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CHRIS BARSANTI

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

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: 570
Total QuickRatings: 41

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Fresh 4/5	Fresh 70%	The Road (2009)	" delicate and indefinable, with only a thin reed of a story." — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 69%	(Untitled) (2009)	" ...spry and spiky satire..." — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 64%	The End of Poverty? (2009)	" ...uncharacteristically revolutionary among today's issue documentaries, and all the more refreshing for its bluntness." — PopMatters Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" It's like a treehouse for grownups..." — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh 7/10	Fresh 83%	Endgame (2009)	" ...crafts a crackling thriller out of the tangle of crafty maneuvering that ended apartheid." — PopMatters Posted Nov 8, 2009
Rotten 4/10	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" Those who enjoy virtual roller-coaster rides and long falls from high places are encouraged to attend." — PopMatters Posted Nov 8, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 67%	Storm (2009)	" The portrait may be accurate but Schmid's overly muted take on the story hardly does justice to the stark terror and injustice that lies at its core." — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 29, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 16%	Gentlemen Broncos (2009)	" it's all pose, with hardly a laugh in sight" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 29, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 42%	New York, I Love You (2009)	" one more cultural artifact lost in translation" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 100%	Homicide (1991)	" *In Homicide's electric pop of language, Mamet provides a grand kind of stage for the ugly catalyst of jealousy and racial hatred that curdles in just about every character's mind." — PopMatters* DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 13, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 94%	Good Hair (2009)	" A generally superb model of how to make a pop documentary" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" purrs along like a finely-calibrated machine for its first two thirds" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh 7/10	N/A	Punk In London (1978)	" ...an addlebrained and occasionally droning but nevertheless vital window onto a revolt while it's in progress." — PopMatters Posted Sep 24, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 70%	Chelsea on the Rocks (2009)	" often inscrutable but still fresh and surprising" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 24, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 44%	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)	" Krasinski stitches these raw blasts of the subconscious with interludes that exude a pleasing, Woody Allen-esque tone, all fall colors and potent theorizing over white wine" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009)	" This straightforward history lesson casts Daniel Ellsberg and his leaked Pentagon Papers as the first shot in the war that brought down the Nixon regime." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 69%	Paris (2009)	" What with all the fatal accidents, deadly diseases, bar fights, and virtual stalking going on, this could almost be an American film." — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh 7/10	Fresh 77%	It Might Get Loud (2009)	" ...isn't just some vanity piece for boomer rock fans...It asks how music gets made, and occasionally why." — PopMatters Posted Sep 10, 2009
Rotten 4/10	Rotten 56%	9 (2009)	" 9 is a grey and grim thrill ride packed full of kiddie morality lessons and creepy frightenings, as though Steven Spielberg had induced the Brothers Quay to create a summer blockbuster." — PopMatters Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 95%	Crude (2009)	" while Berlinger allows the film to get a little too star-struck, spending less time with the winningly humble patchwork alliance doing the lawsuit's hard work, Crude at least acknowledges the reason behind this shift" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 8, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 84%	The September Issue (2009)	" seems already dated" — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 31, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	We Live in Public (2009)	" ...rough-cut but fascinating." — PopMatters Posted Aug 31, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Tarantino seems to have gotten high on the fumes of his own (admittedly addictive) creation here and just not known when to quit." — PopMatters Posted Aug 21, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" The film threads enough thoughtful commentary into its whirligig media-fractured action plot to mostly make up for its lapses into clich�." — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 13, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 36%	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)	" a so utterly disposable comic-book film that one forgets it before it ends" — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 7, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 85%	Flame & Citron (2008)	" even with all the script's moralizing about the killing of innocents, Madsen still loads up his climax with truckloads of Nazi soldiers and a hail of bullets and grenades" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	I Sell the Dead (2009)	" Glenn McQuaid's microbudgeted debut is a jauntily gothic period spook story." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 29, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	The Way We Get By (2009)	" Aron Gaudet's film rages with quiet dignity against the dying of the light." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 17, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" At what point did the Harry Potter film franchise become a race against repetition?" — PopMatters Posted Jul 15, 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 43%	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
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 89%	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 64%	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 40%	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 91%	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 91%	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 82%	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

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