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Joshua Rothkopf

Joshua Rothkopf

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography:
Senior Film Critic for Time Out New York
Publications:
Chicago Reader , City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , Time Out , Time Out New York , Time Out Sydney
Critics' Group:
Chicago Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
1155

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/5 8% Argento's Dracula 3D (2013) " Some viewers will get unintended jollies from a gigantic, rampaging grasshopper; others, from the director's queasy-making penchant for unclothing his exhibitionist daughter Asia." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 1, 2013
1/5 78% The Dirties (2013) " Technically cruddy and tiresome in its we've-seen-a-lot-of-movies dialogue ..." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 1, 2013
4/5 98% Gravity (2013) " Cuarón, a magician who brought personality to the Harry Potter series, is after pure, near-experimental spectacle." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 1, 2013
3/5 74% Concussion (2013) " The ambitions of writer-director Stacie Passon's plot feel too tame, revving up to a scene of shame rather than radical revision. The Kids Are All Right pushed similar material to more affecting ends." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 1, 2013
3/5 85% We Are What We Are (2013) " Outside of its cracked psychology (well conveyed by papa Bill Sage), We Are What We Are is horror leftovers, neither inedible nor piping hot." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 24, 2013
3/5 94% Muscle Shoals (2013) " This geeked-out tribute to the rural Alabama town that birthed an improbable amount of classic R&B and rock doesn't have a theory behind its parade of hits. Not that you'll mind very much ..." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 24, 2013
4/5 78% Metallica Through the Never (2013) " Arguably, the band has never been as tight as it is with lurking bassist Robert Trujillo; director Nimród Antal knows exactly where to place his roving camera to sop up every double-pedal drum flurry and wailing solo." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 24, 2013
2/5 88% Rush (2013) " These are classic frenemies; their tale deserves more gas in the tank." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 17, 2013
97% 12 Years a Slave (2013) " It's not too soon to call 12 Years a Slave a great film-ruined, tremulously sad, surreal in its evil." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 13, 2013
4/5 —— Le Joli Mai (1963) " It's never fully uninflected like authentic vérité, but the material gets at a kind of truth: the chatty anxieties of shopkeepers, passersby, mothers and sons, all grappling with the changing world of May 1962." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 11, 2013
3/5 86% Blue Caprice (2013) " Blue Caprice is probably what more post-9/11 cinema should have been: desperate for explanations, inchoate and wrapped in unspoken loneliness." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 11, 2013
5/5 89% Russian Ark (2002) " This is as immersive-and as Shining-level spooky-as history gets." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 3, 2013
2/5 23% A Teacher (2013) " The movie plays out in a depressingly obvious way, and you have to laugh at the finale's big cry, set to Lee Moses's "If Loving You Is a Crime (I'll Always Be Guilty)." Really?" — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 3, 2013
4/5 91% Il Futuro (2013) " Il Futuro, aptly bereft of actual Italians, teases out the idea of thrown-off foreigners, bridged by fluid identities." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 3, 2013
4/5 91% Our Nixon (2013) " The real takeaway here is a tone of dawning tragedy, sourness sneaking into even the most innocuous of visual records." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 27, 2013
4/5 75% You're Next (2013) " Nothing here is new, but you can't call expert craft like this warmed-over. Solidly satisfying with ruthless forward momentum, the film plays like a minor triumph." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 21, 2013
5/5 89% The World's End (2013) " Wright still cuts his footage with a youthful vigor, capturing every tapped pint of lager with a snappy hiss, but his players (especially Frost and Pegg) are ready to go darker." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 21, 2013
3/5 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " Wong has done this dynamic better in virtually all of his past work; there's a pretty dullness here that shouldn't be confused for mastery." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 21, 2013
3/5 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " You'll love the film when it's being quiet; alas, it begins a slow slide toward cutesy meeting of the minds, which, even in these capable actors' hands, comes off like an indie cliché." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 6, 2013
3/5 91% In a World... (2013) " With so many ideas to work with, why does Bell infantilize her elsewhere-confident main character as yet another disheveled woman-child?" — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 6, 2013
3/5 71% The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (2013) " The experiment isn't more than a slice of life, but at least it's a generous one." — Time Out New York
Posted Aug 6, 2013
4/5 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " You watch the movie with your heart in your throat ..." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 30, 2013
1/5 22% The Canyons (2013) " When he isn't indulging in pretentious shots of abandoned, ruined movie theaters, [Schrader] traffics in the kind of dirty-old-man cinema he used to be able to criticize from a distance in films like Auto Focus." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 30, 2013
3/5 69% The Wolverine (2013) " Too quickly the random fights pile up -- so many yakuza thugs who forgot to wear chain mail that morning -- and you yearn for the film that might have been." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 26, 2013
5/5 83% Escape from New York (1981) " The movie proudly wears its affection for crusty Sergio Leone archetypes and countdown-clock suspense sequences; Carpenter was Tarantino long before Tarantino was." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 23, 2013
5/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " The essence of Blue Jasmine feels timely, even years into America's limp rebound from recession: How do we start over, when guilt can't be fully processed and sacrifice is demeaned?" — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 19, 2013
5/5 87% The Conjuring (2013) " It takes a retro-fashioned winner like The Conjuring to remind us that if the creaky, old house ain't broke, don't fix it." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 16, 2013
3/5 81% Crystal Fairy (2013) " Working from autobiographical material, Sebastián Silva does wonders with these two dedicated performances-the ice king and the earth goddess, both of them neurotically detached from their sunny surroundings." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 10, 2013
4/5 95% The Hunt (2013) " Stories of whispered ruination are especially apt in today's virtual playground; The Hunt reminds us that even an innocent face can undo a life." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 10, 2013
5/5 100% 12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) (1957) " Too few films take on the art of arguing as a subject; we could certainly use more of them, but until then, Lumet's window into strained civic duty will continue to serve mightily." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 3, 2013
3/5 56% The Look of Love (2013) " Zippy and saturated with soft-core nudity, The Look of Love isn't hard to watch ..." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 2, 2013
4/5 80% Laurence Anyways (2013) " Forgive this film its marvelous moodiness-someone needs to go there once in a while." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 25, 2013
3/5 96% A Band Called Death (2013) " The film's alternating inquiry-into family love, slow compromise and, yes, death-resonates strongly." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 25, 2013
4/5 97% A Hijacking (2013) " Tobias Lindholm's starkly commanding thriller cuts out all the action heroics usually associated with hostage movies, replacing them with an underlying, nauseating sense of dread; it's a nail-biter about being under the gun." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 18, 2013
4/5 78% Monsters University (2013) " If the film lacks the heartbreaking quality of Pixar's revolutionary best, there's no demerit in playing it solid and safe for a change." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 18, 2013
4/5 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " Deceptively shallow but ultimately fascinating." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 13, 2013
1/5 25% The Guillotines (2013) " All the solemnity is deadly: Not one of these superhuman gang members registers in memory, and you feel stiffed on gory giggles. Talk about having your chain yanked." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 11, 2013
2/5 56% Man of Steel (2013) " Mostly, the minutes stretch into great expanses of blahness, much of them filled with Transformers-grade skyscraper snapping and bloodless catastrophe." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 11, 2013
2/5 38% The Purge (2013) " The film morphs into a dull version of Straw Dogs ..." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 4, 2013
4/5 82% Dirty Wars (2013) " Dirty Wars leaves some deeper questions unexplored, mainly the philosophical struggle between security and secrecy, but makes up grandly with raw data and one correspondent's passion." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 4, 2013
4/5 78% Nostalghia (2013) " It's a mood piece that makes you feel like you're drowning in high-grade art swill. If that sounds oppressive, know that it is, but the tonic is invigorating: a clammy atmosphere so unlike the airless options Hollywood's about to spring on us." — Time Out New York
Posted May 28, 2013
4/5 75% The East (2013) " Coming in our moment of recent domestic terror, the movie has a boldness in diving into the whys of political violence." — Time Out New York
Posted May 28, 2013
2/5 57% American Mary (2013) " The movie sags after Mary's weak-willed acquiescence to crime, instantly turning her into a dull-eyed monster." — Time Out New York
Posted May 28, 2013
2/5 44% The English Teacher (2013) " The script eases into a toothless comedy about an alum's unproduced play, an awful-sounding suicide drama championed by Moore's character like the second coming of Odets." — Time Out New York
Posted May 22, 2013
3/5 69% Fast & Furious 6 (2013) " None of it makes any sense, except within the high-octane logic of blowing stuff up onscreen. And, in case you're wondering, sometimes that can be entertainment enough ..." — Time Out New York
Posted May 21, 2013
5/5 98% Before Midnight (2013) " It can't be stressed how refreshing it is to be treated at the multiplex like a person with a brain." — Time Out New York
Posted May 21, 2013
4/5 84% Fill the Void (2013) " The film isn't exactly rousing in its conclusion, but it's always respectful: a serious ethical inquiry into matters of women's choice, both imposed and seized upon. Check it out." — Time Out New York
Posted May 21, 2013
2/5 48% Black Rock (2013) " A soundtrack of churning rock songs by the Kills is as close as this misfire gets to authentic grrrl power, borrowed as it is." — Time Out New York
Posted May 14, 2013
3/5 93% Frances Ha (2013) " For all of Gerwig's energy, there's not much forward momentum here, apart from a series of transitional apartments." — Time Out New York
Posted May 14, 2013
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