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Fred Camper

Agrees with the Tomatometer 88% of the time.

Publications:: Chicago Reader

Total Reviews:: 107

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	——	The Bat Whispers (1930)	" Culturally it may be most noteworthy for its title arch-criminal, who influenced the creation of Batman." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 5, 2010
	——	Barrio Murders (2001)	" Jojo Henrickson delivers a pretty routine crime thriller" — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 31, 2010
	80%	Baraka (1993)	" The film's one-world thesis is asserted but never made convincing, as Fricke zigzags from the Western Wall to whirling dervishes to the Grand Mosque of Mecca in a superficial gloss on faith (and everything else)." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 23, 2010
	——	Bacchanales Sexuelles (1974)	" it lacks a coherent subjective consciousness and seems to be just a bunch of strange moments." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 29, 2010
	——	February One (2003)	" Unnecessarily sentimentalizes four college freshmen who began a sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960, igniting protests that spread to 54 cities." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 9, 2007
	44%	Fired! (2006)	" The video is heavy on actors and other showbiz types, and the self-centered Gurwitch doesn't distinguish between a factory worker laid off after decades on the job and an actor getting rejected during tryouts." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 9, 2007
	57%	Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)	" An overblown home movie with almost no dialogue." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 19, 2006
	70%	Women Without Men (Zanan-e bedun-e mardan) (2010)	" Elegant, often moving." — Chicago Reader Posted May 13, 2010
	17%	The Trouble with Romance (2009)	" The performances are convincing, and director Gene Rhee does a good job of outlining the messiness of human affections here, showing how we don't always know what we really want or how to get it." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 26, 2009
	67%	The Year of the Yao (2005)	" James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's taut, engrossing 2004 documentary on Chinese basketball player Yao Ming's first year in the NBA offers insight into the game and its stars." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 25, 2008
	——	Die Brücke (The Bridge) (1959)	" Director Bernhard Wicki's precise and gripping staging of the final battle brings the tragedy of war sickeningly alive." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 11, 2008
	80%	Kamp Katrina (2007)	" Ashley Sabin and David Redmon's gently observational videography and editing let the story emerge without any controlling structure or narration..." — Chicago Reader Posted Aug 31, 2007
	83%	Light Keeps Me Company (2001)	" A loving but unstinting portrait of longtime Ingmar Bergman cinematographer Sven Nyqvist." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 31, 2007
	100%	Tôkyô boshoku (Tokyo Twilight) (1957)	" This rarely screened, melancholy 1957 film, Ozu's last in black and white, is one of his best." — Chicago Reader Posted Jun 20, 2007
	100%	Akibiyori (Late Autumn) (1973)	" I'm not the world's biggest Ozu fan, but this late work is one of his finest." — Chicago Reader Posted Jun 19, 2007
	96%	Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004)	" [An] occasionally lighthearted but always affecting cautionary tale." — Chicago Reader Posted Jun 1, 2007
	52%	Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2006)	" More interesting is Chernick's concise survey of Barney's intriguing early work, including weird Vaseline-covered sculptures and footage of him trying to draw while under physical restraints such as a harness, etc." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 1, 2007
	73%	La Décomposition de l'âme (Decomposition of the Soul) (2007)	" [A] darkly poetic study of psychological brutality." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 7, 2007
	85%	Salvador Allende (2007)	" Patricio Guzman's 2004 biography of the Chilean president is less a conventional documentary than a cinematic act of mourning." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 8, 2006
	89%	Jandek on Corwood (2004)	" Director Chad Friedrichs works around Jandek's never having revealed his identity by interpolating shots of the PO box and rocks on the beach with the talking heads of fans, critics, and journalists, and lots of Jandek's wistful, haunting music." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 18, 2004
	89%	Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)	" An engaged and knowing look at the underground world of improvised rap, concentrating on artists less interested in commercial success and cutting records than in the 'spontaneous right now' of 'nonconceptual rhyme.'" — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 20, 2004
	100%	The Deserted Station (2003)	" The film's relaxed pace, unassuming tone, and respect for its characters all recall the films of Abbas Kiarostami, who provided the story idea, but director Ali Reza Raisian adds a slightly more dramatic and emotional edge." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 3, 2004
	59%	I'll Sing for You (2004)	" Kar Kar's singing is wonderfully expressive, and an improvised song to his wife at her grave site demonstrates the emotional wellspring of his music." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 16, 2004
	83%	Nachts, Wenn der Teufel Kam (Nights, When the Devil Came) (The Devil Strikes at Night) (1957)	" This fascinating 1957 film, based on a true story, concerns the hunt for a serial killer by the Nazi regime." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
	100%	Last Holiday (1950)	" Funny, if you don't concentrate." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2004
3/4	89%	Kandahar (2001)	— Chicago Reader Posted Jun 24, 2003
	86%	Underground Zero (2003)	" Though none of these 13 videos culled from the project is superb on its own, the mix of perspectives encourages us to think analytically about our own responses and the sources of the terrorists' hatred." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 5, 2003
	70%	Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights) (2000)	" The personality conflicts among the four seem a bit formulaic, as do the flashbacks explaining why each turned to crime, but the narrative is inventive enough to sustain interest." — Chicago Reader Posted Mar 27, 2003
	67%	Flip Side ()	" Despite some amateurish moments, Pulido displays genuine visual intelligence." — Chicago Reader Posted Oct 12, 2002
	100%	Tôkyô orimpikku (Tokyo Olympiad) (1965)	" Though it's visually choppy, with some disruptive zooms, the 'Scope format matches the subject's scale, and Ichikawa's emphasis on shared human experience is compelling." — Chicago Reader Posted Jan 22, 2002
	80%	Ruby Bridges (1997)	" As Ruby, Chaz Monet captures the child's happiness and sadness, fear and fortitude, with genuine subtlety." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 3, 2001
	86%	Nippon konchuki (The Insect Woman) (1963)	" Darkly elegant." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 13, 2001
3/4	81%	Kippur (2000)	" Gitai plunges the viewer into the reality of modern warfare, in which the enemy is often invisible -- we never see the Syrians in Kippur -- and battle lines are often unclear." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 7, 2001
4/4	81%	Fong juk (Exiled) (2006)	" This 2006 Hong Kong-produced gangster film by director Johnnie To, set in Macao, is an entertaining product that presents a powerful artistic vision." — Chicago Reader Posted Sep 7, 2007

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