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Eric Kohn

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:
259

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
73% V for Vendetta (2006) " Alan Moore may be greatest victim of Hollywood's comic book adaptation craze." — Reverse Shot
Posted Jul 6, 2010
76% Superman Returns (2006) " The movie runs nearly half an hour longer than it should, with a new plot strand introduced in the third act that has questionable vitality in the presumed sequel." — Reverse Shot
Posted Jul 6, 2010
51% Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2010) " The mystery - and the chief pleasure of this stylistic exercise - lies with the music." — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 23, 2010
63% The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) " Marred by shoddy special effects and half-formed fantastical conceits, Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" has the feeling of a comic fantasia desperately seeking to find its rhythm." — indieWIRE
Posted May 22, 2009
51% Agora (2010) " "Agora" occasionally hints at the interesting material embedded in its central conceits, but never manages to enliven it." — indieWIRE
Posted May 18, 2009
71% Tetro (2009) " Neither complete misfire nor triumphant return to form, Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" works as a competent family drama right up until the messy final act." — indieWIRE
Posted May 16, 2009
82% Bright Star (2009) " Campion has constructed a highly classical narrative, one driven by archaic British dialogue and the mannerisms to match it." — indieWIRE
Posted May 16, 2009
49% Taking Woodstock (2009) " Even with the ever-versatile Ang Lee behind the camera, this messy historical fiction plays like a two hour "Saturday Night Live" sketch, and not a very good one, either." — indieWIRE
Posted May 16, 2009
54% Choke (2008) " Despite its occasionally charming, relentlessly sarcastic tone, Choke censors its own aspirations." — New York Press
Posted Sep 24, 2008
80% Un Secret (A Secret) (2008) " A Secret takes the tired approach of a child viewing history through the quirks of his family, which worked only slightly better in last year's Blame it On Fidel." — New York Press
Posted Sep 3, 2008
41% The Rocker (2008) " Unfortunately, The Rocker, Wilson's first lead role in a feature film, emphasizes the wrong quirks." — New York Press
Posted Aug 20, 2008
55% Step Brothers (2008) " Step Brothers signals another era of American comedy: It's the sort of thing that will assist future scholars in crafting histories of 21st-century stupidity." — New York Press
Posted Jul 30, 2008
32% The X-Files: I Want to Believe (The X Files 2) (2008) " X-Files: I Want to Believe is not a good movie, but its flaws are revealing. Carter's intention of injecting topicality into the movie only testifies to his desperation." — New York Press
Posted Jul 30, 2008
73% Full Battle Rattle (2008) " The movie fails to become a document of our time and settles for the dopey synthetic version instead." — New York Press
Posted Jul 9, 2008
8% Postal (2007) " It's Boll's knuckleheaded misinterpretation of topical humor that really gets me." — New York Press
Posted May 21, 2008
84% Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) " Forgetting Sarah Marshall crassly dissolves the gender balance in a vat of acidic testosterone." — New York Press
Posted Apr 16, 2008
11% Fool's Gold (2008) " An unfunny and overlong sea romp." — New York Press
Posted Feb 6, 2008
12% The Air I Breathe (2008) " It's particularly frustrating to watch Whittaker, the strongest thespian of the bunch, desperately mine for gold in a narrative landslide." — New York Press
Posted Jan 23, 2008
77% Cloverfield (2008) " Too bad the movie is a less-than-satisfying experiment with contrived fake documentary aesthetics." — New York Press
Posted Jan 16, 2008
0% One Missed Call (2008) " When it comes to scary movies, the Japanese have it figured out. Unfortunately, commercial filmmakers in the United States usually don't." — New York Press
Posted Jan 9, 2008
52% The Walker (2007) " If Schrader was willing to enliven the pace, The Walker would easily become a riveting thriller, but the situation gets resolved with too much ease." — New York Press
Posted Dec 19, 2007
60% Look (2007) " The whole thing feels so heavily scripted that it brings down the overarching impact. The misguided route raises the question of what kind of juicy stories might be produced by the real thing." — New York Press
Posted Dec 12, 2007
82% It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine! (2007) " IT IS FINE! allows an outsider's plight to define the mood and give significance to the art. Yet it's hard to take that endeavor seriously when the movie operates under the guise of exploitation." — New York Press
Posted Nov 21, 2007
74% The Mist (2007) " Harden's Mrs. Carmondy would bring the whole production down if it weren't already flawed for other reasons." — New York Press
Posted Nov 21, 2007
37% Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) " Uninspired despite its various attempts to find inspiration, Magorium is itself like a toy: Shiny, mystifying and completely expendable." — New York Press
Posted Nov 14, 2007
27% Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) " Despite its temporal range, the biggest pratfall of the movie is its outdated aura. Newell gives us fabulous scenery and a classic narrative, but none of it becomes involving in the present." — New York Press
Posted Nov 14, 2007
48% Choking Man (2007) " For all its enticing dramatic hooks, Choking Man has a fairly unrewarding conclusion." — New York Press
Posted Nov 9, 2007
21% Fred Claus (2007) " Unable to sustain its one-note premise, the story foolishly revels in the mythology of Christmas to mask comedic vapidity. The trick doesn't work." — New York Press
Posted Nov 9, 2007
48% Run Fatboy Run (2007) " Run, Fat Boy, Run shows that Simon Pegg can't rescue a derivative dud." — New York Press
Posted Oct 24, 2007
66% Wristcutters - A Love Story (2007) " The biggest letdown in Wristcutters is that it can't compensate for its compact arrangement with the kind of absurdist aesthetics that its summary proposes." — New York Press
Posted Oct 17, 2007
51% The Kingdom (2007) " Wielding such unmotivated chaos, the plot demolishes its attempts at realism in a mess of yelling and gunfire." — New York Press
Posted Sep 26, 2007
53% The Hunting Party (2007) " The Hunting Party, a misguided espionage spoof directed by Richard Shepard, needlessly insists on the veracity of its plot- -- and that tactic leads to its undoing." — New York Press
Posted Sep 13, 2007
41% Dedication (2007) " It appears that the third eye went blind when the actors needed it." — New York Press
Posted Aug 22, 2007
93% Blame It on Fidel (La Faute a Fidel) (2006) " [Director] Gavras has undeniable skill as a screenwriter, suggesting that the production might have benefited from a more experienced helmer." — New York Press
Posted Aug 1, 2007
37% The Ten (2007) " Lacking a steady hand, this flimsy amalgam of bad jokes is without form and void." — New York Press
Posted Aug 1, 2007
41% No Reservations (2007) " No Reservations ties everything together with a neat little bow, demonstrating timidity about the ingredient it needs most of all: reality." — New York Press
Posted Jul 25, 2007
30% Goya's Ghosts (2007) " Ultimately fails to match the competence of its director." — New York Press
Posted Jul 18, 2007
78% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) " Despite the smooth transition of the wondrous Potter mythology from Rowling's pen to the screen -- thanks to the efforts of several talented filmmakers -- the gradually unfurling plot remains grounded in routine." — New York Press
Posted Jul 12, 2007
47% My Blueberry Nights (2007) " Although sincerely interested in exploring New York isolation, Nights relies too heavily on a stilted performance from singer Norah Jones and the cheesy romantic babbling of her off-kilter romantic interest (Jude Law)." — New York Press
Posted Jul 11, 2007
44% Hostel: Part II (2007) " Sadly, the director's proven creative finesse has given way to boring self-imitation. Hostel: Part II gives us the same premise as the first film, changing genders and little else." — New York Press
Posted Jul 11, 2007
78% 1408 (2007) " A minor idea squandered by ham-fisted details." — New York Press
Posted Jul 11, 2007
23% Evan Almighty (2007) " Evan Almighty strains consistently to pave the way for topical humor, yet lacks inspired comedic charm and a cogent message." — New York Press
Posted Jul 11, 2007
C- 36% Lockout (2012) " In both premise and execution, "Lockout" combines elements of Besson's "The Fifth Element" and "Escape from New York," clinging to those and countless other movies' B-movie thrills so faithfully that it at least remains watchably bad." — indieWIRE
Posted Apr 10, 2012
C 0% The Undefeated (2011) " The Undefeated flatlines after an hour of empty back-patting and no dramatic edge. Bannon actively avoids any of Palin's setbacks, downplaying the entire 2008 presidential campaign to a few minutes of screen time." — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 11, 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
2.5/5 81% Delirious (2007) " A victim of its own vitriol." — Orlando Weekly
Posted Nov 1, 2007
B- 65% Keyhole (2012) " "Keyhole" never comes together, but that's part of Maddin's creed. He makes movies about movies to express his love for movies, which is to say he makes movies about himself." — indieWIRE
Posted Apr 4, 2012
B- 42% Silent House (2012) " It's one of the few occasions where you can marvel at the stuntwork and roll your eyes at the formula sustaining it." — indieWIRE
Posted Mar 7, 2012
B- 59% Wanderlust (2012) " Throughout his work, Wain's humor oscillates between sophomoric gags and much wiser behavioral observations -- reasons why it almost makes sense to take him seriously as an artist." — indieWIRE
Posted Feb 24, 2012
B- 75% Everything Must Go (2011) " Director Dan Rush guides the material with a gentle hand. It's just overwhelmingly basic, a descriptor that should never apply to a comedic beast of Ferrell's caliber." — indieWIRE
Posted May 12, 2011
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