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Jeff Giles

Jeff Giles

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% 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:
32
Total QuickRatings:
32
Location:
New Hampshire

Movie Reviews Only

Showing 1 - 32 of 32
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
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
97% 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
78% 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
94% 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
95% Best Worst Movie (2010) " Stephenson has made a fun film, and there's nothing wrong with that -- but it's tempting to wonder what a more objective director might have done with this." — Collider.com
Posted May 12, 2010
4/5 71% Forrest Gump (1994) " Even if its success was overblown, so was the backlash." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Jan 20, 2010
95% Mary and Max (2009) " Like Mary and Max's friendship, this movie is an act of tenderness that will linger long after the closing credits roll." — Collider.com
Posted Oct 19, 2009
41% The Rocker (2008) " Perhaps The Rocker's most annoying feature is that it isn't completely terrible." — Collider.com
Posted Jan 8, 2009
—— Heroes Season 2 () " This time out, the writers were content to let storylines dawdle for weeks, a problem compounded when that nasty old writers' strike reared its head and the show's producers were left with a truncated 11-episode run." — Popdose
Posted Nov 16, 2008
1.5/5 39% Feast of Love (2007) " Let Google point you to this movie's finer moments, and leave the rest. It's really that bad." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Oct 18, 2008
4/5 100% Man on Wire (2008) " Petit showed us that a dream, no matter how risky or dangerous, is often its own reward. It's an important lesson, but one that's obviously easy to forget, and Man on Wire is a stunning reminder." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Jan 22, 2008
3/5 —— Live From the Artists Den - Patty Griffin (2007) " A set as solidly entertaining as you'd expect from an artist of Griffin's caliber." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Dec 1, 2007
3/5 —— Opus & Bill - A Wish For Wings That Work (1999) " Talking animals, brightly colored animation, a heartwarming moral to the story...what else could you possibly want out of a holiday 'toon?" — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Dec 1, 2007
2/5 —— Rock Relief: Live in Concert (2007) " If a disaster relief concert is held, and is itself a disaster, who raises money for the concert's victims?" — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Oct 16, 2007
4/5 —— Van Morrison - Live at Montreux 1980 & 1974 (2006) " The chance to see a rock & roll legend in his prime, for this kind of money, is something you really have to look for reasons not to take." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Oct 16, 2007
2.5/5 30% Flashdance (1983) " There's something real in here, and it could have made it to the screen, but the people involved were too shortsighted to see it through." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Oct 16, 2007
3/5 —— Greatest American Hero - Deluxe Collector's (2006) " Sets like these often make you question what the hell you were thinking when you tuned in the first time around, but in this case, nostalgia will likely outweigh buyer's remorse." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Oct 16, 2007
4/5 100% White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007) " To say that watching this footage is harrowing would be an understatement -- and to call watching it "painful" would be a serious insult to the survivors." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Oct 6, 2007
2/5 25% Tortilla Heaven (2007) " This corn Tortilla is an undercooked mess." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Mar 24, 2007
1/5 11% The Architect (2006) " It would bear mentioning that nothing winds up being resolved in the film, if it weren't for the fact that there's nothing to resolve." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Dec 30, 2006
0/5 7% Conversations With God (2006) " The cinematography has all the flair and depth of your average episode of "Yes, Dear"; the score is a giggle-inducing juggernaut of obviousness; Eric DelaBarre's script contains virtually no believable dialogue; and Stephen Simons' direction carries the s" — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Dec 7, 2006
4/5 97% Back to the Future (1985) " Although the Zemeckis and Gale script has its corny moments, it's also genius -- it combines action, romance, comedy, drama and science fiction with impressive dexterity, and has aged better than most of its contemporaries." — Bullz-Eye.com
Posted Jul 3, 1985
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