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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

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	25%	Vehicle 19 (2013)	" Neither particularly fast nor furious. " — Variety Posted Jun 18, 2013
	84%	Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013)	" Friends and former colleagues address the lingering question of whether Downey was being sincere or engaging in an elaborate form of performance art. (The answer: By the end of the show's run, Downey himself could scarcely tell the difference anymore.)" — Variety Posted Jun 17, 2013
	96%	The Social Network (2010)	" The Social Network is splendid entertainment from a master storyteller, packed with energetic incident and surprising performances." — Film Comment Magazine Posted Jun 14, 2013
	55%	Man of Steel (2013)	" The ambition to make a grittier kind of Superman pic is certainly admirable, but much of what Snyder and Goyer set out to fix wasn't really broken in the first place." — Variety Posted Jun 11, 2013
	72%	World War Z (2013)	" This is a surprisingly smart, gripping and imaginative addition to the zombie-movie canon." — Variety Posted Jun 4, 2013
	34%	The Internship (2013)	" The pic's unwavering charm keeps it afloat." — Variety Posted Jun 4, 2013
	——	Tore tanzt (Nothing Bad Can Happen) ()	" If Gebbe is trying to say something about the opiate of religion or the social conditions that lead homeless teens into bad situations, it's muddled -- rather than sharpened -- by the ultimately numbing graphic violence." — Variety Posted May 31, 2013
	50%	Now You See Me (2013)	" This would-be "Ocean's Eleven" of the magic world remains watchable throughout, even as it plods along without ever quite fulfilling its potential." — Variety Posted May 31, 2013
	11%	After Earth (2013)	" Shyamalan is clearly a director-for-hire here, his disinterest palpable from first frame to last." — Variety Posted May 30, 2013
	83%	Nebraska (2013)	" A wistful ode to small-town Midwestern life and the quixotic dreams of stubborn old men." — Variety Posted May 29, 2013
	83%	La Danza De La Realidad ()	" By turns playful, tragic and surprisingly light on its feet, this welcome comeback for Alejandro Jodorowsky should keep its maker fully booked on the fest circuit." — Variety Posted May 20, 2013
	57%	Blood Ties ()	" A sluggish, dramatically undernourished saga." — Variety Posted May 20, 2013
	91%	Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)	" The result is a movie that neatly avoids the problems endemic to most period movies -- and biopics in particular -- in favor of a playful, evocatively subjective reality. " — Variety Posted May 20, 2013
	61%	The Bling Ring (2013)	" Always adept at directing young performers, Coppola encourages fine work here from her cast of mostly newcomers, with Watson taking special relish in shedding her goody-two-shoes "Harry Potter" persona." — Variety Posted May 16, 2013
	44%	The English Teacher (2013)	" Benefits from a brisk pace, witty banter and engaging performances, yet still fades from memory faster than a final exam on the first day of summer vacation." — Variety Posted May 14, 2013
	71%	Fast & Furious 6 (2013)	" Faithful fans and passersby alike should be more than pleased by this superior piece of classical action craftsmanship." — Variety Posted May 13, 2013
	50%	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
	87%	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
	78%	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
	45%	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
	47%	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
	65%	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
	59%	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
	83%	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
	93%	Lore (2013)	" Shortland draws fine work from her actors, particularly the haunting Rosendahl ..." — Village Voice Posted Feb 5, 2013
	60%	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
	69%	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
	65%	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

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