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Jeannette Catsoulis

Jeannette Catsoulis

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
Las Vegas Mercury , New York Times , NPR , Reverse Shot
Critics' Group:
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
1043

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
2.5/5 68% Bad Milo! (2013) " What could have been a very funny short film about self-control and befriending your id instead becomes a rambling commentary on father-son dysfunction and the limits of proctology." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/5 78% The Dirties (2013) " Remarkable as much for its insights as for its audacity, "The Dirties" approaches school violence with a comic veneer that slowly shades into deep darkness." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/5 —— Babygirl (2013) " A gently knowing coming-of-age tale about the dangers of combining intellectual precociousness with emotional immaturity." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/5 80% I Used To Be Darker (2013) " Mr. Porterfield might sometimes be too subtle for his own good, but by taking us on a low-key ramble through the ever-shifting feelings of a fractured family, he has woven a dreamy, detached chronicle of dissolution and renewal." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/5 75% Dark Touch (2013) " Wielding his camera with jumpy precision, Mr. Conroy infuses even chaotic motion with stabilizing elegance." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2.5/5 —— The Citizen (2013) " The story's accumulation of contrived setbacks strains credulity." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3.5/5 85% We Are What We Are (2013) " It's all a little silly, but Mr. Mickle's restrained gravity stifles the impulse to laugh." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3.5/5 100% On The Job (2013) " Even at its most incomprehensible, the propulsive thriller "On the Job" is never less than arresting. " — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2.5/5 42% Zaytoun (2013) " In grabbing for the heart this one-size-fits-all fable sadly ignores the mind. " — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
5/5 60% +1 (2013) " A fleet and frenzied sci-fi tale with more on its mind than alien gate-crashers." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2.5/5 71% C.O.G. (2013) " Despite smatterings of wit and a stable of skilled performers, "C.O.G." struggles to find a consistent tone, its episodic structure veering from farcical to poignant to dangerously raw." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/5 —— Price Of Gold (2013) " A noncommittal, occasionally surreal portrait of hardscrabble lives and omnipresent risk." — New York Times
Posted Sep 15, 2013
3/5 58% GMO OMG (2013) " [Provides] a gentle, flyover alert to obliviously chowing-down citizens ... without hectoring and with no small amount of charm." — New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2.5/5 78% Good Ol' Freda (2013) " A generic jaunt down memory lane ..." — New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
1/5 35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " A mess from start to finish -- though, judging by the ending, this story won't be over any time soon -- Insidious: Chapter 2 is the kind of lazy, halfhearted product that gives scary movies a bad name. " — New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3/5 95% Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013) " You won't learn much, but you'll be strangely happy that you didn't." — New York Times
Posted Sep 10, 2013
4/5 100% Out of the Clear Blue Sky (2013) " Danielle Gardner's eloquent insider documentary about the Sept. 11 destruction and subsequent rebirth of the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2013
4/5 91% Il Futuro (2013) " Ms. Scherson's style - backed wholeheartedly by the cool cinematography of Ricardo de Angelis - may value mood over information, but it's the perfect vehicle for a portrait of two damaged souls grasping for a security they no longer possess." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/5 —— FLU (2013) " Buried beneath a melodramatic plot rife with unlikely coincidences and a love affair with fewer sparks than Robert De Niro's 1990 wooing of Jane Fonda in "Stanley & Iris."" — New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
1.5/5 0% Mission Park (2013) " If real F.B.I. agents were as inept as those in "Mission Park," their average on-the-job life span would approximate that of a very lucky mayfly. And if actual drug honchos were as careless as the ones presented here, we wouldn't need the F.B.I." — New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
4/5 75% You're Next (2013) " Injecting the home-invasion thriller with fresh DNA, Adam Wingard's "You're Next" strays just enough from formula to tweak our jaded appetites. " — New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3.5/5 91% Sparrows Dance (2013) " [A] disarmingly offbeat romance ..." — New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2/5 12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " References to "Star Wars" and the Harry Potter and Twilight universes pose less of a problem than the increasingly messy action scenes and an overabundance of main characters, more than enough to fuel several franchises." — New York Times
Posted Aug 21, 2013
3/5 69% The Happy Sad (2013) " Romantic confusion and youthful insecurity drive "The Happy Sad," a New York relationship roundelay as restless as the city itself." — New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2.5/5 56% Inch'Allah (2013) " However beautiful, a blank slate is, finally, just that." — New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/5 31% Austenland (2013) " Opts for crass over clever and slapstick over satire." — New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3.5/5 71% The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (2013) " The film produces moments that catch in the throat, like the man who sheepishly admits he would need rehearsal to laugh on cue. Then he adds, softly, "But cry, no problem."" — New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/5 55% I Give It a Year (2013) " A smutty script and a passel of objectionable characters form an imperfect rom-com union - one that will, with any luck, fade from the mind long before its title suggests." — New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/5 51% Blood (2013) " Suffers from a crippling lack of back story and characters whose relationships are fraught with unexplained complexity." — New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/5 —— Namyeong-dong 1985 (National Security) () " Amid all the suffocations and electrocutions ... there's a point at which diminishing returns kick in." — New York Times
Posted Aug 4, 2013
2.5/5 28% Drift (2013) " This poor-surfers-make-good drama from Morgan O'Neill and Ben Nott relies more than it should on toned thighs and taut gluteals. Be grateful; there's nothing to see on dry land that's anywhere near as compelling. " — New York Times
Posted Aug 2, 2013
3/5 69% Cockneys vs Zombies (2013) " As subtle as its title, "Cockneys vs. Zombies" is mildly funny and easily likable." — New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
4/5 78% Europa Report (2013) " This sincerity, coupled with a documentary-style approach, can feel a little dry, but the script's refusal to go to extremes only raises its plausibility." — New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
—— Red Tide () " So cut to the bone it seems to have been written in shorthand." — New York Times
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2/5 15% The Time Being (2013) " An exhaustingly pretentious heave of artistic self-involvement, "The Time Being" takes an exceptionally handsome journey to nowhere at all." — New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2.5/5 38% First Comes Love (2013) " This midlife confessional could have reached beyond the maternal cravings of highly educated, urban-dwelling singletons had it plumbed people's heads as thoroughly as Ms. Davenport's birth canal." — New York Times
Posted Jul 24, 2013
3.5/5 83% Ways To Live Forever (2013) " A forthright and surprisingly buoyant drama about facing death before you have really lived." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
4/5 100% Big Words (2013) " "Big Words" explores weighty themes with a very light touch." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
1/5 6% Evidence (2013) " Neither suspenseful nor even comprehensible, John Swetnam's dashed-off script (carelessly directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi) throws up plenty of red herrings - and a stupendously idiotic ending - but not a single character worth caring about." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
5/5 98% Blackfish (2013) " Through the rueful voices of former trainers and whale experts, a narrative driven by disillusion and regret unfolds as the trainers point to a gap between SeaWorld's public image and behind-the-scenes reality." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3.5/5 —— Exit Elena (2013) " Using mostly amateur performers and improvised dialogue, Mr. Silver has created a profoundly awkward riff on dysfunction that's uneventful but not unrewarding." — New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
5/5 85% Terms And Conditions May Apply (2013) " The title of "Terms and Conditions May Apply" is unlikely to excite, but the content of this quietly blistering documentary should rile even the most passive viewer." — New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3.5/5 —— Aparisyon (Apparition) () " Cool and cerebral, "Apparition" stubbornly resists our desire to connect with its troubled characters." — New York Times
Posted Jul 10, 2013
2.5/5 25% Absence (2013) " Mundane conversations and outings drag on while the central mystery takes baby steps forward, suggesting that a shorter running time or a more developed script might have better served the originality of the premise." — New York Times
Posted Jul 4, 2013
2/5 25% A Girl And A Gun (2013) " No matter how moving or morally ambivalent these women are, Ms. Czubek seems content to hop from one anecdote to another, unwilling to shape her findings into a larger investigation or deeper analysis." — New York Times
Posted Jul 4, 2013
5/5 80% Laurence Anyways (2013) " [Mr. Dolan] perfectly evokes the violating effect of a stranger's scrutiny and the imponderable depths of a lover's gaze." — New York Times
Posted Jun 28, 2013
3/5 87% 100 Bloody Acres (2013) " This fairly rote tale of rural ghouls and their passing-through prey has its own hick charm, mostly because of performers who never overplay their hands." — New York Times
Posted Jun 28, 2013
2/5 13% Hello Herman (2012) " More redundant than offensive." — New York Times
Posted Jun 7, 2013
5/5 86% Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) " What remains of its subject ... is the melancholy image of a onetime poet and liberal who longed to sing but in the end could only talk." — New York Times
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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