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Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications:: Slant Magazine

Total Reviews:: 45

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1.5/4	80%	One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das (2013)	" The overall product doesn't reveal anything about its subject that a Wikipedia page couldn't do just as well." — Slant Magazine Posted May 7, 2013
1/4	0%	Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (2013)	" As far as derivative crime sagas go, Paul Borghese's film might represent the new gold standard of shameless barrel-scraping." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2013
1/4	18%	1st Night (2013)	" The political dynamic that underpins The Rules of the Game is nonexistent in 1st Night, which is fixated entirely on the zany sexcapades of its characters." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2013
	47%	The Lords of Salem (2013)	" Polished and calculated, this is a nerve-shattering fright fest bolstered by immaculate technique." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 25, 2013
	24%	Arthur Newman (2013)	" For the most part, the film is very basic, a simple drama about the dangers of avoiding responsibility, but there are occasional flairs of eccentricity." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 25, 2013
3/4	100%	This Ain't California (2013)	" While the film is deeply romantic and nostalgic, possessing a genuine reverence for youth and rebellion, it's also something of a tragedy." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2013
3/4	——	Stranger Things (2013)	" Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal's film is a tasteful, well-orchestrated drama that never reaches beyond its humble means." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 2, 2013
	48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" This ludicrous actioner strives to be as loud, violent, and patriotic as possible." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 28, 2013
	86%	The Iran Job (2012)	" The film takes a distinctly American approach to Iranian matters of gender relations and religious extremism, shedding little light on subjects that are far more complicated than Schauder makes them out to be." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 28, 2013
	65%	Starbuck (2013)	" Director Ken Scott stresses the movie's dude-centric outlook, playing up the anxieties of impending fatherhood, and neglects any sort of maternal perspective, which dumbs down an already moronic premise." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 28, 2013
2.5/4	100%	The Revolutionary Optimists (2013)	" The filmmakers display a genuine reverence for their subjects, evident even in the intimate but never intrusive photography." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2013
1/4	0%	Silver Circle (2013)	" Amateurish and hyperbolic, this animated feature directed by Pasha Roberts makes quite clear his political leanings. " — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 18, 2013
	56%	The End of Love (2013)	" Creative people often mistakenly assume that the trials of their profession are compelling." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 14, 2013
3/4	71%	My Amityville Horror (2013)	" The film is a tender character portrait rooted in deep curiosity and sympathy for its subject. " — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 12, 2013
	13%	Safe Haven (2013)	" Keeping up with the movie's inane plot twists makes for a capricious good time, but an unimaginative denouement turns the whole thing into a fool's errand." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 7, 2013
3.5/4	80%	Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier) (2013)	" In many ways, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Petit Soldat is equal to Breathless in its inventiveness and exuberance." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 4, 2013
.5/4	31%	Language of a Broken Heart (2013)	" A feigned attempt at a stereotypically quirky indie film that has virtually nothing in the way of formal sophistication or narrative ambition." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2013
	100%	Pavilion (2013)	" Shallow-focus photography sharpens the action and gives the seemingly banal images a sense of drama, capturing the urgency of childhood without resorting to histrionics." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 27, 2013
1.5/4	65%	A Fierce Green Fire (2013)	" The firector avoids all manner of stylistics, opting instead for the formulaic documentary trifecta of first-person interviews, archival material, and news footage." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2013
	37%	Stand Up Guys (2013)	" Thematic inconsistencies abound as Stevens aims for a tone somewhere between Grumpy Old Men, The Hangover, and Goodfellas." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 4, 2013
	65%	Mama (2013)	" Screenplay contrivances aside, it's as stylish and atmospheric as modern horror gets." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 25, 2013
	——	Tiger Tail In Blue ()	" Ross's films, similar to those of his peers Joe Swanberg and Andrew Bujalski, are deceptively formal, notable for the way they upend notions of time and space while maintaining a palpable sense of realism." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 25, 2013
1/4	87%	Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013)	" It would be inaccurate to call Happy People: A Year in the Taiga the newest Werner Herzog film." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 21, 2013
1.5/4	19%	The Baytown Outlaws (2013)	" This schlocky piece of ultra violence plays like a pop-culture pastiche without a stable thematic foundation." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 7, 2013
1.5/4	18%	Allegiance (2012)	" Michael Connors does a fine job of not passing judgment on his characters, yet his depiction of his main character's dilemma is about the only thing he handles correctly." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 23, 2012
2/4	82%	Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (2012)	" Jesse Vile's film, despite its best intentions, is merely a serviceable extension of his own fandom." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 10, 2012
3/4	88%	Tchoupitoulas (2012)	" The film is entirely immersive, thanks not only to the handheld camera, but also to the illusory nature of the staging." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 4, 2012
	13%	Red Dawn (2012)	" John Milius's 1984 cult classic about American teens battling a Soviet invasion has been reinvented as a Tea Party wet dream that offers a scathing (if completely illogical) indictment of the federal government." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 21, 2012
	100%	Wake in Fright (2012)	" A Conradian parable of a man succumbing to the wild, the film is remarkable for its raw, pointed dithe suggests, and you'll find the beast concealed behind the mask of propriety." — Chicago Reader Posted Nov 1, 2012
	——	8 Diagram Pole Fighter (2001)	" This late release from the Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong is one of its very best, thanks to the kinetic direction of Lau Kar-leung." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 18, 2012
	86%	Easy Money (2012)	" The story is overcooked and the gritty aesthetic (handheld cameras, desaturated color) borders on cliche." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 18, 2012
	20%	Now, Forager (2012)	" Nothing much distinguishes this from any other relationship drama: the husband's climactic anecdote about a fungi's parasitic relationship to its host drives home the obvious." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 11, 2012
	90%	The Well Digger's Daughter (2012)	" Auteuil's direction is a lot like his acting -- well-mannered and likable, yet staid and ultimately inconsequential." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 4, 2012
	54%	V/H/S (2012)	" This horror anthology collects six shorts of varying quality, all purported to be found footage. My favorite is Ti West's Second Honeymoon." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 4, 2012
	81%	Pitch Perfect (2012)	" The musical numbers, however, are quite good, if only because they're so disjointed from the narrative." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 27, 2012
	94%	Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (2012)	" [The film] squeezes an impressive amount of information into a relatively brief running time, yet it's blandly straightforward in its use of talking heads and archival footage." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 27, 2012
	56%	For a Good Time, Call... (2012)	" Unfortunately Travis lacks the comedic skill and humanistic insight to make this anything more than Judd Apatow lite." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 14, 2012
	22%	The Words (2012)	" The premise is ambitious -- if not a little hokey -- but the meager themes of ephemeral authorship and constructed realities aren't exactly revelatory." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 7, 2012
	58%	Red Hook Summer (2012)	" Lee's typically paradoxical statements on race and religion muddle the narrative, and his old stylistic tricks -- saturated color schemes, characters addressing the camera -- aren't exactly inspired. " — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 31, 2012
	77%	Killer Joe (2012)	" The film harks back to the low-budget chamber pieces of Friedkin's early career, and he creates a perfect storm of montage and character interplay within a confined space, which culminates in a disturbing loss of humanity." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 2, 2012
	31%	Total Recall (2012)	" The new version, with its humorless dialogue and Farrell's smoldering performance, suffers from a self-seriousness that undercuts any genre pleasures. But the action is thrilling and the futuristic setting superbly realized." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 2, 2012
	50%	A Burning Hot Summer (2012)	" Garrel's work is indebted to silent cinema style, but his recent films have shown a real flair for dialogue too." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 13, 2012
	91%	Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)	" The film almost spirals out of control when some overtly conceptual elements are introduced to the plot, but there's enough conviction in the performances to keep them tolerable." — Chicago Reader Posted Jun 14, 2012
	21%	That's My Boy (2012)	" Despite their assorted vulgarities and lack of polish, the films of Adam Sandler are remarkably consistent in their own particular way." — Chicago Reader Posted Jun 14, 2012

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