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Eric Kohn

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
Total QuickRatings:
360

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
B 76% The Bay (2012) " The Bay manages to scare up a real fear of environmental neglect. It's quite possibly the first example of jump scares used in service of activism." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 31, 2012
D+ 45% The Details (2012) " It's a familiar mold: the perils of suburban discontent have been so thoroughly explored that "The Details" plays like a hodgepodge of familiar circumstances on an assembly line to disaster." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 30, 2012
B+ 86% Wreck-it Ralph (2012) " Beneath the pixelated gags, the stakes are relatively familiar. However, much of the humor in "Wreck-It Ralph" riffs on the nostalgia associated with real games." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 29, 2012
92% Skyfall (2012) " That "Skyfall" looks strikingly beautiful may explain why it has already generated waves of positive buzz. At two hours and 25 minutes, the movie runs far too long, but has been artfully rendered to obscure its fundamental simplicity." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 24, 2012
A- 70% The Loneliest Planet (2012) " Hardly an indolent director, Loktev has much to say about a couple suffering from the inability to say much of anything." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 24, 2012
B+ 94% The Sessions (2012) " Less dreary than uplifting, The Surrogate succeeds as a light romance with heavy material." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 19, 2012
B+ 78% Flight (2012) " ...fully realized calibration of suspense, entertainment value and emotional payoff." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 14, 2012
B+ 96% Argo (2012) " Argo navigates these familiar qualities through a nice calibration of performances and breezy pace that pulls you along with the increasingly risky stakes." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 11, 2012
B 84% Smashed (2012) " Winstead's performance overwhelms and overcomes the fragmented story." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 10, 2012
C+ 69% Not Fade Away (2012) " ...reaches for a grand statement about the period's intergenerational tensions and instead simply channels nostalgia." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 6, 2012
A- 100% The American Scream (2012) " Think Death of a Salesman with demons." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 5, 2012
B+ 88% Starlet (2012) " Starlet contains enough provocative subtext to deliver on its themes about the challenges of communication." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 5, 2012
B+ 87% Frankenweenie (2012) " While not Burton's greatest accomplishment, it's his most definitive work in years." — indieWIRE
Posted Oct 3, 2012
B+ 88% Life of Pi (2012) " That Ang Lee has managed to turn the limitations of the material into his adaptation's greatest strength make "Life of Pi" into a significant achievement for the filmmaker in spite of blatant problems with structure, dialogue and other surface issues." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 28, 2012
A- 50% Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) " One of the best action movies of the year simply because it keeps hitting the right beats." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 23, 2012
B 78% Dredd (2012) " "Dredd 3D" may present a dreary vision of the future, but it offers a promising encapsulation of the modern action movie. " — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 20, 2012
C+ 85% End of Watch (2012) " By virtue of its style and high stakes scenario, End of Watch is impressively tense, but then so are most episodes of COPS, which don't suffer from the forced melodrama found here." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 20, 2012
38% Shit Year (2011) " While I admire Archer's attempt to tackle the well-worn path of the fading superstar narrative with ingenuity, his high-minded conceits muddy the vitality of Barkin's performance." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 12, 2012
B+ 75% Green (2012) " The source of suspense lies entirely within one character's fragile mind." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 12, 2012
A- 82% Seven Psychopaths (2012) " It's less a love letter to the writing process than a satire of those obsessed with it. Even if McDonagh doesn't mean to imply that writing is a psychopathic behavior, the proof is in the gory pudding." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 10, 2012
B 56% For a Good Time, Call... (2012) " It's easy to give into its charms." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 10, 2012
B 93% Looper (2012) " "Looper" is thrilling to watch even when it falls apart." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 6, 2012
B+ 95% Side by Side (2012) " Side By Side works as well as it does by celebrating the filmmaking practice as a distinctive art form no matter what process it uses to make images into motion." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 5, 2012
B- 60% Francine (2012) " Francine marks the start of a promising career for the filmmakers, more than anything else demonstrating their eye for small moments." — indieWIRE
Posted Sep 5, 2012
B+ 90% Keep the Lights On (2012) " Sachs' screenplay does a terrific job capturing the drama shared by urban sophisticates with an understated approach that foregrounds Erik's ongoing confusion." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 28, 2012
78% The Ambassador (2012) " ...enacted less with a coy wink than with a violent elbow jab to the ribs." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 27, 2012
A- 66% For Ellen (2012) " Nobody else could fit the role of a crestfallen rocker that Paul Dano embodies in director So Yong Kim's remarkable For Ellen." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 24, 2012
89% Compliance (2012) " ...a movie that feeds on collective emotions -- anger, denial and, most of all, fear -- but also triggers explosives along the faultlines of class." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 15, 2012
87% Robot & Frank (2012) " ...a delicate, contained dramedywith an understated turn by Frank Langella. " — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 15, 2012
C- 67% Dreams of a Life (2012) " Dreams of a Life unintentionally amounts to a mean-spirited snooze." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 3, 2012
B- 70% Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) " The whole thing is a step above studio romantic comedies, but that's not saying much." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 3, 2012
B- 87% ParaNorman (2012) " Unlike the polished universe of Pixar's "Brave" or countless other recent CGI efforts, "ParaNorman" maintains a delicate, handcrafted look that underscores its ideas." — indieWIRE
Posted Aug 3, 2012
77% Killer Joe (2012) " Friedkin has crafted another enjoyable slice of frenzied pulp minimalism." — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 24, 2012
A- 79% Klown (2012) " Each gag has added appeal because it contains an uneasy humor that's often explored but never fully exploited in these parts." — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 23, 2012
79% Ruby Sparks (2012) " Kazan has fun with a silly premise and smartly plays it straight when the occasion calls for it." — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 23, 2012
88% Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012) " If you've never heard of LCD Soundsystem or cared much for the group's work, "Shut Up and Play the Hits" still manages to explore the prospects of fame and contemporary rock music's lasting relevance. " — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 17, 2012
87% The Dark Knight Rises (2012) " ...a spectacular noir epic that's equal parts murky, bloated, flashy and triumphantly cinematic. " — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 16, 2012
87% Easy Money (2012) " ...continues Sweden's dominance over slick, intelligent escapism aimed at the same kind of mature sensibilities Christopher Nolan smuggled into the "Batman" trilogy for the sake of its commercial appeal." — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 11, 2012
A- 76% The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012) " Although it assumes a light, inoffensive tone, Do Deca is unquestionably the brothers' most personal film by virtue of its antiheroes, a pair of warring siblings seemingly inspired by the directors themselves." — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 9, 2012
51% Savages (2012) " Stone's uneven direction veers from near-amateurish genre antics to an enjoyable awareness of those same standards." — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 3, 2012
B+ 98% Oslo, August 31st (2012) " A powerful, upfront document of a recovering drug addict confronting the demons of his past." — indieWIRE
Posted Jul 2, 2012
80% Magic Mike (2012) " "Magic Mike" has much in common with previous Soderbergh efforts in that it glides along at a terrifically entertaining pace." — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 27, 2012
B+ 86% Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) " It's hard to get the essence of Beasts without accepting that Zeitlin cares less about coherence than transcendent formalism. There's plenty to marvel at, but far less to feel." — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 26, 2012
55% Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) " The movie's potential for depth ends long before the world does." — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 18, 2012
B 64% Cosmopolis (2012) " Cosmopolis demonstrates that even a flawed throwback to Cronenberg's roots proves they run fairly deep." — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 15, 2012
78% Brave (2012) " Pixar, a once-complex house of stories, has been downgraded to the happy meal alternative: "Brave" is a movie for six-year-olds." — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 15, 2012
43% To Rome with Love (2012) " Funny in fragments, Woody Allen's "To Rome With Love" is crammed with enough unrelated incidents to fill one of his short-story collections and has the same lack of cohesion. " — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 15, 2012
68% Extraterrestrial (2012) " Guided by director Nacho Vigalondo's understated wit, the story never adheres to expectations." — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 12, 2012
95% Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012) " ...a competent exploration of Abramovic's methods that's also disappointing for the same reason." — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 11, 2012
74% Prometheus (2012) " Like "Alien," the new movie derives its appeal not only from stunning, otherworldly imagery but also from the central performances tasked with reacting to it. " — indieWIRE
Posted Jun 6, 2012
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