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Erick Weber

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications:: NECN
Critics' Group:: Broadcast Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 124

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
C-	77%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" A movie so block-headed, so aimlessly busy, you'd think Michael Bay directed the thing. Actually, that would be an upgrade." — NECN Posted May 3, 2013
F	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Malick's profound message permeating throughout: Living in Oklahoma blows." — NECN Posted Apr 11, 2013
B+	68%	Trance (2013)	" The film's sensory experience is too alluring to resist, Boyle salvaging his unduly swirly story with a slathering of his shimmering, sumptuous aesthetics." — NECN Posted Apr 9, 2013
B	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" Administers exhilaration without a Michael Bay level of enervation." — NECN Posted Mar 29, 2013
B-	93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" The most affable, innocuous outing ever set in a war zone." — NECN Posted Mar 27, 2013
A-	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Korine kills it with a Britney Spears-backed montage of the pretty little gangsters protecting Franco's drug-trafficking turf. Gun-toting teens clad in string bikinis passing for high art? Indubitably." — NECN Posted Mar 22, 2013
A	69%	The Croods (2013)	" The Croods is the most entertaining film of the year thus far -- a Neolithic knockout." — NECN Posted Mar 21, 2013
D	43%	Admission (2013)	" Admission doesn't just misfire, it flatlines." — NECN Posted Mar 20, 2013
B	95%	West of Memphis (2012)	" I would have preferred Jackson's clinically-presented project display a bit more reverence for the three young lives that were brutally taken some twenty years ago." — NECN Posted Mar 18, 2013
D-	38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" If The Incredible Burt Wonderstone were a real Vegas show, its rightful home would be amongst the rubble of an imploded casino." — NECN Posted Mar 13, 2013
C-	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" The film's CGI'd talking monkey is more alive than Franco. And it totally looks fake." — NECN Posted Mar 7, 2013
B+	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" While Cianfrance's overambitious narrative and Crash-y conclusion come perilously close to bringing the film to its knees, the electrifying first half more than compensates. " — NECN Posted Mar 5, 2013
C	67%	Stoker (2013)	" Dripping with mood but deprived of dynamics, Stoker fails as an overall film yet wonders with the wizardry of the man behind the cam." — NECN Posted Mar 1, 2013
B-	27%	Escape From Planet Earth 3D (2013)	" A surprisingly well-produced effort that fills the recent vacuum of family films without totally sucking." — NECN Posted Feb 18, 2013
B-	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" A bombastic onslaught of smashed-up machinery and king-sized explosions that adequately sates your neanderthalic needs." — NECN Posted Feb 14, 2013
C-	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" A supernatural spell of boringness smothers it all." — NECN Posted Feb 12, 2013
C-	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" Its big twist is telegraphed so soon after its start, there's zero shock value and zero suspense as the film plods towards its pathetically pat ending." — NECN Posted Feb 6, 2013
A	100%	Sound City (2013)	" An electrifying and enthralling labor of love that acts as a defibrillator for your creative juices." — NECN Posted Feb 1, 2013
A-	80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" It's hard to beat a brain-eating scene with John Waits' "Missing You" blaring in the background, the '80s ode to the forlorn has never sounded so grotesquely poignant." — NECN Posted Jan 22, 2013
D	30%	Broken City (2013)	" A tedious, needlessly convoluted clunker." — NECN Posted Jan 18, 2013
B	93%	Amour (2012)	" Haneke addresses the ravaging effects of aging in a starkly intimate way but Amour oddly lacks affectivity. Something that should be overflowing with emotion is strangely as sterile as Georges and Anne's Parisian apartment." — NECN Posted Jan 16, 2013
B+	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" It's the premium cast that redeems the project. " — NECN Posted Jan 11, 2013
A-	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" While it's executed with the same level of meticulous precision as the raid itself, you can't help but wonder if Bigelow could have compressed things just a bit." — NECN Posted Jan 11, 2013
C+	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" The Impossible is immersive only when it's fully immersed." — NECN Posted Jan 3, 2013
A	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" At a shade under three hours, Django Unchained never once feels that length...a testament to the ferocity of Tarantino's fantastically unmannerly concoction." — NECN Posted Dec 25, 2012
A	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" This is filmmaking of the most opulent order -- par excellence." — NECN Posted Dec 25, 2012
C-	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" Teetering between tepidly humorous and totally unfunny, Judd Apatow's crazy long crudefest plays like bits and pieces of a stand-up routine that would get a comedian booed off the stage." — NECN Posted Dec 19, 2012
B+	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" Packed with crescendos and crap-outs, Peter Jackson's mega-bloated beginning to Bilbo Baggins' pilgrimage across Middle-earth to Lonely Mountain both awes and bores." — NECN Posted Dec 12, 2012
C	76%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" Everything about the loaded-with-lowlives crime flick is elongated, extended to the very precipice of its expiration date." — NECN Posted Nov 29, 2012
B-	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" Mirren's "I am woman, hear me roar" nuclear weapon-level unloading on her hubby is a contender for the strongest acting moment this year - time stops, jaws drop when she unleashes it." — NECN Posted Nov 28, 2012
B+	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" Serving up 2012's single most awe-inspiring stanza of cinema, Ang Lee's Life of Pi is a thing of beauty - a gorgeously presented piece of art." — NECN Posted Nov 22, 2012
B-	13%	Red Dawn (2012)	" Shockingly tolerable and surprisingly entertaining. " — NECN Posted Nov 19, 2012
A-	64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" Breaking down the walls - literally - Wright has served up a silver screen stunner. Cue the standing ovation." — NECN Posted Nov 15, 2012
D+	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" A thoroughly annoying and staggeringly laughless quirkfest featuring the most alarmingly miscast role of 2012." — NECN Posted Nov 12, 2012
A-	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" Day-Lewis doesn't play Abraham Lincoln, he is Abraham Lincoln in a performance that will have you seriously questioning if what you're watching is a documentary shot in the 1860s." — NECN Posted Nov 9, 2012
A-	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" With the onset of the sublime Skyfall, Daniel Craig officially wrests the title of "Best Bond Ever" from Connery, the British bulldog delivers a brilliant, bulldozing performance in a cinematic spectacular more streamlined than one of his Tom Ford suits." — NECN Posted Nov 6, 2012
C	79%	Flight (2012)	" The only thing Zemeckis could have done to make Flight more of a chore to sit through beyond its stunning opening sequence, have a kid kick your seat-back for the protracted remainder of the flick." — NECN Posted Oct 30, 2012
C	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" For the entire endeavor to emotionally register, you must buy into the romance that purportedly blossoms between Hawkes and Hunt. I didn't, not for a second." — NECN Posted Oct 26, 2012
B+	84%	Smashed (2012)	" Winstead's performance is sure to be remembered come awards season, it packs more punch than a bottle of Bacardi 151." — NECN Posted Oct 25, 2012
C-	68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" The Wachowskis' monumentally ambitious sci-fi time-hopper demands a superhuman level of dedication and patience but the payoff isn't worth the labor required to endure its nearly three-hour runtime." — NECN Posted Oct 24, 2012
A-	94%	Hugo (2011)	" A luminous triumph that may just remind you why our hearts leap when the lights go down in a movie theater." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012
A-	98%	The Artist (2011)	" Its retro-retro take uniquely delivers the most crucial element of the moviegoing experience, the art of entertainment." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012
B+	93%	Take Shelter (2011)	" While Take Shelter isn't by any means perfect - writer/director Jeff Nichols could use a refresher course on editing - it's a powerful film, displaying a devolvement into insanity that ultimately proves to be quite visionary." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012
C-	88%	Margin Call (2011)	" Margin Call can't beat the street, missing the mark in a major way given the massive expectations." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012
B+	84%	Puss in Boots (2011)	" Bet the litter box that the cat in the hat will be back, Puss in Boots is fantastic family fun, both kids and adults will lap it up like a cold glass of milk." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012
B	44%	J. Edgar (2011)	" Regardless of how you may feel about the film's vision of Hoover's private life, you have to respect J. Edgar for the conviction of its depiction. Very much like the resolve of the despotic man it so vividly portrays." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012
B-	93%	Turn Me On, Dammit! (2012)	" Director Jannicke Systad Jacobsen competently captures the awkwardness we all felt as teens and it's made that much more impressive considering the majority of her cast had never set foot in front of a camera before." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012
F	67%	God Bless America (2012)	" For a movie that purports to be a statement about how mean-spirited and crass we've become, Goldthwait has no qualms piling on. Blowing a baby away with a 12 gauge - real or imagined - is about as bottom of the barrel as it gets." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012
D+	70%	The Hunter (2012)	" By the time Dafoe tracks down the elusive CGI'd thylacine, my eyelids had washed over with a glaze of numbness. The big winner here, Tasmania's tourist board." — NECN Posted Oct 22, 2012

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