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ROB VAUX
PUBLICATION(S)
• Flipside Movie Emporium
• Mania.com

BIOGRAPHY
A native Californian, Rob Vaux grew up in the greater Los Angeles area before attending college in Minnesota and graduate school in Syracuse, NY. He moved back to So Cal after earning his M.A. and currently works as a writer and editor, as well as serving as a film critic for Flipside Movie Emporium.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 530
Total QuickRatings: 874

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Online Film Critics Society

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• Location: The greater Los Angeles area.


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A The Prestige
A- A Scanner Darkly
B+ Superman Returns
B Cars
B- Nacho Libre
C+ Miami Vice
C The Night Listener
C- You, Me and Dupree
D+ The Wicker Man
D Click
F I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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A There Will Be Blood
A Wristcutters: A Love Story
A No End in Sight
A Hot Fuzz
A Children of Men
A The Prestige
A+ United 93
A Syriana
A Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
A Grizzly Man
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WORST REVIEWED
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F Funny Games
F Caligula
F I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
F Running Scared
F The Longest Yard
F Alone in the Dark
F White Chicks
F Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
F The Scorpion King
F Battlefield Earth
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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B
 
"The director knows this world and the actor makes us care about it. Redbelt requires little more to make good on its promises." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)68%
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B
 
"A few lowered expectations and a tolerance for the odd slow patch will serve you quite well in soaking up the dependable fun on display." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)92%
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C+
 
"It relies too much on Spurlock's own personality to make simple and fairly obvious points in a manner which never offends, but certainly fails to linger." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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C+
 
"Toto and Scarecrow were dropped from the project after demanding excessive residuals on the back end." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)61%
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B
 
"Ayers makes the trip worthwhile largely through his excellent eye for asphalt level L.A. and his careful attention to Ludlow's moral dilemma." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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B-
 
"Murro works overtime to find the humanity in his characters, and with help from the cast, the search eventually pays off." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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C
 
"A well-meaning movie fatally dazzled by the very nostalgia it's drowning in." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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C-
 
"I probably should have given it a lower grade, but I really, really like watching Laurence Fishburne hurt people." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Mar 30, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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C
 
"It ambles along pleasantly, produces a few chuckles, and is forgotten by the time you pass the popcorn counter on the way out of the theater." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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F
 
"The appalling sadism it eagerly employs in the name of, well, decrying sadism, becomes all the more infuriating when Funny Games repeatedly tells us it's for our own good." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)49%
 N/A  
"Interview: Michael Shanks of Stargate SG-1" -- Mania.com
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)n/a
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D
 
"My poor brain hung in there for as long as it could, but it lost its grip during the giant chicken attack and I haven't seen it since." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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D
 
"As sorority party filler or a double bill with the likes of Cruel Intentions, this movie can't be beat." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Mar 1, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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D+
 
"The most unintentionally hilarious film so far this year." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)36%
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D+
 
"A movie of marvelous little moments framing giant dumb contrivances." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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B
 
"The mood never wavers, allowing The Spiderwick Chronicles to develop into an exciting and largely watertight adventure." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 17, 2008
 
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)79%
 N/A  
"Q&A: George A. Romero" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 17, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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C+
 
"[Its] joys stand alone and isolated amid a well-intentioned film that never quite connects the dots." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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D
 
"Director Andy Tennant seems to have found a mythical Zen space of bad comedic timing." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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B
 
"Full of black humor and sharp comedic jabs, but with an undercurrent of genuine soul searching." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
 N/A  
"Q&A: Sylvester Stallone" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 2, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)33%
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"Q&A: John Sayles & Maggie Renzi" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Honeydripper (2007)67%
 N/A  
"Q&A: Danny Glover" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Honeydripper (2007)67%
 N/A  
"The Juno Interviews, Part IV: Jason Reitman & Diablo Cody" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 27, 2008
 
Juno (2007)93%
 N/A  
"The Juno Interviews, Part III: Allison Janney & J.K Simmons" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 27, 2008
 
Juno (2007)93%
 N/A  
"The Juno Interviews, Part II: Jason Bateman" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 27, 2008
 
Juno (2007)93%
 N/A  
"The Juno Interviews, Part I: Ellen Page & Michael Cera" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 27, 2008
 
Juno (2007)93%
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D+
 
"I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)33%
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B
 
"Seriously dude, no means no." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)79%
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B
 
"When freed from unreasonable expectations, it turns out to be a modest little gas." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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B+
 
"Any time Sayles clicks with his material this succinctly, the results are thrilling." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 14, 2008
 
Honeydripper (2007)67%
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C+
 
"Nothing ruins a pretty good movie more than calling it great, and with Atonement, even 'pretty good' feels like a stretch." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 13, 2008
 
Atonement (2007)82%
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A
 
"An Old Testament bellow of ferocity and pain that seduces us on so many levels you'd swear you could see the fourth wall tumbling down around our ears." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 29, 2007
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)91%
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B
 
"It may not be Burton's best film, or his most innovative, but it always stays faithful to his uniquely haunted soul." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 22, 2007
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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C
 
"Each successive development in the increasingly ludicrous narrative saps a little more of the goodwill engendered by the early scenes." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)68%
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C-
 
"Like its protagonists, The Golden Compass stands fundamentally isolated from its soul; unlike them, it hasn't the first idea where it left the bloody thing." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)42%
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A-
 
"Juno is neither Page nor Cody nor Reitman, but her own fully realized person, speaking to us in the extraordinary rhythm of real life." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 5, 2007
 
Juno (2007)93%
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B+
 
"Suburban paranoia and primitive savagery conspire to create far deeper terrors than the creatures which emerge from the titular fog." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
Stephen King's The Mist (2007)70%
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C+
 
"The plasticine puppetry of the central figures still lacks that essential spark required to bring them to life." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Nov 19, 2007
 
Beowulf (2007)70%
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A-
 
"It thunders with the mordant wit, blood-soaked pessimism, and human folly that mark their unique auteurial stamp." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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D
 
"Beyond its basic concept, Bee Movie hasn't the first idea where to go." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Nov 5, 2007
 
Bee Movie (2007)53%
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B
 
"Scott's auteurial stamp lends the film a badly needed sense of distinction." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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A
 
"It focuses on its own unique voice, and trusts that those who want to hear it will follow." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)66%
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F
 
"I suppose certain college fraternities could make screening it part of their hazing rituals." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 24, 2007
 
Caligula (1980)19%
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B-
 
"In order to enjoy the best, you have to put up with the worst... and rarely have "best" and "worst" commingled quite so completely." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
30 Days of Night (2007)49%
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A-
 
"Planet Terror was always the superior half of the Grindhouse double bill because it embraced the spirit of the endeavor so completely." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 15, 2007
 
Planet Terror (2007)77%
 N/A  
"Tracking Down Sleuth: An Interview with Kenneth Branagh and Michael Caine" -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 14, 2007
 
Sleuth (2007)35%
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C-
 
"A failure on most any appreciable level: as compelling drama, as a history lesson, as a showcase for Blanchett's unparalleled talents... even as a sequel." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 13, 2007
 
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)34%
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C+
 
"While the cons do finally outweigh the pros... oh what marvelous pros they are." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Sleuth (2007)35%
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C
 
"The Heartbreak Kid represents less a return to form than a worn regurgitation of past success." -- Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)29%

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