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Jeffrey Chen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Biography:: Jeff's movie-loving father made movies more a part of his life by opening a couple of video stores. His born-again movie-loving son now makes movies a part of his life by writing reviews about them. Jeff writes for ReelTalkReviews.com and his own site, windowtothemovies.com.
Publications:: ReelTalk Movie Reviews , Window to the Movies
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 1082

Location:: Los Angeles, CA

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
7/10	96%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)	" The successful run of a franchise such as this is truly a rare feat in Hollywood. Take a bow, folks." — Window to the Movies Posted Aug 3, 2011
7/10	91%	Source Code (2011)	" Duncan Jones's sophomore film, Source Code, is an assured second step into the realm of thoughtful science fiction." — Window to the Movies Posted Aug 3, 2011
5/10	73%	The Adjustment Bureau (2011)	" Eventually the whole thing feels a little too silly to be able to take any of its inherent concerns meaningfully." — Window to the Movies Posted Jul 26, 2011
6/10	93%	Of Gods and Men (2011)	" Confirms without really challenging our readily held beliefs about the nobility of selflessness and sacrifice." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 20, 2011
7/10	88%	Rango (2011)	" Kudos to the director for making it as oddball as it could get away with." — Window to the Movies Posted Jul 20, 2011
4/10	11%	Red Riding Hood (2011)	" Like Twilight, makes the shallow desire to run away with a boy the heroine's main concern." — Window to the Movies Posted Jul 15, 2011
8/10	90%	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011)	" One to absorb, to wonder at, and, perhaps most significantly, to give exposure to lines of thinking that one might not be familiar with." — Window to the Movies Posted Jul 14, 2011
7/10	38%	Cars 2 (2011)	" No, Cars 2 isn't another pearl from Pixar, but it's entertaining and well-made." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 25, 2011
10/10	84%	The Tree of Life (2011)	" Its assembly alone makes a case for its achieving cinematic heights. It's a work of great confidence, asking its audience to observe, reflect, and feel." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 22, 2011
8/10	93%	Another Year (2010)	" [Observes] the thin lines and acute angles which separate well-adjusted people on a continuing path of contentment from the less fortunate ones who live lives of regret and desperation. " — Window to the Movies Posted Jun 17, 2011
6/10	64%	Biutiful (2010)	" Even though this movie piles it on, I can see its positive values and the potential it would have to reach the hearts of its audience." — Window to the Movies Posted Jun 16, 2011
4/10	24%	The Dilemma (2011)	" Feels like a throwaway effort by everyone involved." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 7, 2011
5/10	44%	The Green Hornet (2011)	" Derivative of several molds and unable to really take command of any of them." — Window to the Movies Posted Jun 3, 2011
7/10	73%	Megamind (2010)	" Would be lost in the crowd, perhaps deservedly so, if it didn't pull aces on its execution." — Window to the Movies Posted May 26, 2011
8/10	96%	Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011)	" We will likely never be able to see this amazing place in person. Thanks to Herzog for giving us the next best thing." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 20, 2011
7/10	88%	Blue Valentine (2010)	" From the movie's standpoint, [its story] is a common tragedy that deserves acknowledgment and pity, and it pulls absolutely no punches in sharing its view." — Window to the Movies Posted May 12, 2011
5/10	49%	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)	" The lead kids here have their charms, and while the film is functional it lacks distinction and a passionate sense of drive." — Window to the Movies Posted May 12, 2011
7/10	77%	Thor (2011)	" A well-balanced mixture of summer movie pop aesthetics -- not too serious, not too light, with a flare for visual pizazz and big personality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 9, 2011
6/10	32%	How Do You Know (2010)	" What makes any of these kinds of movies run involves the appeal of the main actors, and all three, stalwart in their screen likabilities, smooth the proceedings." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 3, 2011
4/10	20%	The Tourist (2010)	" Depp and Jolie together create a chemical black hole. They couldn't produce sparks with dry hair and a comb." — Window to the Movies Posted May 3, 2011
7/10	92%	Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster (2011)	" The movie is simply an entertaining second chance to see more of this man of character in action." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 23, 2011
5/10	48%	Love and Other Drugs (2010)	" There were several potential avenues to develop here, but the film settles for something conventional and sentimental with its love story." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 8, 2011
7/10	97%	Animal Kingdom (2010)	" Michôd takes familiar material and approaches it with less emphasis on the sensational and more on the surreal atmosphere of accepted dread." — Window to the Movies Posted Apr 8, 2011
7/10	79%	Fair Game (2010)	" A drama about the cost of idealism and sticking to your guns in order to bring truth to the light." — Window to the Movies Posted Apr 1, 2011
7/10	52%	The Next Three Days (2010)	" Haggis somehow pulls off a delicate balancing act -- a gravity-bound fantasy scenario -- showing us John's desperate, dark, human need while playing out made-for-movie scenes." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 21, 2011
7/10	86%	Unstoppable (2010)	" Scott subdues his more stylized tendencies to deliver the kind of meat-and-potatoes action thriller that might very well be watched and enjoyed by the heroic blue collar characters in this movie." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 21, 2011
3/10	9%	My Soul to Take (2010)	" Is it just possible that Craven fumbled the ball this time and gave us the equivalent of a fairly amateur teen horror flick?" — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 21, 2011
7/10	85%	Easy A (2010)	" It does get by on lively energy, a creativity in its writing, and a star turn by Stone." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 21, 2011
6/10	42%	Gedo senki (Tales from Earthsea) (2010)	" A passable piece from the junior Miyazaki, and one only hopes the reservation in voice felt here will be far more loosened in future projects." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 16, 2011
8/10	90%	The Illusionist (L'illusionniste) (2010)	" To give Tati his posthumous chance to express a very sad story may have been Chomet's only true course, and, to be honest, the film is beautifully, thoughtfully realized." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 16, 2011
10/10	98%	Inside Job (2010)	" We want them to go to jail and realize the horror of what they've done? Is that too much to hope for? The answer may be too hard to face." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 14, 2011
6/10	81%	Four Lions (2010)	" The comedy is as black as can be, both silly and sharp ... It just doesn't quite succeed in its Dr. Strangelove-inspired goal." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 8, 2011
8/10	88%	White Material (2010)	" Vial is presented as a complex character who feels she's been backed against a wall, and on the one hand we can see where she's coming from, but on the other hand we might think she's just nuts." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 4, 2011
9/10	98%	Marwencol (2010)	" Speaks to the addictiveness, the catharsis, the unpredictability, and the eternity of the creative process." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 4, 2011
7/10	96%	Sweetgrass (2009)	" The movie is decidedly no frills, and it both lives and dies by this strict adherence to its protocol." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 2, 2011
9/10	92%	Vincere (2010)	" The events occur not to tell a narrative, but to illustrate an emotional progress." — Window to the Movies Posted Mar 2, 2011
8/10	90%	Fish Tank (2010)	" Reveals the incidental arrival of the first trickles of emerging maturity." — Window to the Movies Posted Feb 28, 2011
5/10	54%	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010)	" Lisbeth Salander, played by Noomi Rapace, spends most of the story constrained -- first in the hospital, then in prison. What fun is that?" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 24, 2011
7/10	66%	Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010)	" Resnais is having fun here, possibly at the expense of audiences who demand tradition." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 24, 2011
5/10	45%	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)	" Although Allen's field of poorly adjusted people may be interesting to watch run around for a while, they shed little new light on an already well-expressed cynical point of view." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 20, 2011
5/10	59%	Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)	" Not only drags out too long, it fails to pay off at the end." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 20, 2011
8/10	72%	Enter the Void (Soudain le vide) (2010)	" The discipline on display here, to stick with concept and to execute it with consistency, is intense and considerable." — Window to the Movies Posted Feb 14, 2011
8/10	89%	Alle Anderen (Everyone Else) (2010)	" Notable for its realism ... striking in its simple relatability." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 14, 2011
6/10	43%	Ong Bak 3 (2011)	" The 'enlightened' defensive fighting of Jaa, whose screen presence is more crucial than ever here in selling this scenario, pulls it off -- but just by a hair." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 10, 2011
8/10	32%	A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop (San qiang pai an jing qi) (A Simple Noodle Story) (The First Gun) (2010)	" A valentine from one director to a famous team of others." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 9, 2011
6/10	79%	Nowhere Boy (2010)	" A passable drama, and might make a nice double feature with Backbeat." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 9, 2011
9/10	92%	Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2010)	" A kind of ingenious horror show you just can't take your eyes off of." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 2, 2011
3/10	23%	Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)	" The law of diminishing returns rears its ugly, ugly head with Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth movie in a series that is going absolutely nowhere." — Window to the Movies Posted Feb 2, 2011
6/10	55%	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)	" Those who see [Gordon Gekko] as an antihero worthy of redemption might find this kinder, gentler Wall Street worth sitting through." — Window to the Movies Posted Feb 2, 2011

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