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Josh Bell

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Biography:: Josh Bell has been a film and TV critic for Las Vegas Weekly since 2002.
Favorites:: Heathers, Fight Club, South Park, Clerks, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Craft, Scream, The Big Lebowski, Bound, Wild Things, Almost Famous, Batman (Tim Burton-style), Rosemary's Baby, The Birds, Manhattan, Bring It On, Gattaca, Carrie, Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Breathless, Lone Star, La Femme Nikita, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Heat, To Die For, Interview With the Vampire, Hannah and Her Sisters, Rear Window, The Silence of the Lambs, Quick Change, Clueless, Chasing Amy, The Conversation, Out of Sight, Misery, Annie Hall, Before Sunset, North by Northwest, Face/Off, The Last Picture Show, The Truman Show, The Matrix, Three Kings, Halloween, Memento, The Fly, About Schmidt, Wayne's World
Publications:: Filmcritic.com , Las Vegas Weekly
Critics' Group:: Broadcast Film Critics Association, Las Vegas Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 987
Total QuickRatings:: 13

Location:: Las Vegas

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2.5/5	33%	The Lady (2012)	" Besson hits familiar biopic beats, but the formula could have used something a little more daring to liven things up." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted May 9, 2012
2.5/5	41%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" Impressive costumes and sets indicate Burton's consistent eye for detail, but as in many of his recent efforts, he's applied his considerable style to very little substance." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted May 9, 2012
3.5/5	93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" Rousing blockbuster entertainment that goes down easy." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted May 3, 2012
3/5	87%	The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)	" A worthy addition to the Aardman stop-motion canon." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 25, 2012
3.5/5	63%	The Five-Year Engagement (2012)	" Although the movie follows a predictable pattern right through to its happy ending, it's helped by two main characters who feel like real people in love, with real problems." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 25, 2012
—	——	Call Her Savage (1932)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 24, 2012
2.5/5	91%	Footnote (2012)	" Footnote has moments of humor and moments of pathos, but they often seem to be coming from different movies." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 20, 2012
—	80%	Marathon Man (1976)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 20, 2012
1.5/5	51%	Think Like a Man (2012)	" These actors all deserve better than being forced to spout dubious relationship advice from an egomaniac." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 18, 2012
2/5	20%	The Lucky One (2012)	" Logan and Beth's relationship feels dull and perfunctory, and Efron's attempts at playing post-traumatic stress disorder are laughable." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 18, 2012
—	——	Cry Danger (1951)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 17, 2012
2.5/5	84%	The Raid: Redemption (2012)	" The Raid does a good job of introducing Uwais' talents to the world. Now he just needs to be in a movie whose storytelling is as solid as his moves." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 12, 2012
3/5	90%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	" It's not until the last third that the movie shakes off the obligatory plot points and goes somewhere truly creative and interesting." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 12, 2012
1.5/5	47%	The Three Stooges (2012)	" Neither honors the Stooges' legacy nor provides any justification for bringing them into the present day." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 11, 2012
3/5	43%	American Reunion (2012)	" Somehow manages to become a sweet, funny and even sort of touching rumination on getting older -- along with the requisite gross-out gags." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 4, 2012
2.5/5	67%	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)	" The movie never quite commits to one tone, instead half-heartedly trying out wacky comedy, sweet romance and inspirational drama." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 30, 2012
2/5	50%	Mirror Mirror (2012)	" There's no point of view or narrative purpose to the changes in the story, just a lot of feeble jokes and wan self-referential jabs." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 30, 2012
3/5	91%	Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011)	" Entertaining and informative, whetting the appetite for a more in-depth exploration of Corman's body of work." — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 26, 2012
2.5/5	90%	In Darkness (2012)	" It's a well-crafted, well-intentioned historical drama that's long on history and short on truly engaging drama." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 22, 2012
3.5/5	77%	Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)	" The Duplasses craft a crowd-pleasing comedy while keeping their unique sensibilities intact." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 14, 2012
2.5/5	85%	21 Jump Street (2012)	" Mediocre jokes built around recycled ideas." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 14, 2012
4/5	76%	We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)	" Brilliant and unrelentingly bleak." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 8, 2012
2/5	63%	Friends With Kids (2012)	" Just as predictable and contrived as any Hollywood romantic comedy, only without the advantage of amusing comic relief to distract from the thuddingly obvious plotting." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 8, 2012
2/5	52%	John Carter (2012)	" There's a lot of hokey fun in old pulp stories like Burroughs', but John Carter fails to capture any of that charm." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 8, 2012
1.5/5	26%	Project X (2012)	" There's no worthwhile character development or underlying warmth to counteract the relentless sleaze and vulgarity, which isn't clever or funny on its own." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 2, 2012
3/5	76%	Rampart (2012)	" The dark feeling it captures is more important than the details of the hazy plot." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 2, 2012
2.5/5	56%	The Lorax (2012)	" The animation is lovely, with some cleverly designed locations and characters, but it isn't enough to prop up the threadbare plot." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Feb 29, 2012
2/5	25%	Act of Valor (2012)	" Recruitment videos are designed to be simplistic, one-sided and artless, but that approach is a failure when expanded into a narrative feature." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Feb 24, 2012
1.5/5	25%	This Means War (2012)	" Far too unpleasant and ugly." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Feb 15, 2012
2/5	54%	Safe House (2012)	" By the time the obvious, half-hearted twist rolls around, the excitement has been slowly drained away, and even Washington's mischievous smile can't resurrect it." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Feb 8, 2012
3/5	65%	The Woman in Black (2012)	" There's nothing new or unexpected about The Woman in Black, but it's still a satisfying exercise in old-fashioned spookiness." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Feb 2, 2012
2/5	85%	Chronicle (2012)	" The movie takes 80 minutes to explore what would take up a handful of pages in a superhero comic book, making the fantastic into something drab and mundane." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Feb 1, 2012
1.5/5	——	You and I (Finding t.A.T.u.) (2011)	" Already a somewhat fascinating (if also tiresome) time capsule of forgotten pop culture less than five years after it finished production." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 30, 2012
2/5	31%	Man on a Ledge (2012)	" As the pieces fall into place, it becomes less interesting and more contrived, until finally losing all semblance of believability." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/5	55%	Albert Nobbs (2012)	" The upstairs/downstairs drama is mediocre (although enlivened whenever Brendan Gleeson shows up as a randy doctor), and the unconvincing premise only drags it down further." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jan 25, 2012
3/5	97%	Wings (1927)	" It's exactly the kind of movie the Academy still loves today." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 23, 2012
1.5/5	47%	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)	" It's all extraordinarily sentimental and manipulative, weighed down by Horn's mannered, grating performance and incessant voiceover narration." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jan 18, 2012
2.5/5	36%	Red Tails (2012)	" Lucas' clout may have brought this important story to the screen, but his filmmaking shortcomings keep it from being told effectively." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jan 18, 2012
2.5/5	54%	The Iron Lady (2012)	" Streep puts on an impeccable accent and finds plenty of emotional depth, but the oddly structured film never goes beyond a surface look at Thatcher's political career." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jan 11, 2012
2/5	51%	Contraband (2012)	" Wahlberg sleepwalks through yet another blue-collar tough-guy role, and Beckinsale, who's kicked plenty of ass on her own, is wasted as the helpless damsel in distress." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jan 11, 2012
4/5	83%	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)	" It's as engrossing as any action-packed espionage thriller, and more rewarding in the end." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jan 5, 2012
2/5	57%	8 Murders a Day (2011)	" Good intentions trump filmmaking skills in far too many social-issue documentaries, and Charlie Minn's 8 Murders a Day is definitely one of them." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Dec 28, 2011
2.5/5	77%	War Horse (2011)	" If it were genuinely the 1940s-era relic it often mimics, it would be justly forgotten." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Dec 21, 2011
2/5	75%	The Adventures of Tintin (2011)	" This is probably the ugliest movie Spielberg's ever made." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Dec 21, 2011
3/5	67%	We Bought a Zoo (2011)	" Crowe's greatest strength is in taking these potentially cloying elements and making them feel human and comforting rather than contrived and sappy." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Dec 21, 2011
4/5	80%	Young Adult (2011)	" Mavis is a beautiful, terrible person, and, like Matt, we can't help but be both drawn to and repulsed by her." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Dec 14, 2011
2.5/5	60%	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)	" Ritchie's first Holmes adventure was refreshing in its goofy action-blockbuster approach to the character, but Shadows suffers from diminishing returns." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Dec 14, 2011
2/5	7%	New Year's Eve (2011)	" Overstuffed with half-formed ideas that go nowhere." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Dec 8, 2011
2/5	23%	The Sitter (2011)	" The humor is crude and unoriginal, with an overreliance on racial stereotypes and the concept that small children saying anything remotely vulgar is hilarious." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Dec 7, 2011

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