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Jay Antani

""It isn't work unless you'd rather be doing something else"--James Barrie"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography:: Well, I like long walks and poetry and watching sunsets. No, seriously, I do like those things on occasion, but, generally, I like movies, discovering cool new stuff to read and music to listen to, hanging out with fun, stimulating, intelligent, open-minded humans (and cats). Philosophically, I like to think of myself as a work-in-progress. But I'm gettin' there.
Publications:: Boxoffice Magazine , Cinema Writer , Filmcritic.com , I.E. Weekly , Jaman , Los Angeles Alternative , Moving Pictures Magazine , Paste Magazine , Perihelion Journal , Reel.com , Slant Magazine

Total Reviews:: 440
Total QuickRatings:: 15

Location:: Los Angeles

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/4	80%	Mr. Arkadin (Confidential Report) (1962)	" a mesmerizing experience, a schizoid crime caper that's half-potboiler and half-reverie" — Cinema Writer Posted May 30, 2012
1/4	39%	Tonight You're Mine (2012)	" A prime example of a movie whose setting must compensate for an absence of any actual merit." — Paste Magazine Posted May 9, 2012
8/10	79%	The Deep Blue Sea (2012)	" The intimacy of Davies's direction captures the brilliance of Weisz and her co-stars' performances." — Paste Magazine Posted Mar 15, 2012
3.5/4	96%	The Kid with a Bike (2012)	" continues the Belgian writing-directing brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's extraordinary run of charting the lives of European down-and-outers navigating difficult moral and spiritual terrain." — Paste Magazine Posted Mar 15, 2012
3/4	——	No Room for Rockstars (2012)	" a heartbreaking snapshot of how the music becomes bait for corporate interests to snatch up alienated youth, turning an entire culture into a profiteering scheme." — Paste Magazine Posted Mar 5, 2012
2.5/4	95%	Undefeated (2012)	" In introducing us to [Coach] Courtney...Undefeated finds its voice" — Paste Magazine Posted Mar 5, 2012
3/4	94%	Hugo (2011)	" the most soulful, most personal fiction film in [Scorsese's] career" — Cinema Writer Posted Feb 24, 2012
3/4	85%	Chronicle (2012)	" an enjoyable spin through the tropes of the superhero origin story" — Cinema Writer Posted Feb 13, 2012
3/4	79%	The Grey (2012)	" Aside from Neeson's top-caliber performance...the movie's got several excellent set pieces..." — Cinema Writer Posted Feb 13, 2012
4/4	87%	The Ground Truth (2006)	" perhaps the most important protest statement yet committed to film since the outbreak of [the Iraq War]" — Cinema Writer Posted Feb 6, 2012
2/4	87%	Jesus Camp (2006)	" Jesus Camp doesn't just preach to the converted, it bores and frightens them." — Cinema Writer Posted Feb 6, 2012
2/4	24%	Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)	" The occasional flashes of imagination aside, "Afterlife" epitomizes what movies written largely by software and marketing committees look like" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
1.5/4	86%	Hideaway (Le Refuge) (2010)	" Ozon masks his lack of sensitivity to the material with his characteristic cerebral detachment and pretense to subtlety." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
2/4	50%	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)	" the story's inherent sense of fantasy and genuinely felt moments of exhilaration...and danger...keeps us engaged - for a time, at least" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
2/4	43%	Barry Munday (2010)	" D'Arienzo's screenplay and direction goes for a cross between naturalism and absurdity, but it's largely a queasy, oil-and-water blend. " — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
2.5/4	98%	Inside Job (2010)	" As a documentary, this is a clear-eyed, steadily building prosecution against Wall Street. But, in the end, Ferguson's film is just a moot trial in which the defendants have already escaped scot-free." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
2.5/4	71%	Red (2010)	" The cast's efforts go about halfway to compensating for Red's lack of inspiration elsewhere. " — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
2.5/4	50%	Cool It (2010)	" That this documentary is solution-oriented rather than fear-oriented as so many recent ones...have been is itself a reason for touting it." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
1/4	32%	How Do You Know (2010)	" What happened to James L. Brooks? " — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
3/4	70%	Mumbai Diaries (2011)	" a refreshing, well-meaning entry in India's new brand of globally savvy cinema, [which] augurs exciting things from [director] Rao and her peers" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2012
3.5/4	87%	The Last Lions (2011)	" an extraordinary achievement" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
2.5/4	68%	Black Death (2011)	" Bean owns this movie." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/4	37%	I Am (2011)	" a well-meaning metaphysical inquiry that hits all the right sentiments but manages precious little substance" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
3/4	83%	Potiche (2011)	" Catherine Deneuve continues her run as world cinema's most gracefully aging actress." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
3/4	17%	Miral (2011)	" Miral overrides its screenwriting flaws with Schnabel's uncanny sense of film art." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
3/4	82%	Wretches & Jabberers (2011)	" It's by engaging with all these extraordinary people that the film's beauty reveals itself." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/4	83%	The Double Hour (2011)	" most of The Double Hour doesn't really need to exist in order for the viewer to process the impact of the finale" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
2.5/4	48%	Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2011)	" Adroit editing, camerawork and staging keep in step with Yen's formidable martial arts mastery, showcasing a talent on par with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
3.5/4	58%	The First Grader (2011)	" achieves a poignant, humanist sincerity" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/4	62%	True Legend (2011)	" suffers from an erratic narrative pace, shoddy characters and an overuse of digital gimmickry, all of which create the impression of an ersatz epic spectacle" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
3.5/4	80%	The Last Mountain (2011)	" trenchant, impassioned" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
1.5/4	57%	Film socialisme (2011)	" likely to be an unbearable experience for anyone other than for Godard himself and his most hardcore adherents" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
3.5/4	92%	Senna (2011)	" Senna stands as a triumph of [its makers'] knack for story craft and their ability to sort through a staggering volume of material and piece it together into a unified, powerful narrative." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/4	85%	A Better Life (2011)	" The silver lining is an excellent lead performance from Bichir. " — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 26, 2012
3.5/4	100%	Agantuk (The Stranger) (2003)	" a beautiful valediction by a great filmmaker anticipating his own departure, whose message is as profound as any in a majestic career" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 26, 2012
2.5/4	79%	Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011)	" ...depicts a fiercely talented performer who has created...a temple to his own cult. While the resulting spectacle may be distasteful in its egotism and indulgence, there's no doubting the drive and devotion of a man for whom the world truly is a stage." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 26, 2012
2/4	72%	Magic Trip (2011)	" a unique historical artifact, to be sure, but one which reveals nothing exceptional about the personalities, the times or the themes explored." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 26, 2012
3.5/4	96%	Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)	" an absorbing journey over gritty social terrain, driven by a fierce sense of purpose" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 20, 2012
3.5/4	90%	DiG! (2004)	" fulfills the function and promise of all great documentaries" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 20, 2012
2/4	91%	Point Blank (2011)	" [Writers] Cavay� and Lemans...dump all manner of double-dealing and good cop-bad cop intrigue into what could have been a wonderfully streamlined, character-driven thriller about an innocent man forced to do the bidding of criminals to save his family." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 19, 2012
4/4	93%	City of Life and Death (2011)	" ...among the greatest war films ever made. Rich in humanist themes and absolutely unflinching in its depiction of the moral chaos and physical violence of war." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 19, 2012
3/4	74%	The Names of Love (2011)	" It's a credit to the talents of his cast as well as to Leclerc's ability to juggle comedy and drama that The Names of Love manages to be so winning a concoction." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 18, 2012
4/4	100%	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	" an all-time masterpiece of characterization, structure, pacing and storytelling in general" — Cinema Writer Posted Feb 15, 2011
3/4	91%	The Fighter (2010)	" Wahlberg ensures we stay rooted in Micky's journey, for all the script and fellow performers' broad strokes, cliches and conventionalities, and that we root for the scrapper through every round in the ring." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 30, 2011
3/4	96%	True Grit (2010)	" Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Charles Portis' novel has all the trimmings you'd expect from a film by these brothers extraordinaire" — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 24, 2011
2.5/4	90%	Zombieland (2009)	" It's Zombieland's delightfully offbeat characters that give the movie its staying power." — Cinema Writer Posted Jan 21, 2011
3/4	98%	The War Tapes (2006)	" The direct-cinema authenticity that a soldier's eye gives to this largely street-fought war...lends The War Tapes its primary strength." — Cinema Writer Posted Sep 7, 2010
3.5/4	97%	Unforgiven (1992)	" Eastwood's best film -- a compelling study of the shame and guilt that attends violence, of the rule of the mighty over the weak and of courage and cowardice." — Cinema Writer Posted Sep 7, 2010
2/4	55%	Undertow (2004)	" a drag-down bore" — Cinema Writer Posted Sep 7, 2010

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