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TIM BRAYTON
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• Antagony & Ecstasy
• Film Threat

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Total Reviews: 297

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• Location: Chicago, IL


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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10/10 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
9/10 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
8/10 The Tingler
7/10 Noise
6/10 The Kingdom
5/10 Standard Operating Procedure
4/10 Youth Without Youth
3/10 Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2/10 Saw IV
1/10 Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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10/10 Eyes Without a Face
10/10 Yi Yi
10/10 Viridiana
10/10 Battle of Algiers
10/10 Down by Law
10/10 Lola
10/10 Naked
10/10 The Leopard
10/10 There Will Be Blood
10/10 Berlin Alexanderplatz
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/10 Zombie Lake
0/10 Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1/10 88 Minutes
1/10 Zombie 4: After Death
1/10 Prom Night
1/10 Zombi 3
1/10 Strange Wilderness
1/10 Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
1/10 Saw III
1/10 Dead Silence
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

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5/10
 
"Reduces one of the truly horrifying controversies in American military history to an intellectual puzzle." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)77%
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3/10
 
"The fact that this is not in any way original isn't really much of a problem. The fact that it's completely awful is." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)13%
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9/10
 
"It has lost none of its ability to startle all these years later, and for that alone it deserves respect." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 4, 2008
 
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)86%
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7/10
 
"Something that everyone needs to know before they set foot in the theater: STAY AFTER THE CLOSING CREDITS. BEST BONUS SCENE EVER." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)92%
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8/10
 
"What keeps the film from out-and-out miserabilism is a deadpan comic tone, a subtly brilliant command of cinematic language, and the extraordinarily gifted actress at its center." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Tuya's Marriage (2008)82%
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7/10
 
"Insightful this film may not be, but that's never its aim. It's about making us laugh at the silly antics of a couple of dudes we met before and pretty much like." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)54%
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3/10
 
"Full of fussed-over significant images and delicately planned interlocking narrative motives, and it's about as subtle and clever as somebody clubbing you over the head with a folding chair" -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)22%
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5/10
 
"Unrolls like a perfect storm of focus-grouped situations and joke-writing by committee." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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10/10
 
"Both a horror movie and a dreamy art film without peer." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 27, 2008
 
Eyes Without a Face (1959)97%
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1/10
 
"One of the absolutely stupidest mysteries ever to receive studio financing and a legitimate theatrical release in this country." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 27, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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4/10
 
"So shallow and silly that it makes reading The Nation seem like the deepest kind of bliss." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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6/10
 
"Like the pies that give the film its title, My Blueberry Nights is really just a dessert, something sweet and mostly insubstantial." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)49%
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6/10
 
"Not one second in the film is unpleasant, for even the bummer scenes have the wistful ring of truth. But I do mind how much of it is no more than pleasant." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)84%
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9/10
 
"The film works foremost as the experience of watching Richard Jenkins inhabit his role." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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8/10
 
"While I truly do doubt that modern viewer will have much use for Jodorowsky's dated spiritual philosophy, the style with wich he expresses that philosophy is often quite exciting." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 21, 2008
 
El Topo (1970)74%
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1/10
 
"Overall, there's the sense that nothing went right at any point during the shoot. I urge you all to rent it at the first conceivable opportunity." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 19, 2008
 
Zombie 4: After Death (1988)n/a
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7/10
 
"Tells a familiar story in a familiar way with conviction and no small amount of talent on both sides of the camera, though it's hardly essential." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
My Brother is an Only Child (2008)89%
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6/10
 
"Dennis Quaid's performance is the only thing that keeps the film from tipping too far into flat-out misanthropy." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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1/10
 
"Director Nelson McCormick has assembled a fairly valuable compendium of almost every kind of false scare known to exist." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 15, 2008
 
Prom Night (2008)9%
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8/10
 
"It's the exact kind of craziness that could only have been made in the waning days of the 1970s." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 13, 2008
 
New York, New York (1977)60%
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1/10
 
"If the phrase "extraordinarily bad" was ever fated to be applied to a movie, that movie is Zombi 3." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 13, 2008
 
Zombi 3 (1988)n/a
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9/10
 
"Though it does not redefine the boundaries of the concert film like The Last Waltz did, Marty's love letter to the Stones is much more than alright; in fact it's a gas." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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7/10
 
"There's nothing under the surface of the comedy, although it's rarely less than amusing and frequently hilarious." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
The Grand ()42%
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2/10
 
"There's really nothing in the film of any entertainment value, not even the inadvertent sort." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
The Ruins (2008)42%
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6/10
 
"The first truly heartbreaking disappointment of the movie year...too drowsy for its own good, less an homage and more a terribly slowed-down retread of some screwball tropes." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 7, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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8/10
 
"How any red-blooded American could hear 'Vincent Price's acid trip,' and not fall over themselves rushing to find a copy of the movie is beyond my comprehension." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 6, 2008
 
The Tingler (1959)67%
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7/10
 
"For the zombie connoisseur, it's a treasure of invention and all-around solid filmmaking." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 6, 2008
 
Zombie (1979)38%
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8/10
 
"Contains a passionate desire to confront the injustices of the current political scene, something we could do with a lot more of." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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6/10
 
"Fun and nothing else, but enough so that it's worth the while." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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5/10
 
"A fine work of craftspeople both in front of the camera and behind...whose chief mistake is that every one of them appears to have forgotten that it was in fact a comedy." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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10/10
 
"Every beat and every image and every cut and every note feels like a part of a whole. It is a total movie." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Yi Yi (2000)96%
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3/10
 
"What happens is the same as every other J-horror remake only less so, at least in part because it stars Rachael Taylor and Joshua Jackson instead of actual famous people." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Shutter (2008)7%
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4/10
 
"Owen Wilson is the sole reason to watch the movie, using nothing more than his innate charisma to wrest honest chuckles from the jaws of banality." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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8/10
 
"The most-flawed film by a tremendously important American director." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Snow Angels (2008)68%
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5/10
 
"If there's anything about the movie that really rises above the mediocre, it's Gleeson's fantastic performance." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
The Tiger's Tail (2006)0%
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7/10
 
"Even if it collapses in on itself a bit, there's still a rough power underneath everything that makes it worth a look." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
It's a Free World (2007)93%
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10/10
 
"An extraordinary cinematic treasure." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 23, 2008
 
Viridiana (1961)100%
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7/10
 
"The impressionistic skating scenes are absolutely the best part of the film." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 22, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%
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6/10
 
"Nothing about Marshall's grab bag has much to do with anything else...it may be aimless and arbitrary, but at least it's mostly fun." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Doomsday (2008)41%
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5/10
 
"No, Michael Haneke's new version does not need to exist. Regardless of its inherent quality or lack thereof, it serves essentially no useful purpose." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)49%
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5/10
 
"Occasionally charming, frequently dull, and terrible just often enough to be dissatisfying more often than not." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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9/10
 
"Never so sweet that the comedy suffers, and never so funny that the drama comes off as shallow." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
The Kid (1921)100%
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7/10
 
"Could have been a terrifically important commentary on Israeli identify instead of just a mostly appealing character drama." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 16, 2008
 
Dear Mr. Waldman (2008)n/a
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8/10
 
"It's a film of subtleties...delicate, but infinitely rewarding." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 16, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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7/10
 
"It's a little obvious that director Bharat Nalluri hasn't really worked in farce before." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)76%
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8/10
 
"True or fake, The Bank Job is a brisk entertainment that doesn't need believability to work." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)78%
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8/10
 
"The most apolitical film yet made about the conflict...showcasing villainy on every side, but nobility and sometimes heroism as well." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
Battle for Haditha (2008)52%
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5/10
 
"Just barely good enough to fulfill the needs of an audience starved for any sort of effects-driven film that hardly sticks in the brain for more than a few minutes after it's over." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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10/10
 
"One of the essential works of world cinema." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 10, 2008
 
Battle of Algiers (1966)98%
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2/10
 
"Produced according to a formula for squeezing the maximum amount of cloying charm out of the minimum investment." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Penelope (2008)53%

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