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Christian Blauvelt

Agrees with the Tomatometer 89% of the time.

Publications:: House Next Door , Slant Magazine

Total Reviews:: 25

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	95%	The Great Dictator (1940)	" Though inseparable from its 1940 production, The Great Dictator is an oddly timeless comparison of stardom and totalitarianism, mass entertainer and mass murderer, director and dictator." — Slant Magazine Posted May 23, 2011
3/4	90%	Tangled (2010)	" Tangled proves that sincerity in animated films did not die with the advent of Shrek." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2010
4/4	100%	Tokyo Story (T�ky� monogatari) (1953)	" In this exquisite merging of specific and universal, infinite and infinitesimal, Tokyo Story perhaps most clearly illuminates that Ozu is not the most Japanese of filmmakers, but the most human. " — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 24, 2010
—	93%	Paths of Glory (1957)	— Slant Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2010
4/4	96%	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	" The Bridge on the River Kwai is David Lean's last film not to succumb to bloat." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 20, 2010
3/4	91%	Mon Oncle (1958)	" Though still a triumph of art direction, Mon Oncle's fuzzy sentiment and one-joke critique of modernity seem even more simplistic in English." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 6, 2010
—	——	Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (Sanshiro Sugata 2) (Judo Saga II) (Judo Story II) (1945)	— Slant Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2010
—	——	Sugata Sanshiro (Judo Saga) (Judo Story) (1943)	— Slant Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2010
—	83%	They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) (Walkers on the Tiger's Tail) (1945)	— Slant Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2010
	——	First Films of Akira Kurosawa (2010)	" These films offer a blueprint to the evolution of Kurosawa as an artist and the continuity of his style, windswept landscapes and all." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 2, 2010
3.5/4	97%	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)	" If there's a single film that could shatter Laura Mulvey's theory of the "male gaze" it's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2010
	——	The Red Shoes (Bunhong Shin) (2005)	" Coming out when it's most desperately needed during this summer of colorless blockbusters, Criterion's release of The Red Shoes is the stuff fairy-tales are made of." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 19, 2010
4/4	100%	The Circus (1928)	" The Circus may be the film that most definitively silences critics who claim that Charlie Chaplin's movies aren't cinematic." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2010
2/4	67%	Here and There (2010)	" Here and There feels exactly like an amateur effort from a first-time director." — Slant Magazine Posted May 13, 2010
3/4	9%	Happiness Runs (2010)	" An unexpectedly subtle coming-of-age film, Happiness Runs is also something of an allegory for Generation X's conservative reaction against the flower-power excesses of their baby boomer progenitors." — Slant Magazine Posted May 7, 2010
	63%	Ride with the Devil (1999)	" Like all of Lee's films, Ride with the Devil, an ambitious Civil War epic featuring career-best performances by Tobey Maguire and Jeffrey Wright, appeals more to the ears than the eyes and is more literate than cinematic. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2010
	81%	The Great Mouse Detective (1986)	" Arriving near the end of Disney's long creative doldrums that began in the early '70s , The Great Mouse Detective offered no indication whatsoever that the animation renaissance of the '90s awaited the studio." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2010
	100%	Battleship Potemkin (1925)	" Too long stifled by its own masterpiece status, it's time to take Potemkin out of the lecture hall, out of the museum, and recognize it for the vital, alive piece of cinema it is." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 19, 2010
2.5/4	78%	De Helaasheid der Dingen (The Misfortunates) (2010)	" One thing's for certain though: The director's vision of this story allows for more uncertainty than Gunther's ever would." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2010
	50%	The Lord of the Rings (1978)	" Not even the Dark Lord Sauron would want to put his name to this movie." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 6, 2010
	90%	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)	" Miyazaki's cinematic magic is so enchanting that even a slew of unremarkable extra features won't take the smile off your face." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 4, 2010
	——	Lost - The Complete Fifth Season (2009)	" Although possessing far less than a hatchful of extra features, this is still a DVD set you'd want to take with you to that proverbial desert isle." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2010
1.5/4	45%	The Last New Yorker (2010)	" Wang's geriatric bromance isn't so much a love letter to New York as it is Grumpy Old Mensches." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2010
	95%	Harlan - Im Schatten von Jud S�ss (Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Seuss) (2010)	" blarg" — House Next Door Posted Feb 23, 2010

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