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Eric Kohn

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Biography:: New York Press film critic.
Publications:: indieWIRE , New York Press , Orlando Weekly , Premiere Magazine , Reverse Shot
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 360

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
A-	93%	Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)	" An ode to art for art's sake, Inside Llewyn Davis is the most innocent movie of the Coens' career, which in their case is a downright radical achievement." — indieWIRE Posted May 20, 2013
B+	91%	We Are What We Are ()	" We Are What We Are devours expectations even as it satisfies the best of them." — indieWIRE Posted May 20, 2013
B	41%	Black Rock (2013)	" Aselton's unassuming guilty pleasure gently diverges from a familiar scenario with impressively tense results." — indieWIRE Posted May 15, 2013
A	100%	Short Term 12 ()	" Cretton's screenplay pulls off a tricky balance of imbuing its story with emotional weight while not coming across as cloying in the process. The situation is inherently dramatic, but the filmmaker complicates it with characters worth rooting for." — indieWIRE Posted May 14, 2013
C-	49%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" Luhrmann seems to relish the opportunity to explore the period while regarding the book as a burden. " — indieWIRE Posted May 6, 2013
B+	73%	Dead Man's Burden (2013)	" While soaked in ambiguity, Dead Man's Burden maintains the Western requisite that bullets must find their targets." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 30, 2013
C+	0%	Generation Um... (2013)	" a bafflingly irreverent, meandering character study that resurrects Reeves' trademark inscrutable delivery, providing the actor with his most characteristic performance in years. But that's not quite enough to salvage the movie." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 26, 2013
B-	52%	At Any Price (2013)	" Given real struggles to convey, Quaid delivers some of his finest acting in the movie's closing scenes, his furrowed brow pointing to a pair of focused eyes that say a lot more than the script's rampant issue-based dialogue." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 22, 2013
B	47%	The Lords of Salem (2013)	" Zombie's witches aren't as scary as the credible psychopaths he has portrayed before, but The Lords of Salem contains enough frenzied imagery in its climactic moments to make the spell linger." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 16, 2013
B+	75%	Chicken with Plums (2012)	" While visually scrumptious, the movie struggles to reach a greater profundity that it never quite obtains, but its childlike emulation of a grand tragedy is indelibly precious." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 14, 2013
C+	65%	Antiviral (2013)	" The younger Cronenberg has made a derivative exercise in body horror that plays as little more than low rent Cronenberg pastiche." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 10, 2013
B+	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" This is Malick's world, but with "To the Wonder," he invites us in." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 9, 2013
A-	75%	Simon Killer (2013)	" Bleakly enigmatic about the motives of its psychotic protagonist, "Simon Killer" gets cozy with one man's pathological rage." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 2, 2013
B	76%	It's a Disaster (2013)	" It's a Disaster caustically asserts that even the most foolhardy relationships are prone to spontaneously erupt." — indieWIRE Posted Apr 1, 2013
B+	——	Towheads ()	" 'Towheads' cleverly embodies the inherent absurdities in the daily struggle to make each moment feel worthwhile." — indieWIRE Posted Mar 29, 2013
A-	82%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" The crime and police genres used to give "Pines" its forward motion are rarely seen with such a remarkable degree of sensitivity." — indieWIRE Posted Mar 29, 2013
B+	96%	Blancanieves (2013)	" ...isn't about the deteriorating commercial hoopla surrounding silent cinema a la "The Artist" but rather a pure celebration of the medium's power. " — indieWIRE Posted Mar 27, 2013
B+	64%	Dog Pound ()	" The movie never loses its miserable outlook; Chapiron practically revels in the ever-present dreariness." — indieWIRE Posted Mar 19, 2013
A-	79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" "Ginger and Rosa" is the filmmaker's most accessible and technically surefooted work to date." — indieWIRE Posted Mar 16, 2013
B+	91%	Gimme The Loot (2013)	" Like the graffiti art it documents, it's a lovingly handmade affair." — indieWIRE Posted Mar 15, 2013
A-	79%	Reality (2013)	" Garrone's roaming camera style draws you into each moment with extreme close-ups and long takes that wander through each scene and get lost in it. Luciano's plight is crushing because Garrone renders it with such detail." — indieWIRE Posted Mar 13, 2013
B-	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" With simpler aims and oodles of blood, the new movie is a watered down scare-fest that works in spite of its formula by constantly frightening audiences into submission. " — indieWIRE Posted Mar 8, 2013
A	70%	Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013)	" In the hands of another filmmaker, Byington's approach might come across as gimmicky or overly precious. Instead, Somebody Up There Likes Me retains a playfully philosophical edge." — indieWIRE Posted Mar 8, 2013
B	90%	Beyond The Hills (2013)	" ...at once more ambitious and flawed -- in other words, only 50 percent post-Palme slump." — indieWIRE Posted Mar 4, 2013
	100%	Pavilion (2013)	" A startlingly perceptive first feature." — indieWIRE Posted Feb 27, 2013
B+	67%	Stoker (2013)	" South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook's filmmaking always dances a fine line between sublime and absurd genre ingredients. "Stoker," his first American-set, English language picture, is no exception. " — indieWIRE Posted Feb 27, 2013
A-	78%	Red Flag (2013)	" This could be a recipe for excessive self-indulgence, but the meta quality of "Red Flag" is entirely irrelevant to its low key charm and persistent irreverence -- anchored, as always, by Karpovsky's loopy screen presence." — indieWIRE Posted Feb 19, 2013
B+	60%	Rubberneck (2013)	" Although it's initially jarring to see Karpovsky tackle overly serious material both behind and in front of the camera, "Rubberneck" has more in common with the growing Karpovsky oeuvre than it may appear -- and even inadvertently critiques it. " — indieWIRE Posted Feb 19, 2013
B+	82%	Like Someone in Love (2013)	" Like Someone in Love leaves you contemplating its significance long after it ends instead of while you watch it." — indieWIRE Posted Feb 12, 2013
B+	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" According to Steven Soderbergh, "Side Effects" is the filmmaker's final feature-length directing credit -- and it shows, partly because this rambling genre exercise, while skillful, offers nothing new." — indieWIRE Posted Feb 5, 2013
B+	100%	Blue Caprice ()	" "Blue Caprice" displays a willingness to stand apart from judgement and strike an investigative gaze." — indieWIRE Posted Feb 1, 2013
C+	76%	Hors Satan (2013)	" The problem with "Outside Satan" is that the filmmaker has remained faithful to expectations without enlivening them." — indieWIRE Posted Jan 14, 2013
	98%	The Loved Ones (2012)	" It's a terrifying masterpiece that turns high school drama into a literal dead zone." — indieWIRE Posted Jan 8, 2013
A	99%	This Is Not a Film (2012)	" No matter the constrictions on its existence, This is Not a Film is, in fact, a great one." — indieWIRE Posted Jan 7, 2013
B+	100%	Convento (2012)	" The real star of this show is not the family but the otherworldly objects they churn out." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 12, 2012
B	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Tarantino relishes the opportunity to run wild with a symbol of black persecution until the idea loses momentum -- and then, true to form, he just keeps going." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 12, 2012
B-	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" Can't help but preach its cause in obvious ways that continually hold back an otherwise well-acted, swiftly paced drama." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 5, 2012
B	65%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" While Jackson hasn't delivered a hit on par with his "Lord of the Rings" movies, "The Hobbit" proves he can still do justice to the tricky blend of fantasy and action that made the earlier entries such enjoyable works of popular entertainment." — indieWIRE Posted Dec 4, 2012
C	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" Over the course of its 134 minutes, Judd Apatow's "This is 40" maintains the false confidence that its subject matter holds great meaning for countless people who have endured rituals associated with aging family life. " — indieWIRE Posted Dec 3, 2012
B	67%	California Solo (2012)	" Even as California Solo plays like a track we've heard before, it's still worth a listen." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 29, 2012
A-	75%	King Kelly (2012)	" It's an unflinching update to media scholar Neil Postman's prophetic claim about the deadly impact of television on cultural identity: Smartphones in hand, we face the danger of filming ourselves to death." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 29, 2012
B+	75%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" Dominik brings a sleek pulp sensibility to the material and melds its topicality to a strange form of scathingly anti-capitalist entertainment." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 29, 2012
C-	36%	The Collection (2012)	" The whole thing is a fairly yawn-a-rific affair until the vengeful prologue establishes a wicked role reversal, hinting at the better movie that filmmakers more interested in storytelling would have made." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 29, 2012
A+	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" Bigelow's taut depiction of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden is a true movie of the moment." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 27, 2012
B+	32%	Deadfall (2012)	" Recently noir has seemed marginalized, almost antiquated, in its application of dark tones that point to a suspenseful end. Deadfall, an understated, slow-burn thriller, doesn't reinvigorate those rules but illustrates their lasting value." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 13, 2012
A-	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Turning frantic relationship problems into breezy entertainment, Russell gives Silver Linings Playbook the air of a classic romcom, strengthening it with the type of sophisticated insight into human behavior that Preston Sturges might make today." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 13, 2012
B	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" As the title implies, it focuses more on the master of suspense than his mastery." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 3, 2012
	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" The motivating force of Lincoln belongs to its leading man, whose screen presence is a wonder to behold even when he says nothing." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 2, 2012
B+	79%	A Late Quartet (2012)	" Yaron Zilberman's low key drama manages to overcome uneven dialogue issues with a consistently engaging scenario based around the quaret's upcoming performance." — indieWIRE Posted Nov 1, 2012

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