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Eric Kohn

Eric Kohn

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% 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:
451

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
67% Escape From Tomorrow (2013) " A labyrinthine descent into the grotesque extremes of a Disneyfied society, "Escape From Tomorrow" is surreal for many reasons and wholly original because of them." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 7, 2013
C 29% The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (2013) " The movie is lost in a Walter Mitty fantasy of its own. " — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 5, 2013
A- 78% The Dirties (2013) " A shooter story that creeps up on you with humor and personality, featuring characters so likable the thought that they could transform into killers is at first unthinkable -- which is precisely the point. " — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 4, 2013
B 68% Bad Milo! (2013) " The key to this largely amusing and unapologetically silly gross-out romp is Duncan's continuing astonishment at the grotesque situation he finds himself in." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 2, 2013
B- 83% Don Jon (2013) " Despite its promising risqué premise, "Don Jon" is a relatively conservative paean to monogamous relationships." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 26, 2013
A —— First Cousin, Once Removed () " Using a powerful focal point to manifest the movie's central concerns, Berliner makes his interest in the topic relevant to everyone." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 23, 2013
B+ 71% C.O.G. (2013) " "C.O.G" is like a collage of Americana from the perspective of someone incapable of comprehending its value. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 19, 2013
B+ 51% A Single Shot (2013) " A strong showcase for the talent involved." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 18, 2013
A- 95% Enough Said (2013) " Gandolfini plays the ultimate gentle giant whose underlying sweetness finally gets its due." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 17, 2013
b+ —— U ri Sunhi (Our Sunhi) () " As usual with Hong, his subjects are stuck in a limbo of confusion that feels both strangely distant and, for the same reasons, true to life." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 15, 2013
n 88% Life Of Crime () " It's an appropriate ode to the appeal of Leonard's work in the immediate aftermath of his death earlier this year. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 15, 2013
b+ 67% Història de la meva mort (Story of My Death) () " Serra's vampire is an expressive creature of chaos, a description one could equally apply to the movie itself. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
b- —— A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness () " Rivers and Russell have certainly cast a spell that sticks. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
b- 85% The F Word () " The movie primarily frustrates by doing nothing fresh. Careening toward an overly neat and tender resolution, "The F Word" lacks the gall to let its uncoordinated characters wind up victims of their situation." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
c+ 45% Horns () " Predominantly a failure of tone, "Horns" has plenty of admirable traits and yet dooms itself from the outset. It's an admirable conceit stuffed into far less subtle material. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
b 92% The Selfish Giant () " Barnard poetically suggests that the absence of good parenting turns childhood into a purgatory that can only end with adulthood's cruel arrival. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
b+ 86% Young & Beautiful (Jeune Et Jolie) () " Though undeniably intelligent, "Young and Beautiful" would lack a compelling center were it not for Vacth's fascinatingly ambiguous turn, which shifts between aggressively seductive displays, reckless excitement and solemn regret. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
b- 70% Like Father, Like Son (2013) " The story works wonderfully as an idea, but Kore-eda never quite manages to infuse it with the same depth of feeling his main character goes through. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
c 62% Les salauds (The Bastards) () " The result is the rare case of a movie that confirms its maker's skill while wasting it on useless ambition." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
b+ 78% Moebius () " "Moebius" makes its freakish images so credible it demands the silent treatment, since its vulgar ingredients practically defy verbal limitations. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 14, 2013
a- 95% Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013) " Though nobody states it outright, "Blue is the Warmest Color" elegantly tussles with the idea of reconciling desire with other factors involved in the cultivation of healthy companionship." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b+ 94% Only Lovers Left Alive () " If you can groove with Jarmusch's patient, philosophical indulgences and the wooden exteriors of his characters' lives, the movie rewards with a savvy emotional payoff about moving forward even when the motivation to do so has gone." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b 73% Can a Song Save Your Life? () " Moving along at a reasonably engaging pace, it foregrounds the actor's investment in the scenario and makes it relatable." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
a- 93% The Double () " The familiar elements of "The Double," which Ayoade co-wrote with Avi Korine, coalesce into a unique whole that turns the material into a contemplative nightmare. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b 89% Dallas Buyers Club (2013) " For the majority of the time, it wrestles with the heavy material like the cowboys and cattle at the rodeo that frames its events, and McConaughey proves himself a proficient rider. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b+ 100% Tim's Vermeer (2014) " Whether or not Jenison becomes an artist in the process of his quest, there's no doubting that his commitment to creating art is a creative end unto itself. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b 85% The Invisible Woman (2013) " As a filmmaker, Fiennes maintains a subdued tone that's alternately too restrained to make the drama fluidly engaging and impressively studied in its depiction of the couple's ups and downs." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b 86% Palo Alto () " Borrowing liberally from the likes of "Kids" and "Elephant," first-time feature director Gia Coppola's "Palo Alto" is a largely familiar portrait of teen angst, but it's also a fairly accomplished one." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b+ 88% Under the Skin () " Glazer certainly has managed to make one of the most outlandish portraits of alienation in recent memory. "Under the Skin," no matter its faults, certainly will get under yours. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b+ 78% Night Moves () " Like the expressionistic power of the empty landscape in "Meek's Cutoff," its universe simultaneously feels real and nightmarishly abstract." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b+ 76% Joe () " If "Joe" marks a new beginning for some of its characters, the same description applies to its director and star." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b- 79% Tracks () " It's not enough to make the trip itself into a compelling journey, which is an issue in a movie entirely focused on trying to convey just that. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
a- 98% Gravity (2013) " "Gravity" presents an artificial world that could only have made been today, and provides a fantastic showcase of new possibilities." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
a 100% Manakamana () " "Manakamana" says as much about the erosion of patience as it does about the value of holding onto it. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
c+ 50% L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps (The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears) () " The fragmented plot, as it were, certainly comes together in the end -- but that doesn't make it any less of a mess. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 13, 2013
b- 40% Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi (Real) () " As it lumbers toward one mini-climax after another, "Real" takes its situation dead seriously but struggles to enliven it with new ideas." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 12, 2013
b+ 81% The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) (2014) " Having proven his talent time and again, the master has explained himself. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 12, 2013
b 64% August: Osage County (2013) " Wells deserves credit for juggling countless subplots without deflating the vitality of the material. The movie's so busy with squabbling that it's best appreciated as a collage of flawed intentions rather than their collective outcome" — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 10, 2013
C 35% The Fifth Estate (2013) " An uneven, intermittently thoughtful but largely preachy overview of WikiLeaks' rising influence." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 6, 2013
B 89% Captain Phillips (2013) " Even while proficiently made, the movie fails to go beyond the call of duty, mainly fueling the same cocktail chatter the events have already inspired. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 6, 2013
B+ 34% Salinger (2013) " Even if the documentary's climactic revelation amounts to a commercial plug, it's an unquestionably enthralling one, as Salerno's two hour-plus account of Salinger's complexities covers virtually every aspect of his life story." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 5, 2013
A+ 97% 12 Years a Slave (2013) " ...a particularly noteworthy advancement in McQueen's already impressive filmography that funnels the cerebral formalism of his earlier features into a deeply involving survival narrative." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 31, 2013
B+ 80% Prisoners (2013) " Villneuve's grim chronicle of the fallout when two young girls vanish in a small town succeeds at crafting one powerfully suspenseful moment after another. " — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 31, 2013
B+ 67% Labor Day (2013) " Labor Day manages to avoid grand gestures to a large degree because of its cast. Both Winslet and Brolin initially come across as noticeably stilted, but with time their restraint speaks volumes about the sadness haunting both characters." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 30, 2013
B+ 34% Passion (2013) " ...at once a classy suspense movie and an unquestionably silly affair. Regardless of its glaring flaws, "Passion" is reassuringly old school. " — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 27, 2013
B+ 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " "Don't worry about your style," Ip Man says, a statement that applies to Wong as well. Even with this shift of content, the form remains a visual marvel." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 22, 2013
B+ 75% You're Next (2013) " You're Next doesn't break new ground in the horror genre, but it sticks to rules that work" — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 19, 2013
B 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " ...a saccharine civil rights lesson -- but that's why it works." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 8, 2013
B 68% Elysium (2013) " The best looking movie of its type since "Avatar." " — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 5, 2013
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