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Kenji Fujishima

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:: House Next Door , Slant Magazine

Total Reviews:: 107

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1/4	67%	Parked (2012)	" The film takes dramatic material that sounds fairly standard-issue to begin with and proceeds to uncover precious little of genuinely fresh intrigue within it." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2012
1.5/4	——	Flex Is Kings ()	" Putting aside the generic human interest, however, Flex Is Kings turns out to be shockingly deficient in its on-screen depiction of flexing. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 18, 2013
1.5/4	57%	Shanghai Calling (2013)	" If you prefer your social commentary in the form of a glorified sitcom with broad humor and even broader caricatures, look no further." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2013
1.5/4	50%	Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2013)	" Purports to tell the true story of the titular imprisoned, controversially outspoken death-penalty opponent, but eventually degenerates into an orgy of congratulation. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 29, 2013
2/4	27%	The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2013)	" The film looks so glossy, plasticized, and unreal that all you end up thinking about is special effects." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2013
2/4	57%	$ellebrity (2013)	" Comes off as little more than a feature-length trashing of colleagues who director and celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur feels are giving his profession a bad name." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 6, 2013
2/4	42%	Let Fury Have The Hour (2012)	" On a political level, the film is far from a Godardian dialectic, so the view of history that emerges is, to say the least, blinkered." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 10, 2012
2/4	67%	17 Girls (2012)	" At which point does a superficially "nonjudgmental" approach simply seem coy rather than sincerely evenhanded? " — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 17, 2012
2/4	62%	It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl (2012)	" Offers at least one way to couch propaganda in a way that doesn't seem like the genuine article on the face of it." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 7, 2012
2/4	64%	On the Ice (2012)	" DP Lol Crawley's best efforts can't quite overcome the rather awkward performances of the film's mostly nonprofessional cast." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 14, 2012
2/4	50%	Janie Jones (2011)	" You can probably guess what must happen during the course of this road trip. Even less surprising than its story arc, however, are its character details." — Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2011
2.5/4	57%	Unmade In China (2013)	" Not even its problematically touristic gaze is enough to derail the fascination of this absurd tale's many nightmarish twists and turns." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 29, 2013
2.5/4	70%	Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013)	" Bob Byington's perspective may be above it all, but that doesn't quite account for the shades of melancholy that pop up unexpectedly in lines of dialogue and in some of the performances." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2013
2.5/4	73%	Generation P (2012)	" The film is incredibly cynical, but the experience of watching it is occasionally joyful in its sense of freedom." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 8, 2012
2.5/4	95%	Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)	" As entertaining as the doc is, it never really measures up to the fascination and sheer force of personality of its subject. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 9, 2012
2.5/4	83%	Your Sister's Sister (2012)	" For long stretches in its first two acts, Lynn Shelton's film is distinguished by a disarming sense of freedom and spontaneity." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 22, 2012
2.5/4	92%	Gerhard Richter Painting (2012)	" The end results are mixed but nevertheless scintillating and provocative enough to be worth taking seriously." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2012
2.5/4	86%	The Snowtown Murders (2012)	" Whatever one ends up thinking about The Snowtown Murders, it's difficult to deny that it's a deeply impressive work." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2012
2.5/4	73%	Black Butterflies (2012)	" As far as middlebrow biopics go, it may not break any molds, but it's a reasonably sensitive and occasionally insightful look into the mind and psyche of an impassioned and deeply troubled artist. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 22, 2011
3/4	——	Kuichisan (2013)	" These myriad impressions never quite add up to anything coherent by the end, but perhaps the incoherence is precisely the point." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 18, 2013
3/4	100%	They Call It Myanmar: Lifting The Curtain (2012)	" The images and interviews Robert H. Lieberman and his crew have managed to capture are eye-opening enough to justify the dangerous effort." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 18, 2012
3/4	100%	Planet of Snail (2012)	" Even with the heaviness of some of its subject matter, the doc remains limpid and unsentimental until the very end, in keeping with its subject." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 22, 2012
3/4	——	Lo roim alaich (Invisible) ()	" One can see the difference between the two traumatized main female characters right in their faces." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2012
3/4	100%	Under African Skies (2012)	" It does lightly suggest scintillating questions about the responsibility artists have in reflecting current political moments in their music." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2012
3/4	89%	Death of a Superhero (2012)	" A generally affecting and occasionally insightful drama about the ways people handle an awareness of mortality." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2012
3/4	——	Twilight Portrait (Portret V Sumerkakh) ()	" Twilight Portrait, as infuriating as it sometimes is in the moment, is ultimately haunting in its ambiguities." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 22, 2012
3/4	100%	Be Omid E Didar ()	" An air of resignation hangs prominently over Goodbye, a sense of despair so oppressive that it seems to invade the world its main character inhabits." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2012
3/4	——	Grey Matter (2012)	" Director Kivu Ruhorahoza dares to demolish fiction's inherent distance from what might be considered "reality."" — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 16, 2012
3/4	——	Cairo Exit ()	" Cairo Exit has other virtues to recommend it beyond topical relevance. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2011
3/4	50%	The Journals Of Musan (2011)	" If The Journals of Musan indicates anything, it's that people, for the most part, either can't or simply aren't willing to comprehend the circumstances behind others' actions. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2011
3/4	99%	Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012)	" In Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Gelb details, among other things, the painstaking process that goes into creating these mouthwatering pieces of sushi." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 22, 2011
3.5/4	——	Girl Walk: All Day (2012)	" A proudly optimistic spirit animates this joyous film, illustrated by a combination of thrilling street ballet, exultant music, and unflagging verve." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2012
3.5/4	88%	Patience (After Sebald) (2012)	" A wide-ranging piece of literary criticism brought to vivid cinematic life, bursting with ideas and inspired visual translations of them." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2012

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