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Christopher Null

"You're a bad pony, and I'm not gonna bet on you. - Joe Mantegna, House of Games"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography:: Christopher Null has been an entertainment and technology writer and editor for more than 12 years. He founded filmcritic.com in 1995, which now stands as one of the most popular movie sites on the Web. He has worked as Editor in Chief of Mobile magazine and New Architect magazine, Executive Editor for Smart Business magazine, and Managing Reviews Editor for LAN Times magazine. He has also written stories for Wired, Maxim, PC World, Yahoo! Internet Life, Men's Journal, Working Woman, and countless other publications.
Favorites:: Top 10 of All Time: A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Blade Runner, Vertigo, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane, Dead Poets Society, JFK, Pulp Fiction, Real Genius Top 5 Most Fun Interviews: Russ Meyer, Craig Shoemaker, Mike Figgis, Barry Sonnenfeld, Owen Wilson + Wes Anderson
Publications:: Film Racket , Filmcritic.com , MovieWeb
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 3899
Total QuickRatings:: 6

Location:: San Francisco, California, USA

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1.5/5	0%	Generation Um... (2013)	" The point of the movie seems to be: like, inarticulation, or something? " — Film Racket Posted May 2, 2013
3.5/5	93%	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)	" The Citizen Kane of westerns." — Contactmusic.com Posted Apr 29, 2013
2/5	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" Jack Reacher revolves around wild impossibilities and baffling motivations, and the conclusion is a whopper that outdoes everything I've discussed above." — Film Racket Posted Apr 26, 2013
2.5/5	33%	The Numbers Station (2013)	" If you're looking for a dynamic, politically-tinged thriller, you could do a lot better, but you could also do a lot worse." — Film Racket Posted Apr 25, 2013
1.5/5	58%	At Any Price (2013)	" A movie about amateur race cars, sex in grain silos, murderous secrets, and Dennis Quaid's late-period acting crisis - only not as much fun as any of that sounds." — Film Racket Posted Apr 25, 2013
3.5/5	100%	Rio Bravo (1998)	" A definitive piece of Americana by way of Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo is what the late 1950s studio system was all about" — Contactmusic.com Posted Apr 23, 2013
3.5/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" A tale that largely tells itself... with a little essential help from Hollywood's best special effects guys, that is." — Film Racket Posted Apr 17, 2013
4/5	100%	The Staircase ()	" So much legal craziness that you'll soon agree the whole system is totally out of whack." — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 4, 2013
	89%	Hamlet (1948)	" This Hamlet, a Best Picture winner, unfortunately stands as one of the stagier productions of the famous play." — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 24, 2013
2/5	44%	Brake (2012)	" an idea for a short extended far beyond its creative shelf life" — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 22, 2012
4/5	84%	Last Days Here (2012)	" For a heavy metal film, there is a lot of soul here." — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 1, 2012
1.5/5	30%	The Vow (2012)	" a cross between Romantic Conflict for Dummies and Tepid Soup for the Soul" — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 9, 2012
2/5	13%	W.E. (2012)	" behaves better as a museum piece that should be framed, hung and admired than as a moving piece of cinema that encourages you to embrace and interact with it. " — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 2, 2012
3/5	71%	Kitty Foyle (1940)	" It's an odd and unique testament to 1940s' zeitgeist, a period of hope and despair, both of which are reflected in Ms. Foyle." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 31, 2012
4/5	79%	The Grey (2012)	" In this vast expanse of hopelessness, The Grey is a rare mainstream action picture, exploratory in genre and of whatever lies beyond" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 26, 2012
4/5	70%	Newlyweds (2012)	" Okay, so he's not Woody Allen. That's setting the bar a bit too high. But for Burns, he's never been better." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 12, 2012
2/5	12%	I Melt with You (2011)	" Good Lord, is this what's waiting on the other side of 40?" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 8, 2011
4.5/5	76%	We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)	" It's not gonna be a pleasant chat. " — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 1, 2011
2/5	74%	Rampart (2012)	" all atmosphere and paranoia but little in the way of momentum" — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 23, 2011
3.5/5	91%	Arthur Christmas (2011)	" quiet and intimate" — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 23, 2011
2.5/5	45%	Another Happy Day (2011)	" Writer/director Sam Levinson isn't so much making a movie as organizing a circus" — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 17, 2011
2/5	3%	Jack and Jill (2011)	" bad, but not abysmal" — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 10, 2011
2.5/5	47%	Anonymous (2011)	" don't go into Roland Emmerich's Anonymous expecting some kind of enlightenment " — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 27, 2011
3/5	50%	The Rum Diary (2011)	" Maybe this is a film that the faithful will see in a different light than a neophyte" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 27, 2011
2.5/5	8%	The Reunion (2011)	" You know what you're getting about five minutes into The Reunion: the kind of movie that trades brains in for guns, muscles, and breasts." — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 20, 2011
3.5/5	81%	The Skin I Live In (2011)	" Marvel at its strangeness" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 13, 2011
3.5/5	61%	Toast (2011)	" like a country British superhero movie" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 6, 2011
4.5/5	82%	The Way (2011)	" one of the more joyous movies of the year" — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 6, 2011
2/5	74%	Blackthorn (2011)	" strips Cassidy of the myth, reminding us that even Paul Newman couldn't escape old age. " — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 6, 2011
4.5/5	93%	You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (2011)	" likely the most important film you will see this year." — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 29, 2011
4/5	93%	Take Shelter (2011)	" highly satisfying and frustratingly open-ended" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 29, 2011
2.5/5	29%	Machine Gun Preacher (2011)	" a performance in search of a movie. An ostensible bit of sweeping Oscar bait..." — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 22, 2011
4/5	67%	Limelight (2011)	" lifts the entertaining veil of smoke and mirrors only to uncover an oligarchy turning the screws on an unknowing body politic" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 22, 2011
3/5	10%	One Fall (2011)	" a charming but inconsistent little superhero indie" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 15, 2011
2/5	45%	3 (2011)	" Tykwer is working in anachronisms. What once shocked now feels dully familiar. " — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 15, 2011
2.5/5	98%	Silent Souls (2011)	" fails to adequately capture a forgotten subset and trivialized culture disappearing in the heart of Russia" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 15, 2011
3/5	78%	The Mill and the Cross (2011)	" can't really be called a success or a failure. It just hangs there, dangling on the screen in dialogue with itself " — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 15, 2011
4/5	37%	Restless (2011)	" a five-hanky weepie where several unspeakably sad things happen to relatively pleasant people, and yet it's also uplifting " — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 15, 2011
2/5	25%	Inside Out (2011)	" I have no idea what happened in Inside Out. None. " — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 8, 2011
2/5	12%	Tanner Hall (2011)	" has its charms but it's mostly full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 8, 2011
3.5/5	83%	Warrior (2011)	" moving in a blatant sort of way" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 8, 2011
3/5	58%	Red State (2011)	" a frustratingly fantastic movie that would be better and leave more of an impact if it bothered to take some kind of a side" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 1, 2011
3/5	33%	A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)	" has no ambition but is a lot of fun because of it" — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 1, 2011
4/5	68%	Our Idiot Brother (2011)	" a happy underachiever of a comedy" — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 25, 2011
3.5/5	64%	Amigo (2011)	" a complex narrative that sides with neither left nor right." — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 18, 2011
2.5/5	79%	Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2011)	" an inviting exercise, outstaying its welcome at an exhaustive one hundred five minutes. " — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 11, 2011
4.5/5	76%	The Help (2011)	" a masterful emotional epic with equal parts crowd-pleasing joy and shattering, complex pain" — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 11, 2011
1.5/5	0%	The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2011)	" belongs in the VH1 vault, never to be heard of again. " — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 4, 2011
3.5/5	62%	Gun Hill Road (2011)	" naked in its sincerity " — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 4, 2011

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