Josh Larsen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Biography:
Josh Larsen is the former movie critic for a group of Chicago-area newspapers and current co-host of Filmspotting. You can read his work at LarsenOnFilm.com.
Publications:
LarsenOnFilm , Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
Critics' Group:
Chicago Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
1587

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3.5/4 84% This Is the End (2013) " ...runs on some delicious self-critique." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Oct 6, 2013
3/4 98% Gravity (2013) " ...can't be denied as a landmark visceral experience, even if there are some solid reasons to resist it." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/4 86% Fearless (1993) " ...it's the sense of sadness that gives the movie its backbone." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Oct 2, 2013
2.5/4 83% Don Jon (2013) " Technology has enabled this Don to do what the original Don Juan may have ultimately wanted: to be pleasured alone, giving nothing of himself." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 30, 2013
3/4 91% I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Saibogujiman kwenchana) (2006) " ...strikes a balance between blithely endorsing the delusions of its mentally ill characters and comically demonizing them." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/4 83% Computer Chess (2013) " ...a movie of wry simplicity that has been subjected to all sorts of avant-garde tinkering." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 25, 2013
1.5/4 86% Haebyonui Yoin (Woman on the Beach) (2008) " None of it is very compelling, thanks in large part to Hong's painfully perfunctory camera style." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2.5/4 82% A Cat in Paris (2012) " ...has a delightfully idiosyncratic animated aesthetic - it's like an intermingling of Art Deco and Cubism - but the story is all odd angles" — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 21, 2013
2.5/4 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " If something smells false at all, it's the structure." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3.5/4 94% Barry Lyndon (1975) " ...the point at which Kubrick's black humor crosses over into blatant parody." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 10, 2013
4/4 97% 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) " ...reaches for the stars and finds itself, against all odds, on the other side of them." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 8, 2013
3/4 97% The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1968) " The true pleasures of The Young Girls of Rochefort are its smaller touches." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3.5/4 91% The Secret of Kells (2010) " Very few animated films have had such a mesmerizing, puzzle-like quality." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 5, 2013
0.5/4 80% Oldboy (2005) " ..seems to be about the awfulness and inhumanity of vengeance. But watch how the film moves." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 1, 2013
2.5/4 87% 3-Iron (2004) " Evanescence is the movie's most distinguishing characteristic." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 1, 2013
3/4 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " It takes more than intertitles and explanatory voiceovers to derail a master like Wong." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 29, 2013
4/4 100% Hombre (1967) " "...depicts the American West as a collision of codes."" — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 28, 2013
2/4 42% 52 Pick-Up (1986) " ...may very well suffer from mismatched sensibilities." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 24, 2013
3.5/4 83% From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) " The magic is found in the everyday details of domestic life." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3.5/4 89% The World's End (2013) " Pegg and Wright's movies laugh, bleed and explode in the face of maturity, even as they begrudgingly recognize the virtue of it." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3/4 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " The central tension in Prince Avalanche is one between solitude and community." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 18, 2013
4/4 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " ..intentionally keeps comprehension at bay, and therein lies its moral forcefulness." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 18, 2013
3.5/4 97% Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (Microcosmos) (1996) " ...inverts our understanding of the cosmos." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 15, 2013
4/4 100% Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1999) " ...suddenly we have the cinema - that glorious mutt art." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 13, 2013
3.5/4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " ...takes tragedies that have inflamed a nation - from Fruitvale to Sanford, Fla. - and brings them back down to human scale." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 11, 2013
3/4 68% Elysium (2013) " ...captivated me with its depiction of a not-so-far-off future and the technology that governs it." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 7, 2013
3.5/4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " ...a remarkably precise portrait of a certain sort of high schooler." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 7, 2013
2/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " If only this performance was in a different movie, one more at sync with the panic that glints in Blanchett's eyes." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 31, 2013
3.5/4 98% A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) " Tennessee Williams filled the tinderbox. Marlon Brando ignited it." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 31, 2013
3/4 100% The Invisible Man (1933) " Alarming, both for the way it allows its antihero to fully fall into madness and for the violence that this fall involves." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 30, 2013
3/4 91% Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) " ...makes me wish Allen would get men out of the picture more often." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 30, 2013
3.5/4 93% Top of the Lake (2013) " ...less interested in correcting the abusive patriarchy at its center than worming around in the ugliness such a power structure generates." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 28, 2013
3/4 86% The Conjuring (2013) " Sometimes a good horror film makes you chuckle." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 24, 2013
1.5/4 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " If it's possible to overact while barely blinking, Ryan Gosling achieves it." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2/4 84% Westworld (1973) " There is some satire here - the devouring tourist becoming prey - but Crichton just lets the joke sit there, heavy on the screen." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 17, 2013
2/4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " ...never quite tingles your brain the way superior science fiction can." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 14, 2013
3/4 47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " "...gleeful self-distraction in the face of impending doom." " — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 10, 2013
3/5 54% Post Tenebras Lux (2013) " If there's a unifying concept to all of this it's the idea of defilement." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 3, 2013
1.5/4 75% Despicable Me 2 (2013) " ...partly another adventure, but its main concern is romantic matchmaking." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 2, 2013
1/4 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " Instead of a noble savage, Depp gives us a comic savage - Willy Wonka with a dead bird on his head." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 2, 2013
2/4 65% The Heat (2013) " Is it possible that Melissa McCarthy needs to be more abrasive?" — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 27, 2013
2/4 78% Monsters University (2013) " ...a movie of unsure identity and unclear purpose." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 21, 2013
3.5/4 100% Simón del desierto (Simon of the Desert) (1965) " It's in the circus that surrounds Simon where we really see Bunuel's dark wit at play..." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 21, 2013
3.5/4 96% Monsters, Inc. (2001) " ...the movie becomes a giddy, kiddie inversion of time and space." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 20, 2013
3.5/4 67% World War Z (2013) " "...a B picture on a massive budget."" — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 19, 2013
3/4 84% Much Ado About Nothing (2013) " ...high art as a refreshing summer spritzer." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 18, 2013
3/4 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " ...an account of youthful disaffection being assuaged by excessive materialism." — Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
Posted Jun 14, 2013
3/4 93% Superman (1978) " ...a studio product, certainly, but also something that could have grown from one of Smallville's sun-kissed cornfields." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 13, 2013
1.5/4 56% Man of Steel (2013) " The movie opens on Superman's home planet of Krypton, and in a sense it never leaves." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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