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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
1/4	21%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" A sequel every bit as disposable as its predecessor." — Slant Magazine Posted May 23, 2013
3.5/5	92%	The Great Escape (1963)	" John Sturges largely evades the action and horror of war, and instead focuses on an immense creative process." — Slant Magazine Posted May 22, 2013
1/4	73%	Fast & Furious 6 (2013)	" Justin Lin overruns his films with talky stand-offs, forced comedic repartee, and overtly sentimental familial drama, none of which makes use of the essential narrative freedom that the series has, for better or worse, earned at this point." — Slant Magazine Posted May 16, 2013
3/4	87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" The film is densely plotted, occasionally bordering on the convoluted, but the clarity and inventiveness of the direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating." — Slant Magazine Posted May 14, 2013
	67%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" Warner Home Vidoe does good by Cloud Atlas's technical skill, but tellingly offers only brisk and flimsy featurettes to add any weight to the latest stylish mass of hoosafudge from Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis." — Slant Magazine Posted May 13, 2013
3.5/5	82%	Sightseers (2013)	" His satirical stab at the traditionally quiet vision of proper England, pointed as much at the monarchy as it is at the Merchant-Ivory generation, is refreshing up to a point and almost always funny, but its sense of agitated hopelessness feels strained." — Film Racket Posted May 9, 2013
3/4	——	Three Sisters (2013)	" Wang Bing's no-frills style of documentation visually echoes the preadolescent trio's simple yet unforgiving world and its sense of labor as life." — Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2013
1.5/4	36%	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
	80%	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	88%	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	81%	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 (2013)	" 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	80%	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	82%	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	65%	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	55%	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	37%	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	46%	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

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