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CHRIS BARSANTI

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Biography: Chris Barsanti is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and New York Film Critics Online. Currently he is a senior writer for filmcritic.com and has also written for Film Journal International, Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Reader, Minneapolis' City Pages, and Publishers Weekly. The closest thing he has to a real website is: www.chrisbarsanti.blogspot.com.

Publications: Cineman Syndicate, Citysearch, Elites TV, Film Journal International, Film Threat, Filmcritic.com, Hollywood Reporter, MovieWeb, PopMatters, Reel.com, Slant Magazine, ToxicUniverse.com

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

Total Reviews: 543
Total QuickRatings: 42

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Fresh	N/A	The Way We Get By (2009)	" Aron Gaudet's film rages with quiet dignity against the dying of the light." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Afghan Star (2009)	" Although sadly rife with gut-clenching moments as those, Afghan Star is most thrilling when depicting the show's delicately balanced effort to bring Afghans together despite their fractious ethnic and clan boundaries." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" at a time when kids are being pushed to grow up instantly and adults are encouraged to cultivate their arrested development, it makes perfect sense that Michael Bay is waiting for them right in the middle, Happy Meal in hand." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jun 23, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 46%	The Proposal (2009)	" Were it not for the jangly screwball energy ... The Proposal would be just another desperate attempt to jam as many winning formula elements into one graceless package as possible." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jun 18, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Afghan Star (2009)	" While tracking the quartet of finalists in Afghanistan's homegrown "American Idol," Afghan Star powerfully illustrates how the massively popular show has become a referendum on the fragile future of a war-exhausted nation." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 17, 2009
Rotten 5/10	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" A finely pedigreed comic road film that, when all is said and done, is too finely-tooled for the NPR set to have much life left in it." — PopMatters Posted Jun 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" ...sometimes feels like just another link in a chain to nowhere." — PopMatters Posted May 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Moon (2009)	" A sad but clever science-fiction exercise about a man working alone on the Moon, with nothing but a talking computer and tape-recorded calls back to Earth to keep him sane." — Film Journal International Posted May 20, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 62%	The Brothers Bloom (2009)	" burns bright with brilliance before sputtering out in the end" — Filmcritic.com Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" And just think, they haven't gotten to the Klingons yet..." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten 5/10	N/A	Carnival In The Night (1982)	" Like some half-thought-out Japanese gutter-trash take on one of Celine's midnight-express rides to hell..." — PopMatters Posted May 6, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 33%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" The soul shivers at the film's cold beauty." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" both leads are at the top of their game in a story that normally brings out the worst in actors of this caliber" — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 90%	Il Divo (2009)	" Il Divo is as showy as Gomorrah was spare, sometimes taking your breath away with its gutsy leaps of brilliance and sometimes acting like a bratty child desperate for attention." — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Grey Gardens (2008)	" ...never makes a strong case for its necessity." — PopMatters Posted Apr 20, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 92%	Every Little Step (2009)	" essentially the story of people auditioning for a show about auditions" — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 16, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" A loping comedy of displacement that snaps off dozens of easy laughs without breaking a sweat..." — PopMatters Posted Apr 8, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 97%	The Song of Sparrows (2009)	" a greatly satisfying parable of happenstance" — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 2, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 90%	Forbidden Lie$ (2009)	" it's hard not to feel by the end of this film that one is looking into the giggling face of evil." — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 2, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 28%	Fast & Furious (2009)	" Enough is enough" — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 2, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 94%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" the tale of an unlikely friendship, one that reaches across generational and cultural barriers" — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 26, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 75%	The Country Teacher (2009)	" A beautifully shot, would-be-penetrating drama about a closeted teacher in a small Czech village falls victim to a wandering plot and muffled characterizatio" — Film Journal International Posted Mar 23, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 93%	Must Read After My Death (2009)	" A polarizing family secrets drama whose moment of revelation is continually diverted in favor of enticing new fragments of the truth..." — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 66%	Duplicity (2009)	" a dashing and bright entertainment that aims to please without scraping the floor for your approval" — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 19, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 59%	Eleven Minutes (2009)	" ...a more real piece of work than one would expect." — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Two Lovers (2009)	" ...returns the idea of pain, and the threat of bad decisions, to the American film romance." — PopMatters Posted Feb 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 57%	Taken (2009)	" Mill's towering righteousness is just too much for this weak little film, whose only interest is in affirming the white patriarchal prerogative." — PopMatters Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2009)	" *As a kind of Rorschach-blot interpretation of cinema, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema* contains all kinds of wicked fascinations.*" — PopMatters* Posted Jan 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Our Daily Bread (2006)	" A 21st century naked lunch ... an eye-opener that can actually change the way one views the world" — PopMatters Posted Jan 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" ...equal parts Dickensian grotesquery, Horatio Alger striving, '90s arthouse growl, and Bollywood flair." — PopMatters Posted Jan 16, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 84%	Cherry Blossoms (2009)	" A beautiful tissue-paper piece of art that falls to shreds should you so much as blow upon it" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	Gomorra (2008)	Click here to read article — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	Gomorrah (2009)	" A mob film that's as far from the genre's standard operating procedure as could be imagined" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 63%	Che (2008)	" ...an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed." — PopMatters Posted Jan 9, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 77%	Just Another Love Story (2009)	" could have been a perfectly fine B-grade thriller, but Bornedal overestimates his cleverness" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 8, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Generation Kill (2008)	" By the end of these seven episodes, viewers will easily feel that they know and understand each of these very unique men, even if you wouldn't want them within 50 yards of your sister." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 70%	Last Chance Harvey (2008)	" so mild-mannered it only occasionally registers a pulse" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 15%	The Spirit (2008)	" a classic superhero story, with a square-jawed hero who knows how to take a punch and kiss a dame until she's weak in the knees" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" ...a scrupulously-controlled exercise in humiliation and expurgation, where both Aronofsky and Rourke look to cleanse themselves of past excesses with their tale of transcendent pain." — PopMatters Posted Dec 22, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Seven Pounds (2008)	" If there were a way to do a secular passion play, this would be it." — PopMatters Posted Dec 22, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Nothing But the Truth (2008)	" Rod Lurie's crisp take on the Valerie Plame case-with Vera Farmiga standing in for Plame and Kate Beckinsale for Judith Miller-is admirably bluster-free but suffers at times from movie-of-the-week syndrome." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 17, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Let the Right One In (2008)	" ...effectively dark-minded Swedish chiller." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 15, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 88%	The End of America (2008)	" More often than not, though, Wolf makes her points simply and believably" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 14, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 85%	JCVD (2008)	" even with a smart concept and playful humor, JCVD runs out of juice before its conclusion" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 14, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 78%	Doubt (2008)	" *There is precious little doubt in Doubt." — PopMatters* Posted Dec 12, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 62%	The Reader (2008)	" *Without [Kate] Winslet, The Reader* would be just another literary adaptation that got high on its own self-importance.*" — PopMatters* Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh 2.5/5	Fresh 66%	What Doesn't Kill You (2008)	" *Though hardly a failure, What Doesn't Kill You* is in the final measure definitely not what it could have been.*" — Filmcritic.com* Posted Dec 11, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 34%	Adam Resurrected (2008)	" Between Jeff Goldblum's wildly over-mannered performance and the schlocky treatment of serious subject matter, it's hard to know whether to simply dismiss the film or be outraged by it." — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" ...this is the Nixon of history." — PopMatters Posted Dec 5, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 65%	Quantum of Solace (2008)	" ...the plot is just so much noise in the end, somehow both over- and underdone." — PopMatters Posted Nov 21, 2008

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