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Rumsey Taylor

Agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

Biography:: Rumsey is a graduate student and freelance graphic designer. He has written on film in various print and web publications, including The Boston Phoenix, Slant Magazine, Senses of Cinema, and manages the website Not Coming to a Theater Near You. Currently, he lives in Boston, MA.
Favorites:: today my favorites are:
Publications:: Boston Phoenix , DVDFuture.com , Not Coming to a Theater Near You , Senses of Cinema , Slant Magazine
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 366
Total QuickRatings:: 37

Location:: Boston, MA

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	——	The Beaver Trilogy (2001)	" A work of considerable ingenuity" — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 14, 2009
	58%	Make Out With Violence (2011)	" The entire film possesses a certain longing, the sort that manifests itself and begins to grow at the moment of High School graduation, when some of the most formative circumstances of youth are remembered only as ephemeral moments." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 9, 2009
	55%	Con Air (1997)	" Resolutely not boring." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jul 24, 2009
—	75%	Under Siege (1992)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jul 14, 2009
—	100%	Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jul 7, 2009
	0%	Troll 2 (1990)	" It is a marvel of ineptness, staging scene after scene of total implausibility without a single believable performance, and many lines of dialogue that pose an audacious disregard for coherence. What characterizes the film is a consistency in tone." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 24, 2009
	93%	Lake Mungo (2009)	" The film conditions you to doubt, growing less suspenseful, less atmospheric, and less frightening as it progresses." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 24, 2009
	73%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" this film is about seeing Brad Pitt grow younger and handsomer until he becomes so young and handsome that it's a marvel equivalent to the launch of an Apollo rocket." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 18, 2008
—	56%	Humanoids from the Deep (Monster) (1980)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 4, 2008
	50%	The Toe Tactic (2009)	" It's originality at the expense of comprehensibility." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	75%	Vanishing Point (1971)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	92%	Obscene (2008)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
	94%	Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)	" What Two-Lane Blacktop pronounces in its visuals, limited dialogue, and willfully underdeveloped characters remains largely superficial, yet its silence and patience indicate much depth." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
	84%	Medicine for Melancholy (2008)	" The film is more ambient than my description will convey, and it doesn't feel scripted or directed in as much as it feels naturally funny and relaxed." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
	91%	Transsiberian (2008)	" Transsiberian makes suspenseful and sometimes violent gestures, but it's all decoration." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
	63%	Beautiful Losers (2008)	" That said, all art deserves biography, and great art deserves recognition." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
	——	Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987)	" a cheap, incompetently rendered film, but it is not a deceptive one" — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 16, 2008
—	——	Lorna ()	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Sep 2, 2008
	49%	La Terza Madre (Mother of Tears: The Third Mother) (2007)	" A feeble, incidental continuation of his earlier films." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jun 10, 2008
—	100%	Titicut Follies (1967)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jun 3, 2008
	46%	Mister Lonely (2007)	" To purists and lovers of abstraction, challenge, and all things fringe, it may feel like a loss of authenticity. But to the larger mainstream audience, it simply makes art more accessible." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted May 6, 2008
	84%	Nights and Weekends (2008)	" It's at times bold, intimate, unfunny, and discomforting, but it is never anything less than sincere." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 15, 2008
	83%	A Necessary Death (2012)	" A Necessary Death, despite its provocations, remains timid and dramatized, ultimately favoring plot machinations to considering the issue of suicide more deeply." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 15, 2008
	54%	Explicit Ills (2009)	" Explicit Ills is a filmic tapestry, and it is a cohesive, fluid one." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 8, 2008
	78%	Baghead (2008)	" Its horror isn't anticipated because there's nothing about these people that justifies harm; they're just people, not pawns. But this, as with perception of what sort of film this is, isn't ultimately certain." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 18, 2008
	100%	The Order of Myths (2008)	" Revolutionary advances have been made in racial equality, but in Mobile segregation - the most interpretable symptom of racism - has its last stronghold in Mardi Gras." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 18, 2008
	36%	21 (2008)	" Because 21 subscribes to the allure of Vegas and not how it is infiltrated with logic and quantification, its details are subordinated in service to familiar cinematic protocol." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 11, 2008
—	53%	The Tango Lesson (1997)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 19, 2008
	100%	Trafic (Traffic) (1972)	" It's familiar, and nonetheless spirited and inventive." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 14, 2007
	90%	Near Dark (1987)	" As much as it is a horror film and western, it is equally and perhaps more pronouncedly a romance." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 30, 2007
	19%	Boxing Helena (1993)	" It is curious that Lynch, having taken so many visual cues from her father, has an inadequate grasp of this compassion. The paralyzing obsession that permeates many of her father's works, on the other hand, she comprehends well." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 30, 2007
	69%	A Londoni Férfi (The Man From London) (2007)	" The Man from London, however comprehensible and demystified, is housed in a world of nonetheless pure, enveloping ambiance -- and it is by this measure that its merits are clearest." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 23, 2007
	82%	Into the Wild (2007)	" A wholly and unexpectedly decent enterprise." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 16, 2007
	69%	Commando (1985)	" The finale is laughably preposterous, with the speedo-ed commando landing on a remote island, gunning down at least a hundred men with fake moustaches, and indiscriminately blowing up buildings in search of little Alyssa." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	88%	Robyn Hitchcock - Storefront Hitchcock (1998)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	——	Ryan (2004)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	14%	Return of the Blind Dead (El Ataque de los muertos sin ojos) (Return of the Evil Dead) (2005)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	100%	Lord of the Flies (1963)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
	37%	The Ten (2007)	" The Ten has a meticulous rhythm and consistency, with aspects of early commandments informing the latter." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	——	The Young Ones (Wonderful to Be Young!) (1963)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	——	Up! (1996)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	14%	Teen Wolf Too ()	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
	89%	Helvetica (2007)	" Appropriately, once the final credits roll, you're likely to sit through them with an enhanced understanding of the typeface they're in." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jun 16, 2007
	91%	Knocked Up (2007)	" Because its central character is a meticulously architected dude, Knocked Up is a contrived male fantasy." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted May 28, 2007
	58%	Zoo (2007)	" It is a relaxing film to watch, austere and comforting in such a way that Zoo's aural components will become unexpectedly, uncommonly troubling." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 3, 2007
	59%	Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)	" Hannah Takes the Stairs decidedly lacks narrative and closure, but it works very well at moderating an environment of casual, if mundane, affairs." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 27, 2007
	96%	The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)	" [The subjects] may be a curious sort of renown, but by the end you are enraptured in their struggle to declare and maintain it." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 20, 2007
	54%	Manufacturing Dissent (2007)	" Caine and Melnyk's film is intent in questioning such legitimacies, which it does well; it's just as propagandistic as a Michael Moore film, but not as entertaining." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 20, 2007
—	——	Suffering Man's Charity ()	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 17, 2007
	87%	The Lookout (2007)	" It is as if [Frank] trashes the entire mechanism altogether, resulting in a spoonfed conclusion, rewarding facile expectations and violating the integrity of his film's well-established structure." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 13, 2007
—	33%	White of the Eye (1987)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 13, 2007
	83%	Performance (1970)	" The film is such a variety of aural and visual tactics that Performance is something to see, even if its immense viscera leaves little aftertaste." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 13, 2007
	73%	Idiocracy (2006)	" Idiocracy's utter lack of promotion is now something of a minor legend, and it remains perplexing given the film's obvious charms." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jan 16, 2007
—	100%	Stalker (1979)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 28, 2006
—	33%	Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 31, 2006
—	27%	Jason Goes to Hell - The Final Friday (1993)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 31, 2006
	86%	Dead Alive (Braindead) (1993)	" Braindead is the magnum opus of Peter Jackson's early career." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 24, 2006
	59%	Friday the 13th (1980)	" Friday the 13th emerges not as an outstanding slasher film, but as a succinctly formulaic one." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 17, 2006
—	82%	Big Trouble in Little China (2001)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 3, 2006
—	17%	Dust Devil (1992)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Sep 23, 2006
—	89%	Star 80 (1983)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 8, 2006
	64%	Bring It On (2000)	" The conclusion may be fairly obvious, but it's largely irrelevant in comparison to how uniquely Bring it On characterizes its teens." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 1, 2006
—	87%	Private Benjamin (1980)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 1, 2006
4/4	80%	Possession (The Night the Screaming Stops) (1981)	" Horror being a profitable genre in the early 1980s, Possession was made to pronounce an aesthetic more visceral than cerebral, in turn more superficial than it was initially conceived to impart." — Slant Magazine Posted May 24, 2006
	97%	Werckmeister Harmóniák (2001)	" Operatic." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 28, 2006
—	——	Six O'Clock News (1998)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 7, 2006
—	86%	Bright Leaves (2004)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 7, 2006
—	60%	Bad Timing (1980)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 6, 2005
	98%	King Kong (1933)	" Film is an agent of imagination, and King Kong demonstrates this with remarkable technical proficiency and innovation..." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 6, 2005
	——	70s Dimension (2005)	" What purpose there is in evaluating advertisements for their propensity as art favors how they exhibit the symptoms of inflation, capitalism, and ephemeral material trends better than any other contemporary recorded media." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 18, 2005
	63%	Funny Games (1998)	" As a metaphysical experiment in sadism, Funny Games is endorsed by negative responses." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 1, 2005
	64%	The Rapture (1991)	" The Rapture is not ostensibly a horror film, but I found it deeply frightening, and it is so on a purely conceptual level." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 25, 2005
	98%	The Evil Dead (1981)	" With a flurry of dismembered body parts, the film spells its intentions in scaring with complete, relentless excess." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 8, 2005
	——	Errol Morris' First Person: The Complete Series 3 Pack (2005)	" First Person is lessened by comparisons to Morris' early films, but still better than anything I watch regularly on television." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Sep 14, 2005
	73%	Primer (2004)	" One of the best science fiction films I have seen, and certainly as one of the genre's best in recent years." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted May 24, 2005
—	53%	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted May 24, 2005
—	35%	Young Einstein (1988)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 29, 2005
—	100%	Young Toerless (2000)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 29, 2005
	100%	Divorzio all'Italiana (Divorce Italian Style) (1962)	" It is the most subversive jab at Mastrioanni's chauvinist characters possible, circumstantial metaphysics in which the lecher is targeted by the very film he inhabits." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 29, 2005
	85%	Thunderball (1965)	" It loosely maintains the series' early wit, which may be solely attributed, perhaps, to ease with which Sean Connery inhabits the role of Bond." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 22, 2005
	98%	Dr. No (1962)	" It is noteworthy that a single film contains such a wealth of icons." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 22, 2005
	51%	The World Is Not Enough (1999)	" Even with [its] lame dialogue, the film would potentially have been redeemed had Denise Richards not been cast as arguably the worst Bond girl in the entire franchise." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 22, 2005
	59%	Steamboy (2005)	" Despite its investment (it is the most expensive animé ever produced) and tried production (which began in 1995), Steamboy is an uncommonly disappointing effort." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 15, 2005
—	86%	La Commare secca (The Grim Reaper) (1962)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 5, 2005
	86%	Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) (2003)	" Even though its components may be familiar, it is made with precision and sophistication and is, by default, better than any original American horror film of the past few years." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 22, 2005
—	——	Fighting Elegy (1966)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 19, 2005
—	80%	Youth of the Beast (The Brute) (Yajû no seishun) (1963)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 19, 2005
	85%	Donnie Darko (2001)	" A faithfully rendered head trip." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 15, 2005
	94%	Jason and the Argonauts (1963)	" Jason and the Argonauts -- certainly a wondrous film at its time -- benefits from nostalgia, and is moviemaking in a rarefied form." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 8, 2005
—	66%	Clash of the Titans (1981)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 8, 2005
—	90%	Days of Being Wild (A Fei zheng chuan) (1990)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jan 25, 2005
—	96%	Chungking Express (1996)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jan 25, 2005
	100%	M (1931)	" M is the most dynamic profile of a serial killer in film." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jan 15, 2005
	——	Necromania ()	" Like a naked body seen in fluorescent lighting, Necromania's blemishes are amplified by its cheap, unimaginative resources." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jan 11, 2005
	100%	Burden of Dreams (1982)	" It's Fitzcarraldo with affirmed and not sublime biography; in essence, the same film without the pretense of fiction." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 21, 2004
	96%	La Dolce Vita (1960)	" The girl's gaze of hope directs towards the viewer in the film's staggering and ambiguous final shot." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 7, 2004
	96%	Horse Feathers (1932)	" The final game in this film is a hallmark in the Brothers' oeuvre." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 23, 2004
—	96%	Animal Crackers (1930)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 23, 2004
—	93%	Monkey Business (1931)	— Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 23, 2004

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