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TIM BRAYTON
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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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10/10 There Will Be Blood
9/10 The Savages
8/10 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
7/10 Charlie Wilson's War
6/10 National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets
5/10 The Bucket List
4/10 The Kite Runner
3/10 One Missed Call
2/10 In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
1/10 Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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10/10 The Dark Knight
10/10 Halloween
10/10 My Winnipeg
10/10 WALL-E
10/10 Opening Night
10/10 Beauty and the Beast
10/10 3 Faust
10/10 The Fall
10/10 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
10/10 The Mother and the Whore
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/10 Zombie Lake
0/10 Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1/10 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
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
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

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4/10
 
"There might not be anything as utterly dispiriting as watching people pretending to have fun, and that is quite literally the only card the movie has to play." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
Mamma Mia! (2008)53%
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8/10
 
"A cracking good story...in those wonderful moments where Musidora's kohl-marked face stares right out of the screen and into your soul, it's terribly perfect." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
Les Vampires (1915)100%
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4/10
 
"Does the worst thing any sequel can ever do: it retroactively taints the original and makes it less interesting." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 21, 2008
 
Halloween II (1981)21%
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9/10
 
"There are many moments in the film where [Herzog's] essential liveliness breaks the wall of fatalism that he seems obliged to construct." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 19, 2008
 
Encounters at the End of the World (2008)94%
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10/10
 
"A very exhausting film...something far more than just an entertainment." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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9/10
 
"There has never yet been a Batman story with quite this kind of psychological trauma. If Ingmar Bergman had ever directed a superhero movie, it would have looked quite a bit like this." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Batman Begins (2005)84%
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5/10
 
"The first summer movie that is both: a) truly comparable to a roller coaster ride; and b) significantly worse than a roller coaster ride." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 15, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)60%
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8/10
 
"An essentially unending parade of some of the most visionary images ever to grace a fantasy movie." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 14, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)87%
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10/10
 
"Virtually perfect. It is the one horror film that I would beg each and every lover of movies to watch, if I could pick only one." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 13, 2008
 
Halloween (1978)90%
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9/10
 
"Triumphs on the strength of [Alida Valli's] presence..you'd have to go very far to find a more luscious movie." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 13, 2008
 
Senso (1955)71%
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9/10
 
"A classic not just of literary adaptation, but of the last truly adventurous era in British and European filmmaking." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 8, 2008
 
Tom Jones (1963)81%
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8/10
 
"The first laugh-out-loud comedy to come out this year - as well as an embarrassing reminder that anything we can do, the French can do better." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 6, 2008
 
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)77%
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4/10
 
"A rote latter-day slasher film with barely anything worth recommending." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 6, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)13%
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3/10
 
"Feels like they shot the story treatment without ever bothering to turn it into a screenplay....the film is full of empty patches: not plot-holes exactly, but spots where it seems we aren't getting a full movie." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)38%
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10/10
 
"It's probably [Maddin's] best work yet...his easiest, funniest and most watchable film." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)96%
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4/10
 
"A string of hyper-stylised action sequences cut to ribbons so that you could hardly follow what was happening at any particular moment." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Wanted (2008)72%
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9/10
 
"More than eighty years later...it still looks like nothing you've ever seen." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 29, 2008
 
Adventures of Prince Achmed (1927)n/a
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6/10
 
"Even a paint-by-numbers slasher is a novelty in this decade." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 28, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)34%
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10/10
 
"Miraculous." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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6/10
 
"A pleasingly drowsy summer action comedy." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 24, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)53%
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2/10
 
"Despite its already toxic reputation, it has probably 12 or 18 gags that really work...[but] while some of the jokes click, most of the jokes that fail, fail apocalyptically." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 23, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)15%
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10/10
 
"As densely layered and difficult as anything else Cassavetes ever directed, as dense as any American film from the 1970s." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 23, 2008
 
Opening Night (1977)94%
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1/10
 
"Not just a complete failure as a sequel, it's one of the five or ten worst films from the whole of the 1990s." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 23, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)15%
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9/10
 
"What makes the film remarkable is how delicately it whips up its intricate contrivances; what makes it a masterpiece is that it does none of the things we expect with those contrivances." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
The Edge of Heaven (2008)90%
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5/10
 
"More like an awful family's greatest hits than any sort of probing, comprehensive study." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Savage Grace (2008)42%
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2/10
 
"Other than its ripe possibility for mockery, I cannot think of anything that makes the film really worthwhile." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)19%
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5/10
 
"A wholly mediocre comic movie...to belabor the pun that everyone else has already belabored, there's nothing about it that's even a little bit incredible." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 17, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)67%
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10/10
 
"It's true that a bit of the film's impact has been diluted by its significant influence both within its genre and without; but the original is still a special thing, a beautiful hallucination." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 17, 2008
 
Beauty and the Beast (1946)95%
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5/10
 
"It's certainly a cut above the standard late-'80s horror film, though hardly up to the level of Tobe Hooper's original." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 17, 2008
 
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1989)21%
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9/10
 
"A black-hearted ripped-from-the-headlines number that looks and feels like it could have walked out a '70s grind house just yesterday." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 17, 2008
 
Stuck (2008)71%
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3/10
 
"A nasty-hearted little film, and in absolutely the worst way for a film to be nasty: it is absolutely convinced of its own warm spirit." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 12, 2008
 
The Promotion (2008)47%
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5/10
 
"There are really only four jokes in the movie, and each of them goes from being pleasantly goofy to positively leaden as the film's needlessly protracted running time unspools." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)34%
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7/10
 
"By far the most visually appealing film yet released by DreamWorks Animation." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 10, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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3/10
 
"There is absolutely nothing to distract us from the sheer misery of watching oblivious clowns cracking awful jokes." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 9, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)42%
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10/10
 
"A great work by a great director, and one of the most instantly accessible silent films ever made." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 9, 2008
 
3 Faust (1926)94%
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8/10
 
"It wrings ever drop of terror it can out of making us identify with doomed people, and suffering as they suffer. That might be nihilistic, but it's also empathetic." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
The Strangers (2008)41%
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5/10
 
"Fails to achieve any kind of cumulative meaning outside of Korine's private amusement." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 3, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)43%
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10/10
 
"The narrative is nothing more than a framework for scenes of unforgettable visual art..it still comes across as the cinema's best exploration of how stories are made in many a year." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 2, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)53%
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10/10
 
"It's a masterpiece, pure and simple..a smart young director summing up the basest instincts of his species." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 1, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)89%
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10/10
 
"Comes close to capturing the pacing of life itself, where great changes happen at great length." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 1, 2008
 
The Mother and the Whore (1973)100%
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7/10
 
"It is a restful film, and one full of wise observations." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 28, 2008
 
Jellyfish (2008)86%
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10/10
 
"The chief success of the film...is to remove the Holocaust from its comfortably horrifying place in history, and restore a human face to the atrocities." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 27, 2008
 
Shoah (1985)100%
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8/10
 
"It isn't nearly so precisely made as its predecessor, although more happens." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 25, 2008
 
The Indian Tomb (1959)n/a
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9/10
 
"What elevates the films to the status of art-in-genre-clothing, is Lang's taste for lurid color and perfect compositions." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 25, 2008
 
The Tiger of Eschnapur (1956)n/a
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8/10
 
"It stands up just fine to Temple of Doom and Last Crusade, and it does not stand up to Raiders, and this is all that a sane person would have ever hoped for." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 22, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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5/10
 
"The movie has just enough of that old-timey grand epic feel for its 144 minutes to breeze by like two and a quarter hours." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 19, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)66%
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9/10
 
"Gance's command of cinematic vocabulary is simply breathtaking...required viewing for anyone who cares about the development of movies as a form of communication." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 18, 2008
 
La Roue (1923)n/a
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6/10
 
"Pleasantly forgettable." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 16, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)27%
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7/10
 
"A David Mamet film to its bones, and that means everything is stripped down as far as it can be, to the point of being casually and unremarkably flawless." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 13, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)71%
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4/10
 
"The ultimate problem is that this is a film based on a lousy cartoon from the '60s that can only be properly called a "classic" through the muddied lens of Boomer nostalgia." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 12, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)36%

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