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LAURA CLIFFORD

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography: Reeling: The Movie Review Show has been produced by Robin and Laura Clifford at the Malden, Massachusetts cable access television station, MATV, since March 16,1991. Reeling is also cablecast on these cable access stations in Massachusetts: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Wakefield, Belmont, Waltham, Salem and Lowell with more on the way. Robin and Laura have attended film courses at Emerson College and workshops in 16 mm film production at the Boston Film and Video Foundation.

Favorites: Red Sid and Nancy Aguirre, the Wrath of God The Decalogue The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Being There The Wizard of Oz

Publications: rec.arts.movies.reviews, Reeling Reviews

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Broadcast Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 1714
Total QuickRatings: 68

Location: Boston, MA

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Rotten C	Fresh 88%	Humpday (2009)	" ...plays as if director Lynn Shelton watched Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" and decided to turn it into a comedy. It's abrupt ending plays like a filmmaker who has run out of idea." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 70%	Bruno (2009)	" Borat got some pretty uncomfortable and surprising behavior from people. Br�no shoots fish in a barrel." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 78%	The End of the Line (2009)	" ..."Food, Inc." for fish." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 6, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 85%	Unmistaken Child (2009)	" Baratz's work may not be the slickest, but he took a risk and followed through under arduous conditions to let an audience share in a mystical journey. The film itself is an act of faith." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 6, 2009
Rotten C-	N/A	In Search Of The Great Beast 666 (2009)	" ...provides loads of biographical info, but saps the juice out of its subject...Crowley deserves the Ken Russell treatment." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 5, 2009
Fresh B	N/A	Rumba (2008)	" Jacques Tati with dance!" — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 5, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 90%	35 Shots of Rum (2009)	" ...about the bonds that keep us tied to people, places and things...Denis has a mesmerizing directorial style" — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 4, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" ...one of the most exciting and fresh films of the year." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 4, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 44%	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)	" ...Sid meet Buck (voice of Simon Pegg, "Shaun of the Dead," "Star Trek"), a weasel who acts as tour guide and helps 'buck up' the flagging series." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 30, 2009
Fresh B	N/A	The First Day of the Rest of Your Life ()	" Bezan�on has done a beautiful job moving back and forth through time and bringing background stories to the foreground before letting them slip away for another's point of view." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 28, 2009
Fresh B	N/A	La Belle personne (2009)	" ...reminiscent of Abdel Kechiche's "L'esquive" ("Games of Love and Chance"), yet while that film felt modern, urban and gritty, this one is more steeped in urban moodiness and doomed romance..." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 28, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 56%	The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)	" Anyone who thought "The Passion of the Christ," with which this film shares producer Stephen McEveety and star Caviezel, was its own form of torture porn, be forewarned." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 51%	Cheri (2009)	" ...keeps one at arm's length, the subject handled with a light touch that keeps the emotions it should evoke at bay." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" ...this is without a doubt director Kathryn Bigelow's best film to date, one which should be Oscar nominated in every category it's eligible for." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 66%	Dead Snow (2009)	" The film would have benefited immensely had it anchored its high concept to history a bit more strongly." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 44%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" ...a blatant 10 hanky weeper masquerading as something deeper, but it does some things well in spite of itself." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 46%	Whatever Works (2009)	" It's as if Allen took a Parisian romantic rondeley and gave it his own New York flavor...[Rachel Evan Wood is] positively endearing." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" After 149 minutes, I felt like I had been sitting in an aluminum garbage can while someone drummed on the outside with a wrench." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 23, 2009
Fresh C+	Rotten 17%	Year One (2009)	" Harold Ramis...serves up some low brow humor in a fitful script, but his film is elevated into the ranks of pleasurably stupid humor by terrific comic turns from Cera and a game Oliver Platt" — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 18, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 46%	The Proposal (2009)	" ...may not be the worst romantic comedy ever made, but it surely is one of the most unnecessary...plays like a patchwork of everything from "Men in Trees" to "Chuck and Larry."" — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 18, 2009
Rotten C+	Fresh 88%	Moon (2009)	" ...either an over-extended or under developed treatment of a good idea. There's not enough there there to make "Moon" an exceptional genre piece." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 11, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 97%	Food, Inc. (2009)	" If this documentary does not change your mind about how to procure the food you eat, nothing will." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 8, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 71%	Den du Frygter (2008)	" A calm, quiet performance from Ulrich Thomsen initially seems too restrained, but Levring and his star prove they know exactly what they are doing in this uniquely startling character study." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 8, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 89%	Burma VJ (2009)	" This trenchant piece of work might sound on the surface like watching a CNN broadcast in a movie theater, but �stergaard has formed his film like a political thriller...astonishing and moving." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 7, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" Featuring a revelatory performance from Rudolph as the centered earth mother who nonetheless worries she and Burt have become losers, "Away We Go" illustrates parenthood in every color of the spectrum." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 4, 2009
Rotten D-	Rotten 28%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" Will Ferrell has officially used up my cache of good will..." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 78%	The Hangover (2009)	" Director Todd Phillips ups the ante on his "Old School" antics in "The Hangover," a movie which solidifies the comic chops of Cooper and Helms and should make a star out of Galifianakis." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 83%	Treeless Mountain (2009)	" So Yong Kim's quiet film which takes its time observing the minutiae of every day life has an undercurrent of grander themes at play." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 1, 2009
Rotten C-	Fresh 73%	Departures (2009)	" ...the senior supporting players in the film are affecting and the film's underlying sentiment is honorable, but lead actor Masahiro Motoki shamefacedly mugs through this cloying and cliched film which director Takita lets drag on interminably." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 31, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 90%	Il Divo (2009)	" Should you go into this movie with no knowledge of this slice of history, you'll not only learn something, but you'll be so entertained you may find yourself laughing out loud (when you're not shaking your head)." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 28, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" ...Raimi returns to his roots with a vengeance, giving his gypsy curse/exorcism horror the kind of over-the-top, almost operatic feel that hasn't graced genre screens in decades." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 28, 2009
Fresh A+	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" With its tenth film, Pixar has seemingly raised its own stakes, delivering a tale of such richness, such poignancy and such incredible imagination that one can only marvel at their dedication to the art of storytelling." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 28, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" ...most notable for the inventive new touches added which prove amusing diversions to the dull central throughline...It's kind of like the movie equivalent of a toddler's busy box." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 21, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" While some of its demographic may be happy to see the return of the man-machine apocalypse, much of the writing...is hokey as hell." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 20, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 97%	The Song of Sparrows (2009)	" takes place a half a world away in a land of ostrich farms and refrigerators delivered...on the back of a motorbike, but Karim's foibles, his worries and joys, will be recognizable to anyone..." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 17, 2009
Rotten C+	Fresh 82%	Pontypool (2009)	" ...poses some interesting ethical issues on the responsibility of the media, but like many a Stephen King novel ("Insomnia" comes to mind), solid characters and a great build are undone by a silly underlying premise." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 16, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 58%	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)	" It is an interesting observation on all kinds of hustling in a climate of financial freefall but fails to connect on any emotional level...more enjoyable to contemplate afterwards" — Reeling Reviews Posted May 16, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 87%	O'Horten (2009)	" Despite one misstep and a telegraphed conclusion, "O'Horten" is an amusing peak into the Norwegian psyche...for a solitary man, B�rd Owe makes Horten very good company indeed." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 14, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 46%	Management (2009)	" "Knocked Up's" Seth Rogan stood a chance because he had personality. Zahn just hands us a winsome baby animal picture." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 75%	Adoration (2009)	" ...the epitome of an Atom Egoyan movie, with its themes of technological influences on human communication and finding the truth amidst family secrets." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 12, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 34%	Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)	" ...a genial, inoffensive little comedy that coasts on the charm of its "King of Queens" star James..." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 11, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 96%	Tulpan (2008)	" There are two prominent scenes of lambing, the first utterly tragic, the second joyously life (and dream) affirming." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 9, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 93%	Summer Hours (2009)	" ...an astute study of intra sibling relationships magnified by inheritance issues and the globalization of modern life." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 9, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 25%	Little Ashes (2009)	" ...the translation of young Dal� into a homoerotic Vogue model places the actor, rather than the character, front and center." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 7, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" ...not only a fantastic summer tentpole film, it just happens to be better than each and every one of the most recent Best Picture Oscar nominees." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 33%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" This screed against big Government and technology in favor of Bohemianism, music, film and painting by way of searching for one's own reality may be pretentious..., but it is also a cinematic puzzle that will divert film geeks." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 4, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 92%	Tokyo Sonata (2009)	" Although Kurosawa is able to balance tones ranging from humor to unexpected domestic violence, his fantastical transition comes a wee bit left of field, requiring his audience to regain their equilibrium." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 92%	Revanche (2009)	" In Austria's submission for the 2009 Foreign Language Picture Oscar, writer/director G�tz Spielmann works a tricky little bit of business" — Reeling Reviews Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" ...fired by satisfying performances from Jackman, a shrewd Schreiber and the 'why-isn't-she-more-well-known' Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox, the woman who gave Logan his "X-Men" name." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 67%	The Merry Gentleman (2009)	" ...an understated, uniquely cunning and most pleasant surprise." — Reeling Reviews Posted May 1, 2009

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