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:
992
Total QuickRatings:
992

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
5/5 100% Nancy, Please (2013) " A darkly comic psychodrama about academic pressure and irrational paranoia." — New York Times
Posted May 23, 2013
1.5/5 —— A Wedding Invitation (2013) " A Pan-Asian romantic melodrama that virtually pokes you in the eye with its fakery." — New York Times
Posted May 23, 2013
2.5/5 26% Erased (2013) " A bearable if unremarkable composite of the "Taken" movies and "Three Days of the Condor."" — New York Times
Posted May 16, 2013
3/5 75% Bidder 70 (2013) " "Bidder 70," for all its clumsiness, nails the way that a spontaneous act of courage can focus the mind and clarify an ideology." — New York Times
Posted May 16, 2013
5/5 78% Pieta (2013) " Filled with feisty women and cowering men, "Pieta" twists human emotions into pretzels of perversion." — New York Times
Posted May 16, 2013
3/5 100% Khyi rgan (Old Dog) () " While the rigid framing and wispy plot create an unfortunate inertia, they also magnify the occasional whimsical moment ..." — New York Times
Posted May 14, 2013
2/5 18% No One Lives (2013) " The expectations raised by the first 20 minutes ... make it all the more disappointing when incoherent slaughter replaces soul-chilling dread." — New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
5/5 —— Three Sisters (2013) " "Three Sisters" documents extreme poverty in rural China with the compassionate eye and inexhaustible patience of a director whose curiosity about his country's unfortunates never seems to wane." — New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
3/5 38% Aftershock (2013) " The violence is quick and occasionally inventive, with little of the attenuated nastiness that characterizes so many genre pictures, and the photography ranges from brightly sun-kissed to down-and-dirty." — New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
4/5 —— The Girls in the Band (2013) " "The Girls in the Band" is everything a worthwhile documentary should be, and then some: engaging, informative, thorough and brimming with delightful characters." — New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
2/5 0% Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (2013) " Packing the screen with wiseguy-story regulars - like Vincent Pastore and a limp Tony Darrow, perhaps distracted by his recent legal difficulties - is fruitless when your movie is as pathetically inept as this one." — New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
3.5/5 76% Dead Man's Burden (2013) " Small in scale but with a grand visual ambition, "Dead Man's Burden" draws nourishment from its burned-out desert setting and ambling pace." — New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
2/5 62% Kiss Of The Damned (2013) " "Kiss of the Damned" tries to give the vampire movie something it most definitely does not need: class." — New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
5/5 —— Memories Look at Me (2013) " A slight yet profound exploration of generational choices and our fear of living our parents' lives." — New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
3.5/5 71% The Source Family (2013) " Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille's disturbing film is an object lesson in psychological manipulation." — New York Times
Posted Apr 30, 2013
2/5 30% The Numbers Station (2013) " This dreary spy drama is as flat and airless as the concrete bunker in which it unfolds." — New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
3.5/5 100% Trash Dance (2013) " A warm thank you to those whose work is mostly invisible and entirely necessary." — New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
5/5 93% Sun Don't Shine (2013) " Unspools like a Françoise Sagan novel: purposefully, enigmatically and with a raw emotional purity that makes its volatile central couple appear even more defenseless than they really are." — New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
5/5 84% Graceland (2013) " The sins of the fathers are visited upon their daughters in "Graceland," a tense and tough-minded family drama in which young girls are as likely to be victimized by plenty as by poverty." — New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
1/5 14% Oconomowoc (2013) " "Oconomowoc" has one thing going for it: a running time of just 79 minutes, even if every one of them feels like an eternity." — New York Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
67% Disconnect (2013) " Even in the heightened awareness of a post- age (and its ), Disconnect is naturally gripping." — NPR
Posted Apr 18, 2013
3/5 67% Fists Of Legend (2013) " Shot with some wit and considerable speed, its short, sharp beatdowns are a refreshing change from the bloated action sequences favored by some of Mr. Kang's genre contemporaries." — New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
2/5 42% Paris Manhattan (2013) " "Paris Manhattan" uses a character with a Woody Allen obsession as an excuse to pilfer words and ideas far beyond its ability to synthesize them." — New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
5/5 100% This Ain't California (2013) " "This Ain't California" offers a vivid immersion in the hidden skateboarding culture of the former East Germany." — New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
5/5 —— Stranger Things (2013) " This delicate debut feature amasses a wealth of quiet images that speak volumes." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
2/5 50% Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013) " An unappealing jumble of sex, regret and hero worship, "Bert Stern" is an odd tribute to brilliance muffled by lust." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
3/5 56% Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal (2013) " A flawed but diverting meditation on finding inspiration while losing your soul." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
5/5 75% Simon Killer (2013) " Though the film's ice-cold blend of the cerebral and the atavistic can be off-putting, it enables a queasy portrait of moral disengagement that lingers long after Simon has slipped from the screen." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
4/5 73% Violeta Went to Heaven (2013) " poignant portrait of an artist unable to escape the stamp of her class or the burdens of aging." — New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
3/5 59% Detour (2013) " At times the groan and scream of collapsing metal sounds so authentic you might mistake Jackson's heavy breathing for your own." — New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
2.5/5 64% Dog Pound () " Without a strong political point (unlike its source material), "Dog Pound" feels hollow and hopeless." — New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
3.5/5 69% New World (2013) " "New World" is both less bloody and more thoughtful than most of its genre, the shifting-alliances plot becoming more engrossing as it progresses." — New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
4/5 56% Come Out And Play (2013) " The film maintains a deliberately unhurried pace that builds tension naturally and with minimum interference from the soundtrack." — New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
5/5 90% My Brother The Devil (2013) " Nuances of faith, politics and sexual identity enrich what initially presents as a classic good son-bad son tale, and although the film's melting-pot patois is occasionally too dense to decipher, we get the gist." — New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
5/5 100% Cuchillo de palo (108) (2013) " Patiently photographed by Carlos Vásquez, who bestows the same gentle attention on grainy snapshots and the beautifully ruined face of an aging drag queen, "108" peels back layers of delusion and dishonesty." — New York Times
Posted Mar 17, 2013
2/5 50% Clip (2013) " The film's brutally honest parade of callous behavior and casual, almost cruel sex has a depressing prurience that wears you down." — New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
1.5/5 8% K-11 (2013) " A sordid prison drama that struts an unsteady line between full-on camp and "Oz"-style Darwinism." — New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
2/5 63% Vanishing Waves (2013) " This Lithuanian love story from Kristina Buozyte offers a discomfiting blend of visual ecstasy and narrative sterility." — New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
3/5 94% The Bitter Buddha (2013) " The film's unvarying lack of drama or direction can be wearing, but the schlubby originality of its subject fully repays the longueurs." — New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/5 39% The ABCs of Death (2013) " At its best when merging shocks with social commentary, this halting compilation improves significantly as it nears the end of the alphabet." — New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
2/5 65% Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (2013) " Ms. Diaz settles for a flabby, repetitive showcase for the songs and an attaboy for their newest singer." — New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3.5/5 71% Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) " Collated for momentum, the film's many interviews, wide-ranging archival footage and montage of modern ecological disasters form a blunt but carefully positioned instrument." — New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/5 46% The Sweeney (2013) " Mr. Winstone chews on this Cockney cops-and-robbers caper with foulmouthed glee." — New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
2.5/5 89% A Place at the Table (2013) " Revealing little that a moderately informed viewer will not already know, the film shies away from the outrage and bare-knuckle journalism that this shameful topic deserves." — New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
2/5 25% Phantom (2013) " The basis for the film's confusing, cliché-stuffed plot is the mysterious sinking of a Soviet submarine in 1968 - an event around which Mr. Robinson spins a yarn of unpardonable monotony." — New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
3.5/5 92% 11 Flowers (2013) " Poised on the brink of sexual awareness and the waning of the Cultural Revolution, an 11-year-old boy struggles to interpret the signals from his changing body and an increasingly confusing world." — New York Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
2.5/5 —— Stuck (2013) " While it's hard to concentrate on systemic problems when faced with the rotting teeth of an adorable Vietnamese orphan, it's those very problems that require our most intense scrutiny." — New York Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
2/5 19% Inescapable (2013) " A Canadian nonthriller that plays like a heavily sedated hybrid of "Taken" and "Not Without My Daughter" ..." — New York Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
4/5 65% The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013) " Compellingly illuminates how the monsters among us leave more than corpses in their wake." — New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
2/5 56% Would You Rather (2013) " A derivative horror movie with highfalutin pretensions." — New York Times
Posted Feb 8, 2013
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