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Rex Reed

Rex Reed

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Publications:
New York Observer , New York Post
Critics' Group:
New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online
Total Reviews:
1120

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3/4 46% Parkland (2013) " An absorbing new footnote to a history lesson that will never fade." — New York Observer
Posted Oct 2, 2013
3/4 71% Out in the Dark (2013) " It's one of the most powerful films about the Arab-Israeli conflict that has ever been attempted on the screen." — New York Observer
Posted Oct 2, 2013
1/4 42% All Is Bright (2013) " Does anybody connected with this cinematic Valium know what they're supposed to be doing? The alleged "comedy" is too lame to make you laugh, and the poignancy is nonexistent." — New York Observer
Posted Oct 2, 2013
3/4 98% Gravity (2013) " Accept Gravity as pure, popcorn-munching show business fun and nothing else, and you won't go away disappointed. Leave logic at the concession stand." — New York Observer
Posted Oct 2, 2013
3/4 45% Morning (2013) " Mr. Orser is a director worth watching. His work behind the camera-as well as in front of it-is clean and direct, unsentimental almost to the point of austerity." — New York Observer
Posted Sep 25, 2013
2/4 83% Don Jon (2013) " [Gordon-Levitt] can act, and there's a possibility he can also direct, but there's no evidence in Don Jon that he can do both at the same time." — New York Observer
Posted Sep 25, 2013
2/4 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " It means well, but finally, it's a lighthearted film that is ultimately weakened by too much star wattage. Thanks For Sharing would have been better as a documentary." — New York Observer
Posted Sep 18, 2013
4/4 80% Prisoners (2013) " Prepare to be electrified! When it comes to thrillers, Prisoners is the must-see sensation of the year." — New York Observer
Posted Sep 18, 2013
1/4 51% A Single Shot (2013) " What passes for a plot has been done a thousand times before-in much better films than A Single Shot." — New York Observer
Posted Sep 18, 2013
3/4 95% Enough Said (2013) " Although Enough Said never really surmounts its TV sitcom style and structure, the director provides a nuanced entertainment that is enjoyable." — New York Observer
Posted Sep 18, 2013
2/4 0% Stranded (2013) " Mr. Slater, the only real name on view, looks embarrassed to be slumming in something so cheesy. But I liked the simplicity of the narrative structure and the lack of extraneous background information you get among most movie flight crews." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 24, 2013
1.5/4 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " Nobody in this movie is really appealing enough to be much fun. The state of New Jersey should sue." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 24, 2013
4/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " I do not consider Jasmine a typical Woody Allen comedy. It's better than anything you might imagine." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 24, 2013
3.5/4 93% Still Mine (2013) " Still Mine is Mr. Cromwell's film from first scene to closing credits...he is always present, alive and real, with a wealth of understated feelings. This is the greatest performance of his rich career." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 17, 2013
2.5/4 25% Copperhead (2013) " If every war has more than one side, this story of one man who dares to stand against the tide of history has a contemporary relevance that remains uncontested." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 17, 2013
1/4 62% Broken (2013) " Awkward music cues and choppy camera work add baggage to a film so overwrought that its excesses seem more unintentionally silly than bleakly disturbing." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 17, 2013
0/4 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Part schlockfest, part campy fairy tale, this is a movie that begs you to bring your own barf bag." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 17, 2013
3/4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " A harrowing film worth seeing and honoring for boldness and insight. " — New York Observer
Posted Jul 10, 2013
1/4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " You could make another film for half the budget in the time it takes to roll the end credits for CGI imaging. There's stuff to look at, but doesn't anybody care that it doesn't make a word of sense?" — New York Observer
Posted Jul 10, 2013
3/4 95% The Hunt (2013) " For his deeply affecting role that haunts the viewer long after the film ends, Mr. Mikkelsen won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 10, 2013
0/4 69% V/H/S/2 (2013) " A diabolically psychotic, sub-mental and completely unwatchable disaster ..." — New York Observer
Posted Jul 10, 2013
2/4 —— Petunia (2013) " Petunia augurs more titillation than it delivers and only works occasionally." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 26, 2013
3/4 61% Byzantium (2013) " It's not perfect, but when it works, Byzantium towers above all of the romantic vampire slobber we've been getting lately." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 26, 2013
67% World War Z (2013) " Robustly mounted, magnificently photographed and bone-crunchingly terrifying, World War Z towers above every other alleged summer blockbuster. It's the real deal." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 19, 2013
3/4 64% Unfinished Song (2013) " In the end, director Paul Andrew Williams fails to resist sentimentality, but classy acting and distinguished production values never sink to the level of soap opera." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 19, 2013
1/4 47% Maniac (2013) " Eventually it collapses in a gore fest of nauseating brutality that makes you wonder why they bothered at all." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 19, 2013
2.5/4 25% Vehicle 19 (2013) " As a man working against the clock while trapped in a vehicle out of control, Paul Walker never wastes his time-or yours." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 12, 2013
1/4 38% The Purge (2013) " DeMonaco clearly hopes to make a significant moral statement on the level of Shirley Jackson's literary masterpiece The Lottery. Alas, his aim at political conservatives who support the gun lobby falls flat before he can pull the trigger." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 12, 2013
2/4 56% Man of Steel (2013) " Despite an obscene budget that could have made a giant stride in the cure for cancer, there isn't much originality, and the whole endeavor appears to be the work of grown men who never outgrew puberty." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 12, 2013
3/4 63% The Prey (2013) " A slick, suspenseful adrenalin rush disguised as unexpected, nerve-wracking fun." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 4, 2013
1/4 22% Violet & Daisy (2013) " Artsy-fartsy gibberish executed with a staggering incoherence that smacks of desperation." — New York Observer
Posted Jun 4, 2013
0/4 57% American Mary (2013) " The acting is uniformly dreadful. The level of incompetence in both writing and direction is a scream." — New York Observer
Posted May 29, 2013
2/4 81% Shadow Dancer (2013) " The movie eventually wafts into a detective story, which would be doubly effective if only we could hack our way through the thickly coated Irish brogues that render so much of the dialogue incomprehensible." — New York Observer
Posted May 29, 2013
2/4 75% The East (2013) " The East suffers from the same weakness as the cult members Sarah works so hard to understand: a questionable definition of morality that overpowers an ultimate sense of reason." — New York Observer
Posted May 29, 2013
3/4 44% The English Teacher (2013) " Under Craig Zisk's frisky direction, the entire cast is superb and wrinkle-free. The screenplay, by husband-wife team Dan and Stacy Chariton, is thin as a poker chip but as clever as it is contrived." — New York Observer
Posted May 22, 2013
1/4 48% Black Rock (2013) " The writing tanks while the actors try to stay above water, but nobody leaves a trace on the radar." — New York Observer
Posted May 22, 2013
3.5/4 93% What Richard Did (2013) " You may be shocked by your own reactions to "what Richard did," but you won't soon forget the movie in which he did them." — New York Observer
Posted May 15, 2013
1/4 27% Erased (2013) " The only sure way to avoid the loss of any more I.Q. points in the world today is to stay away from movies like Erased." — New York Observer
Posted May 15, 2013
2/4 27% 33 Postcards (2013) " Just when you think it can't get any more sentimental or tack on any more plot detours, the film attempts a clumsy cultural détente as the Chinese children's choir sings "Waltzing Matilda."" — New York Observer
Posted May 15, 2013
1/4 85% Sightseers (2013) " A morose, unsettling blend of pathology for sport and murder for laughs." — New York Observer
Posted May 8, 2013
1/4 37% Aftershock (2013) " Merely lurid slice-and-dice junk put through a Cuisinart." — New York Observer
Posted May 8, 2013
1/4 49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " I love the publicity quotes by Baz Luhrmann stating that his intention was to make an epic romantic vision that is enormous. Also: overwrought, asinine, exaggerated and boring. But in the end, about as romantic as a pet rock." — New York Observer
Posted May 8, 2013
1/4 63% Kiss Of The Damned (2013) " Just what we need-another sophomoric, oversexed vampire movie." — New York Observer
Posted May 1, 2013
3/4 67% The Iceman (2013) " Michael Shannon is so fascinating that I was honestly rooting for him to survive. The point of The Iceman is "Even monsters are human," but it takes a great actor to make a dubious theme convincing." — New York Observer
Posted May 1, 2013
4/4 88% What Maisie Knew (2013) " Poignant and exemplary, this is one of the best films of 2013." — New York Observer
Posted May 1, 2013
3/4 84% Kon Tiki (2013) " One of the goals of a great outdoor epic is to keep you breathless with wonder. Technically, dramatically and cinematically awesome, Kon-Tiki delivers in spades." — New York Observer
Posted Apr 24, 2013
2/4 23% Arthur Newman (2013) " The resolution for both characters, in a finale that turns disappointingly conventional, is so sad that it left me depressed beyond hope." — New York Observer
Posted Apr 24, 2013
3.5/4 50% At Any Price (2013) " Flawed but different, well-crafted and consistently powerful, At Any Price is the best film about impoverished farmers in the economic agricultural crisis since Jean Renoir's The Southerner." — New York Observer
Posted Apr 24, 2013
1/4 47% The Lords of Salem (2013) " So bad it's hilarious." — New York Observer
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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