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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:: 1257
Total QuickRatings:: 2

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21%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" The people who want to see it will see it, no matter how bad it is...You have much better ways to waste your time, I'm sure." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 24, 2013
97%	Before Midnight (2013)	" Never less than compelling, generally entertaining and sometimes piercing. The acting matches the script: incisive, unshowy, yet fiercely honest." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 23, 2013
73%	Fast & Furious 6 (2013)	" How about a give-back program in which the studios donate one car to charity for each car they smash up in movies like this?" — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 22, 2013
88%	We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013)	" Watch it - and then try to get worked up about any of the phony scandals that currently preoccupy the media. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 21, 2013
42%	The English Teacher (2013)	" Moore shows physical-comedy chops that are both admirable and quite funny..a small but very funny treat with a cast to die for." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 17, 2013
44%	Black Rock (2013)	" It feels amateurish, as though it was made up as they went along. The violence - because that's what most of the action consists of - feels phony. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 17, 2013
78%	Pieta (2013)	" With its dazzlingly cynical story and intensely squalid setting, it's a trip to the dark side - indeed, the darkest side." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 16, 2013
87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" Even more entertaining than Abrams' first one...the first real blockbuster hit of the summer. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 15, 2013
93%	Frances Ha (2013)	" Baumbach's acerbic wit seems to have been diluted by the watery Gerwig, who seems to have no flavor whatsoever...like viewing the outtakes from a movie you don't want to see." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 14, 2013
38%	Aftershock (2013)	" You can only listen to so much screaming and crying before it stops having the desired effect (ratcheting up the viewer's stress level) and simply becomes grating. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 10, 2013
94%	Stories We Tell (2013)	" One of the year's best films: funny, moving, thought-provoking - and so personal that it strikes universal chords." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 9, 2013
82%	Sightseers (2013)	" Like the slow-cooking version of a road comedy, yielding tasty results thanks to the craft and patience of the filmmakers. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 8, 2013
50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" Luhrmann does find the beating heart at the center of this overstuffed enterprise. It rests firmly in the person of Leonardo DiCaprio's Jay Gatsby, " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 7, 2013
48%	Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013)	" It's like a vanity project for - well, who, exactly? I could barely sit through the whole film; I can't imagine wandering the aisles of this puffed-up emporium. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 6, 2013
78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Black chooses to pump up the action to a size that makes it hard to focus the film's actual excitement." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 3, 2013
73%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" There are laughs and a warm romantic feeling to be had, but there's more going on here than simple feel-good story-telling." — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 2, 2013
68%	The Iceman (2013)	" A powerful blend of grit and finesse..a gripping crime story..a psychopathic killer played with unlikely restraint by the most surprising actor around, Michael Shannon. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted May 1, 2013
88%	What Maisie Knew (2013)	" The film lives and breathes with Aprile's performance. She has a wonderful watchfulness..She sees all; how much she understands is probably shocking. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 30, 2013
40%	Midnight's Children (2013)	" Both dreamy and dramatic, a fascinating view of Indian history seen through the prism of a personal story." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 25, 2013
24%	Arthur Newman (2013)	" The film seemed to sputter along without truly lifting off." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 23, 2013
49%	At Any Price (2013)	" Bahrani dishes up obvious melodrama about fathers and sons, down-home values versus shifting business ethics. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 23, 2013
99%	Mud (2013)	" A spare, well-told story that shows teen characters learning necessary lessons in ways that manage to be both universal and dramatic." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 22, 2013
88%	In the House (2013)	" It's a mind-tickler of exquisite precision that saves some of its surprises for the finale." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 18, 2013
55%	Oblivion (2013)	" Not that the film doesn't want to make your pulse race. It's just that it seldom does. You have far too much time in this bloated and underwhelming film to consider that fact." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 17, 2013
90%	Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2013)	" A portrait of a tough American musical spirit, fighting through until the end and taking energy and solace from the music he created." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 15, 2013
80%	Hitler's Children (2012)	" Seems like such an obvious topic for a film that it's surprising no one else has made it before..Raises issues that never get old. Nor should we stop talking about them." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 12, 2013
77%	42 (2013)	" Deals with big emotions and allows you to feel them without stacking the deck or pushing obvious buttons. Instead, it lets the story of Jackie Robinson pack the punch." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 11, 2013
42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Maybe what Malick is working toward is a film in which he can leave out the actors altogether. He's getting pretty close." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 9, 2013
67%	Disconnect (2013)	" Upsetting, exhilarating and frightening in equal measures. It's got the ability to pierce your complacency with its cautionary tale." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 8, 2013
68%	Trance (2013)	" Like any good illusionist, Boyle understands that misdirection is a big part of the gag..feels like a Boyle escapade from start to finish. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 5, 2013
62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" I'm jaded enough that I came out of it feeling exhilarated if exhausted..this film has a sense of humor, as well as a relentless approach to its tale of demonic possession. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 4, 2013
55%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" As he skewers the tabloid mentality that has replaced actual journalism, Redford points to the lassitude of the masses (and media) that led us into an immoral war in Iraq." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 3, 2013
27%	The Brass Teapot (2013)	" If you happened upon "The Brass Teapot" on TV and it broke for a commercial, you'd probably change the channel." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 2, 2013
75%	Simon Killer (2013)	" Gripping and unsettling..There is a fly-on-the-wall quality to the scenes that's almost voyeuristic. It creates a sense of floating dread that builds as the film goes on." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Apr 1, 2013
28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" A better movie than the first one...which is a little like saying that someone with a terminal illness is better off than a person who's brain-dead. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 29, 2013
9%	The Host (2013)	" A new-agey sci-fi tale that spends a lot of time talking while making little actually happen..wants to be about ideas, rather than story. Except there aren't any ideas. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 28, 2013
82%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" There is an inevitability to the story, which builds tension like a snowball propelled by an avalanche. Cianfrance invests it with a sense of tragedy that's Shakespearean." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 26, 2013
94%	Room 237 (2013)	" The wave of hype about this movie has already started. To which I'd offer this thought: Bull." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 25, 2013
47%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" Butler winds up as the last good guy standing in a building full of terrorists. So, of course, he's able to kill them off one at a time because, well, Die Hard." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 22, 2013
76%	No Place On Earth (2013)	" A reminder of a horrifying period in history and a primer on the resilience and determination of which human beings are capable. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 21, 2013
43%	Admission (2013)	" You can count on one hand the number of good romantic comedies in any given year. Which is why Admission is such a treat. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 21, 2013
65%	Starbuck (2013)	" Funny, surprising and full of heart...meatier than you'd expect, with lots of unexpected humor." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 20, 2013
93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" An aggressively entertaining movie..that can be serious when it wants, without ever taking itself too seriously. " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 19, 2013
29%	Upside Down (2013)	" Who is it that keeps casting Jim Sturgess in movies? His range is limited to goofy smiles and pained looks of unrequited love - all that's required for this film." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 15, 2013
37%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" With a cast this well-stocked with comedy talent, you'd think just a few more laughs wouldn't feel like such a reach..a movie for 8-year-olds who haven't seen a lot of movies." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 14, 2013
66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Populated with characters who seem to have no interior life..In his own oblique way, Korine offers commentary about just how empty that world is." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 13, 2013
67%	Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013)	" Why would Roth give himself over to filmmakers who'd make a movie as dull and superficial as this one?..Makes you long for the doc that could be made by a real filmmaker " — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 11, 2013
30%	Emperor (2013)	" Never dawdles but rarely digs deep...set against the backdrop of impending war, when everything seems more vital and in-the-moment. Except for this sometimes plodding film." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 8, 2013
87%	The Silence (2013)	" Chilling stuff, the kind of thriller - like The Vanishing, let's say - that leaves you stunned and gulping." — Hollywood & Fine Posted Mar 7, 2013

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