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TIM BRAYTON

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Publications: Antagony & Ecstasy, Film Threat

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 591

Location: Chicago, IL

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Fresh
7/10

Rotten
44%

The Girl From Monaco (2009)

" It's not at all as disposable as it seems at first glance." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Rotten
6/10

Rotten
44%

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

" I can't figure out how a character as great [as Scrat] keeps ending up in movies like this." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jul 6, 2009

Rotten
1/10

Rotten
50%

Uncle Sam (1996)

" The worst of everything in the slasher subgenre consolidated into 89 endless minutes." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jul 5, 2009

Fresh
8/10

Fresh
97%

Food, Inc. (2009)

" Essential viewing for anyone with even a slight interest in the quality and substance of their health and food, which darn well ought to include everybody." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jul 3, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
66%

Public Enemies (2009)

" The film is not great, but it is very good in most respects, and a few isolated moments achieve greatness." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jul 1, 2009

Rotten
6/10

Rotten
47%

Miami Vice (2006)

" Perhaps the first Michael Mann film to almost completely lack a human element; or rather, the human element it possesses is thin and unconvincing." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jul 1, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Rotten
51%

Cheri (2009)

" If I conclude that the film is ultimately a touch on the trivial side, I do not believe that I am accusing it of anything that the filmmakers didn't intend it to be." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jul 1, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
86%

Collateral (2004)

" If anyone is ever to mount an argument for the superiority of video over film, this movie would of necessity be very near to the center of that argument." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 30, 2009

Rotten
4/10

Rotten
46%

Whatever Works (2009)

" Approaches the line that's ever-present in Allen's films dividing funny misanthropy from sour misanthropy, and tramples all over it." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 29, 2009

Fresh
8/10

Fresh
82%

Opera (1991)

" An art film through and through, though it be an art film with an unusual number of bloody deaths... one of Argento's most memorable films." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 29, 2009

Fresh
10/10

Fresh
100%

Young Mr. Lincoln (1940)

" John Ford produced greater films, but perhaps not a single one that was more perfect or more Fordian... [there's] a confidence of purpose and a unity across all the elements of its creation." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 29, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
61%

Tetro (2009)

" Maddening and fascinating in a way that only a true artist could possibly manage, and piddling questions like whether or not the film "works" are completely beside the point." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 27, 2009

Rotten
5/10

Fresh
67%

Ali (2001)

" More than competently mounted, with a hollowness just discernible in its core... feels like the first draft of whatever film Michael Mann set out to make." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 26, 2009

Rotten
1/10

Rotten
19%

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

" Shrieking and ugly and tedious and soft-headed, not even giving the thin comfort of being hilariously bad." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Rotten
5/10

Rotten
46%

The Proposal (2009)

" For a woefully unconvincing summertime romantic comedy, it's not without a certain ramshackle, rickety old charm." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 24, 2009

Fresh
10/10

Fresh
96%

The Insider (1999)

" Not a single shot could be improved in either lighting or framing; nor is there even a single cut that could be moved by so much as a frame without damaging the exactitude of its placement." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 24, 2009

Fresh
9/10

Fresh
89%

Moon (2009)

" An exquisite gem of a science-fiction picture... pitched squarely at the patient, intelligent adults in the audience who want to have a good think." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 24, 2009

Rotten
2/10

Rotten
17%

Year One (2009)

" About as funny as watching Black and Cera darning socks. No, I take that back, I think either of those men could make darning socks look pretty amusing." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 23, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
89%

Heat (1995)

" A slow-moving, overburdened, well-meant and at times quite entertaining slog." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 19, 2009

Rotten
5/10

Fresh
66%

Away We Go (2009)

" Full-up with caricatures... fails in the most dire way to make any comments on the state of parenting and coupling in America rooted in actual observation." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 18, 2009

Fresh
6/10

Rotten
50%

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

" Scott has ratcheted back on nearly all of his bad habits." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 17, 2009

Fresh
8/10

Fresh
97%

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

" Positively sprints through its narrative, achieving the adventuresome spirit so hopelessly absent from Cooper's clumsy and simple novel." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 17, 2009

Fresh
10/10

Fresh
90%

Bay of Blood (1971)

" If only one-hundredth of the films it influenced had one-hundredth of its perfection, the horror film would be a much less disreputable and more wonderful thing than has been the case." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 14, 2009

Rotten
5/10

N/A

L.A. Takedown (1989)

" A film much better written than executed... has the appearance at every moment of a hatchet job that got cranked out in record time because nobody involved had any real desire to make it." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 12, 2009

Fresh
9/10

Fresh
93%

Summer Hours (2009)

" As delicate, even effervescent, as any story about the dissolution of family ties could possibly be." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
94%

Manhunter (1986)

" At the very worst an intriguing misfire, and often much better than that." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Fresh
8/10

Fresh
78%

The Hangover (2009)

" Stands up as a motion picture in addition to working as a delivery system for gags... as fine a mystery and character study as it is a comedy." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Rotten
3/10

Rotten
28%

Land of the Lost (2009)

" Nothing at all besides two funnymen and one disposable, objectified woman running from place to place, screaming a bit, joking about bodily functions, and running around a bit more." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Rotten
4/10

Rotten
11%

The Keep (1983)

" After a brilliant opening act, the plot gets flabbier and flabbier until around the half-way point, when it stops making any sense whatsoever." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 9, 2009

Fresh
7/10

N/A

The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)

" Isn't nearly as visionary as the best examples of the giallo form." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 8, 2009

Fresh
9/10

Fresh
100%

Tokyo Drifter (1966)

" Distills the aesthetic of the 1960s into one feature-length blast." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 7, 2009

Fresh
10/10

Fresh
100%

Thief (1981)

" Not just the best film of [Michael Mann's] career, but one of the best American films of the whole of the 1980s." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 5, 2009

Fresh
9/10

Fresh
93%

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

" A rickety, old-fashioned scare picture made by a man who proved many years ago that he has nothing left to prove in the horror genre." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 4, 2009

Fresh
7/10

N/A

The Jericho Mile (1979)

" Peter Strauss gives one of the great one-off performances in television history." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 2, 2009

Fresh
10/10

Fresh
100%

The Big Parade (1925)

" Though a virtually uncountable number of war films in the intervening 84 years have trodden upon much the same ground, few of them indeed have been able to equal its achievements." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted Jun 1, 2009

Fresh
9/10

Fresh
91%

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969)

" One of the most self-assured debuts of all time, a work so certain in its conception and execution that almost 40 years later I'd still quickly rank it as one of Argento's finest." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 31, 2009

Fresh
9.5/10

Fresh
97%

Up (2009)

" A sweet and gentle fable... sad & funny & thrilling all at once." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 29, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
62%

The Brothers Bloom (2009)

" It's a fine movie to like, although nearly impossible to love. And from the man who gave us the immensely lovable Brick, this is a minor disappointment." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 28, 2009

Rotten
2/10

Rotten
44%

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

" Atrociously dumb." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 28, 2009

Rotten
4/10

Rotten
32%

Terminator Salvation (2009)

" None of the ginormous action sequence carry any real weight because the filmmakers have made absolutely no effort to convince us to care about what's happening." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 25, 2009

Fresh
8/10

Fresh
81%

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

" Robert Donat at the peak of his skills... as moving today as it was upon its premiere." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 24, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
67%

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)

" Plot and coherence aren't really so important as atmosphere and style and thrills, and these things [the film] possesses in abundance." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 24, 2009

Fresh
9/10

Rotten
58%

The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

" I do not know if history will judge this an important document of the Times In Which We Live, but it surely seems to me that it captured something vital." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 23, 2009

Rotten
4/10

Rotten
46%

Management (2009)

" Presents characters whose behavior is the behavior of grotesques; there is no connection drawn between what happens on the page and what is recognisably human." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 22, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
92%

Every Little Step (2009)

" A bit like watching sausages getting made, but it's fascinating... made from the trenches for people who have no idea what casting looks like." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 20, 2009

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
70%

Rudo and Cursi (2009)

" This isn't much more than a pleasant sports comedy and family drama hybrid, but it's surely entertaining. The very model of a summertime arthouse flick." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 19, 2009

Fresh
9/10

Fresh
100%

Fury (1936)

" The film's message is resonant far beyond the moment of its creation, speaking even to our modern-day political reality." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 17, 2009

Rotten
5/10

Rotten
37%

Angels & Demons (2009)

" Let no man be so crude as to accuse it of its predecessor's insipidity. Let us be forgiving, and say that it is merely weak. It is the vanilla soft-serve of summer adventure movies." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 15, 2009

Rotten
3/10

Rotten
25%

Little Ashes (2009)

" Exactly the kind of flavorless bourgeois froth that the men it takes for its subjects would have ridiculed mercilessly." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 15, 2009

Fresh
10/10

Rotten
33%

The Limits of Control (2009)

" Where I see thrilling structural and formal exploration, another viewer could see so much pretentious twaddle, and that's a perfectly reasonable response." — Antagony & Ecstasy

Posted May 12, 2009
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