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Sam Fragoso

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Biography:: Film critic at Fan the Fire Magazine, founder of Duke & the Movies, and reporter for Anomalous Material. Twitter: @SamFragoso
Favorites:: Annie Hall, Casablanca, Blow Out, His Girl Friday, 12 Angry Men, Taxi Driver, 8 1/2, The 25th Hour, High Fidelity, Groundhog Day, Citizen Kane, The Apartment, Vertigo, Almost Famous, The Sting, The Player, The Fugitive, Breathless, Bull Durham, All The President's Men, Jackie Brown, Drugstore Cowboy, Manhattan, No Country For Old Men, Pulp Fiction, Say Anything, Hoop Dreams, Fargo, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Publications:: Fan The Fire

Total Reviews:: 15

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	75%	Prince Avalanche (2013)	" Prince Avalanche is about as low-key and subtle as contemporary filmmaking has to offer. Unfortunately, Green's latest effort is also one of the more grating and sluggish films in recent memory." — Fan The Fire Posted Mar 17, 2013
2/5	57%	Thanks For Sharing (2013)	" At least in the end, we'll always have Shame." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 30, 2012
4/5	44%	The Paperboy (2012)	" Erotic, moving, twisted, devastating, and disturbing, The Paperboy lays all its cards out onto the table, open for both stern criticism and sanctimonious praise." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 30, 2012
2/5	——	Jayne Mansfield's Car ()	" Despite suffering from a lack of conviction, it clearly comes from personal place deep within Thornton thoughts." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 30, 2012
4/5	86%	The Master (2012)	" We talk about the medium of film being a true art form of expression, The Master, in cinema's purest 70mm beauty and wonder, is the reason why." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 30, 2012
3/5	88%	Much Ado About Nothing (2013)	" A creative blend of contemporary wit and love with Shakespearian vernacular." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 30, 2012
2/5	68%	The Iceman (2013)	" Lack of originality and insipid screenwriting will soon read as the autopsy of this actively tiresome genre." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 18, 2012
1/5	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Malick has the unnatural talent to evolve a simplistic and adolescent game of hide and go seek into a profound and existential search into the character's hearts and minds." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 18, 2012
4/5	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Few films in recent memory have effectively pulled at the heartstrings like this." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 18, 2012
3/5	94%	The Central Park Five (2012)	" There's no grand epiphany or blinding revelation, just cogent storytelling framing a provocative and devastating incident in American history." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 18, 2012
2/5	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" Charming as Lewin's script may be, the end result provides little more than underwhelming sentiments filled with indifference and frustration." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 18, 2012
4/5	93%	Amour (2012)	" The type of metaphysical mediation on marriage, love, and death that insists, allows, and rewards introspection." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 18, 2012
3/5	79%	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)	" The film has a message worth grasping; sometimes it takes a departure from your comfort zone to truly understand what you have in life and what's important to you." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 18, 2012
2/5	21%	That's My Boy (2012)	" That's My Boy serves as a morally bankrupt reminder that Sandler, much like many of us, has no interest in changing his ways." — Fan The Fire Posted Sep 18, 2012

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