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Critics / Brent Simon
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BRENT SIMON

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Biography: A bespectacled graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brent Simon is editor-in-chief of Entertainment Today and a writer of many words for many formats. He does not like the new Pacific Bell Wireless commercials and cannot abide a world without U2 and pizza.
Favorites: Movies without Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand, Mariah Carey and Eric Schaeffer

Publications: Entertainment Today, FilmStew.com, IGN Movies, Los Angeles CityBeat, Los Angeles Daily News, Now Playing Magazine, ReelzChannel.com, Screen International, Screendaily, Shared Darkness

Critics' Group: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 1344
Total QuickRatings: 9

Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Rotten

Rotten
28%

Ninja Assassin (2009)

" This emotionally leaden genre offering never escapes a sense of mocking déjà vu for savvy viewers." — Screen International

Posted Nov 23, 2009

Rotten
C

N/A

Dark Country (2009)

" A modestly sketched episode of The Twilight Zone with its visual ambition peddle pushed all the way to the floor, the early woozy, pop-art hold of this brooding, passably eerie two-hander unravels considerably in its final half." — Shared Darkness

Posted Nov 8, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
94%

An Education (2009)

" Mulligan locates both the braininess and restless hormonal energy of an adolescent who's blooming before most of her peers. Bearing witness to her education, in all its naiveté, brashness, passion and pain, is illuminating." — Shared Darkness

Posted Nov 8, 2009

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Fresh
83%

Paranormal Activity (2009)

Click here to read article — Screen International

Posted Nov 6, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
22%

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)

" This sequel is a bit more comedic, a bit more convoluted and a bit more everything than its predecessor, which is a heady thing for eager fans of the stillborn cult flick, and fairly irrelevant to just about everyone else." — Shared Darkness

Posted Oct 30, 2009

Fresh
B-

Rotten
15%

Stan Helsing (2009)

" Puerile, yes, but rooted sincerely in character, this well cast comedy lampoons contemporary film audiences' familiarity with the horror genre without ever stooping to senselessly overloaded referential gags." — Shared Darkness

Posted Oct 29, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
57%

Fix (2008)

" Caffeinated travelogue Fix pulses with a brash and seductive visual style, but the human drama at the core of its premise ultimately feels a bit underdeveloped; with montages galore, Fix becomes a slave to its insistent artiness." — Shared Darkness

Posted Oct 28, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
20%

Amelia (2009)

" Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank can’t give any lift to Amelia, a soggy, un-engaging biopic." — Screen International

Posted Oct 21, 2009

Rotten
C-

Fresh
69%

(Untitled) (2009)

" Studded with some funny moments, but comes off as fuzzy and false, owing to the fact that it seems conflicted about what sort of agenda to pursue, or perspective to advance." — Shared Darkness

Posted Oct 13, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
70%

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

" The novelty of looking at the creatures never wears off, and Jonze uses an inquisitive handheld style that works." — Screen International

Posted Oct 12, 2009

Fresh
B-

Rotten
42%

New York, I Love You (2009)

" Like the city it honors, a jumbled, chaotic affair -- full of seduction, brio, contradiction and a pinch of pretentiousness. A mixed bag, sure, but the good news is there's something here for everyone." — Shared Darkness

Posted Oct 6, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
67%

The Bluetooth Virgin (2009)

" Fitfully, intriguingly captures the ever-present tension between between art and commerce, and again sets on a tee the age-old question: is it an audience that makes a work a legitimate piece of art?" — Shared Darkness

Posted Oct 6, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
57%

Explicit Ills (2008)

" Though lyrical, earnest and well photographed, Explicit Ills is ultimately more intriguing than good. Its narrative grip is far too loose." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Oct 6, 2009

Fresh
B

Rotten
59%

Paris 36 (2008)

" A sumptuous and emotionally substantive look at the triumph of artistic will in the face of difficult circumstances." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Sep 28, 2009

Rotten
C

Fresh
72%

The Boys Are Back (2009)

" A hairs-breadth thumbs down; Owen's trademark tousled charm carries stretches of too-loose widower's tale The Boys Are Back, but otherwise overly familiar dramatic plotting elicits lukewarm positive feelings at best." — Shared Darkness

Posted Sep 24, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
18%

Love Happens (2009)

" Attractively shot but dramatically inert, this isn’t persuasive enough to qualify as a tearjerker, and neither does it work as a substantive comedy." — Screen International

Posted Sep 17, 2009

Fresh
B-

Rotten
31%

The Burning Plain (2009)

" A cautious, mixed recommendation; Arriaga's film evidences all of his old tricks, but generally ranks out among the better of his works, due to some solid performances. The big strike? A bit of curious overwriting." — Shared Darkness

Posted Sep 7, 2009

Fresh
B

Rotten
49%

Good Dick (2008)

" A barbed love story wrapped inside a threadbare character drama of swallowed anger and despair, Marianna Palka's film eschews the achingly manufactured quirkiness or shaggy desire to please of so many of its American indie brethren." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Sep 4, 2009

Rotten
D-

Rotten
6%

All About Steve (2009)

" A special sort of trainwreck that unfolds like some fever-dream mash-up of Anchorman, Mad Love, Heather Graham's Committed and a tossed-off improv sketch. A terrible movie, meriting debate only insofar as whether personal preference r" — Shared Darkness

Posted Sep 4, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
86%

Big Fan (2009)

" A sort of indie throwback to low-fidelity 1970s character cinema, the perfectly detailed Big Fan makes a stinging and yet insightful comment on the culture of obsessive fandom, and the quiet savvy of its finale lies in the manner in which Siegel de" — Shared Darkness

Posted Aug 28, 2009

Fresh
A

Fresh
95%

The Cove (2009)

" Unapologetically subjective, and a piece of social activist cinema all the way, but also thrilling and truly heartbreaking, The Cove is pieced together like a Steven Soderbergh heist flick, not some staid non-fiction film." — Shared Darkness

Posted Aug 28, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
16%

Spread (2009)

" In certain ways, Spread feels like the adaptation of some lost Bret Easton Ellis novel, before he got into drugs and wild, satiric hyperbole, crossed with a story strand from The Real World. Sorry, that's not a good thing." — Shared Darkness

Posted Aug 22, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
84%

The September Issue (2009)

" R.J. Cutler's fly-on-the-wall observational tack smartly trusts viewers to track small non-verbal details, and he's rewarded with the sort of carping and back-biting that almost any employee will recognize in their own corporate workplace." — Shared Darkness

Posted Aug 20, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
77%

It Might Get Loud (2009)

" A real-life version of Guitar Hero that explores the electric instrument through a trio of trailblazers. Engaging, but perhaps could have used a bit more forced conversation and intellectual grappling about the beautiful mystery of creativity." — Shared Darkness

Posted Aug 19, 2009

Fresh
B

Rotten
58%

A Perfect Getaway (2009)

" A structurally solid B-movie, marked by smart casting and carefully modulated performances, that delivers high on the popcorn-munching entertainment scale." — Shared Darkness

Posted Aug 14, 2009

Rotten
D+

Fresh
71%

Bart Got a Room (2009)

" An uninterrupted string of frustratingly false moments marked by a consistent, wide gulf between what it actually says and what its characters purport that others are saying." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Aug 14, 2009

Rotten
D

N/A

Twelve in a Box (2009)

" A money-grubbing farcical ensemble British import, Twelve in a Box is a dreadful bore. The pacing is interminable, the banter not nearly as cute or witty as its makers fancy, and the nature and quality of its performances unsteady..." — Shared Darkness

Posted Aug 12, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
45%

Shorts (2009)

" Shorts generally works precisely because it unfolds at breakneck pace and in a world where seemingly anything can happen." — Screen International

Posted Aug 12, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
19%

Obsessed (2009)

" Ali Larter gives good crazy, but Obsessed is torpedoed by some unforgivable, easy-to-fix story hiccups and, mostly, a terrible performance by Beyonce Knowles, who alternates between woodenness and one-note histrionics." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Aug 6, 2009

Rotten
C

N/A

The Fifth Commandment (2005)

" An unexceptionally shot and in many ways underwhelming actioner, but one given a bit of a boost by its Bangkok location filming, and a decent performance by multi-hyphenate Rick Yune." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Aug 6, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
68%

Funny People (2009)

" Expected Apatowian excesses aside, Funny People mostly pops as a comedy, even though its last two reels are gear-grindingly inefficient and misguided, lacking the pathos that made Sideways affecting." — Shared Darkness

Posted Aug 4, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
43%

Fragments (2009)

" Crash's Best Picture Oscar win helped jump-start a wave of self-deluded ensemble imitators who seem to feel that overt emotionalism ladled over a loosely connected narrative is a surefire sign of Important Filmmaking. Witness Fragments." — Los Angeles Daily News

Posted Aug 4, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
93%

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009)

" This detailed examination and celebration of Australian genre cinema of the 1970s and '80s has enough re-tilled salaciousness, wit and good-natured reminiscence to merit a look from cinephiles looking to expand their frame of bawdy reference." — Shared Darkness

Posted Jul 29, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
96%

Herb & Dorothy (2009)

" A solid and engaging documentary that shows the chasm between art and those that are removed, for various reasons, from its creation and most readily accessible exhibition to be a largely artificial construct." — Shared Darkness

Posted Jul 28, 2009

Rotten
D+

N/A

The Devil's Tomb (2009)

" There are ways to get around the film's hopelessly cramped space and scope, but director Jason Connery opts to try to make an underground thriller, which just underscores the movie's cheapness at almost every turn." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Jul 23, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
55%

Orphan (2009)

" Solid lead performances and a moderately engaging premise make Orphan a slightly above-average evil-child movie with an infusion of Electra complex and a good, if half-hearted, narrative twist." — Screen International

Posted Jul 23, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
0%

Homecoming (2009)

" Rooted by a nice sense of place but, much like its real life namesake, Homecoming isn't age-appropriate for everyone -- maybe just those in high school, or barely removed. Others will likely find the familiarity more humdrum than effectively nostal" — Shared Darkness

Posted Jul 17, 2009

Fresh
B-

Rotten
15%

Dark Streets (2008)

" A slight musical murder-mystery with style to spare, Dark Streets' problematic narrative is sustained for vast stretches by gorgeous cinematography and a certain smoldering energy." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
67%

Bruno (2009)

" Sure, the shine is off as far as Cohen's particular modus operandi, but this is a funny comedy with both the capacity to make you think and genuinely recoil." — Shared Darkness

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
19%

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

" A posed, pop-art cinematic ejaculation of instinctive, unthinking extremes. And no, that's not a good thing, sorry." — Shared Darkness

Posted Jul 3, 2009

Rotten
C-

N/A

The Human Contract (2009)

" A deeply weird stab at a sort of humanistic erotic thriller whose interesting themes are sabotaged by two woefully miscast leads..." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Jul 3, 2009

Fresh
C+

Rotten
55%

Surveillance (2009)

" A wholly engaging partial misfire, if that makes sense -- a spare yet stylish marginal recommendation that connects due to its provocative premise and ruminations on violence, and the considerations that spawns." — Shared Darkness

Posted Jul 3, 2009

Fresh
A

Fresh
98%

The Hurt Locker (2009)

" The Hurt Locker is so taut, and skillfully focused on character, that it could be retro-engineered into a stageplay and still retain most of its dramatic punch." — Shared Darkness

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Fresh
B

N/A

The Hostess Also Likes To Blow The Horn ()

" Greatest sex comedy title EVER? Perhaps. A pleasure, then, that this 1970 German import delivers." — Shared Darkness
DVD REVIEW

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
15%

Year One (2009)

" The big, blustery physical comedy of Jack Black makes for an amusing fit with Michael Cera’s quiet, self-deprecating humour in Year One." — Screen International

Posted Jun 19, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
10%

My Life in Ruins (2009)

" An aggressively awful opening 20 minutes gives way to over-the-top characterizations and an increasingly wan series of bits aping film moments we've all seen before, executed with more grace and charm." — Shared Darkness

Posted Jun 12, 2009

Fresh
B

Rotten
51%

Easy Virtue (2009)

" Engaging and well acted -- that rare period piece that refuses to yield to predictably stuffy interpretations of what does and doesn't constitute familial screen conflict in times gone by." — Shared Darkness

Posted Jun 12, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
52%

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

" A professionally mounted genre exercise which tries to please both the thriller and social drama crowds and suffers as a result." — Screen International

Posted Jun 8, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
25%

Land of the Lost (2009)

" More rudely silly than funny, action-comedy Land of the Lost is staged with colour and a fair amount of energy, but not much in the way of inventiveness or surprise." — Screen International

Posted Jun 5, 2009
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