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Chris Barsanti

Chris Barsanti

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

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:
941
Total QuickRatings:
41

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
9/10 98% Gravity (2013) " By taking the simple leap between a character's personal isolation and the equally terrifying physical isolation of space, Alfonso Cuaron creates a vertiginous masterpiece." — Film Racket
Posted Oct 4, 2013
78% The Dirties (2013) " There's nothing exploitative or in-your-face about [The Dirties], just a sneak peek into the lives of a couple of lost souls whose easiest answers are found on a flickering screen." — Film Journal International
Posted Oct 3, 2013
84% A Touch of Sin (2013) " Jia's film remains a troubling, exhilarating epic of pugnacious surreality that's filled with jabbing questions and no simple answers." — Film Journal International
Posted Oct 3, 2013
2.5/5 44% Bounty Killer (2013) " It's the kind of movie where a character cracks open a beer, saying "Now I can die a happy man" right before getting plugged by a sniper. Not that there's anything wrong with that." — Film Racket
Posted Sep 20, 2013
4/5 89% After Tiller (2013) " Like the men and women it follows, who do the work that few others dare, 'After Tiller' takes a stand." — Film Racket
Posted Sep 19, 2013
80% Prisoners (2013) " Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal burn the candle at both ends in this emotionally whipsawing kidnapped-child thriller with an unusually strong moral resonance." — Film Journal International
Posted Sep 19, 2013
95% Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013) " This moody, soulful, music-drenched documentary on the great character actor uses movie clips, his singing, and shards of conversation to create its dark-hued portrait of zen survival. A real treat for those in the know." — Film Journal International
Posted Sep 10, 2013
4/5 86% Blue Caprice (2013) " a slow immersion into a claustrophobic box of paranoia that makes the real world feel like a long, long way away" — Film Racket
Posted Sep 8, 2013
34% Salinger (2013) " Hyperventilating literary detective documentary tells a hell of a story but gets high on its own supply." — Film Journal International
Posted Sep 5, 2013
8/10 90% Seconds (1966) " A bleak and noirish Frankenstein thriller whose DNA is threaded with zeitgeist-heavy satire." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 30, 2013
3/5 91% Our Nixon (2013) " ...inexplicably fascinating." — Film Racket
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2/10 49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " This is kitsch at such a deep level it doesn't even seem to be aware that it's kitsch." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 24, 2013
4/5 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " For all the broken hearts, this is a sublimely joyful film." — Film Racket
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3/5 89% The World's End (2013) " ...turns from anti-buddy comedy to classically British small-village science fiction paranoia." — Film Racket
Posted Aug 22, 2013
4/5 91% In a World... (2013) " ...a rare and smart comedy that's insider without being exclusive and fresh without being precious; hopefully it's the first of many for Bell." — Film Racket
Posted Aug 20, 2013
4% Paranoia (2013) " In trying to play a tense, high-stakes game of corporate espionage and Mephistophelean seduction, this dull, junky thriller is all drift and no danger." — Film Journal International
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2.5/5 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " ...strains so hard for authenticity the whole thing can't help but feel fake." — Film Racket
Posted Aug 15, 2013
7/10 —— Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia () " ...as much as it admires Vidal's last-lion status, the film never bows down in complete obeisance." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 15, 2013
7/10 —— Hank And Asha () " ...a surprisingly winning digital epistolary romance." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 15, 2013
7/10 68% Elysium (2013) " ...tough-minded science fiction rooted in sociopolitical realities that set it apart from almost every other CGI-ed blockbuster." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 9, 2013
8/10 22% The Canyons (2013) " ...takes the shards of a tacky Hollywood soap opera and transforms it into a pointed, sometimes brutal comedy." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 9, 2013
9/10 71% Terraferma (2013) " [a] story of stark choices and uncertain futures." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 8, 2013
5/10 54% Oblivion (2013) " ...beautifully designed but derivative science fiction that suffers more than it benefits from Tom Cruise's turbo-charged energy." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 4, 2013
7/10 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " ...another soulful story about adolescents careering messily into first loves." — PopMatters
Posted Aug 2, 2013
84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " David Gordon Green's lo-fi buddy flick about a couple of slacker road workers strikes a smart middle ground between his atmospheric early work and recent slapdash comedies." — Film Journal International
Posted Jul 29, 2013
1/5 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " a flimsy, dreary debacle " — Film Racket
Posted Jul 28, 2013
4/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Sour, mordant, and fitfully hilarious" — Film Racket
Posted Jul 27, 2013
4.5/5 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " Without emotion-tweaking music or too much fictional streamlining and highlighting, he captures a sense of the random and pointless horror of a young man shot in the back while laying on his stomach" — Film Racket
Posted Jul 27, 2013
40% Colossus (2013) " ...mockumentary about a conflicted con artist crafting a film-within-a-film about creating a fake rock band in Russia coats itself in self-regard but ends up nothing more than a tiresome folly." — Film Journal International
Posted Jul 19, 2013
2/5 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " ...[a] slow-motion surrealist horrorshow dressed up like an arthouse crime story." — Film Racket
Posted Jul 18, 2013
6/10 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " ...the great demolition derby that Guillermo del Toro has been working towards." — PopMatters
Posted Jul 13, 2013
64% Israel: A Home Movie (2013) " The chaotic and hopeful history of a young nation is idiosyncratically told through this kaleidoscopic barrage of home-movie footage that ranges from the kitchen to the battlefield." — Film Journal International
Posted Jul 10, 2013
8/10 96% A Band Called Death (2013) " Like 'Searching For Sugar Man,' 'A Band Called Death' takes its cue from the modesty and joyfulness of its subjects, letting the glory of their music speak for itself." — PopMatters
Posted Jul 5, 2013
2/5 56% The Look of Love (2013) " in tackling a fascinating character like Raymond, Coogan may have just turned him into another Steve Coogan character" — Film Racket
Posted Jul 2, 2013
47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " I'm So Excited! would seem to be an easy one for this filmmaker and something of a return to form. But the cocktail of cabaret and disaster-flick theatrics has less pop to it than one would imagine; too much sugar and not enough bite. " — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 27, 2013
2.5/5 61% Byzantium (2013) " There's a fine and dark Romantic soul to this film ... but it's not enough to compensate for a story that spins in circles predictable as a carnival ride, only not as exhilarating." — Film Racket
Posted Jun 27, 2013
72% How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013) " The efficacy of the war on drugs is given another solid punch in the face by Matthew Cooke's occasionally smarmy but strongly argued documentary that functions as a faux Letter to a Young Drug Dealer." — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 25, 2013
67% World War Z (2013) " This ambitious but confused rendering of Max Brooks' sprawling novel about a worldwide zombie pandemic has good ideas but never melds them into a narrative with guts or heart." — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 20, 2013
6/10 —— Deepsouth () " ...tilts at some towering windmills with a provocative thesis that never gels." — PopMatters
Posted Jun 17, 2013
8/10 73% 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013) " ...the farther the film gets from Wall Street, the richer and bolder a manifesto it becomes." — PopMatters
Posted Jun 14, 2013
56% Man of Steel (2013) " ...a middling effort which features neither the character-based wit of the Avengers films or the Wagnerian grandeur of the Dark Knight trilogy. " — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 13, 2013
2.5/5 82% Dirty Wars (2013) " Just imagine if All the Presidents' Men had tried to make Woodward and Bernstein the focus instead of Watergate." — Film Racket
Posted Jun 10, 2013
6/10 82% Something in the Air (2013) " Revolution is less an action with direct purpose than a way of life in Olivier Assayas' heady, conflicted ode to the anarchic spirit of May 1968." — PopMatters
Posted Jun 6, 2013
22% Violet & Daisy (2013) " This smartly acted but over-directed and woozy hit-girl comedy, on the shelf since 2011, garners a few chuckles early on but swiftly plunges right off the rails." — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 5, 2013
4/5 98% Before Midnight (2013) " ...a bright, good-humored, and painfully combative love story that stings more than it soothes." — Film Racket
Posted Jun 5, 2013
3/5 75% The East (2013) " perfectly competent but still somewhat generic " — Film Racket
Posted Jun 4, 2013
84% Much Ado About Nothing (2013) " Joss Whedon's minty-fresh adaptation turns his team of quick-witted TV actors on Shakespeare's most durable comedy and comes up a winner." — Film Journal International
Posted Jun 3, 2013
2/5 81% Shadow Dancer (2013) " with characters this underdeveloped, all the explosions in the world wouldn't be enough" — Film Racket
Posted May 30, 2013
4/5 95% We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) " Gibney has created one of the signature discussions on the signature debate of the post-9/11 information-security age, namely: Who needs to know?" — Film Racket
Posted May 27, 2013
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