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

MOVIE REVIEWS ONLY

Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 60%	Two for the Seesaw (1962)	" Two for the Seesaw is, quite frankly, one for the cinematic dustbin." — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 26, 2009
Rotten 2/4	N/A	Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009)	" ...That clunky, arrogant title has a reach exceeding the filmmakers' grasp on the sphinxlike title figure." — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 6, 2009
Rotten 0/4	N/A	Trash Humpers (2009)	" Korine is just too old for this st*" — Film Freak Central* Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 82%	A Single Man (2009)	" *For better or worse (worse, if you ask me), A Single Man* is precisely what you'd expect from fashion designer Tom Ford*" — Film Freak Central* Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 100%	Vincere (2009)	" Structurally and even editorially, it's kind of a mess, but [it] hooked me." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 21, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 89%	Up in the Air (2009)	" The increasingly slick Reitman...has the good sense to not slather every emotional beat in score and really seems to like his actresses." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 20, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 93%	Mother (2009)	" Its wizardly craft provide[s] further evidence that Bong is one of the most formidable filmmaking talents to have emerged this decade..." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 19, 2009
Rotten 2/4	N/A	The Hole ()	" ...Loses its flavour faster than chewing gum." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 13, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 85%	King of the Hill (2008)	" A political thriller in the sense that it's bound to polarize audiences..." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 24, 2009
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 38%	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	" Even with the film's scant running time of 77 minutes, the unrelenting use of Mondrian splitscreen is bound to give anyone a headache." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	N/A	Behind Me (2008)	" *The title translates as Behind Me, which is sort of where I want to put this Lukas Moodysson-esque downer." — Film Freak Central* Posted Jul 24, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 47%	The Girl From Monaco (2009)	" If you think I'm being tasteless, you should see the movie." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 24, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 38%	Gigantic (2008)	" More like 'bloated.'" — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 70%	Batman (1989)	" ...Batman hasn't gone totally stale." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 24, 2009
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 3.5/4	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" The most haunting sports film, or at least the most haunting film about the margins of a sport, since Fat City" — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 9, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 86%	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	" **Rachel Getting Married has the disadvantage of arriving soon after Margot at the Wedding*" — Film Freak Central* Posted Sep 6, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 86%	Lorna's Silence (2009)	" Clever and affecting" — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 4, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 86%	A Christmas Tale (2008)	" A gift that keeps on giving" — Film Freak Central Posted Aug 29, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 86%	Shine a Light (2008)	" It's unfortunate that the unfairest criticism one can level at Shine a Light is arguably the most legitimate as well: it's no Gimme Shelter" — Film Freak Central Posted Aug 27, 2008
Rotten 0.5/4	Fresh 71%	Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)	" A film that opens with celebuspawn Cyrus practising scales and ends with me wrapping my lips around the barrel of a twelve-gauge" — Film Freak Central Posted Aug 27, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 28%	The Devil's Own (1997)	" Finally just another schoolmarmish prestige piece touting America's moral superiority" — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 16, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 26%	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	" *A distaff version of Weird Science* with a similar metaphysical disregard for logic*" — Film Freak Central* Posted Jul 16, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 55%	Twister (1996)	" *Surely the only movie to ever suggest a dumbed-down His Girl Friday, Road Runner cartoon, and The Abyss* simultaneously*" — Film Freak Central* Posted May 12, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 74%	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	" Walk Hard brings the funny and a keen observational sense" — Film Freak Central Posted Apr 17, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	The Song Remains the Same (1976)	" Clearly, film is not their forte." — Film Freak Central Posted Mar 12, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 50%	Johnny Suede (1992)	" Pitt's tendency to turn into a space cadet without a well-defined archetype to play slows the movie's pacing to a crawl" — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 27, 2008
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 27%	The Game Plan (2007)	" The Game Plan makes The Pacifier look like No Country for Old Men." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 24, 2008
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 15%	Underdog (2007)	" Disney's charmless live-action resurrection of the beloved super-mutt [is] just a bunch of mercenary actors and technicians who can barely disguise their contempt for the film's screenplay" — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 7, 2008
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)	" You look at a movie like this and wonder how some screenwriters can have the temerity to go on strike" — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 5, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 53%	The Monster Squad (1987)	" For a movie so aesthetically on the ball, it's a shame the screenplay is not the least bit industrious." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 17, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 71%	Lust, Caution (2007)	" *[Lust, Caution] gets around to honouring its pretensions towards truthfulness in a climax that exposes the sham of Blackbook." — Film Freak Central* Posted Sep 22, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 60%	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	" HD seems to have reawakened in Romero a sense of mischief." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 22, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 49%	Mother of Tears (2008)	" [Marries] CGI to Guignol whimsy in ways so tasteless that you can hear the crackle of Argento's mojo working." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 22, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 38%	Les Chansons d'Amour (2007)	" I kept waiting for mimes to show up, on screen or off..." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 22, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 25%	Emotional Arithmetic (2007)	" A "Never Forget" PSA done up as a Bergmanesque psychodrama..." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 22, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 50%	Angel (2007)	" [Ozon is] too tony now for the vaguely subversive pastiches with which he made his mark." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 22, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 33%	Just Buried (2008)	" Blame the Brits for making this kind of morbid farce look easy..." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 22, 2007
—	N/A	Chicken Rice War (2000)	Click here to read article — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 30, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 29%	Looker (1981)	" Looker's surface pleasures are undeniable" — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 29, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 90%	The Little Mermaid (1989)	" The Little Mermaid was a mirage, not an oasis." — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 10, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 68%	The Fox and the Hound (1981)	" A southern gothic--and a damn good one at that" — Film Freak Central Posted Jan 10, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)	" *A would-be victim of its own London After Midnight-esque mystique" — Film Freak Central* Posted Nov 26, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 36%	Accepted (2006)	" *[Accepted] would be funnier with an R rating on principle" — Film Freak Central* Posted Nov 12, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 67%	Hard Candy (2005)	" You can sense that it wants to be talked about more than it wants to actually say anything" — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 17, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 55%	The King (2006)	" The filmmakers' stoicism finally proves insurmountable and indefatigable" — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 17, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 75%	Black Book (2007)	" The screenplay could in fact have just as easily served as the template for a Roland Emmerich/Dean Devlin turkey" — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 23, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 44%	Fay Grim (2007)	" Everybody's trying too hard--or not hard enough" — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 18, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 77%	The Last Winter (2007)	" An elegiac piece of filmmaking that transcends cheap thrills" — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 17, 2006
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 40%	Wedding Daze (2006)	" More of the same hollow irony Black practises as VH1's resident Mike Nelson" — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 13, 2006

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