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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
MARK HOLCOMB
PUBLICATION(S)
• Las Vegas Weekly
• Time Out
• Time Out New York
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 170


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5/6 Iraq in Fragments
4/6 Crossing the Line
3/6 Blood and Chocolate
2/6 Blood Diamond
1/5 Running with Scissors
1/6 Because I Said So
 
 
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1/6 Into the Wild
1/6 Because I Said So
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

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2/6
 
"No amount of lingering shots of nature’s rich pageant can make up for its lack of human involvement." -- Time Out New York
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Before the Rains (2008)50%
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4/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Refusenik (2008)100%
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5/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted May 2, 2008
 
The Unforeseen (2007)85%
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4/6
 
"Just in time for China’s (sometimes warranted) resurgence in the press as global bogeyman, Arthur Dong’s survey of Chinese-Americans’ prickly relationship with Hollywood is a fascinating exploration of the intricacies of cultural assimilation." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)100%
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2/6
 
"Grafting moral uplift on to a slapstick caper with mixed results, this nevertheless captures some of the giddy eccentricity of the Ealing comedies it haphazardly resembles." -- Time Out
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)15%
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4/6
 
"Despite its charged historical backdrop, [director] Luchetti keeps My Brother light and snappy without sacrificing narrative tension." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
My Brother is an Only Child (2008)89%
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3/6
 
"Donaldson builds enough tension and draws enough humor from the situation to cover such lapses." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)78%
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4/6
 
"By accentuating the humor and humanity of people stuck in desperate circumstances instead of fetishizing the violence that surrounds them, City of Men serves as a belated corrective to its predecessor." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
City of Men (2008)77%
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3/6
 
"What more could one ask of a nostalgia trip?" -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)53%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2007)60%
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3/6
 
"Thankfully, the clarity of the impressions the actors vocalize withstands the gimmickry." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Nanking (2007)97%
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3/6
 
"An effective, surprisingly controlled psychological thriller. All that’s required to fully enjoy it is a cast-iron stomach for gore and a pitch-black view of human nature." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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4/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Primo Levi's Journey (2007)84%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Trade (2007)27%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
Meeting Resistance (2007)75%
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2/6
 
"All the film seems capable of proving is that performance art makes a dubious vehicle for social change, and sustaining a joke past its breaking point is no less stultifying in the service of good." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)65%
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4/6
 
"Goran Dukic's Shaggy yet assured Wristcutters manages to draw humor and warmth from [its] premise, while finding pathos in what could’ve been a vapid, high-concept lark." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)66%
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3/6
 
"The Condemned sprays its fury wide: media manipulators, political opportunists and technology-pacified couch potatoes are among the collaterally damaged. Paying audiences don’t get off so easy either." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
The Condemned (2007)15%
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3/6
 
"Its running time painfully accentuates the premise’s thinness." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)48%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2007)72%
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1/6
 
"Penn’s entitled to his reading of McCandless’s story, of course, but envisioning it as a Stations of the Cross with a backpack is bizarre and disrespectful." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
Into the Wild (2007)83%
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3/6
 
"Weirdly captivating." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
King of California (2007)64%
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3/6
 
"It’s hard to shake the impression that this movie has the sort of penny-pinching authenticity Quentin Tarantino’s been trying for his entire career." -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Illegal Tender (2007)13%
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3/6
 
"Proof positive that life’s mundanities are even more tedious projected onto a movie screen." -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Quiet City (2007)83%
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3/6
 
"Oz does a decent job of building up to Death’s big laughs." -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Death at a Funeral (2007)62%
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4/6
 
"Blitz gets too much mileage out of a pair of kooky (or kookily) Korean neighbors, but even that’s mitigated by his unapologetic affection for the movie’s cast of misfits, all of whom are somehow beautiful in their irredeemable f---ed-upness." -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 9, 2007
 
Rocket Science (2007)84%
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4/6
 
"With a brisk narrative that blends intrigue, tension, pathos and humor, Anthony Giacchino’s absorbing look back at a New Jersey antiwar group’s early-’70s arrest and trial is closer to living history than dry, academic harangue." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 26, 2007
 
The Camden 28 (2007)88%
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"The film loses some of its sting once the race narrows, but its outcome and the politically, emotionally astute fade-out are suitably devastating." -- Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
The Method (2005)71%
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4/6
 
"[A] harrowing first-person doc, which is as brazen in its call for military intervention as it is aesthetically accomplished." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
The Devil Came On Horseback (2007)98%
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3/6
 
"The story’s grasping, eager-to-displease setup never establishes enough depth to be fully engaging, let alone metaphorically significant -- and why else make a movie about a psychotic kicking hooch in order to be a better killer?" -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 23, 2007
 
You Kill Me (2007)79%
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4/6
 
"What the film mercilessly captures that his possibly too-lovely photos only imply is the stunning degree to which poor countries have become the source and cesspit for the West’s addiction to consumer crap." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 23, 2007
 
Manufactured Landscapes (2007)84%
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5/6
 
"Director Olivier Meyrou takes a potently oblique vérité approach, and his remarkable level of access reveals the limitations and equivocal mercies of human understanding with uncommon grace." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 16, 2007
 
Beyond Hatred (2005)89%
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4/6
 
"Director Davis Guggenheim’s signature combination of emotional restraint and earthy visuals gives Gracie an unexpected grandeur." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 2, 2007
 
Gracie (2007)59%
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4/6
 
"Here’s something satisfying: ’70s-cinema fetishism with the courage of its convictions." -- Time Out New York
Posted May 19, 2007
 
The Wendell Baker Story (2007)44%
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4/6
 
"The film’s pace lags toward the end, but its grasp of manufactured fear’s dreary pervasiveness never falters." -- Time Out New York
Posted May 5, 2007
 
Civic Duty (2007)56%
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2/6
 
"As hangdog and hammy as its leading man, this extra-thick slice of Canadian tragedy porn subsists on contrivances from other movies." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 28, 2007
 
Snow Cake (2007)65%
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4/6
 
"The effect is spirited rather than incriminating and, bolstered by Jonah Rapino’s contemplative score, as piercingly detailed as one of Alice’s mesmerizing portraits." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 21, 2007
 
Alice Neel (2007)63%
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2/6
 
"Airlessly insidery and only sporadically funny ..." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 7, 2007
 
The TV Set (2007)64%
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3/6
 
"It’s an impressive moving wax museum, certainly, but even metatextual follies eventually need a pulse." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 31, 2007
 
Color Me Kubrick (2007)52%
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2/6
 
"Not so much formulaic as elemental, this campy, would-be-inspirational jock weepy scrapes the barrel for life-lesson-imparting sports to exploit." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 24, 2007
 
Pride (2007)46%
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4/6
 
"The type of crazed, folkloric epic that Germany’s own De Niro–Scorsese duo usually excelled at." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 24, 2007
 
Cobra Verde (1987)86%
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3/6
 
"By dodging cultural and political specifics in favor of a thriller-lite framework Beyond the Gates ends up serving largely as a tribute to the virtues of hindsight." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 17, 2007
 
Beyond the Gates (2007)82%
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5/6
 
"[A] scary-funny romp." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 10, 2007
 
The Host (2007)92%
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4/6
 
"Delightfully outrageous, Black Snake Moan is an explosive mixture of sex, race and down-South swamp water." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 3, 2007
 
Black Snake Moan (2007)66%
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3/6
 
"Though the subject matter is original, and these young soldiers portrayed with great sympathy, Close to Home would have benefited from more disciplined storytelling." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 24, 2007
 
Close to Home (2007)67%
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4/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 17, 2007
 
Days of Glory (1944)50%
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5/6
 
"By turns tender and shocking, Iraq in Fragments strikes a rare balance between impromptu fluidity and feature-film narrative control, in the process resisting both partisanship and predigested points of view." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 17, 2007
 
Iraq in Fragments (2006)92%
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3/6
 
"Cheap special effects and banal dialogue rule." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2007
 
Blood and Chocolate (2007)9%
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1/6
 
"Everyone here is a caricature, and the gaps are papered over with hyperactive shtick. I haven't seen so many cakes dropped or smashed since I Love Lucy." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2007
 
Because I Said So (2007)5%
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2/6
 
"Minghella has drawn intimate love stories from supernatural fantasies and widescreen epics, but not even he can turn sappy corn into social commentary." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
Breaking and Entering (2007)33%

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