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Uri Lessing

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Biography:

Uri Lessing lives, works and writes in Waterville Maine.

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Reviews

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Dragon Wars: D-War (2007) 28% 1/5 EDIT “This is not a movie to watch for escapism. This is a movie to watch with a bunch of friends and heckle mercilessly.” – eFilmCritic.com Sep 14, 2007 Full Review RENO 911!: Miami (2007) 35% 2/5 EDIT “..the plot stops parodying 'Cops' in favor of general lunacy. The "R" rating allows the humor to get a bit cruder, but gratuitous nudity and sexuality don't really offer anything new.” – eFilmCritic.com Mar 10, 2007 Full Review Bridge to Terabithia (2007) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Despite an odd choice to inject computer animated wonder, Bridge to Terabithia is ...a loving tribute to the best and the worst moments of adolescence...” – eFilmCritic.com Mar 3, 2007 Full Review Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 95% 5/5 EDIT “In the British newspaper, Guardian Unlimited, del Toro credited British illustrator Arthur Rackham and the works of Goya...Guillermo del Toro has joins their ranks with this film.” – eFilmCritic.com Feb 21, 2007 Full Review Smokin' Aces (2007) 31% 2/5 EDIT “Every criminal has to have a quirk. That guy's a cross-dresser. He's a master of disguise. They're Nazis. She's a lesbian... Ridiculous cretins like these will make you long for the thoughtful characterizations of Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe.” – eFilmCritic.com Feb 10, 2007 Full Review The Descent (2005) 87% 4/5 EDIT “The violence of "The Descent" is brutal, but the smart psychology and multilayered screenplay provide the true satisfaction.” – eFilmCritic.com Feb 3, 2007 Full Review Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) 21% 3/5 EDIT “The Minimoys are teeny-weeny kind folk with a keen fashion sense and a wicked-cool lair. They're just like what the Borrowers would have been like if they had lived in the field behind the Urban Outfitters production factory.” – eFilmCritic.com Feb 3, 2007 Full Review Freedom Writers (2007) 69% 2/5 EDIT “The film may be inspired by a true story, but it's a mishmash of scenes we've seen before, and for a film about original teaching methods, the storyline is surprisingly derivative and predictable.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 19, 2007 Full Review Charlotte's Web (2006) 79% 0/5 EDIT “Charlotte herself has been turned from a small, grey spider into a creature with a furry, teddy bear face. The result is an odd blend of Wilfred Brimley, Grizzly Adams, and Fozzie Bear.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review Apocalypto (2006) 65% 4/5 EDIT “Whether (Mel Gibson's) films are in English, Latin, Aramaic or Yucatec, the real language is that of masculinity personified in the face of emotionless evil.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review The Holiday (2006) 51% 3/5 EDIT “Because everyone is rich and in love, you can see the happy ending coming a mile away, but with a film like this, it's the journey that's important and not the destination.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review Stranger Than Fiction (2006) 73% 4/5 EDIT “A concept film, but wow, what a concept!” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) 67% 3/5 EDIT “...ideology aside, "The Pursuit of Happyness" works as a film that celebrates people who toil for a better life.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review Blood Diamond (2006) 64% 5/5 EDIT “Zwick and Leavitt add the right amount of horror, character development and political activism to make "Blood Diamond" one of most important films to come along in a long time.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review Babel (2006) 68% 2/5 EDIT “The film takes its main characters, spreads them out all over the world, and subjects them to emotionally and physically tortuous situations. Think last year's Crash on a global scale.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review Happy Feet (2006) 76% 3/5 EDIT “despite... shortcomings, "Happy Feet" brings a lot of energy and creativity to a genre that increasingly relies on slapstick and over-stimulation.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 76% 3/5 EDIT “Writers William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis believe that they are contrasting the men's lives with their heroic image. Sadly, what they present to the viewer is yet another fabricated image, and one that is equally false.” – eFilmCritic.com Jan 13, 2007 Full Review Flushed Away (2006) 72% 3/5 EDIT “...all of these pictures are starting to blend together to form one big, hypertensive splash of motion that threatens to over-stimulate us all!” – eFilmCritic.com Nov 2, 2006 Full Review Pizza (2004) 31% 3/5 EDIT “Pizza will never be the Lou Malnati's deep dish of the independent film world, but its gentle pacing...makes this gem as comforting as mall pizza on a hungry day.” – eFilmCritic.com Nov 1, 2006 Full Review The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006) 67% 4/5 EDIT “Imagine the cast of "Repo Man" attempting to cast the one ring into the fires of Mordor” – eFilmCritic.com Oct 28, 2006 Full Review Open Season (2006) 48% 2/5 EDIT “Your child will probably go crazy for this imitative mash-up, but you'll wish you had spent your hard-earned money on a good children's book instead.” – eFilmCritic.com Sep 28, 2006 Full Review Look Both Ways (2005) 75% 5/5 EDIT “Most films about shell-shocked characters coming to grips with their own mortality are either excruciating or forcefully comical. Not so with this mini-masterpiece.” – eFilmCritic.com Sep 13, 2006 Full Review The Science of Sleep (2006) 71% 5/5 EDIT “The Science of Sleep is probably not a film for everyone, but in a perfect world where dreamers and artists were celebrated, it would be.” – eFilmCritic.com Sep 5, 2006 Full Review You, Me and Dupree (2006) 21% 3/5 EDIT “(Owen Wilson) not only carries the movie, but also bears the project proudly on his shoulders while dancing the Fandango.” – eFilmCritic.com Jul 13, 2006 Full Review Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) 53% 1/5 EDIT “In the first film, Depp had fun chewing on the scenery. In this one, the scenery swallows him up and eats him raw.” – eFilmCritic.com Jul 11, 2006 Full Review
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