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RICK CURNUTTE
PUBLICATION(S)
• Columbus CityScene
• TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)

BIOGRAPHY
Er, I like movies.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 121
Total QuickRatings: 17

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Online Film Critics Society

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• Location: Chicago, IL

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LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES
A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A+ Before Sunset
3.75/4 The Passion of the Christ
A- Birth
B+ Bullet Ballet
B Bowling for Columbine
B- Gozu
C+ For Your Consideration
C Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D
C- Thunderbirds
D+ Kinsey
D The Good Girl
D- Catwoman
F House of Wax
 
  
BEST REVIEWED
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A Rocky Balboa
A+ The Departed
A Capote
A Bubble
A+ Brokeback Mountain
A Walk the Line
A+ Tropical Malady
A A Streetcar Named Desire
A George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
A The Ballad of Jack and Rose
 more...
 
  
WORST REVIEWED
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F Alone in the Dark
F House of Wax
D- Fantastic Four
D- Saw
D- Catwoman
D Hostage
D Kingdom of Heaven
D Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
D Spanglish
D The Business of Fancydancing
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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C+		 
"Where For Your Consideration fails the most is in its rather juvenile interpretation of how the entire awards season functions...there was a great film to be made here." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 25, 2006
 		For Your Consideration (2006)51%
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A		 
"[Stallone] is channeling all the animal and primal method instincts of the late Marlon Brando, and it’s exciting to behold the aging actor rediscovering the innate power of his acting prowess." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 25, 2006
 		Rocky Balboa (2006)76%
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A+		 
"It's the culmination of a lifelong examination of men and their violent ways...The Departed is, in my estimation, possibly the finest film Scorsese has ever made." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Nov 8, 2006
 		The Departed (2006)92%
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A		 
"Capote is a taut, elegant work of cinematic expression...a major work." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Mar 21, 2006
 		Capote (2005)91%
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D+		 
"Steve Martin...isn't quite up to the task...Shawn Levy...lacks the ability to reign in the broadness of the material, and the film suffers because of it." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Feb 10, 2006
 		Pink Panther (2006)24%
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A		 
"...an astonishingly unnerving piece of humanist cinema." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Feb 6, 2006
 		Bubble (2006)71%
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A-		 
"...Roth has crafted a supremely political film, one that lambasts the jocular xenophobia of the typical American..." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jan 23, 2006
 		Hostel (2006)58%
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B		 
"The Land of College Prophets could easily become the first genuine cult hit of the DV era. " -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jan 18, 2006
 		The Land of College Prophets ()67%
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A+		 
"Brokeback Mountain is a grand, romantic, staggeringly great epic...the best film of the year." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 15, 2005
 		Brokeback Mountain (2005)87%
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A		 
"Walk the Line is a powerful piece of work, a modern-day Rebel Without a Cause...a potent bit of filmmaking" -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 3, 2005
 		Walk the Line (2005)83%
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C-		 
"Though bits of this plodding film work pretty well...Broken Flowers is a mixed bag of vignettes." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 3, 2005
 		Broken Flowers (2005)86%
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B		 
"For my money, Doom is the best of the video game adaptations (quite possibly the weakest status label I've ever given a film)." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Oct 27, 2005
 		Doom (2005)20%
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C-		 
"Once Red Eye leaves the confines of the plane cabin and attempts to open up into a more standard thriller, it loses steam...and intrigue" -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Aug 29, 2005
 		Red Eye (2005)78%
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A+		 
"[a]haunting masterpiece...He [Weerasethakul] is one of the most expressive, important contemporary; his abilities as a master formalist are a large reason for this." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jul 19, 2005
 		Tropical Malady (2005)78%
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A-		 
"Perhaps the best movie musical of the past decade" -- Columbus CityScene
Posted Jul 19, 2005
 		Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)93%
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B		 
"This sturdy update of the classic musical, features solid vocal performances from the leads" -- Columbus CityScene
Posted Jul 19, 2005
 		Chicago (2002)87%
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B+		 
"Liza Minnelli is revelatory as cabaret dancer Sally Bowles." -- Columbus CityScene
Posted Jul 19, 2005
 		Cabaret (1972)97%
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B+		 
"A brilliantly acted, tautly directed incarnation of David Mamet’s explosive office-politic treatise." -- Columbus CityScene
Posted Jul 19, 2005
 		Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)98%
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A		 
"Probably the best-realized translation of Tennessee Williams we’ve seen on screen...a gold standard" -- Columbus CityScene
Posted Jul 19, 2005
 		A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)100%
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D		 
"...the whole thing creeps toward the end under the weight of an overbearing narrative." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jul 19, 2005
 		Hostage (2005)34%
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D+		 
"Cursed, somehow, manages to not be scary, not be funny and not be involving, all of which Craven & Co. are so painfully reaching to attain." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jul 19, 2005
 		Cursed (2005)17%
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D-		 
"This new adaptation is sorely lacking in nearly everything that made FF such a blast. It's poorly acted, written and directed." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jul 11, 2005
 		Fantastic Four (2005)26%
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A		 
"Land of the Dead is probably the best-directed film in Romero's canon. It is a stunningly crafted genre work, a film of potent political import." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jul 11, 2005
 		George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005)75%
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C-		 
"Salles' Dark Water abandoned what was an intriguing dramatic narrative and wasted it on what seemed like four climaxes, none of them in service of what came before." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jul 11, 2005
 		Dark Water (2005)46%
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B-		 
"Actually, the latest entry in the Hellraiser saga...is a vast improvement over the last hundred or so...A solid, if underwhelming, genre effort." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jun 17, 2005
 		Hellraiser: Deader (2005)17%
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A		 
"Jack and Rose bears a haunting economy of style that appears as near-minimalist...Miller realizes her own screenplay with a stunning lack of self-consciousness." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jun 17, 2005
 		The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)46%
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C		 
"Haute Tension is the epitome of manufactured terror...succeeds greatly in its first two-thirds, but the contrived, implausible climax leaves much to be desired." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jun 17, 2005
 		High Tension (2005)41%
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C		 
"It's essentially a retread of the Spy Kids films...I'd love to see [Rodriguez] invest the...passion he displayed in Sin City into one of these children's films." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jun 17, 2005
 		Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005)19%
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A		 
"Murder-Set-Pieces is a truly pure cinematic expression of violent sexual rage...perhaps the greatest serial killer film ever made" -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 25, 2005
 		Murder Set Pieces (2006)42%
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A+		 
"Revenge of the Sith is [Lucas'] great Star Wars swan song. It is, and will likely remain, the best film of the year... a true masterpiece. " -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 20, 2005
 		Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)79%
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B		 
"This update, muscular and surprising, captures Carpenter's spirit, if not his pared-down, Hawksian formalism." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 17, 2005
 		Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)61%
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F		 
"It's tepid cinema, truncated, abbreviated...The worst film of the year. " -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 17, 2005
 		Alone in the Dark (2005)1%
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A		 
"Unleashed...is...a rich cinematic experience...A brutal, yet thoughtful, action picture." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 16, 2005
 		Unleashed (2005)66%
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F		 
"House of Wax is no mere failed attempt on cashing in on a recognizable name...it's...the complete and utter bastardization of a great genre work" -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 12, 2005
 		House of Wax (2005)25%
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D		 
"Ridley Scott has concocted his most sloppy film to date, a cringe-worthy epic of the Crusades that says absolutely nothing about the Crusades." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 6, 2005
 		Kingdom of Heaven (2005)39%
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A+		 
"This will surely be the DVD release of the year. Criterion has finally brought to DVD a wonderful transfer of Orson Welles' most playfully masterful film..." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 3, 2005
 		F For Fake (1976)88%
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B+		 
"Equal parts Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, Bubsy Berkeley and Bruce Lee, Kung Fu Hustle tows every line perfectly." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 3, 2005
 		Kung Fu Hustle (2005)89%
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D		 
"mannered, forced and inconsistent...uninspired...a narrative and thematic mess, thrown together, lacking any authorial focus." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted May 3, 2005
 		Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)60%
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B+		 
"Sin City marks a substantial leap forward in Rodriguez's film craft...[Rodriguez's vision is] fiercely committed." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Apr 7, 2005
 		Sin City (2005)77%
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Click here to read article -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Apr 4, 2005
 		Be Cool (2005)29%
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B-		 
"Perhaps the warmest surprise of the year so far is Andy Tennant's smart, big-hearted romantic comedy" -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Mar 18, 2005
 		Hitch (2005)68%
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D-		 
"The [Elmore Leonard] streak ends with F. Gary Gray's insufferable Be Cool, a pointless exercise in genre mish-mash" -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Mar 18, 2005
 		Be Cool (2005)29%
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B+		 
"Constantine is...kinky, funny and fresh...a true Gothic action spectacular..." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Feb 19, 2005
 		Constantine (2005)45%
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C-		 
"...suffers from Alexander Payne's recurring broad brushstrokes...reductive, anti-intellectual..." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 20, 2004
 		Sideways (2004)96%
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D		 
"...a sloppy, near-disaster of a picture, in which confusion and tedium are present in nearly every frame." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 20, 2004
 		Spanglish (2004)52%
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D+		 
"...has absolutely no cinematic spark or vision for framing the implications of what Dr. Kinsey accomplished." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 20, 2004
 		Kinsey (2004)90%
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A		 
"Closer is Mike Nichols' finest film since Carnal Knowledge...a masterpiece." -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Dec 14, 2004
 		Closer (2004)69%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Nov 29, 2004
 		Dead Man (1996)72%
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A-		 
"Bad Santa never compromises its singularly offensive–though refreshing–vision, and that’s something to celebrate." -- Columbus CityScene
Posted Nov 18, 2004
 		Bad Santa (2003)77%

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