Dennis Schwartz

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:
8957
Location:
Bennington, Vermont

Worst Reviewed Films

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F 30% The Green Berets (1968) " If you liked this film, you're probably also thrilled with W's Iraqi war." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 11, 2005
F 49% The Passion of the Christ (2004) " Has such anti-Semitic possibilities and no upside for anyone but believers in Mel's vision that the execution of Christ is more important than his life." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 26, 2004
D 50% White House Down (2013) " Writer James Vanderbilt deserves an Oscar for the worst screenplay of the season." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 30, 2013
D —— Vinyl (1965) " Irritatingly bad film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 3, 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
D 38% Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) " Everything about this amateurishly made unpleasant gross-out comedy stinks and is degrading." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 9, 2012
D —— Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971) " One of the worse spy movies I've ever seen." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 11, 2012
D —— Untamed Youth (1957) " Hits rock bottom." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 9, 2012
D 44% Cowboys & Aliens (2011) " Ed Wood Jr.'s debacles were at least humorous." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 30, 2011
D 36% Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) " You can't say enough bad things about this theme-park ride trying desperately to pass itself off as a genuine dramatic feature film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 30, 2011
D 0% Orgy of the Dead (1965) " It would be hard to make a pic worse than this one." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 28, 2011
D —— Bob Dylan: World Tour 1966: The Home Movies (2002) " Only for die hard Bob Dylan fans." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 10, 2010
D —— Naked in the Night (2009) " A bomb." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 2, 2010
D —— God Forgives ... I Don't (1968) " It would be too generous to call this revolting Spaghetti Western just an appetite killer." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 19, 2010
D —— Suburban Roulette () " This exploitation film stinks to high heaven." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 26, 2010
D —— Bad Man's River (1974) " Jokey western about double-crosses among schemers that's recommended for simpletons and Van Cleef completists, who must see him in a bowler hat." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 27, 2010
D —— Don't Answer the Phone (1980) " If you want my advice, skip this poorly made and acted mindless sickie pic." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 20, 2010
D —— Red Meat (2002) " Insufferably boring, repulsive and artificially constructed." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 27, 2009
D 0% TerrorVision (1986) " The trashy film is made for those who like bad films." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 20, 2009
D 17% Love Happens (2009) " Gooey, banal and manipulative rom-com-dram." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 10, 2009
D 27% Pandorum (2009) " It couldn't keep my attention for even a nano second." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 2, 2009
D 29% The Final Destination (2009) " One severed head is worth a thousand words." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 2, 2009
D 37% The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) " Wears on one's wits with its senseless hokum and dour melodramatics." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 19, 2009
D 20% Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) " A bad film that seems like a nightmare because it is one." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 28, 2009
D 26% Land of the Lost (2009) " A sure-fire candidate for one of the year's worse films." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 11, 2009
D 19% Obsessed (2009) " TV director Steve Shill makes his feature film debut a forgettable one." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 30, 2009
D —— The Twonky () " Some films are so moronic that even seeing is not believing how foolish they are." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 20, 2009
D —— Madman (1981) " Frightfully inept fright film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 22, 2009
D 25% Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) " Has nowhere to go but to the bargain basement when not shopping for Gucci." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 17, 2009
D —— Out of Season (2004) " Unappealing neo-noir film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 17, 2009
D 22% Push (2009) " This is the kind of film where nothing makes sense, it's one huge plot hole. And if that wasn't negative enough, it's witless, boring, shallow and too talky." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 8, 2009
D —— Downtown (1990) " About as much fun as having your car stolen." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 31, 2009
D —— Monster a-Go Go (1965) " One of the most incoherent films ever made." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 3, 2008
D —— Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965) " It competes on the same playing field with Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) as one of those lovable worst pics ever made." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 1, 2008
D 26% Eagle Eye (2008) " A loud, muddled and empty sci-fi thriller." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 27, 2008
D —— Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (1965) " The clichéd sexist film isn't bad, it's awful." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 14, 2008
D 41% The House Bunny (2008) " If dumb alone was funny this comedy would be a scream." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 22, 2008
D —— Big Jim McLain (1952) " Pathetic anti-Communist propaganda film with a snarling John Wayne at his ugliest as a macho windbag special agent for HUAC." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 28, 2008
D 55% Step Brothers (2008) " Step Brothers is no Bringing Up Baby." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 25, 2008
D 73% Son of Rambow (2007) " An almost unbearably tedious kidpic about two fatherless boy opposites using Rambo as a role model." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 8, 2008
D 39% Speed Racer (2008) " All its supposed innovative techie efforts did for me was make me dizzy and long instead for a good story." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 15, 2008
D 33% Pajama Party (1964) " It's the kind of wacky teen comedy where the less brains you have the better chance you have for getting what this film is all about." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 8, 2008
D —— Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966) " Just a morbid Western." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 22, 2008
D —— Fastest Guitar Alive () " Leaden farce with added country music, which is just as leaden." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 10, 2008
D 20% The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (2004) " The only thing incredible about it is the incredibly long title, something Steckler seems to have given more thought to than the lame story." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 14, 2008
D —— Rat Pfink and Boo-Boo (2005) " The best thing about this film is its title." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 10, 2008
D 16% Jumper (2008) " Incoherent, unimaginative and silly sci-fi thriller." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 16, 2008
D 77% Cloverfield (2008) " Despite being only 84 minutes, it seemed overlong and padded." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 19, 2008
D —— Siren of Bagdad () " It's an unbearably silly tale, played only for laughs but unable to get more than a few." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 14, 2008
D 20% Caveman (1981) " Even your typical neanderthal will find this spoof beneath him." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 26, 2007
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