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Bill Chambers

Bill Chambers

"One thing I can't stand from film reviewers and filmmakers is this concept of "guilty pleasures." Film Comment tends to endorse this concept -- in their latest issue they ask Scorsese to name his; to my chagrin, he does so without a battle. If you like a film, you like it; you take in the information, you process it, and if sits pleasantly with who you are, then don't be afraid to admit it. Let's leave guilt out of it, the world's so crappy anyway."

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography:
Capricorn.
Publications:
Daily-Reviews , Film Freak Central
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
1003
Total QuickRatings:
121
Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Best Reviewed Films

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4/4 —— Duck Amuck (1953) " Daffy's existential crisis is oddly revealing of his identity and, for the viewer, a lesson in the possibilities of the medium." — Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
4/4 —— Rabbit of Seville () " Invention, madness, and visual delight are in seemingly endless supply..." — Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
4/4 63% Black Christmas (1974) " Generally heralded as the first of its kind, Black Christmas may actually be one of a kind." — Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 5, 2008
5/5 100% Singing Detective - Complete Series () — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 4, 2005
4/4 86% Crimson Gold (2004) " A work of poetry" — Film Freak Central
Posted May 28, 2004
4/4 100% The Grapes of Wrath (1940) " A perpetual elegy" — Film Freak Central
Posted May 13, 2004
4/4 70% Dogville (2003) " Movie pop art is enjoying a renaissance, of which Lars von Trier's savagely cathartic Dogville is the consummate centerpiece" — Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 25, 2004
5/5 95% Crumb (1995) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 13, 2004
5/5 86% Five Easy Pieces (1970) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 12, 2004
5/5 92% Blade Runner (1982) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 12, 2004
5/5 98% Dazed and Confused (1993) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 12, 2004
5/5 62% Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 12, 2004
5/5 94% Deliverance (1972) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 12, 2004
4/4 98% The Manchurian Candidate (1962) " With a dour, uncompromising view of humanity punctuated by raw violence, The Manchurian Candidate feels post-Kennedy, or like a harbinger of Watergate-era splatter" — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 12, 2004
4/4 79% Hud (1963) " Hud understands that torches are more often extinguished than passed" — Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 30, 2003
4/4 98% Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968) " Though elegiac, Once Upon a Time in the West is too vital to be a flat-out elegy, too influential to be a lament. It very simply matters." — Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 10, 2003
4/4 94% The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) " It should tell you something that this was among Orson Welles' favourite films" — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 17, 2003
4/4 99% Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) (2003) " At once an overview of the crime-poverty cycle, a discomforting police procedural, and a re-sensitization to action-movie tropes, Bus 174 is one of the most thoughtful films of 2003" — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 16, 2003
4/4 70% Elephant (2003) " Elephant is the best picture of Gus Van Sant's career" — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 7, 2003
4/4 88% Targets (1968) " A beautiful, disturbing, masterful fiction-filmmaking debut for Bogdanovich" — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 13, 2003
4/4 90% The Tenant (1976) " A masterpiece of anguish." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 3, 2003
4/4 89% Once Upon a Time in America (1984) " The perfect swan song for Leone." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 12, 2003
4/4 91% Barton Fink (1991) " One of the few legitimate offshoots of David Lynch." — Film Freak Central
Posted May 6, 2003
4/4 91% Miller's Crossing (1990) " If Miller's Crossing isn't my favourite movie, I don't know what is." — Film Freak Central
Posted May 6, 2003
4/4 93% The King of Comedy (1983) " Scorsese's magnum opus 'til Kundun came along." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 6, 2003
5/5 91% The Breakfast Club (1985) — Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 23, 2002
4/4 100% Fat City (1972) " An insightful, humanist masterwork." — Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 23, 2002
4/4 97% Unforgiven (1992) " [One] of the best movies of the nineties." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 3, 2002
4/4 79% A Perfect World (1993) " Some may accuse the picture of sentimentality, but really it gets caught up in the moment." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 3, 2002
4/4 96% One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) " One of a small number of Best Picture winners to deserve the statuette." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 23, 2002
4/4 96% The Long Goodbye (1973) " Subversive and engaging, The Long Goodbye ranks among Altman's best." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 29, 2002
5/5 84% Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 8, 2002
5/5 90% The Piano (1993) — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 1, 2002
4/4 89% McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) " It's the rare product of its time that stands the test of time." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 24, 2002
4/4 92% Blue Velvet (1986) " ...Deservedly canonized..." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 2, 2002
4/4 92% Ghost World (2001) " Ghost World leaves me haunted when the minutes drag." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 25, 2002
4/4 81% The Untouchables (1987) " [A] grand piece of storytelling." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 23, 2001
4/4 98% Taxi Driver (1976) " the dynamic trio of Scorsese, Schrader, and DeNiro have created the ultimate teen angst drama" — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 23, 2001
4/4 82% Big Trouble in Little China (2001) " I saw Kurt Russell in lipstick armed with a bowie knife and thought, "Super-duper."" — Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 9, 2001
4/4 95% Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) " The film...lacks blockbuster detachment." — Film Freak Central
Posted May 21, 2001
4/4 100% Rear Window (1954) " ...see Rear Window, if you haven't already, for [Grace] Kelly's sensual, slo-mo entrance..." — Film Freak Central
Posted Apr 13, 2001
4/4 100% Rear Window (1954) " Rear Window, in which Jeff watches the silent picture of his neighbours across the street, is a filmmaker's ideal movie." — Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 25, 2001
10/10 80% Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) (1997) " It embraces the bravery of its victims, and educates its audience through truly accessible characters." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 1, 2000
10/10 97% Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (2001) " Within age-old contrivances emerge deeply affecting characters. Poetry." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 1, 2000
10/10 94% American Movie (1999) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 1, 2000
4/4 100% Anatomy of a Murder (1959) " Moviegoers never had it so good." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 1, 2000
10/10 92% Blue Velvet (1986) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 1, 2000
10/10 87% Donnie Brasco (1997) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 1, 2000
10/10 97% The Last of the Mohicans (1992) — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 1, 2000
4/4 51% Waking the Dead (2000) " Monumentally affecting." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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