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Jordan Cronk

Agrees with the Tomatometer 96% of the time.

Publications:: House Next Door , Slant Magazine

Total Reviews:: 40

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
5/5	100%	Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954)	" An influence on everyone from Michelangelo Antonioni to Jacques Rivette, this brave work still stands as a watershed." — Little White Lies Posted May 9, 2013
	88%	Starlet (2012)	" One of the best and most under-seen American indies of the last few years arrives in an impressive package from Music Box Films." — Slant Magazine Posted May 7, 2013
	——	Kuroi kawa (Black River) (1957)	" Masaki Kobayashi's sly incriminations would continue to resonate as an essential facet of his work for his entire career, though never at such a personal, distressing register as these four early films made for Shochiku Studios." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 17, 2013
	81%	In Another Country (2013)	" One of Hong Sang-soo's most effortless triumphs, a primary-colored comedy which nonchalantly dispenses hard truths, uncomfortable revelations, and spontaneous laughs." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2013
	100%	Tristana (1970)	" Luis Buñuel made one last momentous return to Spain in 1970 with Tristana, a multi-national production starring a French ingénue and a veteran of Spanish theater and television that would prove to be one of his most scathing, personal works." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 13, 2013
	100%	Narayama bushiko (Ballad of Narayama) (1958)	" Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 restaging of a harrowing Japanese folk tradition is at once stylistically theatrical and emotionally authentic, and an artistic artifact worthy of being passed down to future generations of cinephiles." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2013
	89%	The Quiet Man (1952)	" John Ford would fight against the currents of Hollywood to realize 1952's The Quiet Man, arguably his most personal work and one of the purest distillations of this charismatic personality's diverse artistic nature." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 23, 2013
	——	Spasi i sokhrani (Save and Protect) (Madame Bovary) (1990)	" This handsome, expertly curated collection rescues from certain fate three of Russian master Aleksandr Sokurov's greatest films." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 9, 2013
	——	Whispering Pages (1993)	" This handsome, expertly curated collection rescues from certain fate three of Russian master Aleksandr Sokurov's greatest films." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 9, 2013
	——	Konchû daisensô (Genocide) (War of the Insects) ()	" These four films are wildly creative and audacious, at once vivid and surreal, illogical and supremely dumb. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 2, 2013
	——	Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro (Body Snatcher from Hell)(Goke the Vampire) (1968)	" These four films are wildly creative and audacious, at once vivid and surreal, illogical and supremely dumb. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 2, 2013
	——	Uchu daikaijû Girara (The X from Outer Space) (Big Space Monster Guilala) (1967)	" These four films are wildly creative and audacious, at once vivid and surreal, illogical and supremely dumb. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 2, 2013
	——	The Man in Grey (1945)	" Gainsborough Pictures would, for about a three-year stretch in the mid-1940s, take the melodrama to heights yet untouched with a series of audacious, preposterous tales of treachery and deceit." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2012
	——	The Wicked Lady (1945)	" Gainsborough Pictures would, for about a three-year stretch in the mid-1940s, take the melodrama to heights yet untouched with a series of audacious, preposterous tales of treachery and deceit." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2012
	——	Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)	" Gainsborough Pictures would, for about a three-year stretch in the mid-1940s, take the melodrama to heights yet untouched with a series of audacious, preposterous tales of treachery and deceit." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2012
	90%	Little Shop of Horrors (1986)	" The original version Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors, a vivid musical maelstrom that positively revels in irreverent humor, is now finally allowed to run rampant over expectations and popular discretion, as intended." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2012
	100%	Les Visiteurs du Soir (The Devil's Envoys) (1942)	" Marcel Carné's subversive medieval fable de l'amour remains one of cinema's great paeans to everlasting love, a testament to the allure of allegiance and lengths we oftentimes go to relinquish or realize it." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 21, 2012
	——	Three Sisters (2013)	" There's a palpable sense of both anger and sympathy on the part of Wang for the plight of these people, which falls in line with his major topical concerns." — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	100%	Frances Ha (2013)	" Feels like an unusually intimate, personal piece, a return to Noah Baumbach's early, more naïvely optimistic phase." — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	25%	Passion (2013)	" It's all the more fun when one allows the surface pleasures to bolster its themes." — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	81%	Something in the Air (2013)	" As his career turned toward more mature, patient considerations in 2009 with Summer Hours, Assayas has begun to utilize his medium for more reflective purposes." — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" In the end, it's a particularly outré B-side to The Tree of Life's surprisingly more lucid and utilitarian watershed." — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" More companion piece than standalone work, but it's rare that such an complementary creation could be so much fun." — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	75%	Leviathan (2013)	" One of the most uniquely fashioned films ever produced. " — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	——	Gebo et l'ombre ()	" Work is often credited with keeping man alive." — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	——	Kibô no kuni (The Land of Hope) (2012)	" One hates to begrudge an artist the freedom to explore the possibilities of their medium, but a pair of films by two of Japan's most aesthetically radical cult directors have given me pause. " — House Next Door Posted Sep 17, 2012
	100%	Quadrophenia (1979)	" One of the most honest and detailed documents of the mid-'60s mod subculture in existence, Franc Roddam's 1979 cinematic realization of the Who's classic rock opera arrives on Blu-Ray in a superlative A/V presentation." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2012
	90%	Bernie (2012)	" One of the year's most unassumingly ambitious American narratives arrives in the digital marketplace, giving audiences a chance to see Jack Black's career best performance in an effortlessly entertaining film that fell through the cracks." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 22, 2012
	99%	Le Havre (2011)	" Criterion gives one of last year's finest films an excellent transfer, finally bringing Aki Kaurismäki into the high-definition landscape." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 2, 2012
—	94%	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012)	— Slant Magazine Posted Jul 7, 2012
	86%	Harold and Maude (1971)	" Hal Ashby's indelible fable of love and death receives a glorious debut on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. Augmented by a strong selection of extras, this is now the definitive version of the '70s cult classic in the digital realm." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 11, 2012
	86%	Too Late Blues (1961)	" John Cassavetes's first of only two studio films arrives on Blu-ray devoid of supplements but still simmering with the nascent emotion and turmoil that would come to mark the career of the independent iconoclast. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 6, 2012
	100%	Sommarlek (Summerplay) (Illicit Interlude) (Summer Interlude) (1951)	" Ingmar Bergman's pivotal Summer Interlude makes it's Region 1 debut in a pristine looking transfer from the Criterion Collection." — Slant Magazine Posted May 31, 2012
	——	The Joke (Zert) (1968)	" Six unique, groundbreaking films from the late 1960s Czechoslovakian cinematic renaissance-all but one making its Region1 debut-find a proper home in Criterion's vital Eclipse line." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2012
	——	Capricious Summer (1967)	" Six unique, groundbreaking films from the late 1960s Czechoslovakian cinematic renaissance-all but one making its Region1 debut-find a proper home in Criterion's vital Eclipse line." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2012
	——	Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)	" Six unique, groundbreaking films from the late 1960s Czechoslovakian cinematic renaissance-all but one making its Region1 debut-find a proper home in Criterion's vital Eclipse line." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2012
	80%	Daisies (2012)	" Six unique, groundbreaking films from the late 1960s Czechoslovakian cinematic renaissance-all but one making its Region1 debut-find a proper home in Criterion's vital Eclipse line." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2012
	——	Pearls of the Deep (1966)	" Six unique, groundbreaking films from the late 1960s Czechoslovakian cinematic renaissance-all but one making its Region1 debut-find a proper home in Criterion's vital Eclipse line." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2012
	75%	Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (Conversation Piece) (1974)	" Luchino Visconti's penultimate work makes its Region 1 digital debut, finally restoring the film's original aspect ratio via an authentic, uncompromised transfer." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2012

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