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Ian Grey

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

Las Vegas Weekly film critic.

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Becoming Jane (2007) 58% 2/5 EDIT “The film's notion of Austen's great works being nothing loftier than the result of failed puppy love suggests the filmmakers perversely believe that gross oversimplification is a virtue.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 9, 2007 Full Review Talk to Me (2007) 82% 3/5 EDIT “In Talk to Me, director Kasi Lemmons has expertly crafted an uplifting civil rights-era biopic free of false hope and cloying nostalgia.” – Orlando Weekly Jul 26, 2007 Full Review Rescue Dawn (2007) 90% 3/5 EDIT “So here we are, mired in a stupid, loathsome war, and what does Werner Herzog do? He creates an absolutely riveting sort-of love letter to America that takes place during that last stupid, loathsome U.S. war, Vietnam.” – Baltimore City Paper Jul 26, 2007 Full Review The Hoax (2006) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “This lie-streaked retelling of a fraud aims not for the meta, but for history-repeating object lesson, explicitly drawing parallels between Irving and Nixon's cons and our current hoax-based regime. But it all rings hollow.” – Orlando Weekly Apr 5, 2007 Full Review The Host (2006) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Alternately scary, funny and inspiring, Bong Joon-ho's first-class monster mash is also a scalding rebuke to U.S. interventionism, profiteering and general developing-world opportunism, and a lovely story of familial bonding. In a word, amazing.” – Baltimore City Paper Mar 24, 2007 Full Review Amazing Grace (2006) 68% 2/5 EDIT “It's a good story, but director Michael Apted can't help but fall into the usual cinematic habits of the hagiographic species.” – Orlando Weekly Feb 22, 2007 Full Review Sherrybaby (2006) 76% EDIT “Watching Maggie Gyllenhaal's bare body and battered soul in Laurie Collyer's quietly extraordinary Sherrybaby, you almost get a sense that the actress knows the load that was her star-making turn in Secretary ...” – Orlando Weekly Jan 18, 2007 Full Review The Good German (2006) 34% 2/5 EDIT “The Good German is a self-serving act of fetishistic virtual embalming, with all the liveliness that description implies.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 21, 2006 Full Review Shut Up and Sing (2006) 89% 4/5 EDIT “While Shut Up works great as music doc, progressive pep rally and neo-Capra triumph tale, it's even better as a bighearted tale of the love between three extraordinary women.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 7, 2006 Full Review Bobby (2006) 47% 1.5/5 EDIT “Terrible, uninformative and embarrassingly amateurish in word and lensing.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 23, 2006 Full Review The Science of Sleep (2006) 71% 2/5 EDIT “A cloying confection of candied whimsy and exclusive self-referentiality.” – Baltimore City Paper Sep 28, 2006 Full Review Factotum (2005) 74% 2/5 EDIT “... when taking Bukowski at his sodden solipsistic word, there isn't much there there.” – Orlando Weekly Sep 12, 2006 Full Review World Trade Center (2006) 66% 1/5 EDIT “In the end, all Stone really seems to be up to is using Sept. 11 to again mourn the loss of mythical white American innocence for what one assumes will be a predominantly white Boomer audience. And no doubt turning a pretty penny doing it.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 10, 2006 Full Review The Descent (2005) 87% 2/4 EDIT “Aside from its high concept -- instead of Snakes on a Plane, it's Chicks in a Cave (with monsters!) -- place-setting is almost all Marshall does.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 3, 2006 Full Review Why We Fight (2005) 78% EDIT “If the inducement of despair and disgust is an indicator of artistic achievement, Why We Fight is incredibly successful.” – Baltimore City Paper Jul 20, 2006 Full Review A Scanner Darkly (2006) 68% 4/5 EDIT “Writer/director Richard Linklater's superbly entertaining/disturbing adaptation of Dick's A Scanner Darkly accomplishes the near-impossible ...” – Las Vegas Weekly Jul 14, 2006 Full Review An Inconvenient Truth (2006) 93% 4/5 EDIT “In a way, Truth is almost critic-proof.” – Las Vegas Weekly Jun 19, 2006 Full Review The Proposition (2005) 86% EDIT “As directed by music video vet John Hillcoat, Cave's vision of 1880s Australia as outlaw inferno becomes an unforgettable exposed raw nerve of a film.” – Orlando Weekly Jun 8, 2006 Full Review Brick (2005) 79% 2/5 EDIT “You can't fault Johnson for a lack of honest genre love, but his forced formalism ... achieves little other than to keep us at a drama-neutering distance.” – Las Vegas Weekly Jun 6, 2006 Full Review The Omen (2006) 26% 1/5 EDIT “[John Moore's] work here is -- how to put it politely? -- godawful, an alternating mess of broods and gnashing of teeth.” – Las Vegas Weekly Jun 6, 2006 Full Review L'Enfant (2005) 84% EDIT “If it's possible for cinema to be so invisible as to allow us to actually see inside characters -- to be, in short, literary -- this is it.” – Baltimore City Paper May 18, 2006 Full Review 16 Blocks (2006) 55% EDIT “A limp, lazy exercise in nostalgia for the buddy genre that director Richard Donner helped define in the '80s.” – Orlando Weekly Mar 2, 2006 Full Review Underworld: Evolution (2006) 17% EDIT “True to its title, Underworld: Evolution represents a modest learning curve for director Len Wiseman, who advances from the inept awfulness of his first vampire-versus-werewolf idiocy to the determined mediocrity of this incomprehensible follow-up.” – Orlando Weekly Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Breakfast on Pluto (2005) 58% EDIT “In short, the director has finally found material - - Patrick McCabe's novel, which Jordan adapted - - that unifies his obsessions with politics, the Troubles and the dangerous fragility of machismo.” – Baltimore City Paper Jan 6, 2006 Full Review Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 88% EDIT “Newell not only does Harry Potter right but eclipses the scope, scares and drama of his J.K. Rowling source novel.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 6, 2005 Full Review
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