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Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:: L.A. Weekly , Reverse Shot , Village Voice

Total Reviews:: 421

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	98%	La Grande illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937)	— Village Voice Posted May 16, 2012
—	——	Elena Undone (2011)	— Village Voice Posted May 16, 2012
	50%	Lovely Molly (2012)	" Has all the interest of watching an inexplicably untreated wound fester." — Village Voice Posted May 15, 2012
	——	Mansome (2012)	" While making a priority of squeezing in every usable bit of celebrity face-time, Mansome passes by potentially interesting digressions without more than a wayward glance." — Village Voice Posted May 15, 2012
	——	The Color Wheel (2012)	" Like Howard Hawks's Twentieth Century, it's a travelogue movie about a couple whose impossible, porcupine personalities leave them safe, finally, for nobody's company but each other's." — Village Voice Posted May 15, 2012
	100%	Elena (2012)	" The cautious, controlling, abstemious bourgeoisie are overtaken by the heedlessly fertile lower orders, the temporary inheritors of a terribly weary earth." — Village Voice Posted May 15, 2012
	42%	Battleship (2012)	" When the F-14s came out for a triumphant flyover, I looked around the room to find the moron who was applauding only to realize that it was me." — Village Voice Posted May 15, 2012
	66%	God Bless America (2012)	" When the monotonous squib-popping subsides, the movie is often static and talky, lapsing into criticism-hedging qualifications and anti-everything speechifying." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2012
	41%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" Less a resurrection than a clumsy desecration." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2012
	88%	Portrait of Wally (2012)	" Andrew Shea's documentary is a well-arranged if rather drawn-out parade of talking heads telling Wally's story..." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2012
	——	The Observers (2012)	" There are moments when the tedium loosens you to melt into the landscape, and you swear you can hear the moss on the rocks start talking." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2012
—	22%	Raven (2012)	— Village Voice Posted May 2, 2012
—	45%	Mother's Day (1980)	— Village Voice Posted May 2, 2012
	75%	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)	" The plot twists are about as venerable as the cast and predictably affecting when performed with such old-hand proficiency." — Village Voice Posted May 1, 2012
	47%	Mother's Day (2012)	" Mother's Day is distinguished, at least, by De Mornay's porcelain-smile lampoon of castigating matriarchy." — Village Voice Posted May 1, 2012
	4%	A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012)	" A Little Bit of Heaven demands miracles of its cast to keep proceedings from becoming grindingly mawkish and does not get them..." — Village Voice Posted May 1, 2012
	87%	The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)	" A script that consistently finds fresh outlets for its running gags makes for a sufficiently rollicking pleasure cruise from Britain's Aardman Animations..." — Village Voice Posted Apr 24, 2012
	87%	Bonjour Tristesse (1958)	" Otto Preminger's formally dazzling 1958 film is an edifice constructed of contrasts." — Village Voice Posted Apr 24, 2012
	85%	Bernie (2012)	" A chafing, rock-in-the-shoe kind of movie -- and I mean this as a compliment." — Village Voice Posted Apr 24, 2012
	100%	The Day He Arrives (2012)	" Hong is wonderful with atmospheric effects, using whirling snowfalls to place his characters' inchoate longing in relief." — Village Voice Posted Apr 17, 2012
	59%	Fightville (2012)	" In characterizing both fighters and their sport, directors Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker rarely break down defenses to surpass superficiality." — Village Voice Posted Apr 17, 2012
	64%	To the Arctic (2012)	" Arguably a good lesson for kids about preserving our environment, To the Arctic is definitely a threat to our equally endangered good taste." — Village Voice Posted Apr 17, 2012
	47%	The Three Stooges (2012)	" The leads acquit themselves in the physical comedy, resurrecting shtick honed on a thousand-and-one vaudeville stages, and recreated in as many playgrounds." — Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2012
	——	The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)	" The Woman Who Wasn't There plays like a by-the-numbers cable true-crime documentary -- which in fact it is." — Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2012
	——	Kids of T�day (2012)	" Refraining images of the mind-controlled sleepwalker Cesare from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari seem to submit Adrien as a Svengali-like figure to the kids, even as his "Iggy used to say . . ." pickups to fresh-faced scenesters don't seem to pay off." — Village Voice Posted Apr 10, 2012
	36%	Lockout (2012)	" The committee product of newbie directors James Mather, Stephen St. Leger, and producer Luc Besson, Lockout is, not unexpectedly, a potluck of derivative references." — Village Voice Posted Apr 10, 2012
	31%	Detention (2012)	" It's one of the most obnoxious movies ever made." — Village Voice Posted Apr 10, 2012
	43%	American Reunion (2012)	" Taken altogether, the Pie movies offer a cohesive worldview, showing each of life's stages as the setting for fresh-yet-familiar catastrophes, relieved by a belief in sex, however ridiculous it might look, as a restorative force." — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2012
	88%	Titanic (in 3D) (2012)	" But the power of Titanic didn't come from originality; it came from punching clich�s across with a seldom-seen directness and sincerity that seemed pure of heart, "old-fashioned," or plain corny, depending on your perspective." — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2012
	100%	Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)	" Fitting such a democratic film, there's no bad part here..." — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2012
	50%	Mirror Mirror (2012)	" Here, the familiar tale is retold with concessions to feminist self-determination and camp humor, bending the Grimm Brothers' tale without infringing on its basic beauty." — Village Voice Posted Mar 30, 2012
	82%	Goon (2012)	" Depicting the vocationally debauched world of second-tier hockey, Goon is not only rowdy, but also humane..." — Village Voice Posted Mar 27, 2012
	38%	The Beat Hotel (2012)	" [Scales] new heights of inessentiality..." — Village Voice Posted Mar 27, 2012
	79%	The Deep Blue Sea (2012)	" Plumbing disquieting depth, Deep Blue Sea investigates the insoluble dilemma of romantic love: the expectation, contrary to experience, that we can or will find every quality that we want in a single person." — Village Voice Posted Mar 20, 2012
	24%	Seeking Justice (2012)	" Working with a pip of a premise, Seeking Justice is the kind of effective middle-range pulp thriller that has lately become an endangered species." — Village Voice Posted Mar 13, 2012
	44%	Casa de mi padre (2012)	" Casa de Mi Padre riffs freely on impoverished production values -- phony painted backdrops and the reflection of the camera crew in a DEA agent's sunglasses -- but the humor doesn't only target south of the border." — Village Voice Posted Mar 13, 2012
	42%	Silent House (2012)	" Silent House does superficially spiff up the haunted-house movie, but it's not built to last." — Village Voice Posted Mar 6, 2012
	50%	Good for Nothing (2012)	" Good for Nothing has a nice comic sense of the brushfire eruptions of Western violence..." — Village Voice Posted Mar 6, 2012
	11%	Apart (2012)	" To understand Apart's Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown tommyrot any better, one would need a psychic bond to first-time writer/director Aaron Rottinghaus, for his movie doesn't do much of a job explaining it." — Village Voice Posted Mar 6, 2012
	56%	The Lorax (2012)	" Par for the course in blowout CGI adaptations, a great deal of detail and bustle is gained at the expense of charm-for all the miracles these armies of animators can achieve, they have yet to successfully reproduce a humble artist's line." — Village Voice Posted Mar 2, 2012
—	67%	The Woods (2006)	— Village Voice Posted Feb 29, 2012
	60%	Wanderlust (2012)	" It's hard to remember a comedy so populated with good character bits." — Village Voice Posted Feb 29, 2012
	82%	The Salt of Life (2012)	" Di Gregorio's performance sets the tone of dim hope and quiet forbearance, telling the story through reactions: an ever-accommodating smile that shades into a wince; sparkling, heavy-lidded eyes betrayed by vexed brows." — Village Voice Posted Feb 28, 2012
	——	The Woods (2012)	" A send-up of a communal project made of vague goals and empty postures that is ultimately indistinguishable from its target." — Village Voice Posted Feb 28, 2012
	25%	Act of Valor (2012)	" The villains come across as individuals rather more compellingly than do the film's ostensible heroes, mostly mouthpieces for warrior credo recited in voiceover." — Village Voice Posted Feb 21, 2012
	18%	Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)	" The standards of all involved are so obviously floorboard-high, there's not much to say after the lights come up other than one of Blaze's "one-liners": "So, that happened."" — Village Voice Posted Feb 17, 2012
—	36%	Michael (1996)	— Village Voice Posted Feb 15, 2012
	79%	Michael (2012)	" Schleinzer approaches his subject not as an investigator, but as though covering up a crime scene and scrubbing it of anything that might provide insight or empathy or psychological traction." — Village Voice Posted Feb 14, 2012
	25%	This Means War (2012)	" By the time an extended epilogue brings back the characters that you've presumably fallen in love with for a curtain call, it only works as a chance for a head start to the parking lot." — Village Voice Posted Feb 14, 2012

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