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Ned Martel

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New York Times contributor.

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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009) 83% EDIT “The project might all be an exploitative departure from the ''Battlestar Galactica'' brand name, but it's hard not to like where the spacemen (and spacewomen) are going.” – New York Times Sep 5, 2018 Full Review Doogal (2006) 9% 1/5 EDIT “In Doogal, setting the world right again involves a badly paced quest for three diamonds, assorted jokes that don't land, and a daringly incoherent climactic confrontation.” – New York Times Feb 27, 2006 Full Review Doom (2005) 18% 1/5 EDIT “In this formulaic, claustrophobic shoot'em-up, based on a video game, soldiers quell a mutant uprising on Mars.” – New York Times Oct 20, 2005 Full Review A Tale of Two Pizzas (2003) 38% 2/5 EDIT “Amid all the discussion of crust and sauce and the proper consistency of each, A Tale of Two Pizzas lays on the cheese way too thick.” – New York Times Oct 6, 2005 Full Review The Aggressives (2005) 92% 4.5/5 EDIT “A novel, accomplished documentary about a subset of New York City lesbians.” – New York Times Oct 6, 2005 Full Review The War Within (2005) 71% 2.5/5 EDIT “The War Within succeeds only as a thriller with some wartime overtones, rather than as a character study that thrills.” – New York Times Sep 30, 2005 Full Review Little Manhattan (2005) 77% 4.5/5 EDIT “This small-scale, perfectly acted family film listens in on all the doubts and desires of an 11-year-old as he confronts new feelings about a girl he has known practically all his life.” – New York Times Sep 30, 2005 Full Review Dorian Blues (2005) 60% 3/5 EDIT “Dorian Blues fits tidily into a genre of first-time films in which the main gay character comes of age and out of the closet.” – New York Times Sep 23, 2005 Full Review Cry Wolf (2005) 21% 2/5 EDIT “In this adolescent horror flick, the first-time screenwriters Jeff Wadlow and Beau Bauman prove more adept at staging mind games than creating chills for the audience.” – New York Times Sep 19, 2005 Full Review One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern (2005) 82% 2/5 EDIT “A wan but well-researched apotheosis of the former senator from South Dakota.” – New York Times Sep 16, 2005 Full Review Below the Belt (2004) 0% 2/5 EDIT “None of the three principal actors are unskilled, and they somehow don't lose on-screen energy, even as it's sapped from the audience.” – New York Times Sep 16, 2005 Full Review The Thing About My Folks (2005) 44% 2/5 EDIT “The Thing About My Folks is Paul Reiser's return to playing Paul Reiser.” – New York Times Sep 16, 2005 Full Review William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) 89% 4/5 EDIT “In this sublimely bleak documentary, the photographer William Eggleston allows the video camera to follow him on a shoot in Mayfield, Ky.” – New York Times Aug 31, 2005 Full Review King of the Corner (2004) 71% 2/5 EDIT “Mr. Riegert has assembled a capable cast with too little to do or say in this dry, crumbly, barely nourishing tale of intergenerational woe.” – New York Times Aug 27, 2005 Full Review We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) 94% 3/5 EDIT “The spiky documentary in their honor keeps alive the echoes of their slapdash, Smithsonian-worthy sound.” – New York Times Aug 25, 2005 Full Review Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) 9% .5/5 EDIT “In his 1999 debut, Deuce Bigalow emerged as a shameless beach bum, driving a clunker in a land of Porsche Cayennes, cleaning the scum from the fish tanks of the rich and famous.” – New York Times Aug 12, 2005 Full Review Slutty Summer (2004) 11% 1.5/5 EDIT “The film is a labor of love for Casper Andreas, who wrote, directed and starred in this first feature. For the actors he has chosen, it's a labor of lust, with copious necking and grappling required. For the audience, it's just a labor.” – New York Times Jun 13, 2005 Full Review Bustin' Bonaparte (2004) 3/5 EDIT “As a film geared toward children, Bustin' Bonaparte meets its main requirements: it adapts a classic novel in gleaming cinematic form, and it ridicules the foibles of ruthless adults.” – New York Times Jun 3, 2005 Full Review Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003) 38% 1.5/5 EDIT “Allan Mindel is too taken with a Midwestern strain of weirdos who flounder in ramshackle houses, no-tell hotels and depressing juke joints.” – New York Times Jun 3, 2005 Full Review A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2004) 91% 2.5/5 EDIT “This affectionate though unconvincing documentary struggles to present professional bowling as a simpler, nobler pastime from a simpler, nobler time.” – New York Times May 26, 2005 Full Review A Man's Gotta Do (2004) 0% 1.5/5 EDIT “In this seasick, heartsick romp, a suburban Australian family struggles with love, loyalty and a fear that the patriarch is making his mortal enemies disappear.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Fighting Tommy Riley (2004) 63% 3/5 EDIT “In Fighting Tommy Riley, another boxing drama is asking audiences to gird themselves for more emotional gut punches.” – New York Times May 6, 2005 Full Review Wild Safari: A South African Adventure (2005) 82% 3.5/5 EDIT “This cinematic safari's simple pleasures are best experienced with the littlest ticket-holders.” – New York Times Apr 28, 2005 Full Review Raging Dove (2002) 80% 3/5 EDIT “This bruising but illuminating documentary considers how nationalism flattened one young, sure-footed boxer.” – New York Times Apr 13, 2005 Full Review David Hockney: The Color of Music (2005) 57% 2.5/5 EDIT “In a documentary that celebrates flourish, the artist David Hockney lets a filmmaker record how he assembles elaborate opera sets.” – New York Times Apr 6, 2005 Full Review
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