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James Kendrick

James Kendrick

""Great movies are rarely perfect movies."—Pauline Kael"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Biography:
James Kendrick is the film and DVD critic at QNetwork.com, where he has worked since 1998. From 1996 to 1998, he wrote reviews at his own, now defunt web site, "Charle Don't Surf!" He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baylor University.
Favorites:
Current All-Time Top 10 (Chronological Order)—Always Subject to Change Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Best Films of 2004: 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 2. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood) 3. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi) 4. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese) 5. Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston) 6. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) 7. Sideways (Alexander Payne) 8. The Incredibles (Brad Bird) 9. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino) 10. Primer (Shane Carruth) Honorable Mention: Garden State (Zack Braff) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón) Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes) The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass) The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson) Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran) Mean Girls (David S. Waters) Spartan (David Mamet) Wish I could include: Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1929) M (Fritz Lang, 1931) Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Ivan the Terrible Parts I & II (Sergei Eisenstein, 1945/1946) Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946) The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1947) Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952) The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963) Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971) Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979) Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980) Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980) Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) Seven (David Fincher, 1995) Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) In the Mood for Love (Wong-Kar Wai, 2000)
Publications:
Q Network Film Desk
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
2992
Total QuickRatings:
890
Location:
Waco, Texas

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4/4 95% Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jan 22, 2013
3/4 59% Friday the 13th (1980) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jan 22, 2013
4/4 100% The Gold Rush (1925) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jun 19, 2012
3.5/4 100% This Happy Breed (1944) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 17, 2012
3.5/4 93% In Which We Serve (1942) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 17, 2012
2/4 71% Blithe Spirit (1945) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 17, 2012
3.5/4 95% The War Room (1993) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 27, 2012
3.5/4 89% The Descendants (2011) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 20, 2012
3/4 35% Immortals (2011) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 15, 2012
3/4 89% Lady and the Tramp (1955) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 14, 2012
3.5/4 97% Wings (1927) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jan 24, 2012
4/4 75% Design for Living (1933) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Dec 20, 2011
3/4 82% Super 8 (2011) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Nov 22, 2011
2.5/4 56% Footloose (1984) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Oct 4, 2011
3.5/4 77% O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Sep 20, 2011
4/4 96% Orphée (Orpheus) (1950) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Sep 13, 2011
3.5/4 89% Scarface (2003) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Sep 13, 2011
2.5/4 84% Cul-de-Sac (1966) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Aug 30, 2011
3.5/4 97% The Killing (1956) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Aug 16, 2011
3.5/4 95% Léon Morin, Prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest) (The Forgiven Sinner) (1961) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Aug 9, 2011
3/4 62% Kill the Irishman (2011) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jul 26, 2011
3.5/4 88% Rango (2011) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jul 19, 2011
3.5/4 92% The Great Dictator (1940) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 31, 2011
2/4 81% The Holy Mountain (1973) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 17, 2011
3/4 75% El Topo (1970) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 17, 2011
4/4 90% Blow Out (1981) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 3, 2011
4/4 80% Love on the Run (1936) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 14, 2011
4/4 98% Taxi Driver (1976) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 12, 2011
2.5/4 —— The Atomic Submarine (1959) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 4, 2011
3.5/4 87% Black Swan (2010) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 3, 2011
3/4 90% Tangled (2010) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 3, 2011
3.5/4 100% The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 27, 2011
4/4 87% Senso (The Wanton Countess) (1954) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 15, 2011
4/4 100% Stagecoach (1939) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 6, 2011
4/4 91% Bambi (1942) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 6, 2011
2.5/4 93% 127 Hours (2010) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 6, 2011
3/4 89% Let Me In (2010) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 8, 2011
4/4 98% Broadcast News (1987) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 8, 2011
2/4 77% Alice in Wonderland (1951) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 6, 2011
3.5/4 67% Jack Goes Boating (2010) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jan 30, 2011
3.5/4 92% The Naked Kiss (1964) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jan 25, 2011
3.5/4 93% Shock Corridor (1963) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jan 25, 2011
4/4 80% Dances With Wolves (1990) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jan 23, 2011
2.5/4 73% Piranha 3-D (2010) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Jan 16, 2011
3/4 68% Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Nov 9, 2010
4/4 99% Toy Story 3 (2010) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Nov 7, 2010
3/4 71% The Magician (2010) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Oct 19, 2010
3/4 79% Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Oct 17, 2010
2.5/4 67% The Darjeeling Limited (2007) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Oct 17, 2010
0.5/4 0% Troll 2 (1990) — Q Network Film Desk
Posted Oct 12, 2010
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