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Ted Murphy

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Biography:: Raised in New England. Graduated from Boston University; for one year worked as a theater and filmcritic for student newspaper. Got sidetracked into working as an archivist specializing in theater and film before heading to NYC. Worked for a time as assistant to former screenwriter Helen Deutsch, then spent years working with writer Helen Rayburn on an unsold biography of the Astaire family. Spent nine years toiling in electronic publishing before serving another seven at Baseline as editor of the BIOS and REVIEWS databases. Am now freelancing and overseeing my own website.
Favorites:: My taste is rather eclectic. Everything from screwball comedies (My Man Godfrey, The Awful Truth) to sweeping epics (Out of Africa, The English Patient) to the standard great films (Citizen Kane, All About Eve). Among my guilty pleasures are The Big Chill, Gallipoli and Babe.
Publications:: Baseline.Hollywood.com , Hollywood.com , Murphy's Movie Reviews

Total Reviews:: 395

Location:: Massachusetts

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	20%	Monkeybone (2001)	" Don't waste your time with this monkey business." — Hollywood.com Posted May 7, 2004
0/4	66%	Stuart Little (1999)	— Hollywood.com Posted Jun 10, 2003
0/4	54%	Goya in Bordeaux (2000)	— Hollywood.com Posted May 2, 2003
0/5	15%	Tomcats (2001)	" There isn't a single laugh to be had ..." — Baseline.Hollywood.com Posted May 6, 2001
0/4	40%	Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)	" While there is undoubtedly a fine movie to be made from Snow Falling on Cedars, this version, despite some of the acting and the photography, is not it." — Hollywood.com Posted Jan 1, 2000
D-	33%	The Good German (2007)	" The final verdict on this movie is that for all its attempts to replicate the great movies of the 1940s, it fails miserably." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
D	8%	Premonition (2007)	" This film wants to be a twisty thriller but ends up something of a misogynistic mess which leaves its leading lady stranded." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
D	8%	The Number 23 (2007)	" THE NUMBER 23 starts off promisingly but quickly devolves into an uneven mess." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
D	8%	Memory (2006)	" There's an intriguing premise buried in MEMORY ... [but] he execution leaves something to be desired." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
D	57%	Interview (2007)	" I frankly could not care about either of the people on screen. She comes off as a spoiled, manipulative and nasty woman and he is equally repellent." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
D	66%	Black Snake Moan (2007)	" Frankly, I'm shocked by the number of critics who have been praising the film. To my mind, the movie doesn't even rate to be called camp. It's simply a bad idea gone wrong." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted May 7, 2007
D	16%	Turistas (Paradise Lost) (2006)	" TURISTAS seemed to have a fascinating, cautionary premise,but in execution, the movie turned out to be messy and decidedly unmemorable." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 11, 2007
D	25%	School for Scoundrels (2006)	" None of the actors can save this weak script nor survive the tepid direction." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 11, 2007
D	85%	Old Joy (2006)	" To my mind, there was a lot of wasted time -- repetitive shots of scenery from a moving car that felt more like padding than "atmosphere," as if the movie makers had to create a feature length for a project that just as easily and perhaps more effect" — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Sep 23, 2006
D	21%	You, Me and Dupree (2006)	" YOU, ME AND DUPREE is another in a long line of mediocre films to be released in 2006." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Aug 9, 2006
D	34%	The Break-Up (2006)	" The only really nice thing about the story is that it doesn't opt for a Hollywood happy ending." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jun 7, 2006
D	8%	Valentine (2001)	" Hopefully audiences will come to their senses and mark this one "return to sender."" — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Dec 21, 2001
	3%	Down to You (2000)	" Both Julia Stiles and Freddie Prinze Jr. deserve better." — Hollywood.com Posted Sep 8, 2009
	45%	Holy Smoke! (2000)	" It's a shame to watch good work done in by a poor script." — Hollywood.com Posted Jan 1, 2000
D+	50%	For Your Consideration (2006)	" The problem with FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION is that it breaks the cardinal rule of comedy: it just isn't funny." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
D+	11%	Blood and Chocolate (2007)	" This film is not one of the worst I've ever seen, but it won't be winning any prizes either.It may find a secondary life as a DVD rental but in terms of where it stacks up against other werewolf films, it's a dog." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 26, 2007
D+	21%	Catch and Release (2007)	" Grant's debut as a director is less than impressive and soon will be consigned to the DVD outlets where perhaps it should have appeared first." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 26, 2007
D+	46%	Bobby (2006)	" The screenplay is a collection of half-formed ideas andpartial character traits masquerading as fully-rounded people." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 11, 2007
D+	4%	Happily N'ever After (2006)	" The CGI animation is third-rate and unimaginative. The screenplay isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is . . . In short, HAPPILYN'EVER AFTER is a disappointment." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 10, 2007
1.5/5	45%	Planet of the Apes (2001)	" ... not a "remake" so much as a "revisal," a new take on old material. The problem is, no one connected with the film seems to have any idea just what that "take" is." — Baseline.Hollywood.com Posted Dec 21, 2001
1.5/5	60%	The King Is Alive (2001)	" ... sitting through "The King Is Alive" was a tedious exercise that tried my patience and bored me." — Baseline.Hollywood.com Posted Dec 21, 2001
1.5/5	52%	The Fast and the Furious (2001)	" a jumbled blur, overlaid with a pulsating hip-hop score." — Baseline.Hollywood.com Posted Dec 21, 2001
1.5/5	20%	Down to Earth (2001)	" "Down to Earth" crashes instead of alighting on angels' wings." — Baseline.Hollywood.com Posted Dec 4, 2001
1.5/5	33%	One Night at McCool's (2001)	" One Night at McCool's is too high-brow to be low-rent and too low-brow to be considered worthy." — Baseline.Hollywood.com Posted May 6, 2001
C-	19%	Two Weeks (2006)	" TWO WEEKS offers some positive views on hospice care and tackles head-on a theme that few American features do, but it lacks the gravitas of something like the European drama THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
C-	66%	Snow Cake (2006)	" in the end, it's as viable as its titular confection: pretty to look at but cold." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
C-	69%	A Scanner Darkly (2006)	" a trippy movie that doesn't make it easy for the audience to follow. The story is complex and confusing and theanimation keeps the viewer from entering the tale emotionally or intellectually." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
C-	27%	Fallen (Falling) (2006)	" If it weren't for the fine performances, FALLING might have proven sleep-inducing." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
C-	48%	Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs) (2007)	" ... the film is passably entertaining but dramatically inert." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2007
C-	60%	Gracie (2007)	" GRACIE clearly was made with affection and was meant to serve as an inspirational story, but the reliance on trite and overused images undercuts its message." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted May 31, 2007
C-	50%	Duck (2005)	" Buried somewhere in this messy, strange and occasionally affecting film is an interesting idea -- perhaps even a good one. But what's on screen in DUCK also veers into territory that is precious and even boring." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted May 10, 2007
C-	80%	East of Havana (2007)	" It would have been nice to say that EAST OF HAVANA serves a terrific introduction to the world of Cuban hip-hop, but I cannot." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Feb 2, 2007
C-	85%	Bamako (2006)	" While worthy, Bamako suffers somewhat fromits structure. Some of the testimony becomes so complicated that unless you are an expert or really truly versed on the subject, you just might tune out (as I found myself doing on occasion)." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Feb 2, 2007
C-	54%	Seraphim Falls (2007)	" The best thing about Seraphim Falls is the extraordinary cinematography by Academy Award winner John Toll." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 26, 2007
C-	30%	Running With Scissors (2006)	" I had hoped, I guess, that the film would do justice to the book, but sadly that is not the case. If I were you, go out and spend the money on the paperback, curl up and give yourself over to the wacky world Burroughs' creates. It'll be more fulfilling th" — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 11, 2007
C-	80%	Little Children (2006)	" from the film's opening scene when an ill-advised and badly used omniscient narrator is employed, I was squirming in my seat and checking my watch. ... LITTLE CHILDREN runs on too long at close to two and a half hours.There are many sequences that are ext" — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 11, 2007
C-	40%	Broken Sky (2006)	" I have jokingly described BROKEN SKY (EL CIELO DIVIDIDO) as the gay, Mexican version of THE BREAK-UP, although to be fair, this film at least has more sympathetic characters. ... But, at 140 minutes, [it] goes on far too long." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 11, 2007
C-	33%	Breaking and Entering (2007)	" Minghella should be complimented on at least attemptingsomething cerebral, but the experiment falls short. The schematic screenplay complete with bald symbols ... and the various aspects of both "breaking" and "entering" that are employed devalue the fina" — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 10, 2007
C-	44%	Night at the Museum (2006)	" Individual set pieces work nicely, but the story bogs down and certain subplots are dropped almost entirely. ... NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM had the potential to be so much more and in the hand of a real visionary, it could have been something. As it is, it's a p" — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jan 10, 2007
C-	25%	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	" Over the course of two and one-half hours, the film unfolds in a series of dull and unengaging episodes." — Murphy's Movie Reviews Posted Jun 7, 2006
2/5	76%	The Contender (2000)	— Hollywood.com Posted Sep 8, 2009
2/5	67%	Sleepy Hollow (1999)	" Burton piles on the artistic gore for this rendition. He just forgets to add the terror." — Hollywood.com Posted Feb 18, 2009
2/5	57%	Mission Impossible 2 (2000)	" M:I-2 takes itself far too seriously." — Hollywood.com Posted Jul 12, 2002
2/5	25%	Pearl Harbor (2001)	" Ultimately, what can be said about the film is that it is a disappointment ... It also confirms what most industry people suspected: Michael Bay is no James Cameron." — Baseline.Hollywood.com Posted Dec 21, 2001
2/5	13%	The Body (2001)	" "The Body" posits a truly fascinating and thought-provoking idea and then wraps it in absurdity. " — Baseline.Hollywood.com Posted Dec 4, 2001

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