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Dennis Schwartz

""Wisdom is not in knowing but in having known." - Edmond Jabés, "

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography:: Dennis Schwartz is editor of the Vermont based film magazine "Ozus's World Movie Reviews." He has been a prolific online movie reviewer since 1998, also contributing to various publications all over the globe and maintaining an active website--where it's not uncommon for him to review as many as 365 films a year. In his other life, he was a poet, teacher, restaurant owner, wanderer and follower of Tibetan Buddhism (where he studied in Kasa, Devi, India).The first film he saw as a child, Bob Hope's Paleface, left a hunger for films that has not been sated with all the passing years. The critic who influenced him the most was Walter Benjamin, not a film critic but one of the truly great scholarly critics of the 20th century. The lesson the film critic learned from Benjamin is that all true art is subversive and unsettling.
Favorites:: Movie favorites (in no particular order): Dead Man/Beau Travail/Eyes Wide Shut/2001: A Space Odyssey/The Searchers/Dybbuk/Greed/Touch of Evil/The Passion of Joan of Arc/Eyes Without A Face.
Publications:: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 8783

Location:: Bennington, Vermont

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
B-	——	Hyènes (Hyenas) (1992)	" Dark political satire about corruption is set in Western Africa." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 13, 2013
C+	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" The overblown telling of Gatsby's story." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 12, 2013
A-	——	The Caretaker (The Guest) (1963)	" More a theater experience than a cinema one." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 11, 2013
B	——	Sea Fury ()	" Enjoyable routine sea adventure that's well-acted by the men." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 10, 2013
B-	——	Comizi d'amore (Love Meetings) (1965)	" Merely interesting as a piece of investigative journalism." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 9, 2013
A	100%	The Last Command (1928)	" Brilliant silent." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 8, 2013
B+	100%	Footlight Parade (1933)	" It's the third successful teaming of choreographer Busby Berkeley with stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 7, 2013
C+	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Suffers from franchise rust." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 6, 2013
A	89%	A Screaming Man (2011)	" Engrossing arty melodrama that brilliantly blends together a tragic political and psychological story set in modern-day Chad." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 5, 2013
B	——	The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966)	" The music is good." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 4, 2013
D	——	Vinyl (1965)	" Irritatingly bad film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 3, 2013
C+	——	Big Leaguer (1953)	" The boring bush league baseball melodrama tosses softball batting practice pitches, as it tells of a lost era when baseball was the national past-time." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 2, 2013
B-	——	The Devil is a Woman (1935)	" If you can stomach the sour story, it's both clever and sophisticated." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted May 1, 2013
B-	56%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" An old-fashioned political drama that's well-intentioned and heartfelt." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 30, 2013
A-	——	Bangiku (Late Chrysanthemums) (1954)	" Directed with compassion, feeling and clarity by the great Mikio Naruse." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 29, 2013
B	——	Christopher Columbus, The Enigma (Cristóvão Colombo - O Enigma) (2007)	" A slight but oddly entertaining film about checking for the true identity of Christopher Columbus" — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 28, 2013
B+	88%	Oktyabr (October) (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928)	" An arty experimental pic filled with rousing spectacles and intellectual montages." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 27, 2013
B-	——	The Dawn Patrol (Flight Commander) (1930)	" Retains a certain power because of its great aerial footage." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 26, 2013
B-	82%	Uccellacci e uccellini (Hawks and Sparrows) (1965)	" For the birds." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 25, 2013
B	73%	The Music Lovers (1971)	" Chamberlain gives a surprisingly good performance." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 24, 2013
B	92%	No (2013)	" The understated performance by Bernal was inspiring, as was the pic." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 23, 2013
A-	94%	Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's ) (My Night with Maud) (1970)	" Delightful art film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 22, 2013
B	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" Dove into deep psychological turf but without coming up with significant insights." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 21, 2013
B+	83%	Testament of Orpheus ()	" The 70-year-old Cocteau plays himself as the eternal poet looking back through his films at himself." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 20, 2013
B	86%	Eight Men Out (1988)	" Does a fine job in getting to the details of the baseball scandal." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 19, 2013
A+	98%	The Last Waltz (2002)	" It might be the best concert film of all time." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 18, 2013
C+	77%	42 (2013)	" Competent but superficial historical tribute to baseball legend Jackie Robinson." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 17, 2013
C	——	Night Unto Night (1949)	" This is the kind of downer romantic drama that can depress you and should come with a warning label to that effect." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 17, 2013
B-	91%	La Caduta Degli Dei (The Damned) (1969)	" Even if somewhat remarkable in scope as a Nazi decadence pic, it's all so ponderous and repulsive."" — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 16, 2013
A	86%	River's Edge (1987)	" A powerful sociological film on white teenage alienation in small-town America, that is even more amazing that it's based on an actual event." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 16, 2013
B-	80%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" Assured but bleak art-house girl's coming-of-age film that combines politics and personal matters." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 15, 2013
B-	——	Big Trouble (1986)	" It's not top-notch Cassavetes, but is still watchable." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 15, 2013
B+	——	Circle Of Danger (1951)	" suspenseful despite being slowly paced." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 14, 2013
A-	——	Last Chants for a Slow Dance ()	" Has a gut-pinching rawness to its modern-day portrait of a wannabe cowboy drifter, turned killer, who is spiritless, opinionated, ignorant and dangerously macho." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 14, 2013
B+	——	Hidden Dimension (2005)	" An imaginative and engaging family science film directed and co-written by Paul Cox." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 13, 2013
B+	88%	Le Fantôme de la Liberté (The Phantom of Liberty) (The Specter of Freedom) (1974)	" Bunuel's most uninhibited venture though audacious and satisfying my Bunuel pangs, lacks a bite or enough charm to appeal to the masses." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 13, 2013
A	100%	White Nights (Le Notti Bianche) (1961)	" My favorite Visconti film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 12, 2013
B	85%	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)	" Intense gruesome crime melodrama that's set in modern Mexico." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 12, 2013
B	——	Success Is The Best Revenge (1985)	" The pic merges political strife with domestic strife, which produces some far-reaching sparks." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 11, 2013
B	——	L'assassin habite... au 21 (The Murderer Lives at Number 21) (1942)	" Diverting serio-comic thriller." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 10, 2013
B-	93%	The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)	" Appealing gentle Western comedy." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 9, 2013
B+	——	L'Innocente (The Innocent) (The Intruder) (1976)	" The swan song film for veteran Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 9, 2013
B-	60%	Visage (Face) (2009)	" Too obscure for my taste." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 8, 2013
B	84%	The Getaway (1972)	" A gripping thriller." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 7, 2013
D	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" An unnecessary remake of the 1981 Evil Dead by Sam Raimi." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 6, 2013
A-	——	The Terrorizers (Kong Bu Fen Zi) ()	" A dreamlike profound film of parallel stories, though bleak, confusing and enigmatic, is masterfully blended together." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 5, 2013
B-	——	The Big Shave ()	" A personal statement film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 4, 2013
B	——	Italianamerican ()	" Warmhearted family portrait." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 4, 2013
A-	63%	Lightning Over Water (1980)	" It's a fitting heartfelt tribute to Ray." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 3, 2013
B	75%	Cloak and Dagger (1946)	" Old-fashioned espionage tale." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 3, 2013
B-	100%	Le Beau Serge (1958)	" Chabrol didn't work out his film-making kinks until his next pictures." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 2, 2013
B	100%	Luci del varietà (Variety Lights) (1950)	" It's a refreshingly evocative backstage showbiz pic, that tells a familiar story with much compassion for human frailty." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 2, 2013
B-	——	Tobacco Road (1941)	" If you can get past its flaws, especially its stereotype characterization of the hillbillies, there's a subversiveness to it that is pleasantly intoxicating." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Apr 1, 2013
B	94%	Stray Dog (Nora inu) (1963)	" It's an engaging thriller that follows along the lines of a typical Hollywood crime drama, but blends in conventional Japanese concerns." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 31, 2013
B+	——	Rabbit's Moon ()	" Beautifully presented lyrical short yarn." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 31, 2013
B+	——	Eaux d'artifice ()	" The most aesthetically pleasing of Anger's shorts." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 31, 2013
B-	——	Kustom Kar Kommandos ()	" One for the doo-wop white greasers." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 31, 2013
C+	——	Puce Moment ()	" Resembles a student film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 30, 2013
A-	95%	Weekend (Week End) (1967)	" In the absurdist dark comedy, Western society never looked so sickening on film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 30, 2013
B-	——	Figures in a Landscape (1971)	" Pretentious and murky thriller that is filled with symbols." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 29, 2013
B+	——	Fireworks ()	" How much you enjoy this film depends on how much you can stomach its bloody violence." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 29, 2013
B	91%	Women In Love (1969)	" It's Russell as restrained as he can be, who has fun delving into the sexual explorations of the author." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 28, 2013
A+	——	India: Matri Bhumi (1959)	" It was one of the director's favorites and the film of his I liked best." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 27, 2013
B-	93%	Gregory's Girl (1981)	" A charming but slight teen movie about sports, a first romance and growing up." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 26, 2013
B-	100%	Comfort and Joy (1984)	" A quirky comedy." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 26, 2013
A	100%	The Wages of Fear (1953)	" Anti-capitalist exciting existential adventure film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 25, 2013
A	100%	Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)	" A better submarine film has not been made." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 24, 2013
B	100%	Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home (2012)	" Takes us on an unglamorous but eye-popping tour of LA's Skid Row." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 24, 2013
B	83%	The Happy Poet (2013)	" Sincerely tells about an underdog geek trying to survive in a world ruled by capitalists." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 23, 2013
B	——	Okraina (1998)	" This set in modern Russia tale plays as a disturbing and at the same time droll comical look at a country in the middle of an unsettling transformation." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 22, 2013
B	94%	The Bitter Buddha (2013)	" An enjoyable lighthearted watch about someone you want to root for to succeed." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 22, 2013
A+	——	Saga of Anatahan (1954)	" It's a corker." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 21, 2013
B	——	That Day, On The Beach (Hai Tan De Yi Tian) (1991)	" Yang is credited with launching the Taiwanese New Wave in his debut feature." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 21, 2013
A-	83%	Brewster McCloud (1971)	" A wacko funny pic." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 20, 2013
B+	93%	Zero for Conduct (Zero de Conduite) (1933)	" It's surreal and zany anarchistic slapstick, filmed as if Charlie Chaplin was a teacher in the dreaded suburban boys' boarding school." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 20, 2013
A	91%	Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)	" Brilliantly simple lyrical film was shot on location in Tahiti." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 19, 2013
B	——	Cartesius (2009)	" Never excites." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 19, 2013
B+	——	We Can't Go Home Again (1976)	" Has a raw power that resonates long after viewing." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 18, 2013
C	——	O.C. & Stiggs (1987)	" I found little to like in this incoherent, gross, and juvenile farce by film-maker Robert Altman." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 18, 2013
B+	——	Finding Buck McHenry (2000)	" All you have to know is that it stars the great Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 17, 2013
B-	——	Cluny Brown (1946)	" An outdated, slight, and genial satire on British manners." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 16, 2013
B-	——	Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (Sandra of a Thousand Delights) (1965)	" The sexy Claudia Cardinale in the Electra role steals the film's acting honors." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 15, 2013
B-	64%	The Glass Shield (The Johnny Johnson Trial) (1994)	" An angry anti-cop message flick directed and written to be subversive by angry LA based indie filmmaker Charles Burnett." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 15, 2013
A-	——	The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1982)	" The earnest wartime family drama is one of the few times Ozu portrayed an upper-class family." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 14, 2013
B-	85%	Essential Killing (2012)	" Skolimowski's fresh approach keeps us on guard." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 14, 2013
A-	86%	The Forgiveness of Blood (2012)	" The fascinating pic is filled with eye-pleasing location shots." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 13, 2013
B	50%	Being Human (1994)	" Never comes to a boil." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 11, 2013
B+	——	Wind Across the Everglades (1958)	" Shows Ray as the rebel with a cause." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 11, 2013
B+	——	La ville des pirates (City of Pirates) (1984)	" Of note, there is no city or pirates." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 11, 2013
B+	——	O Território (The Territory) ()	" Deliciously subversive." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 10, 2013
B-	——	Combat d'amour en songe (Love Torn in Dream) (2000)	" It veers from being silly to being profound." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 10, 2013
B-	——	Wasei kenka tomodachi (Fighting Friends: Japanese Style) (1929)	" A buddy comedy." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 9, 2013
B+	83%	Blizna (The Scar) (1976)	" A polished political savvy drama about the days leading up to the Solidarity Movement in Gdansk, during the time of a bleak Poland under Communist rule." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 9, 2013
A	89%	Breaking In (1989)	" Delightfully charming low-key funny mismatched buddy crime caper pic." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 9, 2013
B	——	Escape In The Fog ()	" Solid spy thriller directed by Budd Boetticher." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 8, 2013
B-	——	Till Glädje (To Joy) (1973)	" Overwrought melodrama that traces the pains in a rocky marriage." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 7, 2013
A	92%	L' Âge d'Or (Age of Gold) (The Golden Age) (1979)	" It relentlessly attacks the mores of society." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 7, 2013
A	——	La Pointe-Courte (1954)	" The sublime depiction of a marriage on the rocks is skilfully presented in an innovative way against the daily life of the small Mediterranean fishing village." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 6, 2013
A-	93%	Barbara (2012)	" Engrossing Cold War thriller and love story set in East Germany in 1980." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Mar 6, 2013

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