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Marshall Fine

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:: Gannett News Service , Hollywood & Fine , Journal News (Westchester, NY) , Rochester Democrat and Chronicle , Star Magazine
Critics' Group:: New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews:: 1062
Total QuickRatings:: 2

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	73%	Dark Horse (2012)	" A comedy of discomfort...Solondz once again takes a loser as his protagonist and dares us to feel sympathy for him. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Jun 4, 2012
	76%	A Cat in Paris (2012)	" Its imaginative artistry - and brevity - keep you from dwelling on the shortcomings of its story-telling." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Jun 2, 2012
	50%	Wallander: The Revenge (2012)	" If you're not a Mankell aficionado prior to seeing it, the film itself won't send you running for his books - or even the other parts of the TV series." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Jun 2, 2012
	46%	Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)	" It's better than you expect - but its length and self-seriousness probably make it too stolid and dark for the fairy-tale demographic." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 30, 2012
	22%	High School (2012)	" Dear Adrien Brody: Playing a crazy drug dealer is not as funny as being an Oscar-winner who shows up in a commercial for razor blades. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 29, 2012
	68%	Men in Black III (2012)	" A solid plot, one with credible sci-fi twists but also heart. It throws off the jokiness in which this series has been mired to create action-adventure in service to story. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 24, 2012
	25%	Mansome (2012)	" Reality TV lacks Spurlock's sly willingness to let the eccentric explain themselves, rather than letting them appear foolish. It's not deep, but then, it's about vanity." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 23, 2012
	95%	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)	" There's a certain giddy airlessness to Moonrise Kingdom ... And yet that cinematic hypoxia creates its own kind of high, if you can adjust to the altitude." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 22, 2012
	77%	The Intouchables (2012)	" It's a distinctly American response to view this through the prism of race, simply because the characters are black and white - and a willful misreading of what it's about." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 21, 2012
	44%	Lovely Molly (2012)	" This genre of horror film is played out - or at least this slight, rarely unnerving effort makes it seem so. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 18, 2012
	92%	Elena (2012)	" A story about someone creating her own personal hell and being forced to live in it. But hell doesn't seem particularly unnerving at the end." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 18, 2012
	56%	Hysteria (2012)	" An engaging comedy of manners, about a time when its subject was not discussed by the well-mannered." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 17, 2012
	90%	Polisse (2012)	" Gripping and powerful, an unsentimental look at a thankless job where the victories are hard fought and all too rare." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 16, 2012
	58%	The Dictator (2012)	" A deft satire.. scabrous and deliciously observed, blending rudeness, visual gags, unexpected violence and other elements to create laughs. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 15, 2012
	23%	What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)	" A series of sketches, variations on a theme, none of them too long, none of them in any way original - and very little of it amusing. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 14, 2012
	59%	A Bag of Hammers (2012)	" May start out sounding like a goofy buddy comedy, but stick with it - and it will surprise you. In a good way." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 10, 2012
	40%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" When Burton and Depp decided it would be fun to make a movie out of a campy '60s TV show, the correct response should have been: Didn't you see Wild Wild West? " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 9, 2012
	65%	God Bless America (2012)	" Viciously funny; takes no prisoners as it spray-paints Goldthwait's disdain across a brutal depiction of a pop-culture landscape that deserves this kind of sharp-edged satire." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 7, 2012
	93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" Veined with wit, even as it offers exactly the kind of action that fanboys and normal movie-goers alike want out of something like this. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 4, 2012
	48%	The Perfect Family (2012)	" The trailers make it look like an irreverent, iconoclastic satire; in fact it's dramatic - when it isn't dull and obvious. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 4, 2012
	76%	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)	" Not just a simple cinematic confection, it offers emotional depth, terrific acting and the kind of enjoyment that too few movies even aspire to these days." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 3, 2012
	55%	Safe (2012)	" It sets Jason Statham loose in a world where he's the bowling ball and almost everyone else is a pin..,Leave your brain at the door and you'll have a good time." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 27, 2012
	62%	The Five-Year Engagement (2012)	" Has more big laughs than any comedy this year. While the bar has been set low so far, this film raises it considerably." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 26, 2012
	90%	Bernie (2012)	" What gives Bernie its fizz, its kick, its sheer enjoyable weirdness is the give-and-take between Black and MacLaine, who seems to live with a baleful look on her face. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 25, 2012
	94%	Marley (2012)	" Celebrates his spirit, his creativity, his genius and his influence, even if it errs on the side of hagiography." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 20, 2012
	53%	Think Like a Man (2012)	" Advice to the makers of Think Like a Man: Try thinking like a funny man in the future. Women love men with a sense of humor - and so do audiences." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 20, 2012
	67%	To the Arctic (2012)	" It's a way of lighting the fuse of consciousness about looming environmental catastrophe, while offering a captivating film at the same time." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 20, 2012
	74%	Chimpanzee (2012)	" The most personal and involving nature doc since March of the Penguins" — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 19, 2012
	59%	Fightville (2012)	" Aside from illustrating the rigors of training, Fightville doesn't offer much else, other than a look at the small-time quality of this circuit. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 19, 2012
	21%	Darling Companion (2012)	" Tthere are pleasures to be had in this film...you come away wishing there were more. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 18, 2012
	20%	The Lucky One (2012)	" Zac Efron's performance is a break-out moment - the announcement that a teen dream has made the transition to adult dramatic actor." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 17, 2012
	60%	Unraveled (2012)	" An intriguingly intimate portrait of someone who was convinced he wasn't destined to be one of the little people - and paid the price for trying to prove otherwise." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 16, 2012
	50%	How to Grow a Band (2012)	" In the end, you come away knowing almost as little about Chris Thile and his music as when the film started...misses its chance to enlighten, choosing instead to promote." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 16, 2012
—	38%	Oscar and the Lady in Pink ()	— Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 13, 2012
	33%	The Lady (2012)	" Yeoh brings a glowing compassion to this role...a story that has global implications and which can't help but move you with its story of one woman's bravery and strength." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 12, 2012
	35%	Lockout (2012)	" Like a Luc Besson concept that was fleshed out by a high-school creative-writing class..all the suspense of air leaking from a balloon." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 11, 2012
	90%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	" Look for it to thrill you, scare you and tickle you - all at the very same time. It's a wild ride - hop aboard before someone spoils it for you." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 9, 2012
	57%	The Assault (2012)	" Could have been better, had Leclercq resisted to urge to include the soap operatics ... It's solid - but it should have been gripping." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 5, 2012
	43%	American Reunion (2012)	" A movie zombie that has risen from the grave of straight-to-video sequels...The stench of desperation permeates this film." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 4, 2012
	61%	We Have a Pope (2012)	" Presents a seemingly unlikely situation and makes it seem real, investing it with more feeling and drama than you'd expect, even as it makes you laugh. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 3, 2012
	83%	Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012)	" I still consider Comic-Con an insidious and reductive force in pop culture. But I had a super time watching Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 2, 2012
	25%	Wrath of the Titans (2012)	" Generally afraid to actually let you focus on any of his digital creations too long, lest the seams show...never stops to let you get a fix on what they actually look like. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 30, 2012
	33%	Intruders (2012)	" Never compels the viewer to buy into any of this or to invest emotionally. And the scary stuff is only frighteningly bland. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 30, 2012
	98%	The Island President (2012)	" Recent events give the documentary The Island President both an urgency and a poignancy." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 29, 2012
	87%	Bully (2012)	" Bully is about having the courage to stand up to bullies - whether they're in your child's school or handing out ratings at the MPAA." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 27, 2012
	91%	Turn Me On, Dammit! (2012)	" ..Could be the Republicans' worst nightmare: a movie about female sexuality that isn't smarmy, sensational, exploitive - or judgmental. Talk about subversive. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 27, 2012
	52%	Detachment (2012)	" There's little that's outrageous or involving..It's more like a lecture about the failures of public education." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 16, 2012
	77%	Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)	" Though the Duplasses' production values are a little glossier, they haven't lost their determinedly personal take on the stories and characters on which they focus." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 15, 2012
	46%	Casa de mi padre (2012)	" A deliberately cheesy movie, but the laughs are missing in action...It's not that the gags were lost in the translation - they were never there to begin with." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 14, 2012

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