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David Lee Simmons

David Lee Simmons's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.
Biography:

For the past six years, I have been the Arts and Entertainment Editor for Gambit Weekly, the alternative newsweekly in New Orleans (50,000 circulation; 180,000 readership). I have been coordinating our film coverage for about four years and write film reviews and profiles (Steven Soderbergh, Godfrey Reggio among them).

Favorites:

"The Godfather""Citizen Kane""Down by Law""Rififi""In a Lonely Place""Rules of the Game""Planet of the Apes""M*A*S*H""Chinatown""North by Northwest"

Location:

New Orleans.

Official Website:

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/authors/davidleesimmons.html

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Bright Leaves (2003) 85% B+ EDIT “Ross McElwee once again ties together loose strands of subject, family, region and history.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Aug 23, 2005 Full Review The Aristocrats (2005) 79% B+ EDIT “The Aristocrats proves our hesitance to offend sometimes robs humor of its vitality.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Aug 23, 2005 Full Review The Raven (1943) 97% A+ EDIT “Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau (The Raven) is so utterly complex it still stirs debate today in France ... .” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Aug 16, 2005 Full Review Broken Flowers (2005) 87% B- EDIT “For as intriguing as Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Broken Flowers, might be, it nevertheless feels like something we've all seen too many times before.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Aug 16, 2005 Full Review The Skeleton Key (2005) 38% C- EDIT “What's more mysterious is how Hollywood seems genetically incapable of separating Louisiana from the rest of the South, voodoo from hoodoo, joie de vivre from Hand Grenades.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Aug 16, 2005 Full Review Rize (2005) 84% B+ EDIT “If [David] LaChapelle can learn some of the more sophisticated filmmaking techniques (narrative arc, editing, breadth of story), he is one to watch. His film certainly is.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jul 1, 2005 Full Review Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 60% B+ EDIT “... Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith ... tries to juggle the genres of romantic comedy and action-adventure with little atonal moments of dramatic wistfulness.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jul 1, 2005 Full Review Unleashed (2005) 66% C+ EDIT “[N]o matter how hard [Louis] Letterier tries, he's working with atonal material here, and can't have it both ways.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) May 25, 2005 Full Review Moolaadé (2004) 99% A- EDIT “This is a movie surprisingly devoid of agitprop -- the film feels instructional without feeling didactic.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) May 25, 2005 Full Review Kung Fu Hustle (2004) 90% A EDIT “Kung Fu Hustle clearly wants to take this martial-arts trend into a new frontier, and it's heartwarming to see it done with such respect for the past.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Apr 27, 2005 Full Review The Woodsman (2004) 88% B+ EDIT “The Woodsman and its star, Kevin Bacon, are at their most effective in its creepiest moments.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jan 27, 2005 Full Review Hotel Rwanda (2004) 91% A- EDIT “The comparisons of Hotel Rwanda to Schindler's List are ... understandable ... yet Hotel Rwanda is almost everything that Schindler's List is not.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jan 16, 2005 Full Review A Very Long Engagement (2004) 79% A- EDIT “Working together, [Audrey] Tatou and [Jean-Pierre] Jeunet create a story of love and war told through the prism of a mystery ... .” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jan 4, 2005 Full Review Tarnation (2003) 93% B EDIT “[I]t's a struggle to decide if Tarnation isn't so much a catharsis as it is pure narcissism. Maybe it's both: narcissism as catharsis.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Dec 9, 2004 Full Review Ray (2004) 79% B+ EDIT “[Taylor Hackford's] passion for his subject matter and characters ... make him a better director than some might give him credit for being.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Nov 19, 2004 Full Review Sideways (2004) 97% B+ EDIT “[Sideways is] the first film in recent memory that treats wine as a sweet metaphor for life ... .” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Nov 19, 2004 Full Review Garden State (2004) 86% B+ EDIT “[Zach] Braff knows the state of mind of both his character and his film and hints at a maturity we can't wait to see unfold.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Aug 27, 2004 Full Review The Village (2004) 43% C EDIT “You want to know the biggest secret of all? M. Night Shyamalan is overrated. Shhhh! Don't tell anybody!” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Aug 4, 2004 Full Review Napoleon Dynamite (2004) 72% A- EDIT “[Director Jared Hess's] title hero, Napoleon Dynamite, has the name of a character that sounds equal parts blaxploitation and comic-book hero.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jul 16, 2004 Full Review Blazing Saddles (1974) 89% A+ EDIT “The movie rides on the sight gags, the set pieces, the one-liners, and an amazing ensemble cast of Brooks regulars ... and TV and Hollywood veteran character actors ... .” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jun 18, 2004 Full Review Super Size Me (2004) 92% B+ EDIT “With [Morgan] Spurlock's debut, which at times out-Michael Moores Michael Moore, we might just have ourselves an extra-value meal of filmmaking.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jun 3, 2004 Full Review The Day After Tomorrow (2004) 45% C- EDIT “Where are the shoot-outs? Where are the one-liners? Heck, where's the stripper?” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Jun 3, 2004 Full Review Eyes Without a Face (1960) 97% B+ EDIT “[Eyes Without a Face] is horror done in subtle, sublime and poetic tones - yet another example that they don't make 'em like they used to.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Apr 28, 2004 Full Review Elephant (2003) 74% B+ EDIT “Elephant - however enigmatic, however cool its emotions - feels all too real in showing that something so abnormal can spring from something so normal.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Apr 28, 2004 Full Review Trouble in Paradise (1932) 89% A+ EDIT “Bathed in shimmering black-and-white, the Art Deco scenery of Trouble in Paradise is almost as sexy as the dialogue.” – Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA) Apr 28, 2004 Full Review
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