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Miriam Bale

Miriam Bale

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications:
House Next Door , Slant Magazine
Total Reviews:
45

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

Showing 1 - 45 of 45
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
2/5 —— Walter: Lessons from the World's Oldest People (2013) " The filmmakers are constantly on camera, eating tacos or commenting on the interviews with insight like this: "She's just such a sweet lady. She smiles all of the time."" — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
2/5 60% Vikingdom (2013) " At least in a video game, you have some control over the plot." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/5 —— The Spy () " It's amusing, and a refreshing change from the usual C.G.I.-heavy blockbusters." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/5 59% Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) " Sometimes so strange, colorful and wildly cute that it may end up becoming a "Yellow Submarine" for a new generation." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/5 45% Men at Lunch (2013) " The film feels meandering. Not only does it offer a jumble of ideas that aren't followed through, but it's also structured oddly." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2.5/5 53% The Muslims Are Coming (2013) " This well-intentioned "docu-comedy" (as the filmmakers label it in publicity notes) is not very funny." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
1/5 5% Battle of the Year (2013) " The miracle of the new 3-D dance film "Battle of the Year" is how it can be so relentlessly boring while there is so much frenetic activity on screen." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2.5/5 64% Herb & Dorothy 50x50 (2013) " Interesting ideas can be gleaned, higgledy-piggledy, but without much cooperation from the director." — New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3/5 50% Mademoiselle C (2013) " Instead of giving the viewer the satisfaction of watching a movie, this charming collection of incidents feels like flipping through a magazine with amusing Franglais quotations pulled." — New York Times
Posted Sep 10, 2013
4/5 100% Best Kept Secret (2013) " It spotlights an important issue yet never seeks to squeeze the truth into an easily digestible narrative frame. Instead it expands its storytelling to the boundaries of messy, joyful and painful reality." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/5 44% Bounty Killer (2013) " Watching this movie feels like viewing a very long, expensive car commercial and waiting for the real film to begin." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 91% Fire In The Blood (2013) " This virtuous stance is not unusual for issue-based documentaries, but a film with such illuminating content deserves a more artful vehicle for its moving message." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " With a group so evidently versed in the visuals of rock history, it's a shame that a filmmaker wasn't hired who would pay homage to classic pop films instead of offering a satisfactory paid promotional." — New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2.5/5 —— The United States Of Football (2013) " [Mr. Pamphilon] risks limiting this as a film made by a fan for fans, when it would also be of interest to anyone looking for a deeper examination of violence, race and class in American culture." — New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2/5 50% Devil's Pass (2013) " The film is ridiculous and laugh-out-loud funny, though it's sometimes hard to tell if this is intentional or not. Either way, it remains riveting because of its effective tropes. " — New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
4/5 —— Jajouka, quelque chose de bon vient vers toi () " Weaving observation and a shared dream state, this is an intuitive and intricate exploration into the feeling of sound." — New York Times
Posted Aug 6, 2013
68% The Artist and the Model (2013) " It ... casts art as being less about ideas than the opportunity to work with beautiful people and the inevitable temptation to bed them. But this isn't surprising from a film that is bereft of ideas itself." — New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/5 53% Wasteland (2013) " To borrow from a term for the gritty, working-class British dramas that this film also nods to, it's a kitchen-sink caper." — New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
—— Born To Royalty (2013) " With the film's incessant strings and narration by Hugh Bonneville of "Downton Abbey," the earnest yet pompous tone could almost be mistaken for a Monty Python parody of the BBC-standard style." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2.5/5 62% Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp (2013) " The film is weighed down by the testimony of bespectacled professors from hip critical studies and English departments and a psychologist, who describe Mr. Beck's biography without the punch and lyricism of his prose." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3.5/5 60% Les Coquillettes () " Demonstrates Ms. Letourneur's modest yet ferocious talent." — New York Times
Posted Jul 16, 2013
2/5 7% Just Like A Woman (2013) " It's a shame Ms. Miller has to try so hard, to grimace so much, to add emotional embellishment to compensate for a weak script." — New York Times
Posted Jul 4, 2013
1/5 —— Triumph Of The Wall (2013) " "Sometimes you start things, and you don't know exactly why," muses filmmaker Bill Stone, surely expressing the feelings of everyone who buys a ticket to his aimless, and seemingly endless, documentary." — New York Daily News
Posted May 30, 2013
3/5 88% Hannah Arendt (2013) " It's the actual courtroom footage that's the most effectively deep and ambiguous thing in this well-crafted but static biopic." — New York Daily News
Posted May 30, 2013
2/5 76% Dead Man's Burden (2013) " Despite visual nods to dozens of classic Westerns, the film cannot break through with its own vision." — New York Daily News
Posted May 2, 2013
4/5 93% Sun Don't Shine (2013) " [Audley's] richly textured debut is assured in every choice, from first frame to last." — New York Daily News
Posted Apr 25, 2013
2/5 16% Temptation (2013) " The mixed tones don't quite meld; While Smollet-Bell is fine, the broad comedy is so sporadic it feels out of place." — New York Daily News
Posted Mar 29, 2013
3/5 72% Renoir (2013) " Breathtakingly lush, lingering on subtle textures." — New York Daily News
Posted Mar 28, 2013
4/5 92% Gimme The Loot (2013) " Director Adam Leon, 31, has slyly and reverentially crafted a perfect New York movie, including the class tensions, relentless hustling and spontaneous connections that best define the exuberant strain of the city." — New York Daily News
Posted Mar 21, 2013
3/5 69% The Croods (2013) " When it gets past the Stone Age humor, this weird film manages to find some gentle revelations." — New York Daily News
Posted Mar 21, 2013
3/5 30% Reincarnated (2013) " The rap artist's spiritual journey (he's now Snoop Lion) seems earned, rather than the publicity stunt others might have caught a whiff of originally." — New York Daily News
Posted Mar 14, 2013
2/5 13% Safe Haven (2013) " The problem is that most of the pieces to the shoddy puzzle ultimately don't fit, making things less believable and successful." — New York Daily News
Posted Feb 13, 2013
3/5 81% Warm Bodies (2013) " Hoult's genuinely awkward charm and Palmer's tomboyish wholesomeness disarm an audience overfamiliar with this story." — New York Daily News
Posted Jan 31, 2013
3/5 83% Uprising (2013) " This important, moving event was, as we know, documented in real time, but in "Uprising" gets put into a crucial context." — New York Daily News
Posted Jan 10, 2013
1/5 50% FrackNation (2013) " The accuracy of this crowd-sourced documentary - funded by small donations on Kickstarter - seems as reliable as a Wikipedia entry." — New York Daily News
Posted Jan 10, 2013
2/5 17% Delhi Safari (2012) " The film is without wit and, sadly, entirely forgettable." — New York Daily News
Posted Dec 6, 2012
1/5 6% Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) " Once the 3-D special effects look dated, this head-scratcher of a movie could be ripe to become a camp classic. But for now, the humorless approach to this inane mess is embarrassing rather than hilarious." — New York Daily News
Posted Oct 26, 2012
3/5 25% Fun Size (2012) " By the end of this romp, "Fun Size" actually accomplished something charming: sentimentality without normality." — New York Daily News
Posted Oct 25, 2012
5/5 91% Holy Motors (2012) " Each episode of director Leos Carax's film perfectly masters the exact tone of a different genre, finding precisely the saddest moment in each of its vignettes." — New York Daily News
Posted Oct 18, 2012
2/5 63% Sinister (2012) " In its plot and even its title, the movie feels like a grab bag of every popular horror trope of the last 30 years." — New York Daily News
Posted Oct 11, 2012
3.5/5 75% Damsels in Distress (2012) " With Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman takes a radical, maybe even method, approach to broad comedy. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2012
1.5/4 23% What's Your Number? (2011) " What's Your Number? doesn't appear to get Anna Faris, which is its loss." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2011
91% The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) " A sweet, cool compilation of the counterculture. " — House Next Door
Posted Mar 29, 2011
98% Taxi Driver (1976) " The restoration shows not the bowels of hell, but gorgeous, glamorous New York City nightscapes." — House Next Door
Posted Mar 29, 2011
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