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TOM BLOCK

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Favorites: The Wild Bunch, Seven Samurai, '30s Renoir, The Long Goodbye, Chinatown, Godfather I & II, John Ford, L'Atalante, GoodFellas, The Sorrow & the Pity, Sunrise, Buster Keaton, & well on into the night...

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Total Reviews: 107

Location: San Francisco

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Fresh	Fresh 81%	Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)	" ...it could've %u2014 should've %u2014 been [Peckinpah's] third or fourth masterpiece (that depends on who's doing the counting), and the movie he'd been building towards his entire career." Posted Nov 19, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 91%	California Split (1974)	" *...the big thing holding back American movies is that they aren't more like California Split.*" Posted Nov 19, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	" An extravagantly plotted epic propelled by waves of free-flowing emotion and a palpable love for the American past" Posted Jul 4, 2003
Rotten	Fresh 77%	A Decade Under the Influence (2003)	" A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film" Posted May 25, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Blood Simple (1984)	" *The Coens� trademark aloofness works to perfection in Blood Simple* because only the audience has a bird�s eye view of the action.**" Posted Apr 8, 2003
Rotten	Rotten 58%	Hart's War (2002)	" A solid film...but more conscientious than it is truly stirring." Posted Feb 14, 2002
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Birthday Girl (2002)	" A keep-�em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters." Posted Jan 31, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 42%	Final (2001)	" A lifeless vacuum." Posted Jan 18, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 15%	Impostor (2001)	" What 'Blade Runner' would�ve looked like as a low-budget series on a UHF channel." Posted Jan 3, 2002
N/A	N/A	2001 Year-in-Review (2001)	" culturevulture.net's Ten Best Films of 2001" MISCELLANEOUS Posted Dec 28, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 85%	Monster's Ball (2001)	" an Oprah-mistic movie in which people overcome a lifetime�s worth of bad habits by 'opening up.' " Posted Dec 25, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 81%	Ocean's Eleven (2001)	" The man who helped spark the indie revolution is now making pictures that bow and scrape before the most depleted Hollywood conventions." Posted Dec 7, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 96%	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	" A celestial alignment of man, medium, and material." Posted Nov 19, 2001
Fresh	Rotten 37%	Novocaine (2001)	" a comically mordant tone that�s all its own" Posted Nov 19, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 95%	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001)	" Frank Hurley's images by themselves make 'The Endurance' worth seeing." Posted Oct 4, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 74%	Joy Ride (2001)	" ...begins evaporating in your mind before it�s even over." Posted Oct 4, 2001
—	Fresh 96%	Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 77%	My Son, the Fanatic (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Show Me Love (1998)	" ...a warm coming-of-age story that happens to be a coming-out story." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 62%	Broken Vessels (1998)	" weighted down by conventional morality and predictable storytelling" Posted Sep 18, 2001
—	Rotten 41%	Desert Blue (1998)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 43%	The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 80%	Following (1998)	" ...offers more pleasure as a jigsaw puzzle than it does as a movie. " Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Arlington Road (1999)	" ...could have been a superb dark fantasy, but takes its own malarkey seriously." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 78%	Eyes Wide Shut (1999)	" ...more rewarding to analyze than it is to see." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 17%	The Haunting (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 85%	The Blair Witch Project (1999)	" ...the movie isn�t half as diabolical as its marketing plan. " Posted Sep 18, 2001
—	Fresh 79%	Bowfinger (1999)	" ...entertaining and innocuous as a rhinestone." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Singing Detective - Complete Series (1986)	" Michael Gambon gives the Jupiter Symphony of televised performances; sing praise for Dennis Potter's loving creation." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 58%	The Minus Man (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Last Night (1998)	" ...a no-frills but convincing execution of the end of the world." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 71%	Get Bruce! (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 94%	Three Kings (1999)	" After wooing the likes of Hawks, Peckinpah, and Pontecorvo, 'Three Kings' decides in the end to go steady with Ron Howard." Posted Sep 18, 2001
—	Rotten 39%	Romance (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. (1999)	" ...probes at our moral and psychological blind spots, at the limited and self-reinforcing nature of our vision." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 66%	The Third Miracle (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	N/A	Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)	" ...puts a universal face on lives of noisy desperation" Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Mifune (1999)	" 'Rain Man' without all the bull." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Not One Less (1999)	" The best film released in America so far this year." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 44%	Orphans (1997)	" ...a kitchen-sink drama that�s full of old dishwater." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Beyond the Mat (1999)	" Blaustein and his film have at least put a human face on those monstrous countenances that snarl out from our television sets on Saturday afternoons." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 33%	Treasure Island (1999)	" ...all of the bad things that make up what we call 'independent film.'" Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 69%	Southpaw (2000)	" ...sane and modest." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 63%	Human Traffic (1999)	" ...the get-on-and-get-off attitude of a two-minute pop-song." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 74%	The Big Kahuna (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 77%	Gladiator (2000)	" ...a two-ring circus that fails as entertainment and stinks as a sermon. " Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 74%	Bossa Nova (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 41%	8 1/2 Women (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Rififi (1954)	" ...a movie that sticks to your ribs." Posted Sep 18, 2001
Fresh	N/A	Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1930)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2001

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