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Eric Beltmann

Eric Beltmann

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Flipside Movie Emporium
Total Reviews:
38

Best Reviewed Films

Showing 1 - 38 of 38
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
A 100% Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (1929) " This is Warhol and this is Lynch, but more richly suggestive than both put together." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
A 73% Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue (Ali Zoua: Prince of the Streets) (2000) " This lovely urban fable transcends realism, conjuring a waterfront Casablanca that reminded me of Roald Dahl at least as much as Buńuel." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
A 90% Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002) " Its tempo might be challenging, but only in the best way -- since it produces a textured, full-bodied classic myth, the deceptive 'slowness' is, for me, its greatest thrill." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Aug 17, 2002
A- 88% Titanic (in 3D) (2012) " Despite the rather clunky script and histrionic acting, the film becomes some kind of alarmist masterpiece about an event of painful cultural humbling." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 30, 2001
B+ 86% Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004) " Complicated, moving, and entirely real." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
B+ 63% Unknown Pleasures (2003) " When was the last time you saw a movie about an entire community facing an existential identity crisis?" — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
B+ 87% Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever) (2003) " Its ugliness is easily trumped by Moodysson's abiding compassion and artistic vision -- his strokes only get darker, bolder, and more divine as the film progresses." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
B+ 88% Uzak (Distant) (2004) " Maintains a mood of melancholy and loneliness so unrelenting that it's borderline inhospitable." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
B+ 91% Stevie (2003) " My severe reservations didn't prevent me from becoming completely absorbed by Stevie and its underlying implications regarding a filmmaker's motivations, methods, and responsibilities." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Sep 16, 2003
B+ 78% Beloved (1998) " The first film to truly get the horror -- the harrowing human repugnance -- of slavery on the screen." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 24, 2001
B 89% Trembling Before G-d (2001) " What's most fascinating about Trembling Before G-d is the way it shatters stereotypes not about homosexuality but about fundamentalism." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 26, 2004
B 87% Under the Skin of the City (Zir-e Poust-e Shahr) (2003) " Spare, static, and brimming with everyday details about life in Tehran." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
B 87% Le Bossu (On Guard) (1997) " Channeling the spirit of Dumas and Féval, de Broca has unleashed a spry, rousing, funny swashbuckler." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
B 93% The Blood of a Poet (1930) " An illogical, artificial ode to the power of images." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
B 96% Sweet Sixteen (2003) " What's great about Sweet Sixteen isn't its politics but the way everything feels simultaneously inevitable and spontaneous, especially in terms of the acting and mood." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 6, 2003
B 89% Shrek (2001) " Swift, cocksure, and sometimes bracing, Shrek is like a child who threatens to leap from a soaring swing, but isn't quite audacious enough to follow through." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 21, 2003
B —— Cook and Other Treasures (2003) " Fascinates partially as a historical document but mostly because it provokes interesting questions about the bond between screen jesters and the American public." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 14, 2003
B 92% The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) " The brashly entertaining The Kid Stays in the Picture wants everyone to know and love the fabled Robert Evans -- and it just might work." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Sep 2, 2002
B 89% Kandahar (2001) " There are sequences of beauty but also legitimate terror." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jul 29, 2002
B 84% La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room) (2002) " Devoid of sentiment, The Son's Room becomes a story about real misery, about the dreadful room a son's absence leaves in a parent's life." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jun 3, 2002
B 90% Iron Monkey (2001) " One of the most purely entertaining kung fu movies, particularly during the climactic showdown between fighters balanced on the tips of burning, toppling bamboo poles." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 30, 2001
B 81% Shadow of the Vampire (2000) " Shadow of the Vampire is about dueling egos, and the great joke of this vampire movie is that the bully film director, not the undead bloodsucker, is the real monster." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 24, 2001
B- 93% Spy Kids (2001) " It has a youthful exuberance missing from Rodriguez's work since El Mariachi." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 21, 2003
C+ 88% OT: Our Town (2003) " Kennedy's fly-on-the-wall aesthetic yields a haphazard, unremarkable documentary about a remarkable event." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
C+ 65% The Flower of Evil (2003) " More misanthropy from one of the nouvelle vague's last holdouts, and it gives me the creeps." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
C+ 91% Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997) " Beats me. I know I was incredulous, horrified, spellbound, and finally moved, but I don't have a clue whether Sick is a good movie or not." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 22, 2003
C+ 70% TRON (1982) " Despite appearing rather primitive now, the effects still supply Tron with its greatest creative asset -- the simple visuals have a striking, minimalist beauty to them." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Apr 22, 2002
C+ 63% Time and Tide (Shun liu Ni liu) (2001) " This spirited ode to crashing bodies seems a mere appropriation of the styles and themes long employed by Wong, Ringo Lam, and Woo." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 24, 2001
C+ 14% Driven (2001) " To reject [Driven] without acknowledging the pleasures it has to offer -- however small -- is to deny one of the most valid reasons for cinema to exist." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 24, 2001
C —— Towers Open Fire and Other Films () " This abrasive assault on linear editing did little for me. Ho-hum, I say." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
C 48% XXX (2002) " If Bond is for boomers, and Spy Kids for kiddies, then XXX is a secret agent for cynical in-betweeners." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 21, 2003
C 80% Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) " Based on its returns, one might be tempted to speculate whether parents have been placed under a spell, cursed to forfeit their coins in exchange for an afternoon with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 21, 2003
C 57% G.I. Jane (1997) " Should American women be allowed in combat? G.I. Jane declares that many women are physically and mentally capable of battle, but does anyone disagree?" — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 24, 2001
C- 57% The Princess Blade (2002) " Fails to transform its aggressive pessimism into something bolder, and richer. At least Donnie Yen's choreography is sporadically clever." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
C- 78% ABC Africa (2002) " An awkward, superficial travelogue about Iranians on a publicity excursion to Africa, providing no more insight into Uganda than a Sally Struthers heart-pull." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 21, 2003
D+ 60% The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002) " I don't have enough eyes to roll at all the anonymous herons, woods, streams, nudes, and wheat fields that kill time between recreations of Nijinsky's renowned choreography." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
D 73% Johnstown Flood (2003) " Often resembles an Irwin Allen disaster flick commissioned by the Learning Channel. It drowns in fire-and-brimstone spectacle." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jul 19, 2003
F —— Chump Change (2000) " Burrows displays an Ed Woodian aptitude for transparently veiling the fact that he is incapable of developing a scene, a character, or even a good crotch joke." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 2, 2003
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