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Greg Evans

Agrees with the Tomatometer 87% of the time.

Publications:: Bloomberg News

Total Reviews:: 46

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	97%	20 Feet From Stardom (2013)	" The pantheon gets its overdue spotlight in Morgan Neville's "Twenty Feet From Stardom," a documentary nearly as glorious as the voices it celebrates." — Bloomberg News Posted Jun 14, 2013
	85%	This Is the End (2013)	" With lazy "Hangover" sequels and Adam Sandler movies still passing for big-screen comedy, the anarchic debut feature from directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg is fresher than anything this side of the Funny or Die website. " — Bloomberg News Posted Jun 11, 2013
	77%	Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer (2013)	" "Pussy Riot" presents as full a portrait as we've seen of the three balaclava-wearing young women." — Bloomberg News Posted Jun 6, 2013
	71%	Wish You Were Here (2013)	" Even at its slowest, the insinuating "Wish You Were Here" keeps its grip, like a dream you just can't shake. " — Bloomberg News Posted Jun 6, 2013
	70%	The East (2013)	" The movie's squishy moralism withstands only a tad more scrutiny than its plot contrivances." — Bloomberg News Posted May 31, 2013
	50%	Now You See Me (2013)	" It's a cheat even before taking a last-minute excursion into a more fantastical genre." — Bloomberg News Posted May 31, 2013
	20%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" Cooper and especially Helms barely register, their boredom with the franchise bordering on disdain. Cooper repeatedly asks a question that, sans obscenities, translates to "Who cares?"" — Bloomberg News Posted May 23, 2013
	91%	We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013)	" "Secrets" teases out unforgettable portraits of two very different men. " — Bloomberg News Posted May 23, 2013
	87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" Convoluted, sure. But compare it to "The Great Gatsby" for a quick (or not) lesson in the difference between exhilarating and exhausting." — Bloomberg News Posted May 14, 2013
	76%	Venus And Serena (2013)	" Devoted, protective and domineering, Richard Williams all but steals the film, his personality dimmed not a whit since the days he learned tennis from a book so he could teach his young daughters on the public courts of Compton, California. " — Bloomberg News Posted May 9, 2013
	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" is a gaudy, Ritz-sized rhinestone of a movie, more flashy than dazzling, beguiling from some angles and phony to its core. " — Bloomberg News Posted May 9, 2013
	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Black (co-writing with Drew Pearce) certainly has a knack for poking exposed cultural nerves. Limbless war veterans, terrorist videos and a mass shooting find their way into his fantasy. No wonder Iron Man has PTSD. " — Bloomberg News Posted May 3, 2013
	68%	The Iceman (2013)	" Michael Shannon's clenched jaw finds its ideal role in Ariel Vromen's taut hit-man saga "The Iceman." " — Bloomberg News Posted May 3, 2013
	63%	Greetings From Tim Buckley (2013)	" The minor-key recreation of New York's burgeoning music scene feels authentic and Badgley nails the best scene: Jeff breaking into an impromptu record-store performance that's as funny as it is desperate for attention. " — Bloomberg News Posted Apr 30, 2013
	54%	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)	" The heavy-handedness -- the strip-search begins with the loud thwack of rubber gloves -- reduces Hamid's characters to talking points. " — Bloomberg News Posted Apr 26, 2013
	99%	Mud (2013)	" Buy a boat in a tree, and you'll buy anything. And so we do in "Mud," Jeff Nichols's yarn about a charming outlaw on the run, drizzled with Tennessee Williams lyricism and Huck-and-Tom adventure. " — Bloomberg News Posted Apr 26, 2013
	45%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" Bay doesn't have the operatic panache of Quentin Tarantino. At well over two hours, "Pain and Gain" should have gone for lean and mean. " — Bloomberg News Posted Apr 26, 2013
	55%	Oblivion (2013)	" as Jack Harper, Cruise, at his wrinkle-free handsomest, fits perfectly into Kosinski's worlds -- both the soulless universe of 2077 and the emotionally beige movie of 2013. " — Bloomberg News Posted Apr 18, 2013
	65%	Disconnect (2013)	" Andrew Stern's script nearly convinces us it has something to say beyond, "Internet, scary; people, alienated."" — Bloomberg News Posted Apr 12, 2013
	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" All things most certainly do not work together for the good. " — Bloomberg News Posted Apr 12, 2013
	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" ...straight-ahead horror, challenging itself scene by scene with gross-out effects and diminishing body parts. " — Bloomberg News Posted Apr 4, 2013
	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" As schematic as a family tree." — Bloomberg News Posted Mar 29, 2013
**1/2	93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" Not even sweet soul music can turn Vietnam circa 1968 into a feel-good trip, but "The Sapphires" tries its darnedest. " — Bloomberg News Posted Mar 22, 2013
* 1/2	47%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" Does anything say "patriotism" like a lovely marble bust of Abraham Lincoln, smashed over the head of a wounded terrorist?" — Bloomberg News Posted Mar 22, 2013
***	65%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" If you missed out on beer bonging yourself into a spring- break stupor, Korine's loopy, lurid and hypnotic film could serve as a travelogue to that junction of heaven and hell. " — Bloomberg News Posted Mar 14, 2013
* 1/2	37%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" We're lectured repeatedly about the wonders of well-performed magic, yet director Don Scardino relies on computer-generated trickery. The coup de theatre that puts Burt and Anton back on top is a cheat of literally unbelievable proportions. " — Bloomberg News Posted Mar 14, 2013
**	37%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" Revenge never felt less sweet. " — Bloomberg News Posted Mar 7, 2013
**1/2	59%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Disney's extravagantly flashy "Oz the Great and Powerful" all but snuffs out the horsefeather magic and carnival heart that provides what little enchantment the film conjures. " — Bloomberg News Posted Mar 7, 2013
***1/2	89%	A Place at the Table (2013)	" "A Place at the Table," a cri de coeur against hunger in America and governmental indifference, has only grown in relevance since its 2012 debut at Sundance. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
**	67%	Stoker (2013)	" The director, making his English-language debut, seems to take the pedestrian script as both a challenge and a permission slip. He stuffs any 10 minutes of "Stoker" with more artificial dread than the whole of "Black Swan."" — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
	96%	War Witch (2013)	" As a 12-year-old African village girl kidnapped by rebels and forced into brutality, Mwanza guides the audience through a nightmare beyond most comprehension." — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" More fun than either "The Hobbit" or "Snow White and the Huntsman" (what isn't?), "Jack" comes close to justifying adult- level investment in kid-brained fancy." — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
**	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" This is funny? " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
*****	95%	West of Memphis (2012)	" Berg lays out her case with the logic of a first-rate prosecutor and the theatricality of a born storyteller. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
****1/2	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Slavery is to "Django" what the Holocaust was to Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" -- a colossal wrong to be righted by a film geek's best weapons: artistry, imagination and wicked humor. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
**1/2	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" As schematic as it is, "Promised Land" benefits from the tremendous appeal of its cast. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
***1/2	98%	56 Up (2013)	" What started as a crafty way of looking at the U.K.'s rigid class structure has grown into a portrait of melancholy middle age, with its heartbreaks and minor-key triumphs. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
**	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" It should all be a lot more fun than it is, or at least as rollicking as "Zombieland," Fleischer's clever 2009 outing. Some pious soul-searching near the end is altogether insufferable. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
**1/2	66%	Mama (2013)	" The digitally created Mama is spooky in smaller, sudden doses, a spindly, broken-boned corpse-like thing with fingers like tree roots. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
**	40%	Parker (2013)	" "Parker" quickly settles into a lurching routine of explosive, predictable set pieces. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
**	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" "Identity Thief" gives Melissa McCarthy her full- fledged feature-film starring role. But the result is dispiriting, to say the least." — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
***1/2	80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" A canny reproach to the insufferable "Twilight" franchise, "Warm Bodies" is almost certainly the sweetest zombie movie ever made. Brain-munching and tender longing make a nice match. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
*	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" Loud with nothing to say, "Good Day" joins recent duds from Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a trifecta of pointless wallows in '80s action nostalgia. " — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 28, 2013
**	60%	Rubberneck (2013)	" "Rubberneck" charts Paul's mental deterioration, the tension stretched well beyond his breaking point and my patience." — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 22, 2013
***	78%	Red Flag (2013)	" Starring roles in two of his own micro-budget indie films suggest a future that won't involve lattes or Lena Dunham." — Bloomberg News Posted Feb 22, 2013

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