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JAY ANTANI
Jay Antani

PUBLICATION(S)
• Boxoffice Magazine
• Filmcritic.com
• I.E. Weekly
• Jaman
• Los Angeles Alternative
• Perihelion Journal
• Slant Magazine

BIOGRAPHY
Well, I like long walks and poetry and watching sunsets. No, seriously, I do like those things on occasion, but, generally, I like movies, discovering cool new stuff to read and music to listen to, hanging out with fun, stimulating, intelligent, open-minded humans (and cats). Philosophically, I like to think of myself as a work-in-progress.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 318
Total QuickRatings: 18

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Online Film Critics Society

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• Location: Los Feliz


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Knife in the Water
5/5 Nanking
4.5/5 The Ground Truth
3.5/4 Kiss of Death
4/5 Green for Danger
3/4 The King of Marvin Gardens
3.5/5 Old Joy
2.5/4 Man on the Train
3/5 Idiocracy
2/4 King Kong
2.5/5 Mouth to Mouth
2/5 Jesus Camp
1.5/4 The Manchurian Candidate
1.5/5 Noriko's Dinner Table
1/4 Twentynine Palms
1/5 The Marine
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 Nanking
4/4 Battle of Algiers
4/4 Zentropa
4/4 The Weather Underground
4/4 Together
4/4 Testament of Dr. Mabuse
4/4 Pather Panchali
4/4 Nights of Cabiria
4/4 Nanook of the North
4/4 Murderball
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WORST REVIEWED
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.5/4 Anatomy of Hell
.5/4 Shadowboxer
1/5 Bug
1/5 The Tripper
1/5 Race You to the Bottom
1/5 The Marine
1/5 Mail Order Wife
1/5 21 Grams
1/5 The Barbarian Invasions
1/4 Unaccompanied Minors
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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3/5
 
"can't decide how irreverent it wants to be, and settles for a neither-here-nor-there attitude that, luckily, scores with a few genuine laughs" -- Jaman
Posted May 4, 2008
 
Bart Got a Room (2008)100%
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2.5/5
 
"A tender cross-cultural love story that nearly founders under the weight of contrived polemics and Mideast politics" -- Jaman
Posted May 4, 2008
 
Strangers (2008)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"an impressive cross-cultural achievement for director-cinematographer Sivan" -- Jaman
Posted May 4, 2008
 
Before the Rains (2008)38%
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4/5
 
"an expertly witty, often hilarious gorefest" -- Jaman
Posted May 4, 2008
 
The Cottage (2008)73%
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3/5
 
"Let the Right One In wasn't my favorite movie at Tribeca 2008, but it's definitely the one that's stuck with me" -- Jaman
Posted May 4, 2008
 
Let Me In (2008)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"Brilliantly atmospheric, beautifully and lyrically made, Late Fragment might've been a strong movie even without the interactive element." -- Jaman
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Late Fragment (2008)n/a
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4/5
 
"beautifully shot, and shrewdly edited for maximum emotional impact" -- Jaman
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
They Killed Sister Dorothy (2008)100%
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4/5
 
"a rare and illuminating look at life on a Bollywood movie set" -- Jaman
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Shot in Bombay (2008)n/a
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2.5/5
 
"[a]neatly made but, ultimately, tepid high-school election documentary" -- Jaman
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Frontrunners (2008)n/a
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4/5
 
"fabulous" -- Jaman
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
The Matador (2008)n/a
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1.5/5
 
"A clumsy, witless, tedious trudge." -- Jaman
Posted Jan 30, 2008
 
Towelhead (2008)78%
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3/5
 
"a reasonably enjoyable, and very twisted romantic comedy" -- Jaman
Posted Jan 30, 2008
 
Choke (2008)88%
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2.5/5
 
"[a] thoroughly safe, slow-footed comedy" -- Jaman
Posted Jan 30, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)n/a
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3.5/4
 
"one of the year's most pleasing films, intelligently written and directed, and featuring a veteran actor giving the performance of his career" -- Perihelion Journal
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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3.5/4
 
"the style feels utterly organic...rigorous yet unforced, always giving the sense that this is not only the best way, but the only way, to tell this particular story." -- Perihelion Journal
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)94%
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3.5/4
 
"[Page] plays each moment without ego and with total candor, and that's ultimately the secret to Juno's success." -- Perihelion Journal
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Juno (2007)93%
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3/5
 
"entertaining, and that's about the extent of it." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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4/5
 
"a fascinating portrait of an underrepresented people, rich in humor, pathos and possible permutations" -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007)100%
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"An impressive achievement, one that combines terrific performances with a lovely storytelling style and themes and characters that actually matter." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Looking For Cheyenne (2007)n/a
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2/5
 
"Awake manages a weak pulse for a time but dies ultimately in its makers' hands." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 2, 2007
 
Awake (2007)23%
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"Offensive to all and on every level, Badland tops the landfill of this year's worst." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
Badland (2007)20%
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2/5
 
"Parmar scores pleasant performances across the board...Yet the story is bland, like it's been over-workshopped in a screenwriting class, too polite and too smooth around the edges." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 24, 2007
 
Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007)6%
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1.5/5
 
"If you detect anything fresh or original in terms of character or story development, you're probably not watching this movie." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Eleven Men Out (2007)40%
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2.5/5
 
"amusingly off-kilter" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Smiley Face (2007)67%
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2.5/5
 
"a strictly middle-of-the-road entry in the slasher genre, scoring points for performances and areas of execution but running out of creative juice far too early, settling for stock chills and thrills" -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
P2 (2007)35%
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2/5
 
"If Park aspired to any real insights or to any ambition beyond the routine, its hysterics would be worth sitting through." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Park (2007)36%
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1.5/5
 
"trades in platitudes and cliches, for lack of anything distinctive or bold to say" -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)43%
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2/5
 
"misguided and ludicrous" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 14, 2007
 
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)82%
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4/5
 
"the American Dream inverted, that its characters are carefree is a by-product not of sharing in the Dream, but of dealing with life on the margins." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 10, 2007
 
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)94%
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3.5/5
 
"After the Katrina tragedy, the filmmaker's fears are both well-grounded and keenly realized." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 24, 2007
 
Right at Your Door (2007)67%
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3.5/4
 
"a satisfying conclusion...to this intelligent series" -- Perihelion Journal
Posted Aug 20, 2007
 
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)93%
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3/4
 
"though Homer himself chastises us, near the start of the movie, for paying for something we can watch on TV for free, I consider the money I put down my contribution to Groening's good cause." -- Perihelion Journal
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
The Simpsons Movie (2007)89%
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2/4
 
"an exercise in patience and loyalty to have to sit through, at least for fans of the past two films" -- Perihelion Journal
Posted Aug 9, 2007
 
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)77%
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2.5/4
 
"Fred Flintstone in the land of the Jetsons" -- Perihelion Journal
Posted Jul 9, 2007
 
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)80%
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1.5/5
 
"Growing up has never felt so god-awful tedious." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2007
 
Noriko's Dinner Table (2007)60%
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3.5/5
 
"often great, and in all the ways that Herzog's cinema can be great" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 3, 2007
 
Rescue Dawn (2007)90%
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3.5/4
 
"Just short of dropping you into the ocean with a surfboard, Riding Giants serves as the definitive (and immersive) guide to the essence of all that is surfing." -- Perihelion Journal
Posted Jun 20, 2007
 
Riding Giants (2004)92%
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2/5
 
"Doesn't register more than halfway up the comedy meter." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 14, 2007
 
Eagle Vs. Shark (2007)54%
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3/4
 
"deft and stylish" -- Perihelion Journal
Posted May 27, 2007
 
28 Weeks Later (2007)71%
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4/5
 
"Golden Door resounds with moments of pure cinema seldom encountered anymore, where sound and image combine to create a lyricism that transcends the story" -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 24, 2007
 
Golden Door (2007)71%
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2/5
 
"von Trier is just too self-absorbed a filmmaker, too much "the boss of it all" to allow for anything as anarchic and joyful as a screwball comedy to bloom from this material" -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 24, 2007
 
The Boss of it All (2007)73%
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1/5
 
"A staggering miscalculation." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 24, 2007
 
Bug (2007)59%
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3.5/5
 
"Twenty-two years later, I get all the jokes, but I remain only pleasantly amused, nothing more, nothing less" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 2, 2007
 
Fletch (1985)71%
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2/5
 
"Though the oblique and confused storytelling saps the heat out of Wind Chill, the picture still boasts a game performance from Emily Blunt" -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2007
 
Wind Chill (2007)46%
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1/5
 
"Ineptly written by Arquette and Joe Harris, The Tripper is a carnival of cretins doing and saying one ass-headed thing after another." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 21, 2007
 
The Tripper (2007)20%
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4/5
 
"At once natural and designed, funny and sad, Dresen's story approximates the capriciousness of life itself, and that may be the highest praise any work of art could ask for." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 8, 2007
 
Summer in Berlin (2005)62%
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3.5/5
 
"The Hoax pulls a good con, and we play along, delightedly." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 5, 2007
 
The Hoax (2007)85%
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1/5
 
"While clocking in at a relatively painless 75 minutes, Brown fails to come up with anything so fresh and bold in his approach as to make a single one of those worth watching." -- Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Mar 30, 2007
 
Race You to the Bottom (2007)50%
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2.5/5
 
"a playground for madman Malkovich to be set loose in." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 22, 2007
 
Color Me Kubrick (2007)52%

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