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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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3.5/4	61%	Jarhead (2005)	" A war movie that defies the genre by expressing that even without heavy combat, the war remains a part of these men forever." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 8, 2005
3/5	26%	Free Zone (2006)	" It's a frustrating experience." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 17, 2005
3/5	22%	7 días (2007)	" It's certainly not a bad film, but one that could have benefited from some surprises to help make it stand out even more from the usual, gritty offerings of Mexican cinema." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 17, 2005
4/5	76%	Transamerica (2006)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 15, 2005
3.5/4	88%	Broken Flowers (2005)	" Murray does what a lot of great actors do, using film as a way of discovering more about himself." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 28, 2005
1.5/4	7%	Undiscovered (2005)	" An Ashlee Simpson vehicle disguised as a 2-hour episode of Fame." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 28, 2005
3.5/4	38%	The Brothers Grimm (2005)	" Gilliam is still a visual showman, a childish tease and an artist with an imagination too big for cinema." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 28, 2005
4/4	86%	Junebug (2005)	" As curiously odd, profound and beautiful as its title." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 28, 2005
1.5/4	34%	Must Love Dogs (2005)	" There needs to be a master list out there of conventional Romantic Comedy clichés and gestures that filmmakers and writers can refer to so as not to play to them ever again." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
0/4	53%	The Devil's Rejects (2005)	" It's like having excrement thrown in your face at a GG Allin concert." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
3.5/4	74%	War of the Worlds (2005)	" Certainly a grab-bag of Spielberg's Greatest Hits, but like The Beatles, there's a reason a lot of those Hits were #1 when they came out." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
4/4	67%	Buy It Now (2005)	" But It Now accomplishes so much in one hour that I wouldn't be surprised if media arts teachers across the country used it as a springboard for class discussion." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
3.5/4	81%	Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)	" A charmingly odd movie about the adventure life has to offer, even in the form of department stores, hope chests and goldfish." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
2/4	42%	Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)	" It's a no-brainer that Disney would do a re-make and a no-brainer is what we got." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
4/4	85%	Batman Begins (2005)	" Artful, daring and wise, it's one of the best anti-summer popcorn movies ever made." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
3/4	77%	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)	" The cast lend a great deal of credibility to the material and director Ken Kwapis knows when to cut away from a scene when it carries the potential for shmaltz." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
2/4	41%	High Tension (Switchblade Romance) (2005)	" A brilliantly made, shocking, refreshingly bloody...disappointment," — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
3.5/4	75%	Crash (2004)	" Crash has a lot on its mind and, unlike most movies these days, a lot of it is worth hearing." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 2, 2005
3.5/4	82%	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)	" Burton sticks to the text, but manages to play with it so that there's still no way of knowing which direction he is going." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 14, 2005
3/4	80%	Cinderella Man (2005)	" At this point in 2005, are you really going to complain about a well-made, well-acted, formulaic sports movie? Me neither." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 2, 2005
3/4	80%	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 3D (2013)	" While it does carry some of the flaws of the first two episodes, it thankfully lives up to its promise to be the darkest film in the series." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 19, 2005
1/5	10%	House of D (2004)	" There exists a difference between stylized dialogue and trite, hackneyed dialogue." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 2, 2005
3/4	86%	Ong-Bak (Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior) (2005)	" It's too soon to tell if Tony Jaa has the the ability to sustain an interesting career, but he's off to a hell of a start, regardless." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2005
4/4	78%	Sin City (2005)	" Time will tell if Sin City is more than its moment, but at the moment, it's definitely one of the most interesting films on the planet." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2005
2.5/4	75%	The Upside of Anger (2005)	" While most of the movie has a welcome feel to it, the ending carries as much absurdity as anything in Diary of a Mad Black Woman." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2005
3.5/4	100%	Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party (2005)	" Tobolowski is so skilled and effortless, he proves that while everyone has a story to tell, not everyone can tell a great story." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2005
3.5/4	95%	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)	" The parrots are every bit as endearing and interesting as the man looking after them." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2005
2.5/4	23%	The Amityville Horror (2005)	" It has the right idea to remake a movie that was bad and try to make it better. It succeeds quite a bit in that respect, but that's not saying much." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2005
4/4	100%	Twist of Faith (2004)	" It daringly uses the medium break down the barriers between the subject and the audience for a topic that lends itself to dark secrecy. It's almost too devastating to watch." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 25, 2005
1.5/4	16%	Cursed (2005)	" It's a sad day when even Wes Craven falls victim to the PG-13-ification of horror." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 25, 2005
.5/4	13%	Boogeyman (2005)	" Basically. it's 86 minutes of one man having a staring contest with a door." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 6, 2005
2.5/4	1%	Alone in the Dark (2005)	" Grab your funniest smartass friends and have a good time ripping this piece of crap to shreds. I know I did. But if you're looking for a good movie, stay away!" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 1, 2005
1/4	10%	Elektra (2005)	" Elektra does have some action in it, which is especially awesome if you're into bed sheets flying around." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 26, 2005
3/4	——	Battleground: 21 Days on the Empire's Edge (2004)	" If you're already against the war, the movie won't waste your time by preaching. It gives new perspective to both sides while adding weight to the arguments." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 26, 2005
3.5/4	——	Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie (2004)	" Sequel? Remake? Call it whatever you will. It's still funnier than most movies out there in actual theaters and a nice gift for the fans." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 26, 2005
2.5/4	——	Tout le plaisir est pour moi (The Pleasure Is All Mine) (2004)	" Occasionally funny, but it wears thin after a while and I'm sure there are plenty of porno movies out there with this exact same plot." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2005
3/4	——	Rule No. 1 ()	" Even though it plays like your average romantic comedy, it's actually much smarter and funnier." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2005
1.5/4	——	Die Reise ins Glück (A Journey Into Bliss) (2005)	" It's as though they took the lyrics to "I Am The Walrus" and figured there was a great movie to be made from them. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2005
3.5/4	——	Quiet as a Mouse ()	" Dark, acidic, brutally funny and capable of dividing its audience between those who love it and those who hate it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2005
3/4	——	Up Against Them All ()	" It's a beautifully crafted tale of religion, crime, sex and disorder in a household that seems powerless from outside influences." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 23, 2005
4/4	81%	Friday Night Lights (2004)	" My favorite film of 2004." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 17, 2005
2/5	35%	Racing Stripes (2005)	" Charmless." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 17, 2005
3/4	78%	Schizo (2004)	" The beauty of coming-of-age movies such as this is that we can somehow relate to its odd protagonist in spite of his predicaments." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 15, 2005
1.5/4	33%	The Phantom of the Opera (2005)	" I didn't see a single fat lady in the entire thing. That must be why it never ended." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 27, 2004
2.5/4	38%	Meet The Fockers (2004)	" Both movies lack the real discomfort and awkwardness that comes with meeting future in-laws." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 27, 2004
4/4	72%	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)	" That rare adaptation that not only captures the spirit of the books and the author's distinct voice, but also has an identity all its own." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 27, 2004
4/4	91%	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	" The most profoundly moving platonic love story of the year. It may be time to wheel out another batch of Career Achievement Awards for Mr. Eastwood." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 27, 2004
3.5/4	68%	Closer (2004)	" A wonderfully acted depiction of the ultimate male fantasy gone sour." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 8, 2004
3/4	83%	Finding Neverland (2004)	" Manages to win the viewer over in spite of itself while further perpetuating the myth of Peter Pan as an eternal headcase." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 8, 2004
3.5/4	56%	The Polar Express (2004)	" In terms of awesome spectacle, the movie delivers and should really be viewed as it was meant to be: In 3-D IMAX." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 14, 2004
4/4	96%	Sideways (2004)	" Sideways is a movie that knows us a little too well, which has always been Payne's specialty." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 7, 2004
4/4	55%	Undertow (2004)	" Green again establishes himself as an indisputable filmmaking talent and the best of his generation." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 22, 2004
3.5/4	96%	Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)	" Usually, documentaries ask hard, probing questions. Refreshingly, Born Into Brothels is about a person with an answer." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 19, 2004
4/4	99%	Moolaadé (2004)	" Like Africa itself, "Moolaadé" will leave you in shock, a little breathless and grateful to have basked in its suffering as well as its joy." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 19, 2004
3.5/4	76%	Brother to Brother (2004)	" Evans' debut has the courage to ask for change without resorting to preaching the answers." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 19, 2004
3.5/4	77%	Team America - World Police (2004)	" The best antidote I can think of to the constant bombardment of self-serious Leftist documentaries is a movie that slams everyone, no matter what the affiliation." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 15, 2004
3.5/4	67%	Machssomim, (Checkpoint) (2004)	" Checkpoint adds a a whole other dimension to the debate over civil liberties by letting its unflinching footage speak for itself." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 9, 2004
4/4	91%	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	" The best male bonding film since Last Orders and the best romantic comedy since Love Actually. Oh, and it's a great zombie flick, too." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 26, 2004
4/5	96%	Festival Express (2003)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 19, 2004
.5/4	21%	AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004)	" 'Whoever Wins...We Lose!' Thank you, Fox, for the truth in your advertising." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 13, 2004
3/4	74%	Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)	" Perfect summertime munchies for the drive-in. Lewd, raunchy and likely to spawn a sequel or two. It’s also fearless, well-acted and smarter than it lets on." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 30, 2004
2/5	47%	Ja zuster, nee zuster (Yes Nurse! No Nurse!) (2004)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 28, 2004
1/4	9%	Catwoman (2004)	" An adolescent fantasy run amok that owes more to drummer Peter Criss than to Julie Newmar." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 26, 2004
2/5	11%	A Cinderella Story (2004)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 20, 2004
4/4	66%	Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004)	" A 'Stupid Comedy' that gleefully celebrates the absurd and actually trusts its audience to be smart." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 8, 2004
3.5/4	83%	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)	" Though his movie tends to trip over and repeat itself, Moore has nevertheless crafted a compelling essay on what separates Politician from Human Being." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 5, 2004
3.5/4	60%	The Terminal (2004)	" It proves that Spielberg has not lost a single ounce of showmanship and yet he continues to grow, take chances and, yes, even at his age, mature. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 5, 2004
3/4	85%	Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou (Hard Goodbyes: My Father) (2003)	" A promising debut from Penny Panayotopoulou who has a great eye as well as a clear understanding of what makes mourning our loved ones such a complex and excruciating process." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 5, 2004
4/4	90%	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	" The best book in the series is now the best film in the series. We all have a better movie in our heads, but I had a blast seeing what lurked inside Curon's." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 4, 2004
1.5/4	24%	Stateside (2004)	" It's as though the actors showed up on the set, picked their lines out of a hat, than spoke them in no particluar order." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 28, 2004
0/4	11%	New York Minute (2004)	" Who would have thunk the twins from The Shining should have their own movie?" — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 28, 2004
4/5	95%	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted May 17, 2004
2.5/4	39%	Seeing Other People (2004)	" The great cast should work together again on a project that aspires to be more than just pleasent. Not a bad movie, just a little too obvious." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 15, 2004
3.5/4	93%	Super Size Me (2004)	" More than a 98-minute episode of Fear Factor, Spurlock's movie is a remarkably thorough and hilarious examination of our alarming eating habits." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 15, 2004
4/4	90%	Io non ho paura (I'm Not Scared) (2003)	" A beautiful, exciting and challenging film about survival and a child's cold realization that adults don't always have the right answers." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 2, 2004
2/5	——	Skin Deep (2003)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 24, 2004
1.5/4	55%	The Girl Next Door (2004)	" The comparisons to Risky Business are inevitable, but like the song says, Today's music ain't got the same soul." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 15, 2004
1.5/4	44%	50 First Dates (2004)	" A depressing Rom-Com with more endings than Something's Gotta Give and Return of the King combined." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 2, 2004
2/4	29%	The Prince and Me (2004)	" Yet another duller-than-golf Hollywood Rom-Com with about 20 possible endings, all of which we get to see." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 1, 2004
3.5/4	55%	The Ladykillers (2004)	" Leave it to the Coen Brothers to do a remake of yet another heist movie that is actually worth your time. One of the funniest films I've seen in years." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 26, 2004
2.5/4	63%	Starsky & Hutch (2004)	" Stiller and Wilson provide plenty of laughs, but do I really need another reminder of just how lame the '70s really were?" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 5, 2004
3.5/4	49%	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	" As a work of cinema, The Passion of the Christ possesses a majestic beauty within its horror, one that comes most effectively through a tiny, solitary teardrop." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 25, 2004
1.5/4	13%	Welcome To Mooseport (2004)	" Proof that nice comedies about politics just don't work, especially during an election year." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 19, 2004
1/4	16%	You Got Served (2004)	" If you want to bring back the '80s by emulating those awful Golan/Globus dance movies, you have to GET Golan and Globus! Everything else is just 4th rate." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 1, 2004
4/5	99%	The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) (2004)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 28, 2004
3/4	77%	Peter Pan (2003)	" As smart and definitive a version as we're likely to see for a while, which is fine, if only because it casts an actual child actor instead of a creepy female man-child." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
2/4	76%	Teacher's Pet (2004)	" Occasionally clever, but unworthy of being the swan song of Disney's hand-drawn animation department. Too loud, screeching and annoying." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
2/4	19%	Chasing Liberty (2004)	" Mandy Moore's best movie so far, which, I realize, doesn't say much. The movie has its charm, but not enough to sustain its length." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
2/4	52%	Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)	" While the cast has its charm, they are nevertheless stuck in a by-the-numbers script that the main character would probably hate." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
2/4	26%	Along Came Polly (2004)	" It plays more like a Ben Stiller/Jennifer Aniston Romantic Comedy Greatest Hits package." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
2.5	67%	U2: Rattle and Hum (1988)	" R&H exists as it does simply because U2 had “planned” too much ahead of time, the antithesis of spontaneity and the killjoy of documentary filmmaking." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
2/4	79%	Goodbye Dragon Inn (2004)	" It has a haunting and eerie quality to it at times, but it doesn’t stay with the viewer for very long. I feel more like I’m watching a cinematographer’s clip-reel." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
2.5/4	41%	The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)	" A movie such as this can easily get by on charm, so long as we get a surprise or two from the rest of the script. Therein lies the problem. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
3/4	63%	Love Actually (2003)	" Upon first viewing, it is something of a guilty pleasure. Upon second viewing, it is simply a pleasure." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
3/4	70%	Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003)	" Until the gutsy ending, there doesn’t seem to be much of a reason for this movie to have been made. And damn if it’s not fun to watch." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
3.5/4	90%	The Magdalene Sisters (2003)	" Beautifully directed and acted, Mullen's movie seems to be made with the same purpose as last year's Bloody Sunday, that of atonement and catharsis." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
3.5/4	88%	28 Days Later (2003)	" Boyle and his remarkable cast play the material seriously, with an atmospheric soundtrack adding a sense of poetry and lyricism. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
2.5/4	82%	Monster (2004)	" More often than not, Theron gives us a caricature rather than a character. As a result, Monster is a well-made movie without much purpose." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 8, 2004
2/4	23%	Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)	" Martin and Hunt make the terror go down smoothly, like having Diet R/C pumped through your veins instead of down your throat." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 23, 2003

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