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Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:: Boston Phoenix , Chicago Sun-Times , City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , Film Comment Magazine , indieWIRE , L.A. Weekly , Minneapolis Star Tribune , minnpost.com , Nashville Scene , Variety , Village Voice
Critics' Group:: National Society of Film Critics

Total Reviews:: 441

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	47%	The Lords of Salem (2013)	" Less inferno than slow burn, Rob Zombie's retro witch thriller The Lords of Salem has plenty of portent but not much payoff." — Variety Posted Apr 16, 2013
	71%	My Amityville Horror (2013)	" Where Walter's film succeeds is in rendering Lutz, onscreen throughout, as an indelibly prickly and unsettling figure." — Variety Posted Apr 2, 2013
	——	The Crash Reel ()	" Walker pulls off a spectacular feat ... balancing the needs of extreme sports vid and cautionary tale." — Variety Posted Feb 7, 2013
	33%	Running From Crazy ()	" The narratively jumbled film ... features too many scenes that amount to mere stargazing." — Variety Posted Feb 5, 2013
	——	The Rambler (2013)	" Writer-director Calvin Lee Reeder's randomly splattering take on the back-country-road movie." — Variety Posted Feb 1, 2013
	——	Milkshake ()	" "Milkshake" sucks all the flavor out of a tasty premise ..." — Variety Posted Feb 1, 2013
	——	Valentine Road ()	" Though the ugly phobia that gave rise to the killing and permeated the legal proceedings boils the blood, the film's tone is somber rather than angry, and its effect is quietly devastating." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	——	Dirty Wars (2013)	" [The] astonishingly hard-hitting "Dirty Wars" renders the investigative work of journalist Jeremy Scahill in the form of a '70s-style conspiracy thriller." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	83%	Lovelace (2013)	" Reducing an immensely disturbing, politically byzantine tale to a series of cartoonish vignettes, this celeb-studded biopic squanders a gutsy performance by Amanda Seyfried." — Variety Posted Jan 23, 2013
	76%	Hors Satan (2013)	" Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure." — Variety Posted Jan 18, 2013
	24%	Struck by Lightning (2013)	" A mediocre coming-of-age indie." — Variety Posted Jan 9, 2013
	47%	Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (2012)	" A bona fide high-wire act, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away delivers towering thrills through its candy-colored 3D ode to the titular outfit's astounding acrobatics." — Variety Posted Dec 19, 2012
	35%	Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012)	" A costumer that's well named for being pleasant and conventional but little more." — Variety Posted Nov 30, 2012
	39%	The ABCs of Death (2013)	" The ABCs of Death is an appallingly bad concoction of disgusting shorts that run through the alphabet but really should've stopped at "A."" — Variety Posted Oct 12, 2012
	37%	Stand Up Guys (2013)	" Veering between buddy movie and action-thriller, Stand Up Guys is a mildly raunchy, modestly entertaining geriatric comedy." — Variety Posted Oct 12, 2012
	85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	" First-time writer-director Stephen Chbosky adapts his young-adult bestseller with far more passion than skill, which suits familiar scenes of adolescent awkwardness aptly enough." — Variety Posted Sep 10, 2012
4/4	98%	Oslo, August 31st (2012)	" [Displays] an invigoratingly acute understanding of the psychology of insecurity, longing, defensiveness and inward-turning rage." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Aug 30, 2012
	91%	Mosquita Y Mari (2012)	" First-time writer-director Aurora Guerrero beautifully captures the fluctuating dynamics of friendship between 15-year-old girls in Mosquita y Mari." — Variety Posted Aug 1, 2012
	40%	The Girl from the Naked Eye (2012)	" Newcomer Jason Yee proves plenty adept at chopsocky, but his chops are nonexistent on the thesping side." — Variety Posted Jun 15, 2012
	32%	Deadfall (2012)	" A highly satisfying Western-cum-noir in the old tradition." — Variety Posted Jun 7, 2012
	90%	Holy Motors (2012)	" Only dream logic -- give or take pure cinema -- can begin to explain the wacky beauty of what goes on here." — Variety Posted May 23, 2012
	67%	The Road (2012)	" This low-budget shocker eventually pays off, displaying just enough narrative ingenuity to compensate for a cinematically crude and logistically sketchy deployment of the requisite blood-and-guts mayhem." — Variety Posted May 10, 2012
	96%	Sleepless Night (2012)	" There's no mistaking Jardin's playful mastery of the Hollywood-style action aesthetic; his movie starts in high gear and accelerates steadily from there." — Variety Posted Apr 25, 2012
	41%	Silent House (2012)	" The pic's true star is Martinovic's unblinking camera, which really ought to have been let loose in some other house." — Variety Posted Mar 6, 2012
	60%	John Dies at the End (2013)	" Give or take the titular disclosure, John Dies at the End is a thoroughly unpredictable horror-comedy -- and an immensely entertaining one, too." — Variety Posted Feb 7, 2012
	71%	Payback (2012)	" A rarefied conceptual docu that will appeal to a limited but highly appreciative audience." — Variety Posted Feb 6, 2012
	88%	Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012)	" Much like the band's self-conscious synth-pop itself, Shut Up is initially satiric but ultimately disarming in its emotional resonance." — Variety Posted Feb 6, 2012
	100%	Under African Skies (2012)	" Under African Skies is appreciably smarter than most celebrity musician docus." — Variety Posted Feb 6, 2012
	100%	The Invisible War (2012)	" An aptly infuriating expose of sexual abuse within the U.S. military." — Variety Posted Jan 31, 2012
	22%	The Words (2012)	" A literary film that stands to work best for those who don't read." — Variety Posted Jan 30, 2012
	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" One of the great movies about movies." — Variety Posted Jan 30, 2012
	93%	Indie Game: The Movie (2012)	" The pic scores big points by drawing a sharp distinction between corporate vidgame programmers and indies." — Variety Posted Jan 30, 2012
	20%	Goats (2012)	" Genial but gratingly irrelevant and none too witty." — Variety Posted Jan 26, 2012
	43%	Black Rock (2013)	" Straining to be a distaff "Deliverance," indie thriller Black Rock is unable to shock, much less convince." — Variety Posted Jan 24, 2012
	56%	The End of Love (2013)	" Too often toddles over the fine line between cute and cloying before finding its footing in the final reel." — Variety Posted Jan 24, 2012
	87%	Middle of Nowhere (2012)	" Solidly acted but aloof and slow as molasses." — Variety Posted Jan 24, 2012
	75%	The Woman (2011)	" Calculatedly ugly and undeservedly controversial." — Variety Posted Jan 4, 2012
	67%	We Bought a Zoo (2011)	" Warm-blooded but largely lifeless." — Variety Posted Nov 28, 2011
	45%	Another Happy Day (2011)	" [Mistakes] over-the-top dysfunctional family cruelty for comedy and drama." — Variety Posted Nov 14, 2011
	82%	Autoreiji: Biyondo (Outrage Beyond) (2011)	" The results are so visually stunning, why quibble?" — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2011
	71%	Footloose (2011)	" Paramount's Footloose reboot never quite cuts loose enough to distinguish itself from the original." — Variety Posted Oct 14, 2011
	36%	The Thing (2011)	" The new Thing, helmed by first-timer Matthijs van Heijningen, nods deferentially to John Carpenter's still-scary cult film while displaying little comprehension of what made it work." — Variety Posted Oct 13, 2011
	45%	Jane's Journey (2011)	" Spectacularly photographed and journalistically lame..." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2011
	30%	Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)	" Sarah Palin -- You Betcha! shovels enough dirt on the Tea Party guru and self-described hockey mom to satisfy her haters, but lacks sufficient humor and insight to make it a must-see for anyone outside the Brit muckraker's fan base." — Variety Posted Sep 12, 2011
	40%	Damn! (2011)	" Even at 73 minutes, the film is, well, too damn long." — Variety Posted Aug 12, 2011
	73%	The Whistleblower (2011)	" Late-reel scenes of suspense involving the heinously victimized Ukrainians fall somewhere along the line between shocking reportage and standard-issue torture porn." — Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2011
	73%	Bellflower (2011)	" Writer-director-actor Evan Glodell's testosterone-fueled fever-dream indie Bellflower impresses less for its screeching take on extended adolescent fury than for its own macho, wacko, pedal-to-metal embodiment of same." — Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2011
	84%	Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)	" Raul Ruiz's head-spinning Mysteries of Lisbon is a period drama of contemporary import -- and of the highest order." — Variety Posted Aug 2, 2011
	80%	The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2011)	" Well-intentioned but derivative and only intermittently engaging, the suburban Michigan-set indie hits at least as many false notes as true ones." — Variety Posted Jul 20, 2011

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