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:
2513
Total QuickRatings:
432

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1.5/2 77% Iron Man 3 (2013) " a surprisingly tedious checklist of Shane Black-isms" — Film Freak Central
Posted May 2, 2013
1/4 56% 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 86% 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 60% 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 15% 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 66% 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
1/4 65% Steel Magnolias (1989) " chooses to leave the rearing of her moppet to Dylan McDermott...or Dermot Mulroney. Doesn't matter." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 25, 2012
2/4 68% Cloud Atlas (2012) " Ah so." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 25, 2012
0/4 23% The Raven (2012) " I'd say that nine bucks is probably also the current going rate for Livingston & Shakespeare's next script." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 24, 2012
4/4 68% Wuthering Heights (2012) " It is in so many ways the first adaptation of Wuthering Heights." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 19, 2012
4/4 79% Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012) " It's not about Bushido, it's about its representation." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 19, 2012
2.5/4 89% Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) " benign slapstick." — Strange Horizons
Posted Oct 15, 2012
3.5/4 85% Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) " an unbelievably crass, unpleasant, horrific picture" — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 15, 2012
4/4 95% Raiders of the Lost Ark (2012) " impossibly good" — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 15, 2012
4/4 98% All the President's Men (1976) " The world is beyond saving, it says. It's one of the last great films of its era that has anyone who thinks it deserves saving." — Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 9, 2012
3.5/4 —— Final Chapter: Walking Tall (The Man in the Back Seat) (1977) " A true film of the Seventies and as wrought and surprising as any picture from that deepest well of masterpieces" — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 26, 2012
1/4 —— Walking Tall, Part 2 (1975) " As with most attempts to be socially relevant, however, this sequel merely manages to seem awkward and bloated with exposition." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 26, 2012
3/4 75% Walking Tall (1973) " its broad strokes leave no room for anything so pussified or liberal as a moral compass" — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 26, 2012
4/4 90% And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) " it's as painful to listen to and watch as it is astonishing that I should feel this kind of connection to someone I never met, and never will." — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 4, 2012
2.5/4 53% Gray's Anatomy (1997) " It is haunting, though. How could it not be, when the last lines of the monolog are "Ecstasy, despair, ecstasy, despair" and some mention of a big fish?" — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 4, 2012
0/4 33% Romeo Must Die (2000) " undiluted garbage" — Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 2, 2012
3/4 —— Swamp Water (1941) " ean Renoir's Swamp Water stands out as an example of how an artist's genius can assert itself even when his product has been taken away from him," — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 30, 2012
2.5/4 86% Unstoppable (2010) " The title, then, is probably referring to the human spirit. That's corny, but it works." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 28, 2012
3/4 89% Compliance (2012) " It's a Milgram Experiment for the viewer." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 23, 2012
4/4 64% Cosmopolis (2012) " David Cronenberg's North by Northwest" — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 22, 2012
2.5/4 23% The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) " It's not to say there's not a lot wrong with the film, but rather to suggest that the chief criticisms of it being strange and "a mess" aren't among them." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 19, 2012
2.5/4 87% ParaNorman (2012) " blithe and hollow" — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 16, 2012
1/4 52% Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) " If not for Jet Li, Lethal Weapon 4 would actually be worse than Lethal Weapon 3." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 12, 2012
0/4 56% Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) " Lethal Weapon 3 is inexcusable crap, but it's sort of intriguing inexcusable crap." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 12, 2012
2.5/4 83% Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) " I've confused a lot of the good things I remember about the first film with good stuff that in actuality happened in the second." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 12, 2012
2/4 86% Lethal Weapon (1987) " What does it say that I loved it as a boy of fourteen?" — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 12, 2012
0.5/4 56% The Bourne Legacy (2012) " not merely the worst entry in a series I've liked until now, but also one of the worst movies of the year." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 9, 2012
1/4 65% The Campaign (2012) " the actual 2012 American Presidential campaign is already so ludicrous that it's pointless to even try to satirize it." — Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 9, 2012
4/4 86% Miracle Mile (1989) " Monograph for MIRACLE MILE now available." — Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 24, 2012
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