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Critics / Donald J. Levit
Donald J. Levit
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DONALD J. LEVIT

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Biography: Donald J. Levit is a free-lance writer with a B.A. from Duke and a Ph. D. from Chicago. Although born in Nashville and raised there and in Brooklyn, he has lived in many other places in the U.S. He also resided for a time in the Caribbean and, for twenty-two years, in Spain. Dr. Levit now calls New York City his home.

Publications: Film Threat, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 551

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Rotten
24%

Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009)

" Far from advertised 'lush, poetic language,' the film's dialogue is pancake flat, including verbal sparring." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Dec 30, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
88%

The White Ribbon (2009)

" The narrator-teacher's voice and shy personality lull and convince, and approximation becomes acceptable reality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Dec 27, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
67%

Police, Adjective (2009)

" The film's languid construction mirrors content, the dull everyday of real police routine rather than the usual police procedural." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Dec 20, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
74%

The Young Victoria (2009)

" Victoria's schooling in responsibility takes a back seat to the emergence of passionate womanhood, not cheapened by cinema's usual descent to sex steam." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Dec 17, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
97%

The Hurt Locker (2009)

" The tension of life-and-death situations and of egos that need to cooperate to survive, is manifest in 'The Hurt Locker.'" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Dec 4, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
96%

Intolerance (1916)

" Foreshadows what film could be -- spectacle reinforcing eternal themes of love and death -- and, at its best, would be." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Dec 1, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
68%

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

" Robin Wright Penn delivers the mature performance of her career as the title character in 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.'" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Nov 27, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
91%

Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)

" Not an anti-war tract or a glorification but, rather, a fair consideration of humanity that exists within the inhumanity of armed conflict." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Oct 23, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
93%

Juno (2007)

" 'Juno' is on some counts unrealistic and does not probe deeply, but it has undeniable charm." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Oct 13, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
81%

Araya (1959)

" Although dubbed a 'tone poem,' it is better to consider 'Araya' as visual biblical parable, an artfully artless triptych built on sacred-mystical threes." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Oct 7, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
73%

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

" Sequences fade into the pack and make it difficult to differentiate one player from the others, much less remember them after the lights go up." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Oct 4, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
53%

Shadrach (1998)

" A vignette, really, a couple of days in a boy%u06E5s life recollected in tranquillity." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Sep 28, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
84%

Disgrace (2009)

" Individual or societal in thrust, 'Disgrace' is hampered by a lack of resolution and the impenetrability of motivations." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
67%

Paris (2009)

" 'Paris' works its spell in perceptions heightened for anyone suddenly made aware of mortality and on what was formerly taken for granted." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Sep 16, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
57%

9 (2009)

" Soul is what distinguished man from brute, and 9 and his appealing cohorts have that in abundance." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Sep 6, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
49%

Taking Woodstock (2009)

" Captures a lost innocence -- but the toneless monosyllables and "very cool's" and "groovy's" grow quickly vapid or spacey." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Aug 27, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
74%

Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)

" Alas for 'Five Minutes of Heaven,' confrontations seem rigged and resolution is tacked on in minutes." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Aug 20, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
86%

Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)

" The user-used/player-pawn/Fergus-Marty relationship is what counts here, braced by Kingsley and Sturgess in a consideration of conscience in wartime." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Aug 16, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
72%

I Sell the Dead (2009)

" Bits strike out in every which way but are not long, deep or effective, so 'I Sell the Dead' develops neither momentum nor personality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Aug 9, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
68%

Funny People (2009)

" Bits strike out in every which way but are not long, deep or effective, so 'I Sell the Dead' develops neither momentum nor personality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Aug 6, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
80%

The Learning Tree (1969)

" Forty years ago, pioneer Gordon Parks had to step with extra care filming 'The Learning Tree' lest the door shut behind him." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Aug 5, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
86%

Flame & Citron (2008)

" This noir in underlit blacks and blues grows too complex for its own good." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jul 29, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
82%

Thirst (2009)

" Among its type, 'Thirst' succeeds despite too many distractions." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jul 23, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
31%

Deadgirl (2008)

" With a slight hint of developing into more than a teen-pleaser gorefest, 'Deadgirl' instead goes for the jugular and splatters blood." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jul 23, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
100%

Shoah (1985)

" 'Shoah' is difficult to watch, but few other films match its consideration of unspeakable evil and indifference." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jul 17, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
76%

Tropical Malady (2005)

" Camera work in the first half of 'Tropical Malady' appears jumpy and interrupted by confusing cuts and artsy tricks." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jul 12, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
80%

Nollywood Babylon (2009)

" 'Nollywood Babylon' teases, for its themes are interesting but, too many of them brought up, they do not get the incisive treatment each deserves." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
20%

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

" Boys in the audience may groan indulgently, but their dates ought to squeal with delighted pride." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
92%

Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

" Technique is nothing fancy in this straightforward chronological account that leaves a warm glow for the linked personalities, the programs and the era." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
80%

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation (2009)

" DJ Spooky's 'Rebirth of a Nation' is an admirable fusion film in its own right." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jun 28, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
55%

Surveillance (2009)

" The film's late, unprepared-for perversity turnabout undoes what has gone before." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
85%

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

" Political, religious and personal niceties of the period are streamlined, and the movie concentrates on the impressive steadfastness of Sir Thomas More." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jun 24, 2009

Fresh

N/A

Life on Earth (1998)

" Accurately and lovingly filmed, so one easily slides into this world." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jun 20, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
66%

Dead Snow (2009)

" Far from Scandinavian Lutheran deep seriousness, this is all homage to a generally shallow genre and fun for those who cotton to that sort of thing." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Jun 16, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
81%

Unmistaken Child (2009)

" Scripted or posed pieces blend seamlessly with the spontaneous non-fiction in this impressive documentary." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted May 31, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
100%

Afghan Star (2009)

" Fascinating, 'Afghan Star' pictures the familiar dropped into a totally foreign context distanced even more by recent and continuing bloody strife." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted May 30, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
70%

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

" Surface gloss is what you get in this caper-romance." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted May 21, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
73%

Rudo and Cursi (2009)

" Subtitles, pervasive obscenity, macho mother insults and some nudity/sex probably will not draw in the viewers who made a family hit of Bend It Like Beckham." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted May 7, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
39%

The Limits of Control (2009)

" The tiring repetitiousness of 'Limits of Control' may prove too much for many viewers." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted May 1, 2009

Fresh

N/A

Desert Dream (2009)

" Lovely as a tree." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Apr 24, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
85%

Tyson (2009)

" This raging bull...is unaware how simultaneously untouchable and vulnerable he is." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Apr 20, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
88%

The Pope's Toilet (2007)

" A celebration of hope, humor and resilience among the humble and only secondarily a dig at media distortion and the disconnect between the Church and the poor." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Apr 19, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
73%

American Violet (2009)

" No suspense is developed, and low-income housing and women's house of detention alike are prettied up without any feeling for gritty reality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Apr 17, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
86%

Earth (2009)

" Stars Mother Nature and the photography deserve standing applause." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Apr 17, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
90%

Forbidden Lie$ (2009)

" Sucked in by her subject, the director gets too close for objective necessary cutting." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Apr 3, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
34%

Alien Trespass (2009)

" 'Alien Trespass' is neither soulless nor bad. Yet it does not improve on the sources that inspire it, so why not watch them instead?" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Apr 2, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
82%

Pontypool (2009)

" 'Pontypool' succeeds where many a less intelligent, purely visceral-visual movie leaves us cold." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Mar 28, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
95%

Goodbye Solo (2009)

" The internal nature of the story here is underscored by Michael Simmonds' camerawork, which appears daring in simplicity without being claustrophobic." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Mar 25, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
88%

Sin Nombre (2009)

" 'Sin Nombre' is informative and gripping in story and technique." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Mar 21, 2009

Fresh

N/A

The Milk of Sorrow (2009)

" This Peruvian tale is about the superstitious but psychologically valid effects of terror." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Posted Mar 21, 2009
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