Josh Larsen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% 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:
1527

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/4 47% The Great Gatsby (2013) " If you're able to make it through the first party scene at Gatsby's mansion, you'll come out on the other side to find a film of surprising restraint and patience." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted May 8, 2013
2/4 78% Iron Man 3 (2013) " A shrug of a film ... that has the diminutive stature of a DVD extra." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted May 1, 2013
3/4 98% Mud (2013) " I liked Mud. What's frustrating is feeling as if I could have loved it." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 28, 2013
3.5/4 46% Pain & Gain (2013) " I can't help but wonder if Pain & Gain is the reason Michael Bay was put on this earth." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 24, 2013
3/4 87% Upstream Color (2013) " ...works on its own idiosyncratic wavelength, one that isn't alienating, but isn't quite approachable either." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 24, 2013
3/4 73% Primer (2004) " Where's Doc Brown when you need him?" — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 22, 2013
4/4 95% Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) " In Spielberg, the cosmic has dinner-table consequences." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 19, 2013
3.5/4 90% The Shining (1980) " ...above all a movie about spaces, and how few things are more frightening than not knowing which way to go." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 19, 2013
3.5/4 87% Lola Montès (The Fall of Lola Montes) (The Sins of Lola Montes) (1955) " "...lingers as a sensational fever dream."" — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 12, 2013
3.5/4 68% Trance (2013) " ...most enjoyable for the way each of the three leads offers a twist on classic noir archetypes." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 11, 2013
3.5/4 42% To The Wonder (2013) " If To the Wonder is Malick's most personal film, it's also his most tragic." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 10, 2013
3/4 62% Evil Dead (2013) " ...a blatant allegory in which drug addiction stands in for demonic possession (and vice versa)." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Apr 3, 2013
2/4 98% The Evil Dead (1981) " ...certainly notable as the announcement of an eager talent, but I'd have a difficult time praising the picture as much more than that." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Mar 30, 2013
4/4 100% The Earrings of Madame De... (Diamond Earrings) (1954) " ...exquisite, both in its lavish craftsmanship and in the way it captures the acute joy (and pain) of romantic love." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Mar 28, 2013
2/4 66% Spring Breakers (2013) " ...a fantasy version of Steubenville that does nothing to help us understand the sort of aggression that has become such a dominant part of youth culture." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Mar 25, 2013
3/4 100% La Ronde (1950) " In what it means to do - capture the first rush of attraction - La Ronde has few screen equals." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Mar 21, 2013
2/4 43% Admission (2013) " Make up your mind, Admission. Do you want to go to Princeton or not?" — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Mar 21, 2013
3.5/4 90% Beyond The Hills (2013) " ...if Beyond the Hills is an exorcism movie, the scariest thing about it is that there isn't a demon to be found." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Mar 14, 2013
3/4 60% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " In one picture we have everything that's right and wrong about the contemporary blockbuster experience." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Mar 11, 2013
3/4 100% Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) " ...a women's picture that nonetheless turns on male chauvinism." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/4 67% Stoker (2013) " ...captures the way adolescence blurs far more lines than the one between youth and adulthood." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 28, 2013
3.5/4 82% Like Someone in Love (2013) " If there is a visual equivalent to that title song - the Billie Holiday version is favored here - Kiarostami seems to have found it." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 23, 2013
1.5/4 92% The Three Faces of Eve (1957) " ...turns a psychological condition into a parlor trick." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 18, 2013
3.5/4 97% A Night at the Opera (1935) " ...Groucho's flirtation with respectability and devilish realization that it's much more rewarding to play the clown." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 18, 2013
2/4 92% Duck Soup (1933) " ...a glaring example of the element of the Marx Brothers' comedy that's always bothered me: the reliance on insults and cruelty." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 18, 2013
3/4 15% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " ...true to the series in one crucial way: its zen-like commitment to wanton chaos." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 13, 2013
2/4 85% Side Effects (2013) " As the twists piled on, I found them increasingly strained and eventually alienating." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 7, 2013
1.5/4 16% A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) " If Sheen brings any presence to the screen, it's geriatric." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 5, 2013
3/4 66% CQ (2002) " Coppola gives CQ a sense of style and humor that makes the navel-gazing bearable. " — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 2, 2013
2/4 89% Grey Gardens (1975) " There is something unseemly in the choice to document the Beales at all. " — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 1, 2013
3/4 93% Monkey Business (1931) " ...allows for a welcome bit of personal space between the audience and the comedians' antics. " — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 1, 2013
2/4 79% Flight (2012) " ...isn't true to the hard work of confession." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Feb 1, 2013
3/4 96% Animal Crackers (1930) " What's most evident, however, is the raging egomania at the center of the brothers' comedy - Groucho in particular." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jan 30, 2013
2/4 63% Hitchcock (2012) " ...the movie's on-the-nose vision of the man makes for an unsurprising narrative." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jan 7, 2013
3.5/4 81% The Impossible (2012) " ...always aware of how this traumatic experience would be filtered through this particular family." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jan 7, 2013
3.5/4 88% Django Unchained (2012) " Despite the way it functions as flashy entertainment, the weight of slavery can still be felt in Django Unchained." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 21, 2012
3/4 83% Ganja & Hess (Black Vampire) (1973) " ...an experimental overlapping of dialogue, image, voiceover and music that makes you feel as if you're suffering from an awful fever dream." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 19, 2012
3/4 70% Les Misérables (2012) " ...a Les Miserables inspired by Christina Aguilera's "Voice," for better and for worse." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 19, 2012
1.5/4 52% This is 40 (2012) " ...an irate rant masquerading as a cute family project." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 19, 2012
4/4 93% Amour (2012) " ...true to the awfulness of aging, yet Haneke also unveils a trait I didn't previously associate with him: mercy." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 18, 2012
3.5/4 95% The Queen of Versailles (2012) " ...their plight plays like the financial crisis in miniature. Or perhaps it's in macro. " — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 15, 2012
3/4 66% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " "...after seeing The Hobbit I couldn't wait to see it again - projected at 24 frames per second and without 3-D."" — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 12, 2012
2/4 38% Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) " (Murray) erases any trace of his own comically morose persona and gives us a kind old uncle figure. Hardly a fair trade in my opinion." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 7, 2012
3.5/4 93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " ...much of Zero Dark Thirty works to subvert the gender expectations we might have as an audience." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 5, 2012
3.5/4 68% Wuthering Heights (2012) " ...almost unbearably sensual - and not only in a sexual way." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Dec 1, 2012
3/4 80% Cooley High (1975) " ...emphasizes the thin line that exists between a life of promise and a life of prison (or worse, death) for kids growing up in a neighborhood like this." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Nov 29, 2012
1.5/4 76% Killing Them Softly (2012) " ...a clever-enough idea - ratty criminal enterprise as the American economy in miniature - but the movie hammers its theme home, repeatedly." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Nov 29, 2012
3.5/4 55% Black Caesar (1973) " "Paid the cost to be the boss," declares James Brown on the soundtrack, and Black Caesar functions as an itemized bill." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Nov 26, 2012
3.5/4 92% Silver Linings Playbook (2012) " ...recalls the screwball psychiatry of Russell's earlier efforts, only this time the farce has heart." — LarsenOnFilm
Posted Nov 26, 2012
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