Amy Taubin

Amy Taubin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Publications:
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , Film Comment Magazine , Girls on Film , Sight and Sound , Village Voice
Critics' Group:
National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
184
Total QuickRatings:
184

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
64% Cosmopolis (2012) " Cosmopolis is Cronenberg's first movie since Videodrome to not only identify a particular zeitgeist but embody it in form and content." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Aug 16, 2012
79% You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2013) " The film is more than the play. Most of all, it gifts us with its actors, the most memorable of whom are Mathieu Amalric and Michel Piccoli." — Sight and Sound
Posted May 23, 2012
100% We Were Here (2011) " The filmmakers have amassed an amazing archive of photos and videotapes, but it is the intimate, personal testimonies that make the film so vital, urgent, and necessary. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2011
90% Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010) " Chazelle is an exceptionally talented filmmaker. Let's hope the independent film world has enough life left in it to do him justice." — Film Comment
Posted Nov 3, 2010
97% Ran (1985) " For aficionados of the war movie, the western, and the period action epic, Ran is necessary viewing." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 1, 2008
33% Keep Your Right Up (Soigne ta droite) (2001) " One of those failures by great artists that are more provocative to think about than to experience." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 17, 2007
61% The New World (2005) " A work of great intelligence, ambition and radiant beauty." — Sight and Sound
Posted Sep 28, 2006
93% An Inconvenient Truth (2006) " An eco-horror movie that is anything but escapist entertainment..." — Sight and Sound
Posted Sep 28, 2006
85% Old Joy (2006) City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 23, 2006
88% Broken Flowers (2005) City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Aug 7, 2005
92% Minority Report (2002) " Lacking a consistent view of his source material, Spielberg pulls out all the stops by attempting to roll three wildly different genres -- action-adventure, psychological thriller, and futuristic tone poem -- into one film." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted May 19, 2004
77% Seabiscuit (2003) City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted May 19, 2004
38% Full Frontal (2002) City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted May 19, 2004
78% 25th Hour (2003) City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted May 19, 2004
29% Nothing to Lose (1997) Village Voice
Posted Sep 18, 2003
88% Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001) " Cheung and Leung give the most subtle performances of their careers here." — Sight and Sound
Posted Dec 2, 2002
89% Le Procès (The Trial) (1962) " The Trial is splendid to look at and teeming with ideas about the individual, society, and of course, film itself." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2002
100% Gimme Shelter (1970) Village Voice
Posted May 28, 2002
73% The Woman Chaser (2000) Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2002
—— La Sentinelle (The Sentinel) (1992) Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2002
—— Children of Chabannes (2005) Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2002
—— Shadow Boxers (2003) Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2002
—— Divorce Iranian Style (1999) Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2002
82% Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) " A tricky, empty film adaptation of Michael Lesy's overrated 1973 book of the same name." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 29, 2001
—— Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth () Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2001
83% Two Women (Do Zan) (1999) Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2001
—— Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore () Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2001
90% Getting to Know You (2000) Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2001
—— Stella Does Tricks (1996) Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2001
100% Yana's Friends (2001) " Kaplun's smart, scrappy romantic comedy Yana's Friends displays an insouciance rarely found in Israeli film." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2001
100% Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.) (2001) " A spare, formally ingenious, journalistically acute piece of filmmaking." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2001
72% Training Day (2001) " Propulsive, elegantly written police thriller." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2001
86% La Ciénaga (2001) " A debut feature that's assured in every aspect." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2001
70% Liam (2001) " [Frears] limits the film by filtering it through a child's consciousness." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 19, 2001
11% The Musketeer (2001) " A stale Euro-pudding." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 11, 2001
40% Bounce - Behind the Velvet Rope (2000) " Mindless, shoddy." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 4, 2001
64% O (2001) " An unresolved mixture of gimmickry and good intentions." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 28, 2001
45% The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) " The best that can be said of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion ... is that it's not as awful as Celebrity." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 21, 2001
96% Fighter (2001) " Thanks to Lustig, the film has a generosity and antic humor." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 21, 2001
82% Animal Factory (2000) " It's the relationship between Willem Dafoe, as Earl, the hard-time veteran, and Edward Furlong, as Ron, the new boy he takes under his wing, that makes the film so compelling." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 17, 2001
70% La Bûche (1999) " Thompson keeps her focus (and ours) on the actors, most of whom have never been as luminous as they are here." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 15, 2001
95% Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964) " Along with Raoul Coutard's radiant cinematography, what makes the film extraordinary is Karina." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2001
62% Session 9 (2001) " The script for Session 9 is so underwritten that even such lively character actors as David Caruso, Peter Mullan, and Brendan Sexton III are left stranded." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2001
84% The Others (2001) " This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2001
29% Coming Soon (1999) Village Voice
Posted Jul 24, 2001
29% Jackpot (2001) " Since Sunny is physically unattractive, inept in bed, and a misogynist who sends his wife lottery tickets in lieu of child support, his popularity is a mystery to me." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 24, 2001
46% Greenfingers (2001) " The film, despite the many shots of gardens in full bloom, lacks visual distinction." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 24, 2001
92% Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) " Relentlessly assaultive, heavy-handed, and emotionally monochromatic." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 18, 2001
81% Jump Tomorrow (Life: A User's Manual) (2001) " Becomes increasingly charming as it goes along." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 3, 2001
63% Crazy/ Beautiful (2001) " As overproduced as a Super Bowl soft-drink commercial, so much so that even its potentially insightful moments seem like movie fakery." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 3, 2001
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