Joe Lozito
Tomatometer-approved critic
Big Picture Big Sound co-founder Joe Lozito has been a fan and critic of movies since a very early age. At the age of 10, he was keeping his movie ticket stubs in a photo album with what would later be called “capsule reviews” written underneath. Why he was seeing so many movies at that age is better left to the therapist’s couch. As Joe became more of an authority (in his own mind anyway) on film, he made the transition to online movie review publishing in 1998 in the form of joelozito.com. In 2005, that archive of material put the “Big Picture” in Big Picture Big Sound. Joe has also dabbled in music and acting in New York City and has, like most critics, a screenplay or two in his back pocket. When he’s not staring at a screen in a darkened room, Joe enjoys playing guitar, karate, golf and scuba diving. However, he mostly watches movies. Mostly.
The Godfather (1972) Casablanca (1942) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Star Wars (1977) Jaws (1975)
New York, NY
Movies reviews only
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Van Helsing (2004) |
Van Helsing itself is an unholy mix of exhumed ideas from a generation of monster movies. Unlike the monster, though, it never comes to life. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Oct 31, 2018
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The Others (2001) |
Mr. Amenábar, who not only wrote and directed but also composed the score for the film, masterfully creates and atmosphere of suffocating repression. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Oct 29, 2018
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) |
I'll cut to the chase: yes, it lives up to the hype. J.J. Abrams has created a film that stays true to the original series while updating it for a new generation. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Dec 18, 2015
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Steve Jobs (2015) |
An ingenious structure and Aaron Sorkin's typically sharp dialogue elevate this exploration of the Apple icon beyond the standard biopic. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Oct 08, 2015
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The Martian (2015) |
If you enjoyed Andy Weir's exceedingly detailed novel, you'll certainly appreciate seeing it brought to the screen in all its geek glory. It's like science porn. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Sep 29, 2015
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Straight Outta Compton (2015) |
This biopic doesn't come close to matching the impact of the titular album, but the material is so riveting that it's nearly enough. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Aug 14, 2015
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Entourage (2015) |
An almost perfect recreation of the HBO series - just a little bigger, longer and more desperate to justify its existence. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jun 02, 2015
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) |
With Marvel's universe expanding and intertwining at an ever increasing rate, "Age of Ultron" feels less like a sequel than a cosmic event. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Apr 30, 2015
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) |
Rarely has a final battle been so anticlimactic (or padding been so apparent). - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Dec 16, 2014
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Interstellar (2014) |
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic is a beautiful, ambitious, ultimately flawed film about nothing less than the survival of the human race. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Nov 06, 2014
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Snowpiercer (2013) |
If you can buy the premise of this Bong Joon-ho graphic novel adaptation, you're in for a good ride. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jul 06, 2014
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Godzilla (2014) |
Ambitious and reverent reboot may not manage to satisfy either purists or modern moviegoing audiences. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted May 16, 2014
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) |
The first sequel in this prematurely rebooted franchise is freed from the shackles of the origin story but still exists in the shadow of the Raimi movies. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted May 01, 2014
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) |
The First Avenger's second outing is a third-rate conspiracy thriller, but Chris Evans and company give it their all. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Apr 03, 2014
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) |
This second "Hobbit" film is a worthy entry in the Jackson/Tolkien canon. But after almost three hours in the theater, having a incomplete story feels like a cheat. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Dec 12, 2013
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Gravity (2013) |
If you can get past the heartstring-tugging, the amped up soundtrack, and George Clooney's relentless Clooneyness, this stunning space saga is the very reason we go to the movies. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Oct 03, 2013
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Riddick (2013) |
As you're watching this third Riddick installment, you can actually feel the character's potential being wasted, along with precious minutes of your time. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Sep 05, 2013
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Europa Report (2013) |
Beautifully-crafted sci-fi entry in the "found footage" genre is both as wondrous and monotonous as deep space travel. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Aug 02, 2013
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The Wolverine (2013) |
This second attempt to bring the "X-Men" character to a solo franchise moves along at a brisk clip but never finds its footing as either a brooding return to graphic novel form or a rousing actioner. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jul 25, 2013
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Man of Steel (2013) |
Zack Snyder's epic adaptation gives this generation a Superman movie to call its own. Call it "Superman Begins". - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jun 13, 2013
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This Is the End (2013) |
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel high. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jun 11, 2013
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The Hangover Part III (2013) |
This (fingers crossed) final installment of the stillborn franchise is as bleakly unfunny and tone-deaf as its predecessors. It succeeds in only one thing: making you want to get drunk enough to forget you saw it. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted May 24, 2013
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
This ill-named sequel plays more like a transitional story than its own film. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted May 14, 2013
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The Great Gatsby (2013) |
Baz Luhrmann's delicious visuals struggle to enliven a fairly standard retelling of the Fitzgerald classic. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted May 09, 2013
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Iron Man 3 (2013) |
The third time's a charmer for this Marvel franchise, thanks to a clever script and, of course, its inimitable star. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted May 03, 2013
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
Making a prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" takes courage and brains. This one's got a little of both, but most of all it has heart. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Mar 06, 2013
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) |
This insultingly slap-dash sequel has as little relation to the original "Die Hard" as it does to logic and narrative coherence. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Feb 14, 2013
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Fanboys (2008) |
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| Posted Jan 22, 2013
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012) |
Kathryn Bigelow's painstaking account of the events that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden favors dramatization over character and suspense. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Dec 20, 2012
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
Get ready for a more heated debate than any election season. Is Peter Jackson's ambitious, overblown adaptation worth it, or is it a flagrant attempt to create a cash cow out of a children's book? The answer is yes. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Dec 13, 2012
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Hitchcock (2012) |
This slight biopic isn't as good as any of the master's films, but it's worth seeing for the performances by Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Nov 21, 2012
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Skyfall (2012) |
An obsession with age, and an underwhelming plot, has this 50th anniversary Bond installment showing its years. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Nov 08, 2012
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Flight (2012) |
A highly pedigreed Lifetime movie about a heroic pilot who's also a raging alcoholic. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Nov 01, 2012
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House at the End of the Street (2012) |
This convoluted psychological thriller unravels as it should be tightening. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Sep 21, 2012
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The Apparition (2012) |
The only thing scary about this DOA horror attempt is that it ever got made. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Aug 24, 2012
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ParaNorman (2012) |
Gleefully twisted fairytale about a small medium with large problems. If only the script were as deeply textured as the beautiful stop-motion animation. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Aug 17, 2012
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The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
Matt who? Jeremy Renner finally gets his due in this well-crafted and entirely satisfying entry in the sturdy spy franchise. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Aug 09, 2012
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The Campaign (2012) |
The comedic one-upmanship between Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis results in a raunchy political comedy that's also insightful almost in spite of itself. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Aug 09, 2012
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Total Recall (2012) |
You'll want to remember the sci-fi futurescape but forget the plot in this "Recall" reboot. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Aug 02, 2012
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The Watch (2012) |
This half-baked alien invasion comedy is just barely Watch-able. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jul 27, 2012
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
The epic, unwieldy conclusion to the "Dark Knight" trilogy is everything that made its predecessors great but it can't rise as high as the bar had been set. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jul 19, 2012
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Savages (2012) |
Despite a quick pace and a few flashes of brutal violence, Oliver Stone's narcotics thriller feels sanitized, like a drug that's been cut one too many times. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jul 05, 2012
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
It's a tribute to the enduring strength of the wall-crawling superhero that this redundant origin story is as good as it is. Well, that and Andrew Garfield's excellent performance as the title. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jul 02, 2012
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Ted (2012) |
This comedy of a boy and his talking bear - which plays like a long episode of "Family Guy" - is basically like watching Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg hanging out. Happily they're both pretty funny. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jun 28, 2012
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) |
In a movie that promises to be about little more than Abraham Lincoln and Vampire Hunting, having Mr. Walker deliver a performance that exceeds those expectations is -- to some small, ironic degree -- liberating. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Jun 22, 2012
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) |
Even the considerable imagination and investment on display here can't make this fairytale character - or Kristen Stewart - a viable movie star. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted May 31, 2012
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Marvel's the Avengers (2012) |
Joss Whedon's glossy, super-budgeted Marvel ensemble flick is the cinematic equivalent of comfort food. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted May 02, 2012
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The Raven (2012) |
Part "Seven", part "From Hell", part "Sherlock Holmes", but despite its contrivances there are enough clever nods in the script to keep it interesting. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Apr 26, 2012
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The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
Paper-thin romantic-comedy succeeds entirely on the extreme cuteness of its two stars. - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Apr 25, 2012
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American Reunion (2012) |
If you've been wondering what the "American Pie" gang has been up to for the past nine years, this is the movie for you. If not, why are you still reading? - Big Picture Big Sound
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| Posted Apr 05, 2012
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