Walter Chaw

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Favorites:
The Conversation Marnie Seven Men From Now Viridiana The Evil Dead II
Publications:
Bad Movie Night , Film Freak Central , L.A. Weekly , Strange Horizons
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
2487
Total QuickRatings:
431

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/4 35% The Collection (2012) " A cheap, loose remake of Aliens that substitutes rampaging hordes of xenomorphs with a gimp-masked kung-fu master." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 29, 2013
3/4 89% The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) " I love Siegel's sly paralleling of Ali's fight preparation with his growth as a human being" — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 27, 2013
2.5/4 71% Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013) " It's immensely educational...and dry as a soda cracker. " — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 27, 2013
0.5/4 52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " When you make a movie this awful, with no hint of useful self-awareness, you're not proving a point--you're giving up." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2.5/4 100% Tim's Vermeer (2014) " Even at a fleet 79 minutes, feels a little long. For a while, though, Tim's Vermeer paints a compelling picture of inventor (fellow illusionist and 3-D designer) Tim Jenison as he indulges his peculiar obsession." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2013
4/4 69% The Unknown Known () " When Rumsfeld laughs, it's frightening--an alien thing's attempt to simulate a human emotion." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 8, 2013
1/4 79% Tracks () " So it's like Into the Wild, but terrible, scored as a child or James Horner would score it..." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 8, 2013
4/4 88% Under the Skin () " There is latent, pregnant energy in this picture, a thrum of dread that underlays every frame." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 7, 2013
3.5/4 81% Nebraska (2013) " a showcase opportunity for national treasure Bruce Dern." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 7, 2013
2.5/4 60% Riddick (2013) " I wanted to love this movie with all my heart..." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 5, 2013
2.5/4 98% Gravity (2013) " So it's not a very good movie, but it is a really good spectacle." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 4, 2013
2.5/4 97% 12 Years a Slave (2013) " Hunger and Shame were mimetic where 12 Years a Slave is diegetic." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 4, 2013
2.5/4 100% The Burning (1981) " It's a movie very much like Tolkien's writing: if you don't discover it in junior high, you'll never appreciate it the way it was meant to be appreciated again." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2/4 78% Europa Report (2013) " If it had a torso, it'd be wearing a pocket protector." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 14, 2013
3/4 69% The Wolverine (2013) " a man's mute, impotent melancholy and the many females around him engaged in the maintenance of their separate, disintegrating orbits." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 9, 2013
0/4 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " The moral of the story, such as it is, is that family is important and, um, appearances are skin deep, I think." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 8, 2013
4/4 95% Medium Cool (1969) " The film doesn't exactly end, because it's not so much a narrative as it is a mile-marker and a warning." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 31, 2013
4/4 83% Computer Chess (2013) " Sneakily, the best science-fiction film of the summer." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 21, 2013
2/4 86% The Conjuring (2013) " Wan's latest exercise in jump-scare theatre... better to call it "The Startling"." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 21, 2013
3/4 90% The Attack (2013) " demonstrates as a director the kind of elliptical reserve more commonly associated with Terrence Malick." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 11, 2013
2/4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " consider that the primary screenwriter on the piece is not del Toro, but the guy who wrote the remake of Clash of the Titans." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 10, 2013
4/4 61% Byzantium (2013) " I can't wait to see it again, to see what else I can see." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 4, 2013
3/4 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " ... not so bad a companion piece to the better-and-better Rango as initially feared." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 2, 2013
2/4 67% World War Z (2013) " It's mediocre. Huzzah!" — Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 20, 2013
2/4 56% Man of Steel (2013) " 44 beautifully-constructed trailers strung together in the world's most expensive promo reel." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 13, 2013
4/4 100% Sansho the Bailiff (1954) " a film of surpassing, transcendent wisdom and beauty." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 7, 2013
4/4 97% Cabaret (1972) " It's an all-time masterpiece, mercurial and timeless. I am changed every time I see it. " — Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 7, 2013
1/4 49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " unwatchable farrago" — Film Freak Central
Posted May 9, 2013
1.5/2 79% Iron Man 3 (2013) " a surprisingly tedious checklist of Shane Black-isms" — Film Freak Central
Posted May 2, 2013
1/4 54% Oblivion (2013) " it's sort of like something L. Ron Hubbard would have written--but that's gotta be a coincidence, right?" — Film Freak Central
Posted Apr 18, 2013
4/4 90% Beyond The Hills (2013) " It's an exorcism movie for everyone who thought, after Mungiu's gruelling abortion buddy-movie 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, that this guy should do an exorcism movie" — Film Freak Central
Posted Apr 4, 2013
3.5/4 62% Evil Dead (2013) " not just a taste of the old religion, it's really pretty great." — Film Freak Central
Posted Apr 4, 2013
4/4 85% The Master (2012) " by itself, gives lie to the idea that Americans don't make great, nuanced, complicated films. It's sublime." — Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 28, 2013
4/4 75% Design for Living (1933) " The "Lubitsch Touch," indeed: edged and between the ribs before you know it's being brandished." — Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 12, 2013
1/4 79% Driving Miss Daisy (1989) " The heart-warming story of how a bitter old Jewess learns to not be such a bitch to a patient Negro driver." — Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 9, 2013
0/4 59% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " Based on L. Frank Baum's little-known Pussyhound of Oz." — Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 8, 2013
0.5/4 14% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " The Bowfinger parody of itself." — Film Freak Central
Posted Feb 14, 2013
1/4 4% The Apparition (2012) " The apparition, because it's lame, spends a lot of its time tying clothes into knots, moving dressers, and opening doors." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 28, 2013
0.5/4 51% Promised Land (2013) " It's Mitt Romney in blue jeans, this Promised Land, and we've all had enough of that." — Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 29, 2012
4/4 88% Django Unchained (2012) " he's either a genius or a savant, I don't know, but wholly without equal." — Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 29, 2012
1/4 70% Les Misérables (2012) " It's ugly in the way that only films driven by fanatical vision, unfettered by checks, and galvanized by awards and money can be ugly" — Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 29, 2012
0.5/4 65% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " If this were Green Eggs and Ham, the film would stop at approximately the point at which you would not eat them with a fox." — Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 13, 2012
0.5/4 63% Hitchcock (2012) " about an old couple on the verge of decrepitude deciding to make a go of their marriage because they have no other choice. Yeah, it's awful. " — Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 21, 2012
4/4 88% Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001) " Ethereal, evanescent, evocative of true, ineffable experience, In the Mood for Love is amazing" — Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 14, 2012
4/4 70% The Loneliest Planet (2012) " It's alive; it requires active participation and curiosity; and it speaks eloquently to the best possibilities of film as a medium for conversation and reflection." — Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 10, 2012
2/4 89% Lincoln (2012) " moments of real grandeur narrated to death by John Williams's inspiring(TM) and rousing(TM) score" — Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 10, 2012
2/4 92% Skyfall (2012) " It's an old-fashioned Bond movie--or at least promises the next one will be--and that's good news for many." — Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 10, 2012
3/4 75% Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) " Boy, you know, I really like the Chiodo Brothers' Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I can't help it." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 31, 2012
2.5/4 68% Night of the Living Dead (2000) " It's an eye-roller. It didn't need to be." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 28, 2012
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