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Matthew Connolly

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:: House Next Door , New York Press , Slant Magazine

Total Reviews:: 38

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/4	98%	La Dolce Vita (1960)	" What is happiness within the film's world? Fellini offers no easy answers. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 3, 2011
4/4	98%	Raging Bull (1980)	" Scorsese might never again find a subject as ideal as Jake LaMotta, the Bronx-based boxer whose public bouts and private demons Raging Bull chronicles with such bruising acuity. " — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2010
4/4	96%	Breathless (� bout de souffle) (By a Tether) (1961)	" The actors don't inhabit characters so much as occupy a middle ground where play-acting and fan ardor replace the embodiment of set emotions and personality traits. " — Slant Magazine Posted May 25, 2010
4/4	90%	Ningen no joken I (The Human Condition I) (No Greater Love) (1959)	" It all sounds like a downer, and Human Condition is an indisputably solemn film. Yet it also possesses a restless vitality, with hard cuts juxtaposing abject brutality with pastoral tranquility and romantic longing." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2009
3.5/4	73%	Domaine (2012)	" The ultimate drama of Domain becomes how long he can be a witness to her self-destruction. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 8, 2012
3.5/4	——	Cluny Brown (1946)	" What is the famed "Lubitsch touch" if not the quiet thrill of being in on the joke?" — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 20, 2010
3.5/4	79%	Orlando (1992)	" Rarely have source material, director, and leading actress been more in alignment than in Orlando, the 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel, directed by Sally Potter and starring Tilda Swinton." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 19, 2010
3/4	——	Snow on tha Bluff (2012)	" Questions of authenticity aside, Damon Russell evinces a shrewd understanding of how to juxtapose the handheld camera's finite sightline with the bursts of chaos that suddenly invade it. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 17, 2012
3/4	——	Donoma ()	" Unlike similarly interconnected narratives, Donoma refuses to lay out its complete collection of characters up front" — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2012
3/4	100%	The African Queen (1951)	" Huston understands the majestic savagery of his surroundings well enough to let it exert some dramatic pressure on what is primarily a buoyant romantic comedy." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 9, 2011
3/4	89%	Waiting for Superman (2010)	" Guggenheim wants you to know that he has an education problem, and that you should too." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2010
3/4	96%	Restrepo (2010)	" Hetherington and Junger's fair-minded chronicling of military experience remains a valuable piece of filmmaking, perhaps essential in reminding us of what warfare extracts from those who fight it." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2010
3/4	80%	Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) (2009)	" Like all great stories, it paradoxically allows us access to the big picture by bringing us gradually, hauntingly close." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2009
	28%	Adventures of Power (2009)	" For all the cheap shots in Gold's script, Adventures of Power views air-drumming with a surprising affection." — New York Press Posted Oct 14, 2009
	90%	Ningen no joken I (The Human Condition I) (No Greater Love) (1959)	" The Human Condition's ambition, empathy, and visual beauty reward those who choose to commit to its formidable length and uncompromising vision." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2009
2.5/4	28%	Dear John (2010)	" As mid-winter sudsers go, you could do a lot worse than Dear John, an unassuming and mildly endearing adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks's novel of the same name." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 4, 2010
2.5/4	94%	Good Hair (2009)	" That many of these hairstyles derive from standards of beauty laid down by white tastemakers is a question that hangs over Good Hair." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2009
2.5/4	73%	More Than a Game (2009)	" Conforms to the classic three-act story structure of unexpected success followed by hubristic downfall followed by triumphant return." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2009
2.5/4	56%	9 (2009)	" A nagging sense of incompletion haunts 9." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 8, 2009
2/4	20%	Broken Tower (2012)	" James Franco's film is tonally flat and a little too impressed with its own elliptical construction." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2012
2/4	37%	Eat Pray Love (2010)	" What's inevitably lost is any real attempt to track Liz's internal shifts, the way her travels jostle her preconceived notions of selfhood and spirituality." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 18, 2010
2/4	25%	Fame (2009)	" Like its gifted if excitable protagonists, Fame would have done well to stay in the classroom a bit more, rather than trolling the New York streets." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 25, 2009
1.5/4	58%	She's Out of My League (2010)	" An uninspired romantic comedy/male self-esteem pep-talk that seems to be yearning for viewer affection despite its all-around mediocrity." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2010
1.5/4	26%	Women in Trouble (2009)	" At a particularly rundown corner of Almod�var Boulevard and Tarantino Lane, you'll find Women in Trouble, a limp, forgettable collection of interlocking tales all centering on the eponymous narrative setup." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 10, 2009
1.5/4	71%	Endgame (2009)	" What sparks are felt throughout come largely from Hurt and Ejiofor, who both seem to understand exactly the type of talky, tentative movie they're in and do their best to bring in some glints of humor and uncertainty." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2009
1.5/4	76%	Captain Abu Raed (2007)	" Captain Abu Raed reaches for restrained empathy but cannot hide its bald-faced emotional manipulations and squishy, sentimental core." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 14, 2009
1/4	36%	Bitch Slap (2010)	" If the film's half-baked salaciousness feels merely risible, its slapdash screenplay and cheapo look make it something that its generic forbearers rarely were: boring." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 10, 2010
	57%	The Hand of Fatima (2009)	" For all its earnestness, however, The Hand of Fatima feels a little too thematically diffuse to leave a distinct impression." — New York Press Posted Nov 18, 2009
	——	One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur (2008)	" There's nothing inherently bad about the documentary about the real-life events that eventually culminated in the classic; it's just that there's little revelatory in it either." — New York Press Posted Oct 22, 2009

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