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Daniel M. Kimmel

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Biography:: Daniel M. Kimmel is a past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics and current co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. His reviews appeared in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for 25 years and can now be found at Northshoremovies.net. He is Boston correspondent for Variety, the "Movie Maven" for the weekly Jewish Advocate and teaches film at Suffolk University. He writes on classic science fiction films for Clarkesworld and Space and Time magazine. His book on the history of FOX TV, The Fourth Network, received the Cable Center Book Award. His other books include a history of DreamWorks, The Dream Team, and I'll Have What She?s Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies. His collection of essays, Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction movies has been nominated for a Hugo Award for "Best Related Work."
Favorites:: Annie Hall, The Producers, North by Northwest, Holiday, The Fly (1986), Lilo and Stitch, Dr. Strangelove, Sunset Boulevard, High Noon, The Stunt Man.
Publications:: Christian Science Monitor , New England Movies Weekly , Sci-Fi Movie Page , The Jewish Advocate , Variety , Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Critics' Group:: Boston Society of Film Critics

Total Reviews:: 2405
Total QuickRatings:: 1123

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2.5/5	75%	World War Z (2013)	" It is an acceptable summer movie escape, but the implication at the end of the film that there will be a demand for a sequel may be wishful thinking. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Jun 19, 2013
3.5/4	56%	Man of Steel (2013)	" Warners has its Superman franchise back. What they do with it now remains to be seen." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Jun 12, 2013
3/4	85%	This Is the End (2013)	" One gets a sense that these guys really are friends and they made this for the same reason Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack made the original Ocean's Eleven. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Jun 12, 2013
2.5/5	34%	The Internship (2013)	" There have been some horrible excuses for comedies this year, and it may be a backhanded compliment, but The Internship is not one of them." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Jun 6, 2013
3/4	38%	The Purge (2013)	" ...a smartly crafted movie that will leave you not only glad you don't live in that world, but wondering who you could trust among your friends and neighbors if you did." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Jun 5, 2013
1.5/4	11%	After Earth (2013)	" Well, it's not as bad as Wild, Wild West. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted May 30, 2013
3.5/5	62%	Epic (2013)	" ...something family-friendly which will enchant children young enough that they won't have seen it all before as well as adults willing to give themselves over to its charms." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted May 24, 2013
4/5	71%	Fast & Furious 6 (2013)	" Sure, this is a 'check your brain at the door' movie. If you like high speed chases, fight scenes, and explosions, Fast & Furious 6 delivers. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted May 23, 2013
1/5	20%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" The ads say, 'It all ends.' Promises, promises." — New England Movies Weekly Posted May 23, 2013
3.5/4	87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" By film's end it's clear that Abrams really needed two films to fully complete his reboot. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted May 16, 2013
3/5	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" ...one wishes Baz Luhrmann had pursued a career as an art director rather than as a filmmaker. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted May 8, 2013
3.5/4	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Downey's performance is impeccable. He gets that he's not simply playing a comic book character for the fourth time but a character who is evolving. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted May 1, 2013
0/5	7%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" [It]makes one wonder what kind of salacious info writer/director Justin Zackham has for blackmail purposes to get a cast like this to agree to appear in a movie this bad. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Apr 26, 2013
3/5	45%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" Pain & Gain may find its audience, but this might not have been the best week for it." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Apr 26, 2013
2.5/4	55%	Oblivion (2013)	" The only ones who will be really disappointed are those who wanted something engaging instead of what amounts to little more than entertaining eye candy." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Apr 17, 2013
5/5	77%	42 (2013)	" 42 instantly enters the pantheon of great baseball movies, but it's much more than that." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Apr 11, 2013
2/4	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" ...for a film about demonic possession it is surprisingly soulless." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Apr 4, 2013
2.5/4	9%	The Host (2013)	" If making a Stephanie Meyers adaptation far less annoying than any of the Twilight movies helps [Andrew Niccol] get his next project, it will have been worth it." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Mar 28, 2013
3/5	47%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" Part Die Hard, part 24, with a dash of The West Wing, the action-thriller Olympus has Fallen asks you to suspend your disbelief. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Mar 21, 2013
1/5	38%	Admission (2013)	" If Admission was a college application, it would be rejected, but only after the application fee had been deposited." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Mar 21, 2013
4/5	37%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" ...the filmmakers get us to believe that anything is possible in this world, even a comedy that doesn't insult our intelligence. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Mar 15, 2013
1.5/5	41%	The Call (2013)	" The Call is a cinematic crime, but unfortunately there's no number to call to ask for help." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Mar 15, 2013
3/4	29%	Upside Down (2013)	" What is expected of the viewer is simply to swallow the material whole and focus on the love story." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Mar 14, 2013
	88%	Yossi (2013)	" Fox understands that the joys and tears of looking for love are not unique to gay Israeli men...viewers can relate to the emotional conflicts regardless of one's orientation." — The Jewish Advocate Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/4	59%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Visually the film is a feast. This may be the first family friendly acid flashback. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/5	25%	Phantom (2013)	" The result is a taut thriller that succeeds in spite of playing out the expected scenes of the 'sub' genre." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Feb 28, 2013
0/5	26%	21 And Over (2013)	" If this movie is a hit it will be definitive proof that H. L. Mencken was right: 'Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.'" — New England Movies Weekly Posted Feb 28, 2013
2.5/4	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" Do NOT bring the little ones unless you plan on paying their therapy bills for many years to come." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Feb 28, 2013
3/5	57%	Snitch (2013)	" [Dwayne Johnson] may not be doing Hamlet any time soon, but he keeps trying to stretch himself, which may be why he is the most interesting of the current action stars." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Feb 22, 2013
3/4	60%	John Dies at the End (2013)	" ...a hilarious and occasionally icky story that should hit the sweet spot for people who like twisted movies and are fed up with the Hollywood assembly line. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Feb 21, 2013
2/5	13%	Safe Haven (2013)	" Audiences will leave with tears in their eyes, believing in the power of true love. Or, in the alternative, trying not to slip on the schmaltz left as residue from the movie." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Feb 15, 2013
3.5/5	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" It's probably a good day to end the series at last, but it's an action-packed and entertaining finale." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Feb 13, 2013
3/4	46%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" Sure, it's another movie looking for a supernatural metaphor for adolescent anxieties, but it does so while reminding us just how raw teenage emotions can be." — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Feb 13, 2013
3.5/5	84%	Side Effects (2013)	" The problem is that the cool and analytical Soderbergh isn't the ideal director for this. It needed a Hitchcock or DePalma, who could rev things up to a fever pitch. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Feb 8, 2013
1/5	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" It may be too soon to call Identity Thief the worst film of the year, but there's no doubt that it will be a contender." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Feb 8, 2013
2.5/5	47%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" Watching the movie won't be fatal for those who enjoy fast-paced and not very complex action movies. For those longing for something more, it's likely to be a long wait." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Feb 1, 2013
2.5/4	14%	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)	" If the very title has you rolling your eyes, don't even bother. If, however, it makes you think you'd like to see their further adventures, by all means take a chance. " — Sci-Fi Movie Page Posted Jan 26, 2013
3.5/5	66%	Mama (2013)	" ...a ghost story where we care about the real people as much as the tragic story of the ghost... " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Jan 17, 2013
3/5	60%	The Last Stand (2013)	" A perfectly serviceable Schwarzenegger action film... Schwarzenegger pretty much does what he has to do and we're willing to go along for the ride. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Jan 17, 2013
3/5	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" Treat this as a cartoonish action film that owes as much to the western as to the gangster movie, and just go along for the ride. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Jan 11, 2013
5/5	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" In spite of some Washington nitwits who claimed this is a movie that glorifies torture,[it] shows that torture doesn't work, but that perseverance and determination does. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Jan 11, 2013
2/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" [The movie is about how] one of the worst disasters to ever visit Thailand was really tough on the English. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Jan 4, 2013
2.5/5	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" It's not that it's badly made, but that it is a well-told and complex story dealing with topical issues and moral dilemmas that totally falls apart in its third act. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Jan 4, 2013
1/5	69%	Les Misérables (2012)	" It may succeed commercially because of the already-existing fan base which has been eager for years to see it on the big screen. However, that doesn't make it a good movie." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Dec 24, 2012
5/5	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Even at 165 minutes, this is a film that speeds by and one gets a sense of Tarantino being fully energized. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Dec 24, 2012
2.5/5	18%	Parental Guidance (2012)	" If you have youngsters to entertain this holiday season, it provides some amiable and much needed distraction from the ugliness going on in the real world. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Dec 24, 2012
1.5/5	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" ...a collection of overgrown children who don't have a clue what it means to be a responsible adult. This isn't 40. Indeed, this is barely human. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Dec 21, 2012
4/5	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" What Cruise offers is not brawn but a raw and savage intelligence." — New England Movies Weekly Posted Dec 21, 2012
2.5/5	38%	The Guilt Trip (2012)	" If the film works at all it is because of the wholly unexpected chemistry between Streisand and Rogen. " — New England Movies Weekly Posted Dec 19, 2012

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