Neil Genzlinger

Neil Genzlinger

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:
New York Times
Total Reviews:
327

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/5 8% Argento's Dracula 3D (2013) " When insects are the best thing in your movie, it's probably time to retire." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/5 80% The Summit (2013) " A pulse-pounding success." — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/5 —— The Paw Project (2013) " A heartfelt documentary about a subject that inflames cat lovers everywhere: declawing." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
0/5 17% The Secret Lives Of Dorks (2013) " There's no way to prepare yourself for how awful "The Secret Lives of Dorks" is." — New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/5 56% My Lucky Star (2013) " After watching it, you may need a few moments to remember which decade this is, because the film has the tone and silliness of a "Pink Panther" movie or an episode of the 1960s sitcom "Get Smart."" — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2.5/5 14% The Colony (2013) " Becomes yet another run-from-the-ghouls exercise, cheapening decent work by a good cast." — New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/5 71% Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013) " In trying to convince us that the Fed is powerful, Mr. Bruce perhaps makes it too powerful. Lots of forces go into shaping the economy. To paint it as a one-man show seems oversimplified." — New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2.5/5 40% American Made Movie (2013) " "American Made Movie" ends up feeling as if it were built from well-known facts and wishful thinking." — New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
2/5 34% Hell Baby (2013) " [It] rarely dares to be smart, settling instead for familiar gags that would have the Devil himself yawning." — New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
2.5/5 8% Savannah (2013) " The film's tale ends up being less rich than its lovely Georgia settings." — New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2.5/5 —— Approximately Nels Cline (2013) " Not much more than a home video of a recording session, baffling but with an intimate feel." — New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/5 —— In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey (2013) " If you didn't already admire his music, you may be searching for more of it after seeing this documentary." — New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
56% Treasure Island (2012) " Viewers open to experimentation will enjoy simply seeing if they agree with the choices the filmmakers made in their what-if game. " — New York Times
Posted Aug 14, 2013
60% Mockingbird Lane () " As a one-shot the thing is just sort of weird - like the Munster family itself, an uneasy addition to an otherwise garden-variety neighborhood. " — New York Times
Posted Aug 14, 2013
2/5 27% Planes (2013) " "Planes" is for the most part content to imitate rather than innovate, presumably hoping to reap a respectable fraction of the box office numbers of "Cars" and "Cars 2," which together made hundreds of millions of dollars." — New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/5 77% Kid-Thing (2013) " The film is, if nothing else, an interesting meditation on how a child who grows up without guidance might react to a situation that requires judgment." — New York Times
Posted Aug 6, 2013
3/5 60% Breakup at a Wedding (2013) " If you're the kind who is always up for a calamity-filled trip down the aisle, "Breakup at a Wedding" is a moderately amusing application of the formula." — New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
2/5 14% The Smurfs 2 (2013) " A new, not very engaging movie featuring a lot of blue skin and household-name voices." — New York Times
Posted Jul 31, 2013
2/5 0% Stranded (2013) " It may be time for everyone to agree that if you've seen one trapped-in-space-with-an-alien-presence movie, you've seen them all." — New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
4/5 52% The To Do List (2013) " This movie is smarter and better acted and just plain funnier than most of its predecessors in the my-first-time genre, no matter which sex is losing what." — New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2/5 25% Copperhead (2013) " Though the tale, based on a novel by Harold Frederic, remains relevant to our time, the film is too self-conscious and tedious for the message it delivers." — New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
1/5 33% Beneath () " The whole film is a campy put-on, right? Apparently not." — New York Times
Posted Jul 15, 2013
—— Mary & Martha () New York Times
Posted Jul 4, 2013
3/5 63% Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) " His fans will love it; their main complaint may be that it ends too soon." — New York Times
Posted Jul 2, 2013
2/5 —— Petunia (2013) " It's possible to make a great movie out of family dysfunction, but this one is too short on insight to rank with the best of the genre." — New York Times
Posted Jun 28, 2013
—— Miss You Can Do It () " Miss You Can Do It, a sweet documentary... looks at a completely different effort to celebrate achievement and boost self-esteem." — New York Times
Posted Jun 24, 2013
1/5 22% Rushlights (2013) " There are too many twists in Antoni Stutz's uninvolving "Rushlights."" — New York Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
1/5 33% Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship (2013) " If you're watching this film and waiting for something funny or insightful to come along to assuage your annoyance, you'll wait a long time." — New York Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
2/5 25% Vehicle 19 (2013) " Mr. Walker's character is haunted by a troubled past, but the film would have been better if it had given him more to do in the present." — New York Times
Posted Jun 14, 2013
1.5/5 52% Hatchet III (2013) " When the title of a movie consists of a number and the name of a tool, expectations are likely to be pretty low. So it feels somewhat incongruous to call "Hatchet III" a disappointment." — New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
3/5 50% Free Samples (2013) " A modest but pleasant small-budget movie with two bits of laziness in the script, but one particularly sweet performance that makes up for them." — New York Times
Posted Jun 7, 2013
2/5 22% Rapture-Palooza (2013) " It never does live up to its potential, instead becoming bogged down in a repellent character who is supposed to be savagely satirical but is really just tediously crass." — New York Times
Posted Jun 7, 2013
3.5/5 72% The Wall (2013) " The photography is often lovely, and Ms. Gedeck convincingly portrays a woman who as the ordeal stretches on month after month seems to be gradually losing her individuality and blending into the landscape." — New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
4/5 96% The History Of Future Folk (2013) " It may not make much sense in a brief plot summary, but it makes perfect, daffy sense on the screen." — New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
3/5 69% Fast & Furious 6 (2013) " A satisfying thrill ride, at least on a par with the earlier installments." — New York Times
Posted May 23, 2013
1/5 —— 3 Geezers! (2013) " This is one terrible movie." — New York Times
Posted May 22, 2013
3/5 27% 33 Postcards (2013) " It's all in the name of heartstring tugging, and the film, directed by Pauline Chan ("Little White Lies"), does that pretty well." — New York Times
Posted May 16, 2013
3/5 48% Black Rock (2013) " The male characters here are too thinly developed for this to be a top-notch survival thriller, but Ms. Aselton knows how to get the pulse pounding." — New York Times
Posted May 16, 2013
1.5/5 8% Java Heat (2013) " A better title for "Java Heat" might have been "Java Noise," since that is mostly what this uninvolving action film produces." — New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
3/5 67% Desperate Acts Of Magic (2013) " The story has a few convolutions too many, but a generous sprinkling of tricks and illusions will appeal to fans of magic." — New York Times
Posted May 3, 2013
1.5/5 60% The Happy House (2013) " The film, a sleepy, low-budget affair, merely enacts a series of horror movie clichés, as if that were enough. Its bland actors and wit-free script do nothing with the familiar elements but present them." — New York Times
Posted May 3, 2013
2.5/5 47% The Lords of Salem (2013) " Considerable care goes into establishing the premise, but the film eventually abandons psychological subtlety for hallucinatory garishness, which is too bad." — New York Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
—— A Moment In Time (2013) New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
4/5 67% Lunarcy! (2013) " Mr. Ennis uses cheeky editing to invite viewers to choose their own level of skepticism, and he lets his subjects ramble just long enough to leave you wondering whether they're winking at you, Mr. Ennis is winking at them, or what." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
5/5 55% Down the Shore (2013) " The director, Harold Guskin, and writer, Sandra Jennings, show admirable patience in letting the story unspool, and the actors reward them." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
3/5 —— Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City - 1900-1922 (2013) " A sobering study in how individual human beings can become afterthoughts in the face of broad movements like nationalism, a phenomenon that is still much in evidence almost a century later." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
3/5 71% Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013) " It's all kind of cute. Maybe a little too cute, but it does have a nice circle-of-life ending." — New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
2/5 28% G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) " There should be a "Fans Only" sign at the door of every theater." — New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
3/5 69% The Croods (2013) " [It] might even give the little ones something more challenging to think about than its tired main plot." — New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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