Scott Weinberg

"The movies are so rarely great art, that if we can't appreciate great trash, there is little reason for us to go. - - Pauline Kael"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography:
Editor / Film Critic -- Movies.com, FEARnet.com, and Twitch.com
Formerly managing editor of Cinematical and writer for more websites than you care to read about.
Twitter: @scottEweinberg
Favorites:
(In no particular order):Fight Club, The Blues Brothers, Young Frankenstein, Dark City, Se7en, Airplane!, The Princess Bride, Miller's Crossing, The Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge, Alien
Publications:
Apollo Guide , Cinematical , Daily-Reviews , DVD Clinic , DVDTalk.com , eFilmCritic.com , FEARnet , GeekNation , Hollywood Bitchslap , Horror Squad , Horror.com , Monsters At Play , Movie Insider , Movies.com , Rotten Tomatoes , Twitch
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
4995
Total QuickRatings:
2128
Location:
Philadelphia, as seen in several wonderful movies

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
97% Gravity (2013) " Visually amazing, wonderfully suspenseful, and rooted in a place of humanity. A stellar popcorn movie." — FEARnet
Posted Oct 4, 2013
35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Not much that's new (hey, it's a sequel) but there's still an old-fashioned respect for the pleasures of simple creepiness." — FEARnet
Posted Sep 13, 2013
—— Dark Feed (2013) " Mostly stuff you've seen before, only here it's been re-heated and reconfigured into a crafty little creeper that actually works." — FEARnet
Posted Sep 6, 2013
60% Riddick (2013) " Sweaty, swaggering, sci-fi / action / horror with a bad attitude and a dirty mouth. I liked it." — FEARnet
Posted Sep 6, 2013
4% Paranoia (2013) " Not an original bone in its body -- but there's always something to be said for a great cast." — GeekNation
Posted Aug 17, 2013
47% We're The Millers (2013) " A slight but amusing combination of the subversive and the conventional." — GeekNation
Posted Aug 9, 2013
—— Gallowwalkers (2013) " Funnier by accident than Adam Sandler is on purpose." — FEARnet
Posted Aug 9, 2013
89% The World's End (2013) " A fantastic ensemble farce that shows why nobody does comedy like the Brits." — FEARnet
Posted Aug 1, 2013
6% Evidence (2013) " Familiar, predictable, unoriginal... but not entirely unwatchable." — FEARnet
Posted Jul 26, 2013
71% Frankenstein's Army (2013) " A WWII found footage horror movie? Yep. And it's good? Yep!" — FEARnet
Posted Jul 22, 2013
14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " The worst sort of "slap it together because some geeks recognize the title" film production. Truly awful." — FEARnet
Posted Jul 18, 2013
72% Pacific Rim (2013) " An endlessly raucous and wonderfully entertaining piece of grade-A eye candy from one of the few filmmakers I trust implicitly." — FEARnet
Posted Jul 10, 2013
31% Twixt (2013) " Not a very good movie, but a weirdly interesting one for the serious horror fans." — FEARnet
Posted Jul 9, 2013
87% The Conjuring (2013) " An old-fashioned haunted house horror story made by people who love them. Classy, creepy, fun." — FEARnet
Posted Jul 9, 2013
98% Blackfish (2013) " Sea World's worst nightmare -- and for good reason." — FEARnet
Posted Jul 9, 2013
87% 100 Bloody Acres (2013) " Frankly speaking, this flick capably represents almost everything I admire about indie Aussie genre films. I expect to see more from these filmmakers soon." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 21, 2013
67% World War Z (2013) " You've read all the bad news. Now here's some good news: it's a fun movie." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 20, 2013
69% Stoker (2013) " Quiet, cool, and simply gorgeous to look at, Stoker is easily one of the most accomplished chillers of the year." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 20, 2013
56% Man of Steel (2013) " It's the pointed focus on science fiction that elevates Man of Steel beyond that of "just another Superman movie."" — Movies.com
Posted Jun 14, 2013
61% Byzantium (2013) " Some "vampire stuff" you've seen before, a few new ideas that work, two great performances, and a lot of skilled veterans behind the camera. " — FEARnet
Posted Jun 12, 2013
85% Sightseers (2013) " A quick, dry, acidic comedy that will appeal to anyone who likes horror movies or pitch-black humor." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 12, 2013
67% Lifeforce (1985) " The UK version is 15 minutes longer and makes this bizarre but lovable movie a bit more interesting." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 12, 2013
83% Berberian Sound Studio (2013) " Poses some compelling questions about the emotional and mental impact of making dark, violent, disturbing films." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 12, 2013
52% Hatchet III (2013) " The trilogy ends with a bang. And blood. A bit clumsy in the plot department but still pretty good fun." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 12, 2013
84% This Is the End (2013) " One of the darkest, weirdest, and funniest cinematic armageddons you'll ever experience." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 12, 2013
38% The Purge (2013) " Standard "stalk, attack, revenge" home invasion material, but it's also laced with an appreciable sense of pointed social commentary." — FEARnet
Posted Jun 7, 2013
71% Father's Day (2012) " A sick and twisted horror farce made for a very specific sort of movie geek. I'm one of them." — FEARnet
Posted May 24, 2013
57% The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1995) " Plainly dated and a bit slow, but there are also some solid chills and it makes a respectable attempt at historical accuracy." — FEARnet
Posted May 24, 2013
78% Europa Report (2013) " Smart, suspenseful, and fascinating. Maybe the best indie sci-fi film since Moon." — FEARnet
Posted May 24, 2013
48% Black Rock (2013) " A tight-fisted little piece of gender-centric survival horror." — FEARnet
Posted May 24, 2013
—— Dark Circles (2013) " Not even remotely original, but still a surprisingly decent little psychological chiller." — FEARnet
Posted May 24, 2013
19% The Hangover Part III (2013) " Exists for the producers, the studio, and nobody else. Insulting, amateurish garbage." — GeekNation
Posted May 23, 2013
47% The Lords of Salem (2013) " A decent homage to Dario Argento that's gradually undone by some plainly sloppy storytelling." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 18, 2013
63% Kiss Of The Damned (2013) " Quiet but interesting, clever enough to make horror fans happy, and sexy in a way that only a good indie vampire movie can be." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 18, 2013
—— Big Ass Spider! (2013) " Judged solely on the scale of Giant Spider Cinema, the slick and silly Big Ass Spider ranks surprisingly high." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 18, 2013
40% The Rambler (2013) " Feels like a distant cousin to the new Maniac remake: horror stories told from inside the mind of a calm, cool lunatic." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 18, 2013
44% The Call (2013) " Fortunately for all involved, Anderson manages to bring a lot of class and energy to the material." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 18, 2013
100% Cheap Thrills () " An astute balance between a simply engaging dark thriller and a trenchant piece of social commentary." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 11, 2013
75% Haunter (2013) " A lovely homage to haunted house cinema -- and a very crafty ghost story in its own right." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 11, 2013
69% V/H/S/2 (2013) " Sequel or not, this is a fantastic foursome of horror shorts -- and yes, the wrap-around stuff is better this time." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 11, 2013
4/5 62% Evil Dead (2013) " It's gross and creepy and unpredictable and precisely the sort of horror movie your mother would probably hate. Honors the original and then some." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 9, 2013
2/5 —— The Factory (2013) " Composed of seven or eight other films you've already seen before. And not composed especially well." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 4, 2013
2.5/5 16% The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) " An earnest and well-made character-based horror flick that's simply not all that interesting." — FEARnet
Posted Mar 1, 2013
3.5/5 20% Girls Against Boys (2013) " There's more going on beneath the surface here than just another "angry women act out" horror story." — FEARnet
Posted Feb 27, 2013
3/5 37% Dark Skies (2013) " Works perfectly well as a turn-off-the-lights (and be-willing-to-play-along) piece of sci-fi-sprinkled horror amusement. " — FEARnet
Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/5 —— Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2013) " I've seen a lot worse "crocs run wild" movies than Lake Placid 4. (Best praise I got. Sorry.)" — FEARnet
Posted Feb 22, 2013
2.5/5 14% Spiders (2013) " Only slightly better than a SyFy Channel monster movie, but you watch those too, I bet." — FEARnet
Posted Feb 19, 2013
1.5/5 14% Smiley (2012) " Feels like a late-arriving film class homework assignment that the students didn't really care about." — FEARnet
Posted Feb 12, 2013
3.5/5 56% Would You Rather (2013) " A novel little combination of a few horror sub-genres that generally don't hook up very often." — FEARnet
Posted Feb 8, 2013
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