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Robert Cashill

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography:: Robert Cashill, an Associate Editor of Cineaste magazine and the Film Editor of Popdose.com, has been writing about cinema since the original versions of Dawn of the Dead and When a Stranger Calls. Thirty years later theater has joined his repertoire and his byline has appeared in numerous publications, print or online — The Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, Playbill, MovieMaker, and Newsweek.com among them. Cashill, who resides in Brooklyn, is a Board Member of the Drama Desk theatrical critics association in New York.
Publications:: Between Productions , Cineaste Magazine , Newsweek , Popdose
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 520

Location:: Brooklyn, NY

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2.5/4	63%	Epic (2013)	" Reasonable if unspectacular family entertainment." — Popdose Posted May 24, 2013
2/4	21%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" All the frivolity of a court-ordered appearance." — Popdose Posted May 24, 2013
2.5/4	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" Not great, but some very good parts in this 3D, Luhrmannized adaptation." — Popdose Posted May 9, 2013
3/4	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" The best of the bunch." — Popdose Posted May 3, 2013
3/4	99%	Mud (2013)	" Shown at Cannes last year this is altogether a looser piece that Nichols' two other films, with more humor, and largely unburdened by apocalypse." — Popdose Posted Apr 25, 2013
2.5/4	87%	Easy Money (2012)	" Watchable if less than inspired." — Popdose Posted Apr 11, 2013
2/4	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" If you're not on its wavelength, you're off it." — Popdose Posted Apr 11, 2013
2.5/4	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Only mildly diverting, it still has a certain arthouse fusion quality to it." — Popdose Posted Apr 7, 2013
2/4	59%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" An Oz for 2013, neither great nor powerful, merely Ok." — Popdose Posted Mar 7, 2013
2.5/4	——	Devil's Island ()	" The best of the films on the Warner Archive set, Boris Karloff Triple Feature." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Mar 6, 2013
2.5/4	——	West of Shanghai ()	" If only it was pre-Code." — Popdose Posted Mar 6, 2013
3.5/4	96%	The Insider (1999)	" The Blu-ray revives one of the great journalism movies." — Popdose Posted Feb 28, 2013
2/4	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" Fee fye ho hum." — Popdose Posted Feb 28, 2013
3/4	87%	Frankenweenie (2012)	" A tremendous Blu-ray presentation wags the tail of this dog." — Popdose Posted Feb 9, 2013
3.5/4	75%	Peter Pan (1953)	" A gorgeous Diamond Edition Blu-ray." — Popdose Posted Feb 9, 2013
4/4	97%	Cabaret (1972)	" The new Blu-ray is a magnificent restoration of a film classic." — Popdose Posted Feb 4, 2013
3/4	82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" Surprising and stimulating." — Popdose Posted Feb 3, 2013
2/4	——	Villain (1971)	" A disappointment given its cast and subject." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Dec 22, 2012
3/4	100%	The Sorcerers (1967)	" A truly chilling film." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Dec 22, 2012
3/4	69%	Les Misérables (2012)	" Tom Hooper has come up with a screen Les Miz that works splendidly-or as splendidly as a movie of Les Miz could ever work." — Popdose Posted Dec 22, 2012
1.5/4	77%	A League of Their Own (1992)	" The only indefensible movie in the Natonal Film Registry." — Popdose Posted Dec 21, 2012
3/4	65%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" A decent start--and two more chances to get it right." — Popdose Posted Dec 12, 2012
2/4	75%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" Killing Them Softly chases respect, and the huffing and puffing to get it is tiring." — Popdose Posted Dec 1, 2012
3/4	78%	Brave (2012)	" A solidly edifying Blu-ray package in want of a more fulfilling movie." — Popdose Posted Nov 14, 2012
2/4	48%	Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)	" Not the fairest of them all." — Popdose Posted Sep 22, 2012
3/4	——	Way Of A Gaucho ()	" That a more obscure Tourneur credit is now less anonymous for viewers is a good thing." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2012
3/4	——	Three Strangers (1946)	" "It's another triumph of terror by the masters of mystery!" says the trailer, and I heartily agree." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2012
3.5/4	70%	The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2012)	" n the absence of Westerns I loved this fanciful Eastern, and hope that Tsui and Li send more flying swords in our direction soon." — Popdose Posted Sep 1, 2012
3/4	38%	[REC] 3 Genesis (2012)	" BRIDESMAIDS meets THE EVIL DEAD in this horror comedy followup." — Popdose Posted Sep 1, 2012
3/4	65%	The Expendables 2 (2012)	" I hope they keep making them until THE DEPENDABLES, when the cast is in adult diapers." — Popdose Posted Sep 1, 2012
1.5/4	——	Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012)	" I think the sharks are albino because the CGI staff didn't know how to render color on their Compaqs. Spielberg can rest easy." — Popdose Posted Aug 18, 2012
4/4	100%	Jaws (1975)	" A classic comes to Blu-ray." — Popdose Posted Aug 18, 2012
3/4	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" Does Rises rise to the occasion? I'd say it depends on where you're invested, but it's pleasantly straightforward." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Jul 19, 2012
4/4	94%	Deliverance (1972)	" Interview with Ronny Cox about John Boorman's masterful adaptation." — Popdose Posted Jun 25, 2012
2/4	55%	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)	" The world ends, not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a smile or two and treacly old songs." — Popdose Posted Jun 22, 2012
2/4	——	Love Never Dies (2012)	" The music, like the production, is handsome but inert." — Popdose Posted Jun 13, 2012
2/4	74%	Prometheus (2012)	" In space, no one can hear you scream. But on Earth, no one has to show up for the second weekend." — Popdose Posted Jun 8, 2012
3/4	——	The Steel Trap (1952)	" It lives up to its title." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Jun 1, 2012
4/4	93%	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)	" May the Force be...nah. The Force is always with us." — Popdose Posted May 25, 2012
4/4	100%	A Night to Remember (1958)	" A perfect distillation of a great book. (Criterion Blu-ray)" — Popdose Posted Apr 14, 2012
2.5/4	92%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	" It's nothing if not affectionate toward horror movies, maybe too much so, and it is so stuffed with things I can see myself pausing the Blu-ray repeatedly to see what I missed." — Popdose Posted Apr 13, 2012
3/4	83%	Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012)	" Behind an awkward, too-cute title is documentarian Morgan Spurlock's sincere and appealing look at Comic-Con International." — Popdose Posted Apr 12, 2012
3/4	86%	Battle Royale 3D (2000)	" The superior, legitimate presentation on Blu-ray is, short of an actual theatrical release, the showcase it required. " — Popdose Posted Mar 30, 2012
1.5/4	85%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" Here we have another adaptation that doesn't seem to have adapted anything; the movie just spits out plot and exposition and incident for 142 minutes." — Popdose Posted Mar 30, 2012
3/4	84%	The Raid: Redemption (2012)	" The movie's real redemption is applying defibrillators to the tired action movie market and giving it a jolt." — Popdose Posted Mar 20, 2012
3.5/4	90%	Footnote (2012)	" This painfully funny Oscar nominee is no also-ran." — Popdose Posted Mar 9, 2012
2/4	53%	Being Flynn (2012)	" An earnest, conscientious, and almost entirely flat adaptation." — Popdose Posted Mar 1, 2012
2/4	52%	The Iron Lady (2012)	" Streep acts and acts and acts some more in a vacuum of ideas and sensibility." — Popdose Posted Jan 12, 2012
3.5/4	94%	Hugo (2011)	" Scorsese has made the past present for generations to come, as a good father should." — Popdose Posted Nov 22, 2011

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