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JOSH RALSKE
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• All Movie Guide
• Black Star News
• Twitch

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Total Reviews: 134
Total QuickRatings: 75

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Online Film Critics Society

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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10/10  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9/10  Springtime in a Small Town
8/10  Promises
7/10  The Good Girl
6/10  One Hour Photo
5/10  Antwone Fisher
4/10  Pumpkinhead
3/10  The Day After Tomorrow
2/10  Man on Fire
1/10  Izo
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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10/10  Old Joy
10/10  Memories of Murder
10/10  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9/10  Burden of Dreams
9/10  The Squid and the Whale
9/10  Crimson Gold
9/10  Blissfully Yours
9/10  Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol
9/10  Turtles Can Fly
9/10  A Rage in Harlem
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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1/10  Izo
2/10  Don't Move
2/10  White Noise
2/10  Man on Fire
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

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6/10
 
" The film is only sporadically funny, and it's frequently in poor taste, but it's got energy to spare, and Gyllenhaal's performance gives it a soul." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Dec 11, 2007
 
Bubble Boy (2001)30%
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7/10
 
" [The] film's real service is in explicating how the media's inability to inform audiences and reflect the political spectrum of our culture is a systemic problem." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 31, 2007
 
Spin (1995)n/a
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6/10
 
" A near-perfect time capsule of a specific moment in our culture, and a telling analysis of instant celebrity and the fickleness of youth culture." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003)79%
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5/10
 
" There's such a wealth of genuine anger and sadness underlying the film that it transcends [its] flaws." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)n/a
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5/10
 
" If Stevie didn't seem like such a real and basically ordinary teen, the film wouldn't be so compelling." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Pups (1999)90%
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6/10
 
" A moving and troubling documentary." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002)97%
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5/10
 
" A strange, but compelling amalgam of art film and homage to the American International Pictures biker flicks of the 1960s." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
The Loveless (1983)89%
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5/10
 
" A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)88%
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7/10
 
" A thoughtful and clever examination by the director of his longstanding friendship and creative partnership with the late Klaus Kinski." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
My Best Fiend (1999)78%
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6/10
 
" Dominic has made a film of heart and intelligence about those subsisting on the margins of society." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Sunshine Hotel (2001)n/a
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5/10
 
" Cinemania might have been a more edifying experience if it really delved into the roots of this obsession." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Cinemania (2003)86%
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6/10
 
" An ugly, low budget noir that...somehow manages to capture the spirit of Jim Thompson's writing." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
The Kill-Off (1990)n/a
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7/10
 
" ...A sustained level of tension that few street dramas can match." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Laws of Gravity (1992)100%
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7/10
 
" A fast-paced documentary that entertains as it informs." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)95%
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9/10
 
" A fascinating portrait of a filmmaker pushed to the outer edge of sanity..." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Burden of Dreams (1982)100%
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6/10
 
" ...Gordon again demonstrates his unique talent for mixing quirky, uneasy laughs with genuine horror." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Masters of Horror - Stuart Gordon: Dreams in the Witch House (2005)n/a
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7/10
 
" Fans of good old-fashioned creature features should be very pleased..." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Isolation (2005)67%
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3/10
 
" ...doesn't add up to much, aside from an enervating moviegoing experience." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Kinetta (2005)n/a
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5/10
 
" ...there's...a certain unseemliness to the endeavor that is difficult to dismiss." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Cavite (2006)73%
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8/10
 
" ...richly inventive and consistently fascinating filmmaking..." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Keuk Jang Jeon (2005)100%
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7/10
 
" ...an exemplary genre piece, melding a down-and-dirty 1970s vibe with a very modern perspective on the globalized nature of contemporary Paris." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Le Petit Lieutenant (2006)78%
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5/10
 
" ...demonstrates a lot of talent, but it's another case of a neophyte filmmaker not recognizing where his true strengths lie" -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
I'm Reed Fish (2007)58%
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7/10
 
" ...despite outlandish subject matter that might lend itself to something more lurid or camp, it treats its characters and their story with refreshing restraint and seriousness." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Brothers of the Head (2006)67%
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10/10
 
" ...the landscape it maps is as much spiritual as it is physical, and the personal story it tells is inescapably political..." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Old Joy (2006)85%
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7/10
 
" put forth with...an unapologetic sense of depraved fun..." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Color Me Kubrick (2007)52%
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7/10
 
" ...its most salient feature is its spectacular visuals." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Duelist (2005)40%
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6/10
 
" Ek Hasina Thi is not quite the revelation that its champions would like to think it is, but for the most part, it hits its marks." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Ek Hasina Thi (2004)n/a
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5/10
 
" ...offers some valuable insight into Korean culture." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)100%
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9/10
 
" ...Baumbach's most emotionally potent and visually coherent film to date." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
The Squid and the Whale (2005)94%
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7/10
 
" A tragedy regardless of its conclusion, Paradise Now is an important and powerful effort to explicate the inexplicable." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Paradise Now (2005)89%
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6/10
 
" ...a twisted journey that lingers in the memory." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Spider Forest (2004)n/a
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4/10
 
" ...the film...devolves...into...standard slasher movie fare." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
Ab-Normal Beauty (2004)80%
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7/10
 
" ...specific and detailed enough to separate itself from the pack." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
The Motel (2006)87%
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6/10
 
" ...the brilliant Sarah Silverman transcends the mean-spirited nature of the joke..." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2006
 
The Aristocrats (2005)80%
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7/10
 
" For those prepared to engage the movie's playfulness, it's a unique treat." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 13, 2005
 
Princess Raccoon (2005)n/a
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5/10
 
" ...a uniquely unmediated look into the world of childhood." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 13, 2005
 
Demi-Tarif (2003)n/a
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6/10
 
" Despite its amusing outrageousness and well-choreographed mayhem, the film never transcends the genre the way Dirty Harry did." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Public Enemy (2002)n/a
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4/10
 
" Aviva...in all her permutations, may as well be a bug under the director's microscope." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Palindromes (2005)43%
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7/10
 
" the filmmaker's eye and ear for authentic detail and believable characterization...make the film an unusually tough and gritty slice of underworld life." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Maria Full of Grace (2004)97%
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5/10
 
" ...disappointingly conventional [but] an important film nevertheless..." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Hotel Rwanda (2004)92%
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7/10
 
" ...at once humane, encompassing every shade of gray, and bracingly cold-eyed in its assessment of human endeavor." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
The Holy Girl (2005)77%
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7/10
 
" Girlhood thoughtfully questions not just the system itself, but our unfair assumptions about the young people caught within it." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Girlhood (2003)94%
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6/10
 
" A mordantly amusing black comedy about life among the Arab citizens of Israel." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Divine Intervention (2003)81%
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8/10
 
" The tale has a deceptive, emotional complexity that builds to a surprisingly heartrending impact." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Distant (2004)89%
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9/10
 
" The film's sociopolitical themes are all the more powerful for being subtly expressed through a starkly realistic tale." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Crimson Gold (2004)87%
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9/10
 
" Weerasethakul films the lost couple with such aching tenderness that the effect is not titillating, but profoundly moving." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Blissfully Yours (2004)90%
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10/10
 
" ...merits mention alongside Silence of the Lambs and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer...offers an incisive analysis of the culture that produced the crime." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Memories of Murder (2003)88%
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8/10
 
" ...a super-stylized, fast-paced romp. Sharp-wittedly reflexive, culturally specific, and unabashedly fun..." -- All Movie Guide
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
Kamikaze Girls (2005)60%
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6/10
 
" ...when the entire production is clearly infused with such goodwill, it does add to its emotional impact." -- Twitch
Posted Aug 5, 2005
 
My Brother Nikhil (2005)n/a
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9/10
 
" [It's] austere, unsentimental, morally complex, and grimly realistic..." -- Twitch
Posted Aug 5, 2005
 
Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol (2006)98%

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