ROTTEN TOMATOES: Bill Chambers

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BILL CHAMBERS

"One thing I can't stand from film reviewers and filmmakers is this concept of "guilty pleasures." <i>Film Comment</i> 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 69% of the time.

Biography: Capricorn.

Publications: Daily-Reviews, Film Freak Central

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 826
Total QuickRatings: 121

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Fresh 4/4	Fresh 87%	Crimson Gold (2004)	" A work of poetry" — Film Freak Central Posted May 28, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 71%	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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 100%	Bus 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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 71%	Elephant (2003)	" Elephant is the best picture of Gus Van Sant's career" — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 7, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Ghost World (2001)	" Ghost World leaves me haunted when the minutes drag." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 25, 2002
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 97%	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999)	" Within age-old contrivances emerge deeply affecting characters. Poetry." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 78%	Life Is Beautiful (1998)	" It embraces the bravery of its victims, and educates its audience through truly accessible characters." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 85%	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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Unforgiven (1992)	" [One] of the best movies of the nineties." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 3, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Barton Fink (1991)	" One of the few legitimate offshoots of David Lynch." — Film Freak Central Posted May 6, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Blue Velvet (1986)	" ...Deservedly canonized..." — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 2, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 84%	Big Trouble in Little China (1986)	" I saw Kurt Russell in lipstick armed with a bowie knife and thought, "Super-duper."" — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 9, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 93%	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	" The perfect swan song for Leone." — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 12, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	The King of Comedy (1982)	" *Scorsese's magnum opus 'til Kundun* came along.*" — Film Freak Central* Posted Jan 6, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 95%	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)	" The film...lacks blockbuster detachment." — Film Freak Central Posted May 21, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	The Tenant (1976)	" A masterpiece of anguish." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 3, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 64%	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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	The Long Goodbye (1973)	" *Subversive and engaging, The Long Goodbye* ranks among Altman's best.*" — Film Freak Central* Posted Aug 29, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 100%	Fat City (1972)	" An insightful, humanist masterwork." — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 23, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 98%	Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)	" *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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	Targets (1968)	" A beautiful, disturbing, masterful fiction-filmmaking debut for Bogdanovich" — Film Freak Central Posted Aug 13, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 78%	Hud (1963)	" Hud understands that torches are more often extinguished than passed" — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 30, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 100%	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	" Moviegoers never had it so good." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 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
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 100%	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	" A perpetual elegy" — Film Freak Central Posted May 13, 2004
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 92%	High Fidelity (2000)	" *The film is perceptive and enjoyable, the most precisely aimed men�s movie since Swingers." — Film Freak Central* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 83%	Magnolia (1999)	" Magnolia is a deeply felt kitchen sink movie reminiscent, in a good way." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 95%	The Insider (1999)	" Great moviemaking." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Rotten 37%	Onegin (1999)	Click here to read article — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 95%	The Truman Show (1998)	" This inspired movie is possibly the best - and most layered - summer picture in years." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 90%	A Simple Plan (1998)	Click here to read article — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 86%	Affliction (1997)	Click here to read article — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 89%	What Happened Was... (1994)	Click here to read article — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 80%	The Chocolate War (1988)	Click here to read article — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 83%	Dead Ringers (1988)	" *I dare say Dead Ringers* is first and foremost an entertaining film for its complete and honest storytelling.*" — Film Freak Central* Posted Jan 1, 2000

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