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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: 634
Total QuickRatings: 257

Location: Kansas City

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Fresh 4/5	Fresh 95%	La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009)	" The fact that the 79-year-old Frederick Wiseman is still making movies after his debut in the mid-1960s demonstrates that there's still a market for his work, and if he continues to make first rate documentaries like' La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet,' th" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 90%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Perhaps only George Clooney could make getting fired sound like a positive development." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 84%	Me and Orson Welles (2009)	" It's not an insult to say that 'Me and Orson Welles' lacks the audacity that Welles brought to movies, radio and the stage. By merely reminding viewers of Welles and his achievements, it's not hard to imagine his silky baritone bellowing with approval." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 84%	Avatar (2009)	" When James Cameron boasts about his latest macro-budgeted movie pushes the limits of cinema, he sounds like a politician bragging about a pork barrel project. Unlike elected officials, Cameron actually delivers." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 67%	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)	" Perhaps "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" might have been a stronger film had it focused on a single private life instead of a cornucopia of them." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 83%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" It's a step backward in technology, but it's not a step down in entertainment." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 98%	Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)	" What's so refreshing about 'Anvil: The Story of Anvil' is that it focuses on a Toronto band named Anvil who have been playing for 30 years despite having no commercial success to show for it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 96%	Crude (2009)	" 'Crude,' thankfully, brings insight and urgency to an issue that has until recently been ignored" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" Screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher and director Lee Daniels manage to pile on the misfortunes without making 'Precious' maudlin or dour." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" Writer-director Wes Anderson's movies are often loaded with cartoonish characters and situations. So, it would only make sense that his most enjoyable movie to date is an actual cartoon." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 90%	The Messenger (2009)	" Because of the nature of its subject matter, 'The Messenger' is emotionally charged, but director Oren Moverman and his able cast prevent it from feeling phony or manipulative." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 67%	Paris (2009)	" Despite some wonderful performances and memorable situations, writer-director C�dric Klapisch ('L'Auberge Espagnole') fails to recapture the warmth of his previous ensemble dramas." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 5%	Old Dogs (2009)	" Based on the quality of its script, 'Old Dogs' should have been put to sleep before the cameras started rolling." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 31%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" The plot's pretty basic, but it's surprisingly hard to follow." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 72%	The Road (2009)	" Movies like '2012' wreck the world in front of our eyes through long pageants of explosions. 'The Road,' however, deals with cataclysmic ruin in a far different and much more compelling manner." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" Scherfig and Hornby have a winningly droll sense of humor, but the main reason to see An Education is because they treat viewers as if they were as intelligent as Jenny." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 21, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Because of this new, but thoroughly chaste love triangle, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is inept and annoying in a different way than its predecessor." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 21, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 90%	The Exiles (1961)	" Kent Mackenzie's 1961 movie 'The Exiles' was so revolutionary that even now it seems gutsy." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 18, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 94%	The Damned United (2009)	" 'The Damned United' is a soccer movie that's really about a man's struggle with his most dangerous opponent--his own ego." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 14, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" It's pointless to fault '2012' for being silly or perpetuating scientific and historic baloney. Instead, the new movie's unforgivable transgression is that it fails to make any of the apocalyptic destruction fun." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 14, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 57%	Mad Monster Party (1967)	" It doesn't take much effort to spot the short cuts the filmmakers have taken." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 90%	Death in the Garden (1956)	" Spanish-born director Luis Bu�uel had such a distinctive style and outlook that even his minor films are fascinating to watch." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" *Writer-director Robert Zemeckis follows Charles Dickens' 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, so closely that he even makes the same error the author made with the first edition of the book." — eFilmCritic.com* Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 86%	The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)	" It's not surprising the film was Germany's 2008 submission for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 1, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 32%	The Burning Plain (2009)	" All of these seemingly disparate stories are related, but Arriaga connects them more slowly than an alert viewer can on his or her own." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 29, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 37%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" A movie about the undead that never really makes it out of the grave." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 29, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 21%	Amelia (2009)	" 'Amelia' plays less like a movie and more like a timeline." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" Spike Jonze's new film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's classic 'Where the Wild Things' Are is more admirable than enjoyable." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 16, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 72%	The Boys Are Back (2009)	" Hicks' rambling pacing and Cubitt's routine approach to the story prevent 'The Boys Are Back' from reaching its potential." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 9, 2009
Rotten 3/5	N/A	Angel Of Death (2009)	" Bell's charm and finesse with a right hook help elevate Angel of Death from being a mundane straight-to-DVD offering." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	Katyn (2007)	" Oscar-winning Polish writer/director Andrzej Wajda is now 83 years old. But he thankfully hasn't lost his ability to outrage viewers for all the right reasons." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 75%	Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)	" It might seem like a fantasy for the baker interviewed in the film to be making $60,000 a year and benefits, but Moore proves the idea is less fictitious than the ones that sank Lehman Brothers." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Rotten 57%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" 'The Invention of Lying' is based on a simple idea, but Gervais and Robinson come up with seemingly endless ways to maximize it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 85%	Bright Star (2009)	" With 'Bright Star,' New Zealand's Jane Campion ('The Piano') has managed to write and direct an engrossing film about a man whose achievements can only be found on the page and in the heart." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 26, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 27%	Fame (2009)	" The new remake of the 1980 hit 'Fame' is not going to live forever and has clearly not learned how to fly." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 26, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" While 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' would probably still be entertaining in a conventional 2D format, the story is a natural for 3D." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" If Soderbergh's offbeat approach seems alienating at first, the film's second half is loaded with hilariously bizarre revelations, which are actually true to the case." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 84%	The September Issue (2009)	" From watching the new documentary 'The September Issue,' it's hard to tell if novelist and former Anna Wintour assistant Lauren Weisberger was unfair to the editor when she created the relentlessly cruel Miranda Priestly." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 14, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 58%	9 (2009)	" Because '9' runs only 79 minutes, Acker almost gets by on the intricate and distinctive visuals." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 12, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 65%	Adam (2009)	" British actor Hugh Dancy manages an astonishing feat by making viewers empathize with a character that has trouble feeling empathy." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 28, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	Motherland (2009)	" Jennifer Steinman's new documentary 'Motherland' follows a group of American women who attempt to get beyond their own suffering." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 26, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 95%	In the Loop (2009)	" Whereas several recent films like the pompous 'Lions for Lambs' presented the current war in a didactically solemn tone, Iannucci has more to say by simply playing the crisis for laughs." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 38%	X Games 3D: The Movie (2009)	" There's some jaw dropping eye candy in 'X Games 3D: The Movie,' but there are also wasted opportunities." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Tarantino assembles his complicated plot and multitude of players with only occasional allegiance to history. As a result, all bets are off, making the film and its twists harder to predict." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 21, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 38%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" Unless your idea of cinematic bliss is a chance to catch Bana's buff torso or shoulders, there isn't much to the film." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 60%	Paper Heart (2009)	" 'Paper Heart' is a strange hybrid of documentary and fiction filmmaking that might have been more enjoyable had it stuck with strictly with the facts." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 80%	Bandslam (2009)	" Co-writer-director Todd Graff doesn't look at teens or their issues in a condescending light." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	Ponyo (2009)	" 'Ponyo' is a worthy piece of work from an artist who takes his work and his audience seriously." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 86%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" This broken affair is more entertaining than most successful ones." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 31, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 24%	G-Force (2009)	" Bruckheimer and his crew should have imagined material that's suited for more than the bottom of a cage." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 24, 2009

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