Tom Block
Tom Block's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) |
...it could've %u2014 should've %u2014 been [Peckinpah's] third or fourth masterpiece (that depends on who's doing the counting), and the movie he'd been building towards his entire career. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Nov 19, 2006
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California Split (1974) |
...the big thing holding back American movies is that they aren't more like California Split. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Nov 19, 2006
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967) |
An extravagantly plotted epic propelled by waves of free-flowing emotion and a palpable love for the American past - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jul 04, 2003
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A Decade Under the Influence (2003) |
A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film - culturevulture.net
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| Posted May 25, 2003
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Blood Simple (1984) |
The Coens' trademark aloofness works to perfection in Blood Simple because only the audience has a bird's eye view of the action. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Apr 08, 2003
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Hart's War (2002) |
A solid film...but more conscientious than it is truly stirring. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Feb 14, 2002
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Birthday Girl (2001) |
A keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jan 31, 2002
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Final (2001) |
A lifeless vacuum. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jan 18, 2002
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Impostor (2001) |
What 'Blade Runner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a UHF channel. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jan 03, 2002
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Monster's Ball (2001) |
an Oprah-mistic movie in which people overcome a lifetime's worth of bad habits by 'opening up.' - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Dec 25, 2001
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Ocean's Eleven (2001) |
The man who helped spark the indie revolution is now making pictures that bow and scrape before the most depleted Hollywood conventions. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Dec 07, 2001
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
A celestial alignment of man, medium, and material. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Nov 19, 2001
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Novocaine (2001) |
a comically mordant tone that's all its own - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Nov 19, 2001
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000) |
Frank Hurley's images by themselves make 'The Endurance' worth seeing. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 04, 2001
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Joy Ride (2001) |
...begins evaporating in your mind before it's even over. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 04, 2001
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My Son the Fanatic (1998) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Show Me Love (1998) |
...a warm coming-of-age story that happens to be a coming-out story. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Broken Vessels (1998) |
weighted down by conventional morality and predictable storytelling - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Following (1998) |
...offers more pleasure as a jigsaw puzzle than it does as a movie. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Arlington Road (1999) |
...could have been a superb dark fantasy, but takes its own malarkey seriously. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
...more rewarding to analyze than it is to see. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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The Haunting (1999) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
...the movie isn't half as diabolical as its marketing plan. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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The Minus Man (1999) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Last Night (1998) |
...a no-frills but convincing execution of the end of the world. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Get Bruce! (1999) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Three Kings (1999) |
After wooing the likes of Hawks, Peckinpah, and Pontecorvo, 'Three Kings' decides in the end to go steady with Ron Howard. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) |
...probes at our moral and psychological blind spots, at the limited and self-reinforcing nature of our vision. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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The Third Miracle (1999) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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The Good Girls (1960) |
...puts a universal face on lives of noisy desperation - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Mifune (1999) |
'Rain Man' without all the bull. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Not One Less (1999) |
The best film released in America so far this year. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Orphans (1998) |
...a kitchen-sink drama that's full of old dishwater. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Beyond the Mat (1999) |
Blaustein and his film have at least put a human face on those monstrous countenances that snarl out from our television sets on Saturday afternoons. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Treasure Island (1999) |
...all of the bad things that make up what we call 'independent film.' - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Southpaw: The Francis Barrett Story (1999) |
...sane and modest. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Human Traffic (1999) |
...the get-on-and-get-off attitude of a two-minute pop-song. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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The Big Kahuna (1999) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Gladiator (2000) |
Despite being a mainstream action picture with big-budget special effects, it has the gall to moralize about the effects of escapism on an unthinking citizenry. Gladiator is a two-ring circus that fails as entertainment and stinks as a sermon. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Miss Simpson (2000) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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8 1/2 Women (1999) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Rififi (1955) |
...a movie that sticks to your ribs. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Legong, Dance of the Virgins (1935) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Entrapment (1999) |
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| Posted Sep 18, 2001
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Rock Star (2001) |
...quirky, raucous, and mostly winning - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 07, 2001
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Happy Accidents (2000) |
a charming, and occasionally eerie, demonstration of how far a little conviction can take a movie. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Aug 21, 2001
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Seven Samurai (1954) |
Akira Kurosawa captures the convulsive feeling of being alive and crams it inside a single movie. Seven Samurai is The Portable World. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Aug 05, 2001
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Planet of the Apes (2001) |
Cheesy but not much fun, and it never reaches the level of pulp poetry. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jul 27, 2001
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The Score (2001) |
affable but disastrously clichd - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jul 12, 2001
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