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Noel Murray

Noel Murray

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Publications:
AV Club , Nashville Scene , The Dissolve
Critics' Group:
Southeastern Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
718

Worst Reviewed Films

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C- 27% Cost of a Soul (2011) " It's a lousy movie, but it has spunk." — AV Club
Posted May 19, 2011
C- 40% Gerrymandering (2010) " If we stipulate that gerrymandering is a pox on the American political process, do we have to sit through a documentary that makes that case in the most earnest, predictable way possible?" — AV Club
Posted Oct 14, 2010
C- 5% Multiple Sarcasms (2010) " From the jokes about Hutton overreacting to his daughter's menstruation to the comic ruminations about the relative attractiveness of genitalia, Multiple Sarcasms often plays like a bad stand-up routine dramatized by serious actors." — AV Club
Posted May 6, 2010
C- 29% The Good Heart (2010) " Cox's character is a living, hissing embodiment of the idea that no good deed goes unpunished. As an actor stuck in a movie that wastes his talents, Cox can surely relate." — AV Club
Posted Apr 29, 2010
C- 62% When You're Strange (2010) " Director Tom DiCillo does his damnedest to make his documentary about The Doors unwatchable, but the subject matter is too compelling -- and the vintage footage too electrifying -- to be completely worthless." — AV Club
Posted Apr 8, 2010
C- 60% Loot (2009) " Undoubtedly, everything documentarian Darius Marder shows in his debut film Loot actually happened, but Marder's approach to this "truth is stranger than fiction" story is so forced that the movie feels phony." — AV Club
Posted Dec 3, 2009
C- 56% Skills Like This (2007) " The movie devolves into a series of increasingly pat, ill-thought-out setpieces, presided over by a hero who can't really sell sincerity while he's sporting three-day stubble and a massive jewfro." — AV Club
Posted Mar 19, 2009
C- 11% Lake City (2008) " The movie has an earnest tone, and a burnished golden glow that's pleasing to the eye, but the characters have no life beyond their immediate problems, and the actions the plot requires them to take to resolve them." — AV Club
Posted Nov 20, 2008
C- 67% How About You (2008) " Nothing in How About You is the least bit surprising; the film hits its marks with dreary precision." — AV Club
Posted Nov 13, 2008
C- 29% Forever Strong (2008) " It's definitely possible to make artful message movies -- just consider the filmography of ex-Mormon iconoclast Richard Dutcher -- but Forever Strong is generic faith-and-redemption fare, devoid of nuance." — AV Club
Posted Sep 26, 2008
C- 34% Miracle at St. Anna (2008) " Miracle At St. Anna stabilizes after an outright awful first hour, and becomes merely a middling war movie with a heightened social consciousness." — AV Club
Posted Sep 26, 2008
C- 55% Elsa y Fred (2008) " The absence of bite prevents the movie from leaving any kind of impression." — AV Club
Posted Jun 26, 2008
C- 46% Mister Lonely (2007) " Mister Lonely has its moments of wonder and beauty, but the film is obscure by design, and meant to appeal to those who favor the alternative canon of directing greats." — AV Club
Posted May 1, 2008
C- 60% Look (2007) " If the idea is that we're always being watched, why does it seem that in this movie, no one's really paying attention?" — AV Club
Posted Dec 20, 2007
C- 28% Fat Girls (2006) " Fat Girls is fully in the "quirky indie" mold, populated by frumpy characters who sport slack expressions and enthuse about silly life plans." — AV Club
Posted Nov 1, 2007
C- 43% Lagerfeld Confidential (2007) " The problem with Rodolphe Marconi naming his documentary Lagerfeld Confidential is that he's promising more than he can deliver." — AV Club
Posted Oct 25, 2007
C- 78% Amu (2006) " The flat, pat talk is symptomatic of Amu's overriding problem: It has no sense of personal style." — AV Club
Posted May 25, 2007
C- 70% Backstage (2006) " Backstage's main problem is [director] Bercot's insistence on pumping an essentially comic story full of existential dread." — AV Club
Posted Dec 2, 2006
C- 25% Zerophilia (2005) " Zerophilia doesn't take any real chances." — AV Club
Posted Oct 13, 2006
C- 37% Looking for Kitty (2004) " Give Edward Burns at least a little credit for perseverance, because just about any other writer-director-actor who released a movie every couple of years to critical shrugs and audience indifference would've long since hung up his megaphone." — AV Club
Posted Aug 31, 2006
C- 19% 10th and Wolf (2006) " Anyone who's seen a mob movie or TV show in the past 30 years has pretty much seen 10th & Wolf." — AV Club
Posted Aug 17, 2006
C- 24% Autumn (2006) " It's hard enough to care about why these people are striking fashion-model poses and shooting at each other without having to think about their poor, bruised inner children." — AV Club
Posted Jun 22, 2006
C- 42% Agnes and His Brothers (2006) " It says something about Roehler's vision for Agnes And His Brothers that he didn't think much about the movie's centerpiece character, beyond the simplistic irony of having the family transsexual be the most normal." — AV Club
Posted Jun 7, 2006
C- 87% The Proposition (2005) " Had Cave written The Proposition as a song, the vague grotesquerie and simple, primal storytelling might've been an asset." — AV Club
Posted May 4, 2006
C- 40% American Gun (2002) " [It's] what happens when a director makes a movie based on what he imagines to be true, instead of what's actually so." — AV Club
Posted Mar 23, 2006
C- 48% Summer Storm (Sommersturm) (2006) " Someone should tell the poor guy that being gay doesn't have to mean being this lame." — AV Club
Posted Mar 15, 2006
C- 22% Desert Winds (1995) " Here's what Kohler isn't telling us: The kind of men who'd sign up for a trip like this aren't exactly the kind who'd have trouble opening up, and the kind of men who could afford a trip like this aren't exactly 'regular guys.'" — AV Club
Posted Feb 16, 2006
C 23% Arthur Newman (2013) " Director Dante Ariola and writer Becky Johnston have such a strong idea at the core of Arthur Newman that it's all the more frustrating when they follow it down the most familiar path." — AV Club
Posted Apr 25, 2013
C 36% LUV (2013) " Luv is split right down the middle between preposterousness and truth, and between amateurishness and confidence." — AV Club
Posted Jan 17, 2013
C 18% My Best Enemy (2013) " A movie largely devoid of attitude or suspense." — AV Club
Posted Jan 10, 2013
C 45% On the Road (2012) " They don't seem like real people savoring their youth, but rather like illustrations in a book about how the Beats behaved." — AV Club
Posted Dec 20, 2012
C 5% Nature Calls (2012) " The humor in Nature Calls tends toward the dopey and obvious ..." — AV Club
Posted Nov 8, 2012
C 22% Three Stars (2012) " There's a lot about the Michelin Guide and the restaurant industry that Three Stars barely touches in its too-broad overview." — AV Club
Posted Sep 20, 2012
C 76% Unforgivable (2012) " The jumble of characters and plotlines remain indistinct and removed throughout." — AV Club
Posted Jun 28, 2012
C 62% We Have a Pope (2012) " It's probably unfair to pine for the movie a director didn't make, but it's disappointing that Nanni Moretti's Vatican dramedy We Have A Pope has so little to do with the actual selection process for a new pontiff." — AV Club
Posted Apr 5, 2012
C 57% It's About You (2012) " It's About You's sound is relatively clean and dynamic, but there's nothing remotely resembling a narrative here." — AV Club
Posted Jan 5, 2012
C 23% Angels Crest (2011) " It relies too much on two particularly played-out indie clichés: a spare, plunky soundtrack, and a narrative structure that teases out characters' backstory far longer than necessary." — AV Club
Posted Dec 29, 2011
C 56% Albert Nobbs (2012) " The problem with Albert Nobbs though is that it's hard to believe that the people around the heroine haven't figured her out yet. Even with prosthetics, Close isn't all that convincing as a man." — AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2011
C 11% The Ledge (2011) " If nothing else, The Ledge is a reminder of what a terrible, terrible actress Liv Tyler is." — AV Club
Posted Jul 7, 2011
C 82% Trollhunter (2011) " Here's what's not so good in Troll Hunter: the actual troll hunting." — AV Club
Posted Jun 9, 2011
C 75% Everything Must Go (2011) " Rush could've approached this material in dozens of ways, but the way he chooses -- turning it into an occasionally wry, ever-earnest dramedy -- is precisely the wrong one." — AV Club
Posted May 12, 2011
C 78% Red Hill (2010) " Aside from splicing together a policier and a Western, there's no spin here, just a checklist of clichés..." — AV Club
Posted Nov 4, 2010
C 80% Cyrus (2010) " Once again with the Duplasses, there just isn't enough of anything: not enough funny lines, not enough variation of mood, not enough plot." — AV Club
Posted Jun 17, 2010
C 0% Stolen (2010) " The low-boil mystery-thriller Stolen was once known as The Boy In The Box and then Stolen Lives, but now has a title as nondescript as its contents." — AV Club
Posted Mar 11, 2010
C 45% Creation (2010) " What begins as a multilayered tale of scientific discovery and cultural history gets reduced to a single maudlin idea: that even Charles Darwin had to evolve." — AV Club
Posted Jan 21, 2010
C 67% The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) " For a movie about the unpredictability of life, Pippa Lee plays it awfully safe." — AV Club
Posted Nov 24, 2009
C 50% Mammoth (Mammut) (2009) " The movie lacks the personal touch that's distinguished even Moodysson's "difficult" films." — AV Club
Posted Nov 19, 2009
C 90% The Messenger (2009) " Many scenes in The Messenger feel merely illustrative, not designed to develop characters and story so much as to make the point, over and over, that the home front can be as harrowing as the front lines." — AV Club
Posted Nov 12, 2009
C 57% Nos enfants nous accuseront (Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution) (2008) " Jaud isn't telling a story so much as he's making a case, and while his case is persuasive, it doesn't really work as a movie." — AV Club
Posted Oct 15, 2009
C 50% American Journey (2009) " An American Journey is short and scattered, and doesn't follow through often enough on its "catching up with The Americans 50 years later" premise." — AV Club
Posted Oct 1, 2009
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