Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Gary Mairs

Gary Mairs's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Gary Mairs writes film and music criticism for culturevulture.net. He is also a film editor and an instructor at the California Institute of the Arts.

Publications:
Favorites:

The Wild Bunch, The Mother and the Whore, Hail the Conquering Hero, Band of Outsiders, The Long Goodbye, Breathless, The Lady Eve, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, A Day in the Country, Shop Around the Corner

Location:

Los Angeles, CA

Official Website:

http://www.culturevulture.net

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) 86% EDIT “The film is paced and edited like a news special, and in fact, there is no indication in the film as to whether any of its disparate sections are 'real.'” – culturevulture.net Jun 21, 2006 Full Review 9 Songs (2004) 23% EDIT “For all its problems and incoherence, 'Nine Songs' is both original and daring. It's worth a dozen 'better' films.” – culturevulture.net Jul 21, 2005 Full Review Our Music (2004) 68% EDIT “The rueful work of a man who once fell hard for simplistic, murderous politics and has come to see his mistake.” – culturevulture.net Dec 2, 2004 Full Review Rosenstraße (2003) 56% EDIT “The tears...generated feel earned rather than forced; it's as good a fiction film on the subject as can be imagined.” – culturevulture.net Aug 30, 2004 Full Review The United States of Leland (2003) 33% EDIT “It's tidy in all the least important ways, with all the questions that don't demand answers explained and all those that do left open.” – culturevulture.net Apr 22, 2004 Full Review Eyes Without a Face (1960) 97% EDIT “A modernist horror film infused with the spirit of the silent avant garde” – culturevulture.net Oct 31, 2003 Full Review Demonlover (2002) 53% EDIT “A film so chic you should see it right now, because it will start looking dated sometime next week.” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2003 Full Review Alice and Martin (1998) 64% EDIT “Its mystery resonates long after the film ends.” – culturevulture.net Sep 7, 2003 Full Review The Magdalene Sisters (2002) 91% EDIT “'The Magdalene Sisters' suggests Dickens as reimagined by Kafka.” – culturevulture.net Aug 1, 2003 Full Review Death Is a Woman (1967) 82% EDIT “There's more vitality, more reckless love of the cinema, in any one scene than in a dozen current films.” – culturevulture.net Jul 3, 2003 Full Review Hulk (2003) 63% EDIT “Clever, formally inventive and so respectful of its source material that it's dead on the screen” – culturevulture.net Jun 19, 2003 Full Review Cremaster 3 (2002) 63% EDIT “Awesome work: ineffable, elusive, yet inexplicably powerful” – culturevulture.net Apr 29, 2003 Full Review Dark Blue (2002) 58% EDIT “A good cop movie that hints at how much more it could have been.” – culturevulture.net Feb 25, 2003 Full Review Gangs of New York (2002) 72% EDIT “Scorsese's best fiction film since Goodfellas.” – culturevulture.net Dec 23, 2002 Full Review The Truth About Charlie (2002) 35% EDIT “For all its inventiveness, The Truth About Charlie is less a good movie than a good idea for one.” – culturevulture.net Oct 25, 2002 Full Review In Praise of Love (2001) 54% EDIT “Godard has pared down his extravagances into a densely concentrated, resonant simplicity.” – culturevulture.net Sep 5, 2002 Full Review The Bourne Identity (2002) 84% EDIT “State of the art Hollywood genre filmmaking: impersonal, efficient and exciting.” – culturevulture.net Jun 14, 2002 Full Review Time Out (2001) 95% EDIT “Recoing is an astonishing actor, capable of making scenes in which nothing at all happens mesmerizing.” – culturevulture.net Apr 16, 2002 Full Review The Others (2001) 84% EDIT “[Kidman's performance turns] Amenábar's simple genre piece into a suggestive fairy tale meditation on mothers and their children.” – culturevulture.net Apr 2, 2002 Full Review Y tu mamá también (2001) 90% EDIT “There's real power in the way Y Tu Mama Tambien works within the most pandering and trivial of genres, accepting its conventions before exploding them, moving from flatulence jokes to a final act that's by turns shocking and devastating.” – culturevulture.net Mar 14, 2002 Full Review The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 81% EDIT “Miraculous, the richest, most exciting work to appear in the American cinema in years.” – culturevulture.net Dec 14, 2001 Full Review No Man's Land (2001) 93% EDIT “'Who's On First?' in a corpse-riddled trench, with moral culpability for a genocidal civil war rather than the identity of a first baseman as the punchline. A staggering debut.” – culturevulture.net Dec 7, 2001 Full Review Donnie Darko (2001) 88% EDIT “Unsettling and audacious, Richard Kelly's debut feature Donnie Darko is, without question, this year's best apocalyptic time travel movie featuring a malevolent giant bunny.” – culturevulture.net Nov 26, 2001 Full Review Life as a House (2001) 47% EDIT “Life as a House is a very well-made film, but the fussy perfectionism of its makers all but snuffs the life out of it.” – culturevulture.net Oct 29, 2001 Full Review My Voyage to Italy (1999) 100% EDIT “A love letter...to the movies...passionate, reckless and beautiful.” – culturevulture.net Oct 22, 2001 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More