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Eugene Novikov

""Remember, you still have two out of three branches of government working for you and that ain't bad." --Mars Attacks!"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Publications:: AMCtv.com , Cinematical , eFilmCritic.com , Film Blather , rec.arts.movies.reviews
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 1549
Total QuickRatings:: 9

Location:: Newtown, Pennsylvania

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
D	46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" The film is so inept and hateful that asking what it thinks about anything seems like dividing by zero." — Film Blather Posted Apr 26, 2013
C	55%	Oblivion (2013)	" If Kosinski wants to keep making these elaborate techno-dystopias, I'm down. But he needs to find a better framework for his visual ideas. " — Film Blather Posted Apr 19, 2013
C+	77%	42 (2013)	" '42' won't teach you a thing, but for a film that couldn't have been very good, it's not bad." — Film Blather Posted Apr 12, 2013
D	9%	The Host (2013)	" An alien invasion movie that consists of Saoirse Ronan and Disembodied Voice of Saoirse Ronan arguing with each other over whether and when and with whom the body of Saoirse Ronan should get it on. " — Film Blather Posted Mar 29, 2013
B+	82%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" Try to imagine 'Crash' as written and directed by James Gray and you might come close to conceptualizing this beguiling film." — Film Blather Posted Mar 29, 2013
C+	47%	The Lords of Salem (2013)	" One alluring thing about Zombie is that it's hard to know how much of all this is a put-on. I spent a lot of time squinting at it, which is more fun than being bored." — Film Blather Posted Mar 13, 2013
A	99%	Mud (2013)	" So good - so incredibly good; a classic in the making - that I promise you won't miss the metaphor and abstraction of 'Take Shelter'." — Film Blather Posted Mar 10, 2013
B	80%	Haunter ()	" The biggest pleasures here come from how thought-through and rigorous this weird little universe is; how Natali and King commit fully to their story and follow it through to a satisfying conclusion." — Film Blather Posted Mar 10, 2013
B	75%	Prince Avalanche (2013)	" David Gordon Green seems to have found a happy medium between the laid-back sincerity of his earlier work and the puerile stoner comedy he's favored since 'Pineapple Express'." — Film Blather Posted Mar 10, 2013
B	——	Cheap Thrills ()	" There's no big twist here, but the film's sustained thoughtfulness is as surprising as any plot development." — Film Blather Posted Mar 9, 2013
B-	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" It's a tremendous technical achievement." — Film Blather Posted Mar 9, 2013
C+	37%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" Even when this lovably half-baked effort really started to whiff, I couldn't bring myself to be too annoyed." — Film Blather Posted Mar 9, 2013
C	58%	Snitch (2013)	" The bulk of 'Snitch' is a lumbering drag, a sanitized PG-13 rendition of a season of 'The Wire' that feels rushed even as it refuses to end." — Film Blather Posted Feb 21, 2013
B-	46%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" It's 'Twilight' with the sexes reversed, yes, but if 'Beautiful Creatures' becomes a four-sequel, screaming-tween-assault phenomenon I'll at least be able to understand it, if not quite buy in." — Film Blather Posted Feb 13, 2013
A-	——	2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)	— Film Blather Posted Jan 22, 2013
C	66%	Mama (2013)	" Muschietti doesn't have the chops to sustain tension once he ditches the parts of his story that are conceptually intriguing. Once the film becomes a conventional horror show, it deflates fast." — Film Blather Posted Jan 17, 2013
C	45%	On the Road (2012)	" The protagonists' aimless drug- and sex-fuelled adventures have neither a seductive pull nor the weight of tragedy. They're just grimy and a little boring." — Film Blather Posted Jan 12, 2013
B	65%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" One possibility is that the main thing to recommend the film is nostalgia. But so be it." — Film Blather Posted Dec 13, 2012
C	38%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" An aimless, mind-numbing prestige picture with uneasy undertones it seems desperate to deny." — Film Blather Posted Dec 8, 2012
D+	74%	Rise of the Guardians (2012)	" A dumb, blandly sloganeering love letter to blind faith and willful denial." — Film Blather Posted Nov 20, 2012
C	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" Built around a revelation and thematic punchline that is such specious nonsense that nothing else it says or does or shows us really matters." — Film Blather Posted Nov 20, 2012
B+	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" A studied and stunningly wonky meditation on compromise." — Film Blather Posted Nov 8, 2012
C	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" The movie methodically punts each time it comes across anything interesting." — Film Blather Posted Oct 19, 2012
B-	63%	Sinister (2012)	" A well-engineered scare machine, as the people sitting next to me at the screening can attest; at a certain level, one is hard-pressed to argue with soiled underpants." — Film Blather Posted Oct 12, 2012
A	93%	Looper (2012)	" The most robust pure sci-fi in years - tighter and more fun than even 'Inception', if not as dizzyingly ambitious in its engineering." — Film Blather Posted Sep 28, 2012
D+	51%	Trouble with the Curve (2012)	" Schematic and beyond stupid, mindlessly lionizing the geezers that 'Moneyball' spent two hours justly laughing at. It's an embarrassment." — Film Blather Posted Sep 20, 2012
B	85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	" Feels warm and genuinely affectionate in a way that's impossible to manufacture. You've seen this story before, but maybe not populated with personalities this fully realized and alive." — Film Blather Posted Sep 20, 2012
C+	78%	Dredd (2012)	" What 'Dredd' feints at, before retreating to action flick convention, is the first real successor to Alex Proyas' 'Dark City'." — Film Blather Posted Sep 20, 2012
B	82%	De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012)	" So enthrallingly bizarre that despite a penchant for aggressively taking notes on festival films I managed to jot down almost nothing over its 2+ hour running time." — Film Blather Posted Sep 6, 2012
C-	68%	The Iceman (2013)	" A drab, remedial gangster film." — Film Blather Posted Sep 2, 2012
B-	89%	A Royal Affair (2012)	" Features Mads Mikkelsen in the most straightforwardly positive role I've ever seen him in, and he turns out to have an expressive impassiveness to rival Ryan Gosling's." — Film Blather Posted Sep 1, 2012
B	92%	No (2013)	" A fascinating exercise in historical fill-in-the-blanks." — Film Blather Posted Sep 1, 2012
B	96%	Argo (2012)	" An intelligent, expertly-made thriller with glimmers of the extraordinary." — Film Blather Posted Sep 1, 2012
B-	76%	Premium Rush (2012)	" May be my favorite New York movie since Raimi's 'Spider-Man'. " — Film Blather Posted Aug 23, 2012
B	56%	The Bourne Legacy (2012)	" If the overarching story is silly, on the ground Gilroy's approach is the opposite: brainy and logistics-obsessed." — Film Blather Posted Aug 9, 2012
B+	——	Chonmage purin (A Boy and His Samurai) (2010)	" But while the American version of this story might have involved Kevin James and a lot of farting, this justly acclaimed Japanese family film is magical and totally unexpected." — Film Blather Posted Jul 27, 2012
B-	93%	Sleep Tight (2012)	" Suspenseful stuff, filmed with a lush, old-fashioned professionalism, occasionally leavened with some gallows humor. " — Film Blather Posted Jul 27, 2012
B	29%	Red Lights (2012)	" If you care at all about intelligent genre cinema that doesn't paint by numbers, you've got to buy a ticket to 'Red Lights', warts and all." — Film Blather Posted Jul 25, 2012
B	79%	Ruby Sparks (2012)	" This isn't some Michel Gondry magical-realist doodle: Calvin's fictional dream girl damn well really comes to life, with all the astonishment and potential institutionalization that entails." — Film Blather Posted Jul 25, 2012
B-	67%	Trishna (2012)	" A nice inversion of the star-cross'd lovers trope." — Film Blather Posted Jul 19, 2012
B+	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" Though 'The Dark Knight' may be the better, shrewder film, its sequel improbably turns out to be more personal" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 19, 2012
C+	51%	Savages (2012)	" 'Savages' falls apart, but it falls apart with a certain integrity - I think that Stone made more or less exactly the movie he wanted. I have a grudging respect for it." — Film Blather Posted Jul 5, 2012
C	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" It's not that 'The Amazing Spider-Man' is unnecessary, it's that it sucks - a pale, hollow imitation of a transcendent superhero trilogy. " — Film Blather Posted Jul 5, 2012
B	80%	Magic Mike (2012)	" The unease builds imperceptibly, until what seemed ecstatic and liberating early in the film becomes profoundly disquieting. The precision with which Soderbergh executes this shift is astounding." — Film Blather Posted Jun 29, 2012
B-	78%	Brave (2012)	" 'Brave' has a lot to recommend it - but there are a few things missing from its mix of playful comedy and sappy testament to family ties. " — Film Blather Posted Jun 22, 2012
C+	55%	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)	" Sweet and droll and kind of inert." — Film Blather Posted Jun 21, 2012
B+	94%	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)	" 'Moonrise Kingdom' made a believer out of a long-time naysayer, and that's really something." — Film Blather Posted May 24, 2012
B	34%	Battleship (2012)	" I had considerably more fun watching Berg destroy Michael Bay at his own game than watching Joss Whedon try to please everyone in the universe with 'The Avengers.'" — Film Blather Posted May 19, 2012
C+	58%	The Dictator (2012)	" The Dictator having been stripped of the attention-grabbing reality-show dimension of its predecessors, we are left wondering just what it is that this gifted comic is trying to express." — Film Blather Posted May 15, 2012

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