Joshua Rothkopf

Joshua Rothkopf

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% 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:
1130

Best Reviewed Films

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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
5/5 84% 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 96% 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
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
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
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
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
5/5 98% Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) " You'll love the idea that someone like this deserves a movie, but with the whole of heavy metal in his debt, the honor is merited and handled with honesty." — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 27, 2012
5/5 89% Lincoln (2012) " Defiantly intellectual, complex and true to the shifting winds of real-world governance, Lincoln is not the movie that this election season has earned-but one that a more perfect union can aspire to." — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 6, 2012
5/5 100% How to Survive a Plague (2012) " A nightmarish clash comes to life in this devastating montage of inflamed voices, their rage infusing the very grain of '80s videography." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 18, 2012
5/5 90% Keep the Lights On (2012) " It's hard to recall a film so attentive to the uncertain moments in all relationships: the teary Christmas toasts, the slow slide away from patience and tenderness." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 4, 2012
5/5 99% La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) (1967) " Essential viewing." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 3, 2012
5/5 90% Bernie (2012) " Taking its time with a flavorful middle section, the movie builds into a true-crime treat; some will think of Fargo (apt, but this movie is gentler), others, the documentaries of Werner Herzog." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 24, 2012
5/5 95% Marley (2012) " The tunes, flooding every frame, remain perfect." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 17, 2012
5/5 100% Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) " With the egalitarian warmth of Jean Renoir (himself a huge fan of the film), director McCarey spoofs stereotypes while investing them with knowing asides." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2012
5/5 97% Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945) " Before French cinema reinvented itself with jump cuts and cool bobs, Marcel Carné's 19th-century backstage drama was the epitome of good taste: a sumptuous spread of genteel sparring and epic heartache." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 6, 2012
5/5 99% A Separation (2011) " Getting absorbed in the film's complex layers of procedural negotiation and domestic argument, you'll realize that we often settle for too little from our screenplays." — Time Out New York
Posted Dec 20, 2011
5/5 76% We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) " Were it not for Swinton's magnetism, it would be unbearable. Instead, you'll want to stay for the wallop." — Time Out New York
Posted Dec 6, 2011
5/5 100% The Wages of Fear (1953) " Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen." — Time Out New York
Posted Dec 6, 2011
5/5 94% Coriolanus (2011) " A spiky and complex counterweight to Hollywood sentiment and indie cynicism alike." — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 29, 2011
5/5 97% A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
5/5 100% Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini zabutykh predkiv) (1967) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 95% L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 98% The Wrestler (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 70% Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 94% A Woman Under the Influence (1975) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 68% Funny People (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 100% Aruitemo Aruitemo (Still Walking) (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 92% Profit Motive & the Whispering Wind (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 76% Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 92% Blade Runner (1982) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 90% M*A*S*H (MASH) (1970) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 74% The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 70% The Duchess of Langeais (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)(Don't Touch the Axe) (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 73% The Mist (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 86% Five Easy Pieces (1970) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 94% Away from Her (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 99% Metropolis (1927) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 91% Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 91% Knocked Up (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 96% Somers Town (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 100% Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag)(Day of Anger) (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 93% Le Mépris (Contempt) (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 59% The Fall (2006) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 100% Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 96% 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 94% Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevsky) (1938) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 100% World on a Wire (2011) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 91% Hot Fuzz (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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