ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ian Waldron-Mantgani

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IAN WALDRON-MANTGANI

"<B> One of his favourite quotes:</B> "Don't be told about what you want, don't be told about what you need... or there's no future for you." --Johnny Rotten"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Biography: Born in Sligo, Ireland -- also the birthplace of brilliant filmmaker Neil Jordan -- Ian Waldron-Mantgani is the mixed-race son of an Indian-born doctor and Irish-born occupational therapist. He gained access to the internet in 1996 and immediately started posting movie reviews on message boards. After quotes in such publications as the Sunday Times, Ian decided it was time to create his own website. 'The UK Critic' first appeared online at the beginning of 1998, and quickly became Britain's pre-eminent centre of online criticism. On top of schoolwork, sporting activities and personal commitments, Ian reviewed every nationwide release in the year 2000, and continues to update his site weekly with every release of note. He sees the vast majority of films in his own time, with his own money. Despite the lack of monetary compensation, Ian’s reviews are heavily syndicated; he is a DVD reviewer for Apollo Guide, and has in the past served as head critic on CompuServe's UK Entertainment Forum and System Operator for Compuserve’s Empire Magazine forum. Pieces can also be found on entertainmentnutz.com, alltank.com, Reel Talk Movies, GDoggyDog’s Movie Reviews and the rec.arts.movies-reviews newsgroup. Ian makes regular contributions to Ebert’s Movie Answer Man column and provided " of the most amusing entries" to Ebert's witty book of movie cliches "The Bigger Little Movie Glossary". International awards received include four nominations for Online Film Critics Society Member of the Month, and Ian is one of the only British residents in the organisation -- serving the posts of full member, OFCS Mentor, Awards Committee member and Governing Committee member. As of September 2002, Ian has been studying a BA course in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, which has the highest entry requirements of any pure film course in England.

Favorites: Favorite film of all time: 12 Angry Men (1957) Favorite UK cinema releases of 2001: Requiem for a Dream, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Traffic, The Contender, You Can Count on Me, The Pledge, Ghost World, Girlfight, Almost Famous, Quills, Audition, Castaway, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Osmosis Jones, Thirteen Days

Publications: Apollo Guide, ReelTalk Movie Reviews, UK Critic

Total Reviews: 733
Total QuickRatings: 3

Location: Liverpool, UK

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Fresh 4/4	Fresh 84%	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Oct 31, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 61%	The Dreamers (2004)	" It's thrilling." — UK Critic Posted Mar 18, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	" Ultimately this journey has been about the endgame, and now that we're here, we get a shattering sense of all that is at stake." — UK Critic Posted Jan 4, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 85%	Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)	" Has all the coolness and daring and wit through which Tarantino made his name. It delivers what we expected, and packs some shocking punches on top." — UK Critic Posted Oct 17, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 73%	The Matrix Reloaded (2003)	" There are levels on which it works, and levels on which it doesn't, but all of them hold our attention." — UK Critic Posted Jul 6, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 55%	Irreversible (2003)	" Few films are as uncomfortably involving as this one -- the techniques lack subtlety, and could have come off as amateurish, but they pound and build in the way that bad recollections circle in the mind to create queasiness and stress." — UK Critic Posted Feb 23, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	City of God (2003)	" Heartbreaking and savage without being affectedly artsy or lingering. It employs sound and visuals that have a knack for conveying senses of humour, rhythms of days and the auras and values of people." — UK Critic Posted Jan 19, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Adaptation (2002)	" Gets thoughts and sentences rushing down the hallways of the mind, screaming at each other to get past." — UK Critic Posted Mar 16, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 81%	The Hours (2002)	" It captures the feeling of a long, forgiving gaze." — UK Critic Posted Feb 23, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Catch Me If You Can (2002)	" This movie got me grinning. There's a part of us that cannot help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something." — UK Critic Posted Feb 9, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Bowling for Columbine (2002)	" It could change America, not only because it is full of necessary discussion points, but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment." — UK Critic Posted Dec 10, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 82%	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)	" I stopped thinking about how good it all was, and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations, thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled, feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness, gasping at its visual delights." — UK Critic Posted Nov 26, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 77%	Changing Lanes (2002)	" One of the best films I have ever seen, constantly pulling the rug from underneath us, seeing things from new sides, plunging deeper, getting more intense." — UK Critic Posted Nov 5, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 74%	Signs (2002)	" The work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them. Strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency." — UK Critic Posted Oct 6, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 74%	Frailty (2002)	" This film is a thinking outside of the box, an answer to viewers who think we can convince ourselves of what not to expect." — UK Critic Posted Oct 6, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Spider-Man (2002)	" A review threatens to turn into a session of gushing because the film is that type of experience; watching it, I kept wanting to applaud." — UK Critic Posted Jun 17, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)	" A wonderful, forgiving movie -- one that understands how desire sometimes sidetracks us, because that's the way nature works" — UK Critic Posted Apr 22, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Lantana (2001)	" It makes thoughts and emotional webs run wild in our heads, and leaves us unsure of how to describe them, simply by focusing on the complexity of people." — UK Critic Posted Sep 9, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 76%	Tape (2001)	" The screenplay features nothing but talk, but this is one of the most tightly wound films of the year." — UK Critic Posted Jul 24, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 85%	Monster's Ball (2001)	" A great film. Considers genuine personalities and extreme feelings, and lingers in the mind, holding some kind of spell over us long after it has ended." — UK Critic Posted Jun 10, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 79%	Waking Life (2001)	" Groundbreaking filmmaking techniques and otherworldly rhythm... liberating, dreamy, joyous." — UK Critic Posted May 14, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	In the Bedroom (2001)	" Tremendously powerful... emotions below the surface are made devastatingly clear" — UK Critic Posted Mar 17, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 51%	Bully (2001)	" Joins the list of great American films about killing" — UK Critic Posted Mar 10, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 78%	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)	" A wondrous achievement whose life, wit and vision made me grin" — UK Critic Posted Feb 17, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	Girlfight (2000)	" One of the best films of the year." — UK Critic Posted Jul 16, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 95%	You Can Count on Me (2000)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jun 4, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 80%	Requiem for a Dream (2000)	" You can't walk out of this movie. If you want to leave, you'll run." — UK Critic Posted Feb 12, 2001
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 81%	Wonder Boys (2000)	" Mess is excruciating to experience and hilarious to watch." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 87%	The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 92%	High Fidelity (2000)	" This is a wonderful movie about real people, real problems and real fixations, that beautifully captures the texture of alternative culture." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 85%	The Blair Witch Project (1999)	" It's beautifully conceived, brilliantly constructed, and, like the villain herself, spellbinding." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 78%	Eyes Wide Shut (1999)	" Every moment holds our attention, as the outwardly inviting turns dangerous and the outwardly sinister is revealed to be rather innocent." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 87%	Felicia's Journey (1999)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 80%	Fight Club (1999)	" The cool charisma of Norton and Pitt is ... vital in seducing us, and both actors carry themselves confidently while speaking their dialogue with tough, throaty assurance." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 94%	The Filth and the Fury (1999)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 83%	Magnolia (1999)	" The sins of fathers, sons and lovers come pouring onto the audience in a torrent of stifling intensity." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 92%	Run Lola Run (1999)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 82%	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)	" Then there is Damon, who struts with force and confidence when pretending to be Dickie, but plays Tom as someone constantly faking a nervous and plain front." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 85%	Little Voice (1998)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 86%	Pleasantville (1998)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 70%	Return to Paradise (1998)	" The plot carries surprises right up until the last, but with no cheap shocks or selling out, only painful inevitabilities." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 93%	Shakespeare in Love (1998)	" Shakespeare in Love is a wonder to behold, and to cherish." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 95%	The Truman Show (1998)	" It is one of the best films ever made about the dangers of mass-media..." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 79%	The Butcher Boy (1997)	" This potentially disturbing film is handled as a crazy, unstoppable black comedy." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 97%	Good Will Hunting (1997)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 88%	In the Company of Men (1997)	" LaBute's film is not easy to watch, deal with or understand. But its effect is unmistakable." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 83%	Titanic (1997)	" The best film of its genre ever made." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	Boogie Nights (1997)	" Like a version of "GoodFellas" where everybody can trust each other." — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Rotten 59%	Strange Days (1995)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 59%	Basic Instinct (1992)	" Could we be ready to stop snickering about it and admit to its status as a modern classic?" — UK Critic Posted Feb 16, 2003

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