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Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:: L.A. Weekly , Reverse Shot , Village Voice

Total Reviews:: 502

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	73%	Iron Man 2 (2010)	" As for the actual grand finale, Downey Jr. and Cheadle seem like they're already network gaming the PS3 release instead of facing any actual threat, and Rourke goes out like a chump." — Village Voice Posted Apr 15, 2013
	92%	No (2013)	" Deftly appropriates mediated history for fiction." — Village Voice Posted Feb 12, 2013
	91%	Caesar Must Die (2013)	" So solid is that conception, and so resonant the text in which questions of freedom and slavery are paramount, that the impact can hardly be diminished." — Village Voice Posted Feb 5, 2013
	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" With neither the moral bite of satire nor a voluptuary surrender that really basks in shallowness, this is a vague, unsatisfying work." — Village Voice Posted Feb 5, 2013
	4%	Movie 43 (2013)	" I see a bright future ahead for this sui generis work, which will be passed around sixth grade classrooms by odd-smelling kids for years to come." — Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2013
	40%	Parker (2013)	" Hollywood hasn't butchered Parker-which is to say that it has let him remain a butcher." — Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2013
	60%	John Dies at the End (2013)	" John Dies at the End is a product of a parallel universe where slacker flippancy never got old -- and, oh, it is terrible." — Village Voice Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	14%	Soldiers of Fortune (2012)	— Village Voice Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	95%	On the Bowery (1957)	— Reverse Shot Posted Jan 22, 2013
	89%	Our School (2013)	" Our School does much to establish how that Roma "environment" is reinforced from the outside." — Village Voice Posted Jan 15, 2013
	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" A crime against cinematic sensibility." — Village Voice Posted Jan 9, 2013
	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" Promised Land is a hard-sell movie because it doesn't have the confidence in its audience to make any other outcome seem personally viable, to give the opposition a fighting chance or persuasive voice." — Village Voice Posted Dec 27, 2012
	86%	Tabu (2012)	" A lyrical Old Hollywood melodrama projected on a bedsheet? A celluloid curio à la Barnum's Fiji mermaid? At such times, it's better to stick with a simple "wonderful."" — Village Voice Posted Dec 27, 2012
	45%	On the Road (2012)	" Another "primitive" postwar antique repurposed for boutique sale." — Village Voice Posted Dec 18, 2012
	93%	Amour (2012)	" Haneke remains, by his rules, infallible. So what?" — Village Voice Posted Dec 18, 2012
	——	Dead In France (2013)	" The whole thing, dated and overly familiar, is never as ballsy, brash, or clever as it thinks it is." — Village Voice Posted Dec 18, 2012
	——	Hidden Colors 2: The Triumph of Melanin (2012)	" [Director] Nasheed badly needs an editor; I say this not simply because his movie is two and a half hours long, but because he has a seeming total inability to separate gibble-gabble from revealed truth." — Village Voice Posted Dec 5, 2012
	——	Honor Flight (2012)	" Greatest-generation stoicism meets gushing contemporary sentiment ..." — Village Voice Posted Dec 4, 2012
	64%	Silent Night (2012)	" Fans of nearly nude women being fed into wood chippers will not go home disappointed (except, very likely, in their hollow lives.)" — Village Voice Posted Nov 30, 2012
	36%	The Collection (2012)	" A murkily directed bore "dealing" with the subject of serial killers and revenge ..." — Village Voice Posted Nov 28, 2012
	98%	Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012)	" In spite of Bulger's errors of tone, the movie stands as an engaging tussle with the question of what is permissible with the excuse of art." — Village Voice Posted Nov 27, 2012
	84%	Dragon (2012)	" It's an adept genre exercise with rare primal depths." — Village Voice Posted Nov 27, 2012
	13%	Red Dawn (2012)	" Single-mindedly action-oriented to the point where Milius's film seems relatively ruminative ..." — Village Voice Posted Nov 20, 2012
	——	Man At War (2012)	" The nimble, funny Man at War examines a video game as return of the repressed-it could well be called Why We Keep Fighting." — Village Voice Posted Nov 20, 2012
	64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" Confoundingly good performances gradually win the movie from Wright's puerile conceit, giving us an Anna Karenina if not for the ages, than at least for an evening." — Village Voice Posted Nov 13, 2012
	100%	16 Acres (2012)	" Hankin's film finally makes the indigenous variety of deadlock particular to New York politicos seem as quaintly comforting as a buttered bialy. " — Village Voice Posted Nov 13, 2012
	67%	Dangerous Liaisons (2012)	" The least one should hope for from another adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Dangerous Liaisons is savory, salacious trash ..." — Village Voice Posted Nov 8, 2012
	93%	Nothing But a Man (1963)	" The title almost suggests manhood as something trifling. The film, however, confirms it's a mighty hard ideal to reach." — Village Voice Posted Nov 7, 2012
	81%	In Another Country (2013)	" The cumulative impression is of figures being lightly traced in the sand only to be inevitably washed away, intentionally ephemeral and quite charming for it." — Village Voice Posted Nov 7, 2012
	49%	The Man With the Iron Fists (2012)	" If Iron Fists is sometimes badly made, it is refreshingly badly made." — Village Voice Posted Nov 2, 2012
	80%	Orchestra Of Exiles (2012)	" Although the movie is overreliant on chintzy-looking and rather corny historical reenactments, these are counterbalanced by anecdote-rich interviews ..." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2012
	67%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" There is a great deal of humbug about art and love in Cloud Atlas, but it is decidedly unlovable, and if you want to learn something about feeling, you're at the wrong movie." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2012
	82%	Two Years at Sea (2012)	" The imagery has all the solemn ravishment of Béla Tarr's similarly darkening The Turin Horse with none of the epochal portentousness, while Rivers's work owes more to Billy Bitzer than most gallery art contemporaries." — Village Voice Posted Oct 16, 2012
	78%	Flight (2012)	" Like Cast Away, Flight's narrative is set in motion by a wreck, a foundering, but this time there's a sort of genius behind the wheel." — Village Voice Posted Oct 15, 2012
	39%	Here Comes the Boom (2012)	" Call it Waiting for Superman Punch." — Village Voice Posted Oct 11, 2012
	63%	Sinister (2012)	" A proficient, rattling horror story." — Village Voice Posted Oct 9, 2012
	21%	Taken 2 (2012)	" Any breathing room from the hurtling narrative illogic only allows the audience opportunity to notice slips in Mills's father-knows-best infallibility." — Village Voice Posted Oct 3, 2012
	93%	Looper (2012)	" In short, for all its affectionate pastiche, Looper is a humanist movie, and is all the better for it." — Village Voice Posted Sep 25, 2012
	43%	Hotel Transylvania (2012)	" Although it doesn't worry itself with dialectic complexities, Hotel Transylvania succeeds on the level of entertainment." — Village Voice Posted Sep 25, 2012
	11%	House at the End of the Street (2012)	" Tonderai steers the story cleanly around its queasy hairpin turns, perversely toying with one of pop cinema's most cherished clichés: the audience's inculcated desire to side with the underdog." — Village Voice Posted Sep 22, 2012
	51%	Trouble with the Curve (2012)	" Conscientiously pulls out conflicts and then dutifully tucks in those loose ends, never making a point in any way that might puzzle the slowest audience member." — Village Voice Posted Sep 18, 2012
	67%	Hellbound? (2012)	" Any admirer of good talk will be impressed by the scholasticism and pulpit-trained oratory here ..." — Village Voice Posted Sep 18, 2012
	——	186 Dollars To Freedom (2012)	" On every level this production-from Robinson's callow performance to Vila's hackneyed handheld camerawork, punching beats in the stead of the actors-remains firmly on the level of the obvious." — Village Voice Posted Sep 18, 2012
	30%	Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)	" Diagramming every revolution of Jovovich in wheeling and whirling action, however, Anderson is pitch-perfect when singing the body electric." — Village Voice Posted Sep 14, 2012
	67%	Lawless (2012)	" The narrative often seems at odds with the director's pictorialism, trudging when it should be striding toward the climax, isolating the performers on their marks when everything depends on taut blood-ties interconnection." — Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2012
	4%	The Apparition (2012)	" The Apparition is not a great or even good haunted-house movie, but it does have the advantage of a memorable setting." — Village Voice Posted Aug 26, 2012
	76%	Premium Rush (2012)	" I do have an abiding fondness for compact and coherent action movies, and this is surely one." — Village Voice Posted Aug 26, 2012
	35%	The Victim (2012)	" It is dreary to envisage the viewer who could become emotionally involved in The Victim ..." — Village Voice Posted Aug 21, 2012
	48%	Hit & Run (2012)	" Essentially a celebrity goof-off ... Hit & Run goes slack from the lack of any real back-and-forth." — Village Voice Posted Aug 21, 2012

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