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""Say hi to Allison and the twins" "Triplets" "Triplets...Gosh, how time flies." --Brazil "You love me? You odn't got the right." --5 Corners "My father says that everyone is asleep, everyone you talk to, everyone you meet...he says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant, total amazement." --Joe Versus the Volcano " " --City Lights "Someone, tell a joke" --Moonstruck "Is that what you wanna do for the rest of your life? Get drunk and call Morocco at 2 o'clock in the morning?""

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Biography:: I graduated with a Film/Video degree from Columbia College. I started writing movie reviews six years ago when I couldn't help but notice a foul odor of mediocrity eminating from the multiplexes. I just had to tell someone. And I've been writing about it ever since. But, as Richard O'Brien wrote, "There's a light in the darkness of everybody's life," and thank God that light is cinema, be it good or bad. I'm also an award-winning screenwriter (1999 Screenwriter's Showcase Awards) and documentary filmmaker.
Favorites:: Brazil, All the Real Girls, Gimme Shelter, Rashomon, City Lights, Joe Versus The Volcano, E.T., Heavenly Creatures, Sullivan's Travels, 5 Corners, Network, Sunset Blvd., Fearless, Magnolia, Near Dark, American Movie, The Three Colors Trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy
Publications:: eFilmCritic.com

Total Reviews:: 288

Location:: 12 Alton Rd.Prospect HTs. IL 60070

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/5	——	Contra Todos (Up Against Them All) ()	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 4, 2011
2/5	52%	I'm Still Here (2010)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 13, 2010
3/4	78%	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	" When Spielberg makes an Indiana Jones movie, you can tell he still loves it. I guess I do, too. For the most part, anyway." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 21, 2008
3.5/4	92%	U2 3D (2007)	" An elegant, dazzling and graceful concert film that captures the true spirit of a U2 show." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 27, 2008
4/4	91%	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	" Like the orginal Airplane! or an early Mel Brooks film, it's destined to be quoted, revisited and cherished for years to come." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 2, 2006
2.5/4	20%	The Marine (2006)	" A big, hilarious, stupid meathead of a movie, destined to be a huge hit on The Violence Channel." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 14, 2006
1.5/4	5%	Broken Bridges (2006)	" It feels about as sincere and insightful as a Schlitz-induced rendition of Achy-Breaky Heart." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 29, 2006
3/4	63%	Jackass: Number Two (2006)	" The jackass films were made for the sole purpose of getting a crowd of drunken lunkheads together for a night of brainless hilarity. Nothing more, nothing less." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 21, 2006
3.5/4	61%	Crank (2006)	" At times, Crank's everything-including-the-kitchen-sink-and-then-some approach feels more like a cartoon than anything else." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 3, 2006
3.5/4	73%	Idiocracy (2006)	" Most of these cartoon-like characters could only come from a mind like Mike Judge, who hasn't lost his ability to make stupidity both alarming and endearing. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 3, 2006
3/4	48%	Idlewild (2006)	" There will probably never be a marriage between a great movie and a great album, but I'm glad they keep trying." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 30, 2006
2/4	68%	Snakes on a Plane (2006)	" After a while we're stuck with a one-joke concept that got old months before the movie came out and gets older still as the movie wears on." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 17, 2006
3.5/4	72%	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)	" Most comedies these days try too hard to be funny. Talladega Nights simply tries to be funny without being obvious." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 17, 2006
4/4	74%	Monster House (2006)	" So fresh, innovative and fun, you can't believe it wasn't written by Brad Bird and directed by Robert Zemeckis." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 17, 2006
1.5/4	47%	Miami Vice (2006)	" Were it not for its title, this plodding, tiresome mess would have never seen the light of day." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 17, 2006
2.5/4	68%	World Trade Center (2006)	" I look at the screen and I don't see John McLaughlin. I see Nicolas Cage with a moustache and an awkward New York accent." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 17, 2006
3/4	54%	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)	" Almost the exact same review as the first: A lot of fun, but could use some trimming." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 11, 2006
3/4	76%	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)	" The storyline sets itself up for plenty of phony pay-offs, but thankfully doesn't deliver on them. It actually knows better." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 11, 2006
3.5/4	36%	The Lake House (2006)	" It refreshingly becomes less about time travel and more about the choices we make and the chances we miss." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 11, 2006
2.5/4	76%	Superman Returns (2006)	" The plane taking off, flying and nearly crashing into the earth almost serves as a metaphor for the entire Superman Returns experience." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 11, 2006
3/5	35%	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)	" I found myself responding to its fenderheaded foolishness... and I suspect that those of you with a healthy taste for the absurd may find themselves reacting in the same way." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 1, 2006
2/4	34%	The Break-Up (2006)	" The behavior of the two main charactres exists solely to be "cute," while giving us no reason to believe these two people should be together in the first place." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2006
1.5/4	25%	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	" Some protesters believe that if you see this film, you'll go to Hell. They got it backwards. I think if you go to Hell, you'll probably see this film while you're there." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2006
3/4	32%	Poseidon (2006)	" Short, sweet, tight, to-the-point and able to fully satisfy anyone craving a silly disaster film." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2006
3.5/4	41%	American Dreamz (2006)	" It has the good sense to hold up a mirror to ourselves, only instead of making us feel guilty and stupid, it makes us feel inclusive and in on the big joke." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2006
1.5/4	44%	Take the Lead (2006)	" The poster says 'Never follow', while the movie itslef follows every cliche in the book." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2006
3/4	88%	Coachella: The Film (2006)	" A well-made, if insignificant, film about a well-managed, significant music festival." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2006
4/4	90%	Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)	" Demme continues to make concert films not because he's a fan, but because the concerts are inherantly cinematic and make perfect sense." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2006
4/4	91%	United 93 (2006)	" This is a great movie for many reasons, but its greatness is almost beside the point." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 27, 2006
3.5/4	73%	V for Vendetta (2006)	" A refreshing piece of Hollywood entertainment that is more interested in ideas than in just being 'cool'." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 17, 2006
3.5/4	92%	Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)	" LIke Wattstax and Festival Express before it, Chappelle and Gondry's movie makes you feel as though you're at a party when, in fact, you're just sitting in a darkened theater." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 14, 2006
4/5	71%	Who Needs Sleep? ()	" We all claim to 'eat, sleep and breathe' our passion and, of course, we want to impress the higher-ups who sign our paychecks, but how much is enough?" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 11, 2006
4/5	71%	Friends With Money (2006)	" Writer-director Nicole Holofcener has become one of the most interesting, observant and insightful filmmakers working today." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 3, 2006
4/5	50%	Flannel Pajamas (2006)	" Lipsky's screenplay clearly comes from a real place, one of experience and true heartbreak." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 3, 2006
4/4	69%	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006)	" A moving and celebratory rock-doc that proves itself worthy of its subject." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 28, 2006
4/5	86%	Steel City (2007)	" Writer-director-editor Brian Jun doesn't let all of his characters off easy, but he clearly has affection for every one of them." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 28, 2006
4/5	83%	Come Early Morning (2006)	" We've met characters like Lucy before and we've seen movies like Come Early Morning before, but doesn't automatically make Joey Lauren Adams' directorial debut less than a good movie." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 28, 2006
4/4	71%	The Science of Sleep (2006)	" Like Eternal Sunshine and Gilliam's Brazil, it demands to be seen more than once and is impossible to sum up in one review." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2006
4/4	61%	The New World (2005)	" The New World carries the sense of discovery that comes with seeing a densely layered work of art for the first time, a work that speaks personally to one's heart and mind." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 18, 2006
3/4	87%	Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2004)	" By the end, I felt neither happy nor sad for Rodney. I enjoyed being in his presence for 90 minutes, but I can't exactly agree that he has a magnetic personality." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2006
4/4	69%	Yôkai daisensô (The Great Yokai War) (2005)	" It's like a live-action Hayao Miyazaki film. It's an indescribable, hilarious and insane piece of work that also has a refreshingly old-school feel to it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2006
3/4	51%	The Producers (2005)	" Not great, but still funnier than most other comedies released in 2005." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2006
4/4	84%	King Kong (2005)	" Again, Jackson proves himself an unbeatable showman with the soul of a poet. He crafts and composes his action sequences like symphonies, with the most eye-popping crescendos." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2006
2.5/4	72%	Syriana (2005)	" A well-meaning, yet meandering and confusing political thriller." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2006
1.5/4	46%	Rent (2005)	" It comes off like a sequel to the ever-annoying Fame where the kids never moved out of New York or learned anything from Debbie Allen." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2006
4/5	57%	Breakfast on Pluto (2005)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 31, 2005
3.5/4	88%	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)	" Cuaron's film still ranks as the best...but not by much." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 17, 2005
2.5/4	43%	Bee Season (2005)	" A well-intended movie that unfortunately comes off as cold and distant as the characters are to each other." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 10, 2005
2/4	16%	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)	" It exists only to support the already over-marketed and calculated "legend" that he was indeed shot nine times." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 10, 2005

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