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Chris Fujiwara

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Publications:: Anchorage Press , Boston Globe , Boston Phoenix
Critics' Group:: Boston Society of Film Critics

Total Reviews:: 41
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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/4	100%	Petition (2011)	" Moments of communication sought or denied give poignancy to a film filled with helplessness and outrage." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 27, 2010
—	86%	Inside Man (2006)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
—	78%	Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs) (2007)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
—	35%	Ask the Dust (2006)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
—	23%	Missing in Action (1984)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
—	74%	Unknown White Male (2006)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
—	91%	Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
—	85%	Les Amants reguliers (Regular Lovers) (2005)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
2.5/4	90%	Rescue Dawn (2007)	" Bale's lack of ambiguity points to the biggest limitation of a film that makes the grade as an adventure yarn by ignoring the most disturbing implications of its story." — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
—	74%	Awesome: I...Shot That! (2006)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
—	79%	Brick (2006)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009
	88%	Mutual Appreciation (2006)	" Mutual Appreciation shows life as contingent, conditional, enigmatic, never finally realized, as, in short, everything that the Harvey Mansfields of the world abhor, and it shows why to accept this kind of life is an act of strength." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 20, 2006
	98%	Eyes Without a Face (1962)	" Les yeux sans visage [is] a balance between cruelty and tenderness that has rarely been attempted in cinema." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 5, 2005
3/4	86%	Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) (2003)	" Even at its most maddening and cute, the elaborate interplay between hallucination and reality rewards attention." — Boston Phoenix Posted Feb 26, 2005
	92%	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	" I'll say only that Eastwood has never been more moving, as a director or as an actor, than he is in the last 30 minutes of this film." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 15, 2005
	87%	Zat�ichi (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi) (2003)	" Zatoichi himself is a remarkable creation. With his dry laugh and cocked head, Kitano makes him a kind of clown -- an ideal choice for a film so concerned with fun, games, and performing." — Boston Phoenix Posted Aug 14, 2004
	74%	Dawn of the Dead (2004)	" The acting is better than necessary, the special effects are savage and persuasive, and the undercranked action scenes are enjoyably frenetic." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 26, 2004
	2%	Twisted (2004)	" You're not sure whether to take the film as a sophisticated parody, a surrealist prose poem, or an unusually dumb thriller." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 6, 2004
	87%	Mystic River (2003)	" Each of the three childhood friends who grow up to become the main characters of Mystic River brings the film a particular style of revelation." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 4, 2003
	79%	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	" Before becoming a standard exercise in wearing out welcomes, Gore Verbinski's adventure comedy brings good spirits and narrative vigor to its chore of refurbishing the pirate genre." — Boston Phoenix Posted Aug 2, 2003
	64%	The Shape Of Things (2002)	" It would seem we're expected to react with mounting discomfort and fascination, though boredom, laced with a sporting curiosity about what kind of unpleasantness impends, is just as appropriate a response..." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jul 2, 2003
	11%	Alex & Emma (2003)	" [A] disaster." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jul 2, 2003
	79%	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003)	" In his promising directorial debut, Clooney gets away with most of the flourishes he allows himself." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 25, 2003
	65%	Solaris (2002)	" Why Steven Soderbergh and his producers (who include James Cameron) wanted to try their hands at it is a mystery. And viewing the hollow result doesn't shed any light on that mystery." — Boston Phoenix Posted Dec 16, 2002
	89%	Far From Heaven (2003)	" Haynes, in choosing the melodrama as his form, raises expectations that he doesn't fulfill: he actually does less than what melodramas can do, and did." — Boston Phoenix Posted Nov 23, 2002
	62%	Moonlight Mile (2002)	" You watch for a whole hour before Moonlight Mile collapses into bathos. But when it collapses, it collapses hard." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 5, 2002
	100%	Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954)	" It's no wonder Spielberg and Lucas love Kurosawa so much: Seven Samurai and, at a much lower level, The Hidden Fortress are prototypes for the kind of filmmaking with which the two Americans reinvented popular cinema." — Boston Phoenix Posted Aug 31, 2002
	74%	Signs (2002)	" All the winks and tics with which Shyamalan signals that he's looked at a Fantagraphics book or seen a real movie only make this film's calculated tearjerking more offensive." — Boston Phoenix Posted Aug 3, 2002
	97%	Werckmeister Harm�ni�k (2001)	" The film creates a vivid sense of the reality of the townspeople and their daily lives, even though Tarr deliberately makes their social relations hard to decipher." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jun 11, 2002
2/4	66%	CQ (2002)	" In other words, ''CQ'' triumphs over its own trendiness only by being vapid and superficial." — Boston Globe Posted May 31, 2002
3/4	47%	Hollywood Ending (2002)	" Hollywood Ending is a small film, but its ease and grace are virtues that can't be overrated." — Boston Globe Posted May 3, 2002
2.5/4	44%	Trouble Every Day (Gargoyle) (2001)	" Trouble Every Day is a success in some sense, but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead." — Boston Globe Posted Apr 26, 2002
2.5/4	31%	Murder by Numbers (2002)	" For much of its length, the film is plausible, if predictable and ponderous. Its strongest assets are its actors." — Boston Globe Posted Apr 19, 2002
—	27%	Lost in Space (1998)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 24, 2002
	92%	Memento (2000)	" It's pointless to knock Memento. The proof of the film's success is that 10 minutes after you've seen it, it's exactly as if you hadn't." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 24, 2002
1.5/4	59%	Blade II (2002)	" Any subtlety, mystery, or surprise present in the first film is gone." — Boston Globe Posted Mar 22, 2002
3/4	84%	La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room) (2002)	" The Son's Room is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos." — Boston Globe Posted Mar 1, 2002
2/4	63%	Beijing Bicycle (2001)	" [Wang's] reliance on sugarcoated music and his trite use of slow motion show that his heart lies in making undemanding fluff for the world market." — Boston Globe Posted Feb 1, 2002
	95%	Bande � part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)	" An inexhaustible meditation on how the world is formed by desire." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 7, 2001
2.5/4	89%	Himalaya (L'Enfance d'un Chef) (Caravan) (1999)	" Valli's touch as an artist is too light, and his dramatic sense too timid, to make the film much more than a collection of pretty pictures." — Boston Globe Posted Jul 30, 2001
	63%	Time and Tide (Shun liu Ni liu) (2001)	" There is nothing in the movie worth looking at." — Boston Globe Posted May 25, 2001

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