Nell Minow

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography:
Nell Minow writes about movies, television, the Internet, and parenting as The Movie Mom for Beliefnet and other publications. Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Family Fun, Child, Daughters, Parents, Slate, and three editions of The Practical Guide to Practically Everything. Her book, The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies was published by Avon in 1999, with a second edition in 2004. She reviews movies every week on radio stations across the US and in Canada. Her reviews appear on Beliefnet at http://blog.beliefnet.com/moviemom and you can see her Movie Mom page on Facebook or follow her on twitter. Nell is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Washington Area Film Critics Association.
Favorites:
500 of my favorite movies are reviewed in my book, but as of this writing my top 10 would have to include "The Philadelphia Story," "To Have and Have Not," "His Girl Friday," "Ball of Fire," and "Duck Soup." Ask me tomorrow and you might get a different list!
Publications:
Beliefnet , Chicago Sun-Times , Common Sense Media , Denver Post , DVDJournal.com , Kansas City Star , Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
4157
Total QuickRatings:
937
Location:
Just outside of Washington DC

Quick Ratings

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3/5 50% Dragonheart (1996) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Dec 21, 2005
5/5 100% Office: The Complete First Series (2003) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Dec 21, 2005
3/5 80% Eddie Murphy Raw (1987) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Dec 21, 2005
4/5 71% Charly (1968) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Dec 21, 2005
5/5 93% Moonstruck (1987) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Nov 4, 2005
2/5 12% Speechless (1994) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Nov 4, 2005
3/5 —— Zelly and Me (Phoebe) (1988) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Nov 3, 2005
3/5 100% On Moonlight Bay (1951) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Oct 27, 2005
4/5 88% Bagdad Cafe (1988) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Oct 27, 2005
2/5 14% The Pride and the Passion (1957) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Oct 14, 2005
4/5 —— Without Love (1945) " Underrated top-quality romance with wonderfully literate dialogue and a crackerjack performance by Lucille Ball." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Oct 13, 2005
1/5 36% She Gets What She Wants (2005) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Oct 6, 2005
5/5 86% Love Affair (1939) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Oct 6, 2005
1/5 17% Jingle All the Way (1997) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Sep 29, 2005
4/5 95% Radio Days (1987) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Sep 15, 2005
4/5 75% Rio Grande (1950) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Sep 15, 2005
4/5 99% Rivers and Tides, (Fluß der Zeit) (2002) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Sep 15, 2005
3/5 86% A Merry War (Keep the Aspidistra Flying) (1998) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Sep 15, 2005
2/5 0% Beethoven's 3rd (2000) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 23, 2005
2/5 19% Now and Then (1995) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 23, 2005
3/5 80% Yolanda and the Thief (1945) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 23, 2005
4/5 83% Little Women (1949) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 21, 2005
4/5 100% The Major and the Minor (1942) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 18, 2005
2/5 14% Krippendorf's Tribe (1998) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 18, 2005
4/5 89% How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 4, 2005
3/5 83% Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 4, 2005
5/5 98% The Godfather, Part II (1974) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
4/5 100% Red Dust (1932) " Smoldering." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
4/5 —— Holiday Heart (2000) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
4/5 100% Larry Sanders Show, The - The Complete First Season (2002) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
4/5 93% For All Mankind (1989) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
3/5 23% Mahogany (1975) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
4/5 100% The Dam Busters (1954) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
4/5 96% Sleuth (1972) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
3/5 50% A Song Is Born (1948) " So-so musical based on the brillaint "Ball of Fire" -- see that one instead." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2005
2/5 10% Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jul 28, 2005
3/5 74% Primal Fear (1996) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 28, 2005
3/5 —— They Were 11 () Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 28, 2005
4/5 96% Horse Feathers (1932) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 28, 2005
4/5 92% The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1998) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 28, 2005
4/5 46% Heartburn (1986) " Uneven script, but brilliant performances." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 21, 2005
0/5 8% An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 21, 2005
3/5 —— Stepping Out (1991) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 21, 2005
4/5 80% Wit (2001) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 21, 2005
1/5 75% Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 21, 2005
4/5 —— Courage of Lassie (1946) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 9, 2005
3/5 86% While You Were Sleeping (1995) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted Jun 9, 2005
3/5 14% Man of the House (1995) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted May 29, 2005
3/5 48% She's Having a Baby (1988) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted May 29, 2005
4/5 88% Anna and the King of Siam (1946) Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Posted May 29, 2005
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