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Ethan Alter

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Publications:: Film Journal International , Giant Magazine , Hollywood Reporter , NYC Film Critic , Premiere Magazine , Show Business Weekly , Television Without Pity , TV Guide's Movie Guide , Village Voice
Critics' Group:: New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews:: 1224
Total QuickRatings:: 7

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83%	Don Jon (2013)	" Before it flies off the rails in the final act, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's first self-penned, self-directed star vehicle, Don Jon, is an uncommonly provocative spin on familiar rom-com tropes." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 27, 2013
78%	Metallica Through the Never (2013)	" Why make an average concert movie when you can make something as weirdly mesmerizing as Through the Never?" — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 27, 2013
99%	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	" Seven decades on, it's still wholly transporting, even without the benefit of the bells and whistles that are part of the CGI age." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 20, 2013
80%	Prisoners (2013)	" When you finally emerge from your two-and-a-half hour sentence watching this glum, overbearing movie, you'll relish the sweet taste of freedom, too." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 20, 2013
88%	Rush (2013)	" Armed with a solid script and two great actors, Howard's chief contribution is keeping the movie clipping along." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 20, 2013
95%	Enough Said (2013)	" When it's Eva and Albert sharing the screen, getting to know each other and falling in love, Enough Said is genuinely delightful." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 18, 2013
60%	Riddick (2013)	" I'm not sure that Riddick is an effective argument in favor of continuing Riddick's solo adventures, but it's a more fitting conclusion to his chronicles than the previous movie." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 13, 2013
33%	The Family (2013)	" Not fast enough to be farce, not twisted enough to be dark comedy and not over-the-top enough to be a gonzo action comedy, the movie spins its chamber around and around for almost two hours, firing blank after blank." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 13, 2013
86%	Blue Caprice (2013)	" This hybrid of a character study and a true-crime account is well-acted and suitably tense, but lacks a deeper resonance." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 10, 2013
29%	Tio Papi (2013)	" Too predictable for adults and too saccharine for even very young kids, this family-oriented comedy is strictly dullsville." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 5, 2013
59%	Afternoon Delight (2013)	" Soloway isn't so much interested in the reality of the movie's underlying scenario as she is the all-too-real emotional hurricane it stirs up." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 2, 2013
13%	The Lifeguard (2013)	" The writer/director stifles any actual feeling with thudding, heavily-underlined subtext-as-text dialogue and an overreliance on indie rock scored musical montages" — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 2, 2013
3%	Getaway (2013)	" Accomplishes the impressive task of vanishing completely from your mind as you're sitting in the theater watching it." — Television Without Pity Posted Sep 2, 2013
46%	Closed Circuit (2013)	" Bana and Hall seem as bored with the proceedings as the audience." — Television Without Pity Posted Aug 28, 2013
89%	The World's End (2013)	" A rollicking entertainment, boasting some terrific (and terrifically unexpected) plot twists, a bunch of laugh-out-loud gags and clever action set-pieces." — Television Without Pity Posted Aug 24, 2013
80%	Drinking Buddies (2013)	" By no means a revolutionary film, but it is an evolutionary one for its maker." — Television Without Pity Posted Aug 24, 2013
74%	The Grandmaster (2013)	" A rewarding experience, even if it fails to completely sweep you off your feet. " — Television Without Pity Posted Aug 24, 2013
12%	The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)	" One heck of a generic genre piece." — Television Without Pity Posted Aug 21, 2013
30%	Kick-Ass 2 (2013)	" The first Kick-Ass wasn't a great movie, but it did have two great jokes driving it. With Kick-Ass 2, the joke is entirely on the audience." — Television Without Pity Posted Aug 16, 2013
73%	Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)	" What's missing from The Butler aren't good performance, solid production values and an obvious respect for history -- it's the ability to make that history seem vital, to make it matter." — Television Without Pity Posted Aug 16, 2013
60%	Mockingbird Lane ()	" We're pretty sure this is the last we'll ever see of the new Munster clan." — Television Without Pity Posted Aug 14, 2013
91%	Blue Jasmine (2013)	" If you want to see what capital-A Acting looks like, take a gander at Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen's latest feature." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 26, 2013
52%	The To Do List (2013)	" Even when the jokes don't land, the sheer likability of the cast keeps the audience engaged." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 26, 2013
69%	The Wolverine (2013)	" The Wolverine is good enough that I kept wishing it were better -- that there was another layer to the story or another wrinkle to a character's motivation or a truly spectacular set-piece that lent the proceedings some extra oomph. " — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 26, 2013
20%	Girl Most Likely (2013)	" Wiig's shtick-heavy performance is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the problems afflicting this dire "comedy."" — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 19, 2013
42%	Red 2 (2013)	" Even though it's an improvement over the first RED, the film as a whole is just as disposable." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 19, 2013
40%	Only God Forgives (2013)	" I can only hope that Gosling and Refn had a grand old time making Only God Forgives, because watching it sure is a bore." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 19, 2013
86%	The Conjuring (2013)	" An extremely well-crafted piece of mainstream horror that offers a number of genuine scares. " — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 19, 2013
86%	Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)	" It's an effectively made (if still overlong) film, one that elevates a single athlete's story into legend as a way into his country's history. Just don't confuse this particular legend for fact. " — Film Journal International Posted Jul 12, 2013
94%	Fruitvale Station (2013)	" A noble effort to contextualize the life of a man who would become famous for the way that he died." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 12, 2013
72%	Pacific Rim (2013)	" In a summer that's been dominated by spectacles that feel small and self-contained despite the enormous wads of cash thrown at the screen, this is the first movie to come along that thinks big." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 12, 2013
56%	The Look of Love (2013)	" The Look of Love is the latest and -- I'm sorry to report -- the least of Coogan and Winterbottom's team-ups." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 5, 2013
58%	Stuck in Love (2013)	" Perfectly adequate airplane reading." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 5, 2013
85%	The Way Way Back (2013)	" The Way, Way Back only really gets interesting when Carell enters the frame and introduces an unconventional villain into this entirely too-conventional coming-of-age scenario." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 5, 2013
31%	The Lone Ranger (2013)	" With the ostensible hero a maroon and the plot a draggy mess, the movie is essentially counting on Depp's broad comic theatrics to carry the day." — Television Without Pity Posted Jul 3, 2013
47%	I'm So Excited! (2013)	" I'm So Excited has more than enough characters and storylines to fill its confined space. What the movie lacks, however, are belly laughs, hearty guffaws or even mild chuckles." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 28, 2013
61%	Byzantium (2013)	" The revamped vampire mythology put forth in Byzantium is much more fascinating than the actual story the movie sets out to tell. " — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 28, 2013
50%	White House Down (2013)	" White House Down is as much a comic book fantasy as something like The Avengers. " — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 28, 2013
65%	The Heat (2013)	" The Heat may be more of the same buddy cop stuff, but the stars lend it extra punch where it counts." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 28, 2013
97%	A Hijacking (2013)	" A Hijacking accomplishes a tricky task, generating tension through talk rather than action. " — Film Journal International Posted Jun 21, 2013
47%	Maniac (2013)	" Should Wood decide to indulge his manic side again, here's hoping he picks a better vehicle than Maniac." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 21, 2013
78%	Monsters University (2013)	" Monsters University takes characters and plugs them into a sitcom-ready scenario that could serve as a backdoor pilot to a Disney Channel series." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 21, 2013
67%	World War Z (2013)	" World War Z may be a Frankenstein's monster of a movie, but it crackles with just enough electricity to keep the story moving forward and take the audience along for the ride." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 21, 2013
56%	Man of Steel (2013)	" Man of Steel keeps Superman -- and the aspirational spirit he represents -- grounded and it's a less heroic movie for it." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 14, 2013
59%	The Bling Ring (2013)	" This is the first time where the director has allowed herself to be so openly contemptuous of the people in her own movie and that judgmental air suffocates The Bling Ring. " — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 14, 2013
84%	This Is the End (2013)	" I had a grand old time at this apocalypse, where 75-80% of the jokes land and the cast's eager-to-please energy, mostly carry you through the gags that fall short." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 12, 2013
96%	The History Of Future Folk (2013)	" [It's] more interested in making you smile than making you think. And it mostly accomplishes that modest goal, thanks to the witty music and charmingly low-fi production values." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 11, 2013
84%	Much Ado About Nothing (2013)	" It's a delight for Whedonites, but -- I'm sorry to say -- a rather mediocre production of Shakespeare." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 7, 2013
64%	Tiger Eyes (2013)	" Tiger Eyes retains some of the seriousness and respect for character that distinguishes Blume's YA books. What it lacks, however, is her strong authorial voice." — Television Without Pity Posted Jun 7, 2013

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