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Matt Kelemen

Matt Kelemen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Publications:
AlterNet , AspectRatio.us , Las Vegas CityLife
Critics' Group:
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
265
Total QuickRatings:
9

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4.5/5 97% Gravity (2013) " Let's just say seeing the film is the next best thing to the horror and beauty of being lost in space. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Oct 4, 2013
4/5 88% Rush (2013) " ... one of Howard's best. Maybe it was going back to the era of his directing debut, 1976's Eat My Dust, and revisiting its subject matter (fast cars) that kicked Howard's aesthetic drive into gear." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Sep 27, 2013
4/5 95% Enough Said (2013) " ... the ensemble cast is stellar and in the end is what makes the film work, but any indie filmmaker can aspire to make a film like this. It's all about the story, and the sensitivity with which it's realized. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3 34% Salinger (2013) " If you really want to keep your relationship to Catcher in the Rye sacred, don't see this film." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Sep 20, 2013
2.5 80% Prisoners (2013) " ... when Dover's efforts reach a sadistic level the film's flaws become more noticeable. It feels like Villeneuve stretches out nearly every scene ..." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Sep 20, 2013
2/5 33% The Family (2013) " ... the audience has been pummeled by scenes of excessive violence that aren't convincingly farcical. They're just violent. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Sep 13, 2013
2.75 31% Austenland (2013) " Hess establishes a playful, light tone that comes as an effective antidote to the bombastic and in-your-face fare of the summer. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3.5 93% Still Mine (2013) " Hopefully, [James] Cromwell will have more highlights in the December of his years, but Still Mine is one to be proud of. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2.5 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " lovingly photographed, disjointed meditation of a life, an era in martial arts and a legacy, but its appeal beyond audience members with an appreciation Ip Man or the director may be limited." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Aug 29, 2013
3.5 89% The World's End (2013) " the film starts off with the best of intentions and ends like an epic pub crawl usually does. No hangover, though - it's a good time in retrospect." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Aug 23, 2013
4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " It's just a good small film made by people who share a goal of trying to create real characters rather than their spin on stereotypes." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " If only it could have been Spike Lee's The Butler " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2 47% We're The Millers (2013) " There are a few inspired scenes strung together by miles of filler on this road trip, and a pretty bull---- resolution ending." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Aug 10, 2013
3 68% Elysium (2013) " ... despite the noble intentions, Elysium suffers from second-act meandering that prevents it from becoming the sci-fi classic it was intended to be. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Aug 10, 2013
1.5 47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " It's farcical, but not funny; sexualized but not sexy. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Aug 2, 2013
4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " after seeing Fruitvale Station you should come away with the impulse to muse on the life behind the next tragic homicide in the news that sparks debate ..." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2.5 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " Faxon and Nash, who won an Oscar for The Descendants, wrote the screenplay based on their own childhood memories of water park anarchy and substitute fathers, and probably were inspired more than a little by classic summer camp comedy Meatballs (1978). " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jul 17, 2013
4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " ... the grace of movement established goes a long way in showing what is so wrong about the hyperkinetic animation employed in every Marvel Universe film. The Kaiju universe deserved and received more reverence than that ... " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jul 10, 2013
2 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " the anarchic, over-the-top third act feels pretty forced ... not surprising for a Pirates sequel dressed up in western wear. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jul 3, 2013
2.5/3 65% The Heat (2013) " ... barely disguised plagiarism conjuring ghosts of buddy-cop movies past, but in the end [Melissa] McCarthy saves the day" — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 27, 2013
3 67% World War Z (2013) " Although released in a climate oversaturated with apocalyptic visions and walking dead, [Marc] Forster's film carves a niche as a smart and thoughtfully stylized adaptation ..." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 21, 2013
2 75% The East (2013) " Things just happen far too conveniently for a viewer not seduced by Marling to easily suspend disbelief." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 19, 2013
2.5 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " sometimes reminiscent of Adrian Lyne's tragic depiction of latch-key L.A. teens in 1980's Foxes, but Coppola's characters don't draw the sympathy ... nor does it feel as intrinsic of a representation of its time" — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 14, 2013
2.75 56% Man of Steel (2013) " WORTH SEEING, BUT BARELY: Man of Steel is the nearly the best movie it could have been, save for the giant single-bound CGI leaps during the scenes in which Kal-El harnesses his super powers." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 13, 2013
4 98% Before Midnight (2013) " ... everyone who saw Before Sunrise in a theater has closely guarded secrets and lies barely covered beneath the surface. Before Midnight dissects the moment when, under the right conditions, those subterranean flammables combust ..." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 12, 2013
3.5 74% Love Is All You Need (2013) " The question isn't whether the two people at the heart of Susanne Bier's Love Is All You Need will get together, but how ... Bier demonstrates excellence in a genre where excellence isn't expected" — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 7, 2013
3.5 84% This Is the End (2013) " manages to maintain a surreal comic pace throughout the first half until things take a turn for the truly weird ... What Baruchel witnesses when he walks in on Cera in Franco's bathroom is priceless on its own" — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 6, 2013
2.5 38% The Purge (2013) " ... lapses in logic that are hard to overcome. Even a kid knows to turn a flashlight off when hiding, and a filmmaker should know audience members could react with derision if characters act thoughtlessly." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Jun 6, 2013
3 50% Now You See Me (2013) " Aaron Spelling-style mindless entertainment, what they used to call a B-movie, with a lot of narrative holes to fill for an active-minded viewer. That's tantamount to going to see a magic act with a debunker's frame of mind, though" — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 31, 2013
2 50% At Any Price (2013) " while [Bahrani] did create a sociologic examination of an industry and culture that effects everyone, and educates the audiences, he didn't know how to end the story. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 24, 2013
1.5 19% The Hangover Part III (2013) " It's hard to look past the convenient clues - barely more believable than plot points in a Scooby-Doo cartoon - that always spin the lads in the right direction. Then again, this is a cartoon." — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 22, 2013
2.5 87% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " The weaknesses covered up by the fan-boy thoroughness of the last Enterprise outing are more glaring this time. It's not enough to present caricatures of the original cast " — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 16, 2013
3 79% Iron Man 3 (2013) " Iron Man 3 is passable mindless entertainment, but even if the film grosses $1 billion worldwide the franchise has run its course." — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 3, 2013
3.5 79% 42 (2013) " If life-affirming inspirational stories are a turn-off, 42 is still worth watching. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 1, 2013
2.5/5 54% Oblivion (2013) " Unfortunately, when the story seems like an afterthought and the audience can't follow the plot progression, the movie ultimately fails" — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 1, 2013
4 93% No (2013) " NO is an important film - especially for people too young or too far removed from Pinochet's "Dirty War" to remember how horrifying the situation was in Argentina during the '70s and '80s. Bernal's screen presence goes a long way in making the movie work" — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 1, 2013
2 55% The Company You Keep (2013) " Things come together satisfyingly at the end, but by then the urge to jump out of one's theater seat has been in effect for at least 45 minutes. " — AspectRatio.us
Posted May 1, 2013
3.5 62% Evil Dead (2013) " ... not for people prone to nightmares. It's highly effective as causing involuntary chills and hand movements (as in, up to eyes to block the bloody chaos onscreen). ... a cut above just about any other modern horror/slasher remake" — AspectRatio.us
Posted Apr 29, 2013
4 93% The Gatekeepers (2013) " In the end, the accumulated stories in The Gatekeepers offer tremendous insight about the Israeli-Palestinian situation. It feels more like it was prepared as a history document for Shin Bet rookies than a documentary." — AspectRatio.us
Posted Apr 29, 2013
1/5 65% The Campaign (2012) " The problem with situation comedy movies in general - and Will Ferrell vehicles such as The Campaign in particular - is that they usually fizzle out after the first 30 minutes." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
1/5 51% Savages (2012) " compelling action scenes with momentum-killing dialogue digressions" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
4/5 97% Monsieur Lazhar (2012) " Falardeau had the good fortune to work with a powerfully effective ensemble cast, and Martin Léon's minimalist ambient score helps set the mood for a satisfying story about the healing effect brief encounters can have on emotional scars. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
2/5 43% To Rome with Love (2012) " Inconsistencies in time and space elements, and a plot that echoes an episode of The Flintstones, join generally underdeveloped attempts at suspending disbelief to mar Allen's attempt to represent the city of Fellini." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
1/5 55% For a Good Time, Call... (2012) " the concept was rife with possibilities that could synergize with Graynor's fresh appeal as well as her rising-star status. Neither the possibilities nor the synergy happens, mainly due to an underdeveloped story." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
2.5/5 94% Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (2012) " Although some of the dates and causal events in her life are passed over, the rhythm and style carry the narrative forward until the last 20 minutes, when the film mostly meanders to the finish." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
2/5 35% Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) " Rather than create an innovative style to complement the horror-history hybrid, he employs superhero clichés and hackneyed action scenes that only help distract from the ineffectiveness of the film's scant 3-D effects." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
3/5 78% The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) " its difficult to sit through the final scenes without thinking of what Madden could have cut to earn Marigold Hotel a five-star rating." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
5/5 99% Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) " Gelb also provides an education on the different kinds of sushi, the purveyors of premium fish and rice, and overfishing. But it's his lyrical, lovingly photographed scenes of preparation that elevates the documentary to a work of art." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
2/5 38% Dark Shadows (2012) " Burton really needed to lean his horror-comedy more toward horror. Instead, it's reminiscent at times of Love at First Bite and the feature film remakes of The Addams Family and The Brady Bunch." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 21, 2013
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