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Walter Chaw

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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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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