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Jules Brenner

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Biography:: Movie reviews from the heart of Hollywood
Publications:: Cinema Signals , Filmcritic.com

Total Reviews:: 1891
Total QuickRatings:: 387

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/5	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" First and foremost designed as a platform for Cruise's physical skills. Which is not at all bad for us action fans and those of us who are suckers for concepts of advanced technology. " — Cinema Signals Posted Apr 26, 2013
3.5/5	75%	Leviathan (2013)	" I haven't felt this drenched in seawater since my last scuba dive." — Cinema Signals Posted Apr 24, 2013
4/5	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" With Redford's genius for assembling such a superb supporting cast, the film started out ahead of the game before the camera rolled." — Cinema Signals Posted Apr 9, 2013
3.5/5	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" An adventurous lad in a class-challenged romance and a complete overhaul of a classic. The biggest surprise is how well it's crafted and portrayed by a very able cast." — Cinema Signals Posted Mar 21, 2013
4.5/5	51%	Trouble with the Curve (2012)	" From Clint Eastwood's lovable old coot persona to Amy Adams' iron-willed combativeness, this film is a stunning, beautiful surprise. A sports movie, a romance without sentimentality, and the emotional trauma of a family secret." — Cinema Signals Posted Mar 15, 2013
4.5/5	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Franco hasn't mastered dialogue rhythm and there are times when the movie stalls while he gets off a line BUT, the road ahead in this glorious $235M production is lined with gold, like the invention of the exquisite China Girl." — Cinema Signals Posted Mar 15, 2013
3/5	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" The second half of the film IS the film." — Cinema Signals Posted Feb 9, 2013
3/5	47%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" The cop-criminal alliance is too absurd for words, but probability isn't the issue here and the action is a promise met for the fan base." — Cinema Signals Posted Jan 31, 2013
4/4	——	Camera Obscura ()	— Cinema Signals Posted Jan 22, 2013
3.5/5	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" Artificiality? Over-dramatized violence? Heck, I viewed it through the eyes of the teenagers for whom it was intended and was riddled with rounds of fun--even if it does suffer from a lack of historical accuracy and restraint." — Cinema Signals Posted Jan 10, 2013
2/5	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Tarantino almost saves his picture with his last act showdown but not quite. Getting there was a route too long, too clumsy, and just plain tedious." — Cinema Signals Posted Dec 23, 2012
2/5	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" About the best thing in this well-meaning but wearying message drama is that it points out (and, points out) that some tradeoffs are hard to make." — Cinema Signals Posted Dec 10, 2012
5/5	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" Mendes and Co. has an astutely cunning way to keep our blood pumping every minute of the latest and, arguably, best time we've had with the enduring Bond in years." — Cinema Signals Posted Nov 15, 2012
4/5	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" If an exquisitely wrought dramatization about a president who is the gold standard to the greatest number of American brings new awareness of our history to a generally non-inquisitive or tuned-in public, it will be a timeless success." — Cinema Signals Posted Nov 12, 2012
4.5/5	79%	Flight (2012)	" Washington spins for us the wreckage of a life strained by the tension between achievement and defeat, a person who thinks that he can master the odds. But, the mastery is in the actor's fine portrayal." — Cinema Signals Posted Oct 24, 2012
4/5	68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" The magnificence of the imagery and palette of wonderment here should go undisputed. But excess in order to make the history books becomes a diminishing return. While I equivocate over my rating, I also commend it to be seen--if you've got the fortitude." — Cinema Signals Posted Oct 22, 2012
4.5/5	96%	Argo (2012)	" What Affleck has proven again with this directing and acting project is that a film by him is a movie event that shouldn't be missed." — Cinema Signals Posted Oct 14, 2012
4.5/5	85%	End of Watch (2012)	" Five months in advance of shooting for the lead actors to learn, digest and own the words. Pays off bigtime!" — Cinema Signals Posted Oct 8, 2012
3.5/5	100%	They Call It Myanmar: Lifting The Curtain (2012)	" Lieberman captures the singular human story playing out in the former British colony of Burma/Myanmar where brutality and Karma have been the principle features." — Cinema Signals Posted Oct 4, 2012
5/5	93%	Looper (2012)	" Nothing less than an exceptionally satisfying piece of futuristic ingenuity with a great corps of actors. It will knock you out -- in any time zone." — Cinema Signals Posted Oct 1, 2012
4/5	87%	Arbitrage (2012)	" These Wall Street magnates... they're taking their hits as the villains of the day in post-Enron, post-AIG, post-Lehman Brothers, post-Bernie Madoff America. The breed is getting its just condemnations, but..." — Cinema Signals Posted Sep 18, 2012
3.5/5	80%	Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)	" James Cameron's latest memorial to the spirit that exists mournfully and sadly in utter silence as the effects of time and salinity slowly and inexorably take their toll." — Cinema Signals Posted Sep 15, 2012
4/5	67%	Lawless (2012)	" Casting and acting here leave nothing to be desired -- to say nothing about rich cinematography and deeply drawn characters seen from dual perspectives." — Cinema Signals Posted Sep 10, 2012
3/5	60%	Breathless (2012)	" No kidding. If you chained-smoked half as much as the plotting ladies in this twisty dramedy, you'd be hyperventilating, too." — Cinema Signals Posted Aug 23, 2012
4/5	56%	The Bourne Legacy (2012)	" It's game all the way, it has some applause moments for the superb engineering of several action sequences, and it rates high marks for conception and writing. But we're missing something. Could it be Jason Bourne?" — Cinema Signals Posted Aug 15, 2012
3/5	90%	The Well Digger's Daughter (2012)	" The jewel at the heart of the piece is Berges-Frisbey -- the ravishing mermaid Syrena in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides."" — Cinema Signals Posted Jul 26, 2012
4/5	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" Nolan and Bale have indicated that they'll be having no further visitations in the batcave, but that doesn't mean the franchise is over. There's a clue in this movie that suggests the next sequel. Read about it here." — Cinema Signals Posted Jul 23, 2012
2/5	67%	Friends With Kids (2012)	" God, girl, just act. Being an Orson Wells is a looooong way off." — Cinema Signals Posted Jul 18, 2012
3.5/5	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" What's preserved here is the essential attraction of Spider-Man -- an action hero who has had to learn rather than inherit his effectiveness." — Cinema Signals Posted Jul 14, 2012
3.5/5	51%	Savages (2012)	" If you're not ready for the dramatization of sex, brutality and sociopathic murder then you haven't been reading the books of Don Winslow." — Cinema Signals Posted Jul 10, 2012
4/5	74%	Prometheus (2012)	" The premise that creatures from outer space "engineered" human life on earth is loaded with cautionary baggage. For one thing, it screams FICTION and FANTASY in a context that strives for the appearance of realism." — Cinema Signals Posted Jun 11, 2012
2/5	13%	Ultrasonic (2012)	" The prolonged time devoted to Simon's susceptibility to Jonas' delusions leads to a wish on the audience's part to check what's playing on another channel." — Cinema Signals Posted Jun 9, 2012
1.5/5	54%	Wallander: The Revenge (2012)	" One hopes, after seeing this, that the Scandinavian producers will think again before imagining that the success of Larsson's work in the U.S. gives any old production a pass to follow in its footsteps." — Cinema Signals Posted Jun 7, 2012
2.5/5	48%	Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)	" What Stewart shows in the daunting demands of a Joan of Arc role, opposing the likes of a monster of guile and evil like Theron's majestic, entirely ruthless villain, is that she just can't hack it." — Cinema Signals Posted Jun 1, 2012
3/5	47%	Cellmates (2012)	" Broad as the brute force presentation of hot button racial issues are, the players are fully up to attacking it for all they're worth." — Cinema Signals Posted Jun 1, 2012
5/5	94%	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)	" The most extraordinary usage of mise en scène I've seen. By that I mean " — Cinema Signals Posted May 22, 2012
3/5	56%	A Bag of Hammers (2012)	" It's not difficult to project that Crano's charming anti-heros, in later life, will be swindling vulnerable little old ladies out of their homes and nest eggs." — Cinema Signals Posted May 18, 2012
4/5	34%	Battleship (2012)	" Titanic meets The Transformers in a film that suffers from having to hold its heading in the wake of The Avengers. Still, a genius CGI team enables Peter Berg to maintain larger-than-life disaster, epic action and futurism with audacious buoyancy." — Cinema Signals Posted May 15, 2012
5/5	93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" Our basic love of these characters in such an even distribution of involvement and grand context of good vs evil make for maximum enjoyment of a terrific script carried out with conceptual proficiency and, even, sensitivity." — Cinema Signals Posted May 6, 2012
5/5	92%	Headhunters (2012)	" With the twists of a cyclone and humor that on occasion edges close to farce, it's a knife-cutting satire that's not above a bellylaugh." — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 26, 2012
3.5/5	26%	Wrath of the Titans (2012)	" What this sci-fi fantasy proves is that a departure from Greek mythology makes for strange deity bedfellows. Homer is turning over in his grave." — Cinema Signals Posted Apr 14, 2012
1.5/5	43%	From Time to Time (2012)	" Has there been a movie with such an artificial and unengaging style since... well, the fifties?" — Cinema Signals Posted Mar 27, 2012
3/5	29%	The Trouble with Bliss (2012)	" The trouble is they keep trying to make movies about it." — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 22, 2012
3/5	51%	John Carter (2012)	" With this production budget, you'd think someone in the creative chain might have detected that there was too much dramatic dithering in the screenplay, but entertainment factors survive." — Cinema Signals Posted Mar 13, 2012
3/5	53%	Safe House (2012)	" Wall to wall action and all the betrayals and bullets to play the CIA spy game with an exceptional cast. Just don't let an inventive story get in the way." — Cinema Signals Posted Mar 5, 2012
3/5	24%	The Three Musketeers (2011)	" Never has failure looked this good! " — Cinema Signals Posted Mar 3, 2012
2/5	17%	The Son of No One (2011)	" A film disaster with more loose ends than granny's wig." — Cinema Signals Posted Feb 16, 2012
4/5	58%	Edge of Darkness (2010)	— Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 10, 2012
4/5	89%	In Darkness (2012)	" In the dark days of World War II, who would have expected to find a source of illumination in the sewer of a Polish town?" — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 9, 2012

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