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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:: 1094

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
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	55%	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	59%	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	82%	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	71%	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	43%	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	28%	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	84%	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	50%	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	68%	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	83%	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	48%	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
3/4	88%	In the House (2013)	" The heat turns chilly before it ends, but for the most part, François Ozon is back in the catbird seat with In the House." — New York Observer Posted Apr 17, 2013
0/4	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Years seem to pass between scenes. To be honest, years seem to pass during scenes." — New York Observer Posted Apr 10, 2013
3/4	77%	42 (2013)	" With 42, [Helgeland] expands his skills to turn a mountain of research into a cogent life story worth retelling." — New York Observer Posted Apr 10, 2013
3/4	65%	Disconnect (2013)	" Responsible, riveting and intense, it's a film about cybercrime that left me shaking-the movie equivalent of sticking a wet finger into a hot socket." — New York Observer Posted Apr 10, 2013
1/4	4%	6 Souls (2013)	" The end credits, which seem almost as long as the movie itself, dementedly thank everyone from the citizens of Pennsylvania to William Wyler, Howard Hawks and God. What an insult." — New York Observer Posted Apr 3, 2013
2/4	26%	The Brass Teapot (2013)	" Far from the offbeat satire on the American dream gone sour it aims to be, The Brass Teapot is more like a dark flirtation with the American nightmare that backfires." — New York Observer Posted Apr 3, 2013
4/4	56%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" The disparate elements in The Company You Keep are robustly collated by the keen, well-crafted direction of a master filmmaker at the top of his form. It's only April, but this is one of the best films of 2013." — New York Observer Posted Apr 3, 2013
	80%	About Sunny ()	" A sad, wrenching but admirably unsentimental film about the bravery of the human condition that truly deserves a bigger audience." — New York Observer Posted Mar 29, 2013
	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" Mr. Cianfrance's artistic vision catapults it above the limitations of contrivance and into a realm of constantly evolving shifts of tone and mood." — New York Observer Posted Mar 27, 2013
	50%	Welcome to the Punch (2013)	" Empty, pointless and stupid, the barrage of gunfire called Welcome to the Punch is another unappealing entry in the overworked British gangster genre." — New York Observer Posted Mar 27, 2013
	90%	My Brother The Devil (2013)	" It's far superior to what usually comes out of the British slums in the genre of gangland thrillers." — New York Observer Posted Mar 20, 2013
	13%	Love And Honor (2013)	" Everybody learns something about the illusion of love and the power of honor. It's hard to believe it wasn't written by Nicholas Sparks." — New York Observer Posted Mar 20, 2013
	42%	Leonie (2013)	" Color it inspirational." — New York Observer Posted Mar 20, 2013
	56%	Hunky Dory (2013)	" Hunky Dory has some pleasant things in it, but unfortunately, the funereal pace makes a snail look like a jackrabbit." — New York Observer Posted Mar 20, 2013
	35%	Everybody Has a Plan (2013)	" Viggo's performance is the only payoff for the patience you will need to get through Everybody Has a Plan." — New York Observer Posted Mar 13, 2013
	10%	If I Were You (2012)	" The people responsible for a hapless load of bunk called If I Were You can only be described as delusional. They think they have made an actual movie, when nothing in it qualifies." — New York Observer Posted Mar 13, 2013
	29%	Upside Down (2013)	" True originality is so rare that it's a treat to welcome a movie as completely different and provocative as Upside Down. It's unlike anything you have ever seen." — New York Observer Posted Mar 13, 2013
	59%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" People just can't get enough of this stuff. To paraphrase Sam Goldwyn, include me in." — New York Observer Posted Mar 6, 2013
	30%	Emperor (2013)	" Call it old-fashioned filmmaking, but you learn a lot and come away feeling an impact all too rare in movies today." — New York Observer Posted Mar 6, 2013
	53%	The Girl (2013)	" The Girl enlightens with an unusual insight into the courage, durability and struggle of the Mexican people while taking the viewer on a guided tour of a piece of the country tourists never see." — New York Observer Posted Mar 6, 2013
	25%	Phantom (2013)	" To sustain tension, you need the kind of claustrophobic camera movement, high-strung talk and gritty character development that are badly needed in any submarine movie and are sadly missing in Phantom." — New York Observer Posted Feb 27, 2013
	67%	Stoker (2013)	" Clearer heads will find it absurdly pointless." — New York Observer Posted Feb 27, 2013
	56%	The End of Love (2013)	" There are some lovely and moving things here, but over the long haul it's more like watching an hour and a half of someone's weekend trip to Knott's Berry Farm." — New York Observer Posted Feb 27, 2013
	19%	Inescapable (2013)	" The fight scenes are repetitive and the plot meanders, but the acting is superb." — New York Observer Posted Feb 20, 2013
	13%	Safe Haven (2013)	" Plods along with dialogue just above the level of crayon scribblings, and the direction by the usually reliable Lasse Hallström is dismayingly sluggish." — New York Observer Posted Feb 20, 2013
	57%	Shanghai Calling (2013)	" The camera work is beautiful, and the script is mostly crisp even though the spoken English without subtitles is sometimes as confusing as the Mandarin." — New York Observer Posted Feb 13, 2013

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