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Brent Simon

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography:: A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brent Simon is a three-term president of LAFCA, a contributor to Screen International and Magill?s Cinema Annual, and film editor of H Magazine. He cannot abide a world without U2 and pizza.
Favorites:: Movies without Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand, Mariah Carey and Eric Schaeffer
Publications:: Entertainment Today , FilmStew.com , H Magazine , IGN Movies , Los Angeles CityBeat , Los Angeles Daily News , Now Playing Magazine , ReelzChannel.com , Screen International , Screendaily , Shared Darkness , Shockya.com
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 1695
Total QuickRatings:: 67

Location:: Los Angeles, CA

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Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008)	" *Garrone talks about Gomorrah's theatrical success in Italy, the state of the government's war on the mafia, and what Oliver Stone thought about his film." — Shared Darkness* Posted Feb 17, 2009
Two Lovers (2008)	" *James Gray chats about Two Lovers* and Joaquin Phoenix, as well as his wild new film with Brad Pitt.*" — Shared Darkness* Posted Feb 9, 2009
Two Lovers (2008)	" *Vinessa Shaw talks about Two Lovers, working with Joaquin Phoenix, and practicing Buddhism..." — Shared Darkness* Posted Feb 6, 2009
Two Lovers (2008)	" Joaquin Phoenix talks about quitting acting, growing his crazy prospector's beard and embarking upon a rap career..." — Shared Darkness Posted Feb 4, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" The same forward-leaning kinetic energy that marks Boyle's work is also present in conversation with him. Ask a question and he'll enthusiastically rip into a breakneck-paced response, tripping over his words." — Shared Darkness Posted Jan 30, 2009
Nobel Son (2008)	" *Eliza Dushku talks about Nobel Son, the awkwardness of pasties and TV's Dollhouse." — Shared Darkness* Posted Jan 30, 2009
The Reader (2008)	" *Stephen Daldry talks about back-loading The Reader's intimate scenes, and clashes between Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin that led to the latter taking his name off the film." — Shared Darkness* Posted Jan 30, 2009
The Wrestler (2008)	" Marisa Tomei: 'I want to make movies with people who really, really care. And I think that I tend to respond [to material] more thematically than anything else.'" — Shared Darkness Posted Jan 30, 2009
The Class (2008)	" *Laurent Cantet talks about The Class' English language title change, its evocation of multiple social divides and how France trusts its teenagers more than America." — Shared Darkness* Posted Jan 30, 2009
Nothing But the Truth (2008)	" Kate Beckinsale: 'My career has absolutely reflected what age my daughter has been, and whether or not I've been a single parent at the time.'" — Shared Darkness Posted Jan 30, 2009
Yonkers Joe (2009)	" *Chatting up his latest film -- part dice scam ensemble, part family drama -- Palminteri reflects on A Bronx Tale* and talks about the benefits of adult-onset fame.*" — Shared Darkness* Posted Jan 30, 2009
The Wackness (2008)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Says Jonathan Levine: "Luckily, I'd read Henry IV, otherwise I would have just had to pretend like I knew what the fck he was talking about."*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Jul 22, 2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Marina Zenovich: "I'm in no way apologizing for Polanski."" — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 9, 2008
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Errol Morris: "I've pointed out a couple of times my surprise that no one really bothered to investigate the photographs, per se."" — FilmStew.com Posted May 9, 2008
Rambo (Rambo IV) (2008)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Says Sly: "I like First Blood* and I like this one... The others were kind of trying to figure out what I should do."*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Feb 1, 2008
The Great Debaters (2007)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Says Denzel: "In order to get enough of the money I felt we needed to make the movie, I had* to be in it."*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Jan 29, 2008
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Frank Langella: "If you read what I read, when you get a script like this you very much want to meet the man who wrote it."" — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 22, 2008
December Boys (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Daniel Radcliffe: "Me and this girl were in this sort of passionate clinch, and a really hardcore punk song came on and totally spoiled the mood.”" — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 17, 2007
Sleuth (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Sir Michael Caine: "Directors who say let’s go out to dinner and let me talk with you about this… Then you know you’re in trouble."" — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 23, 2007
Rendition (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Gavin Hood: "Are we so cynical that if something doesn’t crack it at the box office, it wasn’t worth making?"" — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 18, 2007
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Ryan Gosling: "For me, it was about a guy who meets a girl, falls in love, she comes to live with him, she gets a terminal illness and she dies."" — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 16, 2007
Feast of Love (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Robert Benton: "One of the sad things about movies is that now the business part of movies has gotten more interesting than movies."" — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 5, 2007
The Hunting Party (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Richard Shepard: "I kept telling the crew I wanted this to feel like making a 1940’s Warner Bros. movie, and that Bogart would play Gere’s part."" — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 2, 2007
The Nines (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Ryan Reynolds: "Actors are as good as their director. It’s their medium; theater might be our medium, but this one’s theirs through and through."" — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 25, 2007
Fierce People (2005)	" Actor Interview - Says co-star Diane Lane: "Being a self-made person means everything to me, and I’m trying to instill that into our kids."" — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 14, 2007
The Hottest State (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Ethan Hawke: "“There was no grand plan of, like, ‘The world needs to see this.’ I kind of felt like this [was] something in my comfort zone."" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 31, 2007
Right at Your Door (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director Chris Gorak: "I always say the production designer is the coach of the team and the art director is the quarterback."" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 28, 2007
Year of the Dog (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Molly Shannon: "I don’t mind struggling because sometimes I feel like it can help you create something that you might not have thought of."" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 24, 2007
2 Days in Paris (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Julie Delpy: "That’s what you do on independent films; all sorts of little deals, and you have to give a bit of yourself to get money."" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 14, 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says director Paul Greengrass: "I wouldn’t want to go out on a Saturday night and see Dick Cheney in a movie.”" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 8, 2007
El Cantante (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Jennifer Lopez: "I was a huge fan of his before we met. I went to his concerts - that’s how I met Marc [Anthony]."" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 6, 2007
Hot Rod (2007)	" *Actor Interview - Says Andy Samberg: "People want to pit everyone against each other... ‘So what’s going on with this competition between Hot Rod* and Superbad?"*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Aug 2, 2007
Evan Almighty (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Steve Carell somewhat ominously: "I’m willing to take pretty much any job offered to me."" — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 27, 2007
The Invisible (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-turned-director David S. Goyer: "In retrospect, most of my movies are kind of about outsiders."" — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 15, 2007
Mr. Brooks (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Kevin Coster: "If no one else wanted to make this movie, why would I let anybody try to flatten it out and make it more generic?"" — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 4, 2007
Hannibal Rising (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says actor Gaspard Ulliel: "They just say ‘cut’ and then the dead man get up and talks to you. The blood is strawberry-flavored and it’s just like a game."" — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 1, 2007
Stephanie Daley (2006)	" Actor Interview - Says Amber Tamblyn: "Before every take, I would ask for a giant bucket of ice water, and I would have them hold my hair back and just stick my head in it."" — FilmStew.com Posted May 2, 2007
Shooter (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Mark Wahlberg: "Going in, we really thought we were going to make a talkie, one of those throwback ’70s films."" — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 29, 2007
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Wait till you hear the high-concept premise that Chris Rock turned down as an actor in order to make I Think I Love My Wife." — FilmStew.com* Posted Mar 27, 2007
Factory Girl (2007)	" Actor Interview - Like her Crayola namesake, actress Sienna Miller leaves a distinctive mark." — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 27, 2007
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - MPAA buster Kirby Dick is cautiously optimistic about the organizational changes he helped bring about." — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 31, 2007
Rocky Balboa (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Says Sly of his first iconic character: I always thought of Rocky* as a love story about a boxer. It had nothing to with boxing, per se.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Jan 8, 2007
Venus (2006)	" *Actor Interview - Just like Julie Walters in Educating Rita, newcomer Jodie Whittaker has jumped from TV to film to hold her own opposite an acting legend." — FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 20, 2006
The Nativity Story (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - The psyches of sheep and the surprisingly fragile hinds of donkeys were just some of the revelations experienced by filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 6, 2006
Come Early Morning (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Adams says cobbling together financing for Come Early Morning* ranks as the worst experience of her young life. But she’s ready for more.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 5, 2006
Bobby (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Emilio Estevez made Bobby* for all the boomers out there, people who he says have grown tired of all the Hollywood sht." — FilmStew.com* Posted Nov 23, 2006
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker) (2006)	" Interview - Author Andy Horowitz chose the Weinsteins over a big Hollywood studio, because they didn't insist on ageing the hero, adding a girl and adding a fast car." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 2, 2006
Feast (2005)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Muses option-contracted John Gulager, post-Greenlight: "The Weinsteins seem to like me, and that counts for something."" — FilmStew.com* Posted Oct 31, 2006
Flyboys (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - Don't try this at home; Tony Bill managed to raise $60 million with no superstars, an odd subject matter, no foreign sales and no distributor." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 25, 2006
Haven (2006)	" *Actor Interview - In between Troy* and Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando Bloom starred in this low-budget producing debut. And it's got him hungry for more.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Sep 20, 2006

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