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ED GONZALEZ

""Scooby Doo can do do but Sartre is smartra."--Homer Simpson"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography: Ed Gonzalez is a freelance writer working out of New York City, or thereabouts. A graduate of NYU, he worked for Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, and O Magazine before turning to film criticism. His writing has appeared in City Pages, Gay City News, and The Village Voice. He currently serves time as Film Editor and Senior Film Writer at Slant Magazine and Contributing Film Editor at PLANETº. Ed is also a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the New York Film Critics Online.

Publications: Apollo Guide, City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul, House Next Door, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Slant Magazine, Village Voice

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews: 2553

Location: Weehawken, NJ

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Fresh 4/4	Fresh 71%	Inland Empire (2006)	" *The Atlas Shrugged* of narrative avant-garde films, compulsively watchable and insanely self-devouring.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Oct 2, 2006
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 86%	L'Enfant (2006)	" A miracle." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 20, 2005
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 95%	The Best of Youth (2005)	" This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 5, 2006
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 61%	The New World (2005)	" The exquisiteness of The New World and how it reveals itself to its audience is flabbergasting...like a heretofore unknown cave painting impeccably preserved except for a few spots here and there eroded by time and nature." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 16, 2005
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 89%	Bad Education (2004)	" Almodóvar’s canvas—like that of another hot-blooded drama queen, Federico García Lorca—is one of uncensored emotion and pure energy." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 44%	Twentynine Palms (2004)	" *Dumont is clearly fascinated by America’s wide-open spaces, and much of Twentynine Palms* is a love poem to the way we look at the world.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Feb 27, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 77%	Big Fish (2003)	" Big Fish is love and death, Burton style." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 23, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 69%	The Company (2003)	" This elegant movement in still life unravels as a profound metaphor for both the filmmaking process and life itself." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 17, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 87%	Mystic River (2003)	" A somber evocation of a poor, close-knit section of Boston on the brink of moral collapse." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 1, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 71%	Dogville (2003)	" This acerbic “illustration” of a small town’s curious notions of entitlement unspools as a Christian allegory by way of Mark Twain or Dr. Seuss." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 27, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	Millennium Actress (2003)	" *Behold Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon’s anime answer to Mulholland Drive." — Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 4, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 60%	Gerry (2003)	" Not since his first film, Mala Noche, has Van Sant produced a film so pure, uncompromising and ravishing to watch." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 17, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 85%	Spider (2003)	" The film's grayish mise-en-scene evokes the texture of a spider web, and the film's characters appear to hang from that web." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 27, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Balseros (2002)	" The filmmakers truly understand the symbolic struggle of Cubans trying to escape their island home’s political and economic suppression." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 23, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Far From Heaven (2002)	" This remarkable film's final shot evokes a changing season and perhaps a changing cultural tide." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 80%	Sunshine State (2002)	" Sayles continues exactly where Faulkner left off, tackling the institutionalized racism that seethes in the New South." — Slant Magazine Posted May 30, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 84%	What Time Is It There? (2002)	" *Tsai Ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-being." — Slant Magazine* Posted Aug 31, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	" Jackson's flights of fantasy bow before Tokien and are quite unlike anything you are likely to ever see on film." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 83%	Little Otik (2001)	" The most deadpan piece of pop art this side of "The Simpsons."" — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 6, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 79%	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)	" Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums unfolds like a regal fairy tale." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 4, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 84%	Donnie Darko (2001)	" An apocalyptic sweat chamber nervously situated between complacency and heartbreaking could-have-been hopefulness." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 23, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)	" Tarr's precise yet effortless command for the long take is so transcendent it suggests the presence of God." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 79%	Waking Life (2001)	" Whether it's a product of stoic contemplation or reefer madness, Linklater's waking life becomes an elusive, one-way vehicle to God." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 72%	Fat Girl (2001)	" Catherine Breillat's vision is so deceptively tranquil that love becomes indistinguishable from rape." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 81%	Mulholland Dr. (2001)	" A haunting, selfish, difficult masterpiece that literalizes the theory of surrealism as perpetual dream state." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	Children Underground (2001)	" Edet Belzberg's heart-breaking documentary transcends exploit by subtly indicting the homeless plight of Romanian youth on Ceausescu's ignorant legacy." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 6, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Together (2001)	" Lukas Moodysson's hysterical, timeless piece of hippie lore looks for that happy gray area between capitalism and Marxism." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)	" Apocalypse Now is a frenzied, free-based ode to the grieving soldier and his need-to-numb." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Ghost World (2001)	" An ironic, humorous, painful and never pandering account of the ghostly nature that accompanies loss, hurt, regret, love and, ultimately, memory itself." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 17, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	Under the Sand (2001)	" Rampling continues to reinvent sexual desire." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	In the Mood for Love (2001)	" Wong Kar Wai's latest masterpiece is an erotic and visually stunning meditation on the confines of love." — Slant Magazine Posted May 2, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 79%	Platform (2000)	" A laconic portrait of a remote Chinese city in arrested development." — Slant Magazine Posted May 23, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 81%	The House of Mirth (2000)	" Besides his remarkable ability to render a profound sense of past in all his films, Davies can uncannily map out the emotions of his characters via his mise-en-scene." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 81%	George Washington (2000)	" George Washington is the closest thing we have to William Faulkner on screen" — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Yi Yi (2000)	" A humanistic masterwork." — Slant Magazine Posted May 2, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Run Lola Run (1999)	" Run Lola Run could very well be the punchiest piece of concept art to ever hit the silver screen, a shock-dose of German existential cinema you can ride." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Being John Malkovich (1999)	" *Ribald Kafkaesque romp Being John Malkovich* contemplates the nature of sexual identity and celebrity with a surrealist shtick that owes plenty to Buñuel and Svankmajer.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Aug 17, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 98%	All About My Mother (1999)	" Pedro Almodóvar's best film to date, a heart-breaking paean to femininity, the maternal instinct and the thirst for drama." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 17, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 77%	The Virgin Suicides (1999)	" Coppola's adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's novel is both tender and devastating." — Slant Magazine Posted May 2, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 78%	Beau Travail (1999)	" Beau Travail is an allegorical tale of revenge and jealousy set within a French Foreign Legion outpost in Africa." — Slant Magazine Posted May 2, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 83%	Underground (1995)	" *Emir Kusturica’s tragic-farce Underground* may be the most important film of the last 25 years.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Dec 21, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	Hard Boiled (1992)	" A master stylist, Woo is similarly brilliant at examining the moral and social hierarchies of his patriarchal crime worlds." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 27, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 100%	Husbands and Wives (1992)	" *Ten years ago, Husbands and Wives* played second fiddle to Woody Allen's all-media split with Mia Farrow.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 28, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 53%	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)	" Fabulously color-coded to resemble a dream world, a purgatory consumed by the sadness of blues and the terror of reds." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 1, 2002
Fresh 4/4	N/A	A Brighter Summer Day (1991)	" A Brighter Summer Day is itself in color, but it may as well be monochrome." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 83%	Opera (1991)	" *Argento's Opera* is a film of rare beauty, a celebration of love's absence and the ferocious force of the gaze.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Dec 4, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Close-Up (1990)	" Close Up is still the definitive film-on-film commentary." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 4, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 86%	Yeelen (1987)	" It’s a sign of true genius that a director can summon the rise, fall and subsequent rebirth of the cosmos with such a profound understanding and respect for the shape of things." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 21, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Blue Velvet (1986)	" David Lynch's mise en scene screams "Leave it to Beaver."" — Slant Magazine Posted May 27, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 100%	Shoah (1985)	" Lanzmann builds the past using tools that exist only in the present, summoning an unfathomable catastrophe with the voices and memories of survivors." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2003

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