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DAN LYBARGER

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Biography: Dan Lybarger has contributed film articles to the Kansas City Star, Nitrate Online, The Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, and PitchWeekly. eKC tmi He has an M.A. in Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a B.A. in English from Ottawa University.

Favorites: My favorite filmmakers are:

Billy Wilder

Akira Kurosawa

Agnieszka Holland

Buster Keaton (I attend a Keaton Festival every year in Iola, KS. This festival takes place seven miles from Keaton's birthplace in Picquay).

Orson Welles

Martin Scorsese

Peter Weir

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Woody Allen

David Lean

Charlie Chaplin Favorite Movies:

The Apartment

Europa Europa

Life Lessons (from "New York Stories")

Modern Times

Apocalypse Now

Rashomon

The Magnificent Ambersons

The General (1927)

Witness (Part of my fascination with this movie is due to the fact that my relatives are Dunkards, a religious order like the Amish)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

My Life as a Dog

Of course, Citizen Kane

Publications: County Cable, eFilmCritic.com, Hollywood Bitchslap, Kansas City Star, Lawrence Journal-World, Lybarger Links, MovieMaker Magazine, Nitrate Online, Pitch.com, Rotten Tomatoes, Script Magazine

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Kansas City Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 582
Total QuickRatings: 258

Location: Kansas City

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Fresh 5/5	Fresh 98%	The Fog of War (2003)	" 'The Fog of War' reveals McNamara to be an intelligent, insightful and sensitive man who was catastrophically wrong about the nature of the conflict that came to define him." — eFilmCritic.com DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 84%	Two Lovers (2009)	" While watching Phoenix mumbling in a stupor on Letterman is perversely entertaining, it's a lot more edifying to watch him give what he says is his final acting performance in director James Gray's 'Two Lovers.'" — eFilmCritic.com DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 71%	Bruno (2009)	" But by pointing out how low some people will sink to hit the heights of fame, Baron Cohen can raise as many valid discussions as he can squirms." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 51%	Cheri (2009)	" Thanks to a radiant performance from Michelle Pfeiffer, 'Ch�ri' occasionally overcomes a storyline that never quite develops momentum." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 1, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 44%	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)	" The film's story is so dry and unimaginative that it appears to have been preserved in amber from an earlier era." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" 'Away We Go' is still funny and occasionally touching, but it might have been even more entertaining if Mendes and the screenwriters hadn't tried to so hard to make us laugh." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 26, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 76%	Outrage (2009)	" 'Outrage' makes a convincing argument that legislating while living in the closet is detrimental to everyone." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 26, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 46%	The Proposal (2009)	" Bullock and Reynolds are appealing enough to make viewers care if real love will emerge from the legal ploy." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" Leave it to Michael Bay to take the fun out of explosions." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 90%	A Grin Without A Cat (2002)	" Depending on your mood and your familiarity with international politics from 30 to 40 years ago, A Grin Without a Cat can be either talky and esoteric or haunting and prophetic." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 14, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 80%	The Hit (1985)	" 'The Hit' gives the great Terence Stamp what is arguably his best role." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 14, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" Raimi can do more with a set of false teeth and a compelling, if deeply flawed, heroine that most horror hacks can with enough fake blood to flood the Great Basin." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 14, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 43%	Imagine That (2009)	" When a children's movie like 'Imagine That' fails, it's tragedy that the magic spells in the move can't be used to escape the theater." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 14, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	Next Day Air (2009)	" It delivers neither laughs nor chills and offers no visuals more interesting than the Exit signs on the theater doors." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 7, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 67%	Is Anybody There? (2009)	" Like a good number of films, 'Is Anybody There?' is saved from being a routine offering by the presence of Sir Michael Caine." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 7, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" It's easy to think of Ron Howard's new effort Angels & Demons as more of an apology than a movie." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 7, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" With all the oversized personalities that surround him, Stiller gets upstaged." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 7, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 90%	Hunger (2008)	" If you're going to make a film about an extremist, it makes sense to tell the story using extreme or at least unusual techniques." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 7, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 62%	The Brothers Bloom (2009)	" Unlike the con artists the movie depicts, 'The Brothers Bloom' rewards rather than exploits viewers by defying their expectations." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 7, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Johnny Got His Gun (1971)	" Sadly, time has not made this story any less relevant or potent." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 6, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" There are still puke jokes in 'Adventureland' as there were in 'Superbad,' but it's nice to see that Mottola can help viewers get in touch with another body function, the beat of a heart." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" Writer-director Jody Hill attempts a difficult balancing act, so he can be forgiven for occasionally stumbling between laughter and squirms." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 3, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 85%	State of Play (2009)	" Scottish director Kevin Macdonald specializes in making historic or potentially dry material seem as urgent as an ambulance siren." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 3, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 56%	17 Again (2009)	" '17 Again' demonstrates that Effron has rightfully earned some of the rampant adulation that has come his way." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 3, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 28%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" There are some things that even Matthew McConaughey's laid-back charm can't fix." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 84%	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	" If Wendy and Lucy isn't the most dynamic movie around, at least its tone and approach are sure-footed and appropriate." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 4%	Miss March (2009)	" It's a strange irony that any movie aimed squarely at an allegedly adult audience usually features enough gags involving feces and urine to delight six-year-olds for hours." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 43%	Race to Witch Mountain (2009)	" In 35 years, people probably will have forgotten 'Race to Witch Mountain' the way my generation has amnesia when it comes to its 1975 predecessor 'Escape to Witch Mountain.'" — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 0/5	Rotten 0%	Super Capers (2009)	" Slower than a glacier at the South Pole. More powerful than the strongest insomnia cure. Able to empty theaters with a single frame. It's a turkey! It's a Hindenburg! It's Super Capers!" — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" It's too bad the new 3D glasses can't fix sloppy writing." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	Gomorrah (2009)	" The chilliest part of watching Gomorrah is knowing that it's inspired by real events." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 66%	Duplicity (2009)	" 'Duplicity' is a cleverly charming and sophisticated film about treacherous people." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 97%	Hearts and Minds (1975)	" It's Michael Moore's favorite documentary. See it anyway." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 21, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 43%	He's Just Not That Into You (2009)	" People often do stupid things for love. That doesn't mean it's worth making a movie about these acts of folly." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 58%	The International (2009)	" If you're going to make a movie about homicidal bankers, you don't get extra dividends for exaggerated body counts." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 23%	Fired Up (2009)	" S-U-C-K! What does this movie do? It sucks! O-M-F-G! It sucks!" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 63%	Che (2008)	" Guevara is too fascinating an individual to be confined to a story that can fit on a bumper sticker." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 34%	Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)	" With only some scattershot scenes of physical humor, 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' does little to keep viewers safe from boredom." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 56%	Defiance (2008)	" For all of its flaws, 'Defiance' presents a fresh and engaging view of World War II that's all the more startling because it's based on the actions of a real Belorussian family." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 35%	Not Easily Broken (2009)	" If the crisis the couple endures seems real, the resolution needs a little more work to be convincing." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 93%	Must Read After My Death (2009)	" 'Must Read After My Death' feels less like a documentary and more like a loud scream for help." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 21, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 90%	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	" 'I've Loved You So Long' feels convincing even when jolting developments occur." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 25, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 72%	Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)	" Because of its omnibus format, the quality and the creepiness vary from segment-to-segment." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 94%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" It's as exhilarating as a stiff cup of chai." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 43%	Yes Man (2008)	" t's easy to wish that Jim Carrey had declined the chance to appear in this film that celebrates saying "Yes" to life's possibilities." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 27%	Seven Pounds (2008)	" The film's relentlessly somber tone becomes alienating. It's hard to care what the conclusion is if only more gloom awaits." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 60%	Valkyrie (2008)	" No sincere recounting of the events of July 20, 1944 could be dull, but director Bryan Singer comes dangerously close to succeeding." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 62%	The Reader (2008)	" While the story includes illicit romance, war crimes and how contemporary Europeans deal with the guilt of World War II, the movie isn't as engrossing as it should be because it's consistently clinical and glum." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 78%	Doubt (2008)	" The cast is so good that it's possible to forgive that the material they're performing isn't as thought provoking as it could have been." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 23%	Bedtime Stories (2008)	" It's a little odd that making a film for children has almost made Adam Sandler grow up." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 3, 2009

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