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Arthur Ryel-Lindsey

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: House Next Door , Slant Magazine , Stylus Magazine

Total Reviews:: 38

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/4	87%	Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011)	" This is strong and effective documentary filmmaking, but it's only a lengthy prologue to the story on which Liz Garbus clearly wants to focus." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 4, 2011
	——	A Matter of Taste ()	" This hour-long expose on the life and aspirations of Paul Liebrandt is an unrestrained delight in two parts." — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	83%	Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010)	" As with Enron, Casino Jack very quietly struggles to reconcile a disturbing history-beneath-the-history. " — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	87%	Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011)	" Structurally, Bobby Fischer Against the World is a mixed bag." — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	——	The Bengali Detective ()	" That Cox follows the best of these slapstick moments with perhaps the most tragic event in any man's life is an indication of his daring and sophistication as a director. " — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	65%	Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)	" Billed and constructed as a whodunit, Resurrect Dead is marginally more complicated than that, but only marginally. " — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	——	Do It Again ()	" Only about 30 percent of the film is of genuine interest: the interviews when Edgers is not talking, his historical expertise. " — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	94%	Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011)	" A story about Elmo was never likely to penetrate deeply into the darker corners of human nature." — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	91%	Kings of Pastry (2010)	" Chris Hegedes and D.A. Pennebaker's latest, seemingly effortless masterwork begins as an easy-paced chronicle of one man's preparations for a grueling, three-day pastry showdown." — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	——	Born Sweet ()	" So much for an otherwise noble documentary journey." — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	83%	Stonewall Uprising (2010)	" Not to put too fine of a point on it, but Kate Davis and David Heilbroner's essential new history of the events and repercussions of the Stonewall riots is about as expert a piece of analytic documentary filmmaking as can be conceived. " — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	——	Caretaker for the Lord ()	" The subtlety through which this storyline develops is McAllister's boldest stroke, and the perfect cap to this display of profound artistic talent." — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
	90%	And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)	" You wonder whom the director is trying to prove as a master, Spalding or himself." — House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
2.5/4	——	Microphone ()	" Plays like a film school thesis under construction." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2011
	90%	City Slickers (1991)	" A different way of tackling the sons-and-fathers story, but right up there with the best of them--and a tremendous western comedy as well." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008
3.5/4	90%	City Slickers (1991)	" A comedy that was and is ambitious and counterintuitive." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008
	83%	The Ice Storm (1997)	" Change, or the struggle to make change fit into the established system, is Lee's most familiar chord. He struck it loudest in The Ice Storm." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2008
3/4	83%	The Ice Storm (1997)	" As in any joke, destiny is a major character." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2008
	92%	The Last Emperor (1987)	" One of cinema's greatest cinematographic performances combines with a director's epic vision and superb craftsmanship to create a visual masterpiece. Restored by Criterion, this set is well worth remembering." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2008
4/4	92%	The Last Emperor (1987)	" The Last Emperor is most decisively a lesson of nobility." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2008
	——	Indie Sex: Censored (2007)	" A fascinating subject that deserves all the intelligent attention it gets. Just, with The Celluloid Closet or Pornography: A History of Civilization, there have been better efforts." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 28, 2008
	100%	This Sporting Life (1963)	" "You'll be what you are, self-reliant." A ringing quote that defines a film, a movement, a director, and a tremendous DVD set." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 21, 2008
4/4	100%	This Sporting Life (1963)	" This Sporting Life is a quintessential entrant in Britain's kitchen-sink realism of the late-'50s and '60s." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 21, 2008
	97%	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	" Hitchcock and film lovers alike should not pass up this worthy copy of one of the director's British-made masterworks." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 26, 2007
3.5/4	97%	The Lady Vanishes (1938)	" What separates Lady Vanishes" — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 26, 2007
	97%	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	" A hyper-violent, foul-mouthed war movie that outpaces Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and a dozen others for sheer motive force. This disc, packaged with so many other Kubrick classics, only makes it better." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2007
4/4	97%	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	" Somehow after the decadence of Barry Lyndon and a philosophical look at horror in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick settled into a film of unrestrained vitriol and aggression." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2007
	96%	The Princess Bride (1987)	" Lacking the commentaries and home video footage that graced previous The Princess Bride DVD releases, and short any comment from Reiner or Goldman, this pedestrian set hardly excites." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2007
3.5/4	96%	The Princess Bride (1987)	" A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script: "True love is the greatest thing in the world."" — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2007
	36%	As You Like It (2006)	" Branagh's film suffers when that boldness does not go far enough, creating an adaptation that trades depth and cultural exploration for a few quick fireworks; it is not so much Kurosawa's Macbeth as Memoirs of a Geisha." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 25, 2007
	97%	The Hustler (1961)	" The Hustler reaffirms your faith in the movies." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 29, 2007
4/4	97%	The Hustler (1961)	" This is the purest examination of an athlete's internal struggle ever mounted for the screen." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 29, 2007
	73%	Glastonbury (2007)	" Sure, the film is about change, but did new culture come from Glastonbury, or did Glastonbury adapt to the culture? Without an answer to this or many similar questions, Glastonbury is a pretty spectacle with no documentary weight." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2007
2/4	73%	Glastonbury (2007)	" It's hard to pin down the intent and even the honesty of the filmmaker." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2007
	96%	Big (1988)	" Marshall's film is gold." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2007
3/4	96%	Big (1988)	" The consummate '80s film about kid-dom and growing old too fast." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2007
	93%	That Thing You Do! (1996)	" Get this edition if you like the movie, but stick to the theatrical release available as a feature on the first disc." — Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2007

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