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Chris Cabin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:: Film Racket , Filmcritic.com , House Next Door , MovieWeb , Reel.com , Slant Magazine
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1.5/4	33%	Peeples (2013)	" Tina Gordon Chism's film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis." — Slant Magazine Posted May 7, 2013
3.5/4	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Shane Black here replaces his once-acidic spite for government and bureaucracy with a call for corporate responsibility." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2013
	79%	Richard III (1956)	" Laurence Olivier's venomous take on Richard III ascends from Criterion's already impressive DVD treatment to Blu-ray with a characteristically stunning A/V transfer and hugely insightful supplements." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 29, 2013
.5/4	83%	What Maisie Knew (2013)	" David Siegel and Scott McGehee's film renders the rhapsodic Henry James novel of the same name into an abhorrent slice of tasteless familial drama." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2013
1.5/4	67%	Haute Cuisine (2013)	" Offers all the ingredients for a great feast of enticing visions and thematic concerns, only to have them be prepared, plated, and served with the grace of Elmer Fudd. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2013
1.5/4	——	Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? ()	" Arvin Chen's Taiwan is dominated by eccentricity in tone and atmosphere, but in a very careful, pronounced way, as to never really run the danger of being truly strange. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2013
3/5	76%	Kon Tiki (2013)	" the directors feel at once enamored and burdened by the impossibility of the narrative, and spend nearly two hours trying to convince the audience it all really happened" — Film Racket Posted Apr 25, 2013
2/4	——	Le temps de l'aventure (Just a Sigh) ()	" When Bonnell allows his two magnificent leads to work at the sparse dialogue, he invokes a powerful, elemental sense of frank, sexual discussion and high-end flirtation, imbuing the relationships with a maturity that's loathsomely rare in films today." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2013
1/4	——	Odayaka na nichijô (Odayaka) ()	" As it hits its grim climax, the film nearly invokes the lacerating life stories of Lee Chang-dong, but the filmmakers labor clearly and unconvincingly to quantify a crudely hopeful ending." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 22, 2013
2/4	——	Almost Christmas ()	" Almost Christmas remains engaging, for the most part, but most of the big narrative turns feel both predictable and forced, and at odds with the natural charms of the cast. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 22, 2013
3/4	100%	Cutie And The Boxer ()	" Funny, moving, honest, and occasionally inspiring, but as a portrait of a talent emerging from the shadow of a more public talent, the scale of the shadow is curiously omitted." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 21, 2013
	92%	Little Fugitive (The Coney Island Kid ) (1953)	" The film is remarkable for innumerable reasons, not least of which for making a New York City summer seem not like hell on Earth." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 18, 2013
1.5/5	13%	Love And Honor (2013)	" little more than a counterfeit Nicholas Sparks adaptation" — Film Racket Posted Apr 14, 2013
3.5/5	79%	Reality (2013)	" signifies the moral bankruptcy and delirium of Silvio Berlusconi's government-as-game-show regime " — Film Racket Posted Apr 14, 2013
2.5/5	81%	From Up On Poppy Hill (2013)	" What limits From Up on Poppy Hill is its seeming whitewashing of some tough subjects, including the unseen consequences of war and the role of women in post-war Japan. " — Film Racket Posted Apr 14, 2013
2.5/5	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" a film for sinners that can't even bother to see the fun and comfort in sinning." — Film Racket Posted Apr 14, 2013
3/5	64%	Antiviral (2013)	" Syd's would-be rebellion from this sick world is rendered toothless, largely because Cronenberg spends most of his film discussing how cool and complex the rules are, and how to break them." — Film Racket Posted Apr 12, 2013
	48%	Willow (1988)	" Ron Howard's faux-Tolkienian epic of burdensome adventuring gets a royal treatment from Fox with an excellent A/V transfer and a solid bundle of extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2013
	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" Ang Lee's fantastical and frustrating Oscar-winner is kept afloat on Blu-ray by Fox's highly commendable A/V transfer and a bundle of helpful, relevant extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 5, 2013
1.5/4	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" A would-be thriller masquerading a long, dry monument to the reliability and comfort of community, blindly cocooned by its own nostalgic self-regard." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2013
.5/4	51%	Welcome to the Punch (2013)	" The sheer wastefulness of Eran Creevy's Welcome to the Punch is off-putting enough, but the film is also falsely painted-up as a crime epic. " — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 26, 2013
	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" Slathered in controversy, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty confidently and forcefully storms onto DVD with an admirable A/V transfer, only hindered by a paltry gathering of extras from Sony." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2013
4/4	92%	Top of the Lake (2013)	" Campion's series has the unmistakable timbre of daring art made naturally." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 22, 2013
1.5/4	69%	The Croods (2013)	" The film takes more than a few pages from the James Cameron playbook." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 20, 2013
2/4	——	Jiseul ()	" In form, O Muel's film is invigorating, even striking, but it feels ill-matched to his attitude, if not necessarily his subject matter." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 19, 2013
2/4	——	L'intervallo ()	" Visually, the film has a near-delicate look to it, but the characters are so broadly etched that they evaporate within Leonardo di Costanzo's sunlit environs. " — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 19, 2013
1.5/4	——	Les Coquillettes ()	" The film's most nagging element concerns the fact that it treats women's hungry and open (hetero)sexuality as at once outrageous and passé. " — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 16, 2013
2.5/4	——	The Color Of The Chameleon ()	" The filmmakers are too busy being sarcastic to ever actually be beholden to the film's trippy conceptions and political paranoia they intermittently engage with in the film." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 16, 2013
1.5/4	38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" The film is overtly suspicious and critical of the new and only serviceably romantic about the old. " — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 13, 2013
	97%	Schindler's List (1993)	" Steven Spielberg's controversial, defining work on the limitations of success arrives on Blu-ray with a fantastic A/V transfer and a modest helping of contextual extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 12, 2013
4/4	100%	M (1931)	" Fritz Lang's acute use of objects, symbols, letters, and codes to decrypt a relatively simple narrative remains as perfect an example of pure cinema in the sound era as one is likely to find." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 10, 2013
	86%	Wreck-it Ralph (2012)	" Disney's desperate and wrong-headed riff on Toy Story gets an expectedly excellent A/V transfer on Blu-ray with a bundle of extras that offer a few bonus points." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 5, 2013
1/4	47%	The Sweeney (2013)	" Clichés abound, even in the look of the film, which toggles between post-Ritchie crime-violence burlesque and sleek, Nolanesque faux-grandeur." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2013
	75%	Peter Pan (1953)	" Disney's playful, scatterbrained variation on J.M. Barrie's play and novel soars on Blu-ray with an expectedly superb A/V transfer and a treasure trove of extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 22, 2013
	——	Bella addormentata (Dormant Beauty) ()	" The "what were you doing when..." conceit of Dormant Beauty suggests a nostalgia and a veneer of social importance that the filmmaker shrewdly belies throughout." — House Next Door Posted Feb 20, 2013
	——	Call Girl ()	" Aesthetically, Call Girl is consistently engaging and fluid, but never particularly innovative or surprising, and the narrative is hardly different in its unremarkable competence. " — House Next Door Posted Feb 19, 2013
	78%	Gentleman's Agreement (1947)	" Elia Kazan's furious look at barely dormant post-war anti-Semitism and the lengths of performance gets a classy Blu-ray release from Fox with interesting extras and a top-shelf A/V transfer." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 18, 2013
.5/4	13%	Safe Haven (2013)	" It goes without saying that Safe Haven is the whitest thing offered up for public consumption in the three days since Mumford & Sons won the Grammy for Album of the Year." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2013
	31%	A Star is Born (1976)	" Warner Home Video rolls out the red carpet for A Star Is Born on Blu-ray with a great A/V transfer and a solid helping of extras, proving they know full-well how to polish their turds." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 11, 2013
	100%	Wild River (1960)	" Wild River rages on Blu-ray, thanks to Fox's magnificent audio-visual treatment of Kazan's long-overlooked political melodrama and a strong commentary track from Richard Schickel." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 7, 2013
1.5/4	——	Once Every Day (2013)	" Richard Foreman's film plays like a stoic parody of commonly held stereotypes of avant-garde cinema." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 4, 2013
	82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" Martin McDonagh's blood-drenched, dully self-referential hodgepodge of a crime film looks great with Sony's extraordinary A/V transfer, but the package offers only crumbs in the extras department." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 29, 2013
	82%	Trust (1991)	" Set on an alien Long Island, Trust arrives on Blu-ray from Olive Films with little extras, but offers an admirable A/V transfer that brings out the dormant beauty of Hartley's beguiling masterwork." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 28, 2013
1/4	60%	John Dies at the End (2013)	" The frantic, grotesque imagery ironically only highlights Don Coscarelli's inability to truly cut ties with the constraints of accepted storytelling. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 21, 2013
	100%	Wake in Fright (2012)	" Image Entertainment presents Ted Kotcheff's rediscovered near-masterpiece of disjointed identity in the Australian outback with plenty of extras and a solid transfer befitting a lost classic." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 19, 2013
	87%	Grand Hotel (1932)	" Warner Home Video's release of Edmund Goulding's milestone, multifaceted entertainment offers strong packaging, an excellent visual transfer, but arguably comes up short in the audio department." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 16, 2013
	58%	Red Hook Summer (2012)	" Image Entertainment packages their Blu-ray release of Spike Lee's astonishing latest with an A/V transfer and director's commentary worthy of sincere, ecstatic praise." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 11, 2013
	100%	Sometimes a Great Notion (Never Give an Inch) (1971)	" Shout! Factory deserves credit for giving Paul Newman's oddly invigorating second film as a director a better A/V transfer than previous releases, but offer nothing in the way of extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 7, 2013
1/4	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" The film is as incompetent, manipulative, safe, and disposable as any number of nickel-and-dime actioners, but goes to great, unconvincing lengths to insist it's different." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 20, 2012

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