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Lauren Wissot

Lauren Wissot

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications:
House Next Door , Slant Magazine
Total Reviews:
62

Worst Reviewed Films

Showing 1 - 46 of 46
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/4 24% Little Ashes (2009) " With a melodramatic score that alternates between sad violin and romantic guitar, and repetitive reaction shots of Lorca and Dalí in all their dreamy-eyed longing, Little Ashes is broadstroked filmmaking at its most tedious." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 3, 2009
1/4 56% New World Order (2009) " The directors never bother to delve into why these men need simple answers, and avoid complications at all costs." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 17, 2009
1.5/4 60% Barbershop Punk (2011) " An impotent exploration of the fight to take the Internet out of the hands of the Man." — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011
1.5/4 83% !Women Art Revolution (2011) " Lynn Hershman Leeson introduces us only superficially to her dozens of pioneering friends." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2011
1.5/4 —— Biker Fox (2010) " Bravely riding full speed ahead, Biker Fox nevertheless ends up in the very same place. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2010
1.5/4 40% The Expendables (2010) " In lieu of a flurry of left hooks and roundhouse kicks, we stay safely in Stallone's comfort zone of shoot 'em ups and s--- getting blown up." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 18, 2010
1.5/4 43% The Extra Man (2010) " Like Kevin Kline's ridiculously pretentious Harrison, the film fancies itself much more interesting than it is." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2010
1.5/4 69% Babies (2010) " An aesthetic exercise that gets at no deeper truth than "babies are basically alike no matter the culture."" — Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2010
1.5/4 55% The End Of Poverty (2008) " Perhaps most surprising of all are the parallels Diaz accidentally draws between the "evil" First World and the "innocent" Third." — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2009
2/4 81% Where Soldiers Come From (2011) " It's not Heather Courtney's fault that PBS dishes out comfort food for the liberal elite." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2011
2/4 91% The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) " Perhaps the greatest irony of all is that such a tumultuous and thrilling time in American history can be so easily reduced to a staid classroom lecture." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 27, 2011
2/4 65% Freakonomics (2010) " Blame producer Chad Troutwine for bringing together an array of talented documentary filmmakers to try to coax life into material certainly not suited to the medium of film." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 7, 2010
2/4 98% Marwencol (2010) " Malmberg's video imagery, captured by point-and-shoot camerawork, and livened up with big band music from time to time, can't hold a candle to outsider artist Mark Hogancamp's work." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2010
2/4 62% Howl (2010) " Like the counterculture icon that penned the poem that serves as the title to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's film, Howl is one odd bird." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2010
2/4 —— Family Affair (2010) " Hovering safely at the margins, the film's the director seems both fearful and detached." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2010
2/4 86% After The Cup: Sons Of Sakhnin United (2010) " Centuries-old rivalries die hard...and the very thing that unites can also divide." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 17, 2010
2/4 75% Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) " What's fascinating about this unfocused diatribe is that Mr. Moore, the liberal face of Middle America, has finally given up on the American audience." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2009
2/4 81% Unmistaken Child (2009) " As lovely as the elegiac music and breathtaking shots of the Tibetan countryside are in Unmistaken Child, they don't really move things along." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 1, 2009
2/4 57% Defiance (2009) " Defiance is not so much a cohesive film as a series of interchangeable, broadstroked scenes--a movie on loop." — Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2008
2/4 72% Eden (2008) " Seemingly in an effort to make up for O'Brien's anemic script, Recks energizes the slow-moving tale with nonstop distracting camerawork." — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2008
2/4 —— Soviet Story (2008) " Soviet Story does a thorough job of laying out what happened, but its dull, educational-style format doesn't guide us to the next step of why we should care." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 28, 2008
2.5/4 100% Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) " Like their subjects, the directors themselves have attempted an all-over-the-place style--and surprisingly succeeded. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2011
2.5/4 100% Hell and Back Again (2011) " Danfung Dennis's documentary isn't content to merely capture warriors in combat." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2011
2.5/4 88% If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) " The doc manages to drive home the notion that, however much one might disagree with ELF's tactics, their point of view holds a lot of truth." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2011
2.5/4 90% Public Speaking (2011) " We catch only glimpses below the surface of this whirlwind of wit as Scorsese steps out of the way and lets Lebowitz herself run the show." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 2, 2011
2.5/4 87% Neshoba (2010) " Though the film gets carried away by its black-and-white-together-we-shall-overcome vibe, the raw facts are undeniably where the real emotion lies. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 18, 2010
2.5/4 94% 45365 (2009) " An exhaustively detailed, entrancing journey, crafted with love for everything from raindrops on a windshield to a cheesy Elvis impersonator." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 13, 2010
2.5/4 100% The Juche Idea (2011) " Jim Finn has managed to spoof not just easy-target Kim, but also the very notion of artists in residence making ever more obscure, inaccessible, and pretentious work." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 25, 2010
2.5/4 69% Women Without Men (Zanan-e bedun-e mardan) (2010) " There is no dramatic leap to death, but rather only a tentative embrace of "a new form, a new way," much like Iran's short-lived experiment in democracy." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2010
2.5/4 84% Under Our Skin (2008) " Under Our Skin is a rigorously researched and highly thorough piece of investigative reporting on the silent epidemic that is Lyme disease." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2009
3/4 77% The Mill and the Cross (2011) " Lech Majewski succeeds so well in saturating his images with meaning that when the barebones dialogue is heard it seems frustratingly stale and superfluous." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2011
3/4 —— Cinema Komunisto () " Mila Turajlic's Cinema Komunisto is a Serbian documentary that explores a fascinating piece of history little known outside Eastern Europe." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2011
3/4 60% The Gift to Stalin (2011) " That rare small story set in a big time (not unlike Malick's Days of Heaven), poetic both in Khasanbek Kydyraliev's cinematography and in Pavel Finn's script." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2011
3/4 92% My Perestroika (2011) " A Glasnost-worthy openness shines through every face in Robin Hessman's doc." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2011
3/4 100% The Other City (2010) " A fascinating and damning glimpse inside a parallel universe that exists right in the heart of our nation's capital." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2010
3/4 71% Valhalla Rising (2010) " The Bruckheimer-style storyline is merely an excuse to film a Joseph Conrad-worthy existential journey to hell." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 11, 2010
3/4 93% The Kids Are All Right (2010) " Lisa Cholodenko is one of the more radical visionaries working in American indie cinema today." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2010
3/4 90% Fish Tank (2010) " The British director's filmmaking style is precise and concise, as tight and lean as her teenage heroine." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 13, 2010
3/4 83% Nollywood Babylon (2008) " Nollywood Babylon seamlessly interweaves actual clips from Nollywood flicks with scenes from the bustling, chaotic markets of Lagos." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2009
3/4 83% We Live in Public (2009) " We Live in Public moves with the groove of the rock-star atmosphere that surrounded the dot-com kid moguls of the '90s." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 30, 2009
53% Viva (2007) " Beneath all the hippies and hair, makeup and music lies a film bubbling with ridiculous humor and serious heart." — House Next Door
Posted Jun 20, 2008
3.5/4 99% The Interrupters (2011) " A tour de force of editing that's similar in novelistic scale to Steve James's high school basketball epic Hoop Dreams." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2011
3.5/4 100% Into Eternity (2011) " Watching the film is akin to having a totally immersive, video game-like experience, a journey best described as Lord of the Rings meets 2001: A Space Odyssey." — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2011
3.5/4 87% Flammen & Citronen (Flame & Citron) (The Flame and the Lemon) (2008) " A luscious, evocative period piece." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2009
3.5/4 —— Paper Soldier (Bumaznyj soldat) (2008) " Deftly visualizes those dual elements of terrifying uncertainty and thrilling history that were the essence of the Soviet liberal experiment era." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 30, 2009
3.5/4 90% Hunger (2009) " McQueen's film is a nuanced masterpiece that never flaunts its artistry, but uses it humbly to serve the all-important story." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2008
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