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Mark Keizer

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Publications:: Alt Film Guide , Boxoffice Magazine , Los Angeles CityBeat
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 282

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2.5/5	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" The best version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel ever committed to the screen. But don't get too excited. The bar is very low." — Alt Film Guide Posted May 11, 2013
3.5/5	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Yet another state-of-the-art Marvel creation that strikes an entertaining balance between heart, swagger, and volume." — Alt Film Guide Posted May 3, 2013
3/5	65%	Antiviral (2013)	" A gutsy, notable debut for a young filmmaker who needs to find a unique voice to match his unique ideas." — Alt Film Guide Posted Apr 25, 2013
3/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" The key selling point is Bayona's ten-minute reenactment of the tidal wave and its carnage, which is brutal, visceral and without peer. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 13, 2012
3.5/5	69%	Les Misérables (2012)	" For fans, this is exactly how the story of Jean Valjean's transformation from thief to saint should be delivered: smothered in bombast" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 6, 2012
2.5/5	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Most of the way, the film's deficiencies are survivable if only for Jennifer Lawrence and some fleeting moments of emotional clarity and bracing conflict." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 14, 2012
3.5/5	75%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" A compellingly languorous genre picture that doesn't indict the American system so much as call it out for what it is" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 23, 2012
3/5	67%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" Rapturously grand in scope and ambition, if not emotional effect." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2012
3.5/5	84%	Smashed (2012)	" Winstead makes choices that are unglamorous and subtle. She never asks for our sympathy, so we give it to her willfully." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 1, 2012
3/5	95%	The Imposter (2012)	" The dense storytelling, heavy thematic burdens and endlessly conflicting perspectives could have spun The Imposter right off the rails had Layton's hold not been so assured." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2012
3/5	88%	Neil Young Journeys (2012)	" Fans of the 66-year-old guitar god (which is to say the only people who'll see this homespun gem) will revel in Young's winsome cruise down Memory Lane." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 22, 2012
4/5	96%	Undefeated (2012)	" Awards recognition should only boost the coffers of a doc that features echoes of the popular, based-on-a-true-story gridiron movies The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 7, 2012
3/5	86%	Chico & Rita (2012)	" Its failings aside, Chico & Rita is a work of warmth and affection, a colorful evocation of a time and a musical environment redolent of artistic sophistication and the prospects of post-war recovery." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 31, 2012
3/5	94%	Coriolanus (2011)	" Fiennes and Logan have created a smart, timely adaptation that is far easier to admire than it is to embrace, a study of an anti-hero without redemption, a man who ultimately dies more for the sake of fighting than for any specific cause." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 27, 2012
4/5	89%	In Darkness (2012)	" Whereas too many Holocaust dramas rely on built-in sympathies and long-settled historical assumptions...Holland is not afraid to trade a barely-earned tear for a surprising tweak of our expectations." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2012
1.5/5	25%	Autoerotic (2011)	" If only (Swanberg) explored his characters as much as his characters explore themselves." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 25, 2011
1/5	0%	The Undefeated (2011)	" The Undefeated says less about Sarah Palin than about the political and cultural environment that made her big screen beatification possible." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2011
3.5/5	80%	Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011)	" Conan O'Brien is one of the funniest men to ever host a television program. It was his downfall." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 18, 2011
2.5/5	45%	The Perfect Host (2011)	" As it unfolds, one dreams of Sidney Lumet's Deathtrap and wonders how David Mamet would have handled these two A-types as they jockey for supremacy in a closed environment." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2011
3/5	85%	Make Believe (2011)	" Watching even the most tossed-off gag is worth whatever shortcomings Make Believe has." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 17, 2011
3/5	71%	The People vs. George Lucas (2011)	" It catalogues and recalls events so vividly that it will become a communal experience for those with conflicted feelings about Luke, Han and those stupid, furry things from Episode VI." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 7, 2011
3/5	71%	Dumbstruck (2011)	" Instead of shooting for real insight, the smoothly-edited doc maintains a pleasant course, as troubled artists continually navigate between compromise and concession. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2011
1/5	14%	Cat Run (2011)	" A loud, ugly and terrible movie that doesn't skillfully juggle its various elements; it throws them violently at your face and calls it edge." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2011
3.5/5	88%	Honey (2011)	" A gorgeously shot, deeply interior portrait of the artist as a young introvert." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 29, 2011
3/5	68%	Rubber (2011)	" Pleasure is derived strictly from bearing witness to such devilish and well-executed nonsense." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 29, 2011
2/5	29%	Elektra Luxx (2011)	" Gugino and the rest of the mostly female cast clearly savor the chance to strip and swear in a free-play environment, which is a nice way of saying the film is hopelessly flabby and lacks coherence." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2011
2/5	29%	Take Me Home Tonight (2011)	" It's only sporadically amusing and it's certainly not original, unless the definition of original has been broadened to include copies of things that were original twenty-five years ago." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 3, 2011
2.5/5	48%	Super (2011)	" Super is not wanting for good ideas; it's wanting for direction." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2011
2/5	54%	Brotherhood (2011)	" Brotherhood moves fast, but it can't outrun its superficiality." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2011
3/5	83%	Zero Bridge (2011)	" A winning example of modesty in front of the camera and intelligence behind it." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 18, 2011
2.5/5	43%	Cracks (2011)	" Scott excels in maintaining a low, persistent hum of eroticism whose purpose is not titillation or camp." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 12, 2011
2/5	39%	The Other Woman (2011)	" What happens when a film director falls for a novel crammed with Incredible Moments of Heartbreaking Emotion and turns it into a movie crammed with Incredible Moments of Heartbreaking Emotion" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 3, 2011
3/5	87%	Lemmy (2011)	" For the most part, Olliver and Orshoski are smart enough to allow Lemmy's unique personality to come to them, as opposed to pushing a case for it." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 28, 2011
2/5	53%	The Mechanic (2011)	" A mechanic seems like a thinking man's occupation. The Mechanic, though, barely has a thought in its head." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 26, 2011
2.5/5	24%	The Dilemma (2011)	" Even though The Dilemma fails as a whole, there's enough ethical brain teasing and character-based conflict to warrant an unenthusiastic recommendation." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 12, 2011
3/5	60%	Plastic Planet (2011)	" Boote's strong film will make you look at the floating plastic bag from American Beauty in a new, wholly suspicious way." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 8, 2011
3.5/5	84%	The Time That Remains (2011)	" The formalism Suleiman employs here provides a unique emotional entry point into the Palestinian dilemma, one that uses static shot composition and humor to clarify and comment, not to generate cheap laughs." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 8, 2011
2/5	32%	How Do You Know (2010)	" Witherspoon's charm...has been replaced with tentativeness, confusion and the exaggerated facial expressions of a sitcom comedienne. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2010
1.5/5	33%	Meskada (2010)	" Completely inauthentic at almost every level." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 5, 2010
2.5/5	52%	The Next Three Days (2010)	" To get anything out of this overlong, underwhelming nonsense, think of it as a blow against the wimpification of the American male." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2010
2.5/5	67%	Jews And Baseball: An American Love Story (2010)	" (Prioritizes) statistics and on-field accomplishments over larger questions of religion, culture and community." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 8, 2010
3.5/5	71%	The Magician (2010)	" Ray is a ratty little bugger with a corner pub smile that hides secrets you're safer not knowing but can't wait to discover. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2010
1.5/5	38%	Eichmann (2010)	" Feels the burden of history so heavily that it's effectively smothered by it." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2010
2.5/5	40%	Gerrymandering (2010)	" Works fine as civics instruction but it won't move the needle against this decidedly anti-democratic process." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2010
3/5	83%	Rachel (2010)	" Bitton operates at a cool, investigatory remove that's not as objective as it looks ... nevertheless, it's a well structured, sometimes riveting piece of information gathering." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2010
2/5	72%	Red (2010)	" Schwentke keeps things light: light on big laughs, light on unique action set pieces and light on any sense that these game but retired spies are too old for this crap. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2010
2.5/5	52%	The Winning Season (2010)	" Rockwell charms us into giving the film the benefit of our many doubts. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 3, 2010
3/5	75%	Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe ()	" A wild biographical ride that adds an unexpected psychological layer to the classic art versus commerce conundrum." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2010
3.5/5	97%	A Film Unfinished (2010)	" Hersonski has done Holocaust scholarship a great favor. Just when we thought there were no new twists to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto comes this documentary: focused, sorrowful and revelatory." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 20, 2010

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