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Arthur Lazere

Arthur Lazere

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography:
Publisher and editor of culturevulture.net. Member: San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Online Film Critics Society, International Association of Art Critics
Favorites:
Ten best films of 2005: Capote Saraband Good Night and Good Luck Cache Nobody Knows Munich A History of Violence The Holy Girl Transamerica Pride and Prejudice
Publications:
culturevulture.net , TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Critics' Group:
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
519
Total QuickRatings:
21
Location:
San Francisco

Worst Reviewed Films

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1/5 78% Angel Heart (1987) — culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 15, 2004
70% Mission: Impossible III (2006) " The single admirable attribute of 'Mission: Impossible III' is the technical expertise that goes into the making of the action sequences. Aside from that, [it's] ordinary and forgettable." — culturevulture.net
Posted May 7, 2006
92% Journey From the Fall (2007) " There are some genuinely moving moments in [the] latter part of the film, but the inconsistencies and the overwrought structure of the screenplay seriously dilute the overall effectiveness of 'Journey from the Fall.'" — culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 21, 2006
74% Unknown White Male (2006) " Tend[s] to remain at a rather mundane level; they don't get past the obvious, to possibly more profound reflections on Bruce's situation." — culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 23, 2006
37% A Good Woman (2006) " Without an incisive satirical tone and with the shift of both period and location, 'A Good Woman' loses its bite." — culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 2, 2006
72% Syriana (2005) " The various storylines are hard to follow.., the narrative momentum dissolves in the confusion, and the multiplicity of characters means that none of them...is more than two dimensional." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 23, 2005
82% Walk the Line (2005) " The film is visualized in such a straightforward manner that it feels as if it could have been made in 1950. There's not a moment of freshly imaginative or unconventional footage. " — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 17, 2005
61% Jarhead (2005) " Stylistically stunning and performed with conviction, 'Jarhead,' nonetheless, leaves the viewer emotionally unconnected." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 3, 2005
63% Proof (2005) " Something went terribly wrong here and one of the fine theatrical experiences of recent years turns into celluloid dross." — culturevulture.net
Posted Sep 15, 2005
37% Asylum (2005) " It is not sufficient as pure storytelling to sustain interest...feels hollow at the center--lacking in any payoff, from an entertainment or from a thematic point of view." — culturevulture.net
Posted Aug 17, 2005
61% Nina's Tragedies (2005) " The comedy is feather-light and the emotions are drawn on situation, rather than on genuine involvement with substantively developed characters." — culturevulture.net
Posted Jul 24, 2005
64% Heights (2005) " Weighted down by a plot-heavy and predictable narrative, heavily dependent upon coincidence...sinks into a mire of uninteresting soapiness" — culturevulture.net
Posted Jun 21, 2005
85% Batman Begins (2005) " Aims for mythical grandeur, underlined leadenly by a pseudo-Wagnerian orchestral score, only to become mired in pretension to Jungian psychological veracity" — culturevulture.net
Posted Jun 14, 2005
60% Winter Solstice (2005) " What's missing is any real drama--there's no protagonist/antagonist conflict..; there's little fresh in the observations of mourning and the perennial parent/child tug-of-war." — culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 19, 2005
—— Grid (2005) " Fully realized, three dimensional characters may be too much to expect, but imagine how much more effective the drama would be if that were provided." — culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 14, 2005
84% Aliens of the Deep (2005) " The crew ooos and aahs and talks like so many valley girls ("awesome," "freaky," etc.), leaving the viewer hungry for some more substantive science to back up the visuals." — culturevulture.net
Posted Jan 27, 2005
35% Imaginary Heroes (2004) " Emotional impact [is] lost in the mire of multiple motivations, less than fully realized characters, and tangential excursions." — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 16, 2004
72% Paper Clips (2004) " A worthwhile record of an admirable undertaking, but a little less sentiment and a little more edge might have produced a stronger film." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 28, 2004
78% A Very Long Engagement (2004) " There's such an excess of plot and detail that characterization is neglected--none of these characters is more than single-dimensional..." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 24, 2004
16% Alexander (2004) " It's as if Stone deliberately were creating a parody of all the cornball biblical/historical spectacles in the history of the movies." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 24, 2004
49% Alfie (2004) " The fascinatingly complex character who inspired masterpieces from the wit of Moliere and the genius of Mozart draws only humdrum mediocrity from the remake mill of Hollywood." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 4, 2004
81% Ray (2004) " When [the music isn't playing], the film seems conventional, unimaginative and stretched out well beyond its ability to sustain narrative momentum." — culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 29, 2004
46% Shall We Dance (2004) " Audrey Wells' badly flawed adaptation of the original screenplay tries to bridge [the] cultural gap but it doesn't work" — culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 14, 2004
73% Primer (2004) " The Grand Jury Award for Primer is an embarrassment for Sundance." — culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 13, 2004
84% The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004) " A romanticized and lightweight road movie, a charming diversion, rather than the incisive biographical work that it should have been." — culturevulture.net
Posted Sep 23, 2004
15% Head in the Clouds (2004) " Theron lends credence here to those who think that her performance in 'Monster' was a prosthesis-assisted one-note one shot, Academy award or no." — culturevulture.net
Posted Sep 18, 2004
48% Silver City (2004) " Even the long roster of skilled players in 'Silver City' doesn't make this script come alive. " — culturevulture.net
Posted Sep 16, 2004
50% Vanity Fair (2004) " A 'Vanity Fair' with a half-realized Becky Sharp is, in the end, a Vanity Unsatisfactory. " — culturevulture.net
Posted Aug 31, 2004
18% Suspect Zero (2004) " It's a movie on a treadmill--lots of energy going nowhere at all." — culturevulture.net
Posted Aug 26, 2004
67% The Door in the Floor (2004) " Strongly character-based...[but] the balance among the characters is badly skewed and, as well, they are an unsympathetic lot" — culturevulture.net
Posted Jul 17, 2004
95% Before Sunset (2004) " The experiences they talk about are like so many sound-bites; they haven't internalized the wisdom that the words suggest." — culturevulture.net
Posted Jul 1, 2004
42% Callas Forever (2004) " A breathtaking act of betrayal and hypocrisy, of self-aggrandizement and simple bad taste." — culturevulture.net
Posted Jun 21, 2004
48% De-Lovely (2004) " A failed attempt at stylization, lacking the consistency of view and approach that would knit the parts together into a cohesive whole. But, oh, those songs!" — culturevulture.net
Posted Jun 18, 2004
17% Laws of Attraction (2004) " If 'Laws of Attraction' were a TV sitcom, it would be canceled before the second show." — culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 28, 2004
38% Man on Fire (2004) " State-of-the-art Hollywood production...Unfortunately, it also represents the nadir of Hollywood pandering to audience tastes for ever more titillating violence." — culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 22, 2004
75% Everyday People (2004) " Appealing and interesting characters, but [McKay] spreads his film too thinly over too many of them, resulting in sketches, rather than portraits." — culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 15, 2004
55% The Ladykillers (2004) " Infectious gospel music gets the film in gear again as its droopy pacing and shortage of wit threaten to drag it down to irremediable sluggishness." — culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 25, 2004
1% Twisted (2004) " A run-of-the-mill thriller that will fade from memory as quickly as poor Jessica's boyfriends are getting bumped off" — culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 26, 2004
60% The Dreamers (2004) " Cinematic allusions, both verbal and visual, are tossed around as if in the hope that some of their quality might somehow rub off on the ever-less-interesting movie at hand." — culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 12, 2004
—— Break A Leg (2006) " A whimper of protest that wants to be a scream." — culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 10, 2004
70% The Company (2003) " As drama, 'The Company' is dead in the water...and as documentary it reveals only the most obvious points, none in depth." — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 24, 2003
27% Paycheck (2003) " Operates at the level of a Game Boy shoot-'em-up: all action, bells and whistles, but no substance. " — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 24, 2003
75% House of Sand and Fog (2003) " Since the film fails to communicate the necessary level of interior insight, it's like spending two hours with people you'd just as soon never have met." — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 18, 2003
24% The Statement (2003) " Falls flat due to skimpy characterizations for all but the central character and dialogue of the kind of cliched banality that frequently induces pained winces." — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 11, 2003
65% The Last Samurai (2003) " 'The Last Samurai' has pretensions to Kurosawa, but it got stuck in the viscous goop of soft soap. " — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 4, 2003
65% The Flower of Evil (2003) " [Not] a hint of suspense or even foreboding. Chabrol might as easily have been telling about a bridge tournament as about betrayal and murder." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 14, 2003
63% Love Actually (2003) " There are enough characters here to populate a dozen movies, but not enough imagination for one." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 6, 2003
72% Runaway Jury (2003) " Credulity is stretched to the breaking point here..." — culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 16, 2003
75% Intolerable Cruelty (2003) " Reeks with the stale sweat of desperate writers" — culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 9, 2003
42% The Event (2003) " Doesn't have the ring of truth to it at all and the forced plot setup is dragged down still further by Parker Posey's flat and unconvincing performance." — culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 2, 2003
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