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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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1/4

Rotten
47%

Everybody Says I'm Fine (2006)

" The consequences aren't remotely as comic as they're meant to be." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Sep 2, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
5%

The Perfect Man (2005)

" Repetitious teen-targeted fluff." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 16, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
58%

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

" A mish-mash of action-adventure clichés, book-ended with lame attempts at psychological interest." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 9, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
41%

High Tension (2005)

" Serial killing and other insanity in the French countryside, with ineptly dubbed English dialogue." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 9, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
55%

Madagascar (2005)

" Surprisingly clumsy in its efforts to please young and old alike. A major disappointment." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted May 26, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
31%

The Longest Yard (2005)

" A quickly paced, slickly filmed entertainment that's also as crude and rude as the PG-13 rating will allow." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted May 26, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
66%

Unleashed (2005)

" Luc Besson's screenplay is dumb, but has just enough weird touches to give occasional glimmers of interest." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted May 12, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
16%

Monster-in-Law (2005)

" The comedy is shamelessly stupid and flagrantly vulgar by turns." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted May 12, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
60%

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

" Given the whole cosmos to work with, plus all of Hollywood's high-tech trickery, first-time director Garth Jennings and his collaborators have come up with nothing but a superficial sci-fi romp poking mild fun at human foibles." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 28, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
40%

A Lot Like Love (2005)

" Why don't they just settle down with each other and save us all 107 minutes?" — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 21, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
10%

House of D (2005)

" I'm sorry to report it's the opposite of impressive." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 14, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
43%

Guess Who (2005)

" Serves up such flat dialogue and stilted situations that it's hard to sit through." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Mar 24, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
29%

Be Cool (2005)

" The overlong comedy has few laughs and flirts far too much with racist, homophobic humor. A waste of a fine cast." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Mar 3, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
16%

Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

" Plenty of mad moviegoers will put this in their diaries as one of the worst pictures in ages." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Feb 24, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
7%

Son of the Mask (2005)

" The special effects are ubiquitous but not very special." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Feb 17, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
10%

The Wedding Date (2005)

" This is a wedding date that would have benefited from a different designer, a more knowing caterer, and -- most of all -- a whole new guest list." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Feb 3, 2005

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
63%

New Guy (2005)

" Alas, the movie is less clever than its characters." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Nov 11, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
71%

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

" I hate to sound per-Snickety, but this lemon of a movie is a sadly unfortunate event." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Dec 16, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
16%

Alexander (2004)

" It's astounding that the ingenious creator of JFK and Wall Street could make an epic on war and empire that's so utterly simplistic and unreflective." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Nov 29, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
5%

Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

" It's possible the comedy contains some secret allegory about the Protestant Reformation but its main message is that everyone should believe and behave in exactly the same way. Groupthink wins again!" — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Nov 24, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
26%

Noel (2004)

" Santa Claus's bag couldn't hold as many clichés as the screenplay dishes out." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Nov 11, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
48%

Shall We Dance? (2004)

" The cast is promising, but this remake of the popular Japanese movie falls flat, with more 'sound design' than delicious music, more slick film editing than graceful ballroom gliding." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
15%

Hillside Strangler (2004)

" Sordid and sleazy, although the lead performances are hard to fault." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
26%

Anatomy of Hell (2004)

" Breillat is a smart, serious observer of sexuality's often disruptive role in human life, but this existential drama is sadly pretentious." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Oct 14, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
43%

Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2004)

" Bataille was a serious philosopher as well as a sensation-seeking writer, but you'd never guess his provocative ideas from this updated version." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Sep 23, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
72%

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

" Crass and soulless." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Sep 16, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
80%

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

" Redolent of Saving Private Ryan and We Were Warriors, but almost entirely devoted to combat violence and sentimental interludes." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Sep 2, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
19%

Thunderbirds (2004)

" The action is snappy and quick, but why does this youth-targeted adventure pit white male heroes against a trio of villains comprising a black man, an Asian man, and an ugly woman?" — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 29, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
10%

Catwoman (2004)

" Cartoonish effects and overacting make this more corn than catnip." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 22, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
37%

Touch of Pink (2004)

" Even MacLachlan's surprisingly witty performance can't compensate for the trite screenplay and Mistry's lack of charisma." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 15, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
10%

A Cinderella Story (2004)

" The timeless fairy tale is updated into a cookie-cutter specimen of the teen-girl comedy." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 15, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
15%

Sleepover (2004)

" [Young viewers] may overlook the contrived situations and the awful acting, which consists mainly of frozen grins. Nobody else will." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 8, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
31%

King Arthur (2004)

" Gives us a Round Table and a flashing Excalibur but no magic, no mystery, no mythic resonance." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 8, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
65%

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

" Dumb, dumber, dumberest!" — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jul 8, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
69%

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

" Stiller strives to be a wild and wacky villain, Vaughn endeavors to be a likable and average hero, and both fall flat on their faces, like everything else in this unspeakably stupid comedy." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 17, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
61%

The Terminal (2004)

" One of Spielberg's worst movies." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 17, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
14%

Garfield the Movie (2004)

" The blend of live action and animation is competently done, but the subtly mean-spirited screenplay has more sour meows than hearty laughs." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 10, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
30%

Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

" The screenplay is idiotic." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 10, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
26%

The Stepford Wives (2004)

" The remake transforms Levin's cautionary tale into a confused confection that's too busy snickering over suburban foibles to provoke any thoughts about gender politics, or even about entertaining skirmishes between the sexes." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jun 10, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
22%

Van Helsing (2004)

" This isn't a horror movie, it's a sensory assault, full of flaming fireballs and shrieking banshees that make your eyes and ears feel as jeopardized as a vampire at sunrise." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted May 6, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
18%

Laws of Attraction (2004)

" This sort of legal-eagle premise worked beautifully in the bygone Tracy and Hepburn days, declined when the Coen brothers made Intolerable Cruelty, and hits rock bottom here." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 29, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
5%

Godsend (2004)

" How could such a high-octane cast produce such low-octane horror?" — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 29, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
4%

The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

" Strenuously unfunny." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 8, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
30%

The Alamo (2004)

" It's dull, derivative, and as lifelike as a heap of historical figurines." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Apr 8, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
2%

Twisted (2004)

" If you're in the mood for twisting, save the price of a movie ticket. Stay home and do the dance." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Feb 26, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
23%

Havana Nights (2004)

" As beguiling as a dried-out palm tree." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Feb 26, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
13%

Welcome to Mooseport (2004)

" Hide your welcome mat." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Feb 19, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
44%

50 First Dates (2004)

" 50 First Dates turns a good premise into a romantic comedy that's vulgar, sentimental, and as dumb as the sea creatures the veterinarian hero cares for in a Hawaii aquarium." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Feb 12, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
33%

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

" As soon as I finish writing this review, I'm going to try traveling a few hours in the past. That way, I can improve my life by skipping this movie!" — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jan 22, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
26%

Along Came Polly (2004)

" Aniston is so far above this material she should never, ever have signed on." — Christian Science Monitor

Posted Jan 15, 2004
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