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Jeff Giles

Jeff Giles

Agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

Biography:
I'm a freelance music and film critic, which means a lot of people mistake me for Newsweek's Jeff Giles (I even get his mail sometimes). I am not Newsweek's Jeff Giles. Also, I like long walks on the beach.
Publications:
Bullz-Eye.com , Collider.com , Dadnabbit , Movies With Butter , Popdose , Rotten Tomatoes
Total Reviews:
47
Location:
New Hampshire

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

Showing 1 - 47 of 47
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
98% Gravity (2013) " No matter what kind of film fan you might be, Gravity offers 91 of the most unforgettable minutes you're likely to spend at a theater anytime soon." — Movies With Butter
Posted Oct 4, 2013
93% Muscle Shoals (2013) " Whether or not you've even heard of Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, or Lynyrd Skynyrd, this is one lovely testament to the the power of the human heart." — Movies With Butter
Posted Sep 18, 2013
86% Blue Caprice (2013) " It's just a movie, but it might also be a warning." — Movies With Butter
Posted Sep 17, 2013
42% All Is Bright (2013) " You don't feel like anyone's better off at the end of this film, and none of the characters seem to have learned much of anything. It's just a dark interlude in their lives that ends with a sigh and a shrug." — Movies With Butter
Posted Sep 16, 2013
89% Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) " They say information wants to be free, but after watching this delightful documentary, I'm not so sure -- I think what it might really want is to be wanted." — Movies With Butter
Posted Sep 15, 2013
69% I Declare War (2013) " Anyone with even the faintest memory of their middle-school years should come away feeling bittersweet recognition -- and maybe even a little shaken up, too." — Movies With Butter
Posted Aug 29, 2013
100% Rewind This! (2013) " Even if you grew up during the VHS era, you may never have connected the dots between the format's '80s home invasion and the entertainment marketplace we live in now -- an evolution Rewind This! traces in fascinating fashion." — Movies With Butter
Posted Aug 28, 2013
92% This Is Martin Bonner (2013) " If you consider yourself any kind of film fan, I can't recommend This Is Martin Bonner highly enough." — Movies With Butter
Posted Aug 26, 2013
33% Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013) " Bereft of momentum or purpose, it just sort of putters around on the narrative byways for a couple of hours until it coasts to a stop." — Movies With Butter
Posted Aug 25, 2013
80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " Even though you might look at Drinking Buddies' poster and blanch at the memory of rental fees lost to low-grade exercises in '90s indie cinema, it's actually got a lot more going for it." — Movies With Butter
Posted Aug 21, 2013
78% Europa Report (2013) " If the sum is rather less than its parts, those parts are often more entertaining than you might expect." — Movies With Butter
Posted Aug 1, 2013
—— Charles Bradley: Soul Of America () " Aside from making you want to dance, sing, hug Charles Bradley, and buy all his records, the movie makes you think. This is an important film -- and one that treats the viewer to a damn fine soundtrack in the bargain." — Movies With Butter
Posted Jul 31, 2013
86% The Conjuring (2013) " For much of its running time, Wan gets a lot of mileage out of toying with the audience's expectations using subtle feints followed by jump-in-your-seat jolts." — Movies With Butter
Posted Jul 19, 2013
72% Pacific Rim (2013) " In the long run, the fact that a director like del Toro felt compelled to make it probably says deeply troubling things about the future of the studio system. But for at least two hours and 11 minutes, it's a heck of a lot of fun." — Movies With Butter
Posted Jul 12, 2013
78% Monsters University (2013) " You can see it as a poignant tribute to dreams denied and outsiders pressured to fit in, or you can simply soak it in the way my kids (7 and 5) did: "That was the best movie ever because it was funny."" — Movies With Butter
Posted Jun 21, 2013
56% Man of Steel (2013) " Proves, once again, that big explosions are not an adequate substitute for genuine epic scale." — Movies With Butter
Posted Jun 14, 2013
99% 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) " Their enduring faith in the redemptive power of song offers a subtle, exultant rebuttal to the American Idol dream of overnight fame as a means to its own end." — Movies With Butter
Posted Jun 7, 2013
50% Now You See Me (2013) " The whole movie ends up coming across like Wallace Shawn's character in The Princess Bride: so smug in its belief that it's already outwitted you that it ends up poisoning itself before the story's halfway over." — Movies With Butter
Posted Jun 1, 2013
87% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " Expertly wields impressive CGI effects and boffo set pieces in service of a strong message, confidently expressed with some of the best acting and dialogue in Trek history." — Movies With Butter
Posted May 17, 2013
79% Iron Man 3 (2013) " In spite of some killer set pieces and some genuinely funny moments, the whole thing feels awfully hollow in the end." — Movies With Butter
Posted May 3, 2013
93% Amour (2012) " One of the most thoughtful, tenderly wrought ruminations on love in recent memory." — Movies With Butter
Posted Dec 19, 2012
52% This is 40 (2012) " It has a terrific cast and a rich premise. So why doesn't This Is 40 feel like much of a movie?" — Movies With Butter
Posted Dec 16, 2012
65% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " By the end, An Unexpected Journey has undeniably taken you on a ride -- it's just a much bumpier one than you might have expected." — Movies With Butter
Posted Dec 16, 2012
74% Rise of the Guardians (2012) " Unless you have a serious bias against major holiday mascots, you'll be hard pressed to resist the occasional chuckle or wistful sigh." — Movies With Butter
Posted Nov 22, 2012
48% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) " Taken on its own merits, it's a woefully uneven mess; if you've never understood the appeal of The Twilight Saga, nothing you see here will change your mind, but you probably weren't going to see it anyway." — Movies With Butter
Posted Nov 18, 2012
92% Skyfall (2012) " A lithe, brutal case study in how characters can stay vital no matter how many stories they've already told." — Movies With Butter
Posted Nov 10, 2012
86% Wreck-it Ralph (2012) " Wreck-It Ralph addresses its themes with more honesty and wit than we've come to feel we have any right to expect from family-friendly Hollywood." — Movies With Butter
Posted Nov 2, 2012
96% Argo (2012) " Uses old-fashioned Hollywood formula to demonstrate exactly why, in the right hands, old-fashioned Hollywood formula always works." — Movies With Butter
Posted Oct 15, 2012
93% Looper (2012) " Only Johnson's third film, Looper's something like a modern masterpiece, and he'll be hard-pressed to follow it up -- but it should be our pleasure to watch him try." — Movies With Butter
Posted Sep 29, 2012
34% Hall Pass (2011) " Hall Pass definitely had its moments, but it's nowhere near as funny as it should have been, or as insightful as it wants to be." — Popdose
Posted Jun 13, 2011
94% The Outlaw Josey Wales (1999) " A niche is a niche for a reason; Eastwood was damn good at this stuff, and while most of his Westerns were pretty solid, some are better than others. The Outlaw Josey Wales rides near the head of the pack." — Popdose
Posted Jun 3, 2011
66% The American (2010) " It shuffles dejectedly between dull and pretentious, and you can't help shaking the feeling that Clooney took the gig because it offered a European vacation and very little dialogue to memorize." — Popdose
Posted Dec 30, 2010
86% Inception (2010) " Does it live up to the hype? No, of course not. But it treats you like a thinking adult. That this is so refreshing says more about the current state of mainstream film than it does about Inception, but it still feels pretty terrific." — Popdose
Posted Dec 28, 2010
94% The Town (2010) " The Town is a solid heist flick, and one of the better mainstream action thrillers (or even dramas) to come out in 2010, but that all the critical praise and awards hype is more than a little overblown." — Popdose
Posted Dec 28, 2010
80% Cyrus (2010) " While there's something really lovely about a movie that treats characters this broken with such care and nobility, I couldn't help wishing they were held together by a stronger narrative thread." — Popdose
Posted Dec 28, 2010
52% Going the Distance (2010) " There's something wrong with a movie that leaves you pining for its supporting players." — Popdose
Posted Dec 8, 2010
96% Fantasia (1940) " Do you love animation? Do you love music? This deserves a spot in your collection, no questions asked." — Dadnabbit
Posted Dec 8, 2010
71% Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010) " Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue is built on rich, clever storytelling that ties into the Disney tradition more strongly than you'd have a right to expect." — Dadnabbit
Posted Dec 8, 2010
92% Beauty and the Beast (2012) " Until Disney can bring Walt Disney back to life and bundle his reanimated corpse with the Ultra Mega Diamond Edition, this is absolutely the definitive version to own. Simply excellent." — Dadnabbit
Posted Dec 8, 2010
88% The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (2008) " Don't believe flamingos can hold your attention for 78 minutes? Turn on your hi-def set and prepare to get pink." — Dadnabbit
Posted Dec 8, 2010
81% Oceans (Disneynature's Oceans) (2010) " Dive in." — Dadnabbit
Posted Dec 8, 2010
93% Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) " In a lot of cases, it's hard to understand a classic's appeal so far removed from its original context, but this isn't the case with Mutiny on the Bounty. It's as gripping as it was when it originally sailed into theaters." — Popdose
Posted Dec 8, 2010
46% Ocean's Eleven (1960) " It's a goofy trifle of a heist flick, perfect for whiling away a couple of hours or pining away for the days when men were men and broads were dames." — Popdose
Posted Dec 8, 2010
87% Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) " Does a fine job of ratcheting up the tension while still allowing for playful moments and plenty of action." — Popdose
Posted Dec 8, 2010
84% The Sound of Music (1965) " Filled with gorgeous cinematography and timeless songs, this is family entertainment at its finest - they just don't make 'em like this anymore." — Popdose
Posted Dec 8, 2010
81% Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) " Is it the cinematic marvel the fanboys made it out to be? Maybe not. But is it one of the most effervescent, purely fun films of the year? Absolutely." — Popdose
Posted Dec 8, 2010
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