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PRAIRIE MILLER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Biography: Prairie graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University and is the mother of twin sons. She is a multimedia journalist online, and in print and radio. She has written articles and poems here and internationally, and aspires always to the excavation of the lyrical muse in journalism and the poetry in history. Prairie also has two published poetry collections, including Arguments With America (Pemmican Press), and Legends (John Brown Press).

Publications: Access Interviews, AfroGotham, Arizona Reporter, Baret News, Black Fem Lens, Cineman Syndicate, Counterpunch.org, Critical Women, DVDivas, filmgazette.com, Flicks.com, International News Service, Kid Surfer, Long Island Press, NewsBlaze, NY Rock, Orange County News, Playboy Online, Reelrave, Student Operated Press, The Takeaway, Toronto-Franco.com, WBAI Radio, WBAI Web Radio, World Socialist Web Site, ZZN Magazine

Critics' Group: Broadcast Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews: 3280

Location: New York

MOVIE REVIEWS ONLY

Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Rotten	Rotten 26%	Pandorum (2009)	" Veering between alarmist adventure on other planets and assault on viewer senses here at home, the claustrophobic cinematic terrorism seems to come awfully close to wielding a movie as a deadly weapon up on the screen." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Up in the Air (2009)	" This sharply honed script doesn't mince words, while sticking it to Clooney's corporate hitman. Along with the genius move of hiring real people who've been fired, proving that you don't have to be an actor to dazzle and devastate audiences in a movie." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 28, 2009
Fresh	N/A	According to Greta (2009)	" Small screen hottie Hilary Duff moves on from her kid celebrity roots carved out on Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, to not exactly Juno looking for lust here, but excelling in a vocal talent for snotty teen talk that's as anti-grownup as can be." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 25, 2009
Fresh	N/A	According to Greta (2010)	" Small screen hottie Hilary Duff moves on from her kid celebrity roots carved out on Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, to not exactly Juno looking for lust here, but excelling in a vocal talent for snotty teen talk that's as anti-grownup as can be." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Crazy Heart (2009)	" Bridges perfects that wasted hayseed persona growl here and in Open Road this year. But oh, how Jeff and Maggie get those erotic, flirty sparks to fly between them, anyway." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 24, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 50%	It's Complicated (2009)	" Metaphorically smacking around Hoffman's wimpy priest last year as a shrewish nun in Doubt, and dishing out directives for married bliss as ditzy Julia Child, Streep takes on aging starter wife exploitation with lighthearted vengeance in It's Complicated." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 70%	Sherlock Holmes (2009)	" Guy's flaky Sherlock on acid slapstick yarn mixes the mystical and macabre, with its own insane inner logic that might be a headscratcher even for Holmes. So best to just savor Downey's cartoonish conspiracy theorist and Victorian busybody gumshoe." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Avatar (2009)	" A born again, freshly buffed wheelchair warrior turned unwitting capitalist tool in league with a digitalized free spirit princess, takes on forest foreclosure and the military industrial complex, in this breathtaking futuristic identity theft odyssey." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 21, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 74%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" Victoria's Secrets: Octomom plus one party animal who wears the pants, or rather crown in the family, and later for Charles Dickens." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 4%	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)	" Conscientiously creepy, but with a finale just too rushed to correlate with what preceded before. Though Metcalfe isn't bad, in commanding viewer attention as well as he does his tool in Desperate's random bulked for booty, housewife gardens." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 20, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 14%	Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)	" Intimates crime as the ultimate aphrodisiac, when it comes to rekindling doomed conjugal bliss. Move over, Viagra and sex toys." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Humble Pie (2009)	" Emotional eating meets minimum wage blues, miraculously pulling off being outrageously hilarious while always remaining respectful of its persecuted portly protagonist, as it burrows into the heart and soul of small town dreams and big appetites." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 19, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 79%	A Woman in Berlin (2008)	" The suffering of these Berlin women, however tragic, is decontextualized from the infinitely greater crimes against humanity's millions by Germany at the time, which in fact was responsible for their fate." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 18, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" A kind of 'Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb' - but for real, this movie ain't kidding. Hurt Locker: War means never having to say you're sorry." — NewsBlaze Posted Dec 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Gigante (2009)	" Giddy guardian angel or sulking scary sicko? The director keeps audiences on their collective toes and guessing, for the continually surprising and deliciously quirky duration." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 38%	My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)	" Both baffling and mystifying, the film details a descent into madness with God in a boombox, worshipped oatmeal boxes, and the designated lunatic's proclaimed mantra, minus reference to any white whale though flamingos may be implicated, as Call Me Farouk" — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 26, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 46%	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" The ironically titled Everybody's Fine, a remake of the whimsical Italian weepie, boasts tenderly crafted geriatric redemption, along with seasoned actor De Niro likewise maturing down a more quietly contemplative and introspective path." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 26, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Narrows (2009)	" A slice of life mobster tale about bottom feeder Bay Ridge Brooklyn hustlers in the shadow of the Verrazano Bridge, The Narrows manages to be both lyrical and brutal." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 25, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 27%	The Narrows (2009)	" A slice of life mobster tale about bottom feeder Bay Ridge Brooklyn hustlers in the shadow of the Verrazano Bridge, The Narrows manages to be both lyrical and brutal." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 25, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Ferocious werewolves suppressing their inner humans, up to no good undocumented undead illegally crossing borders for no reason than as possible filler, and sexy vampires that make panting girl hearts flutter and swoon across America." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 31%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" Dumb and dumber German troops, homicidal hotties into doing laundry, creative enemy amputations without benefit of anesthesia, and martial arts hostile takeover of big bucks bank accounts that could have gone the less frenzied route of identity theft." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 23, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 72%	The Blind Side (2009)	" While terrorism thrillers may be high on Hollywood's to-do list lately, movies about escape from the rumored terrors of ghetto life by unusually large people, may not be far behind." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 23, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" Emmerich doesn't mess around when intent on messing up the world for good. But his pop apocalypse multiplying man's worst fears, always goes down easy with a side order of popcorn. Apocalypse Wow." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" If you're wondering just how bad a bad lieutenant can be, let's just say that Nicolas Cage's 21st century re-incarnation of Abel Ferrara's original 1992 cult version, to say the least, renders Harvey Keitel's bad apple psycho cop a saint in comparison." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 14, 2009
Fresh	N/A	How to Be (2009)	" A kind of problem child with whiskers bitten by love in this delayed coming of age family dyfunction outing, Pattinson impresses with his broad range, while doing daffy and despair at the same time." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh	N/A	How to Be (2008)	" A kind of problem child with whiskers bitten by love in this delayed coming of age family dyfunction outing, Pattinson impresses with his broad range, while doing daffy and despair at the same time." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Christmas Clause (2009)	" Not quite a preachy family values yarn that is totally soured on lawyer moms in the workplace, the movie does make a case for fulfillment on both scores in, well, a fairly even-handed split verdict." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	The Messenger (2009)	" This richly conceived powerhouse drama about life and death is ultimately about the search for a sense of family, whether in peace or war, and what binds humans together despite the most unendurable horrors at hand." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 7, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 63%	New World Order (2009)	" New World Order essentially offers nothing 'new' on the topic, nor displays any concrete 'order' in structuring its haphazard collage of hit and run gotcha moments." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 7, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" This Carol has a worse identity crisis than Scrooge. Clinging to the novel, the film tries to break out of its insular theatrics to propel Scrooge and his supernatural helpmates into outer space, as if in takeoff into a different sci-fi comic book movie." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 3, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 91%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" Baby Mama Dearest minus the coat hangers and Hollywood mansion, this bad parenting horror movie boasts exceptional performances, but is social pornography at its worst, festering in racial self-loathing and oblivious to a system that ignores its neediest." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 2, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 27%	Splinterheads (2009)	" Boasts loads of playful characters, kooky conversations and gorgeous visuals in the suburban wilds to spare. Not to mention the reputed oldest man in the world, Frankie Faison as unlikely boy toy, and a crazed cop with the pathological hots for Mom." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 2, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Luxury Car (2006)	" Among the crop of new market economy cinema in China, that tends to dwell not only on the journey across life, but through a damaged and baffling world as well." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 1, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Luxury Car (2009)	" Among the crop of new market economy cinema in China, that tends to dwell not only on the journey across life, but through a damaged and baffling world as well." — NewsBlaze Posted Nov 1, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 15%	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)	" A bimbo pride teen comedy whose cheerleader girl entourage of shallow sexpots gets enlightened too, about how 'useful' and even entertaining smart geeks with tons of brainy information to spare can be, even if totally lacking in hunk appeal." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)	" There's an eerie sense that Jackson is directing from beyond the grave, when not impersonating himself mimicking romance or lust on stage. While the title intimates a prophetic double meaning, as the chronicle of a singular life, and its abrupt farewell." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 87%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" An old school vintage terror yarn that comprehends how horror rules when simmering to a slow boil percolating in its own solidly crafted narrative juices, as opposed to a kneejerk reaction slice 'em up overcooked brew." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" Serving up a cartoonish vampire du jour, Cirque Du Freak aims for a defanged preteen-friendly middle ground between hip and undead creepy. There are glimpses into vampire culture, like the art of flitting, which seems to be akin to let's boogie, man." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 24, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 45%	Saw VI (2009)	" Revenge of the uninsured in this health insurance horror, and we're not talking medical malpractice. While death panels and death penalties alike abound in this surgical slasher spree without benefit of anesthesia, and that goes for the audience too." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 14%	Stan Helsing (2009)	" Concocting a Halloween season brew of grossout and gentle gore, Stan Helsing doesn't let its derivative horror get in the way of over the top humor served up spicy and raw." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Dark Country (2009)	" Thomas Jane punishes himself as both director and star, in this erotically charged, paranormal noir hallucinatory honeymoon horror Nevada desert road movie. Not to mention that what happens in Vegas in no way stays in Vegas for its unfortunate characters." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 11, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Oral Fixation (2009)	" Ranging from surreal to silly, there's a talking dirty phone-in with machete between the toes as psycho sex toy, and egghead daddy doubles fantasy. Though the movie does give wild warped new meaning to violation of the doctor/patient relationship." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Good Hair (2010)	" A wise and wacky dye-laughing doc about black female high maintenance hair that is no laughing matter, the movie finds a PG-13 Rock channeling Michael Moore, while nearly tumbling into a jumbo vat of processor goo." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 5, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 56%	Assassination of a High School President (2008)	" Superbad meets grossout noir, boasting tangy teen dirty talk so thick, you could cut it with a well sharpened pencil. Which by the way, somebody does more than once." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" A zany Night Of The Living Dead road movie zom-edy with unusually high speed undead tending to give the best odds to survival of the thinnest, Zombieland is likewise reborn as a horror concept, as it retools the genre as both freaky and devilishly cool." — NewsBlaze Posted Oct 4, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	The Burning Plain (2009)	" This undocumented north of the border crossing in reverse romantic drama, likewise crosses borders in a kind of Americanization of the telenovela, with mixed results." — NewsBlaze Posted Sep 27, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 89%	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	" The film's verdict is that Polanski is too distinguished to persecute by placing him in a prison among, well, criminals. Wanted And Desired: A premeditated act of propaganda in the service of exoneration with a creative genius defense, instead of remorse." — NewsBlaze Posted Sep 27, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Stock Shock (2009)	" Billions of stocks were sold that never existed, under cover of the lightning speed of the Internet. The film further unravels a sinister incestuous web of Wall Street, government, the media and their investor advertising interests, and organized crime." — NewsBlaze Posted Sep 26, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 26%	Shrink (2009)	" Though a little too interconnected when it comes to narrative coincidences, the emotional intensity laced with deliciously dark humor and nasty neo-screwball wit, outweighs the gimmickry." — NewsBlaze Posted Sep 26, 2009

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