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Eric Kohn

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography:: New York Press film critic.
Publications:: indieWIRE , New York Press , Orlando Weekly , Premiere Magazine , Reverse Shot
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 239

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
B+	100%	Sleepwalk With Me ()	" This storytelling isn't particularly intriguing, but Birbiglia's charisma carries them with a personable brand of self-deprecation." — indieWIRE Posted Jan 30, 2012
A-	88%	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012)	" As a procedural, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia implicates the audience along with its characters and the mental workout continues long after the credits roll." — indieWIRE Posted Jan 5, 2012
A	95%	The Arbor (2011)	" Documentaries often toy with the conventions of non-fiction storytelling to the detriment of their content, but Clio Barnard's innovative The Arbor provides a welcome exception to the norm." — indieWIRE Posted Jan 5, 2012
A	99%	A Separation (2011)	" Farhadi's true focus is the flawed capacity for any law -- any form of cold rationality, period -- to address the slippery nature of human affairs. It's a frantic microcosm of life itself." — indieWIRE Posted Jan 4, 2012
B+	94%	Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011)	" The movie delivers a compelling argument for appreciating the filmmaker as a major artist who's both largely responsible for many mainstream Hollywood cinema trends while somehow remaining superior to them." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 22, 2011
B+	54%	In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)	" Breaks no fresh ground in the tradition of staid, grim war dramas from which it hails, but Jolie successfully capitalizes on a juicy premise." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 20, 2011
B	95%	Knuckle (2011)	" A deeply unsettling experience." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 13, 2011
B	80%	Loveless (2011)	" Loveless proceeds like a messy younger sibling of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 13, 2011
A-	84%	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)	" Oldman's solemn, fixed expression registers a tremendous degree of complexity, especially in light of his character's trained ability to remain withdrawn." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 8, 2011
	82%	Young Adult (2011)	" Reitman has made the equivalent of a Roland Emmerich disaster movie writ small, an apocalyptic scenario internalized by a single person." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 5, 2011
B	83%	Outrage (2011)	" Because of Kitano's assured handling of the material, he turns those broad strokes into a tense portrait of power-hungry men with insatiable appetites and the incapacity to shut up about it." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 1, 2011
	79%	Khodorkovsky (2011)	" The movie convincingly turns a power-hungry archetype into an unlikely martyr for free speech." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 30, 2011
B+	97%	The Artist (2011)	" The Artist plays around with the distinction between silent and sound cinema, resulting in the superficial entertainment value of a high concept film school joke. But it's a charming and supremely gorgeous joke." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 23, 2011
	73%	Rampart (2012)	" Using an improvisatory method built around Harrelson's fiery performance, Moverman -- showing incredible range in jagged contrast to the understatement of "The Messenger" -- foregrounds Date Rape Dave's commitment to a lost cause." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 22, 2011
	25%	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)	" Director Bill Condon has undoubtedly delivered the best of the series since Catherine Hardwicke's first installment a few years back." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 17, 2011
	95%	Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2011)	" Keeps the snazzy combination of spectacle and polemics in check." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 9, 2011
	68%	Tower Heist (2011)	" It's harder to imagine a meatier-and more wasted-ensemble than what Brett Ratner has at his disposal in "Tower Heist." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 3, 2011
B+	76%	The Innkeepers (2012)	" [An] offbeat ghost story." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 2, 2011
B	79%	The Last Rites of Joe May (2011)	" Dennis Farina's washed-up hustler in The Last Rites of Joe May is designed in the in the mold of a classic movie star tough guy, but the veteran character actor's performance also serves to disassemble it." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 2, 2011
	88%	Dragonslayer (2011)	" Departing from the conventions of documentary portraiture, "Dragonslayer" delivers the cinematic equivalent punk rock candy." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 1, 2011
	50%	Janie Jones (2011)	" Although not exemplary, "Janie Jones" at least manages to give its tired scenario a sense of legitimacy." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 27, 2011
	17%	The Double (2011)	" Staged with the trite, predictable rhythms of garden-variety espionage. Gere acts circles around it as long as he can." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 26, 2011
	47%	Anonymous (2011)	" Emmerich takes the story at face value and delivers a film unlike any of his others. That is to say, a boring one." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 25, 2011
	70%	Elevate (2011)	" Less comprehensive than the material calls for, which makes the cumulative effect little more than "Hoop Dreams"-lite." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 21, 2011
A-	98%	Le Havre (2011)	" Pitting that grandiose takeaway with the director's intentionally over-the-top stylistic dalliances, Le Havre maintains a fresh balance that never falters." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 18, 2011
B+	44%	The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)	" It's essentially a hilariously brazen lark, which is reason enough to embrace it." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 17, 2011
A-	90%	Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)	" Marked by patient long-takes and the uneasy quietude that accompanies Martha's constant disconnect from her surrounding environment, Martha derives much of its power from a stark visual style that's easily readable as the sum of its part." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 17, 2011
	50%	The Rum Diary (2011)	" A subpar comic adventure that's nonetheless admirable for its restrained vision of Thompson in his early gestation period." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 16, 2011
A	76%	Bombay Beach (2011)	" Har'el's work contains an otherworldly dimension not unlike [Terry] Gilliam's oeuvre -- both dreamlike and intimately familiar." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 13, 2011
	33%	Texas Killing Fields (2011)	" It might be unfair to read an artist's work on the basis of her lineage, but Ami Canaan Mann is asking for it." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 13, 2011
	80%	The Way (2011)	" "The Way" has the makings of a movie that shouldn't work, but it navigates many of those potential faults with surprising competence." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 7, 2011
A	78%	Melancholia (2011)	" Melancholia hovers in ambiguity with riveting aesthetic prowess." — indieWIRE Posted Oct 6, 2011
B+	85%	The Ides of March (2011)	" With the constant backroom arguing and threats of media scrutiny, the plot plays out like political intrigue on autopilot; it shouldn't work as well as it does. The greatest credit goes to a widely agreeable set of performances. " — indieWIRE Posted Oct 5, 2011
	100%	Hell and Back Again (2011)	" Possibly the best war movie of the year " — indieWIRE Posted Oct 5, 2011
	71%	Carnage (2011)	" Polanski's interest in the play makes sense, but the real star of the show is the casting director. " — indieWIRE Posted Oct 2, 2011
	67%	Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)	" While sometimes an unadulterated thrill to watch with an audience, it gets progressively dumber as it goes along." — indieWIRE Posted Sep 29, 2011
	31%	The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011)	" Like the original, the most shocking aspect comes from the revelation that Six can actually tell a story." — indieWIRE Posted Sep 23, 2011
A-	94%	Weekend (2011)	" The film operates on a familiar dynamic; however, it works here thanks to the precise alignment of talented actors and a focused screenplay." — indieWIRE Posted Sep 20, 2011
B+	94%	Moneyball (2011)	" How do you make equations into compelling drama? Answer: You ignore them and go on with the show." — indieWIRE Posted Sep 14, 2011
B	83%	Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011)	" Hark delivers a highly enjoyable alternative to Western blockbusters by simply keeping the narrative in flux with a series of well-executed sequences -- a cinema of distraction, if you will." — indieWIRE Posted Sep 2, 2011
	27%	Colombiana (2011)	" Breaking no new ground, "Colombiana" more or less plays it straight. " — indieWIRE Posted Aug 26, 2011
C+	68%	Our Idiot Brother (2011)	" The name and the premise of "Our Idiot Brother" would work better for a sitcom, or maybe several of them." — indieWIRE Posted Aug 24, 2011
	——	The Tiniest Place ()	" A chilling look at the trauma of past oppression haunting its victims in the present. " — indieWIRE Posted Aug 19, 2011
	36%	One Day (2011)	" Anne Hathaway's faux British accent might be the first obvious conceit in "One Day," but not its most cumbersome. That distinction belongs to the eponymous structure." — indieWIRE Posted Aug 17, 2011
	62%	Amigo (2011)	" Well cast and undeniably attuned to the nuances of human behavior, "Amigo" nevertheless suffers from simple dramatic shorthand." — indieWIRE Posted Aug 17, 2011
	83%	Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)	" ...moves forward with fits of intrigue, interspersed with casual developments that deaden its momentum and call into question its monumental running time." — indieWIRE Posted Aug 3, 2011
B+	72%	Bellflower (2011)	" Despite its meandering plot, Bellflower presents its doom-laden vision as an astonishingly distinctive state of mind, arguing that the end of one self-made world always marks the start of a new one." — indieWIRE Posted Aug 2, 2011
	61%	Gun Hill Road (2011)	" ...the character's internal conflict registers with tremendous detail that transcends his progressive value. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie can't keep pace." — indieWIRE Posted Aug 1, 2011
B	95%	The Guard (2011)	" Only Boyle's unstoppable tendency to mouth off sustains the routine plot, but McDonagh pushes the limits of what he can make Gleeson say without making the crude nature of his asides overwhelm their comic potential." — indieWIRE Posted Jul 28, 2011

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