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JAMES CHRISTOPHER
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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 Battle of Algiers
5/6 Notes on a Scandal
4/5 The Passion of the Christ
3/5 Gothika
2/4 Ghost Rider
2/5 Big Fish
1/5 The Punisher
0/5 Sex Lives of the Potato Men
4 Iron Man
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 The Seventh Seal
5/5 Battle of Algiers
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 Sex Lives of the Potato Men
1/5 Street Kings
1/5 Fool's Gold
1/5 Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
1/5 Alvin and the Chipmunks
1/5 The Seeker
1/5 The Nanny Diaries
1/5 Dead Silence
1/5 Hostel: Part II
1/5 The Breed
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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4/5
 
"For once, the artful nods to Huxley, Kubrick and Philip K. Dick are not the preserve of trainspotters." -- Times [UK]
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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4/5
 
"Welcome back Indy. Lord knows we’ve missed you." -- Times [UK]
Posted May 18, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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2/5
 
"I can’t begin to describe how creepy this futuristic movie is." -- Times [UK]
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Battle for Haditha (2008)63%
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4
 
"Iron Man is the first blockbuster movie of the summer, and, despite the topical Taleban atrocities, it’s a roaring fairground ride." -- BBC
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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2/5
 
"Brilliantly acted but oppressively dour." -- Times [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Private Property (2006)69%
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1/5
 
"Depressing and sickeningly violent." -- Times [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)36%
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1/5
 
"A ghastly romantic comedy about a race to find a 17th-century Spanish wreck full of treasure. The film is completely dead behind the eyes." -- Times [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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3/5
 
"A wonderfully absurd film. McDonagh is never stuck for a brilliant kiss-off line. I doubt he’ll ever be stuck for an audience either." -- Times [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)80%
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4/5
 
"A delightful comedy that sinks its teeth into your heart with unexpected power." -- Times [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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2/5
 
"This parody is the divine joke: a heavenly reminder of how fabulously unfair real life is for the rest of us plain mortals." -- Times [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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3/5
 
"This film is fabulously deranged." -- Times [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
The Cottage (2008)71%
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4/5
 
"The way De Palma stitches this multimedia montage into a damning narrative is cinema at its angry and exhilarating best." -- Daily Mirror [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Redacted (2007)43%
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2/5
 
"The horror is toothily familiar." -- Times [UK]
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)61%
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2/5
 
"Ultimately we are meant to eat chocolates, admire their trembling lower lips, and choose sides." -- Times [UK]
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)42%
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1/5
 
"A mindless distraction." -- Times [UK]
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)14%
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2/5
 
"A dismal indulgence." -- Times [UK]
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)75%
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3/5
 
"The surreal comedy is that every tense twist of this secret war is horribly true." -- Times [UK]
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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4/5
 
"The intensity of the sex is far more honest and revealing than the secrets each lover tries to hide." -- Times [UK]
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Lust, Caution (2007)70%
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3/5
 
"Terrific performances by the two leads make this a far more rewarding film than the rigorous formality might suggest." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)67%
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4/5
 
"An enthralling piece of cinema." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)67%
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4/5
 
"One of the sexiest pieces of cinema I’ve seen at a festival." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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1/5
 
"It’s the kind of family entertainment that makes you reach for the shotgun." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)25%
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4/5
 
"Colin Firth’s humiliation is a thing of wonder. His entire career on screen and stage is beautifully sent up before our eyes." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
St. Trinian's (2007)41%
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3/5
 
"This is a lovely story for children under 14. Jason Bateman is the horrified and expensive plod who has to wind up Hoffman’s wild accounts. Portman is wonderful as the daffy heroine who needs to grow up and perhaps fall in love." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)36%
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3/5
 
"The always charismatic Phoenix is the highlight; he carries the film, rising above the occasionally uninspired dialogue and plotting to give a powerhouse turn as a man caught between ambition and duty." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
We Own The Night (2007)54%
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3/5
 
"This DreamWorks film is not the sliced-bread marvel it has spent an enormous amount of money pretending to be. But it must be said that Seinfeld’s script is a thing of wonder." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Bee Movie (2007)52%
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4/5
 
"Susan Sarandon is terrific as the Evil Queen; Timothy Spall pops up like a well-used wart; and James Marsden is the terrifically thick and handsome Prince." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Enchanted (2007)93%
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"The power of the film is the way it charts, indeed enacts, a man losing his grip on reality. 4/5" -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)34%
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4/5
 
"A deeply unnerving exposé." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
A Very British Gangster (2008)71%
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2/5
 
"An enormous scrap at the end, involving witches and warlocks, does little to illuminate, or leaven, this pudding." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)41%
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2/5
 
"The special effects are marvellous, but the magic is missing." -- Times [UK]
Posted Dec 5, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)41%
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4/5
 
"A total joy." -- Times [UK]
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
All About Eve (1950)100%
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4/5
 
"Andrew Dominik’s sensational film debags a cherished idol. Tyrone Power, Robert Wagner and Roy Rogers famously played Jesse James like Robin Hood. Brad Pitt plays him like a poisonous Mr Hyde." -- Times [UK]
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)75%
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4/5
 
"The film puts a delightful spin on that profound and solipsistic idea that we are the godlike inventors, and moral arbitrators, of our own little worlds. A gem." -- Times [UK]
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
The Nines (2007)68%
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3/5
 
"The performances are worryingly Method. Bale eats bowls of maggots. I had to look away when he tucked into a live snake." -- Times [UK]
Posted Nov 23, 2007
 
Rescue Dawn (2007)90%
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3/5
 
"The haystacks of cash and coke are laughably insane – as is the head-count: thousands of people were gunned to death. This is the only state in the world where Scarface might raise a smile." -- Times [UK]
Posted Nov 23, 2007
 
Cocaine Cowboys (2006)69%
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3/5
 
"This is the kind of intimate physicality that Pinter pumps into Shaffer’s script. But it will take a better director than Branagh to tease it into the real world." -- Times [UK]
Posted Nov 23, 2007
 
Sleuth (2007)35%
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3/5
 
"Visually his film looks stunning on a giant festival screen, but the links between characters and stories require large leaps of faith." -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 27, 2007
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)47%
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1/5
 
"The Dark is Rising is one of those awful sorcery tales where a spotty young boy (Alexander Ludwig) suddenly gets to save the Earth from supernatural creeps such as Christopher Eccleston." -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
The Seeker (2007)13%
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3/5
 
"Vaughn pays scant attention to the niceties of a well-told story and buries his shekels in a sparkling cast." -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Stardust (2007)76%
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2/5
 
"http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article2678874.ece" -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Rendition (2007)48%
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1/5
 
"The wholesome child-friendly lessons made me feel queasy." -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
The Nanny Diaries (2007)34%
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2/5
 
"Milla Jovovich reprises her tough-girl-in-sexy-thigh-boots role, and the survivors travel in Mad Max conveys up and down desert highways in search of fuel." -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)22%
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4/5
 
"Anton Ego, the restaurant critic of The Grim Eater, is one of the greatest performances of Peter O’Toole’s career." -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
Ratatouille (2007)95%
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3/5
 
"The disappointing upshot is that there is more calculated crudity than joie de vivre." -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)29%
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2/5
 
"A decade ago Morrison’s biography explored a grief that, I suspect unwittingly, indeed shockingly, exposed the shallow times. The film doesn’t cut the same mustard." -- Times [UK]
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)74%
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2/5
 
"The more this musical tried to look relevant, the more dated it felt." -- Times [UK]
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Across the Universe (2007)54%
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3/5
 
"Thornton is magnificent as the unrepentant monster." -- Times [UK]
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Mr. Woodcock (2007)13%
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4/5
 
"Gorgeous George is wonderfully jaundiced as Michael Clayton, an amoral corporate lawyer who has made his name by defending the indefensible." -- Times [UK]
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Michael Clayton (2007)91%

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