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Bill Gallo

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:: Anchorage Press , City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , Dallas Observer , L.A. Weekly , New Times , Village Voice

Total Reviews:: 148

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33%	Flyboys (2006)	" Among these combatants, you won't find much All Quiet on the Western Front-style despair, and the paths of glory are unsullied by doubt or disillusionment." — Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006
20%	Step Up (2006)	" Fletcher ably blends ballet and hip-hop, but the filming itself is often clumsy, and Tatum's relentless African American impersonation quickly wears out its welcome." — Village Voice Posted Aug 15, 2006
39%	Scoop (2006)	" It not only lacks the verve and energy of Allen's best New York-based work, it feels culturally adrift, like some bewildered tourist trying to read a city map held upside down." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jul 25, 2006
27%	Waist Deep (2006)	" For its ever shifting attitudes toward men, women, and murder, Waist Deep is one of the sloppiest movies ever to reach the screen." — Village Voice Posted Jun 27, 2006
44%	Goal! The Dream Begins (Goal!: The Impossible Dream) (2005)	" Aside from a flirtation with the hot-button immigration issue, this inspirational movie about an underdog soccer player from tough East Los Angeles is pretty standard stuff." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 11, 2006
29%	Silent Hill (2006)	" Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations." — Village Voice Posted May 2, 2006
33%	The Sentinel (2006)	" [The film] has more holes than Bush's war plan and employs less fluent English." — Village Voice Posted Apr 25, 2006
16%	Monster-in-Law (2005)	" Billed as a comedy, this low-wattage sitcom is both ill-tempered and mean-spirited -- not least when it's cracking anti-gay jokes and making snide suggestions about incest." — Dallas Observer Posted May 13, 2005
25%	Dot the I (2003)	" If you find dense, self-conscious mystification decorated with all kinds of fashionable postmodern gimmicks more than a bit annoying, best to look elsewhere." — Dallas Observer Posted Apr 23, 2005
60%	Dust to Glory (2005)	" 94 minutes' worth of mind-numbing repetition, complete with a musical score seemingly lifted from reality TV." — Dallas Observer Posted Apr 9, 2005
33%	You I Love (Ya lyublyu tebya) (2004)	" The whole thing has a dour resolve that undermines its attempts at humor." — Dallas Observer Posted Mar 25, 2005
35%	Imaginary Heroes (2004)	" Whatever kudos go to Harris for the length of his reach tend to be overshadowed by inexperience and enslavement to genre." — Dallas Observer Posted Feb 25, 2005
65%	Coach Carter (2005)	" Not even Jackson's thundering dynamism lifts the drama from mediocrity." — Dallas Observer Posted Jan 14, 2005
18%	After the Sunset (2004)	" The witless inanity of After the Sunset is so numbing that the sole reason for any living creature to sit through it is to marvel at the speed and variety of actress Salma Hayek's costume changes." — Dallas Observer Posted Nov 12, 2004
70%	Criminal (2004)	" It instantly earns a place alongside Jim McBride's pointless American take on Godard's Breathless on Hollywood's long, long shelf of misguided remakes." — Dallas Observer Posted Sep 10, 2004
14%	Without A Paddle (2004)	" Summer movies don't get much sillier or more empty-headed than Without a Paddle." — Dallas Observer Posted Aug 20, 2004
86%	Collateral (2004)	" Cruise has almost nothing going for him this time around in the way of props, and even less than usual in the way of character." — Dallas Observer Posted Aug 6, 2004
44%	Connie And Carla (2004)	" A penny-dreadful imitation of one of Hollywood's most inimitable comedies." — Dallas Observer Posted Apr 16, 2004
47%	Hidalgo (2004)	" Director Joe Johnston ... screenwriter John Fusco ... and God knows who else have packed it with clumsy endorsements of America's current adventures in the Middle East." — Dallas Observer Posted Mar 6, 2004
12%	Against the Ropes (2004)	" Ryan's mannered toughness looks like play-acting, and she never quite convinces us she's seen the inside of a fight gym, much less that she's worthy to be Rocky in a miniskirt." — Dallas Observer Posted Feb 20, 2004
16%	The Big Bounce (2004)	" Elmore Leonard gets another check, but he deserves better, even 35 years after the fact." — Dallas Observer Posted Jan 31, 2004
77%	The Cooler (2003)	" The film might work just fine were it not for that huge lump of sunny, school-play redemption it asks us to swallow." — Dallas Observer Posted Dec 19, 2003
65%	The Last Samurai (2003)	" For 144 endless minutes, director Edward Zwick reduces to big-budget American schlock the ancient warrior codes and thrilling battle sequences that Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese filmmakers brought so vividly to the screen." — Dallas Observer Posted Dec 5, 2003
36%	Radio (2003)	" After enduring this flagrant emotional blitz, you may feel like throwing a penalty flag." — Dallas Observer Posted Oct 24, 2003
61%	Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)	" A virtual case study of Hollywood's irrepressible urge to lower the bar in the hopes of upping the take." — Dallas Observer Posted Sep 27, 2003
48%	S.W.A.T. (2003)	" A thoroughly unremarkable police action movie." — Dallas Observer Posted Aug 9, 2003
62%	Hulk (2003)	" Seems as unhappily divided in its nature as Bruce Banner himself." — Dallas Observer Posted Jun 20, 2003
60%	Little Secrets (2002)	" The shock troops of the Cinema Without Limits army are unlikely to buy many tickets, but those who do will probably see the thing as sanctimonious pabulum -- even for its target audience of adolescents." — Dallas Observer Posted Aug 22, 2002
65%	My Wife Is an Actress (2002)	" Yvan Attal may be happily entangled in his fair Charlotte's web, but he doesn't manage to snare us." — Dallas Observer Posted Jul 11, 2002
44%	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)	" Why has Callie Khouri, a writer who startled men and women alike with her brilliant screenplay for Thelma & Louise, chosen a project this mainstream-safe for her directorial debut?" — New Times Posted Jun 6, 2002
28%	Life or Something Like It (2002)	" A cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial." — New Times Posted Apr 25, 2002
92%	Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)	" Peralta's mythmaking could have used some informed, adult hindsight." — New Times Posted Apr 25, 2002
31%	Murder by Numbers (2002)	" A thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions." — New Times Posted Apr 18, 2002
18%	National Lampoon's Van Wilder (Party Liaison) (2002)	" Merely labeling National Lampoon's Van Wilder 'sophomoric' or 'vulgar' doesn't do justice to the perpetrators' dedication." — New Times Posted Apr 4, 2002
36%	Crush (2002)	" A loquacious and dreary piece of business." — New Times Posted Apr 4, 2002
82%	The Rookie (2002)	" It's a paint-by-numbers job of the worst sort, stuffed with more tired old baseball baloney than Harry Caray and about as dramatic as shagging flies in St. Pete." — New Times Posted Mar 28, 2002
27%	A Walk to Remember (2002)	" Parents wishing to protect their beloved daughters from clich� overload might do well to withhold the old allowance money for a couple of weeks." — New Times Posted Jan 24, 2002
50%	Kate & Leopold (2001)	" Mangold gets stuck in the gooey sweet spots of his tale a little more often than he breaks loose with a bracing jolt of perversity." — New Times Posted Dec 27, 2001
67%	Ali (2001)	" Ali lands a few solid blows, but, sadly, it's no knockout." — New Times Posted Dec 27, 2001
38%	Novocaine (2001)	" It takes a nimble mind to mix light and dark, to wed humor with treachery, and in Novocaine newcomer David Atkins is not always up to the task." — New Times Posted Nov 15, 2001
47%	Life as a House (2001)	" Winkler ... has no qualms about spooning out the sap, and Kline's cloying, mawkish performance ... is likely to make all but the most devoted three-hanky crowd squirm in its seats." — New Times Posted Oct 25, 2001
82%	Innocence (2001)	" Cox once more indulges his unfortunate penchant for explaining the meaning of life." — New Times Posted Aug 30, 2001
29%	Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)	" ...a handful of clich�s." — New Times Posted Aug 16, 2001
12%	Original Sin (2001)	" It quickly plunges us into darkness as far as sense and logic are concerned." — New Times Posted Aug 9, 2001
71%	Made (2001)	" Picture the dopes from Dumb and Dumber getting mixed up in organized crime -- but without benefit of Jim Carrey's rubberized pratfalls or his go-to-hell anarchism." — New Times Posted Jul 12, 2001
11%	Bride of the Wind (2001)	" Alma comes off not as a courageous trailblazer but as an indiscriminate adventuress afflicted with a short attention span." — New Times Posted Jun 7, 2001
78%	Keep the River on Your Right - A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000)	" We get the sneaking suspicion before long that the Shapiros are little more than exploiters in the Jerry Springer mold." — New Times Posted Apr 19, 2001
48%	Vertical Limit (2000)	" Even the most rugged, thrill-hungry disaster movie fans may find themselves going numb." — New Times Posted Dec 7, 2000
46%	Up at the Villa (2000)	" Drenched in overheated romance, decadence, and lightweight political intrigue, Up at the Villa clanks along for almost two hours." — New Times Posted Jan 1, 2000
34%	Woman on Top (2000)	" Everything might come together, too, were it not for terrible writing, marginal acting, some bewildering lapses of logic, and a fatal smugness." — New Times Posted Jan 1, 2000

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