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Elvis Mitchell

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:: Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com , Movieline , New York Times
Critics' Group:: National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/5	93%	Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)	" Michel Gondry's angular and intelligent romantic comedy isn't entirely consistent. Even as you laugh, it's a movie you admire more than love." — New York Times Posted Mar 18, 2004
2/5	75%	Dawn of the Dead (2004)	" Mr. Snyder's blood feast is strictly by the numbers: this second-rater could be the world's most expensive Troma film." — New York Times Posted Mar 18, 2004
—	69%	Iris ()	— New York Times Posted Mar 16, 2004
1.5/5	46%	Secret Window (2004)	" Johnny Depp's performance as a trebly beset writer is the highlight of this underwhelming suspense thriller based on a Stephen King novella." — New York Times Posted Mar 11, 2004
3/5	88%	Uzak (Distant) (2004)	" Nuri Bilge Ceylan's wry, modest meditation on pettiness works on a minimalist scale." — New York Times Posted Mar 11, 2004
1/5	46%	Hidalgo (2004)	" This primitively plotted family action adventure is one of the few movies that seem to be making up their plots as they go along." — New York Times Posted Mar 4, 2004
3/5	63%	Starsky & Hutch (2004)	" The big-screen adaptation of the 1970's television cop show Starsky & Hutch has a crafty, can-you-dig-it? spirit." — New York Times Posted Mar 4, 2004
3/5	89%	Risk/Reward (2004)	" This just-the-facts documentary follows a group of women through their grueling schedules in the financial world." — New York Times Posted Feb 26, 2004
2/5	90%	Good Bye, Lenin (2004)	" Wolfgang Becker's social satire has a knobby tone that somewhat mutes its crowd-pleasing ambitions and keeps it from becoming My Big, Fat Life Is Beautiful." — New York Times Posted Feb 26, 2004
0.5/5	22%	Dirty Dancing - Havana Nights (2004)	" This reimagining of the recklessly melodramatic 1987 original is packed with flashy, taffeta silliness." — New York Times Posted Feb 26, 2004
4/5	96%	Lost Boys of Sudan (2004)	" This tidy and fascinating documentary follows the plight of two young African refugees transplanted to the U.S. to make a better life." — New York Times Posted Feb 19, 2004
3.5/5	89%	Kitchen Stories (2004)	" The Norwegian writer and director Bent Hamer's wry, uninflected deadpan social comedy points as straight and true as a compass fixed on magnetic north." — New York Times Posted Feb 19, 2004
2/5	46%	Eurotrip (2003)	" Now that bad taste has become officially institutionalized, this sometimes funny comedy has all of the anarchic charge of getting a tattoo at Wal-Mart." — New York Times Posted Feb 19, 2004
3/5	42%	Love Object (2003)	" Robert Parigi shows a kicky sense of humor in this brisk low-budget film, and ably creates a smirking menace." — New York Times Posted Feb 13, 2004
3.5/5	72%	Robot Stories (2004)	" Greg Pak's fantasy anthology piece, which details the ways robots have complicated the lives of humans, has a dexterous sense of wonder that nonetheless leaves the film feeling a bit detached." — New York Times Posted Feb 12, 2004
2/5	80%	Miracle (2004)	" This movie version of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey team's Cinderella season does a yeoman's job of recycling the day-old dough that passes for its story." — New York Times Posted Feb 5, 2004
2/5	68%	Barbershop 2 - Back in Business (2004)	" A movie featuring Ice Cube bellowing 'No more profanity!' and meaning it should produce a lot more laughs than this intermittently amusing sequel." — New York Times Posted Feb 5, 2004
4.5/5	94%	Blind Shaft (2003)	" It's the last thing you'd expect: a movie that is a commentary on socialism, a film noir and entirely compelling. But that is the case with Li Yang's Blind Shaft." — New York Times Posted Feb 4, 2004
4/5	97%	S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (S21, la machine de mort Khmere Rouge) (2004)	" In this affecting and effective documentary, a placid artist returns to the place where he was tortured by the Khmer Rouge to confront the men who worked as guards." — New York Times Posted Feb 2, 2004
3.5/5	42%	Eat This New York (2004)	" It will be impossible for you to walk past a shuttered restaurant and not feel a chill after seeing this documentary." — New York Times Posted Jan 29, 2004
1/5	23%	Torque (2004)	" This monotonously macho action-adventure film wears testosterone as if it were a new fragrance." — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2004
4/5	76%	Teacher's Pet (2004)	" Disney's marvelously quick-witted and gloriously goofy hand-drawn feature gets more laughs out of 74 minutes than many recent live-action comedies got out of much more time." — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2004
2/5	19%	Chasing Liberty (2004)	" Mandy Moore stars in a romantic comedy that stumbles trying to stay in the footfalls left before it by Roman Holiday and It Happened One Night." — New York Times Posted Jan 8, 2004
3/5	71%	Yves St. Laurent: His Life and Times (2004)	" Complementary documentaries at Film Forum examine the life and career of the designer Yves Saint Laurent." — New York Times Posted Jan 8, 2004
3/5	80%	Millennium Mambo (Qianxi Manbo) (2001)	" Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest movie has a much quicker pulse than several of his other recent films, but it is not nearly as rich or resonant as his other work." — New York Times Posted Dec 30, 2003
3.5/5	70%	The Company (2003)	" Robert Altman's new film, which follows a Chicago-based dance troupe through a few months of its regular season, is enjoyably lithe and droll." — New York Times Posted Dec 26, 2003
2/5	27%	Paycheck (2003)	" This smooth but bland thriller may be the best we could possibly expect from John Woo directing a Philip K. Dick adaptation, especially when Ben Affleck is added to the mix." — New York Times Posted Dec 25, 2003
3/5	74%	Calendar Girls (2003)	" Helen Mirren stars in yet another professionally acted and staged wry-crisp comedy about British modesty that gets its laughs, but seems increasingly out of date." — New York Times Posted Dec 18, 2003
5/5	94%	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	" King is the product of impressive craft and energy." — New York Times Posted Dec 15, 2003
3/5	82%	Prisoner of Paradise (2002)	" It's a powerful story of delusion and dissolution." — New York Times Posted Dec 11, 2003
2/5	72%	Girl With a Pearl Earring (2004)	" An earnest, obvious melodrama with no soul, filled with the longing silences that come after a sigh." — New York Times Posted Dec 11, 2003
	60%	Stuck On You (2003)	" It's a much funnier movie than the trailer would lead you to believe; it would almost have to be. But it is just not as consistent as their previous trash wallows." — New York Times Posted Dec 11, 2003
3/5	65%	The Last Samurai (2003)	" The uneven Samurai is a can-do movie that's far more effective at communicating emotion in bigger scenes than in more intimate ones." — New York Times Posted Dec 4, 2003
1/5	13%	The Haunted Mansion (2003)	" The film equivalent of the dark, boring period on a haunted house ride before the gondola crashes into another room filled with dirty mirrors." — New York Times Posted Nov 26, 2003
4/5	77%	Bad Santa (2003)	" Takes all the Christmas season's bad vibes and converts them into an achingly funny and corrupt dark comedy." — New York Times Posted Nov 25, 2003
2/5	58%	The Missing (2003)	" Apparently the only thing tougher than endurance on the frontier is sitting through a movie about endurance on the frontier -- at least that is the point The Missing seems determined to make." — New York Times Posted Nov 25, 2003
5/5	90%	A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker) (Giù la testa) (1972)	" Features one of the most glorious and unforgettable scores by Leone's composer, Ennio Morricone." — New York Times Posted Nov 20, 2003
4/5	84%	L' Ora di Religione (Il Sorriso di Mia Madre) (The Religion Hour) (My Mother's Smile) (2002)	" Marco Bellocchio's expansive, memorable film floats and plummets like a box kite in a storm on drafts of melodrama, mysticism and humor." — New York Times Posted Nov 4, 2003
5/5	80%	21 Grams (2003)	" You won't come out unaffected, because the depths of intimacy that the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu plumbs here are so rarely touched by filmmakers that 21 Grams is tantamount to the discovery of a new country." — New York Times Posted Oct 28, 2003
2/5	14%	Beyond Borders (2003)	" A liberal video game that demeans the very refugees it tries to spotlight." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2003
3/5	100%	A Morning Sun (2003)	" Does a thoughtful job of streamlining the bloody realities - both literal and psychological -- of China's Cultural Revolution into roughly two hours of film." — New York Times Posted Oct 22, 2003
4/5	84%	Pieces of April (2003)	" [An] intelligent and touching farce." — New York Times Posted Oct 16, 2003
3/5	57%	PTU (PTU - Police Tactical Unit) (2003)	" Mr. To is a master of the game, and his command supplies pleasure, even when there are no surprises." — New York Times Posted Oct 16, 2003
1/5	34%	Returner (Ritana) (2002)	" Returner is a smorgasbord that seems to have been picked out of a Dumpster." — New York Times Posted Oct 16, 2003
3/5	72%	Runaway Jury (2003)	" John Cusack gives one of his wiliest performances in some time." — New York Times Posted Oct 16, 2003
—	——	Mansion by the Lake ()	— New York Times Posted Oct 14, 2003
—	——	Mille Mois ()	— New York Times Posted Oct 14, 2003
4/5	75%	Intolerable Cruelty (2003)	" An intelligent, modern screwball comedy." — New York Times Posted Oct 10, 2003
4.5/5	72%	Elephant (2003)	" By making the camera an observer, we get a perspective that often comes out of horror movies, a choice that whips the ordinary with the terrifying, an unforgettable mix." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2003
2/5	65%	The Flower of Evil (2003)	" Ms. Flon almost achieves for the movie what her character does for her relatives -- she's just not enough." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2003
4/5	95%	The Station Agent (2003)	" A delicate, thoughtful and often hilarious take on loneliness." — New York Times Posted Oct 2, 2003
3/5	66%	Out of Time (2003)	" Although it is briskly directed and enjoyably stylized, the film is shallow." — New York Times Posted Oct 2, 2003
3/5	61%	Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)	" Eminently superficial, although Ms. Wells keeps the movie going with a steady, commanding hand and casts it with an actress who can deftly downshift from serene to sodden." — New York Times Posted Sep 26, 2003
1/5	79%	Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)	" Ho-Tep is a punch line in search of a setup." — New York Times Posted Sep 25, 2003
1.5/5	81%	So Close (2003)	" With the exception of some of the battles, which have the angry desperation of Mr. Yuen's inspired martial-arts choreography, Close is a nominal effort." — New York Times Posted Sep 11, 2003
5/5	95%	Lost In Translation (2003)	" One of the purest and simplest examples ever of a director falling in love with her star's gifts." — New York Times Posted Sep 11, 2003
3.5/5	68%	Zero Day (2003)	" What gives the movie its power is that even the most innocuous scenes in the boys' lives are shadowed by dread." — New York Times Posted Sep 3, 2003
3.5/5	51%	Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003)	" It has a generosity toward all of its characters that would give any film an endearing lightheartedness." — New York Times Posted Aug 28, 2003
3.5/5	95%	Suddenly (2003)	" Filmed in a stark, rough, black-and-white style that grabs your sympathy immediately." — New York Times Posted Aug 28, 2003
1/5	9%	My Boss's Daughter (2003)	" This muddled comedy of confusion feels as if it were a Farrelly brothers' comedy that has sat exposed to the elements long past its expiration date." — New York Times Posted Aug 25, 2003
3/5	21%	Dust (2003)	" Dazzling and dazed." — New York Times Posted Aug 21, 2003
2/5	41%	The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)	" The drab comic melodrama The Battle of Shaker Heights may lead to a new axiom: success has many fathers, but failure has Project Greenlight." — New York Times Posted Aug 21, 2003
4/5	82%	Thirteen (2003)	" The panic in the eyes of Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), the barely teenage protagonist of Thirteen, will stay with you for a very long time." — New York Times Posted Aug 20, 2003
4.5/5	94%	American Splendor (2003)	" Hilarious, moody and cantankerous." — New York Times Posted Aug 14, 2003
1/5	41%	Freddy vs. Jason (2003)	" This grunge match is far more horrible than horrifying." — New York Times Posted Aug 14, 2003
2/5	48%	S.W.A.T. (2003)	" S.W.A.T. is mostly standard-issue muddle." — New York Times Posted Aug 7, 2003
2/5	75%	Seaside (2002)	" [Lopes-Curval's] achievement is so particularly -- and peculiarly -- realized, evoking the enforced parameters and rhythms of small-town life, that the movie itself begins to feels restrictive." — New York Times Posted Aug 6, 2003
3.5/5	85%	The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)	" It's the adult tone that Mr. Rudolph brings to the movie ... that makes this picture more than a pile of nuked clichés." — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2003
1/5	55%	American Wedding (2003)	" The makers of Wedding have so effectively managed to make offensiveness seem tame that this could be subversion financed by the religious right." — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2003
3/5	38%	Hotel (2003)	" Some may say it's like watching wine age in a bottle, but the movie also offers the subtle sense of the flavor changing from minute to minute." — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2003
3/5	82%	Bugs! (Bugs! 3D) (Bugs! A Rainforest Adventure) (2003)	" Fun in the same self-satisfied and awe-struck way that most Imax movies are." — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2003
3/5	45%	Lucia, Lucia (La Hija del caníbal) (2003)	" Antonio Serrano, stages his wobbly adaptation of Rosa Montero's novel La Hija del Caníbal with lively, fast-moving efficiency." — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2003
3/5	58%	The Sea Is Watching (2003)	" At times this material is simple nearly to the point of simple-mindedness. But the movie isn't dumb, though it is dismaying to discover that even Kurosawa had an unfilmed script romanticizing the need of prostitutes for love." — New York Times Posted Jul 21, 2003
3/5	43%	Garage Days (2003)	" [A] sweet, delectable rock 'n' roll comedy." — New York Times Posted Jul 18, 2003
4/5	94%	Dirty Pretty Things (2003)	" A swift, tangy drama." — New York Times Posted Jul 18, 2003
—	100%	The Inner Tour (2001)	— New York Times Posted Jul 16, 2003
4/5	48%	Dog Days (Hundstage) (2001)	" An engrossing and disturbing film that feels like a Dogma 95 film made by Todd Haynes." — New York Times Posted Jul 16, 2003
2/5	17%	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)	" Gentlemen may be a better movie than other Connery fantasy-action films like The Avengers, but then again a glass of muddy water looks good to someone just coming in from the desert." — New York Times Posted Jul 10, 2003
3/5	79%	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	" The movie is better than it deserves to be, given its origins: a ride at Disneyland and Disney World." — New York Times Posted Jul 9, 2003
2/5	45%	Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)	" What's bad? Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas." — New York Times Posted Jul 1, 2003
2/5	38%	Legally Blonde 2 - Red, White & Blonde (2003)	" This time around it feels like pink is last year's black." — New York Times Posted Jul 1, 2003
2/5	43%	Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (2003)	" Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is like eating a bowl of Honeycomb drenched in Red Bull -- a dizzying mouthful of unabashed silliness that leads to an equally precipitous crash once the buzz wears off after the film's first hour." — New York Times Posted Jun 26, 2003
4/5	——	War and Peace (2003)	" Mr. Patwardhan has located so much information and found so many willing interview subjects that his War and Peace has a riveting intelligence all its own and earns its epic title." — New York Times Posted Jun 26, 2003
3/5	72%	Bonhoeffer (2003)	" The film is far more successful when raising questions of spirituality and Christianity than when dealing with the subject at hand." — New York Times Posted Jun 26, 2003
1/5	11%	Alex & Emma (2003)	" The picture is desperate to be a Date Night event, but it feels more like a Last Date movie." — New York Times Posted Jun 19, 2003
3.5/5	79%	Pistol Opera (2001)	" Insanely likable but suffers from anemia." — New York Times Posted Jun 13, 2003
4/5	86%	The Nazi Officer's Wife (2003)	" It is a bewitching and harrowing tale of the continual submersion of self to stay alive, told by a woman who survived the impostures in which she cloaked herself." — New York Times Posted Jun 13, 2003
3.5/5	40%	The Hard Word (2003)	" The picture has a spiky, efficient hilarity, and the director uses his actors well." — New York Times Posted Jun 13, 2003
4/5	90%	Whale Rider (2003)	" Once the picture kicks into gear, it has the inspiring resonance of found art." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2003
4/5	91%	The Weather Underground (2002)	" This terrifically smart and solid piece of filmmaking lets the former Weathermen, now in their 50's and older, speak into the camera and reveal a bit of their personal histories as well as what the peace movement meant to them." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2003
4/5	97%	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)	" Engagingly evenhanded and intelligently assembled first feature." — New York Times Posted May 29, 2003
4/5	——	Colette (1951)	" The filmmaker's bone-deep understanding of her subject subtly opens the picture." — New York Times Posted May 28, 2003
4.5/5	100%	Le Souvenir d'un avenir (Remembrance of Things to Come) (2002)	" The most unforgettable film of any length you will see this year." — New York Times Posted May 28, 2003
—	44%	X (X: Their Destiny Was Foreordained 1999) (1996)	— New York Times Posted May 20, 2003
3/5	19%	Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)	" It's very slow, though it does offer a respite from the overactive animation that kids are mostly subjected to." — New York Times Posted May 20, 2003
—	——	Angela (2006)	— New York Times Posted May 20, 2003
3.5/5	97%	Sweet Sixteen (2003)	" Mr. Compston's untamed star power gives the movie a heart, a sweetness that makes the title heartfelt and not just cheaply ironic." — New York Times Posted May 16, 2003
3.5/5	73%	The Matrix Reloaded (2003)	" The martial arts sequences are breathtakingly staged." — New York Times Posted May 14, 2003
4/5	92%	L' Homme du Train (The Man on the Train) (2003)	" Mr. Leconte gives this meeting of opposites in Claude Klotz's script a lovely, sportive élan, instead of making it register as lumpy, obvious polemics." — New York Times Posted May 9, 2003

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