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Dennis Harvey

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography:: Film Critic, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Variety
Publications:: Variety
Critics' Group:: San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews:: 1286

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	26%	Erased (2013)	" A confidently engineered, propulsive piece of intelligent action cinema." — Variety Posted May 16, 2013
	38%	Aftershock (2013)	" This Dimension pickup is a hectic, sometimes hilarious guilty pleasure that should delight genre geeks." — Variety Posted May 15, 2013
	——	Birdemic 2: The Resurrection ()	" Nguyen's partial self-awareness of his new movie's camp value -- encompassing brief incorporation of zombies -- only makes it an effortful, half-understood in-joke rather than the guiltily pleasurable unintentional joke that was Birdemic: Shock and Terror." — Variety Posted Apr 29, 2013
	93%	Sun Don't Shine (2013)	" This unconventional, unsettling couple-on-the-run tale works best as an exercise in ambiguous atmosphere. " — Variety Posted Apr 22, 2013
	17%	The Kill Hole (2013)	" A middling drama that tries to combine elements of Rambo with serious treatment of soldiers' post-traumatic stress disorder and vague political commentary." — Variety Posted Mar 14, 2013
	13%	The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)	" A generally effective sequel." — Variety Posted Mar 6, 2013
	34%	Dark Skies (2013)	" A pretty good buildup to OK payoff without any real surprises en route makes Dark Skies feel just enough above average to make one wish it had one memorable spark of conceptual inspiration up its sleeve." — Variety Posted Feb 22, 2013
	——	Once Upon a Time Veronica ()	" Especially for a movie whose title is in the first person, "Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica" doesn't make much of an effort to get into the head of its protagonist ..." — Variety Posted Feb 7, 2013
	——	Life According To Sam ()	" A straightforward, solidly crafted inspirational tale that should appeal to quality broadcasters." — Variety Posted Feb 5, 2013
	——	Spinning Plates ()	" So involving that one might not notice until afterward that little in the way of a unified theme emerges to turn Joseph Levy's feature into something more than a semi-random survey of restaurant life." — Variety Posted Feb 5, 2013
	67%	The Moo Man ()	" The gentle tenor is abetted by the easygoing pace, Stephen Daltry's attractive chamber score and Heathcote's lensing, which captures the surroundings' pastoral beauty without going for picture-postcard prettiness." — Variety Posted Feb 5, 2013
	——	Citizen Koch ()	" Snaking through a tangle of interlocking ideas, threads and events, it never quite finds a unified focus." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	——	When I Walk ()	" A likable, intimate documentary kept from being too grim by the leads' good-humored personalities ..." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	——	Halley ()	" "Halley" isn't particularly satisfying as a narrative or character study, and the profundity or blankness of its meaning is entirely up to the viewer." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	——	Ass Backwards ()	" A comedy built on the amusement value of stupid people that is itself too stupid to be funny." — Variety Posted Jan 24, 2013
	40%	Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes ()	" Offbeat, but also frequently off-key and somewhat off-putting." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	——	The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs) ()	" Tinatin Gurchiani's accomplished first feature The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear offers an impressionistic, somewhat poetical view of current life in her native former Soviet territory." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	75%	Prince Avalanche (2013)	" Warmly enjoyable." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	86%	V/H/S/2 (2013)	" Less turns out to be much more for S-VHS, a sequel to last year's uneven indie horror omnibus V/H/S; this one is shorter and has fewer segments, but also earns a much higher batting average." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	40%	Austenland (2013)	" Austenland doesn't really satirize Austen's world (or fans) so much as use them as a pretext for a mixture of middling burlesque and routine romantic comedy." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	71%	The Look of Love ()	" Though all the performances are very good, much of Look's entertainment value comes from an impressive tech package that captures the shifting fashions of swinger-favored pop-culture garishness over the pic's roughly 25-year period." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Duburys/Vortex (Vortex) ()	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	73%	Chained (2012)	" It boasts no character insight, social commentary or discernible overall point to counter charges that this is just a redundant wallow in arted-up, torture-porn cruelty." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	11%	Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (2012)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	The Right To Love: An American Family (2012)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Long Distance (2005)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	The Woods (2012)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Worth The Weight ()	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Deep Dark Canyon (2012)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	70%	American Mary (2013)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Petunia (2013)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Redlegs (2012)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	——	A Cadaver Christmas (2011)	" A small, unremarkable but quite funny tale of revivified dead people overtaking a university building over holiday break." — Variety Posted Jan 11, 2013
	——	Girl Walk: All Day (2012)	" [The film] quickly becomes far more than mere visual accompaniment, immediately joining the rarefied roster of great all-dance films." — Variety Posted Dec 18, 2012
	27%	Addicted To Fame (2012)	" Entertaining if ultimately depressing." — Variety Posted Nov 29, 2012
	40%	In Their Skin (2012)	" An unnerving home-invasion thriller." — Variety Posted Nov 8, 2012
	25%	The Black Tulip (2012)	" A well-intentioned drama that would play much better if it didn't feel the need to make that message quite so heavy-handedly obvious." — Variety Posted Nov 1, 2012
	76%	The Bay (2012)	" A gruesome but uninspired environmental-disaster thriller that's an unconvincing example of the overexposed faux-found-footage horror subgenre." — Variety Posted Oct 31, 2012
	17%	Gut (2012)	" A psychological thriller requires some psychology as well as thrills, two things almost entirely absent from Gut." — Variety Posted Oct 26, 2012
	6%	Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)	" A cheaper, cheesier sequel that's worse than its predecessor on every level (save being a half-hour shorter) and takes no special advantage of the stereoscopic process." — Variety Posted Oct 26, 2012
	78%	The Zen Of Bennett (2012)	" These elements leave the documentary hanging somewhere between a glorified making-of album promo and a more in-depth portrait of the artist." — Variety Posted Oct 24, 2012
	50%	Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)	" The long and inglorious list of Bigfoot movies just got longer and more inglorious." — Variety Posted Oct 19, 2012
	5%	Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)	" It's consistent with its predecessor as a somewhat awkward translation of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel to our current era, handled with bland telepic-style competency." — Variety Posted Oct 13, 2012
	——	Split: A Deeper Divide (2012)	" It's a solid, fairly even-handed spur for discussion that will be particularly welcome in classroom settings." — Variety Posted Oct 12, 2012
	14%	Excuse Me for Living (2012)	" A catchy but irrelevant title is the first of many problems with Excuse Me for Living, which throws together a lot of superficially flashy elements that never gel in any organic way." — Variety Posted Oct 12, 2012
	14%	Grave Encounters 2 (2012)	" [Adds] additional layers of self-consciousness to a story that was already pretty derivative." — Variety Posted Oct 12, 2012
	14%	Smiley (2012)	" [A] by-the-numbers slasher pic." — Variety Posted Oct 10, 2012
	100%	The Waiting Room (2012)	" A rock-solid verite docu." — Variety Posted Oct 3, 2012
	61%	Greetings From Tim Buckley (2013)	" The result is at once skillfully observed and a bit so-what." — Variety Posted Sep 11, 2012

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