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BEN KENIGSBERG
PUBLICATION(S)
• East Hampton Independent
• L.A. Weekly
• Time Out
• Time Out New York
• Village Voice

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Ben Kenigsberg has been the film critic for the East Hampton-Southampton Independent since 1999. He also writes regular reviews for the Columbia Daily Spectator (search "kenigsberg" at www.columbiaspectator.com) and has published a few pieces in the Village Voice.
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2/6
 
"David Mamet officially exceeds his quota of permissible b.s. for this decade with this preposterous new shell game." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)71%
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2/6
 
"Morgan Spurlock aims his latest docu-stunt at those who haven’t read a newspaper since the Clinton administration." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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3/6
 
"Too much time in the sun breeds laziness, and Sarah Marshall has a structural laxness that befits its setting, as if no one got around to trimming the outtakes." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)85%
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3/6
 
"What saves Smart People, at least in part, is its cast." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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2/6
 
"It’s hard to dislike Simon Pegg, but in Run Fat Boy Run, he exhausts our sympathy in the prologue." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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3/6
 
"Flawless more than compensates for its rough edges." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Flawless (2007)62%
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3/6
 
"[Director] Luketic and his screenwriters preserve the excitement and a fair amount of the blackjack strategy -- yet somehow the whole exercise plays like a high-tech John Hughes movie." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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4/6
 
"Energetic as the courtroom antics are, the vintage footage holds its own amazements." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Chicago 10 (2008)77%
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4/6
 
"McDonagh’s sense of the absurd never falters." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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4/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Beowulf (2007)70%
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1/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)24%
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1/6
 
"It’s a narrative strategy that neither informs, challenges nor heals." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Grace is Gone (2007)58%
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2/6
 
"An overproduced Twilight Zone episode -- and it might have been more satisfying had Del Toro conjured the ghost of Rod Serling and closed the movie with a monologue." -- Time Out New York
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
The Orphanage (2007)85%
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2/6
 
"Khaled Hosseini’s engaging best-seller cries out for a film treatment on an epic scale. But with his uneven, awards-baiting adaptation, Marc Forster seems a tourist both culturally and dramatically." -- Time Out New York
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)66%
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4/6
 
"It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. feels genuinely sui generis; Glover has said it’s the best film of his career. Whatever, McFly. But he’s not far off." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 22, 2007
 
It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE (2007)80%
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Click here to read article -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 28, 2007
 
Crazy Legs Conti - Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating (2004)n/a
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5/6
 
"If The Simpsons Movie won’t define the show’s legacy, it’s certainly the frosting on the doughnut." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 26, 2007
 
The Simpsons Movie (2007)89%
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5/6
 
"For Tsai’s fans, Sleep offers many pleasures, including a heightened attention to nocturnal beauty and a gorgeous, uncharacteristic surrealism." -- Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2007)88%
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4/6
 
"Director Lattuada was reportedly acclaimed for his oddball tonal shifts, which Mafioso offers in spades." -- Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
Mafioso (1962)96%
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3/6
 
"The movie’s most powerful component is political." -- Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
Triad Election (2007)96%
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1/6
 
"The movie shows that the only thing worse than a generically screwy thriller is one with a selective narrator -- and one that doesn’t give viewers a fair chance to play along." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 23, 2007
 
Perfect Stranger (2007)10%
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4/6
 
"Rock’s breakthrough as a director -- a chance for him to grapple openly with his status as a maturing (but still ostensibly immature) comedian." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 23, 2007
 
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)19%
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"Without explanatory narration, the impressionistic editing is likely to prove tedious for the uninitiated." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 25, 2006
 
Darshan - the Embrace (2006)50%
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"The film, set in September 2002, employs 9-11 as a thematic crutch, positing the attacks as little more than a backdrop for its characters' other, infinitely less significant woes." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 20, 2006
 
The Great New Wonderful (2006)74%
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"The last scene expresses simply and eloquently that devotion is where you find it." -- Village Voice
Posted May 9, 2006
 
Mendy - A Question of Faith (2006)75%
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"Kokan's resentment runs deep -- too deep, unfortunately, for an 82-minute feature to spell out with any clarity." -- Village Voice
Posted May 2, 2006
 
How I Killed a Saint (2004)83%
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"It’s hard to buy the movie as an underdog success story, since even the actors barely seem to exert themselves." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 13, 2006
 
The Benchwarmers (2006)11%
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"Blurbsters on Rotten Tomatoes will say it's hit-and-miss -- and they'll be right." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 11, 2006
 
Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (2006)53%
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"Maybe video games really do rot the mind." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 28, 2006
 
Stay Alive (2006)7%
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"Find Me Guilty is overlong and often sitcomy, but it's also pleasantly old-school, with a tone, soundtrack, and even a title-card font that suggest a mellow but not senile Woody Allen." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 14, 2006
 
Find Me Guilty (2006)57%
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"The milieu owes something to Lindsay Anderson's If.... , but Evil is less anti-authority than pro-confrontation." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 7, 2006
 
Evil (2003)68%
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"Because the metaphysics driving it are so fuzzy, this is the rare horror film where even sludgy viscera elicit only yawns." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 7, 2006
 
Neighbor 13 (2005)11%
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"It takes a certain gall to pass off mere references as jokes." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 21, 2006
 
Date Movie (2006)6%
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"The most that can be said for this strenuously bland reconstitution is that Steve Martin was clearly alive during filming. But just how alive, unfortunately, is at issue." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 14, 2006
 
Pink Panther (2006)24%
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"Jake [is] forced to swallow his pride and ask girly Brewster to train him. It's a marginally subversive moment in a movie that otherwise falls in line." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2006
 
Annapolis (2006)10%
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"... a taut brainwashing thriller ..." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 26, 2006
 
Nightingale in a Music Box (2002)67%
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"There's no guiding power at work here; it's Evolution without a shred of intelligent design." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 25, 2006
 
Underworld: Evolution (2006)14%
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"Forget 30-minute delivery -- this brand of indie quirkiness congealed in the late '90s." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 17, 2006
 
Pizza (2005)31%
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"Sitcom pizzicato underlines each comic development." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 10, 2006
 
April's Shower (2006)23%
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"The Kid & I qualifies as the most indulgent kind of homemade project, laden with tediously inspirational dialogue and visuals that seem shot through half-fizzled Yuengling." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2005
 
The Kid & I (2005)36%
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"Pleasant even without reaching much of a destination." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2005
 
Transamerica (2005)76%
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"It's a sour, petty act of mockery that values its own ineptitude over genuine cleverness, travestying Quentin Tarantino and others simply for dreaming up gimmicks that worked." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 21, 2005
 
My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)23%
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"Never acquires the emotional weight it should." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 15, 2005
 
Private (2004)80%
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"By the time the sky really does start 'falling' -- courtesy of an alien invasion -- Chicken Little's frantic efforts to stay farm fresh have started to wear on the nerves." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 8, 2005
 
Chicken Little (2005)38%
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"This family-versus-business parable comes across as slight, familiar, and in dire need of seasoning." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2005
 
Brooklyn Lobster (2006)44%
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"Not quite a romance by numbers, Prime is nevertheless a movie we need like a hole in the head." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 27, 2005
 
Prime (2005)49%
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"Title notwithstanding, Three . . . Extremes really offers only two. The first is one of nausea." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2005
 
3 Extremes (2005)85%
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"Viewers will be encouraged to sleep, to dream of better movies." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 18, 2005
 
Dreamer (2005)63%
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"Of course, cameras weren't rolling for the trip -- which garnered Emmanuel a degree of international renown -- so this hagiographic, after-the-fact documentary flounders for other angles." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 18, 2005
 
Emmanuel's Gift (2005)81%
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"Beneath its glossy surface beats the heart of a genuine Egoyan film." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 13, 2005
 
Where The Truth Lies (2005)39%

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