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TIM COGSHELL
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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4  Dave Chappelle's Block Party
5/5  So Much So Fast
4.5/5  Trouble the Water
3.5/4  The 40-Year-Old Virgin
4/5  Sin City
3/4  Bad Guy
3.5/5  Nina's Tragedies
2.5/4  Accepted
3/5  Short Cut To Nirvana
2.5/5  House of D
2/4  Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief)
2/5  Swimming Upstream
1.5/5  Coach Carter
1/5  Fascination
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4  Unconscious
5/5  So Much So Fast
4/4  Dave Chappelle's Block Party
4.5/5  Trouble the Water
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WORST REVIEWED
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0.5/5  Scary Movie 3
1/5  The Chosen One
1/5  Redline
1/5  Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
1/5  The Omen
1/5  The Long Weekend
1/5  Fascination
1/5  Christmas with the Kranks
1/5  Controlled Chaos
1/5  Biker Boyz
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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2/5
 
" The title of this well-intentioned movie ought to have been, Allah Made Me "Occasionally" Funny: Live in Concert."
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Allah Made Me Funny (2008)53%
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2/5
 
" One supposes that a muted drama about the trials of forbidden love set against the backdrop of one of the darker moments in human history isn't to be joyous, but a moment or two of levity wouldn't have killed anybody."
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
The World Unseen (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
" It's funny, wry, edgy and occasionally insightful -- but it's not a documentary."
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela (2008)50%
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2/5
 
" The movie is about a surfer dude (sans comma), who is an analog dude trying to fit into a digital world, which is like trying to get a square peg into a Calabi-Yau Manifold, which is to say it probably won't work, and neither does this movie."
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 
Surfer, Dude (2008)0%
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4/5
 
" A mature move for a debuting filmmaker."
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 
August Evening (2008)95%
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3/5
 
" One of the best action movies you and your kids could see this summer. At least look for it on video."
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
The Flyboys (2008)40%
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3/5
 
" Crass and vulgar and insanely gay, Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild could not be more aptly named."
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Another Gay Sequel (2008)24%
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3/5
 
" It's a lovely movie."
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Momma's Man (2008)96%
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2/5
 
" Insubstantially explores one major issue: Why an individual or group might seek the recognition or acceptance of organizations (mainly, but not only, Christian faiths) that not only do not want them, or by doctrine/creed specifically reject them."
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Gods and Gays: Bridging the Gap (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
" As the creepy gives way to the criminal, and ultimately to the genuinely supernatural, Cthulhu maintains its grounding in the sort of real-world interests that holds one's attention without shocking demonstrations like dismemberment or decapitation."
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Cthulhu (2008)44%
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4.5/5
 
" Trouble the Water is most worthy of all praise, accolade and recognition...If such celebration translated into box office receipts, this extraordinary little movie would be The Dark Knight of documentaries."
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Trouble the Water (2008)97%
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2/5
 
" Pithy in its real-life origins, even if trite in its formulaic construction."
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
The Longshots (2008)38%
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2.5/5
 
" This sharp and brutal little yarn about a photographer who stumbles across a serial killer is a fan film if every there was one -- and only fans will be able to stomach it."
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)58%
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2/5
 
" Divine intervention notwithstanding, the box office here would ordinarily be meek, but in trying times movies about "something to believe in" tend do better than the ordinary bleak-and-hopeless fare that typically drives domestic box office."
Posted Aug 14, 2008
 
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)36%
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2/5
 
" Bottle Shock isn' bad in any particular way; the acting is fine, the scenery is lovely...But who cares, right -- right."
Posted Aug 11, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)45%
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2.5/5
 
" Take suffers from story overload, which is distracting."
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Take (2008)42%
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2/5
 
" This stuff is too easy to find on daytime TV."
Posted Jul 7, 2008
 
Holding Trevor (2008)14%
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4/5
 
" It’s an extraordinary film that gay audiences will find particularly salient, no doubt, yet audiences with an affinity for the writings of Isherwood or nostalgia for the golden age of Hollywood may find it intriguing as well."
Posted Jul 7, 2008
 
Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)93%
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1/5
 
" Despite all evidence to the contrary, The Chosen One is not interesting."
Posted Jul 7, 2008
 
The Chosen One (2008)n/a
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2.5/5
 
" The filmmakers here not only disguise what they would like to say about the long-waged war, they obscure the message, leaving one with not much more than a few brief glimpses of the war’s effects amidst a number of quirky distractions."
Posted Jul 7, 2008
 
Kabluey (2008)88%
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3/5
 
" What we actually have here are a host of human stories about the homeless, put through the prism of soccer, as a path for the expression of one’s humanity—one’s worth."
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Kicking It (2008)57%
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3/5
 
" Includes of some of the most extraordinary surf footage seen since Bruce Brown’s early Endless Summer films."
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Bustin' Down the Door (2008)64%
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4/5
 
" Powerful and enlightening."
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Without the King (2008)94%
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4/5
 
" The result is something that is, though not necessarily unique in the annals of documentary history, as engaging as any such story can be, particularly when isolated and presented as sincerely as it is here."
Posted May 30, 2008
 
Indestructible (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
" A gripping melodrama with great historical import that also manages to foreshadow the contemporary zeitgeist of our present day."
Posted May 23, 2008
 
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)27%
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2.5/5
 
" Fans of the genre, Ms. Spelling (who are likely the same people) and perhaps TV’s Will & Grace (who are likely the same people) will be inclined to walk this bride down the aisle."
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Kiss the Bride (2008)33%
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3/5
 
" It’s always a treat when a movie seems to be exactly the movie that the filmmakers intended to make, and their audience wants to see. It’s also a treat when it’s a good movie, too."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
A Four Letter Word (2008)67%
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4/5
 
" Actor/director Tom McCarthy’s follow up to his award-winning debut, The Station Agent, avoids any notion of a sophomore curse by being an even more polished effort than his debut."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)93%
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2.5/5
 
" Street Kings is buoyed by the spirit of Keanu Reeves, who never fails to astound, at least this critic, by being consistently better than he’s given credit for and nearly always better than most of the films in which he appears."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)36%
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4/5
 
" The film manages to walk a line that is not antiwar in the main, but is distinctly pro-soldier, and thus takes pains to speak to the plight of the American serviceperson."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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" Pretty much all of Never Back Down is shot like an episode of Punk’d, with a soundtrack from an MTV2 playlist. Which is all perfectly appropriate and kinda fun."
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Never Back Down (2008)24%
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" captures a good deal more than the sometimes discordant music produced by these young, would-be chick-monsters of rock."
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Girls Rock! (2008)71%
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" It’s all too ridiculous for even the make-believe world of movies."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)35%
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" Ignore all of that foolishness and watch the collision of emotions The Air I Breathe provides -- it is enough all by itself to leave you breathless."
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
The Air I Breathe (2007)14%
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" Mostly the movie floats on the sincerity of Alonso as Carlitos, who is incapable of doing or saying anything that one does not believe, and del Castillo as his young, hardworking mother."
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Under the Same Moon (2008)72%
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" There is simply nothing revelatory about any of it, however salacious. This is all old news and consequently not particularly interesting."
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
Running with Arnold (2008)0%
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" Wacky characters doing silly things for nonsensical reasons seem to have become the standard paradigm for youth-oriented comedies of late."
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
The Sasquatch Gang (2007)46%
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" What's interesting about the movie are its interests, which are the funny, insightful, curious preoccupations of the young, which is to say they're about sex and sexuality."
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
Sex and Breakfast (2007)13%
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" What is most intriguing in the film are the words, indeed the presence, of Barnes himself."
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Mr. Untouchable (2007)74%
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3.5/5
 
" It's amazing what a limited runtime can do to focus a storyline."
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Antonia (2007)93%
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2/4
 
" Painfully didactic storytelling."
Posted Sep 8, 2007
 
Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)63%
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3/5
 
" The 'characters' in Manda Bala are lucid and deliberate as they tell their stories and relate their points-of-view, but it is the construction of the film that sets it apart and multiplies its impact."
Posted Sep 8, 2007
 
Manda Bala (2007)80%
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2/5
 
" Rather than a real drama about these things, David & Layla plays like ’70s-era sitcom."
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
David & Layla (2008)53%
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Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Beyond Hatred (2005)89%
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2/5
 
" An ordinary boy-gets-girl movie, and not a particularly interesting one."
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Dedication (2007)41%
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1.5/5
 
" Closing Escrow is one of those self-aware mockumentaries of the sort Christopher Guest likes to make -- only it's not that funny."
Posted Aug 24, 2007
 
Closing Escrow (2007)54%
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2.5/5
 
" The point is that while Superbad is just as dumb as it looks in every way, there's also something fairly sophisticated going on, which is always a pleasant, and genuine, surprise."
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Superbad (2007)87%
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3/5
 
" Director Michael Bay and his ILM team have, in fact, achieved something pretty impressive in the world of CGI and modeling."
Posted Jul 11, 2007
 
Transformers (2007)57%
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2/5
 
" The funniest thing about Kickin' It Old Skool, yet another in a long line of not particularly funny Kennedy movies, is how little we actually have advanced since the '80s."
Posted May 9, 2007
 
Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)3%
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3/5
 
" A charming film that is neither saccharin nor sanctimonious as it treads the well-worn romantic comedy genre, not so much dismantling it as rearranging it just enough to make it interesting -- and perhaps just a little scary."
Posted Apr 21, 2007
 
Year of the Dog (2007)69%

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