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Cynthia Fuchs

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Publications:: Common Sense Media , Nitrate Online , NPR.org , Philadelphia City Paper , PopMatters , PopPolitics.com , Time to Play Magazine
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" Taylor Lautner's abs." — PopMatters Posted Dec 8, 2012
9/10	80%	Only The Young (2012)	" Only the Young appreciates what it means to be young, to be naïve and also skeptical, to have expectations and to resist them." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2012
9/10	98%	Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012)	" The past persists, and in Mea Maxima Culpa, it finds powerful expression." — PopMatters Posted Nov 26, 2012
6/10	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" Richard Parker is something else, a technological trick and an enduring figment, an idea that can't exist and must exist." — PopMatters Posted Nov 21, 2012
8/10	98%	Brooklyn Castle (2012)	" As the film offers glimpses of the kids' inner lives and external experiences, it helps you see how expansive both can be." — PopMatters Posted Oct 23, 2012
7/10	86%	Ethel (2012)	" The film offers images for the rest of us to parse, public performances that may or may not reveal what we want to see." — PopMatters Posted Oct 18, 2012
7/10	86%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" Sam's end is disturbing but also banal, even silly, but the end is not the point. The point is your anticipation." — PopMatters Posted Oct 10, 2012
8/10	88%	Head Games (2012)	" Players risk their health and their very lives, in futures hard to imagine when they're eight or 12 or 24. Head Games means to change those futures, for players and sports alike." — PopMatters Posted Oct 4, 2012
10/10	100%	The Waiting Room (2012)	" As impossible as each day must seem, for doctors, nurses, and patients, the waiting room is an ongoing process." — PopMatters Posted Oct 3, 2012
8/10	86%	Weight of the Nation ()	" Makes an important contribution to the ongoing discussion of obesity in America." — PopMatters Posted Aug 31, 2012
5/10	63%	Game Change (2013)	" Game Change is not one-sided, exactly. It is, instead, uneven and episodic." — PopMatters Posted Aug 6, 2012
8/10	78%	Brave (2012)	" When Elinor is gesturing the great story of her daughter's history and legacy and wonderfulness, literally over the heads of men, Brave represents an experience that so many mothers and daughters have shared, but rarely see in a movie." — PopMatters Posted Jul 19, 2012
2/10	69%	Ted (2012)	" Tami-Lyn, the little boy's dream girl who is so easy to mock, despise, and dismiss, is Ted's least imaginative take on magic." — PopMatters Posted Jul 19, 2012
5/10	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" Bane comes at Batman with a prodigious force and bloody fury, premised on the fact that he is built to deliver the hero's punishment and thus his motivation for rising." — PopMatters Posted Jul 19, 2012
9/10	88%	Tchoupitoulas (2012)	" Tchoupitoulas posits time and space as internal experience, embracing subjectivity and uncertainty, not so much recording what happens as helping you to imagine possibilities." — PopMatters Posted Jul 18, 2012
3/10	37%	Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)	" Illogic has always been a point of odd pride for the Ice Ages." — PopMatters Posted Jul 18, 2012
9/10	——	On Coal River ()	" On Coal River underlines the stunning disjunction between what residents live with and what authorities acknowledge." — PopMatters Posted Jul 5, 2012
8/10	90%	Portrait of Wally (2012)	" Whatever might happen in future, however, the film underlines that the Wally case made this much very clear: rich people look out for themselves and bully others." — PopMatters Posted May 29, 2012
—	80%	Waking Life (2001)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	88%	Boys Don't Cry (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	54%	The Golden Bowl (2000)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	38%	Light It Up (2000)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	51%	Waking the Dead (2000)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	43%	Two Can Play That Game (2001)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	7%	Chill Factor (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	28%	The Bone Collector (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	85%	Crna macka, beli macor (Black Cat, White Cat) (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	28%	The Story of Us (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	83%	L.I.E. (2001)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	80%	Bandslam (2009)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	36%	Blue Streak (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	76%	The Virgin Suicides (2000)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	——	Wildfire (1992)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	58%	Serendipity (2001)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	68%	Titus (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	72%	Training Day (2001)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	56%	Visitor Q (Bijitâ Q) (2002)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	71%	The Best Man (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	94%	Three Kings (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	65%	Heist (2001)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	——	Master P - I Got The Hook Up! Comedy Jam (1998)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	19%	Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	88%	Felicia's Journey (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	48%	Me, Myself & Irene (2000)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	48%	The Way of the Gun (2000)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	61%	The Wood (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	88%	Bandits (1997)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	25%	Reindeer Games (Deception) (2000)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	81%	Three Seasons (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	19%	Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	——	Regeneration (1998)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	47%	Romance (1999)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
—	——	Flandersui Gae (Barking Dogs Never Bite) (Flanders' Dog) (2000)	— Philadelphia City Paper Posted May 3, 2012
5/10	92%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	" The Cabin in the Woods revisits the formula that lets viewers feel superior (in terms of knowledge) and also anxious (because of that knowledge)." — PopMatters Posted May 2, 2012
	74%	Chimpanzee (2012)	" Little Oscar's life is by definition eventful, as each day holds risk, from predators and weather and scarcity of food." — PopMatters Posted May 2, 2012
4/10	85%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" Katniss embodies all that's better than her Hunger Games opponents, being aptly appalled at what she sees while also learning to manipulate her audience." — PopMatters Posted May 2, 2012
2/10	53%	Think Like a Man (2012)	" In Steve Harvey's man's world, the guys face extra anxieties. Not only do they worry their physical prowess might be inadequate, but also, as Cedric announces, the "balance of power has shifted."" — PopMatters Posted May 2, 2012
4/10	23%	The Raven (2012)	" The movie doesn't get at, not even nearly, how Edgar Allan Poe's dilemma is complicated by the vexing pleasures of crass entertainments." — PopMatters Posted May 2, 2012
8/10	86%	The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)	" As a running gag, the man-panzee is pretty predictable, but as an observation of how cute creatures are perpetually manipulated and abused in family entertainments, it is rather rich." — PopMatters Posted May 2, 2012
8/10	88%	The Turin Horse (2012)	" Ohlsdorfer and his daughter are incidental, elements in a landscape, unable to affect it or their fate, no matter their puny efforts to maintain routine, perhaps the most alarming sign of their so-called civilization." — PopMatters Posted Apr 6, 2012
8/10	89%	Our School (2013)	" Through some frankly lovely observational footage, some scenes that are painful to see, and remarkably revealing interviews, the movie doesn't so much press this case as it lets it unfold." — PopMatters Posted Feb 27, 2012
9/10	95%	Knuckle (2011)	" Shot over 12 years, Ian Palmer's extraordinary documentary tracks the long-running feud between the Joyces and the Quinn McDonaghs." — PopMatters Posted Dec 13, 2011
	93%	Drive (2011)	" Drive's most striking movie reference might be the one where you're watching Irene watch the Driver enact an especially awful beat-down. It's a moment that's at once frightening, tragic, and not startling enough." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	60%	Real Steel (2011)	" This much is clear as soon as they meet: father and son have matching attitudes, both resentful of their sudden connection and very tough on the outside even as they're really vulnerable. " — Time to Play Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2011
	82%	Dolphin Tale (2011)	" Sawyer's interactions with Winter make the movie fun for kids especially - an intelligent animal connects with a boy in need of attention and affection. " — Time to Play Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2011
	85%	Contagion (2011)	" As soon as you hear Gwyneth Paltrow cough, you know where you're headed. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	95%	Moneyball (2011)	" 'Moneyball' Shows What You Can Tell." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	97%	Sing Your Song (2012)	" As Harry Belafonte embodies the idea that art and politics always mix, no matter the era, he also continues to act on that belief." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	——	How to Start Your Own Country ()	" In posing the question, what is a country, the documentary also poses related questions. What does it mean to belong or to believe? And how might anyone imagine another way to do either?" — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	95%	Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011)	" Paul Goodman Changed My Life offers memories of the poet and essayist, novelist and philosopher, practicing lay psychiatrist and a founder of Gestalt Therapy. As interviewees recall, he took these roles seriously." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	68%	Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)	" You don't go to horror movies for story. You go for sensation, to be moved. Paranormal Activity 3 not only gets that, it also asks you to get it, to be aware of how you're being moved, and your part in the moving." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	90%	Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)	" With one tight frame after another -- faces close up and figures murky underwater, events viewed through windows and doorways -- Martha Marcy May Marlene conveys the limits of what you can know." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	99%	Le Havre (2011)	" In two stories of evolving trust and secrets, Le Havre reflects the essential simplicity of the moral choices made in its simple-seeming camera set-ups." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	47%	Anonymous (2011)	" Anonymous premises Edward's manhood partly on his sexual prowess and partly on his poetry, but it loses sight of the latter's allusions and intrigues, and instead falls in love with its own most obvious sensations." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	50%	The Rum Diary (2011)	" A literal-mindedness about Hunter S. Thompson's metaphors infuses the film: scary Puerto Rican natives threaten Paul and Salas during their wild nights, rich white men look overstuffed in their wicker chair." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	36%	In Time (2011)	" Like a 99 Percenter in the making, Will is stunned to hear from Henry that -- oh my god! -- the system of doling out time is rigged. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	84%	Puss in Boots (2011)	" Puss in Boots is a Shrek spin-off, which might seem pointless in addition to predictable. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	98%	The Artist (2011)	" Resisting change, The Artist's movie star repeats a familiar history, that is, the history of movies that's been passed on in the movies. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	100%	Grandma, a Thousand Times (2011)	" Teta, Alf Marra is a loving portrait of Teta's aging process, at once funny and reverent, amiable and acute." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	86%	Khodorkovsky (2011)	" If Khodorkovsky is not making an especially new argument, it is making it forcefully and engagingly. The form constitutes its own politics, pure or not." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	——	Pink Saris ()	" Sampat Pal makes her case again and again in Pink Saris, underlining that in India, domestic abuse of women is traditional and persistent. These women fight back for each other." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	80%	Shame (2011)	" If Brandon and Sissy are similarly traumatized, their disparate responses suggest not depth of suffering but eerie flatness." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	94%	Coriolanus (2011)	" In this version of Coriolanus, the battlefield is bleakly urban. As Martius makes his way from one point of brutal violence to a next, as he presses forward during an early combat scene, he is daunting from every angle." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	100%	Under Fire: Journalists In Combat (2011)	" The war correspondents in Under Fire describe the many effects of trauma, from the adrenalin rush in combat to the agonies that follow." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	77%	The Other F Word (2011)	" As punk rock dads recall their own difficult childhoods, their absent fathers and abusive stepfathers, they assert their determination to "be there" for their own kids. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	69%	A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)	" In A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, you are reminded that Harold and Kumar have penises -- again and again." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	69%	Tower Heist (2011)	" The heist of the film's title is thus premised on a desire for revenge that seems timely, but is more formulaic." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	59%	Fightville (2012)	" Fightville looks at cage fighting as a means to identity and an unending sales pitch, and also at the products sold, that is, vulnerable young men. Certainly, they don't see themselves as such. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	98%	The Island President (2012)	" The film emphasizes Mohamed Nasheed's recent stardom on the world stage, with the background note that he and others fought for 20 years to secure democracy in the Maldives." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	44%	J. Edgar (2011)	" As much as he wants to emulate Jimmy Cagney, Hoover appears during a couple of FBI team arrests to be too anxious to use his weapon. This translates -- awkwardly and obviously -- to his relationship with Tolson as well." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	93%	Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2011)	" The Enemy Within, it's not just the cops and robbers who are corrupt and greedy and barbarous, but also politicians and media representatives. The "system" is everywhere." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	——	The Bengali Detective ()	" Rajesh Ji is something of a perfect film subject, charming and earnest, inviting director Phil Cox and crew along during his investigations as well as into his home. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	53%	Crazy Wisdom (2011)	" Crazy Wisdom appears to follow Trungpa's philosophical lead, in the sense that it doesn't criticize his behaviors, though it does consider his "times."" — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	97%	Tomboy (2011)	" As the sisters come to see that dresses and haircuts and behaviors are a means to create a self, to communicate with others, Tomboy doesn't offer an easy answer; instead, it lets you wonder why gender must be so definitive." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	91%	Into The Abyss (2011)	" This is the abyss the film shows, the frightening arbitrariness of the death penalty. People are born into poverty and violence by chance, and their fates -- as crime victims or victims of the state -- are also functions of chance." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	35%	Immortals (2011)	" Laws mean little to these immortals once "considered incapable of death," at least until they "discover they can kill each other." Likewise, they discover they can't not interfere with men. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	89%	The Descendants (2011)	" As ten-year-old Scottie tries to sort out the specter of her mother now, inert and silent following a water-skiing accident, she faces questions she can't begin to articulate. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	91%	Arthur Christmas (2011)	" Thank goodness that even the Santas have a mom to help them sort out their turmoils." — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011
	94%	Hugo (2011)	" As much as Hugo is being touted as Scorsese's foray into 3D, Méliès' images, flat, awkward, and strangely beautiful, are its most memorable. " — PopMatters Posted Dec 7, 2011

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