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JEFFREY WESTHOFF
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Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey has been reviewing films professionally since he was a senior in high school and wrote reviews for his home-town paper, the Erie Times News.
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Total Reviews: 1105
Total QuickRatings: 1565

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Chicago Film Critics Association

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" Journey to the Center of the Earth isn't playing in 3-D in every theater, but that's the only way to see it. Even then you have to wait until the last half-hour for the good stuff."
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)62%
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" The attempts to deepen the emotions turn Hancock into a strange, conflicted and often joyless film."
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)38%
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" If you can imagine Buster Keaton as a small box with binoculars for eyes and tank treads for legs -- and WALL-E makes this easy to imagine -- then the movie's first half represents the purest visual storytelling since movies started to talk."
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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2.5/4
 
" After four decades of technological improvements, the Cone of Silence still doesn't work, but Get Smart still does - mostly."
Posted Jun 23, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)52%
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3/4
 
" Essentially, this Incredible Hulk is a science fiction, Jekyll and Hyde version of The Bourne Identity."
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)67%
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" As imperfect as it is, Chaos Theory is much better than most of Hollywood's output this year."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Chaos Theory (2008)28%
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" "Street Kings" is 107 minutes long and most casual viewers will know the bad guy's identity 100 minutes before Reeves does."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)36%
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" Without a clear-cut plot to lead him, first-time director Noam Murro gets muddled in the perpetual sadness of too many characters. "
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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3/4
 
" Glib, sophisticated and silly."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)52%
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2/4
 
" For a movie about high-stakes gambling, 21 settles for penny-ante dramatics."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
21 (2008)35%
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" Peirce ... dramatizes the problems of the Iraqi War vet with more subtlety than we've seen from other filmmakers."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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3/4
 
" With his laconic attitude, Owen Wilson has a talent for making dumb material funny. That talent serves him greatly in Drillbit Taylor."
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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" After two painful messes, Hollywood gets Dr. Seuss right with Horton Hears a Who!"
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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2.5/4
 
" Asks the audience to spend a lot of time waiting for not much to happen."
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Married Life (2008)58%
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3/4
 
" Adams channels every dizzy 1930s ingénue as she sashays about in silk and exclaims, 'Jeepers!' at every opportunity."
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)77%
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2/4
 
" All the lush sets and elaborate costumes cannot disguise the fact that Portman is terribly cast."
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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3/4
 
" The material is flawed, to be sure, but the story is less predictable than you would guess and it exudes an easy-going wit."
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
Penelope (2008)52%
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2/4
 
" Even though there's some smart stuff in Charlie Bartlett, there's a lot more dumb stuff that keeps the worthy elements from aligning."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)55%
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2/4
 
" Vantage Point requires three simultaneous coincidences for the ending to work. That may be a record."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)35%
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3.5/4
 
" The Spiderwick Chronicles is a terrific ride for children who crave genuine excitement, not that tepid Scooby Doo stuff. "
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)79%
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2.5/4
 
" The opening of Jumper is so similar to the opening of Spider-Man that Stan Lee's copyright infringement sense must be tingling."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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1.5/4
 
" Except for Hilton's delusion that she has comic (or any) talent, the movie's worst sin is that it is inept 95 percent of the time. The remaining 5 percent is kind of cute."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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" Thought it falters almost as often as it succeeds, Fool's Gold has an odd, low-key appeal."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)11%
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" About a dozen other movies have used variations on this plot. And every single one of them has been smarter and more entertaining than Over Her Dead Body."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Over Her Dead Body (2008)14%
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3/4
 
" Newcomer Rutina Wesley brings dynamite physicality and haunted intellect to How She Move. "
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
How She Move (2008)66%
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1/4
 
" Exploits the very trend it condemns."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)16%
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" A monster movie for the YouTube era."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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3/4
 
" It proves that with the right cast and creative team in place, even an old formula can still entertain."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)40%
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1/4
 
" Getting religion in the end is no excuse for a parade of bad taste."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)14%
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1.5/4
 
" When actors as great as Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman can't make dialogue sound natural, you know the script is a stinkeroo. "
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
The Bucket List (2007)41%
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" An intellectualized epic to make lovers of pure cinema swoon."
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)92%
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2.5/4
 
" Although we instinctively should be rooting for these characters, Eisele bends the rules of academic debate to make sure the outcome is never in doubt. "
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
The Great Debaters (2007)80%
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3/4
 
" The most elegant slasher movie ever made."
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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3/4
 
" Rather than another of the solemn examinations of American foreign policy Charlie Wilson's War is a quip-filled, high-spirited comedy."
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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3/4
 
" Some movies, from Superman: The Motion Picture to Office Space, are great until they get around to telling a story. Add I Am Legend to that list."
Posted Dec 16, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)69%
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" The film has the same weaknesses and strengths as the novel. And its greatest weakness is that the main character is the least interesting and just about the least sympathetic."
Posted Dec 16, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)66%
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" Even with its strong themes and performances, Atonement will be enjoyed most by those enthralled when the craft of filmmaking becomes an art. "
Posted Dec 16, 2007
 
Atonement (2007)83%
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" In adapting Pullman's novel, Weitz jettisons its distinctive atmosphere and complex (and controversial) theological background and decides instead to whip through the plot."
Posted Dec 16, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)41%
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1/4
 
" Hitman will satisfy only longings for tough-guy posturing, sadistic violence, blatant misogyny and incoherent plotting."
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Hitman (2007)15%
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" A holiday film with much goodwill but just as much predictability."
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
This Christmas (2007)54%
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" Adams' performance is the kind that deserves an Academy Award nomination yet seldom gets one."
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Enchanted (2007)93%
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" Robert Zemeckis has created the world's longest videogame cut scene."
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Beowulf (2007)70%
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" Whimsy is the worst thing a filmmaker can force on an audience. Magic is the second worst. Yet for 90 minutes writer-director Zach Helm shoves whimsy and magic down his audience's throat."
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)36%
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" The ingredients of modern horror kill the atmosphere and make P2 less scary, not more."
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
P2 (2007)35%
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" This is the Coen Brothers' leanest and least affected film since Blood Simple."
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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" Seinfeld's quick wit and glib personality are strong enough to give the scattershot story an illusion of coherence."
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Bee Movie (2007)52%
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" A gritty 1970s thriller made for today, re-creating the past to find lessons for the present."
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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" Ultimately it is Carell who grounds Dan in something close to real life."
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Dan in Real Life (2007)66%
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" Both Pimental and the audience would have been better served if his life were told as a PBS documentary."
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Music Within (2007)31%
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" In an unusual season with so many films are aimed at adults Things We Lost may be the most mature of the lot."
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)65%

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