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Bryant Frazer

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography:: Bryant took film classes at the University of Colorado while neglecting his journalism studies. He moved to New York to be closer to the publishing industry and real repertory cinema. When he's not spouting off about movies on the Web, he's on the tech beat as executive editor of the trade rag Film & Video.
Publications:: Apollo Guide , Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus , Film Freak Central , White Plains Times

Total Reviews:: 704
Total QuickRatings:: 45

Location:: Sleepy Hollow, NY

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
C+	23%	P.S. I Love You (2007)	" Inasmuch as P.S. I Love You works, it works as metaphor--it's about honouring the dead by living well." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 21, 2008
B	94%	The Counterfeiters (2007)	" This is an entertaining film and not a particularly troubling one, which may be by design." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 21, 2008
D	14%	Made of Honor (2008)	" I'm not a big Carrie Bradshaw fan, but this stuff makes Sex and the City look like an Altman film." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 21, 2008
C	63%	Traitor (2008)	" Don Cheadle, heart sewn to his sleeve, is badly miscast in this war-on-terror thriller." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 15, 2008
C+	73%	Son of Rambow (2007)	" Crammed tight with every kid-pic cliche you can imagine." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 15, 2008
B	81%	Chicago 10 (2008)	" The ultimate lesson? Sometimes you make a noble point by acting like a jackass." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 15, 2008
C+	70%	American Teen (2008)	" From self-congratulation and cruelty to self-pity and miserablism, the film prizes prima donna behavior and good looks." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 14, 2008
B+	82%	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	" Why would you choose to be Vicky, the film seems to ask, if you could be Cristina instead? (Or, why move in with the bridge-and-tunnel crowd when you could be bedding the urban sophisticates?)" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 14, 2008
A-	94%	The Dark Knight (2008)	" It could be the bleakest big-budget adventure since Blade Runner tanked on release near the dawn of the Reagan era." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 27, 2008
A-	100%	Man on Wire (2008)	" A celebration of athleticism, architecture, random beauty and crazy ambition." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 26, 2008
B	87%	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008)	" Brimming with confidence and new ideas, writer/director Guillermo del Toro has made Hellboy II a different kind of film -- itself a satisfying development." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 13, 2008
B+	96%	WALL-E (2008)	" Even after WALL-E turns clunky, the beauty of its images is undiminished, the acuity of its animation unrivaled, the warmth underlying it all apparent." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 6, 2008
B-	86%	Om Shanti Om (2007)	" Om Shanti Om reaches exuberant musical highs that outshine the melodrama surrounding the set pieces." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 6, 2008
C	71%	Wanted (2008)	" The most interesting thing about Wanted is that its protagonist is one of the most unlikable action heroes in memory." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jun 30, 2008
B+	94%	My Winnipeg (2007)	" May be the year's stand-out achievement in alternate realities." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jun 12, 2008
C+	49%	La Terza Madre (Mother of Tears: The Third Mother) (2007)	" The Argento touch -- that florid stylishness that made gore and bloodshed feel like the stuff of gorgeously transfixing but profoundly disquieting dreams -- is mostly gone." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jun 4, 2008
A-	72%	Stuck (2008)	" It's an energetic B-movie with pulpy magnetism. Think of it as slapstick social realism." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 30, 2008
B	39%	Saawariya (2007)	" Ranbir Raj is a charming presence with moves that suggest a cross between Justin Timberlake and Gene Kelly, but the screen really comes to life when it's full of dancers." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 28, 2008
B	79%	Teeth (2007)	" It all works well enough that I wish it had been less of a cartoon." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 19, 2008
B-	80%	Vampire Circus (1972)	" Never recovers the concentrated erotic-violent high ground of [its] delirious overture, which stands as a wildly entertaining example of over-the-top horror filmmaking." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 19, 2008
C+	72%	The Cottage (2008)	" The Cottage, against the odds, makes a better caper movie than gore flick." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 12, 2008
B+	39%	Speed Racer (2008)	" Speed Racer just gets better -- more cool, frenetic, and spectacular -- up until its gooseflesh-inducing climax." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 8, 2008
B	93%	Iron Man (2008)	" The film's impressive human dimension becomes superfluous as the action grinds on." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 2, 2008
	100%	Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)	" A jaw-dropping declaration of principles." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Apr 29, 2008
B-	64%	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	" Where Rush Hour was a cash-in, The Forbidden Kingdom is a deliberate and loving homage." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Apr 18, 2008
B	——	Blood on Satan's Claw (1970)	" If The Blood on Satan's Claw is a fundamentally conservative film, it's pretty vigorous in depicting Satan's foul mischief." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Apr 11, 2008
B	48%	The Ruins (2008)	" These are the beautiful people, and by the end of The Ruins we'll have spent a lot of time watching them go downhill." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Apr 11, 2008
B	47%	My Blueberry Nights (2007)	" My Blueberry Nights feels like an abundantly attractive travelogue, the work of an artist who's passing through rather than taking up residence." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Apr 3, 2008
C-	36%	21 (2008)	" Harold & Kumar Go to Las Vegas would be lots more fun as well as more sociologically astute." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 31, 2008
B-	80%	The Lost (2008)	" If the ability to genuinely disturb is any measure of a horror film's quality, then The Lost is a pretty good one." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 26, 2008
D	35%	Southland Tales (2007)	" When it's not being obstinately stupid, Southland Tales is just difficult to watch." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 21, 2008
B-	59%	Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs) (2008)	" Basically a beautiful, sophisticated soap opera punctuated by the occasional musical number" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 21, 2008
C+	52%	Funny Games (2008)	" The last thing I expected was to walk out of a theater showing Funny Games with a smile on my face." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 17, 2008
B	62%	Diary of the Dead (2007)	" It's George Romero's most bluntly pessimistic film since Night of the Living Dead, which is saying something." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 13, 2008
B+	92%	U2 3D (2007)	" Not just a dazzlingly unique concert film, but an exuberant glimpse of things, maybe, to come." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 25, 2008
A	96%	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)	" Talk about body horror: combining social melodrama, character study, and hair-raising thriller, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a riveting ordeal in three parts." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 25, 2008
A	91%	There Will Be Blood (2007)	" Has the force and power of scripture." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 21, 2007
B-	83%	Atonement (2007)	" An intellectual understanding of the story is clarified at the expense of any emotional connection to the characters on screen." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 9, 2007
B-	96%	Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004)	" Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea is an engaging, entertaining snapshot of a long, tragicomic moment in American history." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 28, 2007
C+	88%	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	" This machine repeatedly threatens to rev up, but mostly just keeps slipping out of gear." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 16, 2007
C	44%	redacted (2007)	" Redacted could be as powerful as it is punishing if De Palma found a mode that he could excel in from start to finish." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 16, 2007
B-	64%	Dan in Real Life (2007)	" Am I a hypocrite? Sign me, Dan in Real Life." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 5, 2007
B+	90%	Michael Clayton (2007)	" Think of this intense drama about corporate shenanigans as the capper to a George Clooney trilogy about duty, ethics and professionalism." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 5, 2007
A-	94%	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	" Casey Affleck looks like a lost boy trying hard to do the right thing; you can see the spark of moral certitude creep into his eyes as his performance develops." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 16, 2007
B+	83%	Sisters (1973)	— Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 29, 2007
B-	39%	Feast of Love (2007)	" Contemplates the bodies of beautiful young people in order that it may more fully appreciate the predicament old people find themselves in." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 27, 2007
A-	82%	Into the Wild (2007)	" A personal film in the best sense of the word." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 17, 2007
B-	75%	The Last Winter (2007)	" Has a look and feel all its own, but Fessenden's ambition ultimately butts heads with his budget." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 17, 2007
C	51%	The Kingdom (2007)	" You can feel the tension between the filmmakers' desire to do good work and their awareness that an $80 million action movie needs to make some coin stateside." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 17, 2007
C-	25%	Halloween (2007)	" Rob Zombie is a big ol' cinephile who lacks the chops to execute on the screen everything that's going on emotionally and intellectually inside his head." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 10, 2007
B	74%	Sunshine (2007)	" The film's gravest narrative misstep is a latter-reel development that moves it specifically, and arbitrarily, into horror-movie territory." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 27, 2007
B-	78%	1408 (2007)	" It's only when the proceedings turn to maudlin "psychological horror" that the film turns tiresome." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jun 29, 2007
A	96%	Ratatouille (2007)	" Dramatizing a very unexpected story of the gulf between adequacy and excellence may be the most difficult narrative trick of all." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jun 29, 2007
B	79%	Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2006)	" This is a film that burns." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jun 27, 2007
B+	84%	Manufactured Landscapes (2007)	" The images are striking in their otherworldliness, suggesting science-fiction landscapes as readily as dystopian ruins of the here and now." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jun 25, 2007
A-	70%	28 Weeks Later... (2007)	" Punishing and exciting and ferociously intelligent in equal measure." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 9, 2007
C+	63%	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	" Even though Tobey Maguire does self-regarding jackass pretty well, he lacks a comedian's light touch." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 6, 2007
C-	28%	Next (2007)	" The third-act twist is so smug and charmless that it negates any lingering investment the audience still has in the generic guns-and-bombs goings-on." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Apr 29, 2007
A	97%	Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (2007)	" Has that marvelous capacity among motion pictures: it sneaks up on you." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 27, 2007
C-	60%	300 (2007)	" Fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 6, 2007
B-	64%	Severance (2006)	" A The Office-style comedy of corporate manners crossed with a Friday the 13th-style slasher movie, with encoded satire on U.S./British foreign policy and birds coming home to roost." — Apollo Guide Posted Feb 27, 2007
B+	93%	Gwoemul (The Host) (2007)	" Head and shoulders above its SF/action competition." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 27, 2007
B	76%	Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007)	" Paul Verhoeven's target in Black Book is extremists on both sides of the political equation" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 22, 2007
B+	——	Perfume ()	" At times it feels almost like a highbrow exploitation movie, and the best scenes are the ones that go furthest over the top." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 22, 2007
D	59%	The Hitcher (1986)	" Without the original film's subtext of male bonding gone awry, nothing here has a shred of psychological resonance." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 22, 2007
B	55%	Déjà Vu (2006)	" Certainly Tony Scott's best movie since Enemy of the State, and probably since the Tarantino-scripted True Romance." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 22, 2007
F	12%	The Messengers (2007)	" Relies way too much on cheap, nerve-jangling sound effects and musical stings to juice up the film's tepid, PG-13 proceedings." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 22, 2007
C+	48%	Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs) (2007)	" Erection-inducing but borderline gynophobic." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 22, 2007
B+	93%	Children of Men (2006)	" Easy to watch and hard to shake, Children of Men is an action-adventure film/socio-political nightmare." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 2, 2007
B+	89%	Venus (2006)	" Peter O'Toole's Maurice isn't one of those stock characters, like the Lovable Codger or the Misanthropic Coot, we know from sweet Britflicks about lives begun at 70." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 2, 2007
C	74%	The Painted Veil (2006)	" It's lacking all subtlety." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 20, 2006
B+	33%	Breaking and Entering (2007)	" This story's ultimate resolution is saccharine. (Even the hooker turns out to have a heart of gold.) But it's still heartening." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 13, 2006
B-	65%	Apocalypto (2006)	" Of all the American directors now working -- including the guys who make the Saw movies -- Mel Gibson may have the most pathological fixation on human suffering." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 13, 2006
C-	51%	The Fountain (2006)	" If Aronofsky's just gone over my head, I'm prepared to live with that." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 6, 2006
C+	38%	The Nativity Story (2006)	" Just about as perfunctory and old-fashioned as can be." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 6, 2006
C+	17%	Turistas (Paradise Lost) (2006)	" If the filmmakers were trying to scare American kids into cultural isolationism, this would be a pretty good piece of propaganda for the cause." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 6, 2006
B-	100%	Baby Face (1933)	" Baby Face is sort of the ultimate pre-Code film, with its repetitive form %u2014 that same come-hither look, that same goggle-eyed assent from the dude on the receiving end %u2014 almost beggaring belief." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 6, 2006
C	66%	Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)	" The push-and-pull between the rote royal-family intrigue and the feverish visual design is almost too much, nearly drowning the picture in a sea of self-generating kitsch." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 6, 2006
B-	28%	Saw III (2006)	" I couldn't watch Saw III without thinking of reality TV shows like Fear Factor. Can it be a deliberate parody?" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 9, 2006
B-	32%	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	" As much a spiritual sequel to Secretary as an Alice in Wonderland twist on Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 9, 2006
C+	69%	Babel (2006)	" Obviously concerned with the Big Issues, Iñárritu spends an inordinate amount of time screwing his characters -- and his audience. It doesn't serve him well." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 26, 2006
B	85%	Sweet Land (2006)	" What matters in Sweet Land are the moments between the words being spoken, the mute characters as seen in reaction shots, and the images of flat, grassy Minnesota landscapes and big sky." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 12, 2006
B	30%	Tideland (2006)	" It's no masterpiece, but it is a haunting, serious picture." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 10, 2006
B	92%	Volver (2006)	" There's enough intrigue and good humor that you barely mind the clichés, the misdirection, and the easy capitulation to formula." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 11, 2006
C-	69%	Hollywoodland (2006)	" The film oughta be Reeves' story -- except the filmmakers, like everyone else, couldn't figure out how the poor guy really died." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Sep 7, 2006
A-	91%	Professione: reporter (The Passenger) (1975)	" Sure, it's obstinately slow, but what an eye this man has. Every frame is fascinating." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 23, 2006
C	63%	Clerks II (2006)	" The duds-to-gags ratio is way too high and the general aesthetic (visual and verbal) way too crummy." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 23, 2006
C+	24%	Lady in the Water (2006)	" Shyamalan's skill as a director of action (and inaction) finds a really good match in ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle's moody camera fu." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 23, 2006
B+	69%	Yôkai daisensô (The Great Yokai War) (2005)	" Imagine Kwaidan cross-bred with The NeverEnding Story and directed by Terry Gilliam." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 23, 2006
C-	68%	Snakes on a Plane (2006)	" Not much for the thinking viewer -- which Snakes on a Plane tries its best to render obsolete -- to latch onto." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 18, 2006
A-	47%	Miami Vice (2006)	" This has more in common with a Wong Kar-wai film than any Hollywood movie I've seen lately." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 15, 2006
B-	68%	World Trade Center (2006)	" Sometimes, hokum works pretty beautifully." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 15, 2006
B+	69%	A Scanner Darkly (2006)	" The slipperiness of the animated image has something to do with duplicity, with the idea that things you perceive are not necessarily the same as things that are real, and with the fact that both people and governments betray you." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 18, 2006
B+	40%	Takeshis' (2005)	" Takeshi Kitano's crazy, weird, indulgent, breathtaking, strangely titled fantasy is as entertaining as it is puzzling -- a marvelous movie about movies with a sense of humor and a surreal streak." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 14, 2006
B	——	Singapore sling: O anthropos pou agapise ena ptoma (1990)	" A pitch-black neo-noir old-dark-house sex-horror comedy featuring ample helpings of nudity, bondage, torture, general fiendishness, and very poor table manners." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 14, 2006
B+	81%	Kaidan (Kwaidan) (Ghost Stories) (1964)	" Isn't grab-your-chair scary but manages to work up a pretty good head of creep anyway." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 13, 2006
B-	72%	Clean (2005)	" Plays like the work of a great auteur working in sandbox mode to build a world that has too much of the whiff of hipster fabulism about it to play at gut level." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 2, 2006
B	87%	The Proposition (2005)	" An ambitious work, thick with history and atmosphere and clearly haunted by the ghosts of an Australian past that remains, at least where cinema is concerned, fairly obscure." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 2, 2006
C+	68%	Hard Candy (2006)	" Hard Candy ultimately lacks the balls to follow through on its most discomfiting promises, choosing instead to wallow in a surfeit of final-reel tidiness." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Apr 14, 2006
B	80%	Brick (2006)	" Evokes the real feelings of those high-school years, when teenaged personal politics felt bigger than life and every emotion was amplified to the level of heartbreak." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 30, 2006
B+	85%	Old Joy (2006)	" What makes it fascinating is director Kelly Reichardt's single-minded focus on a certain type of relationship." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 21, 2006
B	51%	Manderlay (2006)	" Whereas Dogville was a slippery, challenging and ultimately brutal masterpiece, Manderlay is looser, messier, less serious and ultimately far less effective." — White Plains Times Posted Feb 22, 2006
B-	44%	Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo) (2006)	" Explicitness is crucial to meaning -- by dwelling on the trim and beautiful versus the flabby and ordinary, Reygadas emphasizes both physical closeness and economic distance." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 16, 2006
A-	89%	Cache (Hidden) (2005)	" Caché's approach amounts to some kind of methodical psychological torture of characters that simultaneously inhabit and seem trapped in Haneke's screw-turning narrative." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 30, 2005
B+	77%	Match Point (2005)	" A black comedy without a laugh track, a small drama without cuteness, a wry morality play where the jokes aren't in evidence until the very last scenes." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 30, 2005
B	84%	King Kong (2005)	" The best thing about Peter Jackson's King Kong may be that his attachment to the project likely kept anybody else from getting the job." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 30, 2005
A	87%	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	" Pretty terrific stuff by any measure, full of detailed characterizations and unashamed, misty-eyed sentiment that pushes precisely the right buttons." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 8, 2005
C-	46%	Rent (2005)	" Wwill someone please rescue Chris Columbus's movies from the tyranny of the reaction shot?" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 22, 2005
B	72%	Syriana (2005)	" Unlike The Constant Gardener, which turned on the nexus of A Good Woman's Love, Syriana is eventually a movie about moral compromise." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 22, 2005
B-	78%	Sin City (2005)	" Is Sin City the most accomplished mediocre movie in recent history?" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
D	59%	Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)	" A preening, superficial film that expects you to appreciate its smart concept without noticing the stupid execution." — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 31, 2005
B	81%	Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)	" A journey from sexual innocence to youthful curiosity, middle-aged disconnection and finally death in the magical simultaneity of screen time." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
A-	90%	Kung Fu Hustle (2005)	" Few directors in world cinema are working so competently and consistently in any mode as Chow is in this one." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
B	44%	The Jacket (2005)	" Ambitious-verging-on-pretentious screenplay adroitly lensed by a director with impressive formal command." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
A-	86%	Howl's Moving Castle (2005)	" Positively sings with color and light." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
C	85%	Batman Begins (2005)	" All the good intentions in the world don't change the fact that the new Batman is a bit of a bore." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
C+	25%	9 songs (2005)	" When Kieran O'Brien and Margot Stilley have sex, it's clearly Michael Winterbottom sex." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
B	85%	The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)	" On the road to true love, as it turns out, there are a lot of dick jokes and a lot of gay jokes and a line-up of stereotypes." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
C+	83%	The Constant Gardener (2005)	" It's interesting and absorbing enough that I can't call it a failure, but it doesn't cohere enough to qualify as a success." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 31, 2005
B	88%	Broken Flowers (2005)	" The film's singlemindedness, like Murray's solipsism, keeps it from feeling fully formed." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 18, 2005
A-	80%	The Aristocrats (2005)	" One of the funniest things I've ever seen." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 11, 2005
5/5	50%	Nekromantik (1987)	— Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 4, 2005
A-	85%	2046 (2005)	" Not just a deeply sad movie, but one whose every image seems haunted." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 4, 2005
B	53%	The Devil's Rejects (2005)	" Replete with sordid visuals and bereft of redemptive values, The Devil's Rejects is a rebuke to what's become of genre filmmaking." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 22, 2005
B	81%	Oldboy (2005)	" It's at its best when it indulges a not-inconsiderable sense of humor, which is why it's a shame that the overall mood is so bleak." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 7, 2005
B	88%	House of Flying Daggers (2004)	— Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 15, 2004
A	73%	Primer (2004)	" A terrific little film about afterhours industry, tenderfoot genius and, of course, the evil in men's souls." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 7, 2004
B	43%	The Brown Bunny (2004)	" If The Brown Bunny feels weirdly indulgent, it's nothing if not a fiercely personal film - a work of art conjured in the spirit of poetry." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 27, 2004
C-	72%	Open Water (2004)	" Plays like the opening scene from Jaws, only stretched out to feature length and not half as scary." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 5, 2004
B+	90%	Last Life in the Universe (2004)	" A lovely film, if a little out of balance with itself." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 5, 2004
A	100%	Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) (1982)	" A ghost story whose subjects are the living and the dead, magic and imagination and the nature of God." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 15, 2004
B+	97%	Maria Full of Grace (2004)	" Depicts a world full of moments of squalor and terror, but one that still holds the promise of actual beauty." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 15, 2004
B-	83%	Red Lights (Feux Rouges) (2004)	" A sort of relationship thriller about the discomfort of living in one another's company - and also about the terror of being alone in the night." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 2, 2004
B+	93%	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	" What's at stake, besides the soul of the superhero, the continued health and well being of New York City and all that, is the lot in life of the little guy." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 2, 2004
B	84%	Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004)	" Neither as giddy nor as viscerally satisfying as its predecessor, Kill Bill Vol. 2 aspires to be the thinking man's genre mash-up. " — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Apr 15, 2004
B-	75%	Dawn of the Dead (2004)	" This is an impatient film, keyed to the tempo of short attention spans, relying on quick setups and quicker payoffs." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 22, 2004
A	70%	Dogville (2003)	" It isn't simply an anti-U.S. message, or even a rumination on how much it sucks to be human. Rather, it urges humane treatment of others." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 22, 2004
B	49%	Secret Things (2003)	" What's silly about this is all the sex and nudity. And what's exciting about it is, right, all the sex and nudity." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 13, 2004
B	94%	American Splendor (2003)	" An engrossing stunt in the Being John Malkovich vein, only not quite as weirdly compelling." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
B+	90%	Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2003)	" A well-honed exploitation picture that just happens to be set in the slums outside Rio de Janeiro." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
B	72%	Elephant (2003)	" An almost metaphysical sigh heaved in response to the Columbine slayings." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
C	62%	Hulk (2003)	" Wastes time and squanders audience sympathy with too much humorless exposition." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
B+	97%	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)	" Director Andrew Jarecki mounts a convincing argument but declines to work up the kind of scalding condemnation of the justice system that his findings would seem to demand." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
C+	42%	The Human Stain (2003)	" Sensitively written and directed but spectacularly miscast." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
C+	71%	Cold Mountain (2003)	" That ancillary characters are played by big-name supporting actors, each of whom seems to be working in a different register, just underscores the choppy nature of the story." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
B+	94%	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	" This brand of strenuous adaptation is some kind of achievement, for sure." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
B-	23%	Torque (2004)	" If it's lacking much in the way of distinction, it benefits from an abundance of panache." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
B	81%	So Close (2003)	" Part of the feedback loop created when The Matrix, which co-opted Hong Kong filmmaking styles, began to influence Asian cinema itself." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 21, 2004
B-	76%	The Cooler (2003)	" William H. Macy settles comfortably into a role that may as well have been written for him." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 8, 2003

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