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Publications:: New York Post

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2.5/4	60%	Kiss Of The Damned (2013)	" Cassavetes can film an erotic encounter worthy of the 1970s and the golden age of sex scenes, and that is no small compliment these days." — New York Post Posted May 3, 2013
3/4	51%	Post Tenebras Lux (2013)	" Like a jumbled-up set of nesting boxes, the scenes make sense individually (kind of). The hard part is fitting them together." — New York Post Posted May 3, 2013
1.5/4	0%	Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (2013)	" "GoodFellas" is just one of the movies that did this all much better before." — New York Post Posted May 3, 2013
2/4	50%	Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013)	" There's so much material that's amusing, and so much goodwill for Bergdorf in the hearts of fashion lovers, that it's a shame this is such an ADD sprawl of a movie." — New York Post Posted May 3, 2013
3.5/4	83%	Graceland (2013)	" A nerve-shredding Philippines-set thriller made with such skill that its low budget barely registers." — New York Post Posted Apr 26, 2013
2.5/4	42%	Midnight's Children (2013)	" In its steady great-books way, the film is often truthful and moving." — New York Post Posted Apr 26, 2013
3/4	——	One Night Stand (2013)	" Watching these people create on little or no sleep offers a delightful window into just how deep the talent pool still is for New York theater." — New York Post Posted Apr 26, 2013
1/4	62%	Paradise: Love (2013)	" Seidl sternly rejects nuance. All the women are crude and insensitive, all the men are desperate and exploited." — New York Post Posted Apr 26, 2013
3.5/4	87%	Herman's House (2013)	" Bhalla builds a damning picture of what's happening to Wallace. But he avoids pure rant ..." — New York Post Posted Apr 19, 2013
3/4	90%	Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2013)	" It's a sympathetic portrait of an artist whose heart lay more with new work than old glories, right up to the end." — New York Post Posted Apr 19, 2013
2/4	42%	Paris Manhattan (2013)	" Lellouche, in making her homage to Allen, left out one of his essential qualities: bite. "Paris-Manhattan" drifts by and never leaves a single toothmark." — New York Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
3.5/4	89%	The Angels' Share (2013)	" While a few farcical moments fizzle, it's mostly charming." — New York Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
2/4	64%	Antiviral (2013)	" What Jones hasn't been given is a character to play. Syd is a cipher, neither sympathetic nor hateful, nor even interestingly human." — New York Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
2.5/4	87%	Upstream Color (2013)	" This enigma-delivery system from a sharp mind has enthralling moments but becomes a bit enervating in its self-seriousness. By the end, the whole thing feels more academic than mind-bending." — New York Post Posted Apr 5, 2013
1.5/4	77%	André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013)	" Gregory is a great theater director and raconteur, but both talents are ill-served here." — New York Post Posted Apr 5, 2013
3/4	76%	No Place On Earth (2013)	" The film is built from moving, frank interviews with survivors from two families who hid, speaking over and around extensive re-enactments." — New York Post Posted Apr 5, 2013
2/4	59%	Detour (2013)	" "Detour" does a fine job of giving drivers yet another reason to stress out, but that anxiety doesn't extend to its hero's fate." — New York Post Posted Mar 29, 2013
2.5/4	73%	Violeta Went to Heaven (2013)	" The biographical bits soon feel like a distraction from the music, performed by Gavilán. It's heard often, but not often enough." — New York Post Posted Mar 29, 2013
3/4	96%	Blancanieves (2013)	" The purest, boldest re-imagining of silent cinema yet." — New York Post Posted Mar 29, 2013
3/4	38%	Family Weekend (2013)	" For a long while, director Benjamin Epps goes for breakneck farce; at its best, this is a batty mixture of family-values editorial and teen spoof." — New York Post Posted Mar 29, 2013
2/4	15%	Dorfman in Love (2013)	" The plotting is like uninspired Mad Libs and the premise so slight it's practically transparent. Nor is there much going on visually, beyond Jay's to-die-for loft." — New York Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
2.5/4	90%	My Brother The Devil (2013)	" For at least part of its length, "My Brother the Devil" brings refreshing changes to a genre badly in need of them." — New York Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
1/4	80%	Eden (2013)	" Nearly every second is taken up with the horrors inflicted upon the heroine by the sorriest bunch of good ol' boy sadists since "Deliverance."" — New York Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
3/4	91%	Gimme The Loot (2013)	" "Gimme the Loot" winds up as a shaggy-dog story built largely out of digressions, but the punch line is tender, as is Leon's attitude toward being young and poor in New York." — New York Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
1/4	50%	Clip (2013)	" The aesthetic, if you can call it that, is almost entirely derived from amateur porn. Everything's the color of putty or concrete, and that includes the faces; I've seen prettier prison movies." — New York Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
2/4	63%	Vanishing Waves (2013)	" There are interesting themes: about how much of the impulse to love is hidden from the conscious mind, and how much of sex is fantasy. But the impact is diminished by lifeless leads." — New York Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
3/4	79%	Reality (2013)	" The bright palette of "Reality" is an obvious way to underline the hero's unraveling, but it looks good, and it works." — New York Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
3/4	81%	From Up On Poppy Hill (2013)	" It's the sort of movie that can prompt daydreams about inhabiting its world of flowers and hills, passing ships and harbor lights, where there's no Internet and romance happens face to face." — New York Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
1.5/4	30%	Gut Renovation (2013)	" The result is like an hour and a half listening to someone bellyache about her landlord." — New York Post Posted Mar 8, 2013
1.5/4	31%	Language of a Broken Heart (2013)	" Part of the limp-rag ambience is due to Talt, who seems to be channeling Sarah Jessica Parker - which, unsurprisingly, does not work." — New York Post Posted Mar 8, 2013
3.5/4	90%	Beyond The Hills (2013)	" At times the pace of "Beyond the Hills" is nerve-wrackingly slow. But Mungiu has his own way of creating suspense, and he has a gift for making a known outcome as shocking as a twist." — New York Post Posted Mar 8, 2013
2/4	87%	The Silence (2013)	" These are our modern tearjerkers, embellished with sexual violence to maintain the audience's sense of its own sophistication. Include me out." — New York Post Posted Mar 8, 2013
3/4	75%	Leviathan (2013)	" The adventurous souls who stick with it ... will find head-spinning images and a cumulative impact that does, in fact, amount to a story." — New York Post Posted Mar 1, 2013
2/4	33%	The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek (2013)	" None of this, unfortunately, is all that funny, although there's daffy charm to some moments." — New York Post Posted Mar 1, 2013
0.5/4	13%	Molly's Theory Of Relativity (2013)	" "Molly's Theory of Relativity" is anti-cinema." — New York Post Posted Mar 1, 2013
2/4	88%	Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013)	" What you get is an awful lot of filler, including every performer who ever sang "Hava Nagila," from Harry Belafonte to Glen Campbell using it as the flip side to "True Grit."" — New York Post Posted Mar 1, 2013
2.5/4	92%	11 Flowers (2013)	" The movie lingers in the mind, largely because director Wang Xiaoshuai's theme is poignant and classic: The more a child perceives of what the adults around him are doing, the more childhood slips away. " — New York Post Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/4	19%	Inescapable (2013)	" The plot unfolds at a nice clip, but at no point does director Ruba Nadda evade expectations." — New York Post Posted Feb 22, 2013
3.5/4	82%	Like Someone in Love (2013)	" If "Like Someone in Love" frustrates, it also has ineffable grace in the framing of Kiarostami's long, languid shots, the changes he captures in the light, and the way the actors' smallest movements become fascinating." — New York Post Posted Feb 14, 2013
2/4	57%	Shanghai Calling (2013)	" It's a sharp setup - a rich American learns what it's like to be steamrolled by unfettered capitalism - but the script cushions things completely." — New York Post Posted Feb 14, 2013
3/4	92%	Lore (2013)	" "Lore" is the sort of movie you'd already expect to rip your heart out, but that doesn't diminish the tragedy when it does arrive." — New York Post Posted Feb 8, 2013
4/4	91%	Caesar Must Die (2013)	" The film gets on screen not only the play's bloody, double-dealing, hungry essence, but the redemptive potential of art." — New York Post Posted Feb 8, 2013
2.5/4	91%	The Last Gladiators (2013)	" Gibney deserves credit for making a hockey film that the uninitiated can watch with interest, and for focusing on an issue even some hockey fans can't make up their minds about." — New York Post Posted Feb 1, 2013
2/4	88%	Yossi (2013)	" The film keeps its focus small, but the trouble is, the characters' emotions stay that way, too." — New York Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
3/4	85%	The Pirogue (2013)	" It's as sadly repetitive a story for Europe as it is for the US: would-be immigrants risking all for a better opportunity elsewhere." — New York Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
3/4	87%	Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013)	" The film is both elegiac and amazingly retro, like the nature specials that baby boomers were weaned on - although it's not for animal lovers, unless you have a specific grudge against sables." — New York Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
3/4	36%	LUV (2013)	" Even the boarded-up row houses look romantic." — New York Post Posted Jan 18, 2013
2/4	17%	Brief Reunion (2013)	" A movie like this should be a tightening noose as your anxiety for the main character keeps rising. Aaron is charmless, self-absorbed and perception-free." — New York Post Posted Jan 18, 2013
1.5/4	18%	My Best Enemy (2013)	" The film plays mostly as an uneasily satirical thriller." — New York Post Posted Jan 11, 2013

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