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Gregory Avery

Gregory Avery's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.
Biography:

Mr. Avery's interest in film can first be traced to his birth, in San Diego, California, on the exact same day that Leslie Stevens' film "Private Property" had its world premiere in New York City; to when his mother, a native of Idaho, was told by a relative that his choice of surname was due to having seen "too many Gregory Peck films"; and to his father, a native of Massachusetts and a lieutenant-commander in the U.S. Navy, meeting Harold Lloyd at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. He and his sister, Marjorie, had the opportunity to live in Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida, and the San Francisco bay area before settling in southern Oregon, where they attended high school. After studying at Brigham Young University, Mr. Avery completed his college degree at S.O.S.C., after which he worked in the fields of film, television, and journalism. He has previously written about film for an Ashland, Oregon publication, from 1989 - 91. Other interests include music, art, literature, history, and current events. He currently resides in Oregon with two cats.

Favorites:

His three favorite films are "Citizen Kane", "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", and "The Horror of Party Beach".

Location:

Medford, Oregon

Official Website:

http://www.nitrateonline.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Honey (2003) 19% EDIT “Mekhi Phifer looks resigned in many of his scenes, but he tries...” – Nitrate Online Dec 15, 2003 Full Review The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) 17% EDIT “It should have been smarter, more pleasing, more easy to look at, and instead it ends up like a failed scrimmage, albeit an extravagant one, and albeit an ultimately dismissable one.” – Nitrate Online Jul 28, 2003 Full Review Drumline (2002) 81% EDIT “The pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies.” – Nitrate Online Dec 23, 2002 Full Review Half Past Dead (2002) 3% EDIT “Laugh and roll your eyes all you want, but what lingers most in recollection is the sight of Seagal, trying to hang onto being an action hero while clearly being past it, and trying to make himself hip and up-to-date in spite of it.” – Nitrate Online Dec 2, 2002 Full Review The Truth About Charlie (2002) 35% EDIT “A woozy, roisterous, exhausting mess, and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect.” – Nitrate Online Nov 15, 2002 Full Review Red Dragon (2002) 68% EDIT “The film confirms that director Brett Ratner is, well, not exactly going to be joining the pantheon of Jonathan Demme and Ridley Scott, just yet.” – Nitrate Online Oct 18, 2002 Full Review The Transporter (2002) 53% EDIT “After a while the movie just turns into a blur, indistinguishable from anything else that's currently being slapped on the screen.” – Nitrate Online Oct 18, 2002 Full Review Stealing Harvard (2002) 9% EDIT “Green ruins every single scene he's in, and the film, while it's not completely wreaked, is seriously compromised by that.” – Nitrate Online Sep 20, 2002 Full Review City by the Sea (2002) 49% EDIT “Michael Caton-Jones works to elevate the material from becoming dimensionally flat ... mostly by getting good work from the performers.” – Nitrate Online Sep 11, 2002 Full Review FeardotCom (2002) 3% EDIT “We're reduced to peering into the gloom, waiting to see what grotesquery is going to be served up, or flung in our faces, next.” – Nitrate Online Sep 9, 2002 Full Review The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) 6% EDIT “It is a comedy that's not very funny and an action movie that is not very thrilling (and an uneasy alliance, at that).” – Nitrate Online Aug 23, 2002 Full Review Minority Report (2002) 89% EDIT “” – Nitrate Online Jul 9, 2002 Full Review Mr. Deeds (2002) 23% EDIT “The movie doesn't think much of its characters, its protagonist, or of us.” – Nitrate Online Jul 9, 2002 Full Review The Bourne Identity (2002) 84% EDIT “Like Ben Affleck, Matt Damon seems to be incrementally becoming less and less interesting as an actor the further out he gets from Good Will Hunting.” – Nitrate Online Jun 24, 2002 Full Review Jason X (2002) 20% EDIT “Calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment: it's more like entertainment for trolls.” – Nitrate Online May 6, 2002 Full Review The Other Side of Heaven (2001) 29% EDIT “Although based on a real-life person, John, in the movie, is a rather dull person to be stuck with for two hours.” – Nitrate Online Apr 26, 2002 Full Review Rollerball (2002) 3% EDIT “I was wondering if there was any good reason or need to do a remake of the 1975 film, and, after having seen the remake, I'm still wondering.” – Nitrate Online Mar 24, 2002 Full Review Crossroads (2002) 15% EDIT “I don't know if Britney Spears can act ... but it turns out that there's not much a movie, here, to begin with, and she doesn't have a whole lot to do.” – Nitrate Online Feb 18, 2002 Full Review The Ring (1998) 98% EDIT “As the story moves inexorably through its seven day timeframe, the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing.” – Nitrate Online Jan 30, 2002 Full Review Valentine (2001) 11% 3/10 EDIT “” – Nitrate Online Feb 13, 2001 Full Review Saving Silverman (2001) 18% 3/10 EDIT “” – Nitrate Online Feb 12, 2001 Full Review Sugar & Spice (2001) 30% 6/10 EDIT “” – Nitrate Online Feb 7, 2001 Full Review The Pledge (2001) 78% 9/10 EDIT “” – Nitrate Online Feb 7, 2001 Full Review Snatch (2000) 74% 6/10 EDIT “” – Nitrate Online Feb 7, 2001 Full Review The Wedding Planner (2001) 17% 6/10 EDIT “” – Nitrate Online Feb 7, 2001 Full Review
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