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Martin Scribbs

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Biography:: MARTIN SCRIBBS: The Philadelphia-based pedant, poet, and sot writes on the staffs of Flak Magazine and Mixed Reviews. Scribbs also bloviates at his own site, Low IQ Canadian. LIC's all-puppet version of Daniel Defoe's "Journal of The Plague Year" won grudging respect at every nursing home in which it appeared. LIC is a Member Critic at Cinemarati, and contributes regularly to the Cinemarati Roundtable.
Publications:: Flak Magazine , Low IQ Canadian , Mixed Reviews

Total Reviews:: 203
Total QuickRatings:: 118

Location:: Philadelphia, PA

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/10	35%	Larry Crowne (2011)	" Could have been a solid, straightforward rom com coasting on likable leads; half-hearted additions trying to link the movie to economic crisis just detract." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Dec 5, 2011
	77%	I'm Not There (2007)	" I'm Not There may inspire great movies, but doesn't have the discipline to be one itself." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Nov 25, 2007
	44%	Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)	" The wild, unstoppable commercial success of the Pirates franchise has freed Verbinski to spend a lot of time on flights of fancy and mythological asides." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jul 10, 2007
	70%	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	" A subpar A-Team episode with George Clooney as Face." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jul 10, 2007
	91%	Knocked Up (2007)	" Goodhearted and refreshingly messy." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jul 10, 2007
	7%	License to Wed (2007)	" Forget blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, wasting our time with License to Wed is the one unpardonable sin." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jul 8, 2007
	——	The Damned (These Are the Damned) (1963)	" Slow-building but creepy story of biker pug uglies, radiation poisoning, and prissy Brit schoolkids." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jul 8, 2007
	23%	Evan Almighty (2007)	" Feebleminded slapdashery." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 23, 2007
	56%	Keeping Mum (2006)	" Maggie Smith is like Mary Poppins...with a meat ax. Serial Grandmom strikes again." — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 7, 2006
	25%	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	" There is a natural limit as to how deeply any film, but especially a would-be summer blockbuster, can dig into radical ideas of faith and history. To his credit, Ron Howard hits that limit." — Mixed Reviews Posted May 21, 2006
	75%	Secret Honor (1984)	" Does anyone have a clue what Altman was driving at with this intense glob of lunacy?" — Low IQ Canadian Posted Nov 19, 2005
	92%	Gabriel Over the White House (1933)	" Gabriel Over the White House encourages its viewers to live the fantasy of the philosopher-king, but never counts the costs of such a regime." — Mixed Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2005
	25%	Bewitched (2005)	" I'll have some of what Nora Ephron's having, as long as I don't have to watch her movies." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Nov 19, 2005
	65%	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)	" If you guessed, 'a wheezy social problem drama,' you're right." — Mixed Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2005
	93%	Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)	" Not only was Good Night, and Good Luck filmed in black-and-white, it was written and acted that way, too. This is Good versus Evil for Political Dummies." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Nov 5, 2005
	46%	Bad News Bears (2005)	" Bad News Bears is a late summer hoot, and hopefully what your kids are really seeing when they tell you they're going to Sky High." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Aug 7, 2005
	——	The World, the Flesh and the Devil (2000)	" Belafonte is magic in his loneliness." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 26, 2005
	85%	Batman Begins (2005)	" The class dynamics of Batman Begins are just insufferable. Thank heavens we have our incorruptable masked moneybags to keep the criminal poor in line. " — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 17, 2005
	——	Leap Year ()	" Slow-moving silent comedy which didn't get screened for sixty years because of Arbuckle's scandal; mainly of historical interest." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 7, 2005
	73%	Primer (2004)	" I didn't understand Primer; worse yet, I didn't care." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Jun 1, 2005
	88%	F for Fake (1974)	" A little gem, full of vintage Welles ruminations on the ephemeral nature of personal celebrity and the elusiveness of ultimate truth." — Low IQ Canadian Posted May 22, 2005
	85%	The Yes Men (2004)	" Chris Smith is the next great documentarian for mainstream American audiences to discover, and he richly merits a wide release." — Low IQ Canadian Posted May 15, 2005
	97%	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)	" While Smartest Guys sometimes veers into C-Span2: The Movie territory, just then another shocking tidbit will drop to keep the fires stoked." — Mixed Reviews Posted May 15, 2005
	93%	Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004)	" Nothing more can be done to lay the concrete reality of poverty out for persons of conscience. Take and read." — Mixed Reviews Posted Mar 14, 2005
	45%	The Day After Tomorrow (2004)	" Preposterous, slow, and unimaginative." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 20, 2005
	88%	College (1927)	" Madcap fun as the supremely athletic Keaton plays a bookworm who, for love of a jock-loving girl, tries but fails heroically at every possible sport in every possible way." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 19, 2005
	88%	Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990)	" Superb thriller scored to Eurotrash synth pop, La Femme Nikita sets out a whole world of espionage and violence, and engages with a wild yet sympathetic lead." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 4, 2005
	83%	Finding Neverland (2004)	" A celebration of artistry, not as mere ornament, but as the very stuff of life." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 3, 2005
	91%	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	" Mystery of the Universe #237: the same Clint Eastwood who once co-starred with an orangutan is now America's finest director of tragedy." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 3, 2005
	88%	Bad Education (La Mala educación) (2004)	" Sexy and complicated as between its adult leads, Bad Education also marks the most insightful critique yet of the pedophile scandals in the Catholic Church." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 3, 2005
	81%	Ray (2004)	" Yet another ho-hum man of genius biopic, showcasing a scenery-chewing lead-behaving-badly, shoddy Freudian psychoanalysis, and cliche bottom-of-the-ninth redemption." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 3, 2005
	96%	Sideways (2004)	" A funny, heartfelt coming-of-middle-age story by, for, and about snobs." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 3, 2005
	69%	Carandiru (2004)	" Humanity struggles out from under a maximally oppressive system, commenting by haunting metaphor on life outside the prison walls." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 3, 2005
	0%	Mars Needs Women (1966)	" If Plan 10 From Outer Space, a.k.a. Mars Needs Women, doesn't tickle your funnybone, you really don't have one." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Feb 3, 2005
	17%	Gacy (2003)	" Gacy channels its horror through bicentennial suburban kitsch, clowns-in-the-closet visuals, and a heaving, foul, maggot-carpeted crawlspace deep with death and lies." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Dec 31, 2004
	55%	Ocean's Twelve (2004)	" Ocean's 12 is malt-liquor-on-a-Monday stupid." — Mixed Reviews Posted Dec 12, 2004
	24%	Caligula (1979)	" Caligula turns the Julian dynasty's most violent chapter into a sleazy snoozefest. Even the Penthouse Pets look pained to be decorating this historic bomb." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Nov 25, 2004
	88%	The Five Obstructions (2003)	" Despite his own pessimism, I think Von Trier does change Leth as an artist, a little, through these chastisements." — Mixed Reviews Posted Nov 25, 2004
	49%	Alfie (2004)	" What at first seems a glossy ad for the swinging single life gradually reveals itself as an stinging indictment of the emotional impotent." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Nov 17, 2004
	56%	The Polar Express (2004)	" This praiseworthy film has been awarded highest honors from Puissant Guide and All-Fertile Giftgiver Kris Kringle." — Mixed Reviews Posted Nov 17, 2004
	84%	The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004)	" An unexpected renaissance in Soviet filmmaking." — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 25, 2004
	62%	I Heart Huckabees (2004)	" See I Heart Huckabees before your boss asks you to tell your Shania Twain mayo story and you vomit all over a meeting of the Board." — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 18, 2004
	10%	Taxi (2004)	" License revoked." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Oct 16, 2004
	77%	Team America - World Police (2004)	" A post-9/11 gutbuster." — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 10, 2004
	72%	Bonhoeffer (2003)	" Bonhoeffer doesn't probe as deeply as one might like into the details and implications of his theology, but is an invaluable study of a man of conscience. " — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 6, 2004
	48%	A Home at the End of the World (2004)	" All roads lead to ruin in Home's world, lending an unexpectedly reactionary tone to the work." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Oct 3, 2004
	69%	Porn Star - The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)	" Porn Star runs out of insight and surprises long before the closing credits roll." — Low IQ Canadian Posted Oct 2, 2004
	89%	Going Upriver - The Long War of John Kerry (2004)	" John Kerry may well be the conscience that America needs at its helm. But I'd never trust a 90-minute campaign ad like Upriver to tell me that. " — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 2, 2004
	53%	A Dirty Shame (2004)	" A Dirty Shame, a very funny movie, overcomes its limitations by playing to director John Waters' strengths." — Mixed Reviews Posted Oct 1, 2004

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