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Ella Taylor

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , L.A. Weekly , Los Angeles Times , New York Times , NPR , NPR.org , The Atlantic , Village Voice
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 951

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	46%	Parkland (2013)	" Somehow, all this commotion adds up to aimless inertia, in part because the movie lacks a point of view - let alone anything fresh to propose about the assassination or its peripheral players." — NPR Posted Oct 4, 2013
	71%	Out in the Dark (2013)	" Tel Aviv and the West Bank may be worlds apart in terms of culture, politics and religion, but Mayer cleverly merges them into a single claustrophobic continuum of paranoia, violence and corruption that corrodes everything it touches." — NPR Posted Sep 26, 2013
	95%	Enough Said (2013)	" If the sum of Enough Said is less than its parts - and really, the midlife challenges here are pretty small potatoes - the movie does have some lovely grace notes that add up to an astute observation of the symbiosis of single mothers and their daughters." — NPR Posted Sep 19, 2013
	34%	Touchy Feely (2013)	" Shelton is more observant than she is deep, and her filmmaking can be undisciplined, but the movie's rambling, episodic rhythms do seem in tune with the nebulous stasis that infects everyone in Abby's orbit." — NPR Posted Sep 6, 2013
	34%	Adore (2013)	" Seems downright desperate to wave [Fontaine's] fetish for "illicit" desire under our noses without having much to say about it." — NPR Posted Sep 5, 2013
	46%	Closed Circuit (2013)	" It's storytelling informed by sloppy, absolutist thinking, and it lends one more uncritical voice to the many who seem unable to distinguish between kinds and degrees of evil ..." — NPR Posted Aug 29, 2013
	80%	Drinking Buddies (2013)	" It feels mumblecore-ishly vague and rambling in its construction, like Hannah Takes the Stairs without the raffish charm." — NPR Posted Aug 22, 2013
	31%	Austenland (2013)	" If reading Austenland the novel was a guilty pleasure, watching Austenland the movie is like standing around at a deadly cocktail party where the hostess is laughing so hard at her own joke that she can't finish telling it." — NPR Posted Aug 15, 2013
	55%	I Give It a Year (2013)	" Whatever attachment we might form for the characters or their fates gets lost in thickets of farce and barrages of one-liners." — NPR Posted Aug 8, 2013
	38%	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)	" A fetching mix of whizz-bang CGI and full-blooded classical storytelling." — NPR Posted Aug 6, 2013
	93%	Our Children (2013)	" Our Children was inspired by a real-life Belgian tragedy, but director Joachim LaFosse has built that news item into his own micro-portrait of coercion dipped in kindness." — NPR Posted Aug 2, 2013
	57%	When Comedy Went to School (2013)	" [A] charming but skin-deep documentary ..." — NPR Posted Jul 30, 2013
	71%	Terraferma (2013)	" The visceral passion of these tales of poverty-stricken but tight communities, dreaming and striving for better futures for their children, gripped me." — NPR Posted Jul 25, 2013
	91%	Blue Jasmine (2013)	" The plotting is wooden, the flashbacks lazy, the adoption device a bad joke, and as always, everyone stammers like Woody." — NPR Posted Jul 25, 2013
	20%	Girl Most Likely (2013)	" [Wiig] might want to consider whether she really wants to get stuck unto eternity playing women on the verge." — NPR Posted Jul 18, 2013
	83%	Computer Chess (2013)	" Computer Chess is about the dawn - one of many, but that's another story - of the tech revolution. It's also a reminder that you don't need state-of-the-art toys to make a formally playful comedy about man versus machine." — NPR Posted Jul 18, 2013
	85%	The Way Way Back (2013)	" It's smart, funny and moving about human weakness. And it doesn't divide the world into good and bad adults - not counting that one bona-fide creep and his clueless squeeze." — NPR Posted Jul 3, 2013
	47%	I'm So Excited! (2013)	" For all its jazzy formalism and bedroom-eyes bravado ... the movie feels uninvolving, a tribute to Hollywood screwball that's ultimately more wearyingly prankish than transgressive." — NPR Posted Jun 27, 2013
	97%	A Hijacking (2013)	" A Hijacking is the story of two men and their fate, but in its unassuming, specific way, it's also about global capitalism and its fallout." — NPR Posted Jun 20, 2013
	97%	Call Me Kuchu (2013)	" Horrific and uplifting ..." — NPR Posted Jun 14, 2013
	82%	Dirty Wars (2013)	" Scahill is right to focus on the price American security efforts have cost in human rights - and human life. Yet there are difficult questions hovering just outside the frame of Dirty Wars." — NPR Posted Jun 6, 2013
	75%	The East (2013)	" The East makes for a passable thriller, as 1 percenters get theirs in satisfying, if incrementally implausible ways." — NPR Posted May 30, 2013
	7%	All About Steve (2009)	" All About Steve is a messy assemblage of clumsy sight gags, winking reaction shots and disingenuous populist genuflection to the idea that there's no such thing as normal. We all see a little bit of Mary in ourselves, don't we? Don't we?" — NPR Posted May 28, 2013
	84%	Fill the Void (2013)	" A love poem to the ultra-Orthodox world as seen from within." — NPR Posted May 23, 2013
	——	Re-emerging: The Jews Of Nigeria (2013)	" Re-emerging speaks for itself as an uplifting portrait of an exuberant subculture that doesn't just practice its faith - it revels in it." — NPR Posted May 16, 2013
	93%	Frances Ha (2013)	" There's a touch of Gracie Allen in Frances, an indomitable blithe spirit who lives happily within a bubble-world of her own construction." — NPR Posted May 16, 2013
	77%	Venus And Serena (2013)	" Lively if slightly worshipful ..." — NPR Posted May 9, 2013
	74%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" Two troubled souls struggle with obstreperous relatives and a bundle of unresolved life issues apparently snatched from the nearest airport bookstore." — NPR Posted May 2, 2013
	55%	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)	" The Reluctant Fundamentalist collapses in a heap of wool-gathering humanism that feels warm to the touch, yet fatally hedges its political bets." — NPR Posted Apr 25, 2013
	50%	At Any Price (2013)	" At Any Price is about the slow, insidious corruption of a regular guy, about the rot that grows around him and within him, allowing him to become complicit in a crime of biblical proportions." — NPR Posted Apr 23, 2013
	88%	In the House (2013)	" Ozon keeps sliding between genres ("Now we are in bad farce," scolds the teacher) to explore what really interests him - the creative process itself." — NPR Posted Apr 18, 2013
	89%	The Angels' Share (2013)	" Graphically observant about the ease with which young men starved of opportunities can turn their energies inward to destroying themselves and one another." — NPR Posted Apr 11, 2013
	55%	Down the Shore (2013)	" Gandolfini and Janssen dance a delicate minuet around one another, pacing out a slow, quiet revelation of the shared past that has paralyzed their wills to happiness and change." — NPR Posted Apr 4, 2013
	81%	André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013)	" For all its suggestive title, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner is less a sequel to My Dinner with Andre than an update from the orchestra seats." — NPR Posted Apr 4, 2013
	95%	Blancanieves (2013)	" A grotesquely beautiful new take on the Snow White fable by Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger." — NPR Posted Mar 28, 2013
	38%	Admission (2013)	" Admission settles for skin deep." — NPR Posted Mar 21, 2013
	87%	The Silence (2013)	" The Silence, an assured first feature from Swiss-born director Baran Bo Odar, has more on its mind than most crime thrillers." — NPR Posted Mar 7, 2013
	89%	Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013)	" Grossman finds lively, often passionate and funny interpreters - among them rabbis, historians, musicologists and klezmer musicians - to guide us through the song's many transformations." — NPR Posted Feb 28, 2013
	19%	Inescapable (2013)	" Inescapable is Nadda's first foray into thriller territory, and her inexperience shows in awkwardly mounted fight scenes and clumsy car chases, not to mention an almost fatally explanatory script." — NPR Posted Feb 21, 2013
	57%	Shanghai Calling (2013)	" Shanghai Calling doesn't aspire to fresh insight, let alone profundity. But it's nice to see the American migration narrative get out of the house for some fresh air." — NPR Posted Feb 14, 2013
	93%	Lore (2013)	" Shortland's camera creates a world that's shockingly fractured, shot at weird angles and pocked with truncated body parts, heads hanging upside down and undefined realities filled with quiet dread." — NPR Posted Feb 7, 2013
	88%	Yossi (2013)	" Yossi is an unabashedly populist entertainment with a spirit conciliatory enough to melt the heart of any naysayer." — NPR Posted Jan 24, 2013
—	33%	Won't Back Down (2012)	— NPR.org Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	96%	Searching for Sugar Man (2012)	— NPR.org Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	78%	A Late Quartet (2012)	— NPR.org Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	78%	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)	— NPR.org Posted Jan 22, 2013
	29%	Let My People Go! (2013)	" The result is late Woody Allen, when early might have done the trick." — NPR Posted Jan 10, 2013
	29%	Struck by Lightning (2013)	" There isn't much to say about Struck by Lightning, except that it's one of those interchangeable teen movies that lands in theaters in early January, the morgue for films nobody knows what to do with." — NPR Posted Jan 10, 2013
	93%	Amour (2012)	" If you've seen someone you love through their dying, it may burn you up - but in an illuminating way." — NPR Posted Dec 18, 2012

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