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Christopher Smith

Christopher Smith

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Publications:
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Critics' Group:
Broadcast Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
1210
Total QuickRatings:
243

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A 91% The Fighter (2010) " Most of the drama takes place outside of the ring, where lives are on the line, a family is divided and one of the year's best movies is found." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 7, 2011
A 96% The Social Network (2010) " "The Social Network" has an unusually difficult task to pull off--it has to make computer programming exciting--and it does so with aplomb. " — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Oct 7, 2010
A 88% Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000) " Besides the performances, which are uniformly strong, what's so terrific about "The Exorcist" is how it's in no hurry to get to the meat of its horror. Unlike today's horror movies, it isn't exploitative. It's about its characters." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Oct 3, 2010
A 89% Let Me In (2010) " Reeves has done the impossible and made a foreign film for a mainstream American audience." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Oct 3, 2010
A 66% The American (2010) " I loved this movie. I loved it for giving the finger to what so many American thrillers have become. Instead of coming off an assembly line, here is a thriller that's fresh and different, focused and smart. It has a European sensibility." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Sep 10, 2010
A 91% Shattered Glass (2003) " Perhaps the best exploration of American journalism this past decade has seen." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Sep 7, 2010
A 81% Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) " A film that is a true gamechanger in every way, something so visually spellbinding and inventive that it really proves there is room out there for flat-out originality in mainstream cinema. " — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Aug 14, 2010
A 99% Toy Story 3 (2010) " Once again, you're left with a groundswell of admiration for the skilled people at Pixar, who have an uncanny way of balancing emotional weight with outrageous moments of comedy and action." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jun 26, 2010
A 81% Oceans (Disneynature's Oceans) (2010) " In the end, the film is something of a gift. If ever there was a movie needed right now to underscore the importance of preserving our world and its life-giving waters, this is it. " — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Apr 22, 2010
A 98% How to Train Your Dragon (2010) " With breathtaking animation (about the best I've seen in recent years, certainly on par with "Up") and a very sweet tale, "How to Train Your Dragon" is one of the best films of the year thus far." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Mar 27, 2010
A 63% The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) " Gilliam has had a rough 10 years, but he's ended the decade with what is easily one of his seminal works. He has shown what imagination and storytelling means to him, and he's made one of his best films in the process." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 15, 2010
A 68% Youth in Revolt (2010) " As a whole, "Youth in Revolt" is simply an overwhelming success--as a comedy, a romance, and as a new career-high for Michael Cera. A dark, stylish and incredibly funny triumph." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 10, 2010
A 41% 44 Inch Chest (2010) " For all its dialogue and relative lack of action, "44 Inch Chest" is lively and vibrant, no doubt due to the pitch-perfect performances. The movie relies on substance over style and flash, and manages to impress all the same." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 8, 2010
A 91% Up in the Air (2009) " One 2009's best films." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 1, 2010
A 52% The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) " Begins with the subtitle: "More of this is true than you would believe." It's the perfect beginning to a film that deftly combines truth and fiction." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Nov 20, 2009
A 81% Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) " What "This is It" accomplishes is key to not only preserving Jackson's memory, but also to galvanizing his myth. Onstage, he still moonwalks, but there are new moves to be had here and a voice that is still strong." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Nov 6, 2009
A 90% Zombieland (2009) " This spoof on the zombie genre literally and figuratively is killer. It's laugh-out-loud funny, the gore is beautifully over-the-top, and the wicked script is laced with a cutting wit." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Oct 10, 2009
A+ 100% The Wizard of Oz (1939) " The movie--well, you know the movie. You know how great Judy Garland is as Dorothy, how memorable the rest of the cast is, how terrific Victor Fleming's direction is, and that the film's themes of the importance of home have helped it to resonate througho" — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Sep 27, 2009
A 90% Misery (1990) " Director Rob Reiner creates an atmosphere of tense horror wrapped around rich dialogue ("Cockadoodie dirty birdie!"), and in the process, he gets sterling performances from Caan and Bates." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Sep 27, 2009
A 92% The Way We Get By (2009) " It's a beautiful, heartfelt movie about people overcoming their own difficulties to make a positive impact on the lives of others." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Apr 25, 2009
A 90% Coraline (2009) " This beautifully rendered stop-animated movie is so masterfully realized, it already has staked its claim as one of the animated films to beat at next year's Academy Awards." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Feb 11, 2009
A 92% Frost/Nixon (2008) " Brisk and intense, with Howard and company rising to the challenge of recreating the infamous 1977 television interview David Frost scored with disgraced former U.S. president, Richard M. Nixon." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Feb 2, 2009
A 98% The Wrestler (2008) " You've heard the buzz--and in this case, it's safe to believe it. Fresh from the flames of whatever hell he's been lost to for so many years is Mickey Rourke, who is back in a major way in Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler."" — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 19, 2009
A 68% Revolutionary Road (2008) " Apparently, their hearts did go on--and how. Easily, one of the year's best films. It's fantastic, with two amazing performances by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Dec 12, 2008
A 94% Milk (2008) " A fabulous, important and timely movie with a core performance by Sean Penn that, at the very least, will lead to an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Nov 29, 2008
A 100% Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) " Every voting adult concerned about the damages created by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11 should watch it. So should those who steadfastly believe that no real or lasting damages have been made by that administration." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Oct 9, 2008
A 94% The Dark Knight (2008) " "So here it is: The best superhero movie ever. The Dark Knight deftly accomplishes all one could hope for, and then it surpasses it, and then it continues to surprise. The movie isn't just a triumph, it is that rare pop-culture oddity: A masterpiece."" — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jul 25, 2008
A 96% WALL-E (2008) " A terrific movie, easily one of Pixar's best. The animation is startling and the story follows suit. So far, this is the animated film to beat at next year's Academy Awards." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jun 27, 2008
A 93% Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007) " In spite of the rawness the film's subject, Schnabel wisely didn't create a weepy--far from it. This is a film about a flawed womanizer with little time for his children who comes to face himself by the vehicle of his own memoir." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Feb 10, 2008
A 91% There Will Be Blood (2007) " The best movie of Daniel Day-Lewis' career turns out to be in the best movie of Paul Thomas Anderson's career." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Feb 10, 2008
A 95% 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) " A superb film, in which the enemy isn't just time." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 11, 2008
A 95% No Country for Old Men (2007) " Creepy time down south." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 6, 2008
A 82% Into the Wild (2007) " It is an excellent, first-rate account of a story that, depending on your perspective, did or didn't end so well for Christopher Johnson McCandless (a terrific Emile Hirsch)." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Dec 19, 2007
A 86% Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) " It's bloody -- and it's bloody excellent." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Dec 6, 2007
A 100% Toy Story 2 (1999) " Toys are us." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Oct 18, 2007
A —— Muppet Show - Season Two (2007) " The show remains as fresh and as laugh-out-loud funny today as it did when it first premiered in 1976. Who knew that one of pop culture's most enduring love affairs would be between a frog and a pig?" — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Aug 2, 2007
A —— Sergio Leone Anthology (2007) " His name might sound like a pair of designer jeans from the '70s, but few directors are better. He was as important to the emerging shape of the Western as Francis Ford Coppolla was to reimagining the gangster movie." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Aug 1, 2007
A 90% Knocked Up (2007) " As with the best comedies, the film mines its laughs from recognizable human traits. Its premise might sound like something some folks might dread, but as a movie, it's everything you could wish for." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jul 25, 2007
A 96% Ratatouille (2007) " A terrific movie -- and an early contender for the Academy Award. With Ratatouille, Disney and Pixar not only capture the culinary heart of Paris -- itself a feat -- but also the hearts of audiences through one adorable little rat." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jun 16, 2007
A 97% Dog Day Afternoon (1975) " An iconic movie, thoroughly New York, with Pacino in top form." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted May 10, 2007
A —— Spider-Man 2.1 (2007) " Marketing for the sake of marketing. Still, the movie is a winner." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted May 2, 2007
A 97% Enter the Dragon (1973) " Presents a powerful, kinetic ballet by a martial arts master at the peak of his form--just try looking away from him." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted May 2, 2007
A 95% Pan's Labyrinth (2006) " Guillermo del Toro's excellent new film, "Pan's Labyrinth," is a violent, enthralling children's movie made for adults." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Mar 5, 2007
A 93% Children of Men (2006) " Welcome to the new year, folks, and welcome to Alfonso Cuaron's superb "Children of Men," which is one of 2006's best." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 8, 2007
A 92% Volver (2006) " Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" stars Penelope Cruz in a comeback performance that's so good, it recalls the film's title itself. In Spanish, "volver" means "to return," and that's exactly what Cruz has done here. She's fantastic." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Dec 11, 2006
A 94% Casino Royale (2006) " The new James Bond movie, Casino Royale, is one of the best, most satisfying movies of the year -- and who saw that coming?" — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Nov 20, 2006
A 93% The Departed (2006) " Finally, the race is on. The battle for Best Picture begins with Martin Scorsese's The Departed, an outstanding return to form that will be nominated across the board in several major categories." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Oct 16, 2006
A 69% World Trade Center (2006) " Perhaps Stone's greatest triumph is in his seamless recreation of Ground Zero. Stone rises to the occasion, achieving greatness by creating the illusion of reality within the most surreal of environments." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Aug 30, 2006
A 91% United 93 (2006) " United 93 presses hard on raw nerves and then, in its final frame, it literally crushes them. What Greengrass has created is haunting and unshakable, the medium at its full potential." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted May 5, 2006
A 77% Match Point (2005) " Confident and engrossing, a smashing return from Woody Allen, who hasn't been this spot-on in years." — Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Posted Jan 14, 2006
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