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Vadim Rizov

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:: AV Club , Boxoffice Magazine , GreenCine , House Next Door , L.A. Weekly , Movie-Vault.com , Time Out , Time Out New York , Village Voice

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2.5/5	85%	Chronicle (2012)	" Despite the low budget and non-famous leads, audiences may well respond to this brisk, topical drama." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2012
3/5	89%	Miss Bala (2012)	" The topical subject may draw larger-than-usual audiences, as will the undeniably formidable technical achievements." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2012
2/5	——	Greyfriars Bobby (2005)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2012
2/5	77%	The Grey (2012)	" When word gets out as to The Grey's more philosophical content, audiences will fade away." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 19, 2012
3.5/5	80%	Haywire (2012)	" Haywire is about the simple joys of action film virtuosity, and Soderbergh delivers." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 13, 2012
2/5	25%	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)	" Sex and abortion are the main topics of this installment, which tips between dullness and total camp." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5	84%	My Week with Marilyn (2011)	" Incompetently assembled by veteran TV director Simon Curtis in his theatrical debut, Marilyn's so flimsy and low-stakes not even Williams' typically rigorous dedication and performance can lift it." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2011
4/5	71%	Carnage (2011)	" Relatively light-hearted for a Polanski film (no one dies), Carnage is fun verbal warfare cleanly filmed. " — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 4, 2011
2/5	53%	Puncture (2011)	" A typically improbable David & Goliath courtroom drama with a small lawyer battling the corporate medical establishment." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 22, 2011
3.5/5	92%	The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2011)	" It's an immersive, deliberately myopic portrait." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2011
3/5	63%	Protektor (2011)	" Ethically thorny and stylistically accomplished." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 26, 2011
2.5/5	69%	sleep furiously. (2011)	" Beautifully shot but more than a little sterile." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 29, 2011
3/5	99%	The Interrupters (2011)	" James keeps viewer attention the whole time, despite forcing unnecessarily sentimental music on his footage and chopping his scenes down to dramatic highlights rather than letting them play at length." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 29, 2011
1.5/5	0%	Fading Of The Cries (2011)	" A lame-brained zombies + evil wizards hybrid." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2011
2/5	89%	Crime After Crime (2011)	" Stylistically dull, Crime After Crime proceeds from one talking-head interview to the next, sticking to sentiment." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2011
—	0%	A Love Affair of Sorts (2011)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 25, 2011
—	88%	United Red Army (2011)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2011
3/5	62%	True Legend (2011)	" Bridged by rude comedy familiar to veteran viewers of Hong Kong martial arts cinema, True Legend is refreshingly unpretentious in comparison to the pompous nationalism of recent Chinese war spectacles like The Warring States." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 14, 2011
2.5/5	90%	Caterpillar (2011)	" Essentially a sexually charged two-hander with blunt allegorical implications, K�ji Wakamatsu's one-note follow-up to United Red Army is a disappointing affair, visually indifferent and thematically simplistic." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 13, 2011
2/5	49%	Last Night (2011)	" The glossy Manhattan footage, as hermetic as Woody Allen's rendition of New York, is engagingly expensive-looking at least, but the cast is barely given anything to work with." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 7, 2011
3/5	96%	Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff (2011)	" This is strictly talking heads fare, broken up with movie clips, stills and home movies; fortunately, Jack Cardiff's ephemera are better than yours." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 29, 2011
1/5	11%	There Be Dragons (2011)	" From its baldly overwritten dialogue to its claustrophobically stingy use of locations, Dragons is underdone in every way." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2011
—	76%	Afterschool (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	85%	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	76%	Let it Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (2010)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	100%	Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1998)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	93%	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	——	RR ()	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	86%	The Windmill Movie (2009)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	85%	Tony Manero (2009)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	100%	Il conformista (The Conformist) (1970)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	——	C'est dur d'�tre aim� par des cons (It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks) (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	——	Shuga (Chouga) (2007)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	97%	Entre les Murs (The Class) (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	96%	Tulpan (2009)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	77%	Voy a Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode) (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	91%	Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	67%	Cztery Noce z Anna (Four Nights with Anna) (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	72%	La Mujer sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) (2008)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
1.5/5	11%	Atlas Shrugged Part I (2011)	" Lifeless as entertainment and incoherent as ideology." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 19, 2011
3/5	92%	Armadillo (2011)	" Armadillo alternates between scenes of tedium on base and wildly dangerous raids, with the inadvertent effect that viewers get hungry for a little combat to alleviate the monotony." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 19, 2011
—	89%	A Screaming Man (2011)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 16, 2011
8/10	——	Mne dvadtsat let (1966)	— Movie-Vault.com Posted Apr 4, 2011
5/10	——	The Letter That Was Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) (1959)	— Movie-Vault.com Posted Apr 4, 2011
2.5/5	92%	Circo (2011)	" The film engages sporadically but mostly fails to take advantage of its under-documented milieu." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 2, 2011
—	——	Gatos Viejos (Old Cats) (2011)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2011
	98%	Inside Job (2010)	" Inside Job is far more watchable than it should be." — Sight and Sound Posted Mar 1, 2011
2.5/5	63%	Vidal Sassoon: The Movie (2011)	" Audience appeal will be limited to people who see nothing silly about saying the man who invented the five-point haircut was one of the primary architects of the '60s." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 15, 2011
3.5/5	100%	Into Eternity (2011)	" The film reaches way beyond the usual activist crowd by making itself as formally compelling as it is tightly argued." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 28, 2011

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