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Chris Foran

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Total Reviews:: 38

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/4	90%	Bernie (2012)	" As Bernie, Jack Black is about as reined-in as you'll see him. Effeminate, emotional, generous and cuddly, he's easy to root for when push comes to shooting." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 31, 2012
3/4	96%	The Kid with a Bike (2012)	" De France does a terrific job of balancing maternal instinct with matter-of-factness, in a performance that is more human than tender - and all the more powerful for it." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 10, 2012
3.5/4	75%	Damsels in Distress (2012)	" Stillman cannot only still bring it verbose-style, but he can make it fun, cheerful and even optimistic in the process." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 3, 2012
2.5/4	71%	Thin Ice (2012)	" The movie's gently snowbound Midwestern setting blunts some of the story's harsher edges, and the characters mostly feel real." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 26, 2012
2/4	11%	Apart (2012)	" "Apart" is designed to be a so-what- really-happened type of thriller, but since we often know stuff before Noah does, the thrill's sometimes gone by the time you get there." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 5, 2012
2.5/4	38%	Red Tails (2012)	" "Red Tails" is an old-school war movie with a pretty ambitious payload. For the most part, it's mission accomplished." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 20, 2012
2.5/4	73%	Like Crazy (2011)	" While it sometimes slips into annoying clich�s, "Like Crazy's" simplicity and messy honesty keep it from sliding into B-grade melodrama." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 17, 2011
3/4	77%	The Swell Season (2011)	" The intimacy that results is candid and simple as the movie that, for good and ill, put them both center-stage in the first place." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 3, 2011
3/4	88%	The Hedgehog (2011)	" A French drama that finds its power in the little moments." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 27, 2011
3/4	84%	My Afternoons with Margueritte (2011)	" Casadesus - at 97, a French national treasure who has been wowing stage and screen audiences since the 1930s - tenderly manages to make great literature sound like conversation, and vice versa." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 20, 2011
2.5/4	100%	Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011)	" The fun and energy of those performances show the promise that was lost - and the pleasure that's still in the music." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 20, 2011
2.5/4	70%	Footloose (2011)	" A boisterous, almost scene-for-scene remake of the 1984 jukebox-musical-dance hit." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 13, 2011
2.5/4	36%	Restless (2011)	" "Restless" teeters close to so many screen clich�s that, even when it treads in uncharted territory, it feels like you've been there before." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 6, 2011
3/4	92%	Senna (2011)	" Uses an astonishing wealth of racing and interview footage - including film shot by in-car cameras during races - to chart in a compelling way the dramatic rise and heart-rending end of the Brazilian legend." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 29, 2011
2.5/4	67%	Shut Up Little Man! (2011)	" Bate sort of lets everyone off the hook under the art-for-art's-sake clause. But at least he raises the still-relevant question of whether just because you can tape your neighbor makes it art - or makes it right." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 29, 2011
2/4	85%	Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2011)	" Few things are more annoying than a movie that doesn't stick to its over-the-top convictions." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 29, 2011
2.5/4	——	The Upsetter (2011)	" Is there a method to Perry's madness, or is it just madness? In "The Upsetter," it's hard to say." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 1, 2011
2.5/4	88%	Buck (2011)	" As a manual for handling animals - and people, for that matter - Brannaman's common-sense teachings broaden his story's appeal." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jun 30, 2011
2/4	59%	Forks Over Knives (2011)	" "Forks Over Knives" works really hard to bring you around to its way of thinking, but it's really preaching to the faithful." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jun 9, 2011
3/4	83%	Potiche (2011)	" A breezy, smart and sometimes surprising commentary on capitalism, gender roles and idealism disguised as a romantic comedy." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 12, 2011
2.5/4	11%	There Be Dragons (2011)	" As played by Cox, Escriva is earnest, heartfelt and full of tolerance, driven by his message of love and forgiveness for all, regardless of where their politics lie." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 5, 2011
2.5/4	80%	Barney's Version (2011)	" In Giamatti's hands - and especially his mouth - Barney is a font of invective, with a sharp wit and withering glance designed to reduce others to dust. It's an impressive performance, but it makes him, and his version of events, hard to embrace." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Feb 17, 2011
2.5/4	78%	The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2010)	" Even with Spector's dark obsessions and current prison address, you can't dismiss his music's power, or its influence." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 6, 2011
3/4	65%	Tamara Drewe (2010)	" Always engaging, if disjointed, and dotted with pleasant surprises." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 2, 2010
2.5/4	50%	Cool It (2010)	" Unfortunately, "Cool It," even with its better ideas, too often feels like just more talking." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 18, 2010
2/4	——	Feed The Fish (2009)	" Writer-director Michael Matzdorff, a Green Bay native, clearly has an affection for Door County ... But that makes the weather and other up-nort clich�s all the more disappointing." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 7, 2010
2/4	86%	Like Dandelion Dust (2010)	" An earnest and well-acted, if occasionally flat, drama about what it means to be a parent." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 30, 2010
3/4	82%	Cairo Time (2010)	" Clarkson, as always, is genuine and terrific." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 23, 2010
2.5/4	51%	Agora (2010)	" A landscape where heart and head can collide in a great fury, and when the world felt like it could go one way or the other." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Sep 2, 2010
2.5/4	64%	Harry Brown (2010)	" In the hands of a lesser actor, this would feel just as clich�d as it sounds. But Caine brings his smarts as well as his baggage to the character, making him more than another mad-as-hell guy with a gun." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jun 17, 2010
2/4	81%	Solitary Man (2010)	" You want to like this Solitary Man. But finally, you're better off without him." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 21, 2010
2.5/4	63%	When You're Strange (2010)	" The Doors weren't the embodiment of their time; they weren't even the most important rock act of their time. But When You're Strange shows why their music and iconography has lasted beyond their time." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 13, 2010
2.5/4	92%	Vincere (2010)	" Vincere is big on visual gestures, and many of them are stunning. But the most powerful moments come when the main characters get to speak plainly and passionately." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 22, 2010
3/4	81%	City Island (2010)	" Just when City Island makes you want to say "Enough with the yelling already!" it does, and the characters' stories get softer, less wacky, more nuanced -- and more interesting." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 22, 2010
2.5/4	87%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" Sometimes director Werner Herzog - a master, for nearly four decades, at blending the bizarre and the mundane - does let you in on Cage's motives. But just as often, he delivers a life, and a world, of random mayhem." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 12, 2010
2.5/4	68%	Paris (2008)	" When these Parisians actually do connect, the city's magic finally begins to shine. Binoche, in particular, positively glows when things finally go right for her. Still, such moments seem a long time coming, and often feel, well, a bit rushed." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 10, 2009
3/4	37%	New York, I Love You (2009)	" Even if you're a post-World Series Yankees-hater, it's hard not to love the New York in New York, I Love You." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 12, 2009

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