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Kerry Lengel

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography:: Film Critic, The Arizona Republic
Publications:: Arizona Republic

Total Reviews:: 140

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3.5/5	58%	First Snow (2007)	" Offers the satisfaction of a compelling story well told." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 14, 2007
3.5/5	47%	Coffee Date (2006)	" It's clever and sweet and pretty consistently funny." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 9, 2007
4/5	93%	The Lives of Others (2006)	" Just from an entertainment standpoint, wondering what decisions the characters will make, and what the consequences might be, makes for edge-of-your-seat tension despite the movie's quietly thoughtful tone." — Arizona Republic Posted Feb 22, 2007
2.5/5	91%	The Italian (2007)	" The story of Vanya (Solntsev Kolya Spiridonov) is less than convincing." — Arizona Republic Posted Feb 8, 2007
1.5/5	19%	The Last Sin Eater (2007)	" Efforts to build suspense, with ominous music and dark figures flashing past the camera, are laughably amateurish, as is the made-for-TV cinematography." — Arizona Republic Posted Feb 8, 2007
3/5	49%	Candy (2006)	" There's no moment that truly feels original until Candy's climactic breakdown at the end of the movie. By then, it's too late." — Arizona Republic Posted Dec 30, 2006
2/5	16%	Eragon (2006)	" The title of Hollywood's latest fantasy epic is simply the word 'dragon' with one letter changed, and unfortunately, that's about the level of creativity you can expect from Eragon." — Arizona Republic Posted Dec 30, 2006
2/5	——	Christmas at Maxwell's (2006)	" Christmas at Maxwell's may be 'inspirational,' but it's far from entertaining." — Arizona Republic Posted Dec 21, 2006
4.5/5	66%	Shortbus (2006)	" A film that's thoughtful and exuberant, achingly sad and wildly funny." — Arizona Republic Posted Oct 26, 2006
1.5/5	27%	America: Freedom To Fascism (2006)	" Russo's brand of libertarianism is at best naive and at worst tin-foil-hat crazy." — Arizona Republic Posted Oct 5, 2006
3.5/5	70%	Heading South (2006)	" The movie avoids devolving into polemic by treating its characters as individuals." — Arizona Republic Posted Aug 18, 2006
3/5	95%	Wordplay (2006)	" Thankfully, just when you're ready to nod off, Stewart comes back. Watching him attack the Times with his pen and screaming 'Bring it!' is worth the price of admission." — Arizona Republic Posted Jun 29, 2006
3/5	93%	An Inconvenient Truth (2006)	" Despite quibbles over details, the case [Gore] presents is compelling, and anyone who isn't sure whether global warming is a mounting crisis or a massive hoax should see this film." — Arizona Republic Posted Jun 8, 2006
3.5/5	92%	Fateless (2006)	" A reflection of how its main character comes to experience reality, as one small moment between what came before and whatever horror or happiness is yet to come." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 20, 2006
3/5	74%	Unknown White Male (2006)	" In the end, it fails to offer any insight into the philosophical question it poses." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 13, 2006
2/5	0%	At Last (2005)	" Tedious and utterly lacking in dramatic tension." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 13, 2006
2/5	51%	Lucky Number Slevin (2006)	" It took me all of 10 minutes to decide I hated it." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 6, 2006
3.5/5	62%	ATL (2006)	" Despite an occasional whiff of cheese, it's mostly a fresh, funny, coming-of-age story that feels authentic." — Arizona Republic Posted Mar 30, 2006
3/5	44%	Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo) (2006)	" Reygadas' gift for imagery is undeniable, but for most viewers, Battle in Heaven will offer not enlightenment but frustration." — Arizona Republic Posted Mar 24, 2006
3/5	58%	Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) (2006)	" The faux mythology may be cheesy, the grandiose plot stretched thin and full of holes, but underneath the recycled story and style is a hint of something troubling and real." — Arizona Republic Posted Mar 2, 2006
3/5	43%	Bee Season (2005)	" The intellectual grist is intriguing, but one can't escape the feeling that Bee Season is only skimming the surface of its source material." — Arizona Republic Posted Nov 17, 2005
3.5/5	85%	Pride and Prejudice (2005)	" If the filmmaking is somewhat less perfect than in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility, Austen fans will nonetheless delight to see their favorite characters brought to life." — Arizona Republic Posted Nov 10, 2005
3/5	46%	Green Street Hooligans (2005)	" It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction." — Arizona Republic Posted Oct 13, 2005
4.5/5	67%	Everything is Illuminated (2005)	" It sounds weird, and it is. It's also very funny, not to mention mesmerizing and, finally, heartbreaking." — Arizona Republic Posted Sep 29, 2005
4/5	69%	The Edukators (Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei) (2005)	" Captures the frustration of those who sense something deeply dysfunctional in the political and economic status quo but feel impotent do anything about it." — Arizona Republic Posted Sep 15, 2005
2.5/5	25%	Dot the I (2003)	" As much as it tries to be a smart, postmodern indie film, dot the i is pure Hollywood fluff." — Arizona Republic Posted Aug 18, 2005
3/5	64%	Heights (2005)	" If the plot is thin, at least the characters are interesting, and the performances are consistently strong." — Arizona Republic Posted Jul 28, 2005
4/5	82%	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)	" A great piece of entertainment." — Arizona Republic Posted Jul 14, 2005
2.5/5	76%	The Holy Girl (La Nina Santa) (2005)	" Director Lucrecia Martel's storytelling is spare to the point of being stingy." — Arizona Republic Posted Jul 7, 2005
4/5	94%	March of the Penguins (2005)	" Everything a nature film should be: breathtaking, heartbreaking, soul-inspiring." — Arizona Republic Posted Jul 7, 2005
4/5	90%	My Summer of Love (2004)	" It is at once a beautiful work of artifice and a convincing reflection of life's messy ambiguities. Aesthetically contained, morally uncertain." — Arizona Republic Posted Jun 23, 2005
3/5	52%	Face (2005)	" With no access to these women's inner selves, we are left wanting at least a fuller portrait of their outer lives, some way to infer the meaning that the film declines to provide." — Arizona Republic Posted May 12, 2005
4/5	72%	Walk on Water (2005)	" Affecting performances by the cast place those abstract issues firmly in the human world." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 28, 2005
4/5	81%	Oldboy (2005)	" Combining the sinister suspense of Alfred Hitchcock with the unrepentant violence of Quentin Tarantino, South Korean director Park Chan-wook delivers a revenge tale as shocking as it is thought-provoking." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 28, 2005
4/5	95%	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)	" What might have been a static portrait has become a true story, with tragic turns, joyful surprises and provocative glimpses into the meaning of life." — Arizona Republic Posted Apr 21, 2005
3.5/5	——	Sons of Provo (2005)	" No, it's not particularly original. But it's pretty darned funny." — Arizona Republic Posted Mar 24, 2005
2/5	86%	Ong-Bak (Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior) (2005)	" Jaa's moves are impressive, but the choreography ranges from bland to ridiculous (as when one dirty fighter resorts to using major appliances as weapons)." — Arizona Republic Posted Mar 3, 2005
3/5	17%	The Work and the Glory (2004)	" It's hard to imagine this movie capturing an audience outside the Mormon community." — Arizona Republic Posted Jan 20, 2005
2.5/5	11%	Celsius 41.11 (2004)	" Like its cinematically superior inspiration, Celsius 41.11 isn't going to change many minds." — Arizona Republic Posted Oct 21, 2004
1/5	17%	Book of Mormon Movie - Volume 1: The Journey (2006)	" Mormon movies are a burgeoning industry in Utah, and despite the niche audience and low budgets, some of them hold their own with Hollywood in terms of storytelling and entertainment value. The Book of Mormon Movie, however, isn't one of them." — Arizona Republic Posted Oct 23, 2003

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