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Jason Anderson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

Publications:: CBC.ca Arts , eye WEEKLY , Globe and Mail , Toronto Star
Critics' Group:: Toronto Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 865
Total QuickRatings:: 2

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/5	59%	Daydream Nation (2011)	" An alternately heady and queasy portrait of a small town slipping into madness." — eye WEEKLY Posted May 11, 2011
3/5	77%	Thor (2011)	" Thor's level of visual opulence is one sure indication that director Kenneth Branagh is unafraid of embracing the potential for camp inherent in any superhero blockbuster but generally avoided amid the current vogue for Dark Knight-style solemnity." — eye WEEKLY Posted May 6, 2011
3/5	73%	POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011)	" The director finds time in between making cold calls, creating spoof ads and having some fun at the expense of Mane 'n Tail horse shampoo to provide a few valuable insights about the rampant commercialization of nearly every corner of our culture." — eye WEEKLY Posted May 5, 2011
2/5	61%	The Beaver (2011)	" Jodie Foster's drama The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson as a depressed man who communicates via a hand puppet, is many things: admirably sincere, occasionally poignant, often trite and perversely wrong-headed." — eye WEEKLY Posted May 5, 2011
5/5	96%	Chungking Express (1996)	" Quentin Tarantino and Xavier Dolan are just two of the directors who've worshipped at the altar of Wong Kar-wai. Chungking Express remains the best reason why." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 20, 2011
2/5	60%	The Round Up (La Rafle.) (2010)	" In her efforts to compel French viewers to confront a very ugly moment in their history, Bosch doesn't leave time to develop her characters or their individual stories beyond the most cursory strokes." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 20, 2011
4/5	——	Mulroney: The Opera ()	" If you're going to write an opera about Brian Mulroney, there can be no rhyming lyric more inevitable than this one: "I have the chin / I'm going to win!"" — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 15, 2011
4/5	72%	Beeswax (2009)	" Andrew Bujalski ought to be more than a critical darling by this point." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 6, 2011
3/5	58%	Kaboom (2011)	" Any aging hipster harbouring feelings of nostalgia for the scrappy movies Gregg Araki made before the relative maturity of his 2004 molestation drama Mysterious Skin will be thrilled by the American director's latest salacious story of youth gone wild. " — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 6, 2011
4/5	68%	Rubber (2011)	" Dupieux's third feature (and first in English) is a surrealist comedy with a singular sensibility." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 6, 2011
3/5	80%	Littlerock (2011)	" Ott's knack for telling observations and beguiling ambiguities make him a director to watch." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 6, 2011
3/5	74%	Winter in Wartime (2011)	" An adaptation of a well-loved Dutch young-adult novel by Jan Terlouw, Winter in Wartime embodies both a traditional style for WWII dramas and a more troubling contemporary strain." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 1, 2011
2/5	46%	Monogamy (2011)	" Jones has little to do besides look fed up, and justifiably so." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 1, 2011
2/5	91%	Source Code (2011)	" One of the problems is Gyllenhaal's inability to make his character seem coherent, sympathetic or particularly interesting." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 1, 2011
3/5	67%	Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)	" Eisener displays considerable finesse as an action director. His movie's occasional moments of wit also take some of the edge off the otherwise assaultive nature of this exercise in scumbag cinema." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 25, 2011
2/5	44%	White Irish Drinkers (2011)	" White Irish Drinkers contains a cast of characters who are as loud, brash and pugnacious as that title would suggest. They also represent just about every Irish-American stereotype." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 25, 2011
2/5	40%	The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom ()	" Unfortunately, Johns' movie is less satisfying when it comes to matters not directly pertaining to Dolly Parton." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 18, 2011
3/5	71%	Paul (2011)	" In its efforts to please those nerds, Hollywood may actually be selling them short with films that have little of the ingenuity that used to be the lifeblood of genre moviemaking." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 17, 2011
4/5	89%	A Screaming Man (2011)	" A moving new film by one of Africa's best directors, A Screaming Man won the jury prize at Cannes last year and deserves a wider audience than the continent's great movies often achieve." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 17, 2011
3/5	69%	Limitless (2011)	" [An] erratic but often wickedly sly thriller." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 17, 2011
3/5	83%	The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)	" Blessed with a character who loves to showboat, McConaughey is a pleasure to behold -- not since the actor was battling dragons in Reign of Fire has he been so much fun to watch." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 17, 2011
3/5	79%	Small Town Murder Songs (2011)	" The force in Stormare's performance is enough to suggest we've witnessed only a fraction of the character's anguish." — eye WEEKLY Posted Feb 18, 2011
4/5	100%	Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (2011)	" Despite all the sadness and disappointment in his story, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune is an invigorating survey of its subject's life and times." — eye WEEKLY Posted Feb 18, 2011
3/5	64%	Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)	" While viewers already afflicted with Bieber Fever get plenty of reasons to scream their heads off, even the haters may succumb to his charm attack." — eye WEEKLY Posted Feb 10, 2011
2/4	21%	From Prada to Nada (2011)	" The broad humour and cultural caricatures in the film's opening moments will be especially dispiriting to any English literature professors in the audience." — Toronto Star Posted Feb 10, 2011
1/4	4%	The Roommate (2011)	" Unfortunately, The Roommate is too timid to make an impression of any kind." — Toronto Star Posted Feb 4, 2011
3/5	53%	The Mechanic (2011)	" That scowl on Jason Statham's face may not have budged a millimetre since Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but his latest action flick proves that his grim Cockney-lout routine can still be plenty effective." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jan 26, 2011
3/5	75%	The Way Back (2011)	" Just as admirable are the film's unsparing depiction of the hardships caused by terrain and temperature, its palpable sense of physicality and a lack of sentimentality compared to most of Hollywood's similarly inspirational profiles in courage." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jan 21, 2011
3.5/4	80%	Attenberg (2012)	" The film succeeds not only as an idiosyncratic spin on the coming-of-age story but a wider comment on what it means to be fully human and fully alive in an age of diminished expectations." — Toronto Star Posted Jan 20, 2011
4/5	100%	Nostalgia for the Light (2011)	" Guzm�n's wise and lovely film maintains a careful balance between matters both macro and micro." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jan 14, 2011
3.5/4	82%	Ddongpari (Breathless) (2009)	" Breathless pummels viewers with nearly the same ferocity and frequency with which the characters assault each other." — Toronto Star Posted Jan 13, 2011
2/5	44%	The Green Hornet (2011)	" What opens as a 21st-century variation on Hudson Hawk (and I mean that as a compliment) soon trades in its gleeful weirdness for a Pineapple Express-style blend of rote action and abrasive, unfunny comedy." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jan 12, 2011
3/5	76%	Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt And The Magnetic Fields (2010)	" Merritt seems to loathe the very idea of being in a movie. That impression lends a weird tension to Fix and O'Hara's otherwise affectionate and conventional account of his career to date." — eye WEEKLY Posted Dec 28, 2010
4/5	98%	Marwencol (2010)	" Enthralling and deeply strange." — eye WEEKLY Posted Dec 28, 2010
3/5	80%	Barney's Version (2011)	" It is only by witnessing Barney's decline that we get a full measure of the man and the film's final scenes attain the degree of pathos they require." — eye WEEKLY Posted Dec 25, 2010
3/5	50%	Tron Legacy (2010)	" The computer world has rarely felt cosier." — eye WEEKLY Posted Dec 17, 2010
3/4	90%	Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)	" Rare Exports turns out to be as heart-warming as Miracle on 32nd Street, albeit in its own twisted little way." — Toronto Star Posted Dec 16, 2010
3/4	91%	Kings of Pastry (2010)	" What makes Kings of Pastry more than a sugar-coated showcase of culinary porn is its emphasis on the individual human dramas that exist behind all of these delicacies." — Toronto Star Posted Dec 2, 2010
1/4	16%	Skyline (2010)	" There's a kind of magic that happens when a movie inspires complete strangers to ridicule it to each other on the way out of the theatre." — Toronto Star Posted Nov 12, 2010
3/4	84%	Down Terrace (2010)	" A low-budget effort by British director Ben Wheatley, Down Terrace is an enjoyably nasty piece of business about a down-market sort of underworld clan." — Toronto Star Posted Nov 11, 2010
3/5	80%	Fair Game (2010)	" Admirable rather than exciting." — eye WEEKLY Posted Nov 5, 2010
2/4	10%	Saw 3D (2010)	" Though the film hardly ends the series on a triumphant note, it still qualifies as one of the better entries." — Toronto Star Posted Nov 1, 2010
3/5	65%	Tamara Drewe (2010)	" Though broader than it ought to be at times and overlong on the whole, Frears' movie boasts the requisite high spirits thanks to an energetic cast led by Gemma Arterton." — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 29, 2010
3/5	79%	Nowhere Boy (2010)	" Engaging if unsurprising." — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 15, 2010
1/4	35%	I Spit On Your Grave (2010)	" An attempt to trade on its predecessor's reputation without really grappling with the questions it raises, Monroe's version merely seems shallow, cynical and extremely ugly." — Toronto Star Posted Oct 14, 2010
2/5	58%	It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)	" Writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck fail to energize their mild-mannered, overly pat material." — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 8, 2010
2/5	32%	A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop (San qiang pai an jing qi) (A Simple Noodle Story) (The First Gun) (2010)	" The main problem with A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop has less to do with its fidelity to the Coen brothers' 1984 original than with director Zhang Yimou's own incompatibility with the material." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 24, 2010
3/4	50%	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)	" Despite the odds, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole may be the season's most dramatically compelling and most visually sumptuous animated feature. Who could have predicted that?" — Toronto Star Posted Sep 23, 2010
3/4	——	I Am Comic (2010)	" The first thing that a documentary about stand-up comedy ought to be is funny. Thankfully, I Am Comic succeeds handily on that count." — Toronto Star Posted Sep 23, 2010

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