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Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:: Boston Phoenix , Chicago Sun-Times , City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , Film Comment Magazine , indieWIRE , L.A. Weekly , Minneapolis Star Tribune , minnpost.com , Nashville Scene , Variety , Village Voice
Critics' Group:: National Society of Film Critics

Total Reviews:: 417

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	50%	John Dies at the End ()	" Give or take the titular disclosure, John Dies at the End is a thoroughly unpredictable horror-comedy -- and an immensely entertaining one, too." — Variety Posted Feb 7, 2012
	——	Payback (2012)	" A rarefied conceptual docu that will appeal to a limited but highly appreciative audience." — Variety Posted Feb 6, 2012
	——	Shut Up and Play the Hits ()	" Much like the band's self-conscious synth-pop itself, Shut Up is initially satiric but ultimately disarming in its emotional resonance." — Variety Posted Feb 6, 2012
	——	Under African Skies ()	" Under African Skies is appreciably smarter than most celebrity musician docus." — Variety Posted Feb 6, 2012
	——	The Invisible War ()	" An aptly infuriating expose of sexual abuse within the U.S. military." — Variety Posted Jan 31, 2012
	——	The Words ()	" A literary film that stands to work best for those who don't read." — Variety Posted Jan 30, 2012
	——	Room 237 ()	" One of the great movies about movies." — Variety Posted Jan 30, 2012
	——	Indie Game: The Movie ()	" The pic scores big points by drawing a sharp distinction between corporate vidgame programmers and indies." — Variety Posted Jan 30, 2012
	0%	Goats ()	" Genial but gratingly irrelevant and none too witty." — Variety Posted Jan 26, 2012
	20%	Black Rock ()	" Straining to be a distaff "Deliverance," indie thriller Black Rock is unable to shock, much less convince." — Variety Posted Jan 24, 2012
	——	The End of Love ()	" Too often toddles over the fine line between cute and cloying before finding its footing in the final reel." — Variety Posted Jan 24, 2012
	——	Middle of Nowhere ()	" Solidly acted but aloof and slow as molasses." — Variety Posted Jan 24, 2012
	75%	The Woman (2011)	" Calculatedly ugly and undeservedly controversial." — Variety Posted Jan 4, 2012
	63%	We Bought a Zoo (2011)	" Warm-blooded but largely lifeless." — Variety Posted Nov 28, 2011
	45%	Another Happy Day (2011)	" [Mistakes] over-the-top dysfunctional family cruelty for comedy and drama." — Variety Posted Nov 14, 2011
	83%	Outrage (2011)	" The results are so visually stunning, why quibble?" — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2011
	70%	Footloose (2011)	" Paramount's Footloose reboot never quite cuts loose enough to distinguish itself from the original." — Variety Posted Oct 14, 2011
	36%	The Thing (2011)	" The new Thing, helmed by first-timer Matthijs van Heijningen, nods deferentially to John Carpenter's still-scary cult film while displaying little comprehension of what made it work." — Variety Posted Oct 13, 2011
	45%	Jane's Journey (2011)	" Spectacularly photographed and journalistically lame..." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2011
	30%	Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)	" Sarah Palin -- You Betcha! shovels enough dirt on the Tea Party guru and self-described hockey mom to satisfy her haters, but lacks sufficient humor and insight to make it a must-see for anyone outside the Brit muckraker's fan base." — Variety Posted Sep 12, 2011
	40%	Damn! ()	" Even at 73 minutes, the film is, well, too damn long." — Variety Posted Aug 12, 2011
	73%	The Whistleblower (2011)	" Late-reel scenes of suspense involving the heinously victimized Ukrainians fall somewhere along the line between shocking reportage and standard-issue torture porn." — Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2011
	72%	Bellflower (2011)	" Writer-director-actor Evan Glodell's testosterone-fueled fever-dream indie Bellflower impresses less for its screeching take on extended adolescent fury than for its own macho, wacko, pedal-to-metal embodiment of same." — Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2011
	83%	Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)	" Raul Ruiz's head-spinning Mysteries of Lisbon is a period drama of contemporary import -- and of the highest order." — Variety Posted Aug 2, 2011
	79%	The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2011)	" Well-intentioned but derivative and only intermittently engaging, the suburban Michigan-set indie hits at least as many false notes as true ones." — Variety Posted Jul 20, 2011
	98%	Project Nim (2011)	" Marsh's film remains a deeply haunting portrait of the unbridgeable gap between kindred species." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2011
	84%	Beginners (2011)	" It's strongest as the story of an artist who, in his own way, has only begun to come out." — Village Voice Posted May 31, 2011
	49%	Last Night (2011)	" Tastefully provocative, ultimately haunting." — Variety Posted Apr 29, 2011
	59%	The Vanishing of the Bees (2011)	" Hypnotic slo-mo images of honeybees flapping their wings are about all that distinguishes the docu Vanishing of the Bees from a well-researched article on its subject." — Variety Posted Apr 26, 2011
	——	Bonnie and Clyde vs. Dracula ()	" Not as fun as it sounds, Bonnie & Clyde vs. Dracula shoots blanks before sucking the life out of its premise." — Variety Posted Apr 26, 2011
	68%	Insidious (2011)	" A possession thriller less terrifying than fun." — Variety Posted Mar 29, 2011
	47%	Super (2011)	" Waiting for Super to deliver the funny is an experience as long as the film itself." — Variety Posted Mar 28, 2011
	46%	Soul Surfer (2011)	" The true story of one-armed surfer girl Bethany Hamilton keeps its balance in Soul Surfer, a kind-hearted coming-of-age drama with killer waves." — Variety Posted Mar 28, 2011
	88%	Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011)	" More compelling as an intellectual exercise than an emotional one." — Variety Posted Mar 10, 2011
	45%	Drive Angry (2011)	" Sharp 3D lensing and low-octane camp humor help rev up Drive Angry." — Variety Posted Feb 25, 2011
	4%	The Roommate (2011)	" Won't evict "Single White Female" from its top-floor residence among psycho-roomie cinema." — Variety Posted Feb 4, 2011
	76%	Poison (1991)	" Arguably the strongest American debut feature of the '90s." — Village Voice Posted Nov 9, 2010
	71%	Windfall (2012)	" Variably articulate subjects drone on and on in an 83-minute film that could easily make its TV news-style point in a half-hour or less." — Variety Posted Nov 4, 2010
	10%	Saw 3D (2010)	" At least for non-fans, the sole mercy shown by Lionsgate's latest Saw is that it's billed as the last and plays that way, wrapping things up without the threat of making another killing after this one." — Variety Posted Oct 29, 2010
	94%	Carlos (2010)	" Carlos suggests that the genre-hopping Assayas could maximize his own ambition even within the tight confines of a prison drama." — Village Voice Posted Oct 12, 2010
	98%	Inside Job (2010)	" The definitive screen investigation of the global economic crisis, providing hard evidence of flagrant amorality -- and of a new nonfiction master at work." — Variety Posted Oct 1, 2010
3/4	91%	Winnebago Man (2010)	" The movie becomes oddly deep and even poignant." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Sep 23, 2010
	97%	GasLand (2010)	" With its jolting images of flammable tap water and chemically burned pets, New York theater-director-turned-documentarian Josh Fox's Sundance-feted shocker makes an irrefutable case against U.S. corporate "fracking."" — Village Voice Posted Sep 14, 2010
2.5/4	82%	Mademoiselle Chambon (2010)	" Briz� does score a nifty variation on the clich�d rushing-to-meet-destiny climax. But this encounter, brief indeed at a mere 90 minutes, doesn't fully convince." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Aug 27, 2010
3/4	59%	Centurion (2010)	" Bloody well done." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Aug 27, 2010
3/4	82%	Cairo Time (2010)	" Cairo Time proves hard to resist, the film's familiarity gradually giving way to a playfulness that feels new to the impossible-love subset of bourgeois melodrama." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Aug 26, 2010
4/4	89%	Alle Anderen (Everyone Else) (2010)	" Like Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence, Ade's film is as unpredictable and ambiguous as it is raw." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Aug 12, 2010
	59%	Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2010)	" This fawning docu goes to lengths to portray the octogenarian Playboy magazine founder as among the greatest figures of 20th-century American popular culture, while only cursorily acknowledging his status as a pioneering softcore pornographer." — Variety Posted Jul 6, 2010
	92%	Lovers of Hate (2011)	" It lingers in the mind, thanks largely to its trio of actors -- especially Alex Karpovsky, who brings a riveting sense of spontaneity to depicting the younger brother's slow-burning rage." — Variety Posted Jul 6, 2010

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