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Eric Hynes

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , L.A. Weekly , Reverse Shot , Time Out New York , Village Voice

Total Reviews:: 182

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	29%	Erased (2013)	" An unabashed knockoff of the Taken films ..." — Time Out New York Posted May 7, 2013
—	81%	Something in the Air (2013)	— Village Voice Posted May 2, 2013
3/5	57%	Kiss Of The Damned (2013)	" The film serves as a surprisingly persuasive allegory for enduring virgin-whore expectations ..." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2013
2/5	44%	Midnight's Children (2013)	" Midnight's Children has the paradoxical misfortune of being both too rushed and too wearingly long." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 23, 2013
2/5	87%	In the House (2013)	" Luchini's dependable deadpan goes a long way toward making the puzzle pieces snap pleasingly into place, but as with most such endeavors, In the House is about its own construction and nothing more." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 16, 2013
3/5	88%	The Angels' Share (2013)	" Loach coaxes an endearingly poised performance out of nonprofessional Brannigan, and largely sells these scuffling characters as neither hopeless nor heroic-just terribly human." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 9, 2013
2/5	55%	Down the Shore (2013)	" Brando-wheezing Gandolfini never slums it, but there's still no shaking the sense that a pro has shown up for amateur hour." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2013
2/5	56%	Come Out And Play (2013)	" Even by the low standards of scary-movie plausibility, mononymous first-timer Makinov exhibits brazenly little interest in psychologically grounding his story." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 19, 2013
3/5	63%	I am Secretly an Important Man (2010)	" By all accounts, this secretly important man was tough to live with, but not too hard to love or admire." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 6, 2013
4/5	86%	Welcome To Pine Hill (2013)	" Welcome to Pine Hill precariously navigates the line between representing the perspective of a black male and projecting a white man's guilt onto it." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 26, 2013
3/5	56%	The End of Love (2013)	" Though the loss that underlies Mark's emotional state feels like a scripted conceit, The End of Love excels at conveying the moment-to-moment frustrations and exhilarations of being a dad." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 26, 2013
5/5	92%	Little Fugitive (The Coney Island Kid ) (1953)	" Like childhood itself, it's over before you're ready to let it go." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 29, 2013
2/5	36%	LUV (2013)	" With its rock-skimming male bonding alternating between grisly homicides and a florid Mexican standoff that begets a tidy take-the-money-and-run finale, this tale seems less timely than merely tall." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 15, 2013
4/5	93%	Barbara (2012)	" No special effect this year comes close to what Hoss can accomplish with simple but unbearably explosive eye contact." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 18, 2012
2/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" When it comes to human emotions ... the filmmaker is all thumbs, crassly fumbling for audience response via clichéd uses of dropped-out sound and the occasional twinkling piano." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 18, 2012
3/5	43%	28 Hotel Rooms (2012)	" Dismaying affectations aside-the characters go needlessly unnamed-the movie articulates the enduring allure of a love defined, and heightened, by restrictions." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 13, 2012
2/5	17%	Coming Up Roses (2012)	" An escalating melodrama in which drug deals, suicide attempts and sexual predation evoke playtime fabrication rather than world-weary experience." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 6, 2012
2/5	5%	Nature Calls (2012)	" There's nothing wrong with slack misanthropy, but as piss-takes go, Nature Calls offers a pretty thin stream." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 6, 2012
2/5	50%	Vamps (2012)	" The film's comedic potential is defanged by a pervading tone of embittered nostalgia. Goody doesn't mock our smartphone-loving society with barbed affection-she just wants it to go away." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 31, 2012
3/5	62%	Café de Flore (2012)	" The film's delicately curated textures are flushed down the toilet of narrative contrivance." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 31, 2012
	12%	Alex Cross (2012)	" A strong candidate for dumbest film of the year ..." — Village Voice Posted Oct 19, 2012
3/5	90%	Gayby (2012)	" The film develops into a sweet, surprisingly persuasive comedy about friends transitioning into family." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 9, 2012
	100%	Atlantic City (1980)	" [Sarandon is] shirtless before she even has a name, but her desire to be ogled is granted dignity and power; gradually and unassumingly, she upstages a terrific Burt Lancaster." — Village Voice Posted Oct 7, 2012
2/5	44%	The Paperboy (2012)	" Merely, if spiritedly, profane." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 2, 2012
	——	Avé (2012)	" Outside of a final shot that's more poetically convenient than emotionally convincing, Avé follows a progression that feels intimate even as it mimics things iconic." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2012
1/5	32%	The Oranges (2012)	" Oh, suburbia: how we love condescending to thee." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 2, 2012
4/5	64%	Headshot (2012)	" Its vision of contemporary Thailand is recognizable as another society undeserving of redemption, but worthy of poetry." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 25, 2012
5/5	96%	Port of Shadows (Le Quai des Brumes) (2012)	" From Gabin's fatigued magnetism to cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan's woodcut-worthy attention to texture, this is movie melancholia of the very highest order." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 11, 2012
2/5	53%	Little Birds (2012)	" Little Birds' scenes of shoplifting shenanigans and pistol-whipping showdowns all too readily conform to indie-film form and style." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 28, 2012
3/5	87%	Somewhere Between (2012)	" The film is overcrowded with story lines and short on thrust, but fortunately, its protagonists carry the day with their candor and precocious poise." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 21, 2012
3/5	75%	Chicken with Plums (2012)	" With all the furious wand-waving, the story itself never gets to cast much of a spell." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2012
4/5	93%	Meet the Fokkens (2012)	" If there's a tug of sadness to this (off-)colorful tale, it has less to do with sympathy for these resilient women than with how easily their compromised lives can be related to our own." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 7, 2012
3/5	20%	Goats (2012)	" Goats may cover an all-too-familiar terrain, but at least it grazes it well." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 7, 2012
3/5	88%	Ballplayer: Pelotero (2012)	" [An] essential, if artless, baseball exposé..." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 10, 2012
2/5	63%	Union Square (2012)	" What initially plays like a broadly drawn, Odd Couple-style farce flips, literally overnight, into a sober family drama replete with death, addiction, adultery and suicidal tendencies." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 10, 2012
4/5	50%	A Burning Hot Summer (2012)	" A Burning Hot Summer wisely knows when and how to surgically slice directly to the bone. It's a bad romance of the highest order." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2012
	76%	Unforgivable (2012)	" Téchiné piles a staggering amount of incident into 111 minutes, ever pushing the narrative forward and never letting scenes dawdle." — Village Voice Posted Jun 26, 2012
	60%	Stella Days (2012)	" Thanks to its understated elegance and surpassing central performance, this modest, too-eagerly schematic period drama is more engrossing than it has a right to be." — Village Voice Posted Jun 19, 2012
4/5	81%	Corpo Celeste (2012)	" Alice Rohrwacher's debut fictional feature is an uncommonly insightful portrait of nascent womanhood, assisted in no small measure by Vianello's disarmingly naturalistic performance." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2012
	79%	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)	" Like a big-screen Big Gulp, this third installment of the billion-dollar animated franchise contains as much cinematic confection as an 85-minute movie can bear." — Village Voice Posted Jun 5, 2012
	29%	Bel Ami (2012)	" What could be hotter than a bed-hopping bodice-ripper in which the movie hunk of the moment plows through three of the sexiest actresses of the 1990s? Most everything, it turns out." — Village Voice Posted Jun 5, 2012
	42%	Hide Away (A Year in Mooring) (2012)	" The film stays afloat, if barely, thanks to Elliot Davis's uncluttered camerawork, a surprisingly unsentimental denouement, and performers who deftly undersell the script's corniest pretensions." — Village Voice Posted May 30, 2012
	22%	6 Month Rule (2012)	" As with the latest Kate Hudson comedy, it's a formula for irrelevancy pretty much as a rule." — Village Voice Posted May 29, 2012
3/5	90%	Portrait of Wally (2012)	" Though overly dependent on a roundelay of talking heads, the film escalates into an ace legal thriller, spinning a web of shame that snags everything from the Austrian government to America's most beloved not-for-profits." — Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2012
4/5	89%	Historias que so existem quando lembradas (Found Memories) (2012)	" Brazilian filmmaker Júlia Murat's first narrative feature is a mesmerizing, slow-build marvel." — Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2012
	86%	Battle Royale 3D (2000)	" It may suit a certain worldview, but Battle Royale's cynicism is still a form fantasy-a balm as well as a bomb." — Village Voice Posted May 22, 2012
2/5	4%	Virginia (2012)	" Black's overactive melodrama is more than a representation of schizophrenia; it's the embodiment of it." — Time Out New York Posted May 15, 2012
1/5	22%	The Samaritan (2012)	" Despite its exploitation ambitions, this Samaritan is good only for a last-ditch swerve into schmaltz." — Time Out New York Posted May 15, 2012
	50%	Mahler on the Couch (2011)	" [An] eccentric and expressionistic reverie on love, loss, and the birth of modern marriage." — Village Voice Posted May 15, 2012

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