Christopher Long

Christopher Long

Agrees with the Tomatometer 85% of the time.

Publications:
Cineaste Magazine , Movie Metropolis
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
665
Location:
Near Philly

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—— LennoNYC (2011) Movie Metropolis
Posted Jan 22, 2013
9/10 —— Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro (Body Snatcher from Hell)(Goke the Vampire) (1968) " Iron-clad-nutso proof that a film can be simultaneously ridiculous and smart, and should not be confused for disposable camp. " — Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 13, 2012
7/10 47% Heaven's Gate (1980) " I like Heaven's Gate just fine, but I don't love it. I wish I did. It's fun to participate in the redemption of a film maudit." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 13, 2012
7/10 88% Head Games (2012) " The film paints a dire picture that will strike fear into the hearts of many parents. How many concussions are too many? The documentary suggests the magic number might be one." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 13, 2012
10/10 99% This Is Not a Film (2012) " I find myself returning again and again to Jafar Panahi's apartment in Tehran, the defining location for the year in cinema, one of the defining locations in all of cinema." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 13, 2012
9/10 78% Lonesome (1928) " A mostly-silent film that showcases all the vitality of the late silent era. " — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 29, 2012
6/10 100% Quadrophenia (1979) " When you're an angry young man, there's no better way to prove you're an individual than to dress and act exactly like everybody else." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 29, 2012
8/10 95% Weekend (2011) " Weekend works beautifully in the moment, and lingers long after an initial viewing. It's certainly an affair to remember." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 29, 2012
7/10 100% La Terra trema (1948) " It's a rough slog... but La terra trema shows that Visconti, with just his second feature, was already a master of the medium." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
7/10 100% La Haine (Hate) (1996) " The conveniently manufactured ending is a let-down, but the display of raw emotion and kinetic energy lingers with the viewer long after the film is over." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
9/10 88% Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) " Abbas Kiarostami's Tuscan sun-dappled enigma is the cinematic gift that is going to keep on giving for decades." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
7/10 —— No More Excuses (1968) " It's irrelevant to call this movie or the people in it "weird" because, well, just look at the rest of the world. Also, the chimp is really cute." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
7/10 —— Chafed Elbows (2000) " It's all good clean fun, of course. I can't believe Disney hasn't remade it yet." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
7/10 —— Babo 73 (1964) " Mead only appears intermittently coherent which makes him a perfect match for the story" — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
8/10 64% Putney Swope (1969) " The commercials... are absolutely brilliant, and the sheer gonzo tenacity of the whole enterprise makes it all work, even the stuff that doesn't work." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
7/10 100% Sommarlek (Summerplay) (Illicit Interlude) (Summer Interlude) (1951) " Bergman's trademarked brooding is tinged with a surprising hopefulness. Even if love can't last, there is still art, and that's not a bad consolation prize." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
3/10 72% Shallow Grave (1995) " I'm not surprised that in my youth I thought Shallow Grave was a pretty cool movie. What surprises me now is that the adults at the time gave this ridiculous movie a pass." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
6/10 —— Give Me The Banjo () " I learned a lot about some great musicians I didn't know before, and I was motivated to check out their work, and that's a fine accomplishment for any documentary." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
7/10 —— Something's Gonna Live (2010) " Hollywood reserves several minutes out of every year to commemorate its past. Fortunately filmmakers like Daniel Raim are here to fill out the rest of the schedule." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
9/10 98% The 39 Steps (1935) " At its most breathtaking when both Hitchcock and his characters fully embrace the surreality of the story" — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
5/10 40% Planeat (2011) " A movie by true believers for true believers, and I am not one." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
5/10 53% Gray's Anatomy (1997) " Soderbergh does (Gray) no favors with a series of overwrought stylistic choices." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
8/10 90% And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) " It's all quite deeply moving, and if you remain untouched by the end credits, you have some self-examination of your own to do." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
9/10 94% Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) " The literal "once upon a time" of a series of disillusioned men who no longer think about the future because they obsess over the past. " — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
7/10 88% Down by Law (1986) " Perhaps it's not what you expect from a prison movie, but Jim Jarmusch has always adhered to his own personal vision." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
9/10 95% La Promesse (The Promise) (1996) " (The Dardennes') "first" film has attained a special place in the hearts of critics and other viewers. Its reputation has not been exaggerated in the least." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
9/10 89% Rosetta (1999) " Rosetta (is) a perpetual motion machine constantly racing away from a lens that will always catch up to her." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
8/10 60% From the Other Side (De L'autre Cote) (2003) " Akerman assumes the persona of a visitor who is probing the surface with the keen eye of a trained observer, but also with the humility of a stranger." — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 15, 2012
8/10 93% Marvel's The Avengers (2012) " If you dig Thor or Cap or Hulk, please check out the original sources. Support your local comic book shop. You wouldn't have any of these movies without them." — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 7, 2012
9/10 100% World on a Wire (2011) " Pardon me if I get a little choked up, but this is Rainer Werner Fassbinder we're talking about. " — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 2, 2012
8/10 —— Letter Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) (1959) " Elaborate, gliding tracking shots provide a sense of mastery over nature that the characters can't achieve" — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
7/10 95% The War Room (1993) " It's so intoxicating that sometimes it's easy forget we are, in effect, watching a couple of pitch men selling that year's newest brand of soap." — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
8/10 83% The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) " Martin Scorsese's long-ripening adaptation ... provides a much-needed corrective, focusing its attention on a man who is constantly plagued by doubts. " — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
8/10 100% A Night to Remember (1958) " (We have) stood witness to a spectacular tragedy that took place on a perfectly unspectacular, dead calm night" — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
6/10 90% The Woman With The 5 Elephants (2011) " Literary Translators Gone Wild!" — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
7/10 94% Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) " I'll go to my grave believing that Elmo is a punk. Kevin Clash, however, is definitely not a punk, not one bit." — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
7/10 47% Chasing Madoff (2011) " When the officials getting paid to do the job failed miserably in their duties, it was the crazy guy who stood as the public's last and only line of defense" — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
8/10 —— Alambrista! (1977) " Free of false sentiment and always clear of vision." — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
7/10 —— I Compagni (The Organizer) (The Strikers) (1963) " The style often features broad comic performances against a background of despair and defeatism; these were not comedies with happy endings which seems to be a contradiction." — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
7/10 80% The Flaw (2011) " (The film) makes a series of points rather than an argument... Think of it as a Festivus-style airing of grievances. " — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
10/10 100% Late Spring (1949) " Ozu trains his trademarked fixed camera on the deceptively simple story of a father and daughter and finds in it nothing short of the whole wide world." — Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
—— Forgiveness: A Time To Love And A Time To Hate (2011) Movie Metropolis
Posted Mar 22, 2012
—— Making Of (Making of, le dernier film) (2008) Movie Metropolis
Posted Mar 3, 2012
8/10 100% Anatomy of a Murder (1959) " As courtroom thrillers go, it has few peers." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 23, 2012
9/10 95% On the Bowery (1957) " A portrait of the ravages of alcoholism so vivid that I cannot off-hand think of any equivalent." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 23, 2012
6/10 85% Under The Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2011) " Strictly a soft sell, a breezy, fan's-eye appreciation of one of America's (and now much of the world's) most popular board games. " — Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
8/10 100% How To Die In Oregon (2012) " A sensitive and deeply moving portrait that you won't find easy to shake." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
8/10 —— Sanbiki no samurai (Three Outlaw Samurai) (1964) " It's not that no good deed goes unpunished, just that good deeds, like bad ones, are most likely to go for naught." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
7/10 75% Design for Living (1933) " The dialogue is sharp without seeming too impeccably perfect to be real human speech." — Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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