ROTTEN TOMATOES: 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 84% 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: 877
Total QuickRatings: 147

Location: Victoria, BC, Canada

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date (default)
Fresh
89/100
Fresh
92%
Amarcord (1974)
" A masterpiece of personal filmmaking" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 30, 2009
Fresh
90/100
Fresh
100%
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
" Ground zero for film noir. Iconic." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh
88/100
Fresh
100%
The African Queen (1951)
" Part buddy action flick, part screwball comedy, it's all good." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh
76/100
Fresh
90%
District 9 (2009)
" Intriguing premise; unfulfilled promise" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh
93/100
Fresh
94%
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
" A great American-ization of the classic Scrooge tale, told from the POV of Bob Cratchet." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh
89/100
Fresh
95%
Hero (2004)
" Extras include a making-of featurette and a conversation with actor Jet Li and the movie's key North American promoter Quentin Tarantino." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh
92/100
Fresh
100%
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
" Kubrick's overt connection of sexuality and violence underlines many of the film's best jokes while placing an exclamation point on many of his most critical assertions" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh
94/100
Fresh
96%
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
" Kubrick's film not only changed the way I viewed film, but the way I experienced art and life" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh
78/100
Rotten
52%
Code 46 (2004)
" Complex and cold, intelligent and aloof, fascinating and off-putting" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 18, 2009
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
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
90/100
Fresh
76%
Audition (2001)
" Takashi Miike is the Tasmanian Devil of contemporary filmmakers." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Aug 7, 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
Fresh
89/100
Fresh
83%
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
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
Rotten
58/100
N/A
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
" A commentary by Aubrey Solomon that kicks in only during select scenes is one of" — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Aug 22, 2007
Rotten
52/100
N/A
Stopover Tokyo (1957)
" This film's beautiful Japanese scenery comes across very nicely on this widescreen DVD." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Aug 22, 2007
Rotten
56/100
Rotten
29%
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
" This movie at least looks great on DVD." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Aug 22, 2007
Rotten
47/100
N/A
Sea Wife (1957)
" The DVD version of Sea Wife benefits from the sharp look provided by Technicolor Cinemascope filming that was on the cutting edge in its day." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Aug 22, 2007
Rotten
61/100
N/A
Seven Thieves (1960)
" Released as part of a five-movie Joan Collins set, the disc offers a few minor special features." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 24, 2007
Fresh
Fresh
95%
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
" "Pushes the whole British nobility paradigm into the realm of twit psychosis."" — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 19, 2007
Rotten
56/100
N/A
Expo: Magic of the White City (2005)
" The DVD version of the movie comes without any extras." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 16, 2007
Rotten
60/100
Fresh
69%
Everything's Gone Green (2007)
" Everything's Gone Green is available on DVD in both its original 'rated' form, or as an 'unrated' version." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 8, 2007
Fresh
76/100
N/A
Shenandoah (1965)
" Released as part of a five-movie 'Screen Legend' set featuring the performances of James Stewart, this is a DVD with just a single extra feature: the movie trailer." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 28, 2007
Rotten
67/100
Fresh
88%
The Glenn Miller Story (1953)
" Released as part of a five-disc James Stewart 'Screen Legends' collection, this DVD comes with no extra features." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 27, 2007
Rotten
65/100
N/A
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
" Available on DVD in a five-movie set of James Stewart films." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 27, 2007
Rotten
63/100
N/A
Thunder Bay (1953)
" There's just a single extra feature: the movie trailer." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh
75/100
N/A
James Stewart: Screen Legend Collection (1936)
" The movie is available on DVD as part of a four-film James Stewart set." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 25, 2007
Fresh
84/100
Fresh
82%
Looking for Richard (1996)
" Has but one special feature - a half-hour epilogue." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 25, 2007
Rotten
62/100
N/A
Pacino - An Actor's Vision (1996)
" Al Pacino offers an audio commentary, one that varies wildly between informative and off-the-wall." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 23, 2007
Fresh
73/100
Fresh
73%
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
" The two-disc HD-DVD release of Flags of Our Fathers includes a set of sharp looking featurettes created in high definition." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 18, 2007
Rotten
48/100
Rotten
17%
Dead Silence (2007)
" Enter at your own risk." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 15, 2007
Fresh
83/100
Fresh
96%
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
" Among the many pieces of supplementary material in this two-disc set are excerpts from a 1970 documentary on director Jean-Pierre Melville's career." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted May 9, 2007
Fresh
86/100
Fresh
87%
A History of Violence (2005)
" Clearly, David Cronenberg takes DVD content seriously, and viewers are the beneficiaries of this." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Apr 21, 2007
Fresh
88/100
Fresh
95%
Children of Paradise (1945)
" Funny and smart is sublime in my books." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Apr 6, 2007
Fresh
70/100
Fresh
91%
The Deer Hunter (1978)
" A film I have grown increasingly ambivalent about over the years." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Feb 25, 2007
Fresh
88/100
Fresh
94%
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
" The opening scene is like the Taj Mahal; it rises above the hype and delivers." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jan 30, 2007
Fresh
905/100
Fresh
90%
La Jet�e (1962)
" Eisenstein stripped back to the studs. A very VERY great film." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Sep 4, 2006
Rotten
51/100
Fresh
100%
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
" Black is a blast, but only the third tale, Amelia, is worth our time." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Aug 29, 2006
Fresh
89/100
Fresh
98%
Do the Right Thing (1989)
" Maybe Mookie does the wrong thing. But he does it for the right reason." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Aug 22, 2006
Fresh
Fresh
83%
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)
" Violent, caustic, funny and rather deliberately derivative of the Tarantino school of wink-wink nudge-nudge filmmaking." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 14, 2006
Fresh
Fresh
95%
The Straight Story (1999)
" A great big can of corn. Kernel corn, not that mushy crap." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 14, 2006
Fresh
91/100
Fresh
98%
Manhattan (1979)
" A serious but funny film, both gorgeous and painful." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 9, 2006
Fresh
93/100
Fresh
98%
Annie Hall (1977)
" More jokes per frame than any other film I've seen." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 7, 2006
Fresh
75/100
Fresh
80%
Fight Club (1999)
" Vibrant and funny, but more than a bit muddle-headed." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 27, 2006
Fresh
93/100
Fresh
100%
Fawlty Towers - The Complete Set (1974)
" A scorchingly funny assault on British class pretension." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 22, 2006
Fresh
93/100
Fresh
81%
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
" The Hollywood Dream Factory reimagined as Nightmarish Torture Chamber. Naomi Watts is phenomenol." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 18, 2006
Rotten
66/100
Fresh
90%
The Stunt Man (1980)
" A terrific premise, and O'Toole shines, but poorly staged set pieces undercut the film's energy and veracity." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jun 9, 2006
Fresh
85/100
N/A
Deadwood - The Complete First Season (2004)
" Best TV series I've ever seen." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Apr 10, 2006

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh 89/100	Fresh 92%	Amarcord (1974)	" A masterpiece of personal filmmaking" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 30, 2009
Fresh 90/100	Fresh 100%	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	" Ground zero for film noir. Iconic." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh 88/100	Fresh 100%	The African Queen (1951)	" Part buddy action flick, part screwball comedy, it's all good." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh 76/100	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" Intriguing premise; unfulfilled promise" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh 93/100	Fresh 94%	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	" A great American-ization of the classic Scrooge tale, told from the POV of Bob Cratchet." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 95%	Hero (2004)	" Extras include a making-of featurette and a conversation with actor Jet Li and the movie's key North American promoter Quentin Tarantino." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh 92/100	Fresh 100%	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	" Kubrick's overt connection of sexuality and violence underlines many of the film's best jokes while placing an exclamation point on many of his most critical assertions" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh 94/100	Fresh 96%	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	" Kubrick's film not only changed the way I viewed film, but the way I experienced art and life" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh 78/100	Rotten 52%	Code 46 (2004)	" Complex and cold, intelligent and aloof, fascinating and off-putting" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 18, 2009
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 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 90/100	Fresh 76%	Audition (2001)	" Takashi Miike is the Tasmanian Devil of contemporary filmmakers." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 7, 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
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 83%	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 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
Rotten 58/100	N/A	The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)	" A commentary by Aubrey Solomon that kicks in only during select scenes is one of" — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 22, 2007
Rotten 52/100	N/A	Stopover Tokyo (1957)	" This film's beautiful Japanese scenery comes across very nicely on this widescreen DVD." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 22, 2007
Rotten 56/100	Rotten 29%	Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)	" This movie at least looks great on DVD." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 22, 2007
Rotten 47/100	N/A	Sea Wife (1957)	" *The DVD version of Sea Wife* benefits from the sharp look provided by Technicolor Cinemascope filming that was on the cutting edge in its day.*" — Apollo Guide* DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 22, 2007
Rotten 61/100	N/A	Seven Thieves (1960)	" Released as part of a five-movie Joan Collins set, the disc offers a few minor special features." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 24, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 95%	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	" "Pushes the whole British nobility paradigm into the realm of twit psychosis."" — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 19, 2007
Rotten 56/100	N/A	Expo: Magic of the White City (2005)	" The DVD version of the movie comes without any extras." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 16, 2007
Rotten 60/100	Fresh 69%	Everything's Gone Green (2007)	" Everything's Gone Green is available on DVD in both its original 'rated' form, or as an 'unrated' version." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 8, 2007
Fresh 76/100	N/A	Shenandoah (1965)	" Released as part of a five-movie 'Screen Legend' set featuring the performances of James Stewart, this is a DVD with just a single extra feature: the movie trailer." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 28, 2007
Rotten 67/100	Fresh 88%	The Glenn Miller Story (1953)	" Released as part of a five-disc James Stewart 'Screen Legends' collection, this DVD comes with no extra features." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 27, 2007
Rotten 65/100	N/A	You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)	" Available on DVD in a five-movie set of James Stewart films." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 27, 2007
Rotten 63/100	N/A	Thunder Bay (1953)	" There's just a single extra feature: the movie trailer." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 75/100	N/A	James Stewart: Screen Legend Collection (1936)	" The movie is available on DVD as part of a four-film James Stewart set." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 25, 2007
Fresh 84/100	Fresh 82%	Looking for Richard (1996)	" Has but one special feature - a half-hour epilogue." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 25, 2007
Rotten 62/100	N/A	Pacino - An Actor's Vision (1996)	" Al Pacino offers an audio commentary, one that varies wildly between informative and off-the-wall." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 23, 2007
Fresh 73/100	Fresh 73%	Flags of Our Fathers (2006)	" *The two-disc HD-DVD release of Flags of Our Fathers* includes a set of sharp looking featurettes created in high definition.*" — Apollo Guide* DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 18, 2007
Rotten 48/100	Rotten 17%	Dead Silence (2007)	" Enter at your own risk." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 15, 2007
Fresh 83/100	Fresh 96%	Le Cercle Rouge (1970)	" Among the many pieces of supplementary material in this two-disc set are excerpts from a 1970 documentary on director Jean-Pierre Melville's career." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted May 9, 2007
Fresh 86/100	Fresh 87%	A History of Violence (2005)	" Clearly, David Cronenberg takes DVD content seriously, and viewers are the beneficiaries of this." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 21, 2007
Fresh 88/100	Fresh 95%	Children of Paradise (1945)	" Funny and smart is sublime in my books." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 6, 2007
Fresh 70/100	Fresh 91%	The Deer Hunter (1978)	" A film I have grown increasingly ambivalent about over the years." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 25, 2007
Fresh 88/100	Fresh 94%	Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)	" The opening scene is like the Taj Mahal; it rises above the hype and delivers." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jan 30, 2007
Fresh 905/100	Fresh 90%	La Jet�e (1962)	" Eisenstein stripped back to the studs. A very VERY great film." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 4, 2006
Rotten 51/100	Fresh 100%	Trilogy of Terror (1975)	" Black is a blast, but only the third tale, Amelia, is worth our time." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 29, 2006
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 98%	Do the Right Thing (1989)	" Maybe Mookie does the wrong thing. But he does it for the right reason." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 22, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)	" Violent, caustic, funny and rather deliberately derivative of the Tarantino school of wink-wink nudge-nudge filmmaking." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 14, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 95%	The Straight Story (1999)	" A great big can of corn. Kernel corn, not that mushy crap." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 14, 2006
Fresh 91/100	Fresh 98%	Manhattan (1979)	" A serious but funny film, both gorgeous and painful." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 9, 2006
Fresh 93/100	Fresh 98%	Annie Hall (1977)	" More jokes per frame than any other film I've seen." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 7, 2006
Fresh 75/100	Fresh 80%	Fight Club (1999)	" Vibrant and funny, but more than a bit muddle-headed." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 27, 2006
Fresh 93/100	Fresh 100%	Fawlty Towers - The Complete Set (1974)	" A scorchingly funny assault on British class pretension." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 22, 2006
Fresh 93/100	Fresh 81%	Mulholland Dr. (2001)	" The Hollywood Dream Factory reimagined as Nightmarish Torture Chamber. Naomi Watts is phenomenol." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 18, 2006
Rotten 66/100	Fresh 90%	The Stunt Man (1980)	" A terrific premise, and O'Toole shines, but poorly staged set pieces undercut the film's energy and veracity." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 9, 2006
Fresh 85/100	N/A	Deadwood - The Complete First Season (2004)	" Best TV series I've ever seen." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 10, 2006

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