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      FilmJerk.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Brian Orndorf, Edward Havens.

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      Rating Title | Year Author Quote
      B-
      		New York Ninja (2021) Edward Havens New York Ninja is one of those bad movies that's just bad enough to actually be entertaining.
      Posted Nov 04, 2021
      B-
      		Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Edward Havens Wonder Woman 1984 is not as entertaining or satisfying as its predecessor was in the summer of 2017, it's a good but flawed film that deserves better considerations.
      Posted Jan 25, 2021
      B+
      		Promising Young Woman (2020) Edward Havens There is so much to recommend about this film. I just wish the ending matched the quality of the rest of the film.
      Posted Dec 30, 2020
      A
      		Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020) Edward Havens The high-concept pitch for this movie would be to imagine Dominic Toretto from The Fast and the Furious series was dropped into Mad Max: Fury Road, which itself was dropped into World War Z.
      Posted Aug 21, 2020
      B
      		Cut Throat City (2020) Edward Havens With this third feature, RZA has grown more assured as a filmmaker.
      Posted Aug 21, 2020
      A
      		Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band (2019) Edward Havens This movie, and the band it covers, has affected me. My mind is racing with so many concepts, my heart and my soul overflowing with conflicted emotions.
      Posted Feb 22, 2020
      B+
      		Buffaloed (2019) Edward Havens It's a pleasant enough distraction in a world overloaded with unpleasantness. And, sometimes, a pleasant enough distraction is good enough.
      Posted Feb 19, 2020
      A
      		Crying Fist (2005) Edward Havens While boxing movies are a dime a dozen, those with this kind of true emotional involvement do not come around all that often.
      Posted Feb 11, 2020
      A-
      		VHYes (2019) Edward Havens Weird and creepy and funny and an exceptional social commentary on our society.
      Posted Jan 17, 2020
      B
      		Ma (2019) Brian Orndorf Spencer makes it her personal mission to become a cult nightmare figure for genre fanatics, delivering a wonderfully unhinged performance that Tate returns to whenever he runs into storytelling trouble.
      Posted May 30, 2019
      A
      		Carmine Street Guitars (2018) Edward Havens Carmine Street Guitars is, essentially, about pure love. A pure love of a craft. A pure love of the music, and a pure love a city. A pure love of creation.
      Posted Apr 23, 2019
      A-
      		The Burial of Kojo (2018) Edward Havens Like Coltrane or Brubeck, whose compositions were regularly equally tightly structured and wildly improvisational, playing with the conventions of what you expect from a certain genre.
      Posted Apr 08, 2019
      		The Hero (2017) Edward Havens Watching Sam Elliott work [...] has been one of the great joys of entertainment, and never has he had a role quite like Lee Hayden, leading a movie quite like "The Hero."
      Posted Feb 10, 2019
      B-
      		The Other Side of the Wind (2018) Edward Havens 'So, how was it?' my wife asked when I called her after the screening ended. 'There's a lot to unpack,' was the only reply I could think of at that moment.
      Posted Oct 31, 2018
      A+
      		BlacKkKlansman (2018) Edward Havens BlacKKKlansman, after 21 feature films and 11 documentaries, is the film that shows what he's learned after thirty plus years behind the camera. BlacKKKlansman is the film Spike Lee was destined to make.
      Posted Aug 08, 2018
      A
      		RBG (2018) Edward Havens One's enjoyment of the new documentary "RBG" will probably be gauged by how well you know the titular subject.
      Posted May 03, 2018
      B+
      		The Last Movie Star (2017) Edward Havens When you've got "it", you've probably got it forever... [E]very once in a while, you might get offered something that will remind everyone that you still got it.
      Posted Mar 27, 2018
      C-
      		The Female Brain (2017) Edward Havens Whitney Cummings is funny as hell. Usually.
      Posted Feb 06, 2018
      B-
      		Overdrive (2017) Edward Havens While not a great movie, was quite a bit of fun, and better than any of the "Fast and Furious" movies they've been making for the past decade.
      Posted Oct 30, 2017
      D+
      		Literally, Right Before Aaron (2017) Edward Havens Somewhere, down the line, some young would-be filmmaker will stumble on to this film on Netflix, see how something like this could get financed, and will become inspired to make their own movie for all the wrong reasons.
      Posted Sep 29, 2017
      D+
      		Landline (2017) Edward Havens Let's face facts: no one really has a longing melancholy for the days of Blockbuster Video stores and eyebrow rings and Lorena Bobbett roller blades and slam poetry right now.
      Posted Jul 13, 2017
      A
      		Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016) Edward Havens A beautiful love letter to the movies and the people who help make them even more beautiful.
      Posted May 05, 2017
      A+
      		Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008) Edward Havens Mary Pickford: Muse of the Movies deserves to be put on the list of not just the best documentaries about cinema but the greatest movies about the movies ever.
      Posted May 02, 2016
      A+
      		The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014) Edward Havens Is to baseball what "Slap Shot" was to hockey.
      Posted Jul 10, 2014
      A+
      		Life Itself (2014) Edward Havens I find myself borrowing from Ebert to call "Life Itself" one of the best films about an American life I could ever see.
      Posted Jun 30, 2014
      C
      		Dinotasia (2012) Edward Havens Plays like a series of cut-scenes from a 1997 PlayStation game.
      Posted Nov 05, 2012
      C
      		Bronson (2008) Edward Havens
      Posted Nov 04, 2010
      D+
      		The Freebie (2010) Edward Havens
      Posted Oct 29, 2010
      A
      		Gilda Live (1980) Edward Havens To have another ninety minutes of Lisa Loopner and Emily Litella, with Judy Miller and Roseanne Roseannadanna and Candy Slice is a joy.
      Posted Nov 21, 2009
      D
      		2012 (2009) Edward Havens Why does Roland Emmerich enjoy killing off humanity?
      Posted Nov 13, 2009
      C
      		Trick 'r Treat (2007) Edward Havens What keeps "Trick" from attaining its lofty "Creepshow" aspirations is the lack of conflict and resolution.
      Posted Oct 29, 2009
      D+
      		Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) Edward Havens There's only going to be two camps concerning [This Is It]: those who will absolutely love it and those who wouldn't go to see it except under penalty of death.
      Posted Oct 27, 2009
      C+
      		Taking Woodstock (2009) Edward Havens There is a great movie within Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock."
      Posted Aug 25, 2009
      A-
      		Inglourious Basterds (2009) Edward Havens Amongst all the filmmakers working today, no one inspires more passionate discussion, debate and analysis than Quentin Tarantino.
      Posted Aug 21, 2009
      A+
      		It Might Get Loud (2008) Edward Havens I apologize this is more a mash note than critical analysis.
      Posted Aug 14, 2009
      A-
      		Cold Souls (2009) Edward Havens The easiest, and laziest, way to describe the new movie "Cold Souls" is to compare it to "Being John Malkovich."
      Posted Aug 06, 2009
      A
      		Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) Edward Havens If the thought of a new Brian Trenchard-Smith movie is more exhilarating than a new Bryan Singer movie... then Mark Hartley's "Not Quite Hollywood" is the film for you.
      Posted Jul 30, 2009
      F
      		Loren Cass (2006) Edward Havens We're presented a small slice of life with a group of wasted teens, expected to consider this to be somehow artistic and asked to be sympathetic for their malaise.
      Posted Jul 28, 2009
      A-
      		ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009) Edward Havens Has the potential to become a minor hit on the midnight film circuit with the help of a mid-level indie distributor.
      Posted Jul 22, 2009
      D
      		Humpday (2009) Edward Havens Sadly, the most interesting characters in "Humpday" are not the main focuses of the story.
      Posted Jul 10, 2009
      A
      		The Hurt Locker (2008) Edward Havens Bigelow has successfully built a vision of war rarely seen on screen, a visceral nearly first person perspective of war where the rush of combat is a welcomed relief.
      Posted Jun 25, 2009
      A+
      		Away We Go (2009) Edward Havens For my money, the new dramatic comedy "Away We Go" is the first serious contender for Best Picture of the Year consideration.
      Posted May 28, 2009
      B+
      		Management (2008) Edward Havens To be completely honest, I was ready to walk out of the new Jennifer Aniston movie "Management" after ten minutes.
      Posted May 15, 2009
      B+
      		Rudo y Cursi (2008) Edward Havens Anyone who has spent any time watching movies about competitive brothers playing the same sport for different teams knows where all this is going to lead
      Posted May 14, 2009
      C
      		Outrage (2009) Edward Havens I'm guessing "Outrage" ultimately is meant to continue the discussion about equal rights for gay Americans, and in that sense the film does succeed.
      Posted May 08, 2009
      F
      		All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) Edward Havens Dumb kids doing dumb things for dumb reasons.
      Posted May 06, 2009
      A
      		Official Rejection (2009) Edward Havens Can a little documentary about the less popular film festivals find a patron to give it the chance to find an audience?
      Posted Apr 30, 2009
      D+
      		The Spirit (2008) Edward Havens More interested in being a technical marvel than a coherent story.
      Posted Apr 29, 2009
      A-
      		Adventureland (2009) Edward Havens Sometimes, a critic is going to connect with a movie, even one they can admit has some major problems, because it so mirrors their own expereinces.
      Posted Apr 03, 2009
      A-
      		Fanboys (2008) Edward Havens Probably the closest thing my generation will get to having its own "Diner"
      Posted Feb 06, 2009
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