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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:
980

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0% Nothing Left to Fear (2013) " Memo to Rob Zombie: Don't fear the competition." — Variety
Posted Oct 4, 2013
—— Chavez Cage Of Glory (2013) " Argentinian MMA star Hector Echevarria makes an ill-conceived bid for cinematic 'Glory.'" — Variety
Posted Sep 24, 2013
—— U ri Sunhi (Our Sunhi) () " Lacks some of the surprising emotional force of his "Nobody's Daughter Haewon", but nevertheless delights as it orchestrates the seriocomic ping-ponging of a canny young woman and her three equally hapless suitors" — Variety
Posted Sep 15, 2013
78% Kill Your Darlings (2013) " An unquestionable improvement over last year's paint-by-numbers On the Road, but it still falls victim to the kind of idol worship that has made most movies about the Beats hard to take." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 14, 2013
62% Les salauds (The Bastards) () " An insidious web of money, sex and power entangles all the characters in Claire Denis' hypnotic nocturnal thriller." — Variety
Posted Sep 14, 2013
69% The Unknown Known () " Ranging over familiar material, but made vivid by Morris' fecund associations and invigorating stylistic flourishes." — Variety
Posted Sep 13, 2013
35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " A modestly scaled and highly pleasurable sequel to Wan's low-budget 2011 smash that should have genre fans begging for thirds." — Variety
Posted Sep 12, 2013
64% August: Osage County (2013) " This two-ton prestige pic won't win the hearts of highbrow critics or those averse to door-slamming, plate-smashing, top-of-the-lungs histrionics, but as a faithful filmed record of Letts' play, one could have scarcely hoped for better." — Variety
Posted Sep 10, 2013
36% Devil's Knot () " While Egoyan and Co. are to be commended for doing a tactful, dignified job with material that could have made for a ghoulish horror show, the result nevertheless comes across as a flat, ponderous proposition ..." — Variety
Posted Sep 9, 2013
85% The Invisible Woman (2013) " A revelatory performance by Felicity Jones is the chief but hardly only virtue of Ralph Fiennes' impressively crafted Dickens tale." — Variety
Posted Sep 9, 2013
—— Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) " For all its failings, there is one thing about "Long Walk to Freedom" that can't be denied: Idris Elba gives a towering performance, a Mandela for the ages." — Variety
Posted Sep 9, 2013
81% The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) (2014) " Hayao Miyazaki's hauntingly beautiful historical epic draws a sober portrait of Japan between the two World Wars." — Variety
Posted Sep 8, 2013
88% Under the Skin () " An undeniably ambitious but ultimately torpid and silly tale of an alien on the prowl." — Variety
Posted Sep 8, 2013
89% Captain Phillips (2013) " At every step, Hanks excels at showing what's really going on in the character's mind while maintaining his facade of almost folksy calm. It isn't one of the actor's rangiest roles, but it culminates in an eruption of emotional fireworks ..." — Variety
Posted Sep 6, 2013
60% Riddick (2013) " An improbable but very enjoyable sequel that recaptures much of the stripped-down intensity of Diesel and director David Twohy's franchise starter "Pitch Black."" — Variety
Posted Sep 4, 2013
80% Prisoners (2013) " A spellbinding, sensationally effective thriller with a complex moral center that marks a grand-slam English-lingo debut for the gifted Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve." — Variety
Posted Sep 3, 2013
3% Getaway (2013) " Something like a "Cannonball Run" for the YouTube Generation, with the largely incoherent action cut in a Cuisinart." — Variety
Posted Aug 28, 2013
50% Devil's Pass (2013) " Made with just enough craft that, were you to stumble upon it late at night during a bout of insomnia, you wouldn't mind watching through to the end." — Variety
Posted Aug 23, 2013
88% La Vénus à la fourrure (Venus in Fur) () " "Venus in Fur" finds Roman Polanski transferring a New York stage hit to the screen with maximum fidelity and facility, and a minimum of fuss." — Variety
Posted Aug 15, 2013
73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Whitaker digs in deep and gives a marvelous under-the-skin performance; he seems to catch the very essence of a man who has spent his whole life trying not to be seen." — Variety
Posted Aug 9, 2013
88% Superbad (2007) " Superbad is a movie about partying and getting wasted and getting the girl, but as the night wears on, much wisdom is gained too, about self, friendship and the end of teenage innocence in all its wondrous, terrifying splendor." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 3, 2013
84% Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013) " Havana Marking's imaginatively made documentary is a gripping portrait of a daring international jewel-theft ring." — Variety
Posted Aug 1, 2013
68% Elysium (2013) " Even working within a more conventional framework, Blomkamp again proves to be a superb storyteller." — Variety
Posted Aug 1, 2013
40% Colossus (2013) " Shows more than a few flashes of wit, intelligence and craft amid all the excess." — Variety
Posted Jul 31, 2013
28% Drift (2013) " Manages to get a fair bit right about early 1970s surf culture when it isn't trafficking in the hoariest of David-vs.-Goliath cliches." — Variety
Posted Jul 31, 2013
63% 2 Guns (2013) " Kormakur shows he knows his way around an action movie better than most, keeping the pace quick, the banter lively and the old-school, mostly CGI-free thrills delivering right on schedule." — Variety
Posted Jul 30, 2013
22% The Canyons (2013) " The guerrilla shoot seems to have reinvigorated Schrader, and the result is his most stylish picture in years, probably since "Auto Focus."" — Variety
Posted Jul 28, 2013
14% The Smurfs 2 (2013) " A sequel that changes scarcely a drop of Smurf-essence in its winning formula." — Variety
Posted Jul 28, 2013
52% The To Do List (2013) " Hits its fair share of outrageously funny highs amid lots of so-so filler, but stays buoyant and likable throughout thanks to the winning presence of "Parks and Recreation" star Aubrey Plaza in the lead." — Variety
Posted Jul 22, 2013
71% Frankenstein's Army (2013) " Pic's monotone edges towards monotony by the end of the third act, but as no-budget calling-card features go, Frankenstein's Army remains a grisly cut above." — Variety
Posted Jul 22, 2013
—— Snowpiercer () " An enormously ambitious, visually stunning and richly satisfying futuristic epic from the gifted Korean genre director Bong Joon-ho." — Variety
Posted Jul 22, 2013
14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " Benefits from a hilariously free-associative performance by Jeff Bridges." — Variety
Posted Jul 19, 2013
33% Beneath () " Whatever tension the pic manages to build ... is mostly undercut by the recurring appearance of the fish and by the generally overemphatic performances of the human cast ..." — Variety
Posted Jul 18, 2013
88% The Desert Of Forbidden Art (2011) " Then there are the paintings themselves, which are breathtaking in their brilliant colors, and their hybrid influences of the Russian avant-garde and Central Asian folk culture." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
10% Red Riding Hood (2011) " 'Beware the wolf,' warn Red Riding Hood's posters and television ads. Be even warier of this movie." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
35% Battle: Los Angeles (2011) " Case in point: Battle: Los Angeles, an alien-invasion disaster piece so loud, ham-fisted and joyless-so aggressively lousy-that its only real usefulness is to make one better appreciate the deft touch of a Roland Emmerich." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
90% Up in the Air (2009) " By far Reitman's most accomplished film to date, both in terms of craft and its stealth avoidance of typical Hollywood flight patterns..." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
50% White House Down (2013) " [A] welcome throwback to an earlier, more generously entertaining era of summer blockbusters ..." — Variety
Posted Jun 26, 2013
75% Sound of My Voice (2012) " Sound of My Voice is a too-rare example of intelligent, ambitious genre filmmaking." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
63% The Five-Year Engagement (2012) " More often, the movie reduces everything to sitcom levels of tidiness and routine." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
94% Win Win (2011) " McCarthy understands the thrill of incontrovertible victory and our primal lust for it." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
83% The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) " A much better version of this movie may exist somewhere in the editing-room blender, to be excavated by cine-archeologists of the future." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
27% Your Highness (2011) " Your Highness never sacrifices its cheerful, one-thing-after-another absurdity, or its inability to take itself even remotely seriously." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
26% Arthur (2011) " If there's anything worse than a watered-down, big-screen sitcom, it's a watered-down, big-screen sitcom that gets all socially responsible on us at the end" — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
66% This Must Be The Place (2012) " Sorrentino's aggressively life-affirming movie has wormed its way into the hearts of a surprising number of usually sensible, discerning critics." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
51% Savages (2012) " An unabashedly lurid sun-and-surf ménage-à-trois cum drug-running caper, with touches of Jacobean tragedy for good measure. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
73% The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) " This umphundredth origin story of a nerdy outsider turned unlikely crime fighter is surprisingly enjoyable." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
76% Cold Weather (2011) " Katz here shows himself to also be one of the few American directors of his generation (he is 29) with a strong sense of composition and movement, sound design as suspense, landscape as character." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
49% Super (2011) " Gunn's movie is an ingeniously nasty concoction that feeds the cult of superhero fandom back into itself." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
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