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Mark Freeman

Mark Freeman

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
Critical Eye , Senses of Cinema
Total Reviews:
116
Location:
Melbourne, VIC Australia

Worst Reviewed Films

Showing 1 - 31 of 31
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
58% The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) " 'In this poor remake of such a well loved classic, Parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision.'" — Critical Eye
Posted Jun 28, 2002
—— Puppetry of the Penis - Tackle Happy (2002) " "It's such a weird and demented world these men choose to inhabit, but Molloy doesn't take us any further than the surface."" — Critical Eye
Posted Jun 4, 2002
80% The Royal Tenenbaums (2002) " '...like the lives of the geniuses it centres on, The Royal Tenenbaums is a good looking, angst ridden example of squandered potential.'" — Critical Eye
Posted May 17, 2002
78% A Beautiful Mind (2001) " It may be a film which salutes intelligence and the power of love, but it's also a symbol of cinematic cowardice and fear." — Critical Eye
Posted Apr 5, 2002
57% From Hell (2001) " a clumsy amalgam of contemporary vision and period thriller" — Critical Eye
Posted Feb 15, 2002
37% Behind Enemy Lines (2001) " Not since last year's Rules of Engagement has there been a film with a blacker, more sinister heart." — Critical Eye
Posted Feb 1, 2002
90% Amélie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (2001) " irritating and nauseatingly cute" — Critical Eye
Posted Jan 11, 2002
81% The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) " '...it's so relentlessly referential that The Man Who Wasn't There slips almost into claustrophobia.'" — Critical Eye
Posted Dec 28, 2001
47% Better Than Sex (2001) " There are indeed a few things that are better than sex. Unfortunately Better Than Sex is not one of them." — Critical Eye
Posted Apr 26, 2001
90% Act of Violence (1948) " A complex, fascinating noir that exposes the grim truths behind the shiny, fragile façade of post-war America." — Senses of Cinema
Posted Mar 31, 2003
91% Y Tu Mamá También (2001) " A tremendous example of what is possible when you take a simple premise, and imbue it with intelligence and dignity" — Critical Eye
Posted Sep 20, 2002
74% Signs (2002) " Its attempts to merge popcorn mentalities and issues of theology means there is not enough of either approach to really work." — Critical Eye
Posted Sep 9, 2002
95% Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India (2001) " '...a great, participatory spectator sport.'" — Critical Eye
Posted Jul 3, 2002
92% Minority Report (2002) " the most interesting, successful, and basically honest work this director has done for a long, long time." — Critical Eye
Posted Jun 28, 2002
—— The Beaver Trilogy (2001) " '...toys with issues of spectatorship so brilliantly, that you emerge having learnt a lot about fiction, documentary, and yourself.'" — Critical Eye
Posted Jun 13, 2002
73% The Last Kiss (L'Ultimo bacio) (2002) " "its successes are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right."" — Critical Eye
Posted Jun 4, 2002
41% The Scorpion King (2002) " a return of the action hero as self-parody" — Critical Eye
Posted Apr 19, 2002
89% Kandahar (2001) " '...doesn't quite have the cohesion and power of the sublime Gabbeh... but still remains strong and compelling'" — Critical Eye
Posted Apr 5, 2002
80% Waking Life (2001) " It has taken a decade for Linklater to move from Slacker to Waking Life, and a comparison between the two brilliantly exposes the changes that have occurred over this time." — Critical Eye
Posted Mar 29, 2002
67% Ali (2001) " It's great art cinema masquerading as a mainstream film." — Critical Eye
Posted Mar 29, 2002
87% Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) " "the focus on the girls sometimes falls flat, but the rest is strong and executed with some precision."" — Critical Eye
Posted Mar 15, 2002
56% The Shipping News (2001) " ...leads us from the alien to the comprehensible with a gentle, leisurely hand." — Critical Eye
Posted Feb 22, 2002
81% Mulholland Drive (2001) " gets better, deeper, more perfect, the longer you spend within its intricate, tragic, fascinating world." — Critical Eye
Posted Feb 8, 2002
90% Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002) " "a sensorial smorgasbord where you become attuned to the symphonic marriage of pure sound and perfect image."" — Critical Eye
Posted Jan 11, 2002
84% The Others (2001) " a masterful film that reinvigorates the long forgotten genre of the female Gothic." — Critical Eye
Posted Nov 22, 2001
80% Kippur (2000) " all the more daring for its desire to convey its message without didacticism or even conventional methods of narrative." — Critical Eye
Posted Nov 22, 2001
—— Looking for Alibrandi (2001) " "a remarkably fresh, energetic celebration of youth and culture."" — Critical Eye
Posted Jul 16, 2001
70% Chopper (2001) " "tough, provocative and challenging."" — Critical Eye
Posted Jul 16, 2001
87% Rosetta (1999) " a careful, painful film, but beautiful in its execution" — Critical Eye
Posted Mar 21, 2001
72% Snatch (2001) " Snatch is a film to be ridden for the sheer joy of the ride." — Senses of Cinema
Posted Feb 7, 2001
67% Charlie's Angels (2000) " These girls are fun and engaging and witty and sometimes that's enough, and in Charlie's Angels, where the elements come together so well, it will at least permit you a superficial, brainless, but absurdly enjoyable time." — Senses of Cinema
Posted Feb 7, 2001
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