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Agrees with the Tomatometer 92% of the time.

Publications:: BBC , rec.arts.movies.reviews

Total Reviews:: 27

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/5	90%	Aimée & Jaguar (2000)	" Rewarding viewing, evocatively re-creating a narrative milieu and war-time Berlin rarely seen on screen." — BBC Posted Jul 3, 2001
4/5	71%	Code Unknown (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages) (2000)	" European cinema at its very best." — BBC Posted Jul 3, 2001
5/5	97%	Psycho (1960)	" Gripping and irrevocably gruesome fare played to perfection by a top notch cast." — BBC Posted Jun 13, 2001
5/5	98%	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)	" Wonderfully performed and imbued with a genuine sense of trepidation and unease." — BBC Posted Jun 13, 2001
4/5	95%	Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)	" Emphatically entertaining, provocatively self-assured." — BBC Posted Jun 13, 2001
4/5	74%	Blackboards (2002)	" An intelligent, multi-layered and profoundly humanist (not to mention gently political) meditation on the values of knowledge, education, and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement." — BBC Posted May 30, 2001
4/5	64%	La Captive (The Captive) (2003)	" A gently captivating, deceptively austere work." — BBC Posted May 7, 2001
5/5	95%	Don't Look Now (1973)	" With Sutherland and Christie in fine form it all adds up to one of Roeg's finest films and an undeniably key work in British cinema." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
4/5	96%	Diva (1981)	" A witty, playful intelligent film as enjoyable as it is influential." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
4/5	96%	Diner (1982)	" Barry Levinson's directorial debut from his own Oscar-nominated script remains his most perfectly realised and charming movie and is a fitting eulogy to his home town of Baltimore." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
5/5	100%	Citizen Kane (1941)	" A potent metaphor for the betrayal of principles, the souring of the American Dream, and an intelligent mediation on the corrupting nature of power." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
5/5	95%	Touch of Evil (1958)	" one of [Welles'] richest and most rewarding pictures" — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
4/5	100%	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	" Grant, Stewart, and Hepburn deliver impeccable performances." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
3/5	100%	National Velvet (1944)	" Both Taylor and Rooney give without doubt the best performances of their pre-adult years but there's also much pleasure to be had from a stellar supporting cast." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
4/5	95%	The Long Good Friday (1982)	" A touchstone for many of the sub-standard gangster films Britain mercilessly churns out today, The Long Good Friday is classy fare and superior viewing to its modern counterparts in every way." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
4/5	63%	The Last House on the Left (1972)	" The film, to its credit, details both the initial acts of violation and the revenge that ensues as similarly de-humanising and reprehensible." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
5/5	96%	Klute (1971)	" Informed in part by the conventions of film noir...Klute manages to distil them all into something highly original and distinctly unsettling." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
5/5	96%	High Noon (1952)	" A film about what it means to be a man that manages to avoid the musk of machismo, High Noon is truly a film that improves with each and every viewing." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
4/5	100%	The Sweet Hereafter (1997)	" ...Egoyan looks at the essence of guilt and the complexity of human relationships in all their rich variety." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
3/5	44%	Flawless (1999)	" The involvement of several real-life drag queens contributes to both the exhuberence, authenticity, and sheer panache to mark something of a return to form for the idiosyncratic director." — BBC Posted Apr 17, 2001
4/5	96%	Yi Yi (2000)	" Intricately nuanced, lovingly crafted ... and decidedly wry in tone." — BBC Posted Apr 16, 2001
3/5	65%	Bread and Roses (2001)	" An impassioned work of integrity and a human drama of observation, insight, and great import." — BBC Posted Apr 16, 2001
3/5	48%	Bamboozled (2000)	" The mix of comedy and hard-hitting outrage sits uneasily, and two-dimensional characters and performances (Wayans and Rapaport spring to mind, though Pinkett delivers a rigorous integrity) are further impediments as the film increases in hysteria." — BBC Posted Apr 16, 2001
—	29%	Coming Soon (1999)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/5	92%	The Parallax View (1974)	" A political conspiracy thriller par excellence and a candidate perhaps for Beatty's finest screen moment." — BBC Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	27%	Lost in Space (1998)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jan 1, 2000

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