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Critics / Gabe Leibowitz
Gabe Leibowitz
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GABE LEIBOWITZ

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Biography: www.abovegroundrealty.com
Favorites: www.filmandfelt.com

Publications: eCinemaCenter.com, Film and Felt

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 192
Total QuickRatings: 37

Location: Reclaiming the throne

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Fresh
92/100

Fresh
100%

Pickpocket (1959)

" Poetic seems too weak a word to sum up Pickpocket's extraordinary arc: that it achieves so much in so short a time (75 minutes) is almost other-worldly." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 31, 2009

Fresh
77/100

Fresh
100%

A Man Escaped (1956)

" If it's not as emotionally haunting as Au Hasard Balthazar or Mouchette, it remains a powerful, compelling portrait of discipline, and humanity." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 25, 2009

Rotten
26/100

Fresh
76%

Invictus (2009)

" The script is a steaming pile of schmaltz and sports clichés, and Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon stumble through without any energy, but with plenty of butchered accents." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 20, 2009

Fresh
64/100

Rotten
55%

We Own The Night (2007)

" If We Own the Night is flawed and somewhat choppy, it served notice that Gray, once he refined his technique, would be a force to be reckoned with in the cinema world." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 20, 2009

Fresh
55/100

Fresh
89%

Up in the Air (2009)

" I'd like to see Reitman step away from his usual schtick and try to delve more deeply into his character's souls: the surface is stylishly done, but Up in the Air's underbelly is strangely and unfulfillingly hollow." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 19, 2009

Rotten
42/100

Rotten
40%

The Lovely Bones (2009)

" There are some terrific moments here, but Jackson seems mostly caught in an in-between world himself." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 16, 2009

Fresh
59/100

Fresh
82%

A Single Man (2009)

" There's enough here, mostly driven by Firth's Oscar-caliber performance, to make A Single Man worthwhile viewing, if not close to compulsory." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 12, 2009

Fresh
78/100

Fresh
70%

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

" At last, Guy Ritchie has found the perfect vessel for his sugar-rush, hyper-kinetic style of filmmaking." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 8, 2009

Rotten
38/100

Fresh
72%

The Blind Side (2009)

" I really wanted to like John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side. In fact, I wanted to love it." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 3, 2009

Fresh
83/100

Fresh
87%

The Sun (2005)

" The early portions of The Sun are almost nightmarish in their cold shots of Hirohito trudging slowly through bleak hallways, coiffed to a sterile perfection." — Film and Felt

Posted Dec 3, 2009

Fresh
62/100

Fresh
85%

World's Greatest Dad (2009)

" Tonally erratic, but chock-full of interesting concepts." — Film and Felt

Posted Nov 17, 2009

Fresh
57/100

Fresh
77%

The Good Soldier (2009)

" The humane portrayals make it worthwhile, if unspectacular, viewing." — Film and Felt

Posted Nov 17, 2009

Fresh
74/100

Fresh
97%

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

" To Kill a Mockingbird should make admirers of the novel weep many times over." — Film and Felt

Posted Oct 26, 2009

Fresh
63/100

Fresh
89%

Zombieland (2009)

" Ultimately, Zombieland works best as pure, breezy entertainment with a pinch of depth." — Film and Felt

Posted Oct 17, 2009

Fresh
74/100

Fresh
93%

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

" The tangled web of relationships is very effectively done, but just as affecting is Allen's portrayal of the city he loves." — Film and Felt

Posted Oct 14, 2009

Fresh
58/100

Fresh
75%

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

" Still a noteworthy achievement, but it's hard to keep from being a bit disappointed that Moore hasn't used the seriousness of the times to craft an ever-so-slightly more balanced documentary." — Film and Felt

Posted Oct 14, 2009

Fresh
82/100

Fresh
100%

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

" Only Buñuel can make coldness burn with intoxicating sensuality." — Film and Felt

Posted Oct 10, 2009

Rotten
44/100

Fresh
72%

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

" Sadly, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! sounds far better on paper than it actually plays." — Film and Felt

Posted Oct 8, 2009

Fresh
65/100

Fresh
89%

Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)

" A solid-but-frustratingly-tantalizing experience." — Film and Felt

Posted Oct 4, 2009

Rotten
41/100

N/A

White Thunder (2002)

" Native Newfoundlander Victoria King's directorial debut is shaky at best." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Fresh
59/100

N/A

Nazi Medicine: In the Shadow of the Reich (1997)

" Works just fine for informative purposes." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Rotten
34/100

Fresh
69%

Closer (2004)

" With a better script, Closer could have been compelling romantic drama; instead, it's little more than clichéd nonsense." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Fresh
61/100

Fresh
83%

Opera (1991)

" Italian horror master Dario Argento may have the most lopsided strengths and weaknesses of any director I've experienced." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Fresh
59/100

Fresh
85%

Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2005)

" May be the supreme example of a filmic endeavor succeeding exclusively for one cinematic aspect." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Rotten
39/100

Fresh
75%

Crash (2005)

" While it's hard not to admire Haggis' ambition here, his lofty aspirations sapped Crash of any real ingenuity or emotional punch." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Rotten
26/100

Fresh
86%

Junebug (2005)

" Junebug annoyed me while in the theater, and annoys me even more as I write about it." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Fresh
54/100

Fresh
85%

Batman Begins (2005)

" So much is rich with ingenuity and daring that its constant missteps are exceptionally glaring." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Fresh
62/100

Fresh
87%

Broken Flowers (2005)

" Insightful, entertaining, and a worthy addition to the filmography of one of America's more interesting modern directors." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Fresh
58/100

Fresh
76%

King of New York (1990)

" King of New York's storyline is pretty one-note, but there's an energy and aura of fear lingering in every gritty composition." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Fresh
62/100

Fresh
78%

Red Eye (2005)

" Works extremely well as a fast-paced adrenaline rush, but not so well as an allegory on today's government and security issues." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 26, 2009

Fresh
85/100

Fresh
89%

Bad Education (2004)

" A dazzling autobiographical blend of Almodovar's career, childhood, and adoration & admiration for the cinema." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 25, 2009

Fresh
80/100

Fresh
94%

Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979)

" Replaces unnerving gore with an eerie, erotic beauty." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 25, 2009

Rotten
42/100

Fresh
70%

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)

" Beyond it's educational value for those unfamiliar with Kushner's work, politics, and sexuality (like myself), there's not much to grab onto here." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Fresh
59/100

Fresh
93%

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

" An adequate enough way to get the point across, but I can't help but wonder what the raves for this film are really about." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Fresh
65/100

Fresh
91%

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

" Frequently uproarious and occasionally side-splitting%u2026but it's very hit-or-miss, prone to stretches of unnecessary crudeness and flat one-liners." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Rotten
34/100

Rotten
50%

For Your Consideration (2006)

" Aside from an occasional chuckle, For Your Consideration is banal and, worst of all, frequently annoying." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Fresh
63/100

Fresh
75%

The Prestige (2006)

" Until an inexplicably awful revelation at the end, The Prestige is a taut, exciting portrait of obsession and the dark competitive spirit of professional magicians." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Rotten
42/100

Fresh
76%

Catch a Fire (2006)

" Movies like Catch a Fire are perhaps the most banal sort to write about." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Fresh
60/100

Fresh
86%

Thank You For Smoking (2006)

" Thank You For Smoking gets much of its juice from a superb Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Rotten
48/100

Fresh
90%

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

" Harmless enough as passable road movies go, but I can't help but wish directors of films like these would grow some damn balls." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Fresh
59/100

Fresh
92%

The Departed (2006)

" The film is superbly shot, and the rapid-fire editing and shaky camera fit the constant flux that the main characters find themselves in time and again." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 19, 2009

Rotten
28/100

Rotten
48%

We Are Wizards (2008)

" Only for the most drooling of fanboys." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Rotten
19/100

Fresh
85%

2 Days In Paris (2007)

" 2 Days in Paris is a mix of awful Woody Allen and mental masturbation." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Rotten
37/100

Fresh
79%

Sharkwater (2007)

" It's hard not to admire a man with such admiration for the obscure, but Grizzly Man did it much better." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Fresh
79/100

Fresh
84%

Old Joy (2006)

" With exquisite tenderness and delicacy, Old Joy fluidly captures the all-too-frequent occurrence of friends drifting apart as their lives branch off in different directions." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Fresh
69/100

Fresh
83%

Sisters (1973)

" A spooky and thematically rich thriller, one that explores the psyche (with an evils-of-racism subtext) without drifting into heavy-handedness." — Film and Felt

Posted Sep 8, 2009

Fresh
61/00

Fresh
100%

Fat City (1972)

" Fat City is most notable for terrific performances all around, especially those of Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrell, and a baby-faced Jeff Bridges." — Film and Felt

Posted Aug 30, 2009

Rotten
23/100

Rotten
50%

Antichrist (2009)

" The brutality is sickening, and unlike, say, the broken glass sequence in Bergman's Cries and Whispers--where the entire film built up to one brief, painful moment--it serves no overarching purpose, quickly becoming an exercise in haughty" — Film and Felt

Posted Aug 30, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
100%

Afghan Stories (2002)

" Afghan Stories is a rewarding and almost essential look at the other side of terrorism: it's not just the United States that feels the pain." — Film and Felt

Posted Aug 22, 2009

Fresh
4/4

N/A

Miracle in Milan (1951)

" The contrast of sneering wealth versus timid poverty is quietly sarcastic." — Film and Felt

Posted Aug 22, 2009
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78/100

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64/100

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61/100

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59/100

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51/100

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50/100

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SharkwaterOffsite

35/100

W.Offsite

34/100

For Your ConsiderationOffsite

33/100

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28/100

We Are WizardsOffsite

26/100

JunebugOffsite

23/100

AntichristOffsite

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23/100

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