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Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:
Chicago Reader , CineScene.com , DVD Verdict , Senses of Cinema , Slant Magazine , Time Out New York
Total Reviews:
113

Worst Reviewed Films

Showing 1 - 42 of 42
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/6 14% I Love You Beth Cooper (2009) " This nightmare scenario is to high-school valedictorians what this wreck of a movie is to comedy screenwriters." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 8, 2009
1/5 67% (Untitled) (2009) " (Untitled)'s onslaught of self-indulgent bohos and art-vs.-commerce clichés are as ersatz as their objects of scorn." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 21, 2009
1/4 39% The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008) " Pirates is a film whose insipid, generic plainness is its worse offense." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 10, 2008
2/6 17% Downloading Nancy (2008) " For all the bad behavior on display, the emotional stakes remain hazily defined." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 3, 2009
2/5 0% Stolen Lives (2010) " Anders Anderson's thriller struggles to intertwine the two mysteries and ends up doing justice to neither." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 10, 2010
2/5 73% Children Of Invention (2010) " Children of Invention seems furiously scribbled in shorthand, undermining what it has to offer in contemporary resonance." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 10, 2010
2/5 92% Prodigal Sons (2010) " Instead of pushing deeper into any psychological dilemmas, this dirty-laundry doc gets lost in a sensationalistic flurry driven by a serious emotional unraveling." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 24, 2010
2/5 26% Ninja Assassin (2009) " Perhaps such phenomenal slaughter is best left to the imagination." — Time Out New York
Posted Dec 2, 2009
2/5 5% Old Dogs (2009) " Only the irrepressible Luis Guzmán, stuck in a walk-on bit as the stereotypical mooching Hispanic, is able to milk this cash cow and exit with his dignity intact." — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 25, 2009
2/5 21% Oh My God (2009) " The musings of celebrities like Seal and Ringo Starr are given prominence over those of religious leaders and scholars, while a relentless Moby-esque soundtrack subsumes each insight into a sonic miasma of theism." — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 11, 2009
2/5 85% Skin (2009) " Unable to probe the complex relationships engendered by a biracial society, Skin simply becomes an example of colorless, by-the-numbers apartheid cinema." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 28, 2009
2/5 74% Unmade Beds (2009) " The conventions of contemporary youth culture and cinema could both use a change of sheets." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 2, 2009
2/5 29% Shrink (2009) " Never mind the crazy cast; this weary retread of trendy multicharacter melodramas is what's really unhinged." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 23, 2009
2/5 75% Ischeznuvshaya Imperiya (Vanished Empire) (2008) " The moralistic finale feels tacked on to the vivid celebration of Commie teen lust." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 8, 2009
3/6 81% Unmistaken Child (2009) " The documentary stands as a visually candid and picturesque peek into one of the world's most mysterious practices." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 3, 2009
3/6 80% Eid milad Laila (Laila's Birthday) (2008) " Masharawi's film is a vivid passenger-seat tour of a society perpetually crashing into madness." — Time Out New York
Posted May 28, 2009
3/6 100% Anaglyph Tom (Tom with the Puffy Cheeks) (2009) " Jacobs's mastery of 3-D is intermittent, but when it works, the new textures bestowed upon Edison's long-dead cast are moving." — Time Out New York
Posted May 13, 2009
3/5 48% Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011) " While the story is formula cornball, director Mark Waters sells it confidently, handling the unruly antarctic denizens as amiably as he handled Lindsay Lohan in his Freaky Friday remake and Mean Girls." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 15, 2011
3/5 48% La MISSION (2010) " Bratt's performance suggests enough subcutaneous rage to give the proceedings an edge, even when the sluggish narrative takes the slow-cruise ethos of its low-rider culture far too literally at times." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 7, 2010
3/5 81% City Island (2010) " Who would think that a sleepy seaside snippet of the Bronx could foster a Faulkner novel's worth of family skeletons?" — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 17, 2010
3/5 84% Eyes Wide Open (Einaym Pkuhot) (2010) " The drama's moments of inspiration vindicate its desultory proceedings." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2010
3/5 91% Old Partner (2009) " At its best, the film adopts its subjects' spartan demeanor, relying on wordless sequences that vividly depict the rhythms of farm labor..." — Time Out New York
Posted Dec 30, 2009
3/5 71% Endgame (2009) " William Hurt and Chiwetel Ejiofor, impressive at opposite ends of the table as a government mouthpiece and a philosophy professor, provide all the fireworks the story needs." — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 4, 2009
3/5 88% The English Surgeon (2009) " While the film leaves this bundle of post-Soviet contradictions packed up, its vérité depiction of the surgeon's life surpasses the likes of ER." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 23, 2009
2.5/4 —— Min Ye () " But more than probing the societal norms that undermine his salacious couple's bid at happiness, Cisse is also out to dissect the sordid relationship between storytelling and reality." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 4, 2009
2.5/4 76% A Jihad for Love (2008) " Perhaps carving enough space for the previously unheard voices of Muslim gays to speak is enough to ask of this socially groundbreaking work." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 20, 2008
2.5/4 89% Aleksandra (Alexandra) (2007) " Disappointingly uncharacteristic of Sokurov, the humanist moments that pass between them lean toward token sentiment, and the moments that pass between Alexandra and the grandson she traveled so far to see feel inconsequential." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2007
2.5/4 69% A Londoni Férfi (The Man From London) (2007) " Tarr seems to be working in a pan-European purgatory through which his elaborate camera movements are more clinical than communitarian." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2007
3/4 84% The Art Of The Steal (2010) " Argott advances Wire creator David Simon's art to offer a leaner, meaner template for complex investigative filmmaking." — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2010
3/4 91% 24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) (2008) " Simultaneously more and less than meets the eye." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2008
3/4 92% Night and Day (Bam gua nat) (2009) " Following his most even-handed exploration of male-female sexual conflict in Woman on the Beach, Hong Sang-soo hurtles full-bore into the subjectivity of the horny man with Night and Day." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 4, 2008
3/4 83% Mang Shan (Blind Mountain) (2007) " With Blind Mountain, 6th Generation Chinese maverick Li Yang continues his scorched-earth treatment of 5th Generation heroic peasant stereotypes launched by his debut feature Blind Shaft." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 12, 2008
3/4 44% redacted (2007) " Brian De Palma's paradoxical take on the occupation of Iraq is as blatant as an open sore yet swathed in layers of formalist irony." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 4, 2007
3/4 93% Secret Sunshine (2010) " Lee has a rare gift for depicting how the minor dissonance of everyday interactions eventually explodes into public displays of rage and despair." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2007
4/5 88% Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch) (2009) " It's like watching John Cassavetes trapped in a mega-episode of The Golden Girls." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 17, 2010
4/5 33% To Die for Tano (2010) " Torre's debut takes true incidents from the Mafia wars that plagued Palermo in the late '80s and kicks them into a deliriously gaudy farce." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2010
4/5 83% Lake Tahoe (2008) " Inspired by a childhood accident that befell director Fernando Eimbcke soon after his father's death, this low-key character study is a beguiling paradox of Mexican suburban splendor masking personal grief." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 8, 2009
4/5 85% Tony Manero (2009) " [Director] Larrain deftly employs a Dardennes-style in-the-moment handheld lensing, managing a high-wire act in which audience disgust is outpaced by breathless anticipation." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 1, 2009
3.5/4 82% Serbis (Service) (2008) " To my knowledge, Serbis is the first film to equate third-world life in the late capitalist era to squatting in a rundown porn palace." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2008
3.5/4 —— Wuyong (Useless) (2007) " Useless is a shape-shifting work that overturns expectations at every turn and leaves behind an open-ended consideration of value -- of clothing, of human labor, of human life." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2007
5/5 90% October Country (2009) " Intimate yet larger-than-life, this masterpiece of the everyday shows you don't need James Cameron's toy box to make images pop from the screen, much less to see and embrace the world anew." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2010
4/4 88% Cache (Hidden) (2005) " Caché is about how the way we look at people -- a spouse, a child, a homeless person, a security guard -- reflects our own humanity, exactly the sort of thing the best works of cinematic art aspire to reveal." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 4, 2006
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