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Michael H. Price

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: Fort Worth Business Press
Critics' Group:: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 45
Total QuickRatings:: 31

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	20%	Gobots - Battle of the Rock Lords ()	" What the story lacks in depth it makes up for with exciting combat scenes, and with a tendency to make women characters more than stereotypes in constant need of rescuing." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Posted Mar 26, 2013
	56%	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	" Poll and screenwriter Gustin Nash may be paying homage, here, but they also bring to the table a comparable depth of thought and characterization." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Feb 13, 2008
1/5	11%	Another You (1991)	" Pathetic attempt to recapture the vanished magic of a once-effective comedy team." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jun 3, 2005
3/5	81%	Cry Freedom (1987)	" Often harrowing and naturalistic but ultimately self-important in its indictment of police-state politics." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jun 3, 2005
2/5	89%	Mississippi Burning (1988)	" Improbable re-enactment of an investigation into long-ago outbreak of hate crimes." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jun 3, 2005
4/5	92%	Blade Runner (1982)	" Futurism meets film noir in the most satisfying S-F picture of its day." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jun 3, 2005
	80%	Cinderella Man (2005)	" 'The film is ... as rich in Depression-era authenticity as such a picture gets, complete with a palpable air of social decay and personalized despondency.'" — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jun 3, 2005
2/5	50%	Far and Away (1992)	" Overblown would-be epic of the Western frontier." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jan 31, 2005
3/5	67%	Tales of Terror (1962)	" Among the least of the Corman-Price Poe pictures, but rendered imperishable by its hilarious/horrific wine-tasting scene between Peter Lorre and Vincent Price." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jan 31, 2005
4/5	82%	Invaders from Mars (1953)	" Wm. Cameron Menzies' almost-masterpiece of Cold War paranoia, bracing and impactful despite some conspicuous gaffes in the costuming-and-effects department. The underlying beauty of it all is a tacit understanding that yes, It Can, Too, Happen Here." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jan 31, 2005
3/5	——	Pray for Death (1985)	" Depends upon which cut you've seen, whether the movie is any good or night. The pre-ratings original is pure ferocity, where the butchered American version comes off more like refried Jackie Chan." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jan 31, 2005
3/5	96%	The Birds (1963)	" More novelty than spectacle, but overall a chilling exercise in nihilistic terror." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jan 31, 2005
0/5	0%	Orgy of the Dead (1965)	" Ghastly, but only in the sense of ineptitude." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jan 31, 2005
	84%	Aliens of the Deep (2005)	" ... captures not only the majesty of the brinier depths - but also the fascination therein that keeps luring Cameron back to the ocean." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Jan 31, 2005
3/5	100%	César (1936)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 22, 2004
1/5	33%	White of the Eye (1987)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 22, 2004
3/5	83%	Night Nurse (1931)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 22, 2004
2/5	48%	Russian Doll (2001)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 22, 2004
	55%	Ocean's Twelve (2004)	" ... no improvement, unless one should care to marvel all over again at the utter lack of chemistry between [George] Clooney and Julia Roberts." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 22, 2004
2/5	40%	Thief and the Cobbler (1995)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 9, 2004
3/5	20%	Man's Best Friend (1991)	" ... a canine Frankenstein with real bite." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 9, 2004
3/5	71%	The Boy With Green Hair (1948)	" A peculiar mixing of bigot-buster and pacifist sensibilities, rendered largely incoherent on account of Howard Hughes' attempts to transform the piece into a pro-war tract. Strange that such a safe-as-milk picture could have caused many of its talents to" — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
	43%	Beyond the Sea (2004)	" ... pays tribute to the long-gone pop singer Bobby Darin in ways deeper by far than the bland hagiography that characterizes most show-world biopics." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
4/5	97%	Dave (1993)	" Darned near the Second Coming of Capra in Reitman's account of common decency under siege by political treacheries." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
2/5	50%	Kindergarten Cop (1990)	" Kid-friendly violence -- what a concept." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
	81%	Ray (2004)	" ... so suffused with clichéd mock-eventfulness and insipid veneration that you'd think [director Taylor] Hackford might be nominating [Ray Charles] for sainthood." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
3/5	56%	The Wild Angels (1966)	" Essential entry in the biker-flick craze of the 1960s and '70s, a heartfelt plea for nihilism and abnormalcy in a world enslaved by Civilization." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
4/5	100%	Foolish Wives (1922)	" The original 'Eyes Wide Shut,' confronting the erotic obsession with frankness and confrontational humor." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
3/5	43%	Ned Kelly (Ned Kelly, Outlaw) (1970)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
2/5	27%	The Keep (1983)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
3/5	84%	Moby Dick (1956)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
2/5	——	Evil Laugh (2005)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
3/5	85%	Eye of the Needle (1981)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
2/5	——	Zachariah (2003)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
2/5	86%	Nippon konchuki (The Insect Woman) (1963)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
3/5	80%	Die, Monster, Die! (Monster of Terror) (1965)	" Lovecraft Lite, from the studio that made the world safe for Edgar Allan Poe." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
2/5	11%	Carnosaur (1993)	" The anti-'Jurassic Park' -- meaner and more provocative but intolerably cheap." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
3/5	78%	Apache (1954)	— Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
4/5	100%	The Petrified Forest (1936)	" Gangster Existentialism deluxe." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
1/5	——	Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000)	" There's something diseased about a cartoon series predicated on the utterly wholesome adventures of a deceased juvenile." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
4/5	100%	The Gunfighter (1950)	" Henry King's, and Gregory Peck's, best sagebrusher -- bar none." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
	44%	National Treasure (2004)	" ... a mock-epic assault on the conventional wisdom of American history." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
1/5	——	The Invisible Maniac (1990)	" Why bother with special effects when you can have your stunt players pretending to grapple with an unseen assailant?" — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004
	89%	Spider-Man (2002)	" Count on Sam Raimi ... to deliver a Spider-Man movie that recaptures the wonder of those first-generation comics." — Fort Worth Business Press Posted Dec 8, 2004

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