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Robert Cashill

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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:: 518

Location:: Brooklyn, NY

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/4	90%	Blow Out (1981)	" A classic comes to Criterion Blu-ray." — Popdose Posted Oct 1, 2011
3/4	89%	Scarface (2003)	" Grandiose and outrageous." — Popdose Posted Oct 1, 2011
2/4	76%	The Debt (2011)	" The Debt is the kind of movie that you go to see when there's not much playing that you want to see, so you see The Debt." — Popdose Posted Sep 29, 2011
2.5/4	93%	Drive (2011)	" Stalled with audiences but a good ride in some ways." — Popdose Posted Sep 29, 2011
3/4	95%	Moneyball (2011)	" Extracts from the book with precision, humor, heart, and a certain muted excitement." — Popdose Posted Sep 29, 2011
2.5/4	85%	Contagion (2011)	" Effective, but more like a low-grade fever that passes quickly. " — Popdose Posted Sep 13, 2011
3/4	58%	Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011)	" An interview with Guillermo del Toro and Guy Pearce." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2011
3/4	89%	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	" An interview with Malcolm McDowell." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2011
2/4	76%	The Help (2011)	" A whole lot of poop pie." — Popdose Posted Aug 28, 2011
3/4	58%	Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011)	" Fearful of seeing another lousy horror movie? Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. " — Popdose Posted Aug 23, 2011
3/4	80%	The Big Lebowski (1998)	" The Blu-ray really ties the movie together." — Popdose Posted Aug 17, 2011
2.5/4	23%	Sucker Punch (2011)	" Divisive and not quite fully baked, it has something going for it besides pulchritude." — Popdose Posted Aug 12, 2011
3/4	73%	Bellflower (2011)	" One of the most intriguing movies around, at once knife-edged and tender, ablaze with flaming imagery and a thrashing soundtrack, and more ambitious than films with far greater resources at their disposal. " — Cineaste Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2011
3.5/4	98%	Project Nim (2011)	" Compelling to say the least, taking us on a complex journey in a brisk and thoughtful 93 minutes, it raises many vexing questions about our presumed dominion over the animal kingdom. " — Popdose Posted Jul 8, 2011
2.5/4	89%	The Trip (2011)	" A fitfully entertaining journey." — Popdose Posted Jul 2, 2011
2/4	82%	Super 8 (2011)	" Works too hard to get us oohing and aahing over things we've oohed and aahed at 300 times before." — Popdose Posted Jul 2, 2011
2.5/4	84%	The Tree of Life (2011)	" Even Malick grinches must admit its occasional potent moments." — Popdose Posted Jul 2, 2011
2/4	84%	Beginners (2011)	" Too choked on art to register." — Popdose Posted Jul 2, 2011
3/4	93%	Midnight in Paris (2011)	" Brisk and breezy." — Popdose Posted Jul 2, 2011
2/4	77%	Thor (2011)	" Vaguely retarded." — Popdose Posted Jul 2, 2011
2/4	36%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)	" Almost worth seeing. Almost." — Popdose Posted Jul 2, 2011
2.5/4	76%	Superman Returns (2006)	" A decidedly mixed bag." — Popdose Posted Jun 23, 2011
1.5/4	10%	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)	" Well-intentioned, hilariously ill-advised." — Popdose Posted Jun 23, 2011
2.5/4	24%	Superman III (1983)	" A tough call: Good Super stuff, mediocre-to-poor everything else." — Popdose Posted Jun 23, 2011
2.5/4	88%	Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)	" Of minor interest, mostly for Richard Donner groupies." — Popdose Posted Jun 23, 2011
3.5/4	88%	Superman II (1981)	" Flies higher on Blu-ray than ever before." — Popdose Posted Jun 23, 2011
3.5/4	93%	Superman (1978)	" The classic soars on Blu-ray." — Popdose Posted Jun 23, 2011
2.5/4	20%	Queen of Blood (Planet of Blood) (Planet of Vampires) (The Green Woman) (1966)	" A decent hybrid that looks ahead to the genre's future." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2011
1.5/4	——	The Black Sleep (1956)	" Rarely have so many been asked to do so little." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2011
2/4	58%	How I Won the War (1967)	" Not very US-er friendly." — Popdose Posted Jun 3, 2011
3/4	79%	I Saw the Devil (2011)	" Gets right in your face with the cinema of complicity." — Popdose Posted May 20, 2011
4/4	97%	Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955)	" A classic chiller revived on Criterion Blu-ray." — Popdose Posted May 20, 2011
2.5	75%	Stake Land (2011)	" Not bad but leaves its best ideas by the side of the road." — Cineaste Magazine Posted May 10, 2011
2/4	51%	Tron Legacy (2010)	" Not as good a film, or satisfying a Blu-ray, as the original." — Popdose Posted Apr 26, 2011
3/4	70%	TRON (1982)	" The Blu-ray really brings out its handmade appeal, and its surprising charm." — Popdose Posted Apr 26, 2011
3/4	86%	Meek's Cutoff (2011)	" As pure as an oasis." — Popdose Posted Apr 17, 2011
2/4	55%	The Conspirator (2011)	" Food for thought but not enough for a full or satisfying meal." — Popdose Posted Apr 17, 2011
3/4	85%	Running on Empty (1988)	" An unsung Sidney Lumet highlight." — Popdose Posted Apr 12, 2011
4/4	93%	Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)	" An unsung Sidney Lumet highlight." — Popdose Posted Apr 12, 2011
3/4	——	Bye Bye, Braverman (1968)	" An unsung Sidney Lumet highlight." — Popdose Posted Apr 12, 2011
3/4	——	The Offence (1973)	" An unsung Sidney Lumet highlight." — Popdose Posted Apr 12, 2011
4/4	88%	Santa sangre (Holy Blood) (1990)	" A surrealist masterpiece and the horror film of your dreams." — Popdose Posted Apr 1, 2011
1.5/4	37%	The Resident (2012)	" Definitely to rent and not to buy." — Popdose Posted Apr 1, 2011
3/4	66%	Insidious (2011)	" It knows what scares you." — Popdose Posted Apr 1, 2011
3.5/4	90%	Tangled (2010)	" Not at all a bad hair day for Disney." — Popdose Posted Mar 30, 2011
2/4	20%	The Tourist (2010)	" Coach class all the way." — Popdose Posted Mar 28, 2011
3/4	100%	Man From Nowhere (2010)	" The Korean megahit has heart...and severed limbs and eyeballs, too." — Popdose Posted Mar 17, 2011
2.5/4	——	The World, the Flesh and the Devil (2000)	" An easier sit than On the Beach, respectably acted and with flashes of humor." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Mar 14, 2011
3/4	72%	Monsters (2010)	" Not rock 'em sock 'em and all the better for it." — Popdose Posted Mar 12, 2011
3/4	95%	Making the Boys (2010)	" Returns us to the origins of the show and tells the story well." — Popdose Posted Mar 12, 2011
2.5/4	84%	Jane Eyre (2011)	" Lovingly crafted if somewhat airless." — Popdose Posted Mar 12, 2011
3/4	85%	I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958)	" Superior sci-fi of its era." — Popdose Posted Mar 12, 2011
1.5/4	36%	Burlesque (2010)	" As dead as burlesque." — Popdose Posted Mar 2, 2011
4/4	91%	Thelma & Louise (1991)	" A classic comes to Blu-ray." — Popdose Posted Feb 23, 2011
3/4	97%	Animal Kingdom (2010)	" A galvanizing Oscar-worthy turn that you likely haven't seen makes a visit to Animal Kingdom a worthwhile destination." — Popdose Posted Feb 21, 2011
3.5/4	93%	Another Year (2010)	" Mike Leigh in top form." — Popdose Posted Feb 18, 2011
2/4	56%	Unknown (2011)	" It rattles its star's cage for a couple of diverting, forgettable hours." — Popdose Posted Feb 18, 2011
2.5/4	55%	I Spit on Your Grave (Day of the Woman) (1978)	" Surrounded by an aura of the forbidden, it refuses to let you off the hook as you squirm and wriggle." — Popdose Posted Feb 14, 2011
1.5/4	34%	I Spit On Your Grave (2010)	" The original concept slicked up and torture-porned. " — Popdose Posted Feb 14, 2011
2.5/4	45%	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)	" Middling Allen that will at least appeal to his fans, which is never a given." — Popdose Posted Feb 12, 2011
3/4	78%	The Fury (1978)	" Brian De Palma's explosive favorite with a marvelous John Williams score." — Popdose Posted Feb 8, 2011
2/4	80%	Barney's Version (2011)	" A labor of love that's all labor for the audience." — Popdose Posted Feb 7, 2011
2/4	75%	The Way Back (2011)	" Respectable, yet soggy and exhausting." — Popdose Posted Feb 7, 2011
4/4	74%	Splice (2010)	" More than the sum of its spare parts." — Cineaste Magazine Posted Jan 24, 2011
3/4	88%	Blue Valentine (2010)	" You limp out of the thing fascinated and exhausted, dumbstruck, whipsawed by its scenes from a marriage." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
2/4	32%	All Good Things (2010)	" Not bad for morbid true-ish crime buffs." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
3/4	86%	Rabbit Hole (2010)	" Believe it or not it wouldn't kill you to see it." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
3/4	71%	Somewhere (2010)	" Abundantly artful it's also a little touching." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
2.5/4	96%	True Grit (2010)	" Typical mid-level Coens: accomplished, puzzling." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
3/4	94%	The King's Speech (2010)	" A satisfying exercise in bio-episodic drama." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
4/4	86%	Unstoppable (2010)	" Popdose Top Ten of 2010 movie." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
4/4	87%	Please Give (2010)	" Popdose Top Ten of 2010 movie." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
4/4	94%	Carlos (2010)	" Popdose Top 10 of 2010 movie." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
4/4	90%	The Fighter (2010)	" Popdose Top 10 of 10 movie." — Popdose Posted Jan 14, 2011
3/4	50%	Bitter Feast (2010)	" Red meat for discriminating horror fans." — Popdose Posted Jan 8, 2011
2.5/4	48%	Love and Other Drugs (2010)	" Sensational lead performances overcome other softness elsewhere." — Popdose Posted Dec 15, 2010
2.5/4	93%	127 Hours (2010)	" The shoot-the-works filmmaking, while occasionally thrilling, overwhelms Franco's performance." — Popdose Posted Dec 15, 2010
2/4	87%	Black Swan (2010)	" The year's most puzzling critical success." — Popdose Posted Dec 15, 2010
3/4	72%	I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)	" Jim Carrey, uncloseted and outrageous." — Popdose Posted Dec 15, 2010
3/4	41%	The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)	" Movies that are wall-to-wall trickery usually bore me; this one hit my sweet spot." — Popdose Posted Dec 1, 2010
3.5/4	78%	The Thin Red Line (1998)	" An excellent Criterion disc adds to appreciaton of this poetic film. " — Popdose Posted Nov 22, 2010
3/4	55%	Morning Glory (2010)	" Not awesome but it's smart about some silly things, which is enough." — Popdose Posted Nov 10, 2010
3/4	76%	The Eclipse (2010)	" Halloween comes and goes but a good ghost story can be enjoyed at any time." — Popdose Posted Nov 1, 2010
3/4	78%	Red Hill (2010)	" One stripped-down, bad to the bone movie." — Popdose Posted Nov 1, 2010
3/4	77%	Amer (2010)	" A giallo-inspired trip to die for." — Popdose Posted Nov 1, 2010
2/4	69%	The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010)	" This Fire is a fizzle." — Popdose Posted Nov 1, 2010
1.5/4	55%	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)	" A crushing letdown on every level." — Popdose Posted Oct 12, 2010
3/4	98%	Inside Job (2010)	" Undercut by sensationalism but still righteously indignant. " — Popdose Posted Oct 12, 2010
3/4	78%	Red White & Blue (2010)	" A movie in pain, a movie that hurts, a movie that scars." — Popdose Posted Oct 12, 2010
4/4	96%	The Social Network (2010)	" I like The Social Network. You can say I'm in a relationship with The Social Network. " — Popdose Posted Oct 12, 2010
3.5/4	89%	Let Me In (2010)	" An excellent remake, and not just by the low standards of transatlantic remakes." — Popdose Posted Oct 1, 2010
3/4	72%	Get Him to the Greek (2010)	" Anything-for-a-laugh excess for funnybones so inclined." — Popdose Posted Oct 1, 2010
1.5/4	——	Lucky Lady (1975)	" Essay on Liza Minnelli's film career spotlights this classic failure." — Popdose Posted Sep 28, 2010
4/4	97%	Cabaret (1972)	" Essay on Liza Minnelli's film career spotlights this classic." — Popdose Posted Sep 28, 2010
2/4	55%	The Black Cauldron (1985)	" Remains at a low boil and never bubbles over." — Popdose Posted Sep 24, 2010
1.5/4	35%	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)	" The Sands of Time is more liked scorched earth." — Popdose Posted Sep 24, 2010
3/4	86%	The Square (2010)	" An effectively nasty piece of work." — Popdose Posted Sep 17, 2010
3/4	81%	Catfish (2010)	" The filmmakers have a firm grasp on slippery material." — Popdose Posted Sep 17, 2010
3/4	71%	Never Let Me Go (2010)	" It doesn't let go." — Popdose Posted Sep 17, 2010

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