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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: 1824
Total QuickRatings: 69

Location: Boston, MA

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Fresh A	Fresh 83%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" This charming twist on the classic fairy tale follows the standard Disney outline splendidly, updating itself with self-referential cheekiness and its first African American heroine." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 7, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" Relative newcomer Carey Mulligan makes a huge splash in the title role with a complex performance that balances a sophistication beyond her years (and her upbringing) with the vulnerability of youth." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" The Coens are going for the whole enchilada here - man's search for meaning, the existence of God, pattern and randomness in the Universe, and the essential solitude of the human condition." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 92%	The Way We Get By (2009)	" I can't recall when I last noticed such a lovely and distinct color palette used in a documentary...a poetic reflection on man facing his mortality." — Reeling Reviews Posted Aug 17, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 92%	Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)	" Kempner leaves no stone unturned in giving layers of dimension to Gertrude Berg, who could almost be described as the Eisenstein of sitcom television production...one of the best documentaries of the year in a year crowded with them." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 30, 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 A	Fresh 96%	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 A+	Fresh 98%	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
Fresh A	Fresh 86%	A Christmas Tale (2008)	" ...like a stocking stuffed by the most inventive and mischievous of gift givers." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 13, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 91%	Stranded (2008)	" "Stranded" may be the ultimate tale of survival, but Arijon's film is distinctly spiritual." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 3, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 97%	Let the Right One In (2008)	" The film plays like a lullaby by the Brothers Grimm." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 28, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 92%	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	" This is writer/director Mike Leigh's best film since 1993's "Naked" and, in a sense, its photo negative twin - female centric as opposed to male, light vs. dark, optimistic vs. nihilistic..." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 12, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 86%	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	" Anchored by a revelatory performance by Anne Hathaway as a little-girl-lost hiding behind an abrasive narcissist, "Rachel Getting Married" ... is almost a new form of filmmaking." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 7, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 74%	Elegy (2008)	" ...a haunting testament to the sentiment that we should take love wherever we find it." — Reeling Reviews Posted Aug 6, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 100%	Man On Wire (2008)	" This is a documentary that speaks for itself, so mind-blowing is Petit's feat that words do not do it justice." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 27, 2008
Fresh A+	Fresh 89%	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	" Akin's latest masterwork may...mark him as the man to inherit the mantle of the late, great Krzysztof Kieslowski." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 23, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 80%	In Bruges (2008)	" Writer/director Martin McDonagh has created something tonally unique, a film that is hilarious and tragic, irreverent and wistful, peopled with characters learning to love life with death all around them." — Reeling Reviews Posted Feb 7, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 96%	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	" ...a taut, emotional gut wrench of a film depicting the horrors facing women in tyrannical societies." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jan 20, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 93%	Encounters At the End of the World (2007)	" It is a sublime pleasure to spend time with [Werner Herzog] and "Encounters at the End of the World" is a trip from start to finish." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jun 16, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 96%	Persepolis (2007)	" ...a magical animation, one that presents a universal coming of age story within exotic locales with the simplicity and whimsy of folk art." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 28, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 85%	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	" *Here comes a Christmas musical that is not trying to warm the heart as much as rip it out while it's still beating. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street* is bloody perfect.*" — Reeling Reviews* Posted Dec 20, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 82%	Atonement (2007)	" No sophomore slump for British punk wunderkind director Joe Wright...If anything, Atonement is even better, the tragedy of the story intensifying the romance, the novel's unique structure providing an uncommon literary twist" — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 6, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 93%	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	" Screenwriter Ronald Harwood has cracked a book largely thought unfilmable and director Julian Schnabel working with DP Janusz Kaminski has created a uniquely visual film about one of the most difficult movie subgenres, the biography of an author." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 2, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 88%	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	" The structure is not so much "Rashomon-like" as it is like watching a photo developing with pulse quickening intensity." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 11, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 74%	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)	" ...a quintessential work of the American Western genre. Brad Pitt gives the best performance of his career..." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 6, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	No End in Sight (2007)	" This is the Iraq War documentary that covers all bases...Just listen to the silence of those who refuted Fahrenheit 911." — Reeling Reviews Posted Aug 13, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 95%	12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)	" ...this delightfully deadpan look at the need to believe in our own heroic tendencies is part gentle slapstick, part social satire and wholly humane." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 22, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 100%	Opera Jawa (2006)	" Extraordinary, eerie, exotic and erotic...Opera Jawa is like nothing you have seen before." — Reeling Reviews Posted Aug 19, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 93%	Blame it on Fidel (2006)	" ...simply one of the best films ever from a child's point of view." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 8, 2007
Fresh A	Fresh 93%	The Lives of Others (2006)	" ...while the genre often reflects paranoia, von Donnersmarck succeeds in hammering home how the right to privacy is integral to our human makeup." — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Feb 4, 2007
Fresh A	Rotten 57%	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)	" In adapting the 1985 Patrick S�skind novel, Tykwer has achieved one of those rarities - a film that reads better on screen than on the page." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 26, 2006
Fresh A	Fresh 86%	Jesus Camp (2006)	" *Ewing and Grady have accomplished something of a miracle with Jesus Camp...at once explosive and unbiased." — Reeling Reviews* Posted Sep 24, 2006
Fresh A	Fresh 90%	Half Nelson (2006)	" ...one of the best male performances of the year from Gosling and a breakthrough for its filmmakers and young costar Epps." — Reeling Reviews Posted Aug 26, 2006
Fresh A+	Fresh 93%	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)	" Puiu is playful with his symbolism, as evidenced by his titular character's triple-loaded name, but his really astounding achievement is how he transforms commonplace scenes with shimmering alternate meaning." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 22, 2006
Fresh A	Fresh 88%	Cach� (2005)	" ...without a doubt the most provocative movie of the year." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 22, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 86%	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	" certainly not what most would define as 'queer cinema,' but instead a most contemporary Western, a thing of raw, aching beauty." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 11, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 85%	Pride and Prejudice (2005)	" ...that most unusual of films - one that improves upon its golden age forebear. " — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 10, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 86%	Junebug (2005)	" ...a true American original...a small miracle that marks the emergence of a truly unique new filmmaking team...this entire ensemble just clicks" — Reeling Reviews Posted Aug 3, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 98%	Murderball (2005)	" These handicapped guys are not out to inspire you -- they're out to crush you." — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 7, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 89%	Brothers (2005)	" *...an intelligent, gripping family drama with an exemplary cast. Open Hearts* was a terrific film and Brothers is even better.*" — Reeling Reviews* Posted May 31, 2005
Fresh A+	Fresh 91%	Downfall (2005)	" a spine-chilling experience, a masterpiece of filmmaking and a document which conclusively damns the repetition of its history" — Reeling Reviews Posted Feb 27, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	Nobody Knows (2005)	" ...profoundly moving and bittersweet" — Reeling Reviews Posted Feb 16, 2005
Fresh A	Fresh 88%	House of Flying Daggers (2004)	" lush, poetic and soulful" — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 3, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 99%	Moolaade (2004)	" an astoundingly complex tale of societal discord ... that is fresh and engrossing throughout" — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 23, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 97%	Sideways (2004)	" a sure bet to age like a classic" — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 19, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 87%	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)	" has a pretty similar trajectory to Sam Jones's wonderful "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," but Jones is to Berlinger & Sinofsky as Edward G. Ulmer is to Alfred Hitchcock" — Reeling Reviews Posted Jul 24, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 99%	Twilight Samurai (2004)	" an unconventional look at a bygone way of life. Yoji Yamada has delivered a timeless film, rooted both in past and present. " — Reeling Reviews Posted Apr 25, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 93%	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	" a remembered place can enter someone's living room with a camera pan" — Reeling Reviews Posted Mar 18, 2004
Fresh A	Fresh 96%	The Return (2004)	" Director Andrey Zvyagintsev has a strong visual sense and an ear for unsettling sound that strengthen the feeling of foreboding pervading this psychological mystery" — Reeling Reviews Posted Mar 3, 2004
Fresh A	Rotten 50%	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	" After all the debate about this film...what Gibson has delivered is his own passionate vision." — Reeling Reviews Posted Feb 26, 2004

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