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Chris Barsanti

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Biography:: Chris Barsanti is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and New York Film Critics Online. Currently he is a senior writer for filmcritic.com and has also written for Film Journal International, Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Reader, Minneapolis' City Pages, and Publishers Weekly. The closest thing he has to a real website is: www.chrisbarsanti.blogspot.com.
Publications:: Cineman Syndicate , Citysearch , Elites TV , Film Journal International , Film Racket , Film Threat , Filmcritic.com , Hollywood Reporter , MovieWeb , PopMatters , Reel.com , Slant Magazine , ToxicUniverse.com
Critics' Group:: Chicago Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online, Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 906
Total QuickRatings:: 41

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1.5/5	67%	The Iceman (2013)	" Vromen's period detail-slathered film (read: much unfortunate facial hair) exhausts itself trying to jam in as many cliches as possible." — Film Racket Posted May 2, 2013
3/5	74%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" ...a grandiose romance with deeply-buried secrets and soul-stirring declarations of love." — Film Racket Posted May 2, 2013
	——	Mortem (2013)	" This initially bewitching throwback to the French New Wave and Cocteau turns into a turgid and frequently laughable pseudo-philosophical locked-room argument between a woman and her soul." — Film Journal International Posted May 1, 2013
7/10	——	Big Men ()	" ...shapes its alternately dry and dire subject matter with a consistently keen sense of art." — PopMatters Posted Apr 25, 2013
6/10	——	The Project ()	" ... advocates for shoving the UN out of the way and allowing military contractors to bring a profitable peace to lawless hinterlands." — PopMatters Posted Apr 25, 2013
4/10	——	Bottled Up ()	" [a] bantamweight romantic comedy" — PopMatters Posted Apr 24, 2013
8/10	——	Oxyana ()	" A nervy portrait of the effects of economic colonialism and over-prescription of pain meds" — PopMatters Posted Apr 24, 2013
8/10	——	Let The Fire Burn ()	" ...superbly cool-headed" — PopMatters Posted Apr 24, 2013
4.5/5	87%	In the House (2013)	" almost perfect" — Film Racket Posted Apr 18, 2013
3.5/5	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" standing as it does, nearly alone, one could certainly do worse than Hooper's brave and smart addition to the pantheon." — Film Racket Posted Apr 14, 2013
2/5	85%	The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)	" Apatow's creative miscalculation here extends well beyond forgetting to give his characters much to do: He made a comedy that's just not very funny" — Film Racket Posted Apr 14, 2013
2/5	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" big and splashy but tin-eared " — Film Racket Posted Apr 14, 2013
3.5/5	96%	Blancanieves (2013)	" By the time the film arrives at its grand theatrical finale, you're almost prepared for Berger's last great twist. Almost." — Film Racket Posted Apr 14, 2013
5/5	98%	Repo Man (1984)	" A 1984 underground touchstone [that's] a creepy visitation from a fracturing society." — Film Racket Posted Apr 12, 2013
2.5/5	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" It's a seeming impossibility: a middlebrow film about extremists." — Film Racket Posted Apr 12, 2013
	76%	It's a Disaster (2013)	" The end of the world seems like not such a bad thing in Todd Berger's gleefully acidic satire about an awkward brunch that turns into a countdown to actual disaster." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 11, 2013
	88%	The Angels' Share (2013)	" Ken Loach comedy about young Glaswegian reprobates fighting for a second chance has charm aplenty, but suffers from occasional portions of cheese and a hard-to-swallow premise (whisky-tasting as gateway to a better life)." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 11, 2013
	83%	The Revolutionary (2013)	" Artistically anemic documentary provides a thrillingly unique viewpoint on the disillusion and terror of the 20th century's most tragic revolution." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 11, 2013
	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Terence Malick's newest meditative bauble is a troubled love story seen through a glass darkly; his inability to achieve a customary grandeur makes it comes across as less masterly than foolish." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 8, 2013
	87%	Upstream Color (2013)	" ...another unclassifiable and unique piece of quasi-science-fiction paranoia." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 4, 2013
9/10	91%	Gimme The Loot (2013)	" ...a magical, summery treat." — PopMatters Posted Mar 29, 2013
	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" ...theory-drunk ... hydra-headed exposition of the joys of deep reading and a boundary-pushing experiment in fair usage of copyrighted material." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 28, 2013
	90%	My Brother The Devil (2013)	" Unsure performances and some decades-old gangster-film stereotypes hamper this acute, beautifully shot portrait of Egyptian teenagers fighting to survive in a rough London neighborhood." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 22, 2013
3/10	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" ...grindhouse with pretensions of being arch" — PopMatters Posted Mar 18, 2013
7/10	79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" There is a beautiful film here, with a rich understanding of the apocalyptic concerns of adolescence, but it's only visible in pieces." — PopMatters Posted Mar 15, 2013
	71%	Greedy Lying Bastards (2013)	" ...has all the ammunition at hand but never goes for the kill." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 7, 2013
	96%	War Witch (2013)	" ...startling, hallucinogenic war drama" — Film Journal International Posted Feb 25, 2013
	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" ...a comedy that is about two-thirds worthy of your money and one-third a waste of everybody's time; in other words, better than average for a major studio comedy these days." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 6, 2013
5/10	22%	The Taste of Money (2013)	" The story bounces about in a fashion that's as chaotic as the film's visuals are placid, suffused with sumptuous malice." — PopMatters Posted Feb 6, 2013
	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" Steven Soderbergh's (supposed) swan song as a feature film director is less a 'Contagion'-like topical thriller about the dangers of pharmaceuticals than it is a crisp but low-voltage neo-noir where drugs are only part of the story." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 4, 2013
	46%	Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2013)	" This tiresome documentary on activist journalist and convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal buries its subject under waves of gratingly repetitive accolades." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 1, 2013
9/10	98%	56 Up (2013)	" In the eighth installment of Michael Apted's epochal documentary series, his aging participants (one of cinema's greatest assemblage of living characters) provide not just a telescope into the past but also a kind of primer for how to live." — PopMatters Posted Jan 24, 2013
	92%	The Gatekeepers (2013)	" A tart, complicated cocktail of a film sure to send audience members out of the theatre with heads abuzz and arguments a-popping." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 14, 2013
7/10	69%	Not Fade Away (2012)	" ...a rollicking comedy about growing up and striking out" — PopMatters Posted Jan 11, 2013
	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" A wolfish Sean Penn as crime boss Mickey Cohen heads up a stellar cast for this bloody, meat-headed gangster flick whose sheer velocity and breathless illogic give it a campy sheen that should broaden its appeal." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 9, 2013
3/10	47%	Heaven's Gate (1980)	" Sometimes, both audiences and critics get it right the first time." — PopMatters Posted Jan 3, 2013
	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Brilliant comic turns from Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson help string together this audience-pleasing, highly uneven Quentin Tarantino spaghetti western/slave vengeance mash-up." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 22, 2012
6/10	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" ...surprisingly visceral" — PopMatters Posted Dec 21, 2012
7/10	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" ...a clever moral comedy." — PopMatters Posted Dec 21, 2012
9/10	45%	On the Road (2012)	" ...a movie that's raging and serene, always looking over the horizon while grooving on the beauty of the here and now." — PopMatters Posted Dec 21, 2012
7/10	82%	Rust and Bone (2012)	" ...a muscular romance that leaves its mark like a bruise." — PopMatters Posted Dec 19, 2012
	95%	West of Memphis (2012)	" ...both cool-headed and rabble-rousing; it sets a new standard for true-crime film investigations." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 19, 2012
	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" Kathryn Bigelow is taking a cold look at a hot subject, and because of that her film will stand the test of time." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 14, 2012
5/10	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" ...has nearly as much going for it (Martin Freeman as Bilbo, much untampered-with Tolkien dialogue) as it does against it (that chintzy-looking 48 FPS speed, bloated screenplay)." — PopMatters Posted Dec 14, 2012
6/10	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" ...tough and grim but still spry ... feels like something of a rearguard action in the case of the British Empire." — PopMatters Posted Nov 25, 2012
7/10	77%	Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012)	" makes its nostalgia seem earned..." — PopMatters Posted Nov 19, 2012
	64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" Joe Wright's frenetic and daringly stagy adaptation unleashes the passions of Tolstoy's novel with a delicious abandon." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 14, 2012
5/10	79%	A Late Quartet (2012)	" ...Zilberman loses focus on the quartet's taut interplay, reverting instead to melodrama." — PopMatters Posted Nov 2, 2012
8/10	90%	Holy Motors (2012)	" ...Viewers are along for a ride, wild and surreal." — PopMatters Posted Nov 1, 2012

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