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Tim Merrill

Tim Merrill's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Martyrs (2008) 66% 5/5 EDIT “You will either despise what you've experienced or support Pascal Laugier in creating a masterpiece that transcends the genre and leaves the viewer drained and breathless.” – Dread Central Sep 5, 2008 Full Review Happy Here and Now (2002) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Almereyda is tripped up by this grab at cosmic profundity, and lands in a sticky puddle of pretension.” – Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Garden State (2004) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “While Braff's script may suffer from long-windedness, his direction -- of both cast and camera -- is so confident that this debut could well mark the start of a major career.” – Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 Full Review DIG! (2004) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Newcombe is clearly as troubled as he is talented, maybe more.” – Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 Full Review The Quiet American (2002) 87% 4/5 EDIT “As a piece of acting, The Quiet American represents a fitting capper to Caine's illustrious career; his portrait of a jaded sybarite whom history nudges into conscientious action is among the year's most moving.” – Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 Full Review The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Wes Anderson simply has a unique way of looking at the world, and through him the ridiculous is made sublime. He has a hell of a distinctive style for someone his age. It would appear he might even be some kind of goddamn genius himself.” – Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Far From Heaven (2002) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “Moore is simply...wonderful.” – Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Pieces of April (2003) 83% 4.5/5 EDIT “A film to savor and to be thankful for.” – Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004) 89% 4.5/5 EDIT “A riveting account of this demented and scarcely believable American story.” – Film Threat Nov 9, 2004 Full Review Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Everything you've heard: sad and funny, revealing and compelling, entertaining, devastating.” – Film Threat Jul 3, 2004 Full Review I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003) 46% 2.5/5 EDIT “It's dark, it's intelligent -- it's also humorless and a bit pretentious.” – Film Threat Jun 22, 2004 Full Review Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) 88% 4/5 EDIT “The result will stand as one of the most intense, in-depth, warts-and-all rockumentaries ever made -- VH1's Behind the Music cranked up to 11 and beyond.” – Film Threat May 18, 2004 Full Review Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Music fans of every stripe should kill to see this film, one of the very best music documentaries in recent years. Then, get thee to a record store.” – Film Threat Apr 17, 2004 Full Review Paranoia 1.0 (2004) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “A sci-fi thriller of uncommon creepiness, One Point 0 makes inventive use of a low budget, and clever story and a terrific cast.” – Film Threat Feb 18, 2004 Full Review Go Further (2003) 57% 4/5 EDIT “Generates laughs while teaching valuable lessons about how we can all, in small but significant ways, make the choice to 'leave a light footprint' on our imperiled planet Earth.” – Film Threat Nov 20, 2003 Full Review Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) 58% 3.5/5 EDIT “Gershon and her cohorts make it all swing.” – Film Threat Jul 16, 2003 Full Review Fulltime Killer (2001) 59% 2.5/5 EDIT “Is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo, double-pistoled, ballistic-pyrotechnic Hong Kong action aesthetic?” – Film Threat Mar 23, 2003 Full Review The Station Agent (2003) 94% 4/5 EDIT “It is about treasuring life -- sometimes even cheating death -- and it manages to warm hearts in its own uncompromising way, rarely cheating and never belittling.” – Film Threat Feb 26, 2003 Full Review The Weather Underground (2003) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Green and Siegel have crafted a breathtaking portrait of one chapter of the '60s story that hasn't been done to death.” – Film Threat Feb 19, 2003 Full Review Irréversible (2002) 60% 0/5 EDIT “No 'star rating' has been applied above because conventional indications of 'good' or 'bad' simply do not apply to this film.” – Film Threat Feb 3, 2003 Full Review All the Real Girls (2003) 72% 2.5/5 EDIT “Rather than tying together into a satisfying whole, the fragments seem to fly off in any number of directions, and a sweet, simple tale of young love dissolves into a mishmash.” – Film Threat Jan 21, 2003 Full Review Smokers Only (2001) 15% 1/5 EDIT “Humorless, self-conscious art drivel, made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention.” – Film Threat Jan 8, 2003 Full Review Intact (2001) 73% 3.5/5 EDIT “A genuine mind-bender.” – Film Threat Dec 16, 2002 Full Review Quitting (2001) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “Quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor.” – Film Threat Dec 16, 2002 Full Review May (2002) 70% 4/5 EDIT “Shivery and seductive, May is a delicious little creepathon.” – Film Threat Dec 8, 2002 Full Review
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