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Laura Clifford

Laura Clifford

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Biography:
Reeling: The Movie Review Show has been produced by Robin and Laura Clifford at the Malden, Massachusetts cable access television station, MATV, since March 16,1991. Reeling is also cablecast on these cable access stations in Massachusetts: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Wakefield, Belmont, Waltham, Salem and Lowell with more on the way. Robin and Laura have attended film courses at Emerson College and workshops in 16 mm film production at the Boston Film and Video Foundation.
Favorites:
Red Sid and Nancy Aguirre, the Wrath of God The Decalogue The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Being There The Wizard of Oz
Publications:
rec.arts.movies.reviews , Reeling Reviews
Critics' Group:
Broadcast Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
2813
Total QuickRatings:
69
Location:
Boston, MA

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B 46% Parkland (2013) " Landesman's film isn't about the Kennedy assassination so much as it is about the rippling effect it had on the ordinary people who dealt with its aftermath." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Oct 5, 2013
B 98% Gravity (2013) " while the story grabs us at the onset, it's clear homage to "2001's" Starchild in the form of Stone's character coming to grips with the loss of her daughter is so overt, the film's third act loses credibility as it toes its symbolic line." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Oct 3, 2013
B+ 97% Drug War (2013) " To orchestrates a huge cast and multi-layered plot like the ringmaster of a three-ring circus, his explosive, nihilistic finale layered with betrayals." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 29, 2013
C+ 85% We Are What We Are (2013) " Mickle and Damici have come up with a couple of very imaginative details to adorn their tale, but in the end the story itself feels preordained, everything slowly unfurling exactly how you'd expect" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 29, 2013
B+ 78% Metallica Through the Never (2013) " Writer/director Nimród Antal and Metallica join forces to create one of the most eye-popping, ear-splitting rock shows ever put on the screen." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 26, 2013
B+ 83% Don Jon (2013) " Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt does double duty, making his feature writing/directing debut with this terrific and unusual comedy that taps into this year's cinematic focus on porn while following the basic groove of "Saturday Night Fever."" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 26, 2013
C 59% Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) " The many nods to "Jurassic Park" will more than likely fly over the heads of the film's target audience while hitting adults over their noggins and the Apple/Google-like Live Corp with its Steve Jobs inspired CEO skirts over parody rather than mining it." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 26, 2013
B- 78% Good Ol' Freda (2013) " The fact that [Freda] related to the group's female fans because she was one of them is this documentary's calling card, but not many fans can open a box in their attic and pull out an envelope labeled 'This is George Harrison's real hair.'" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 25, 2013
A- 88% Rush (2013) " The action is like a pure shot of adrenaline, but there is also blood and oil and smoke when disaster strikes..." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 25, 2013
B- 100% Mother Of George (2013) " In [cinematographer Bradford Young's] striking compositions, shapes and patterns repeat, colors convey meaning (watch how - and when - rust and purple appear in Adenike, Ayodele and Biyi's clothing)." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 25, 2013
B- 95% Enough Said (2013) " Thankfully, Holofcener's cast Louis-Dreyfus, an actress capable of emoting such penitent horror at her own bad behavior, we can sympathize even with her breaking Gandolfini's heart." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 20, 2013
B 80% Prisoners (2013) " If the screenplay occasionally frustrates by not asking obvious questions...and by scattering red herrings that venture into really loopy territory... the film overall works because of the filmmaking artistry and high acting calibre on display." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 19, 2013
C+ 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " Every time "Thanks for Sharing" finds a groove, it jumps back out of it." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 19, 2013
B+ 98% Wadjda (2013) " Writer/director Haifaa Al-Mansour is not only the first female Saudi Arabian filmmaker, she's made the first film completely shot in her home country and the fact that it is critical of Islamic views towards women makes it all the more remarkable." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 14, 2013
B 86% Blue Caprice (2013) " The film is quiet, set to classical music, building slowly as a character study and eschewing the usual serial killer genre's focus on the murders themselves." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 11, 2013
D+ 34% Adore (2013) " With all the recent flap about the casting of "Fifty Shades of Gray," here is a film that gives a whole new definition to the phrase 'mommy porn.' " — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 10, 2013
B+ 75% Populaire (2013) " director Régis Roinsard makes his feature debut with this utterly adorable romantic comedy which feels like something right out of the 1950's without any annoying tongue-in-cheek irony." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 10, 2013
A- 79% Reality (2013) " ... works on multiple levels and Arena, who worked within a prison release arrangement while serving a life sentence, creates an indelible, sad character." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 3, 2013
B 83% The Double Hour (2011) " Too many of the film's curiosities are explained away with a cliched device, but Capotondi has created an unsettling mood which creeps beneath the skin." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 3, 2013
B 83% The Patience Stone (2013) " If Rahimi begins his film in a room so bare it resembles a cell, he ends it in the selfsame one like something out of 'Arabian Nights,' his oppressed wife rendered Sheherazade." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Sep 1, 2013
D 3% Getaway (2013) " Director Courtney Solomon ("An American Haunting") makes one wonder what Alan Smithee's been up to lately." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 30, 2013
B- 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " ...whitewashed to only put the best face forward. Although there's plenty of song, these five guys travel the world with no wine and no women except their moms (Taylor Swift, briefly attached to heartthrob Harry, has been excised)." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 30, 2013
C- 13% The Lifeguard (2013) " a tale of arrested development that strains credulity to an overly literal soundtrack." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 28, 2013
C+ 46% Closed Circuit (2013) " This British political thriller makes a strong statement about personal freedoms in the post 9/11 age, but...the twists are all too discernible, characters not fully realized and the ending apparently truncated." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 26, 2013
B+ 71% Terraferma (2013) " uses an astonishingly beautiful setting to explore just who has a right to it." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 26, 2013
C 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " Writer/director David Lowery hasn't made a movie so much as he's made an imitation of one." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 24, 2013
A- 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " The entire cast, including newcomer Alex Calloway, comes together under Cretton's direction to immerse us in this heartbreaking yet hopeful world. "Short Term 12" is a small yet significant miracle." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 22, 2013
B 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " Wong travels far afield from the typical biopic structure, creating a balletic martial arts film (choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping of "The Matrix) split into two by both history and the women in Ip Man's life." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 22, 2013
C+ 75% You're Next (2013) " a bit of a one trick pony - once the 'surprise' is revealed, it mostly just goes through the motions." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 22, 2013
B+ 89% The World's End (2013) " Simon Pegg is on fire here, giving a truly balls-to-the-wall performance as Gary. It's his best ever, especially as he partakes in an all out bar brawl without spilling a drop of his pint" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 22, 2013
B 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " Swanberg and his cast do a great job mining all the little insecurities and jealousies that manifest themselves between men and women and the sexual tension that invades male/female friendships. " — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 22, 2013
C 12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " in addition to its overstuffed mythology, the movie's climax is never ending, and so many plot strands are left open for the sequels it cannot stand as a singular cinematic experience in and of itself." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 21, 2013
B+ 93% Our Children (2013) " When the inevitable happens, Lafosse's restraint provokes dread - he's given us a real psychological understanding of the unthinkable." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 19, 2013
D+ 31% Austenland (2013) " Even Colin Firth rising from a pond completely starkers couldn't save this outing." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 16, 2013
C 26% Jobs (2013) " "Jobs" would have been more appropriately titled "Apple," the man's fifteen year exile from his company given about a minute of screen time." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 15, 2013
C+ 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " The film certainly works in part (Oprah's just terrific as Gaines' wife), but if two previous Pennsylvania Avenue films this year were dubbed "Die Hard in the White House," this one's destined to be remembered as "Forrest Gump in the White House."" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 15, 2013
D+ 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " morally repugnant." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 15, 2013
B 91% In a World... (2013) " Bell has targeted a microcosm of the industry she works in and mixed in romantic comedy and family drama elements all while maintaining focus on her throughline and hilariously showcasing her own talent for mimicry." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 11, 2013
C+ 68% Elysium (2013) " [Blomkamp] disappoints with his second outing, rehashing ideas from such films as "Total Recall" (Max's grimy apartment and factory job are just like Douglas Quaid's in last year's remake) with the same dusty, rusty aesthetic as "District 9."" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 11, 2013
B+ 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " Gordon Green has given Rudd a real character to flex his acting chops with and layered in a haunting ghost story that provides the basis for his character's reawakening. " — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 9, 2013
C- 54% Lovelace (2013) " ...a story that feels too black and white, whitewashed to present its subject as the ultimate victim. The filmmakers' best idea was to feature Eric Roberts in a cameo, but "Lovelace" is a far cry from "Star 80."" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 9, 2013
D+ 55% I Give It a Year (2013) " While individual actors can be amusing, especially among supporting players, "I Give It a Year" is thoroughly tone deaf. I wouldn't give it five minutes. " — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 9, 2013
C+ 27% Planes (2013) " The movie sputters to a start, has some nice moments in the middle and comes to a predictable conclusion, but at least it's better than "Cars 2."" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 9, 2013
C+ 47% We're The Millers (2013) " There's a few laughs to be had along the way and if there's any justice we should see a lot more of the truly talented Will Poulter, but this well-hyped comedy isn't as funny as its well cut trailer would indicate." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 7, 2013
B+ 67% Magic Magic (2013) " The production really serves the material with camera work which makes the ordinary disturbing." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 3, 2013
A- 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " Everything about this film is special, director James Ponsoldt ("Smashed") pitching the material so acutely that he's able to bring us to the brink of tragedy and pull back into an ending full of open-hearted hope." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 1, 2013
B- 63% 2 Guns (2013) " Washington and Wahlberg have the terrific chemistry necessary for a bromance...even if director Baltasar Kormákur hasn't kept his movie as light on its feet as it should be, weighed down by its great, clanking mechanical plot." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Aug 1, 2013
C+ 22% The Canyons (2013) " This highly ballyhooed, self-and-kickstarter-financed, low-budget film from director Paul Schrader and screenWriter Bret Easton Ellis certainly bears the imprint of its makers...watchable trash" — Reeling Reviews
Posted Jul 31, 2013
A- 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " Anwar Congo may be the scariest person you'll see on screen this year." — Reeling Reviews
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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