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Critics / Dan Jardine
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DAN JARDINE

"To paraphrase Martin Scorcese, films are contemporary society's altar. We go to the movies with the same devotion that past generations preserved for their churchgoing. We enter the darkness, seeking the light. The best movies provide pseudo-religious experiences: they transform us.

<B>Quote:</B> "There is no wisdom without leisure."
--ancient Hebrew epigram"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

Biography: A little mystery in a blossoming relationship like this is a good thing.
Favorites: Top 10 of 1999: 1. The Straight Story 2. The War Zone 3. Being John Malkovich 4. Magnolia 5. American Beauty 6. Fight Club 7. Eyes Wide Shut 8. The Insider 9. The Talented Mr. Ripley 10. The Red Violin Faves from 1998: Life is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, Slam, The Butcher Boy, Smoke Signals, The Celebration, Saving Private Ryan, Out of Sight, Red Violin (Canadian release), The Truman Show, Primary Colors. Favorite Films from 1997: Titanic, The Sweet Hereafter, When We Were Kings, Rosewood, Kolya, Shall We Dance?, Good Will Hunting, The Ice Storm, As Good as it Gets, She's So Lovely Favorite Films of All Time: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Schindler's List, Taxi Driver, It's a Wonderful Life, Seven Samurai, Casablanca, Deer Hunter, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dr. Strangelove, Manchurian Candidate, A Clockwork Orange Favorite Directors: Kubrick, Scorcese, Spielberg, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Coen Brothers.

Publications: All Movie Guide, Apollo Guide, Cinemania, Daily-Reviews, Jacksonville Film Journal, TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Cinemarati

Total Reviews: 849
Total QuickRatings: 149

Location: Victoria, BC, Canada

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Fresh
71/100

Fresh
84%

Jerry Maguire (1996)

" competently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW

Posted Jul 2, 2009

Fresh
71/100

Fresh
84%

Jerry Maguire (1996)

" competently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects." — Apollo Guide

Posted Jul 2, 2009

Fresh
71/100

N/A

That's My Time (2009)

" A personal and affecting film." — Cinemania

Posted Mar 6, 2009

Fresh
70/100

Fresh
88%

Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)

" Well-acted and visually engaging, the film asks more questions than it answers." — Cinemania

Posted Feb 25, 2009

Fresh
75/100

N/A

Inside Hana's Suitcase (2009)

" Weinstein displays considerable flair, both with image and sound, producing a document to the Brady family that has true universality." — Jacksonville Film Journal

Posted Feb 19, 2009

Fresh
76/100

N/A

Driving With My Wife's Lover (2007)

" Not particularly deep, but visually intriguing throughout" — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 10, 2009

Fresh
70/100

Fresh
71%

Bart Got a Room ()

" The film is at its best when it is in observational mode" — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 7, 2009

Rotten
46/100

Fresh
67%

The Auteur (2008)

" too tame to be outrageous, too limp to be erotic, and too predictable to be in any way surprising" — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 4, 2009

Rotten
57/100

Rotten
7%

The Tiger's Tail (2006)

" A real waste of a potentially interesting premise." — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 4, 2009

Rotten
53/100

N/A

Fire Under the Snow (2008)

" surprisingly and distressingly unengaging" — Cinemania

Posted Feb 3, 2009

Fresh
79/100

N/A

Kisses (2008)

" Charming without being precious." — Cinemania

Posted Feb 3, 2009

Fresh
94/100

Fresh
90%

Hunger (2008)

" An astonishing film. Transcendant." — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 3, 2009

Fresh
70/100

Fresh
90%

Tuya's Marriage (2008)

" Nan Yu's work as the titular character and Sen'ge's performance as her nemesis/potential partner carry the film through some of the narrative rough patches" — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 2, 2009

Rotten
49/100

Rotten
21%

Event Horizon (1997)

Click here to read article — Apollo Guide

Posted Jan 9, 2009

Fresh
85/100

Fresh
95%

The Truman Show (1998)

" Extras on the disc include a substantial documentary, one sufficiently lengthy to have been split into two parts." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW

Posted Dec 12, 2008

Fresh
87/100

Fresh
91%

There Will Be Blood (2007)

" One helluva film; the best in Anderson's young career." — Apollo Guide

Posted Aug 9, 2008

Rotten
68/100

Fresh
90%

Michael Clayton (2007)

" Grisham for exceptionally bleeding hearts" — Apollo Guide

Posted Aug 9, 2008

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
83%

Into the Wild (2007)

" an intensely intimate and personal experience" — Apollo Guide

Posted Aug 7, 2008

Fresh
90/100

Fresh
76%

Audition (2001)

" Takashi Miike is the Tasmanian Devil of contemporary filmmakers." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW

Posted Aug 7, 2008

Fresh
74/100

Fresh
94%

The Counterfeiters (2008)

" Ruzowitzky does a fine job of capturing the claustrophia of the setting, as well as conveying the moral complexity of these characters' choices" — Apollo Guide

Posted Aug 7, 2008

Rotten
47/100

Rotten
54%

Across the Universe (2007)

" chooses cheesy and nostalgic mis-en-scene over meaningful engagement with the musical material. A terrible disappointment." — Apollo Guide

Posted Aug 2, 2008

Fresh
70/100

Fresh
63%

Paris Blues (1961)

" Roman Holiday for beatnik hipsters" — Apollo Guide

Posted Aug 2, 2008

Fresh
71/100

Fresh
95%

Elevator to the Gallows (1957)

" the score by Miles is a remarkable one, tapping into the jazzy zeitgeist of the time" — Apollo Guide

Posted Aug 2, 2008

Fresh
70/100

Fresh
70%

Day Night Day Night (2007)

" The Day of the Jackal meets The Rapture in a bathtub full of barbiturates." — Apollo Guide

Posted Jul 5, 2008

Fresh
75/100

Fresh
98%

The Band's Visit (2007)

" funny, sweet and touching" — Apollo Guide

Posted Jul 5, 2008

Fresh
85/100

Fresh
97%

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)

" A real kick in the gut" — Apollo Guide

Posted Jul 5, 2008

Fresh
79/100

Fresh
73%

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)

" Politically correct Cheech and Chong" — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW

Posted Jul 5, 2008

Rotten
57/100

Rotten
39%

The Tracey Fragments (2008)

" Too insubstantial to sustain the stylistic excesses of the multiple split screen approach" — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 6, 2008

Fresh
85/100

Fresh
71%

Adam's Apples (2007)

" The actors play this darkly funny material as if they are in a deadly serious Shakespearean drama, highlighting the situation's many absurdities" — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 5, 2008

Fresh
71/100

Rotten
57%

Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)

" The film is never anything less than interesting to look at." — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 4, 2008

Rotten
60/100

N/A

The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories (2007)

" the film is unable to build on its solid technical premise" — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 2, 2008

Fresh
84/100

Fresh
83%

Beauty in Trouble (2008)

" Beauty in Trouble is the sort of film that sits with you days after viewing" — Apollo Guide

Posted Feb 2, 2008

Rotten
55/100

Rotten
42%

The Golden Compass (2007)

" The Golden Compass bears the brush strokes of a film produced by a committee of people intent on trying to make some money rather than a good movie." — Apollo Guide

Posted Jan 2, 2008

Fresh
85/100

Fresh
87%

Control (2007)

" Riley gives a great performance, and director Corbijn's direction is deceptively perceptive. One of the year's best." — Apollo Guide

Posted Jan 1, 2008

Fresh
71/100

Fresh
93%

Juno (2007)

" Skin-deep treatment of teen pregnancy, but keep your eyes on Ellen Page; she's worth the price of admission." — Apollo Guide

Posted Jan 1, 2008

Rotten
66/100

Rotten
51%

Margot at the Wedding (2007)

" Artistic self-involvement has seldom been more unappealingly portrayed." — Apollo Guide

Posted Jan 1, 2008

Fresh
76/100

Fresh
94%

No Country for Old Men (2007)

" Wildly overpraised, but a solid return to form for the Coen Bros." — Apollo Guide

Posted Jan 1, 2008

Rotten
58/100

Rotten
53%

Romance & Cigarettes (2007)

" The film has an overall tonal inconsistency and suffers from the occasional bout of tin-ear-itis, which ultimately derails this sometimes interesting attempt at reinvigorating the genre." — Apollo Guide

Posted Dec 31, 2007

Rotten
67/100

Fresh
81%

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

" Nichols and Sorkin take the easy way out, promoting the personal tale of the roguish Wilson, rather than establishing a real socio-political context within which something insightful might have emerged" — Apollo Guide

Posted Dec 30, 2007

Fresh
82/100

Fresh
85%

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

" The brooding gothic romanticism of the source material plays right into Burton's cinematic wheelhouse." — Apollo Guide

Posted Dec 29, 2007

Rotten
62/100

Fresh
66%

The Kite Runner (2007)

" Forster's self-important direction submarines a film that begins well, but slips into melodrama and plods towards anti-climax." — Apollo Guide

Posted Dec 29, 2007

Rotten
68/100

Fresh
88%

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

" Unfortunately, like Andy's character, the parts don't add up." — Apollo Guide

Posted Dec 25, 2007

Rotten
58/100

Fresh
69%

I Am Legend (2007)

" When I am Legend reaches for the tissues in the third act, director Lawrence loses his grip on the film entirely" — Apollo Guide

Posted Dec 25, 2007

Fresh
70/100

Fresh
67%

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

" Easily the slightest of Anderson's four feature films." — Apollo Guide

Posted Dec 24, 2007

Fresh
89/100

Fresh
82%

Titanic (1997)

" The 10th anniversary edition DVD is deceptively well-endowed with extras." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW

Posted Nov 21, 2007

Fresh
74/100

Fresh
93%

Face Off (1997)

" The DVD extras start with two full-length audio commentaries, one by director John Woo, and a second by writers Mike Web and Michael Colleary." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW

Posted Sep 18, 2007

Fresh
83/100

Fresh
80%

Elizabeth (1998)

" Dank interior castle settings create a claustrophobic intensity that underscores the growing sense of paranoia and people's sinister machinations in this battle for England." — Apollo Guide

Posted Sep 12, 2007

Rotten
70/100

N/A

Ugly Betty - The Complete First Season (2006)

" It is in dealing with the familial travails of the Suarez family that Ugly Betty rises above the fray, and establishes itself as a series worth engaging." — Apollo Guide

Posted Sep 10, 2007

Rotten
66/100

Rotten
23%

Balls of Fury (2007)

" While it's at times inspired, ultimately, its attempt to play with the conventions of both martial arts and sports films does not congeal into something memorable." — Apollo Guide

Posted Aug 28, 2007

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
94%

Hamlet (1996)

" The two-disc special edition DVD release of Hamlet is spectacular." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW

Posted Aug 23, 2007
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