Christopher Null
Tomatometer-approved critic
Christopher Null has been an entertainment and technology writer and editor for more than 12 years. He founded filmcritic.com in 1995, which now stands as one of the most popular movie sites on the Web. He has worked as Editor in Chief of Mobile magazine and New Architect magazine, Executive Editor for Smart Business magazine, and Managing Reviews Editor for LAN Times magazine. He has also written stories for Wired, Maxim, PC World, Yahoo! Internet Life, Men's Journal, Working Woman, and countless other publications.
Top 10 of All Time: A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Blade Runner, Vertigo, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane, Dead Poets Society, JFK, Pulp Fiction, Real Genius Top 5 Most Fun Interviews: Russ Meyer, Craig Shoemaker, Mike Figgis, Barry Sonnenfeld, Owen Wilson + Wes Anderson
San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.filmcritic.com
Movies reviews only
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The Decalogue (1989) |
While it's imperfect, I have to say I feel a deep sense of achievement having finished the series. - Filmcritic.com
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| Posted May 01, 2021
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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) |
Overrated pap. - Filmcritic.com
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| Posted Apr 09, 2021
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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) |
Overrated pap. - Filmcritic.com
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| Posted Apr 09, 2021
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Black and Blue (2019) |
Black and Blue is a racial polemic that could only be made in this modern world we live in - the kind of high-key potboiler that can jackhammer its way into the conversation in our toxic atmosphere. - Film Racket
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| Posted Oct 24, 2019
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The River (1984) |
Sissy and Mel face off against a raging river -- and plenty more -- in this chest-thumping melodrama from On Golden Pond director Mark Rydell. - Filmcritic.com
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| Posted Jul 23, 2019
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The Amityville Murders (2018) |
incredibly tacky - Film Racket
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| Posted Feb 07, 2019
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The American Meme (2018) |
Paris Hilton was the first to discover that you don't have to do anything special to get famous, you just have to be good at grabbing people's attention. - Film Racket
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| Posted Dec 20, 2018
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Ophelia (2018) |
Whether this all works is up for debate, but I will say it would take a better writer than me to take a stab at rewriting Shakespeare's greatest play. - Film Racket
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| Posted Oct 20, 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) |
a curious and enjoyable dark comedy, black as night, with legit Oscar aspirations - Film Racket
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| Posted Dec 26, 2017
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The Greatest Showman (2017) |
The Greatest Showman highlights that Hollywood has no idea how to handle the musical genre - Film Racket
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| Posted Dec 21, 2017
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Café Society (2016) |
so slight that one gets the impression he wrote the script on the plane ride back from Europe - Film Racket
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| Posted Oct 08, 2016
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Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) |
a sprinkling of redemptive magic - Film Racket
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| Posted Sep 15, 2016
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) |
Streep and Grant are amazing both when they're apart and together, their earnest portrayals really lending gravitas to people who would otherwise be remembered as a joke - Film Racket
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| Posted Aug 20, 2016
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The Shallows (2016) |
really goes off the deep end in the final act, switching from harrowing tale to dumb action movie - Film Racket
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| Posted Jun 23, 2016
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) |
like NASCAR for the neo-Con set, a "shoot first and never apologize later" lament which Bay hopes will show how "sober" he can be - Film Racket
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| Posted Jan 14, 2016
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Spotlight (2015) |
The closing notes, crafted beautifully by McCarthy and Josh Singer's screenplay and rendered flawlessly by McCarthy's quietly observant lens, remind even the most vigilant of us all that this is not a past-tense issue - Film Racket
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| Posted Nov 19, 2015
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (2015) |
full of magic and promise - Film Racket
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| Posted Oct 08, 2015
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Chinese Roulette (1976) |
It just doesn't work. - Filmcritic.com
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| Posted Jul 06, 2015
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The Captive (2014) |
pretty-looking yet totally dopey - Film Racket
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| Posted Mar 23, 2015
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The Lazarus Effect (2015) |
Who knew that playing God would be so unfulfilling... or so dull. - Film Racket
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| Posted Feb 26, 2015
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Frank (2014) |
Frank is a movie so bizarre and strange that it's practically a miracle it got made at all - Film Racket
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| Posted Dec 07, 2014
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Ivory Tower (2014) |
I'm just as perplexed now as I was before watching the movie. - Film Racket
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| Posted Nov 27, 2014
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Big Bad Wolves (2013) |
We've seen this film before - as recently as in last year's Prisoners - but Big Bad Wolves still manages to feel fresh. - Film Racket
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| Posted Nov 19, 2014
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Turist (2014) |
Everyone should have just gotten over themselves and moved on to enjoy the week on the slopes without so much drama. But that wouldn't have been very Swedish. - Film Racket
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| Posted Nov 13, 2014
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After (2014) |
Gaspersz embeds you with this family's struggles, and almost makes you care about what happens to them all in the end - Film Racket
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| Posted Nov 10, 2014
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Big Hero 6 (2014) |
visually engaging, solidly structured, offers up entertaining characters, and establishes the needs of the genre - the superhero film - without falling into the pitfalls facing the typical "origin" stories - Film Racket
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| Posted Nov 06, 2014
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Love Streams (1984) |
a soul rattler. - Film Racket
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| Posted Aug 24, 2014
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Jacob's Ladder (1990) |
One of Robbins' finest unheralded performances, plus a slew of supporting roles from then-unknowns Eriq LaSalle, Ving Rhames, Jason Alexander, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and an uncredited Macaulay Culkin. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Aug 23, 2014
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) |
This isn't mumblecore, but it isn't slapstick, either. File under mumblestick, perhaps? - Film Racket
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| Posted Oct 13, 2013
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Europa Report (2013) |
I've never been so engrossed in frank conversations involving landing zones, ice drilling, or hydrazine. - Film Racket
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| Posted Oct 06, 2013
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Curse of Chucky (2013) |
There's nothing here to indicate that the current iteration of Chucky contains enough life to stalk though anything more than a string of middling direct-to-video sequels. - Film Racket
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| Posted Oct 06, 2013
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A Common Man (2012) |
The movie's tagline is "No justice. No peace." I couldn't agree more. - Film Racket
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| Posted Oct 03, 2013
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Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013) |
I imagine that watching a movie about Bergdorf's is probably a little like shopping at Bergdorf's. It may feel good in the moment, but in the aftermath, you start to feel a little sick about the whole thing. - Film Racket
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| Posted Sep 16, 2013
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Somm (2012) |
I found myself far more interested in the wines these guys were drinking than in them as individuals. - Film Racket
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| Posted Aug 25, 2013
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In the Family (2011) |
an amazing piece of work, a quiet, introspective indie film that will have you rethinking everything - Film Racket
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| Posted Jul 23, 2013
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The Way, Way Back (2013) |
sneaky in the way it sets up a series of conventional themes and characters but slowly twists each of them, resulting in an experience that is subtly revelatory - Film Racket
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| Posted Jul 12, 2013
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I'm So Excited! (2013) |
completes the gradual movement in Almodovar's work toward completely mannered farcical soap opera - Film Racket
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| Posted Jul 11, 2013
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Stuck in Love (2012) |
Like many films paying lip service to the world of writing and publishing, Stuck in Love is in a big hurry to get to the good parts - Film Racket
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| Posted Jul 04, 2013
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World War Z (2013) |
Apocalyptic hysteria aside, a movie this confused couldn't possibly go out with a bang... instead, it goes out with an ellipsis. - Film Racket
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| Posted Jun 20, 2013
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The Bling Ring (2013) |
Coppola, as ever, works in the subtlety of observation, immersing in the world of the characters and laying its flaws bare as opposed to strongly essaying the downfall of youth - Film Racket
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| Posted Jun 13, 2013
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This Is the End (2013) |
a meta-masterwork. - Film Racket
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| Posted Jun 11, 2013
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) |
A Good Day to Die Hard isn't just half-boring and indifferently made; at its worst, it's downright dispiriting. - Film Racket
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| Posted Jun 05, 2013
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Before Midnight (2013) |
It's hard to remember another film where the ache of life's passing, and the ghostly memory of youthful freedoms has been more piercingly evoked. - Film Racket
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| Posted Jun 04, 2013
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013) |
The choreography in the centerpiece smash-'em-ups is relentless, as if Lin has spent most of the two years since the last movie maniacally storyboarding the demolition derby of his dreams - Film Racket
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| Posted May 23, 2013
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Generation Um... (2012) |
The point of the movie seems to be: like, inarticulation, or something? - Film Racket
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| Posted May 02, 2013
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) |
The Citizen Kane of westerns. - Contactmusic.com
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| Posted Apr 29, 2013
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Jack Reacher (2012) |
Jack Reacher revolves around wild impossibilities and baffling motivations, and the conclusion is a whopper that outdoes everything I've discussed above. - Film Racket
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| Posted Apr 26, 2013
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The Numbers Station (2013) |
If you're looking for a dynamic, politically-tinged thriller, you could do a lot better, but you could also do a lot worse. - Film Racket
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| Posted Apr 25, 2013
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At Any Price (2012) |
A movie about amateur race cars, sex in grain silos, murderous secrets, and Dennis Quaid's late-period acting crisis - only not as much fun as any of that sounds. - Film Racket
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| Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Rio Bravo (1959) |
A definitive piece of Americana by way of Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo is what the late 1950s studio system was all about - Contactmusic.com
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| Posted Apr 23, 2013
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