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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:: 1118

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
5/5	86%	Sightseers (2013)	" A sick gag of a film that's bound to scar only the irony-challenged." — Time Out New York Posted May 7, 2013
5/5	98%	Badlands (1974)	" In the fall of 1973, one could see signposts of cinema's future in Mean Streets and The Exorcist, yet with this youthful pair of proto-indie dreamers, Malick was paving a whole new road. It turned out to be the path most traveled." — Time Out New York Posted May 7, 2013
5/5	94%	Stories We Tell (2013)	" Polley has gone further into the thorny subject of forgiveness than any of her peers. Her movies ache with ethical quandary; Stories We Tell aches the most." — Time Out New York Posted May 7, 2013
3/5	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" The energy bleeds out of the film; it's as if the producers were scared the crowd would riot over not enough digital fakeness." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2013
5/5	90%	Voyage in Italy (1992)	" Voyage to Italy is the kind of movie that makes those unhappily in love feel understood. And even if that's not you (congratulations), it's still possible to groove on Rossellini's stranger-in-a-strange-land psychodrama." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2013
4/5	80%	Something in the Air (2013)	" Even if you don't respond to binge-reading Situationist texts or making bad art in cigarette-strewn studios, there's a universal story here-a social network of friends and a cause that yields to end-of-summer realities." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2013
3/5	83%	What Maisie Knew (2013)	" Go for the performances." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2013
4/5	76%	Kon Tiki (2013)	" The film's message is sometimes clouded by sentiment, but mainly, we're told to follow our heads and our sextants, a good thing to hear on occasion." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 23, 2013
3/5	58%	At Any Price (2013)	" The fine cast takes the movie as far as it will comfortably go, until Bahrani gets a case of Great American Play-itis." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 23, 2013
1/5	——	Mortem (2013)	" [An] excruciatingly bad drama ..." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 23, 2013
3/5	24%	Arthur Newman (2013)	" You'll soon wish the film were about someone a bit more exciting ..." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 23, 2013
3/5	47%	The Lords of Salem (2013)	" This may be terrifying news to Rob Zombie fans, but after years mining the 1970s for gunky shock moments, the musician-turned-filmmaker has emerged as an unusually sensitive director of actors." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 16, 2013
4/5	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" To the Wonder is arty for sure, but for the first time, its maker is working with anxieties we all feel. Let's hope this Malick sticks around for a while." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 9, 2013
2/5	64%	Antiviral (2013)	" The whole movie feels like a case of the sweats, putting you in desperate need of the chicken soup of recognizable human behavior." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 9, 2013
3/5	87%	Upstream Color (2013)	" The effort is majestically single-minded, even if the overall vibe tips dangerously toward preciousness." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2013
2/5	68%	Trance (2013)	" The film plays like something Boyle could kick out in his sleep, all his supercool devices listlessly deployed in service of a mediocre wet dream." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2013
3/5	77%	André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013)	" To some, André Gregory: Before and After Dinner will feel like a bagel-and-schmear cliché of self-involved urbanity. Still, its subject is too richly philosophical for the movie to ever be boring ..." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2013
4/5	96%	Blancanieves (2013)	" Verdú so fully dominates the drama as the gold-digging stepmother-all arched eyebrows and curled lips-that you wonder how much we've lost in the transition to sound." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 26, 2013
4/5	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" Steadily, Room 237 becomes a rare kind of bird: a critical analysis that leans not on unquestionable authority but creative speculation." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 26, 2013
3/5	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" We're too close to Drive to see this performance as anything special, but when Suicide's "Che" churns to life on the soundtrack and Gosling peels out, there are thrills to be had." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 26, 2013
1/5	47%	Heaven's Gate (1980)	" If anything, Michael Cimino's inert disaster of a Western has gotten worse over the years ..." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 19, 2013
2/5	43%	Admission (2013)	" Another half-success spoiled by tonal uncertainty." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 19, 2013
4/5	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Spring Breakers is either an inspired satire of the youth movie or the most irresponsible comedy mainstream Hollywood will never make. The bros in your crowd will call it rad -- and radical it is." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 12, 2013
5/5	100%	M (1931)	" This is a movie that dares to sympathize with a sick person, that risks making the monster real and us (in an era when Germany's cinema was still shellacked in canted angles and fanciful shadows)." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 12, 2013
3/5	79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" It's not quite enough for a film, but it is for one magnificent scene." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 12, 2013
2/5	39%	The ABCs of Death (2013)	" Mainly ... these chapters dull with tiresome bloodletting and winks to a nonexistent sense of irony ..." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 5, 2013
2/5	31%	Emperor (2013)	" Director Peter Webber, who once mined social unease from the painterly Girl with a Pearl Earring, is out of his depth; this is a movie in desperate need of a no-nonsense Howard Hawks." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 5, 2013
3/5	30%	Gut Renovation (2013)	" The navel-gazing artist class that gave Williamsburg its character (now more of a marketable "brand") has in Friedrich both a vigorous defender and, it must be said, something close to an angry parody of itself." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 5, 2013
4/5	75%	Leviathan (2013)	" Like the hypnotic swarm of seagulls constantly trailing the boat for scraps, we lunge for meaning." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 26, 2013
1/5	19%	Inescapable (2013)	" Waiting for Inescapable to finally reach its unearned, sentimental conclusion is a tiresome experience, but seeing Tomei submit to its badness is several measures worse." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 20, 2013
2/5	65%	The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013)	" It misses the point in a disturbing way." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 12, 2013
2/5	82%	Like Someone in Love (2013)	" The director has made disappointing films before-a more generous word might be transitional-but never one so slight." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 12, 2013
2/5	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" A precious, arid thing, Glimpse arrives pinned to Styrofoam like a prize arthropod." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 5, 2013
2/5	64%	Ferlinghetti A Rebirth of Wonder (2013)	" Maybe it's time to mandate a preliminary aptitude test for documentarians, just to weed out the uninspired time-wasters." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 5, 2013
3/5	52%	The Playroom (2013)	" [An] open-ended affair and slightly unsatisfying for it." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 5, 2013
4/5	92%	The Gatekeepers (2013)	" You'll be arguing with your friends about the ethics of secrecy and defense for hours; that's what makes these exit interviews so essential." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 29, 2013
4/5	100%	Sound City (2013)	" The beautiful thing here is the way Sound City enlivens some fairly snobby ideas about the glories of analog tape without resorting to mere mansplaining." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 29, 2013
1/5	4%	Movie 43 (2013)	" You won't believe how tiresome bad taste has become." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 25, 2013
3/5	67%	Nana (2013)	" Barely over an hour, the sketch feels lovely, unhurried and a bit insignificant." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 23, 2013
2/5	18%	My Best Enemy (2013)	" My Best Enemy bleeds suspense like a pin-pricked tire. It wants to be clever, but survivor tales bring with them too much muck." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 9, 2013
3/5	29%	Let My People Go! (2013)	" Ceaselessly upbeat and just short of zany, Let My People Go! will bring smiles of recognition to anyone who hasn't seen early Woody Allen in a while ..." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 9, 2013
1/5	19%	Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)	" Alexandra Daddario, playing a distant Leatherface cousin set to inherit the manor (and manner), continues her sad career in unbuttoned bondage, and the 3-D effects are especially ruinous." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 5, 2013
5/5	97%	Ninotchka (1939)	" Ninotchka is delicate flirtation and political satire made into a perfect whole, and a reminder of skills that studio writers have largely lost." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 27, 2012
3/5	87%	Tabu (2012)	" Churlish though it sounds, you'll want to arrive for this b&w Portuguese drama about 45 minutes late." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 27, 2012
4/5	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Vibrating with the geekery of a filmmaker off the chain, the movie plays like no other this year." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 12, 2012
5/5	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" The details are gripping, presented with respect for an audience's intelligence." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 11, 2012
4/5	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" Overall, you might just be wrecked and need a hug. Be generous with any naysayers and spread your arms wide; they'll be weeping too." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 11, 2012
4/5	82%	Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (2012)	" Jesse Vile's inspiring heartbreaker of a documentary is cleaved into two well-judged halves: We see Becker continuing on, robbed of speech and movement, yet undiminshed in his musical creativity." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 11, 2012
3/5	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" As [Apatow's] title implies, he could have taken a deeper plunge into the main task of middle age: revision." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 11, 2012

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