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Eric Beltmann

Eric Beltmann'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.

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Trembling Before G-d (2001) 90% B EDIT “What's most fascinating about Trembling Before G-d is the way it shatters stereotypes not about homosexuality but about fundamentalism.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Jan 26, 2004 Full Review Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002) 83% B+ EDIT “Complicated, moving, and entirely real.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Unknown Pleasures (2002) 61% B+ EDIT “When was the last time you saw a movie about an entire community facing an existential identity crisis?” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Under the City's Skin (2001) 87% B EDIT “Spare, static, and brimming with everyday details about life in Tehran.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Towers Open Fire and Other Films (1962) C EDIT “This abrasive assault on linear editing did little for me. Ho-hum, I say.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review The Princess Blade (2002) 57% C- EDIT “Fails to transform its aggressive pessimism into something bolder, and richer. At least Donnie Yen's choreography is sporadically clever.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review OT: Our Town (2002) 88% C+ EDIT “Kennedy's fly-on-the-wall aesthetic yields a haphazard, unremarkable documentary about a remarkable event.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review On Guard! (1997) 88% B EDIT “Channeling the spirit of Dumas and Fval, de Broca has unleashed a spry, rousing, funny swashbuckler.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Lilya 4-Ever (2002) 84% B+ EDIT “Its ugliness is easily trumped by Moodysson's abiding compassion and artistic vision -- his strokes only get darker, bolder, and more divine as the film progresses.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review The Flower of Evil (2003) 65% C+ EDIT “More misanthropy from one of the nouvelle vague's last holdouts, and it gives me the creeps.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Distant (2002) 87% B+ EDIT “Maintains a mood of melancholy and loneliness so unrelenting that it's borderline inhospitable.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001) 60% D+ EDIT “I don't have enough eyes to roll at all the anonymous herons, woods, streams, nudes, and wheat fields that kill time between recreations of Nijinsky's renowned choreography.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Chump Change (2000) F EDIT “Burrows displays an Ed Woodian aptitude for transparently veiling the fact that he is incapable of developing a scene, a character, or even a good crotch joke.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Un Chien Andalou (1929) 100% A EDIT “This is Warhol and this is Lynch, but more richly suggestive than both put together.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review The Blood of a Poet (1930) 95% B EDIT “An illogical, artificial ode to the power of images.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000) 73% A EDIT “This lovely urban fable transcends realism, conjuring a waterfront Casablanca that reminded me of Roald Dahl at least as much as Buuel.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Dec 2, 2003 Full Review Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997) 92% C+ EDIT “Beats me. I know I was incredulous, horrified, spellbound, and finally moved, but I don't have a clue whether Sick is a good movie or not.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Oct 22, 2003 Full Review Sweet Sixteen (2002) 97% B EDIT “What's great about Sweet Sixteen isn't its politics but the way everything feels simultaneously inevitable and spontaneous, especially in terms of the acting and mood.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Oct 6, 2003 Full Review Stevie (2002) 91% B+ EDIT “My severe reservations didn't prevent me from becoming completely absorbed by Stevie and its underlying implications regarding a filmmaker's motivations, methods, and responsibilities.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Sep 16, 2003 Full Review Johnstown Flood (2003) 70% D EDIT “Often resembles an Irwin Allen disaster flick commissioned by the Learning Channel. It drowns in fire-and-brimstone spectacle.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Jul 19, 2003 Full Review Cries and Whispers (1972) 92% A EDIT “Cries and Whispers is an unforgettable experience, one that causes the viewer to frequently wince in emotional pain.” – Flipside Movie Emporium Jul 11, 2003 Full Review XXX (2002) 48% C EDIT “If Bond is for boomers, and Spy Kids for kiddies, then XXX is a secret agent for cynical in-betweeners.” – Flipside Movie Emporium May 21, 2003 Full Review Spy Kids (2001) 92% B- EDIT “It has a youthful exuberance missing from Rodriguez's work since El Mariachi.” – Flipside Movie Emporium May 21, 2003 Full Review Shrek (2001) 88% B EDIT “Swift, cocksure, and sometimes bracing, Shrek is like a child who threatens to leap from a soaring swing, but isn't quite audacious enough to follow through.” – Flipside Movie Emporium May 21, 2003 Full Review Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) 80% C EDIT “Based on its returns, one might be tempted to speculate whether parents have been placed under a spell, cursed to forfeit their coins in exchange for an afternoon with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.” – Flipside Movie Emporium May 21, 2003 Full Review
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