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D.K. Holm

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Biography:: Weekly movie reviewer for MoviePoopShoot's "Nocturnal Admissions" and "DVD Diatribe" columns, as well as for Black Lamb magazine, Cinemonkey.com, and the TV show "Film at Eleven."
Favorites:: The General, Citizen Kane, Ikiru, The Conformist, The World of Henry Orient, The Silence of the Lambs, Crumb, Rushmore, L.A. Confidential, The Way of the Gun.
Publications:: Cinemonkey , DVDJournal.com , DVDTalk.com , Movie Poop Shoot , Quick Stop Entertainment , Vancouver Voice

Total Reviews:: 237
Total QuickRatings:: 2

Location:: Portland, OR

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" What justifies the continued existence of Gerard Butler on our screens?" — Cinemonkey Posted Mar 31, 2013
30%	Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)	" Resident Evil : Retribution is the first of the series that feels like a video game" — Cinemonkey Posted Sep 16, 2012
87%	Arbitrage (2012)	" This isn't a film that invites you to identify with its leading character ..." — Cinemonkey Posted Sep 15, 2012
70%	Men in Black III (2012)	" Mad Men in Black" — DVDTalk.com Posted May 26, 2012
65%	The Woman in Black (2012)	" ... offering nothing new and little that is frightening or unsettling..." — Cinemonkey Posted Feb 19, 2012
53%	Safe House (2012)	" The pace is swift but strangely enervating." — Cinemonkey Posted Feb 13, 2012
74%	Rampart (2012)	" ... difficult to take and complex about its central character." — Cinemonkey Posted Feb 11, 2012
96%	The Kid with a Bike (2012)	" one of the Dardennes' most accessible films" — Cinemonkey Posted Feb 10, 2012
25%	Apollo 18 (2011)	" Apollo 18 is presented with winning earnestness. " — Vancouver Voice Posted Sep 7, 2011
72%	Fright Night (2011)	" Brings a whole lot of sorely missed evil back to the vampire genre." — Vancouver Voice Posted Aug 28, 2011
32%	The Ward (2011)	" an effective Saturday night rental or download" — Vancouver Voice Posted May 31, 2011
78%	Fast Five (2011)	" nostalgic for older team films, and a world in which people interacted face to face" — DVDTalk.com Posted May 30, 2011
100%	Deep Red (Profondo rosso) (1975)	" Deep Red proved to be a temporary swan song to giallo" — Vancouver Voice Posted May 30, 2011
13%	The Big Bang (2011)	" he script ultimately wastes the talents of actors" — Vancouver Voice Posted May 30, 2011
67%	Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)	" serious and mocking at the same time" — Vancouver Voice Posted May 30, 2011
16%	Priest (2011)	" it is effective within its own terms" — Vancouver Voice Posted May 30, 2011
77%	Thor (2011)	" The latest travesty of the old Marvel comics canon" — Vancouver Voice Posted May 30, 2011
96%	13 Assassins (2011)	" Miike's movie is a creditable attempt at a chanbara and he takes the genre seriously" — Vancouver Voice Posted May 30, 2011
62%	Kill the Irishman (2011)	" It's great summer night slumming cinema, with an integral moral complexity that doesn't intrude but guides the action." — Vancouver Voice Posted Apr 25, 2011
9%	My Soul to Take (2010)	" My Soul to Take ends up being mere Chucky cheese." — Vancouver Voice Posted Oct 18, 2010
72%	Red (2010)	" Red is "chick noir."" — Vancouver Voice Posted Oct 17, 2010
46%	Colin (2009)	" Until it turns poignant, Colin is often funny." — Vancouver Voice Posted Oct 10, 2010
89%	Let Me In (2010)	" In Reeves hands, Let Me In has a calm demeanor and a methodical almost '70s film visual beauty." — Vancouver Voice Posted Oct 2, 2010
96%	The Social Network (2010)	" The Social Network is one of the saddest movies ever made" — Vancouver Voice Posted Oct 1, 2010
7%	Whiteout (2009)	" The movie is as inert as the wintry terrain in which it is set." — Quick Stop Entertainment Posted Sep 24, 2009
48%	Antichrist (2009)	" Antichrist is one of the best films of the year, if not the decade." — Quick Stop Entertainment Posted Sep 16, 2009
65%	Dead Snow (Død snø) (2009)	" DEAD SNOW does everything a splatter-zombie film is supposed to do." — Quick Stop Entertainment Posted Sep 5, 2009
51%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" "Bland, overweight, and overpaid actors enact their dumbshow against a backdrop of urban efficiency prettied up for consumer delight."" — Vancouver Voice Posted Aug 23, 2009
68%	Funny People (2009)	" "There is also something dark about Apatow, unstated but clinging to his films like smoke."" — Vancouver Voice Posted Aug 23, 2009
——	Batman - Brave and the Bold Vol. 1 (2009)	" "The show has the lightness of tone and schematic quality of '50s DC."" — Vancouver Voice Posted Aug 23, 2009
20%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" "Megan Fox is the real reason for the popularity of the Transformers series."" — Vancouver Voice Posted Aug 23, 2009
55%	Orphan (2009)	" "A superior entertainment."" — Quick Stop Entertainment Posted Aug 23, 2009
88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" It's a meditation on movies, but also an exploration of the art of seduction." — Vancouver Voice Posted Aug 20, 2009
91%	District 9 (2009)	" It's a bore." — Vancouver Voice Posted Aug 16, 2009
44%	Hostel: Part II (2007)	" Once you get past the finger gnawing suspense, you have to sit back and be impressed with Roth's sheer cleverness." — Quick Stop Entertainment Posted Jun 5, 2007
83%	Grindhouse (2007)	" Tarantino has conceived a plot just as odd as the better, experimental '70s drive in films." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Apr 7, 2007
56%	The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)	" Gretchen Moll is brilliant." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Feb 16, 2006
64%	Film Geek (2005)	" Film Geek is a delightful, sad, witty, scorchingly satirical film about movie buffs." — Cinemonkey Posted Feb 15, 2006
84%	King Kong (2005)	" The lengthy set up of Jackson's King Kong is essential if we are too find the love itself at all plausible." — Cinemonkey Posted Dec 15, 2005
26%	Fantastic Four (2005)	" There are four different movies in The Fantastic Four struggling to get out." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Jul 14, 2005
93%	Unfaithfully Yours (1948)	" This is a comedy in which the high point is the main character slashing his wife to death with a straight razor." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Jul 14, 2005
100%	White Nights (Le Notti Bianche) (1961)	" A simple story, the film is truly operatic." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Jul 14, 2005
——	The Adventurers (1970)	" A lot of people like to throw out lightly the phrase "the worst movie I ever saw."" — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Jul 14, 2005
——	Best Of The Mickey Mouse Club (2005)	" I don't see how this is the "best" of the MMC." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Jul 14, 2005
74%	War of the Worlds (2005)	" WotW is a great film and entertainment that can be taken seriously; Shyamalan and Emmerich must be quietly shaking their fists, realizing he still does it better." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Jul 14, 2005
25%	Mindhunters (2005)	" Iit is Renny Harlin's hand that compels a sneaking admiration for Mindhunters." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted May 8, 2005
60%	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)	" As the film unfurls you keep thinking, Boy, what would Terry Gilliam have made of this?" — Movie Poop Shoot Posted May 1, 2005
30%	Flight of the Phoenix (2004)	" One of the best technical commentaries I've heard in a long time." — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Mar 9, 2005
62%	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)	" Finally! A DVD that actually uses Easter Eggs that make sense!" — Movie Poop Shoot Posted Mar 9, 2005

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