Critics » Mark Adnum » Fresh
Mark Adnum

Mark Adnum

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:
eFilmCritic.com , Eleven Magazine , FILMINK (Australia) , outrate.net , Script Magazine , Senses of Cinema
Total Reviews:
183
Total QuickRatings:
17

Best Reviewed Films

Showing 1 - 50 of 170
Previous | Next
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
5/5 100% The Godfather (1972) outrate.net
Posted Jun 13, 2003
5/5 84% Dressed to Kill (1980) outrate.net
Posted Jun 13, 2003
5/5 79% Starman (1984) outrate.net
Posted Jun 13, 2003
5/5 100% North by Northwest (1959) outrate.net
Posted Jun 9, 2003
5/5 38% Valley of the Dolls (1967) outrate.net
Posted May 31, 2003
A 31% Making Love (1982) " Ever wondered how things might have turned out if AIDS had never happened? Watch this movie." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 8, 2002
A 93% In the Bedroom (2001) " When the camera finally falls on Spacek's off-white skin and embalmed expression, we're not sure if she's a ghost, a painting, or a person." — eFilmCritic.com
Posted Aug 2, 2002
98/100 82% The Deep End (2001) " The Deep End is an astute and deluxe film that heralds the arrival - fingers crossed - of a truly new gay cinema" — outrate.net
Posted May 31, 2003
A- 62% Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý svet) (2001) " Unlike some smarty-pants films like Being John Malkovich, or Memento, Dark Blue World is textured and intricate without ever being anally complex." — Script Magazine
Posted Aug 2, 2002
A- 60% Savage Nights (1994) " Frenetic and meditational, evoking the unpredictable hurricane/eye of the storm rhythm of living with and dying from AIDS." — outrate.net
Posted Apr 7, 2002
4/5 100% Alfie (1966) outrate.net
Posted Jun 13, 2003
4/5 82% Tightrope (1984) outrate.net
Posted Jun 13, 2003
4/5 95% Gone With the Wind (1939) outrate.net
Posted Jun 10, 2003
4/5 —— Tongues Untied - The Black Gay Male Experience () outrate.net
Posted Jun 4, 2003
4/5 41% The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) outrate.net
Posted May 31, 2003
67% Brüno (Bruno) (2009) " Just like with Ali G and Borat, Sacha as Brüno tricks famous faces into doing ridiculous interviews. This includes singers Paula Abdul and Latoya Jackson, who both leave within minutes after being served sushi on a naked Mexican." — outrate.net
Posted Jun 18, 2009
78% Doubt (2008) " As the lemon-sucking, bonnet-shackled Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the godly dragon lady of St Nicholas Catholic school in the Bronx, Meryl Streep delivers the worst performance of her career." — outrate.net
Posted Feb 10, 2009
75% The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) " when Casey Affleck beats Brad Pitt to a Best Actor Oscar nomination for the film come January, remember that you heard it here first." — eFilmCritic.com
Posted Oct 30, 2007
71% Paper Dolls (Bubot Niyar) (2006) " Heymann seems to be a big-hearted guy who, despite his own admission that he's happy to be alone, wants to push his Paper Dolls into as much happiness as they can find." — outrate.net
Posted Mar 15, 2007
40% Broken Sky (2006) " I agree with Salma Hayek, who exclaimed "so many Mexicans!" while announcing the nominations for the 2007 Oscars ceremony, that the past twelve months have featured a bounty of great Mexican films." — outrate.net
Posted Mar 15, 2007
87% Notes on a Scandal (2006) " Does anyone else note the similarities between Cate Blanchett and Kate Bush? They have the same first names, physically resemble each other, remain aloof from tabloid hoopla, and share the same kind of elysian artistic genius." — outrate.net
Posted Mar 15, 2007
73% Yentl (1983) " Like Yentl herself, the movie is constantly in search of who and what it is, only finds itself thwarted by certain circumstances, and sails off the screen still searching, leaving us unsatisfied rather than uplifted" — outrate.net
Posted Dec 4, 2006
71% Gay Sex in the 70s (2005) " the title is rather misleading as though we hear a lot about sex venues and see the odd xxx-pic or clip, there isn't a great deal of gay sex in Gay Sex in the 70's" — outrate.net
Posted Dec 4, 2006
66% Shortbus (2006) " Even as Mitchell pursues his gently romantic anti-agenda it's explicit three-way sex scenes or the appearance of remote-control vaginal vibrating-egg sex toys that move his tale along" — outrate.net
Posted Dec 4, 2006
49% The Object of My Affection (1998) " a surprisingly gutsy film that gets better as it goes along" — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
100% Law of Desire (1987) " Antonio Banderas was originally called José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (note the missing "s") before Almodóvar suggested he change his name" — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
63% Stonewall (1996) " The Stonewall legend never really knows what to do with itself - we know that drag queens led the riots, but conservative gay activists are always happy to insert their own ancestors into the record." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
63% Wild Side (2005) " Elliptic films of this type invariably drown in their own inscrutability but there's an emotional and psychological authenticity here that elevates Wild Side from the problems of its coma-inducing genre." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
76% Plata quemada (Burnt Money) (2001) " Druggy but expert armed robbers, Angel and Nene escape to Uruguay when a hold-up in Argentina goes wrong." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
88% Tying the Knot (2004) " Tying the Knot's heart-on-its-sleeve makes for several serious missteps." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
96% The Silence of the Lambs (1991) " Misguided and counterproductive gay activists set upon The Silence of the Lambs and made fools out of themselves simplifying and misinterpreting certain elements of a complex cinematic masterpiece." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
88% Bad Education (La Mala educación) (2004) " Bad Education is missing the fairy dust that made All About My Mother such a magical masterpiece." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
98% All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) (1999) " Huma, a chain-smoking diva in the style of Bette Davis, doesn't seem to distinguish between her offstage self and her role as Blanche duBois, while Manuela becomes, for a moment, a fusion of Eve Harrington and Stella Kowalski." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
83% Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) " Kilmer and Downey Jr spar well together, in several truly hilarious exchanges, but their characters are so well drawn and the Black's script so brainy that stale home/hetero tit-for-tats over handfuls of donuts during the stakeout do not occur." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
76% The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) " Frank seduces both Brad and Janet, kills a love rival who's been imprisoned in a deep freeze (played by Meatloaf) with a pick, and tries to keep a tight leash on the energetic Rocky." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
26% Anatomy of Hell (2004) " A beautiful but nameless woman (Amira Casar) tries to kill herself in the toilets of a gay disco. One of the gay clubbers, a handsome and also nameless man (Italian porn superstar Rocco Siffredi), rescues her." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
57% Beefcake (1999) " Bob Mizer was the enterprising creator of the Athletic Model Guild, a modelling agency and publishing house that celebrated 1950s-style beefacke bodybuilders through its R-rated magazine "Physique Pictorial"" — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
100% Laberinto de pasiones (Labyrinth of Passion) (1982) " Look, this isn't Almodóvar's best film. His second feature, it's a pretty low-budget, low frills affair and the signature kinks are shrill and unhewn." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
46% Food of Love (2003) " Paul (Kevin Bishop) is a capable pianist, but not talented enough to break into recital hall superstardom." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
16% Alexander (2004) " Anthony Hopkins, made up to look about a hundred and fifty, plays a narrator who records Alexander's life at the library of Alexandria, a grand building which in this film looks more like Elton John's bathroom or the set for an ad for "Kouros"." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
93% Paragraph 175 (2000) " Made by the Academy Award winning team responsible for Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt, Paragraph 175 is a predictably excellent documentary that explores the haunting memories of a group of gay and lesbian Holocaust survivors with subtlety." — outrate.net
Posted Oct 7, 2006
40% Lola and Bilidikid (Lola and Billy the Kid) (Lola + Bilidikid) (1999) " Murat lurks around public toilets and drag bars trying to find some entry point into his adulthood and eventually encounters Lola (Gandi Mukli), a drag performer who turns out to be Murat's estranged brother" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
—— Mandragora (1997) " Mandragora - or Mandrake - is a noxious plant named from two Greek words meaning "harmful to cattle". Reportedly hallucinogenic and used in the distant past as an anaesthetic before operations, it was fabled to grow under the gallows of hung men, thirstin" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
21% The 24th Day (2004) " Twenty-four days after he's learnt of his HIV seroconversion, Tom (Scott Speedman) tracks down Dan (James Madsen), who he believes infected him. Tom takes Dan home, handcuffs him to a chair and withdraws some of Dan's blood" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
—— Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) (2003) " a beautifully shot film with an affectingly melancholy heart. It's intelligent and innovative in several ways and I haven't seen a film that deals with a very young, HIV-positive gay guy in quite the ways that this film does" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
87% Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet) (1981) " Taxi Zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet) is a remarkable AIDS-eve film that was scandalous in its day and still runs rings around self-proclaimed "edgy" queer films that bore us to death each year at the annual local gay and lesbian film festival" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
100% C.R.A.Z.Y. (Crazy) (2005) " C.R.A.Z.Y. (the title is made up of the initials of the five sons) is a most refreshing take on the gay coming-of-age genre, an overused template which has churned out one trite film about homophobia after another" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
—— Beautiful Mystery (1983) " If ever there was a film to stumble upon late at night after you've been smoking pot, Beautiful Mystery is it." — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
—— A Very Natural Thing (1974) " Apparently intended as a "gay version" of Love Story, a huge hetero hit released in 1970, A Very Natural Thing is actually nothing more than a dramatised discussion about the shape gay life, then in its infancy, should take" — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
—— Macho Dancer (2005) " This is an extremely powerful and emotionally impacting film which has a quiet reputation but which deserves some kind of revival ..." — outrate.net
Posted Sep 23, 2006
Showing 1 - 50 of 170
Previous | Next
  • Sort by Rating:

    Sort results by this critic's rating. This option is only available for critics with a rating system (4 star, letter grade, 1-10, etc.)

  • Sort by T-meter:

    Sort results by the Tomatometer (percentage of critics recommending a certain movie)

Help | About | Jobs | Newsletter | Critics Submission | API | Licensing | Mobile