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Critics / Brian Holcomb
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    BRIAN HOLCOMB

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

    Publications: Beyond Hollywood, CinemaBlend.com, Kinetofilm, PopMatters, Slant Magazine

    Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

    Total Reviews: 122

    Location: South Jersey/Philadelphia

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    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    40%

    The Lovely Bones (2009)

    " The strangest thing about Jackson's approach is how chaste it is. The whole film is just a bit too tasteful to achieve real catharsis." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Dec 17, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    77%

    Invictus (2009)

    " INVICTUS works better than it deserves to as an old fashioned,predictable entertainment. In another filmmaker's hands the Capra-corn would be just too much." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Dec 11, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    36%

    Angels & Demons (2009)

    " It appears that Ron Howard knew that he had to change the way everything was done in the previous film, and sending Tom Hanks to the barber was a very good start." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Nov 25, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    82%

    Paranormal Activity (2009)

    " Expect less and you will appreciate it more. The film isn't unique or even very well made. Peli only seems able to come up with HALF of a good idea throughout the film." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Nov 14, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    95%

    Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

    " What distinguishes this film from others in the genre is the undercurrent of melancholy between the laughs." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Nov 9, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    92%

    Drag Me To Hell (2009)

    " While it has the energy and the endless cinematic invention of his early work, the film's command of economical storytelling is something that once eluded Raimi." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Nov 6, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    63%

    The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

    " The film is only marginally about sex; it's real subject is business. One can argue cynically that all human relationships are a form of transaction." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Oct 3, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    N/A

    Trick Baby (1973)

    " This wasn't the standard "pimp and ho show" but rather a smart, character based crime flick about two hustlers just trying to survive in the City of Brotherly Love." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Oct 1, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    18%

    The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

    " The movie works hard for your money and should theoretically be scarier than the cut rate television production. But it's not. Not by a mile." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    36%

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

    " Packed with claw-shredding action and adventure, the film more or less delivers what it promises. The problem lies with what it promises." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Sep 23, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    N/A

    The Baron of Arizona (1950)

    " The craziest true story I've never heard of that turned out to be pretty damn true. Even with Fuller shouting his own melodramatic version of the truth at the top of his lungs" — Kinetofilm

    Posted Aug 29, 2009

    Fresh
    4/4

    Fresh
    88%

    Inglourious Basterds (2009)

    " This is a FILM with blood in its veins, a heart in its body and a red hot engine in its chassis. It is alive with ideas and a geniune belief in the power of FILM to express them." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Aug 22, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    12%

    The Unborn (2009)

    " There is a senseless scare every 5-7 minutes. Now, after one or two you start to get the giggles but after the third or fourth false scare you begin to Laugh Out Loud." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Jul 15, 2009

    Fresh
    2/5

    Fresh
    66%

    Public Enemies (2009)

    " There are powerful images that sear into your brain upon contact with your eyes but PUBLIC ENEMIES clearly wants to alienate the audience as much as it engages them." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Jul 3, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    N/A

    Hide ()

    " For two thirds of the film, Hide plays as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino-lite and not those filmmakers as they are today but as they were in, say, 1994." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Jun 26, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    N/A

    Killing Ariel (2008)

    " I don't know how many times I've asked myself, "How come they're aren't more films about the Incubus?" Well, here's one for you." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Jun 21, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    0%

    S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale (2009)

    " The entire project seems to sweat from the exertion of its writer Nathan Atkins and director Chris Fisher to do something-anything-to make the film worthwhile." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Jun 20, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    95%

    Star Trek (2009)

    " Somehow pulling off the trick of appealing to the wider mass audience with one foot in Star WARS, the most startling thing about this new TREK is how it avoids being AWFUL." — Kinetofilm

    Posted May 10, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    94%

    No Country for Old Men (2007)

    " What starts off as the best Charles Bronson movie not to star Charles Bronson ends up as a literary adaptation of a novel that thinks it means something or other." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Apr 23, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    64%

    Quantum of Solace (2008)

    " No one wants to watch Bond chase after Osama Bin Laden and switch off his dialysis machine with a bad one liner. On second thought, maybe that would be great?" — Kinetofilm

    Posted Mar 29, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    86%

    Rachel Getting Married (2008)

    " This isn't the kind of melodrama where a happy facade is slowly torn away-the tensions are there from the start and no one has illusions that things are nice and rosy." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Mar 17, 2009

    Fresh
    2/4

    N/A

    True Blood - The Complete First Season ()

    " Pity the poor vampire. Walking the earth for eternity and forced to drink blood to survive, he can't even be taken seriously as a monster these days. Except as a metaphor." — Slant Magazine

    Posted Mar 16, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    60%

    Quarantine (2008)

    " Real no frills filmmaking. Anything that gets in the way of the main idea is stripped to the bone. This includes certain niceties like character, humor, and even story." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Feb 25, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    57%

    Taken (2009)

    " This is not a movie about moral dilemmas-it's about a father who will rip out your eyeballs if you don't give him his daughter back." — Kinetofilm

    Posted Feb 19, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    50%

    Taking Chance (2009)

    " Lazy filmmaking that fails to engage anyone who doesn't have a personal connection to the story. It's so well-meaning that it ultimately means nothing much at all." — Slant Magazine

    Posted Feb 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    15%

    Mirrors (2008)

    " In SUSPIRIA, Udo Kier says that "Bad luck isn't caused by broken mirrors, but by broken minds"-Well after making this silly movie, director Alexandre Aja might think otherwise" — Kinetofilm

    Posted Feb 9, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    20%

    Righteous Kill (2008)

    " Pacino. DeNiro. Armed and dangerous. In a cop drama. In NYC. Together. Written by the writer of Inside Man. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, what could've gone so wrong?" — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Jan 11, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    62%

    Che (2008)

    " Formally, it demonstrates the power of the aspect ratio in deciding our relationship to the story. Dramatically, the film is at once fascinating and completely annoying" — Beyond Hollywood

    Posted Dec 22, 2008

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    82%

    Tropic Thunder (2008)

    " Tropic Thunder focuses its satire on this Hollywoodization of war, as it depicts the production of a Vietnam genre film that's less "Platoon" than "Platoon Leader" with Michael Dudikoff." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Dec 6, 2008

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    18%

    The Happening (2008)

    " While not as laughable as the narcissistic Lady in the Water ,it fails just as miserably as narrative and even more miserably with its flat characters and tone deaf dialogue." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Oct 12, 2008

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    12%

    Deception (2008)

    " This film would make a perfect commercial thriller for James Spader and Rob Lowe were it still 1994." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Sep 28, 2008

    Fresh
    7/10

    Fresh
    67%

    Un Flic (1971)

    " Everything that has come to be known as "Melville" exists in some form throughout the film's 98 minutes. The flaws present are those of the greatest auteurs' autumnal works." — PopMatters

    Posted Sep 23, 2008

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    68%

    Redbelt (2008)

    " It's not the characteristically sharp Mamet dialogue that makes Ejiofor effective so much as what he does between the lines: Moments of powerful contemplation and silence." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Sep 3, 2008

    Fresh
    7/10

    N/A

    City of Vice (2007)

    " Imagine a sort of CSI:18th Century London spliced with a History Channel documentary and you might end up with something like BBC4's unique program "City of Vice"." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 12, 2008

    Fresh
    2/5

    Fresh
    60%

    Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)

    " While a marked improvement over the utter lameness of Troopers 2, Marauder tries too hard to telegraph its satirical tone..." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Aug 8, 2008

    Fresh
    3/5

    N/A

    Alien Nation Ultimate Movie Collection (1995)

    " While not exactly a masterpiece, the TV Alien Nation was a significant improvement over the shallow original." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 8, 2008

    Rotten
    5/10

    Fresh
    76%

    Joyeux Noël (2006)

    " Nominated for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award, "Noel" is the kind of sentimental tripe the Academy loves to honor in order to justify their own sentimental tripe." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 7, 2008

    Fresh
    6/10

    N/A

    They Filmed the War in Color - Victory in Europe/The Pacific War (2002)

    " There is a visceral thrill in these images proving Truffaut's point that an actual anti-war film can never be made since the very nature of warfare makes war exciting." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 7, 2008

    Fresh
    8/10

    N/A

    Greatest American Hero - Deluxe Collector's (1981)

    " Returning to a show you watched during childhood can be a disappointing experience. But GAM holds up very well and is actually wittier than I understood it to be at the time." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 7, 2008

    Fresh
    8/10

    N/A

    Inside the Actors Studio - Dave Chappelle (2006)

    " Whatever your feelings towards Chappelle, this interview goes beyond the boundaries of the performing arts into a dialogue that is funny, insightful, and even touching." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 7, 2008

    Rotten
    2/10

    N/A

    Roy Shaw - Brute Force (2006)

    " The real shame is that Roy's story is riveting stuff and would've made a great honest documentary or at least an amazing '70s crime picture with Oliver Reed as Shaw." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 7, 2008

    Fresh
    6/10

    Rotten
    55%

    Feast (2006)

    " Feast is too knowing and in its own way, too high profile to be born as cult cinema. But it's a reasonable facsimile and as such deserves a look from the genre connoisseur." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 7, 2008

    Fresh
    6/10

    N/A

    Dean Martin Double Feature - How To Save A Marriage (And Ruin Your Life)/Who Was That Lady (1960)

    " These are far from Martin's best work, but they serve as documents to his likability." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 7, 2008

    Fresh
    5/10

    Fresh
    100%

    Puzzlehead (2006)

    " A gothic tale with roots deep in Shelly's Frankenstein. Bai takes the part that most adaptations toss out, the moral education of the monster, and puts it front and center." — PopMatters

    Posted Aug 7, 2008

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Rotten
    49%

    My Blueberry Nights (2008)

    " It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Jul 6, 2008

    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    54%

    The Signal (2007)

    " The film is both an impressive "calling card" work for the filmmakers and a failure as an actual film." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Jun 15, 2008

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Rotten
    46%

    Cassandra's Dream (2008)

    " There is an effortless artistry in this film that may have deceived many. It looks like a trifle but it packs a punch." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted Jun 2, 2008

    Rotten
    4/10

    Rotten
    38%

    Dead Man's Bounty (2007)

    " In attempting to create a shock effect of the new within the old, the baby is tossed out with the bathwater. The core pleasures of genre still have to be respected." — PopMatters

    Posted May 29, 2008

    Fresh
    4/4

    N/A

    Extras - The Complete Second Season ()

    " The cleverest conceit of the show is that celebrity doesn't really change a person so much as fan the flames that were burning from the start." — Slant Magazine

    Posted May 22, 2008

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    84%

    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

    " Where the brilliant "Raiders" was an adventure film aimed at the child at heart, "Temple of Doom" is really designed for the kiddie market itself." — CinemaBlend.com

    Posted May 21, 2008
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