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""And there is the account of the hanging of three men...and a scuba diver and a suicide...There are stories of coincidence and chance and intersections and strange things told and which is which and who only knows...and we generally say, "Well if that was in a movie I wouldn't believe it." Someone's so and so met someone else's so and so and so on -- And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that these strange things happen all the time...and so it goes and so it goes and the book says, "We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us." -Ricky Jay, "Magnolia""

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Biography:: Ok. So my story opens on a dark stormy night....nah.
Favorites:: Why must you toy with my emotions?
Publications:: Movie Navigator

Total Reviews:: 64

Location:: New York City

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/4	87%	Mystic River (2003)	— Movie Navigator Posted Oct 12, 2003
A-	75%	Intolerable Cruelty (2003)	" The Coen brothers test the boundaries of mainstream cinema while retaining their quirky and idiosyncratic trademarks." — Movie Navigator Posted Oct 6, 2003
A-	95%	Lost In Translation (2003)	" Lost In Translation exudes a hypnotic atmosphere that is impossible to resist." — Movie Navigator Posted Sep 8, 2003
3/4	52%	The Holy Land (2003)	— Movie Navigator Posted Aug 18, 2003
3.0/4	79%	Open Range (2003)	" Kevin Costner makes Westerns as good as he does baseball films, and Open Range is no exception." — Movie Navigator Posted Aug 13, 2003
3/4	36%	Le Divorce (2003)	— Movie Navigator Posted Aug 10, 2003
B-	55%	American Wedding (2003)	" For this third installment of the American Pie films, writer Adam Herz pens some of the funniest situations since curious high-school senior Jim Levinstein first made love to an apple-pie." — Movie Navigator Posted Jul 30, 2003
C-	7%	Gigli (2003)	" Gigli is living proof that films require more than a deviation from the standard formula to be enjoyable." — Movie Navigator Posted Jul 29, 2003
A	88%	28 Days Later (2003)	" Taps into emotions most films couldn't infiltrate if they tried." — Movie Navigator Posted Jun 25, 2003
B-	36%	2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)	" 2 Fast 2 Furious is designed solely to satiate the most joystick-hungry teenager." — Movie Navigator Posted Jun 4, 2003
2/4	73%	The Matrix Reloaded (2003)	— Movie Navigator Posted May 14, 2003
B	37%	Spun (2003)	" Spun is more of a visceral experience than a coherent, plot-driven film. Acknowledge that, and you might enjoy yourself." — Movie Navigator Posted Mar 10, 2003
1/4	20%	Box Head Revolution ()	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 11, 2003
3/4	85%	Spider (2002)	" Spider is David Cronenberg's most mature film to date." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 9, 2003
A	79%	Punch-Drunk Love (2002)	" ...any film that's as magically uplifting as this would leave you salivating for an encore." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C-	79%	Antwone Fisher (2002)	" ...so aggressive in its methods of forcing us to pity and sympathize with the title character, that at times this form of manipulation becomes intolerable." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C	15%	I Spy (2002)	" Yet another generic buddy cop movie..." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C	75%	Gangs of New York (2002)	" ...bludgeoned by rough cuts and insipid voice-overs that reveal [Scorsese's] desperation and/or frustration resulting from nearly two years of post-production." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
A-	91%	Adaptation (2002)	" ...one of 2002's freshest breaths of air." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C-	21%	Empire (2002)	" ...an uninspired gangster movie that plays like a modern-day retelling of superior crime films such as Scarface and Carlito's Way." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
A-	72%	Auto Focus (2002)	" This is one cold film." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
B-	43%	The Rules of Attraction (2002)	" ...comprised of many stylish scenes, all nicely composed and enjoyable to watch, but they never benefit the story - mainly because there isn't one." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
B-	63%	Moonlight Mile (2002)	" ...deals with the grimness of unjust loss in an unusually lighthearted manner, yet never makes grieving look like jolly fun." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
A-	81%	One Hour Photo (2002)	" For the majority of its running time, One Hour Photo maintains an atmosphere of sheer discomfort; evoking the same uneasiness people experience during blind-dates." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C	48%	XXX (2002)	" ...xXx ; one of the biggest, rowdiest, bullet-frenzied action movies ever made." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C-	22%	The Tuxedo (2002)	" Studio executives must constantly ponder which comedic actor should Jackie Chan pair with for his next buddy-action-comedy." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C	37%	Sweet Home Alabama (2002)	" Relying on leftover charm from Legally Blonde , the 2001 summer sleeper hit, Sweet Home Alabama is another predictable star-vehicle made to cash-in on the lucrative charisma of its leading lady." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
B	75%	Secretary (2002)	" Exploring the kinky realm of bondage and sadomasochism, Steven Shainberg's Secretary is not by any means an average love-story, and that isn't because it substitutes -spankings for automatic sex." — Movie Navigator* Posted Feb 8, 2003
B	76%	Igby Goes Down (2002)	" Structured in loose 70's-filmmaking fashion, where character nuances matter more than plot developments, the atypical Igby Goes Down is a fresh throwback to such classics as The Last Detail..." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
A-	82%	Road to Perdition (2002)	" In the age of The Sopranos and revved-up Scorsese type mobster flicks, it's soothing to see a traditional mafia story elegantly unravel as opposed to those lightening-fast cliched ones with bloody noses and ounces of cocaine crammed into every scen" — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
B	74%	Signs (2002)	" With a little subtlety, Signs could have been [Shyamalan's] greatest film to date." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C	51%	Simone (2002)	" Niccol seems to have remade The Truman Show as a Hollywood satire." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C-	61%	Blue Crush (2002)	" Thunderous waves collide with flesh and wooden surfboards in Blue Crush , a vapid gender-flipping sports movie indistinguishable from recent formulaic duds like the estrogen-fueled Coyote Ugly and Summer Catch." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
B-	27%	Amy's O (Amy's Orgasm) (Why Love Doesn't Work) (2002)	" narrative may be looser than baby teeth, but Amy's Orgasm is such a verbosely in-depth exploration of female sensuality and identity." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
B-	92%	The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)	" Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen's innovative documentary, The Kid Stays In the Picture , is thoroughly dedicated to waxing their subject's ego." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
C-	11%	Halloween - Resurrection (2002)	" No new plot conceptions or environmental changes, just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
B-	77%	Tadpole (2002)	" What begins as a film in the tradition of The Graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
B-	22%	Mr. Deeds (2002)	" Laugh-wise, Mr. Deeds is all hit and miss...jokes work much better when they're not deliberately cut into a scene, and out of place, simply to get a cheap rise out of the audience." — Movie Navigator Posted Feb 8, 2003
2/4	60%	Little Secrets (2002)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
3.5/4	96%	Catch Me If You Can (2002)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
2/4	54%	Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
3/4	47%	The Banger Sisters (2002)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
2/4	9%	Stealing Harvard (2002)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
3/4	72%	Intacto (2002)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
2/4	24%	A Guy Thing (2003)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
3/4	66%	CQ (2002)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
2/4	67%	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 3D (2013)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
2.5/4	36%	She Gets What She Wants (2005)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003
2/4	48%	City by the Sea (2002)	— Movie Navigator Posted Feb 7, 2003

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