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DAVID STERRITT

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography: David Sterritt has been Film Critic of The Christian Science Monitor, an international daily newspaper, for more than 30 years. As a syndicated writer for the Monitor News Service he has contributed articles on film, theater, and music to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other periodicals. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Film Comment, Cineaste, Variety, American Film, Stagebill, down beat, and other publications. His reviews were heard for many years on Monitor Radio, carried by Public Radio International, and he is a former film critic for All Things Considered on National Public Radio. Television appearances include ABC’s Nightline, the CBS Morning News, PBS’s Cinema, the Discovery Channel’s World Monitor, and programs on CNN, MSNBC, the Fox News Channel, MSG Metro, and CNBC. He is Professor of Theater and Film at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University and a member of the Film Studies Faculty at Columbia University, and he has taught at New York University and the City University of New York. His collected Monitor film criticism is housed by invitation in the Harvard Film Archive at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University. He served for five years on the Selection Committee of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, and is Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, as well as a member of the National Society of Film Critics and other professional organizations. He lectures frequently at museums, universities, film festivals, libraries, cinema clubs, etc. His book "The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible" was published last year by Cambridge University Press, which published his book "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" in 1993. He is also the author of "Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film" (Southern Illinois University Press, 1998) and the editor of "Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews" and "Robert Altman: Interviews," both from University Press of Mississippi. Other recent publications include "From Psychology to Spirit" in the anthology "Jean-Luc Godard’s Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film" from Southern Illinois University Press; "Notes" in the anthology "Meredith Monk" from The Johns Hopkins University Press; essays in the Hitchcock Annual, the Austrian film magazine Blimp, the Columbia University magazine 21st C, the Long Island University journal Ventures in Research, the Canadian journal Mosaic, and (forthcoming) the American journals Wide Angle and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, as well as program essays for the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the San Francisco International Film Festival. He is currently coediting "Terry Gilliam: Interviews"

Publications: Christian Science Monitor, Film Scouts, Senses of Cinema

Critics' Group: National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 1057

Location: New York, NY

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

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Fresh
83%

The Hurricane (1999)

Click here to read article — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 18, 2008

Fresh

Fresh
100%

Dog Star Man (1964)

" A meditation on the individual's place in the universe." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 29, 2008

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
96%

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

" A glistening gem among caper movies." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Mar 3, 2008

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
95%

Band of Outsiders (1964)

" It offers 10 times more pleasures than the average picture." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Mar 3, 2008

Rotten

Fresh
65%

The Outsiders (1983)

" As a movie, it's mediocre. As a clue to Coppola's thinking, it shows he still has things to learn about the relation between technology and expression." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Dec 11, 2007

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N/A

Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma (1997)

Click here to read article — Film Scouts

Posted Nov 17, 2007

Fresh

Rotten
40%

Renaldo and Clara (1978)

" A metonymic sprawl characterizes Renaldo & Clara." — Senses of Cinema

Posted Nov 7, 2007

Fresh

Fresh
82%

Gattaca (1997)

" Intelligent and suspenseful." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 5, 2007

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
98%

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

" It helped alter the course of sci-fi movies by suggesting that intergalactic aliens might not be monsters but friendly, even loving, creatures. This doesn't make it a masterpiece, but it's fun." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 4, 2007

Fresh

Fresh
99%

Metropolis (1927)

" Few movies of any era offer so much varied food for thought, cinematically and politically. Its new restoration is a major motion-picture event." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 19, 2007

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Rotten
44%

Orphans (1997)

Click here to read article — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2006

—

Fresh
73%

A Walk On the Moon (1998)

Click here to read article — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2006

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Rotten
58%

Among Giants (1998)

Click here to read article — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2006

—

Fresh
71%

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Click here to read article — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2006

—

Rotten
51%

Anna and the King (1999)

Click here to read article — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2006

—

Fresh
80%

Set Me Free (1999)

Click here to read article — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2006

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N/A

Dracula (1931)

Click here to read article — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Sep 23, 2006

Rotten
2/4

N/A

Making Grace ()

" Informative, but very slow going." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Sep 8, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
100%

Lustre (2005)

" This modest drama is a touching tribute to the late Argo, a character actor you'll instantly recognize." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 25, 2005

Fresh
A

Fresh
84%

The Future Of Food (2005)

" There's a stunning revelation in almost every scene." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 18, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
97%

The Untold Story of Emmet Louis Till (2005)

" Required viewing for anyone interested in the struggle for American racial equality." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 18, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
88%

Touch the Sound (2006)

" Exquisitely beautiful for the eyes as for the ears." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 11, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
83%

This Divided State (2005)

" Frequently funny, sometimes sad, often electrifying." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 11, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
83%

One Bright Shining Moment (2005)

" The interviews with him are worth the price of admission." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 11, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
94%

The Goebbels Experiment (2005)

" Informative and illuminating." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 11, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
71%

Clean (2006)

" Can a misguided adult start afresh with a new set of values and priorities? This ambitious drama, directed by one of France's most resourceful filmmakers, explores that crucial question in depth and detail." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 11, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Rotten
37%

The Brothers Grimm (2005)

" Gilliam has rarely been more inventive, energetic, or just plain funny." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 11, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
36%

Asylum (2005)

" Patrick McGrath's novel provides a solid and suspenseful story, even if it loses much of its bite in Mackenzie's hands." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 11, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
83%

Young Rebels (2005)

" An eye-opening movie, both socially and politically." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 4, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
84%

2046 (2005)

" Filmed to perfection by the great Christopher Doyle and others." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 4, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
63%

Saint Ralph (2005)

" This deliciously offbeat Canadian comedy gets its charm from marvelous acting and from a screenplay bursting with ideas." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 4, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Rotten
31%

November (2005)

" An ingeniously scripted psychological thriller." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 4, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
75%

Just One Look (2005)

" A romantic kung-fu comedy with a good heart." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 4, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
86%

Junebug (2005)

" This low-key drama is a miracle of mood, atmosphere, and sensitivity." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 4, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
93%

Grizzly Man (2005)

" As revealing about Herzog as about his subject, the movie is brilliant, poetic, and utterly unique." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 4, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Rotten
34%

The Chumscrubber (2005)

" At once dreamily surreal, acutely intelligent, and strikingly tough-minded." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Aug 4, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
35%

Must Love Dogs (2005)

" Must Love Dogs isn't quite a dog, but it's far from an ideal date movie." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 28, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
90%

Tony Takitani (2005)

" The movie's underlying theme is the complex relationship between objects and memories, worked out through a taut, compelling story and superbly understated acting." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 28, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
25%

9 Songs (2005)

" It's always hard to predict what Winterbottom will try next, but this experiment isn't worth repeating, the lively concert scenes notwithstanding." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 28, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
67%

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004)

" The subject and the film clips are great, although the documentary as a whole is a bit gimmicky." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 28, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
100%

The Conformist (1970)

" Trintignant gives a legendary performance." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 28, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
78%

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005)

" The story is winning but the telling, with Dai adapting and directing from his own novel, is too sentimental in the long run." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 28, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
80%

The Aristocrats (2005)

" Mighty monotonous after a while." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 28, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
55%

The Devil's Rejects (2005)

" Horror fans will find what they're looking for." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 21, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
40%

The Island (2005)

" The first half is high-quality science fiction, the rest is a high-tech chase adventure with a gleeful yen for destructive thrills." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 21, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Rotten
59%

Last Days (2005)

" A true American tragedy, directed with skill and conviction." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 21, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
46%

Bad News Bears (2005)

" The coach is certainly an offensive goofball, and the Bears are certainly a pack of hard-to-handle whippersnappers. But the picture's point is that surfaces don't tell the whole story about people, about teams, or about anything." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 21, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
83%

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

" Burton turns out to be the ideal filmmaker for this deliciously bizarre yarn." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 14, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
75%

The Beautiful Country (2005)

" The subject is compelling but the story is very, very slow." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 14, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
68%

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2005)

" Utterly fascinating journey." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 14, 2005
 
 
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