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Christy Lemire

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

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Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 956
Total QuickRatings:: 4

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	91%	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	" The pasty, scruffy Pegg shows a surprising amount of range for the unlikely hero of a zombie flick." — Associated Press Posted Oct 6, 2013
	87%	The Blair Witch Project (1999)	" The thought that Blair Witch Project just might be real makes it much scarier than any of the teen horror flicks that have stumbled along in recent years." — Associated Press Posted Oct 5, 2013
4/4	98%	Gravity (2013)	" Believe the hype: Gravity is as jaw-droppingly spectacular as you've heard - magnificent from a technical perspective but also a marvel of controlled acting and precise tone. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Oct 5, 2013
2/4	——	Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde (2013)	" Pacing can be painfully languid, to the point of being nap-inducing." — RogerEbert.com Posted Oct 4, 2013
3/4	83%	Don Jon (2013)	" Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns the gym-tan-laundry routine into an art form with Don Jon, his vibrant and viciously profane directorial debut." — ChristyLemire.com Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/4	93%	Muscle Shoals (2013)	" It might have functioned even better as an hour-long TV documentary. But with such great music coming, one hit after after another, it's always a joy to watch." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 27, 2013
1/4	43%	Wedding Palace (2013)	" Yoo finds room for all of the obligatory bad first dates and fantasy sequences, montages and misunderstandings, a wisecracking best friend and overbearing parents. It doesn't appear that she means any of this ironically, or as parody." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 27, 2013
1.5/4	16%	Baggage Claim (2013)	" "Baggage Claim" is so archaic in its depiction of feminine self-worth-and, frankly, so insulting-it's amazing that it's coming out in 2013, not 1963." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 27, 2013
2/4	80%	Prisoners (2013)	" It's got lofty aspirations but it also wants to wallow in the muck - to thrill you and sicken you in equal measure while also being About Something. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Sep 22, 2013
3/4	89%	After Tiller (2013)	" "After Tiller" takes the politically divisive, emotionally charged issue of late-term abortions and portrays it with grace, understatement and humanity." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 20, 2013
2/4	51%	A Single Shot (2013)	" An odd mix of beautifully bleak atmosphere and hammily mannered performances, "A Single Shot" is simultaneously understated and overpowering." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 20, 2013
3.5/4	86%	Blue Caprice (2013)	" Blue Caprice takes a true story of violence and panic and tells it in the most artful, understated manner imaginable - which makes its events even more powerful." — ChristyLemire.com Posted Sep 16, 2013
.5/4	——	Plush (2013)	" It feels so inauthentic at every turn, it's as if the film itself is unsure of what it's supposed to be. " — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 13, 2013
3.5/4	89%	You Will Be My Son (2013)	" French director and co-writer Gilles Legrand shows great mastery of tone and pacing in his third feature, which begins life as a domestic drama set at a family-owned vineyard and slowly morphs into a tense thriller." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 11, 2013
3/4	50%	Mademoiselle C (2013)	" Roitfeld seems constantly inspired by the prospect of pushing boundaries and expectations, and that, in turn, is inspiring to watch. " — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 11, 2013
2/4	63%	Things Never Said (2013)	" The film's stars ... are hugely charismatic individually and have chemistry with each other. But the soapy melodrama and ferocious, on-the-nose poems threaten to overpower their budding romance. " — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 7, 2013
2.5/4	34%	Adore (2013)	" Adore is, as my late mother would say in describing Sidney Sheldon novels, good trash." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 7, 2013
2/4	34%	Salinger (2013)	" It feels overstuffed and overlong, getting bogged down as it does in the minutiae of certain segments of Salinger's life without conveying a big-picture sense of what his actual writing was like. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/4	64%	One Direction: This Is Us (2013)	" This Is Us does what it needs to do for its target audience. But anyone looking for actual substance or insight will be disappointed and maybe even a little bored with its repetitive nature. " — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 31, 2013
2/4	59%	Afternoon Delight (2013)	" The moral of the story appears to be: Don't invite a stripper to come live with you in your home. Suggestion noted." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 30, 2013
1.5/4	3%	Getaway (2013)	" Getaway might have been enjoyable as a mindless bit of dumb, late-summer entertainment if it had been vaguely coherent. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 29, 2013
3/4	80%	Drinking Buddies (2013)	" Drinking Buddies is a crackling screwball comedy refracted through a low-key, mumblecore prism." — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 27, 2013
3/4	75%	Paradise: Faith (2013)	" Scenes are dramatic without a hint of melodrama, so when a flash of intensity does occur, it does so out of nowhere and registers even more powerfully." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 23, 2013
3.5/4	99%	Short Term 12 (2013)	" "Short Term 12" comes from a place of delicate and truthful understatement, which allows the humanity and decency of its characters-and, yes, the lessons-to shine through naturally." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 23, 2013
3.5/4	89%	The World's End (2013)	" The World's End might be the best time you'll have at the movies all year. It is a complete blast: urgently paced, hilariously clever and blisteringly profane." — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 20, 2013
1.5/4	26%	Jobs (2013)	" The irony is that a man who treasured innovation and sleek, stylish design should be the subject of a film that's so bland and bloated." — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 16, 2013
3.5/4	81%	Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)	" A muted but always engrossing tale of young, doomed love." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 16, 2013
2/4	30%	Kick-Ass 2 (2013)	" The unloaded gun is also unfortunately a rather apt metaphor for the movie itself. Kick-Ass 2 may look powerful, but doesn't have much real pop." — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 14, 2013
2.5/4	47%	We're The Millers (2013)	" Stays mean and maintains a bit of an edge even when it threatens to go all soft and gooey. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 10, 2013
1.5/5	46%	Off Label (2013)	" Co-directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher try to encompass so many people and so many angles in such a short amount of time, they end up breezing through them and providing glimpses that feel rushed and unsatisfying. " — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 9, 2013
1.5/4	35%	The Internship (2013)	" Similar to Eddie Murphy's hard right turn from daring and profane comedy to family-friendly romps, Vaughn and Wilson have gone all soft and gooey here. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/4	59%	The Bling Ring (2013)	" The sense of detachment that is a signature of Sofia Coppola's work -- the coolly distant, stylishly dreamlike way she regards her characters -- works to her detriment in The Bling Ring." — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/4	78%	Monsters University (2013)	" It is essentially Revenge of the Nerds, with fur. And scales. And whatever gooey, gelatinous substance comprises the outer coating of various other oddball creatures in this crazy parallel world. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/4	47%	I'm So Excited! (2013)	" Despite the film's playfulness, it's still quite clear that we're in the hands of a master who takes the work seriously, if not the material or his characters. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/4	67%	World War Z (2013)	" As both thrilling spectacle and escapist summer entertainment, World War Z is enormously effective, with Brad Pitt at the center hopscotching the globe in search of the origin of a zombie apocalypse." — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 8, 2013
3.5/4	65%	The Heat (2013)	" Director Paul Feig, whose Bridesmaids upended notions of what a raunchy ensemble comedy could be, does it again here with another genre. " — ChristyLemire.com Posted Aug 8, 2013
	94%	March of the Penguins (2005)	" French director Luc Jacquet and a team of incredibly brave (and heavily bundled) documentary filmmakers captured this complicated mating ritual with strikingly crisp photography that's both grand and intimate." — Associated Press Posted Aug 5, 2013
	91%	Minority Report (2002)	" For its stunning visuals and standout performances, Minority Report -- or at least the first three-fourths of it -- might just be the best movie so far this year." — Associated Press Posted Aug 5, 2013
3/4	78%	Europa Report (2013)	" Working from Philip Gelatt's script, Cordero keeps things consistent, elegant and streamlined. "Europa Report" actually may be understated to a fault, but that's preferable to gratuitous melodrama." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 2, 2013
	73%	Frailty (2002)	" Paxton steals the show. And O'Leary more than holds his own again here. Too bad it's in a movie that fails to live up to its potential." — Associated Press Posted Jul 30, 2013
3/4	69%	The Wolverine (2013)	" Director James Mangold's film features some breathtakingly suspenseful action sequences, exquisite production and costume design and colorful characters, some of whom register more powerfully than others." — RogerEbert.com Posted Jul 26, 2013
1.5/4	20%	Girl Most Likely (2013)	" Wiig finds herself sadly outmatched in this comedy crammed with wacky and tacky characters-types, all of them-in which she's stuck functioning as the uptight, frustrated straight woman in the middle." — RogerEbert.com Posted Jul 19, 2013
3/4	81%	Crystal Fairy (2013)	" The ending sneaks up on you with a surprising bit of emotional catharsis, thanks largely to a brave, complex performance from former child star Gaby Hoffmann." — RogerEbert.com Posted Jul 12, 2013
	6%	Underclassman (2005)	" Consists of little more than tired racial jokes and fish-out-of-water gags." — Associated Press Posted Jun 10, 2013
	7%	License to Wed (2007)	" It's exactly what it looks like from the commercials -- a one-joke movie, and that one joke isn't even funny to begin with." — Associated Press Posted Jun 7, 2013
	6%	Gigli (2003)	" Every bit as unwatchable as the deafening negative chatter would suggest." — Associated Press Posted Jun 5, 2013
	1%	The Master of Disguise (2002)	" Such a sad irony that Dana Carvey, who's made his name bringing celebrities to life with uncanny impersonations, should make such a lifeless movie based on characters of his own creation." — Associated Press Posted May 29, 2013
	7%	All About Steve (2009)	" Just when it seems All About Steve couldn't grow any more insufferable, it turns strangely sentimental." — Associated Press Posted May 28, 2013
3/4	19%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" It dares to alienate the very audience that made ''The Hangover'' the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time because, well, it isn't exactly a comedy." — Associated Press Posted May 22, 2013

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