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Mark Stafford

Agrees with the Tomatometer 85% of the time.

Publications:: Electric Sheep

Total Reviews:: 27

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
69%	This Must Be The Place ()	" A lot of it is terrific stuff, but there's just too much here to be digestible, too much to be resolved satisfactorily." — Electric Sheep Posted Apr 5, 2012
90%	Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)	" Sean Durkin's debut is a creepy, tense and ambiguous piece of work." — Electric Sheep Posted Feb 2, 2012
100%	Tatsumi ()	" Highly recommended for the graphically inclined, worthwhile viewing for the curious, now check out the books." — Electric Sheep Posted Jan 13, 2012
88%	Prez�t svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)) (2010)	" Eye-popping, disarming and playful, with a brisker pace than you might expect from this director." — Electric Sheep Posted Dec 2, 2011
72%	Magic Trip (2011)	" There is much here to amuse, bemuse and tantalise; we get to see the inside of a particular bubble, with Ginsberg and Kerouac and the Grateful Dead, a nascent scene before it went global." — Electric Sheep Posted Nov 19, 2011
85%	The Snowtown Murders (2012)	" Authentically, viscerally convincing in its performances and milieu, Snowtown throbs with tension and a deep sense of wrongness from its first reel onwards." — Electric Sheep Posted Nov 16, 2011
89%	The Yellow Sea (2011)	" I was never bored, it's fast and funny and edge-of-the-seat tense; it's just that I'd still like to see the end of the film it started off being." — Electric Sheep Posted Oct 19, 2011
60%	Guilty Of Romance (Koi No Tsumi) (2011)	" It's a film I primarily watched with my jaw in my lap wondering what the hell I was going to witness next." — Electric Sheep Posted Sep 30, 2011
58%	Red State (2011)	" There are jagged tonal shifts and dramatic dead ends. It's messy, but it's thrilling, creepy and continually does things you don't expect." — Electric Sheep Posted Sep 28, 2011
39%	The Taqwacores (2010)	" It has energy and humour and a nice bleached out look. And it throws a startling image or off-the-wall piece of dialogue at you every few minutes of its lean 83-minute running time." — Electric Sheep Posted Aug 12, 2011
87%	Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011)	" Garbus tells the tale well, and does a good job making the matches exciting even for those, like me, who don't play the game. But Fischer still remains a bit of an elusive figure, largely, I suspect, because nobody actually knew him very well." — Electric Sheep Posted Jul 14, 2011
97%	Cell 211 (Celda 211) (2009)	" I don't believe that these events would happen like this in the real world, but for 113 tense, charged minutes I was wholly swept up in them." — Electric Sheep Posted Jul 13, 2011
100%	Cutter's Way (1981)	" Passer continued his wayward career without ever producing anything quite like Cutter again. It's a one-off, a largely overlooked shining gem. Do yourself a favour." — Electric Sheep Posted Jun 23, 2011
85%	Viva Riva! (2011)	" Viva Riva! has energy and pace, it's a pretty creditable attempt at a Congolese The Harder They Come, a blaxploitation Treasure of the Sierra Madre. It's fun." — Electric Sheep Posted Jun 22, 2011
92%	The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2011)	" For 88 minutes le Quattro Volte weaves a curious spell, like a live action Sylvain Chomet animation, a bucolic meander through the mysteries of life and death." — Electric Sheep Posted May 25, 2011
94%	Los ojos de Julia (Julia's Eyes) (2011)	" It's still pretty scary, but never steps outside the confines of what you'd expect from this kind of thing." — Electric Sheep Posted May 20, 2011
77%	Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (2010)	" It's handsome, confident large-scale cinema, with a fascinating historical heart. Take no prisoners stuff." — Electric Sheep Posted May 5, 2011
100%	Der Dibuk (The Dybbuk) (1938)	" A film overlaid with real tragedy, created by artists long disappeared, dispersed and destroyed, but one still brimming with life and soul and artistry." — Electric Sheep Posted Apr 20, 2011
79%	How I Ended This Summer (2010)	" It's a film about temperament and time and territory, clearly shot in arduous conditions in a bleak and breathtaking landscape." — Electric Sheep Posted Apr 19, 2011
97%	Animal Kingdom (2010)	" Animal Kingdom shocks, surprises and amazes but never seems false or unreal. A great film." — Electric Sheep Posted Feb 25, 2011
90%	Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)	" Rare Exports promises to be delirious fun, and largely delivers." — Electric Sheep Posted Dec 2, 2010
94%	Carlos (2010)	" It's a great, charismatic performance from Edgar Ram�rez, who really goes the distance..." — Electric Sheep Posted Oct 13, 2010
72%	Enter the Void (Soudain le vide) (2010)	" Enter the Void is an extraordinary piece of work, continually working miracles with picture and sound from beginning to end, a heady, grimy, powerful trip created through pure cinema." — Electric Sheep Posted Sep 22, 2010
50%	The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010)	" Anyone expecting fountains of gore and scatological filth will be surprised at how much the film doesn't show." — Electric Sheep Posted Aug 3, 2010
87%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" It's every cop show clich� reflected in a hall of mirrors -- wholly indecent fun." — Electric Sheep Posted May 20, 2010
90%	Lebanon (Levanon) (2010)	" Lebanon is not earth-shatteringly original, it's heavy-handed in places, and a little clich�d, but it feels authentic: grimy, stinky, delirious and chaotic. It works." — Electric Sheep Posted May 6, 2010

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