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Prairie Miller

Prairie Miller

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Biography:
Prairie graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University and is the mother of twin sons. She is a multimedia journalist online, and in print and radio. She has written articles and poems here and internationally, and aspires always to the excavation of the lyrical muse in journalism and the poetry in history. Prairie also has two published poetry collections, including Arguments With America (Pemmican Press), and Legends (John Brown Press).
Publications:
AfroGotham , Arizona Reporter , Baret News , Black Fem Lens , Cineman Syndicate , Counterpunch.org , Critical Women , Critics' Choice Movies , DVDivas , filmgazette.com , Flicks.com , International News Service , Kid Surfer , Long Island Press , NewsBlaze , NY Rock , Playboy Online , Purple Revolver , Reelrave , Student Operated Press , The Takeaway , Toronto-Franco.com , WBAI Radio , WBAI Web Radio , World Socialist Web Site
Critics' Group:
Broadcast Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online
Total Reviews:
1524
Total QuickRatings:
2
Location:
New York

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76% Augustine (2013) " Deconstructs late 19th century forms of torture, sexual exploitation and degradation, the female body as theater, closet peep shows, and the medical practitioner fantasy of 'a slave looking for a master' that all defined psychiatry back then." — WBAI Radio
Posted Oct 6, 2013
82% Don Jon (2013) " Levitt somehow pulls off the oxymoron feat of a feminist chick flick porn comedy. And with no small credit for this Hollywood upstart, owed to his parents from my own alternative radio network. Thus his enlightened upbringing for this meaningful movie." — WBAI Radio
Posted Sep 25, 2013
97% 12 Years a Slave (2013) " Watching this brutal kidnapping and torture, it is impossible not to be similarly haunted by US atrocities today that continue under a sinister cloak of legality. From Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, to the disappeared into secret US prisons around the world." — WBAI Radio
Posted Sep 20, 2013
78% Good Ol' Freda (2013) " If you have no idea at all about the people who always pour your coffee or bag your groceries every day, then this film is for you. Revealing the riches in observations offered by one of those among the invisible millions serving in the shadows of life." — WBAI Radio
Posted Sep 10, 2013
44% redacted (2007) " Timeless and more relevant than ever in the face of permanent US war against the world, Redacted has prophetically conjured a parallel US war, targeting journalists and filmmakers. And in an ironic case of redacting the director and his film as well." — WBAI Radio
Posted Sep 10, 2013
15% Winnie Mandela (2013) " Sometimes it can be strangely said that it's a miracle when a certain film even exists, warts and all. So let's cut to the chase, and what really matters in this immensely important movie. Not the least which is, 'Strike a woman, and you strike a rock.'" — NewsBlaze
Posted Sep 8, 2013
—— Not Another Jesus Camp (Commie Camp) () " More defensive than defiant, the documentary and its metaphorically meaningful title Commie Camp come off as anything but historically honoring activist pride roots. And you know something isn't quite right if Rush Limbaugh seems to be making a point." — WBAI Radio
Posted Sep 6, 2013
34% Adore (2013) " Reluctant rebel moms in love. With much meaty food for thought, even if a bit philosophically tough and raw to chew on when at its most visually lyrical. And likely as much into shaking up narrative conventions, as subverting gender perspectives. " — NewsBlaze
Posted Aug 30, 2013
46% Closed Circuit (2013) " An eerie truth as strange as fiction moral noir thriller coincidentally grabbing today's headlines. As it sheds an intensely feverish light on the dark, sinister methods of government when it comes to domestic mass spying, secret trials and inside jobs. " — WBAI Radio
Posted Aug 25, 2013
56% Inch'Allah (2013) " Multi-layered, eloquently crafted, and both heartfelt and harrowing, Inch'Allah might also be described as the most extraordinarily powerful horror movie this year. And in its own politically and by extension narratively subversive way. " — NewsBlaze
Posted Aug 24, 2013
54% Lovelace (2013) " Sharon Stone stuns on screen as a thwarted woman herself and bitter, confused mom of the late tragic porn star. And with a behind-the-scenes brutal, grueling journey through the domestic violence and sexual slavery and exploitation endured by Lovelace." — WBAI Radio
Posted Aug 4, 2013
—— Living Downstream (2010) " An informative and eloquent portrait of cancer survivor victim turned leading activist Sandra Steingraber, and her unique blend of scientist and poet. In an adamant determination to break the corporate silence surrounding the related cancer epidemic." — WBAI Radio
Posted Jul 18, 2013
62% Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp (2013) " Taken as an in-depth confessional it's fine, but yet another bad mommy blame game on screen. And an odd counterpoint to the explosive, horrific revelations of the many sex trafficking documentaries proliferating out there." — WBAI Radio
Posted Jul 13, 2013
36% The Hot Flashes (2013) " Women with balls. Feisty older actresses with attitude, including Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Virginia Madsen and Wanda Sykes, not into being sidelined because of age, on the basketball court or on screen." — WBAI Radio
Posted Jun 28, 2013
91% Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2013) " A formidable creative force fueled by massive contradictions, Ungerer is a kind of self-analytical shrink here. Conflicted yet inspired by identity issues, political injustice art, and a weirdly beloved treasure trove of headless sex slave barbie dolls." — NewsBlaze
Posted Jun 16, 2013
79% Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer (2013) " Spotlights the subversive Russian punk rock protest performance artists, who these women are and where they came from. And the connection of all of this to anti-capitalism, the chaos of the post-Soviet market economy, and Soviet era vanguard feminism." — WBAI Radio
Posted Jun 13, 2013
—— Handmade Cinema () " Mulls how these film craftspeople may exist somewhere in the enigmatic realm between artisan and artist. And what all of this may or may not have to do with Fellini, Pasolini, Scorsese, Spike Lee, Sophia Loren's hair, and Leonardo Da Vinci at the bodega." — NewsBlaze
Posted Jun 13, 2013
82% Dirty Wars (2013) " CIA on steroids. With Scahill's revelations trapped in this doc noir, exposing US secret death squads and their kill lists and outsourced warlord assassins all around the world. Dragging US covert war out of the shadows and into the public conversation." — WBAI Radio
Posted Jun 11, 2013
64% Tiger Eyes (2013) " Tiger Eyes takes youth angst to another level in this page to screen adaptation. Touching on teen alcoholism and pregnancy, atom bombs, and aboriginal life in Los Alamos. " — WBAI Radio
Posted Jun 9, 2013
88% Hannah Arendt (2013) " The chick flick gets a magnificent makeover, so to speak, for something other than the usual sex and romance. Delving into the intellectual life of the defiant philosopher and provocative theorist of the 'banality of evil, as politically potent today." — WBAI Radio
Posted May 31, 2013
59% The Bling Ring (2013) " More bling than ring of truth in a Post-Occupy world. As Hollywood's projecting paranoid flavor of attacks on their privileges by the poor here and countries they in actuality exploit, adds a new economic crisis class enemy, the diminished middle class." — Critical Women
Posted May 26, 2013
84% Fill the Void (2013) " Not exactly a Hasidic musical but close to it, the film delves into the complicated culture of Orthodox Jewish arranged marriages. And so to speak, a case of perhaps multiple choice matrimonial options managed in many ways by mom." — WBAI Radio
Posted May 23, 2013
27% 33 Postcards (2013) " Orphan Mei Mei discovers dubious desired dad Guy Pearce is not exactly what he seems. Nor is this movie, taking a surprising turn away from the conventional, as it embraces collective values over the usual quest and flight into Western individualism." — WBAI Radio
Posted May 14, 2013
14% Assault On Wall Street (2013) " Possibly the only director on the planet who has garnered a strange recognition through utter infamy, Boll engages in a weirdly raw and rowdy subversive ideological descent into the dysfunctionally dark recesses of US culture." — WBAI Radio
Posted May 10, 2013
—— The Girls in the Band (2013) " A euphoric, triumphant documentary, in which these unsung female jazz musicians get the last word too. As when one recalls when asked by a reporter, 'what's it like to be a female composer' she replies, 'what's it like to be a male journalist.'" — NewsBlaze
Posted May 7, 2013
55% The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) " A film unfortunately characterized by as much cake-and-eat-it ambivalence as those commitment challenged lovebirds. And with an ideological resolution wavering between two extremes, and in the end neither of them." — NewsBlaze
Posted May 4, 2013
25% Aroused (2013) " Faux feminist quotes ridiculously compare the porn stars to Anais Nin, Joan of Arc and yes, Eleanor Roosevelt. As Anderson cheers them while they get gussied up for oral, anal and mock rape scenes, exposing their souls way less than flashing flesh." — NewsBlaze
Posted May 3, 2013
85% Graceland (2013) " Filipino-American filmmaker Ron Morales gets raw and real in a return to his cultural roots in teeming Manila for this sex trafficking thriller, though flirting with the boundaries between outrage and exploitation." — WBAI Radio
Posted May 1, 2013
47% The Lords of Salem (2013) " Witches gone wild, then and now. Zombie plays around with history as to whether or not witches have really existed. A reality rewrite regarding women historically persecuted for rebellious minds of their own, likely to leave especially feminists fuming." — WBAI Radio
Posted Apr 19, 2013
55% The Company You Keep (2013) " Outsider looking in fictional history perhaps exonerating Redford rather than those underground anti-imperialist fugitives distorted in his movie - not to mention a conveniently disappeared Cointelpro - for possibly his own lack of commitment back then." — WBAI Radio
Posted Apr 7, 2013
56% Hunky Dory (2013) " A lyrically and emotionally intense coming of age tale. Touching on a teacher's struggle against the educational establishment in a search for the liberating musical self-expression of her students." — WBAI Radio
Posted Mar 29, 2013
77% No Place On Earth (2013) " Sheds light on a larger inquiry delving into the human psyche, and why some people succumb to fate while others go to extremes to resist and survive. Along with insights into courage versus fear and collaboration among spectators of the victimized." — WBAI Radio
Posted Mar 29, 2013
90% My Dinner with André (1981) " The dining duo struggle with words between bites, groping for a recipe summoning the meaning of life. And in a movie that redefined as a surprising and inventive enduring classic, both leading man requisites and filmmaking conventions." — WBAI Radio
Posted Mar 18, 2013
100% Downeast (2013) " Self-interest butts heads with class interests, in this solemn investigative documentary shedding light on how the collusion of local politicians and conflict of interest outsourcing brought down the economy and plant workers in a depressed Maine town." — WBAI Radio
Posted Mar 8, 2013
69% Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) " Exposes why nothing much is being done about global warming and its toxic effects, and just which fossil fuel capitalists are profiting from that. Along with the power of propaganda in their bid to control the related national conversation." — WBAI Radio
Posted Mar 8, 2013
89% A Place at the Table (2013) " An explosive investigative documentary about the injustices emanating from agricultural capitalism, how it's more about who gets to define what food is, and exactly who hugely profits from it." — WBAI Radio
Posted Mar 1, 2013
55% Snitch (2013) " Serious action thriller filmmaking for a change in Hollywood, bristling with the strange connection between drug cartels and the US government when it comes to the draconian drug sentencing laws on the books. " — WBAI Radio
Posted Feb 22, 2013
64% Ferlinghetti A Rebirth of Wonder (2013) " Explores what exactly people have been hungry for that the poet has touched in them for over half a century, and fed their souls. And whether or not this filmmaker's quest has perhaps unleashed his inner stalker. At least according to Ferlinghetti." — WBAI Radio
Posted Feb 6, 2013
67% Porfirio (2013) " Porfirio's own perverse bid, via an eager filmmaker, to impress us that he may be disabled and feeling on the emasculated side. But some in-your-face unsimulated sex can still show the world what a macho stud in bed he can be. The pleasure is all his." — NewsBlaze
Posted Feb 5, 2013
100% Stolen Seas (2013) " With his much more than meets the eye pursuit of raw unfiltered truth, Payne navigates the turbulent waters of piracy, as it has been impacted by the legacy of colonialism and rebellion, and the military hardware industry profiteering also kicking in." — WBAI Radio
Posted Jan 19, 2013
50% Clandestine Childhood (2013) " A solemn reverie about an urban guerrilla mother in revolutionary struggle, and the maternal ideal as ambivalent myth and martyr. Giving rise to the contemplation of art as an act of necessity, and the creative journey of the life of an idea in a film. " — WBAI Radio
Posted Jan 9, 2013
—— Le bonheur d'Elza (Elza) () " Sometimes I feel like a fatherless child. Monpierre, the first Guadeloupe woman director, projects her personal journey searching for her absentee father on this emotionally unfocused drama. In effect diminishing how single mothers struggle and prevail." — WBAI Radio
Posted Jan 5, 2013
75% Killing Them Softly (2012) " Australian director Andrew Dominik mixes conventional mobster mayhem with an unconventional take on gangsters caught up in the Great Recession. And with Brad Pitt as his ideologically enraged male muse hitman, as if wandering in from Occupy Wall Street." — WBAI Radio
Posted Jan 5, 2013
14% Ecstasy (2012) " A drug-fueled landscape impacted by the Thatcher years, characterized by Scottish working class misery and massive unemployment feeding the underground drug economy. And reflecting Welsh's own conflicting personas as cult figure, pariah and antichrist. " — WBAI Radio
Posted Jan 4, 2013
82% De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012) " Everybody finally sees the light on fast forward with happy endings all around, despite intense performances. While Alain eventually decides that full-time boxing is the way to go, to find dignity and get liberated from worker exploitation. Go figure." — Long Island Press
Posted Dec 30, 2012
27% Addicted To Fame (2012) " So how much are attention addicts Giancola and Anna Nicole Smith alike as they weirdly bond away in his movie? Giancola was shrewd enough to foolproof his film with deliberate self-parody, while Smith succumbed to her own self-dehumanization." — Long Island Press
Posted Dec 30, 2012
67% Parked (2012) " Infused with the visceral impact of raw truth connected to the homeless insider point of view looking out at a callous world. But when it comes to the director's outside looking in perspective, there's a second hand sense of little felt or endured." — Long Island Press
Posted Dec 30, 2012
51% Promised Land (2013) " Economic crisis cinema meets ecology noir in this subdued yet strangely disturbing clandestine corporate crime thriller. Provoking reflections on the way things are, but don't necessarily have to be. In other words, we direct, you decide." — WBAI Radio
Posted Dec 28, 2012
44% On the Road (2012) " A case of alienation twice removed. First by the characters who wander in an emotionally distant fog through a perplexing American landscape. Then the filmmaker, whose voyage into palpably unfamiliar cultural territory compounds everything else." — Long Island Press
Posted Dec 17, 2012
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