
29% Harold (2008) " The long stretches of dead air that, it can only be assumed, were supposed to be filled by laughter provide ample time for pondering what audience Harold, T. Sean Shannon's strenuously stale comedy, was intended to find." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2008
86% Kráska v Nesnázích (Beauty in Trouble) (2006) " Unfortunately, Hrebejk settles for unsatisfying allusions to the Czech experience that never break through the thick haze of melodrama to make his case with any conviction." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2008
47% My Blueberry Nights (2007) " The disappointment here doesn't have much to do with Wong doing America -- he's been doing America for years, even in Chinese -- but with Wong doing Wong, and not up to his own standard." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 2, 2008
72% Under the Same Moon (2008) " The film's destination feels overdetermined despite its sweetness." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 18, 2008
17% Sleepwalking (2008) " Theron and Woody Harrelson (as James's party pal Randall) provide vitality against the film's heavy load, but they aren't around long enough to keep it from collapsing under its own portentous weight." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 11, 2008
75% Praying With Lior (2008) " Lior's big moment is an underdog weeper for the ages; I only wish the 80 minutes that preceded it had been as powerful." — Reeler
Posted Jan 31, 2008
46% Cassandra's Dream (2007) " Farrell's performance is the highlight in this uneven English blend of high drama and afternoon telly." — Reeler
Posted Jan 17, 2008
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