Scott Foundas

Scott Foundas

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography:
Scott Foundas is the chief film critic for the Village Voice. Before Foundas, a native of Tampa, Florida, moved to New York in 2009, he was the film editor at the Voice's sister paper in Los Angeles, LA Weekly, from 2005 to 2009. Foundas was also associate program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from January 2010 to December 2012. Foundas' film reviews and features appear in all Voice Media Group publications, as well as on its websites and mobile platforms. Follow Scott on Twitter at @FoundasOnFilm.
Publications:
Film Comment Magazine , L.A. Weekly , New York Times , Variety , Village Voice
Total Reviews:
910

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
42% The Great Gatsby (2013) " What Luhrmann grasps even less than previous adapters of the tale is that Fitzgerald was, via his surrogate Carraway, offering an eyewitness account of the decline of the American empire, not an invitation to the ball." — Variety
Posted May 6, 2013
88% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " "Into Darkness" may not boldly go where no "Trek" adventure has gone before, but getting there is such a well-crafted, immensely pleasurable ride that it would be positively Vulcan to nitpick." — Variety
Posted May 3, 2013
77% Iron Man 3 (2013) " Black largely acquits himself well, keeping the pace brisk, deploying a couple of modest surprises and staging a few undeniably impressive, super-sized setpieces." — Variety
Posted Apr 25, 2013
46% Pain & Gain (2013) " Bay can be a master of exuberant chaos, but here the violence mostly lands with a sickening thud, which is fitting, one supposes, but also ultimately numbing." — Variety
Posted Apr 23, 2013
77% 42 (2013) " A relentlessly formulaic biopic that succeeds at transforming one of the most compelling sports narratives of the 20th century into a home run of hagiography." — Variety
Posted Apr 10, 2013
16% Temptation (2013) " A ludicrous marital drama-cum-morality play from contemporary black cinema's most prolific multihyphenate." — Variety
Posted Mar 29, 2013
9% The Host (2013) " Meyer is undeniably canny at using genre to address the age-old struggles of adolescence, but at just over two hours, even "The Host's" air of guilty pleasure eventually subsides." — Variety
Posted Mar 28, 2013
81% The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) " Sure to inspire indifference and cultish admiration in nearly equal measure, this extravagant mess may someday be re-evaluated as a misunderstood masterpiece." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 26, 2013
48% Olympus Has Fallen (2013) " Pretty ridiculously entertaining-or at least entertainingly ridiculous-for long stretches, dulled only by the realization that there are many parts of the country where this will play as less than total farce." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
100% Le Pont du Nord (2013) " It seems more obvious than ever how much Rivette has influenced a subsequent generation of filmmakers-Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry-and expanded our sense of the possible." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
56% Come Out And Play (2013) " Makinov tries repeatedly to mine suspense from slowly creeping up on his actors with the camera. If I'd directed this bunk, I'd hide my face too." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
66% Spring Breakers (2013) " All I knew is I couldn't wait to see it a second time." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
80% Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier) (2013) " It's a classic espionage plot shot through with a typically heady mix of art and literary references: Klee and Velázquez, Bach and Haydn, Bernanos and Musil." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
90% Beyond The Hills (2013) " A powerful and necessary act of reclamation." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
60% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " Throughout, I longed for the Raimi of old-or even of 2009's deliciously gross throwback Drag Me to Hell ..." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
13% Molly's Theory Of Relativity (2013) " Lipsky is clearly reaching for something grand and cosmic here, but the results are mostly just confounding." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2013
52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " Singer evokes another era of fantasy filmmaking when the illusions before our eyes were created in an artist's studio rather than a computer lab. It's more Jason and the Argonauts than Shia and the Transformers." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2013
—— Dark Blood (1993) " Dark Blood quickly announces itself as pure folly -- a movie that, had it made it to theaters two decades ago, would be long forgotten by now, save for the occasional late-night airing in the basic-cable badlands." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 24, 2013
82% Like Someone in Love (2013) " A sly, teasing riff on the heart's irrational stirrings." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2013
30% The Berlin File (2013) " [A] formulaic but solid Cold War-style spy thriller, with North Korea pinch-hitting for the Soviet Union." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2013
23% The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013) " The rotting corpses, projectile insect vomit, and creepy geezers in black arrive pretty much on cue, as does the great Cicely Tyson as the obligatory old blind woman who "sees" more than most people with two good eyes." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2013
67% Porfirio (2013) " This is a sui generis work -- warm, sporadically funny, deeply human, and altogether beguiling." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2013
92% Lore (2013) " Shortland draws fine work from her actors, particularly the haunting Rosendahl ..." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2013
59% The Last Stand (2013) " [It] does exactly what it should: It leaves us wanting more." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 17, 2013
30% Broken City (2013) " The actors look generally unhappy to be here, most of all Crowe, who seems even more miserable than he did in Les Misérables." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 17, 2013
70% Les Misérables (2012) " The moist-eyed storybook romanticism of the source material proves resilient to [Hooper's] efforts." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
88% Django Unchained (2012) " In his past two movies, Tarantino has ascended to a new level of filmmaking craftsmanship and narrative sophistication." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " Even the smallest touches in Zero Dark Thirty feel authentic enough that we scarcely question them ..." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2012
69% Not Fade Away (2012) " It's a small gem with a killer rock soundtrack, well worth seeking out amid all the awards-season Sturm und Drang." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2012
66% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " Even once Bilbo and company take to the hobbit highway, the pacing is leisurely verging on lethargic ..." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 6, 2012
—— Punto y Raya (2004) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Stormy Weather (Tiempo De Tormenta) (2003) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— America Home of the Brave (2005) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Feeding Boys, Ayaya (2003) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Coney Island Baby (2003) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Let the Church Say Amen (2004) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— A Foreign Affair (2004) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
17% Book of Mormon Movie - Volume 1: The Journey (2006) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Soplo de vida (Breath of Life) () Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— The Real Old Testament () Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— In Search of Peace - Part One: 1948-1967 () Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Rock My World (Global Heresy) (2001) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— D.A.F.T. - A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes (2000) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— The Joy of Life (2005) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— The Ghouls, (Cannibal Dead: The Ghouls) (2003) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Never Play with the Dead () Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Year of the Bull (2003) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
—— Un secreto de Esperanza (A Beautiful Secret) (2005) Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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