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CHRIS CABIN
Chris Cabin

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Total Reviews: 269

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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 Mafioso
4.5/5 The Host
4/5 4
3/4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3.5/5 Family Law
3/5 The Painted Veil
2.5/5 Lonely Hearts
2/5 Breaking and Entering
1.5/5 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
1/5 Inland Empire
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 Paranoid Park
5/5 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
5/5 I'm Not There
5/5 Knocked Up
5/5 Army of Shadows
5/5 The Bicycle Thief
5/5 Mafioso
5/5 The Conformist
5/5 Reds
5/5 The Searchers
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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1/5 88 Minutes
1/5 Hostel: Part II
1/5 Inland Empire
1/5 Mini's First Time
1/5 Land of the Blind
1/5 Dear Wendy
1/5 Find Me Guilty
1/5 London
1/5 Big Momma's House 2
1/5 Tamara
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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2/5
 
"Arty to the nth degree, splintered and, yes, fragmented" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 8, 2008
 
The Tracey Fragments (2008)38%
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2.5/5
 
"has neither the weight nor the ingenuity to make a solid impression past its unorthodox dispatching techniques." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Frontier(s) (2008)56%
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4/5
 
"the most sustained and unshakable narrative film to investigate the occupation of Iraq" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Battle for Haditha (2008)57%
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2.5/5
 
"You'll have to forgive the pun, but it simply lacks bite." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)79%
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3.5/5
 
"Engrossing if inexcusably flashy" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)79%
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2/5
 
"filmmaking for filmmaking's sake." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)84%
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1/5
 
"Pacino feels like a bankable source to disguise mediocrity but a dud is a dud and Avnet is wholly indifferent" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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3.5/5
 
"Never less than enthusiastically fascinating" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Stalags (2008)50%
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3.5/5
 
"Well-restrained and rarely melodramatic" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Dark Matter (2008)34%
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4.5/5
 
"You won't see anything as rapturous as this in any film this year." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)80%
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3.5/5
 
"Beautifully paced with an eerily-consistent tone" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Water Lilies (2007)84%
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3/5
 
"works best as an Italian dramedy with its history used as window dressing and any original thought kept happily to itself." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
My Brother is an Only Child (2008)90%
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1.5/5
 
"ends up feeling like a boring limerick told over and over again." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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4/5
 
"hits on something painful and intrinsically human: the feeling of inevitable disillusionment" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Alexandra (2008)95%
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2/5
 
"absolutely silly" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Boarding Gate (2007)26%
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3/5
 
"a light and playful story about sex and love but doesn't really say anything specific about either one" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Love Songs (2008)66%
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2.5/5
 
"Colored fully within the lines and with scant few moments of fascination" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Blind Mountain (2008)77%
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4/5
 
"It seems that the old dictum of never building a house on an ancient Indian burial ground goes double, if not triple, for corporations." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Heartbeat Detector (2007)75%
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3.5/5
 
"The saying goes "There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college." Who knew that included actually caring about something?" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 10, 2008
 
Summer Palace (2008)68%
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2.5/5
 
"Not crazy enough by a measure, CJ7 beats out family-film duds like The Spiderwick Chronicles in sheer buoyancy alone. " -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)45%
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5/5
 
"The one facet that separates Paranoid Park from the director's previous work is the way Van Sant uses all the talents in his arsenal to create something that few films have ever attempted to portray: the manic assemblage of teenage life." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%
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2.5/5
 
"Donaldson's film, about a dangerous crime during a tumultuous time period, suffers from a filmmaker utterly uninterested in dangerous filmmaking." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)77%
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2.5/5
 
"Perhaps it's unfair to consider Morelli's film against Meirelles': You might as well compare a company newsletter to Candide. " -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
City of Men (2008)77%
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4/5
 
"a striking debut" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Unforeseen (2007)85%
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3/5
 
"Chop Shop is an oddity to be stared at thoroughly. What it should be, and what I'm sure Bahrani wanted it to be, was something to be deeply contemplated." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Chop Shop (2007)94%
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4/5
 
"There won't be an image this year that quite compares to the sight of a black-garmented Béatrice Dalle cutting open the stomach of a pregnant woman with a pair of knitting scissors" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Inside (2007)100%
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4/5
 
"so completely ousts love and romance as a mere act that you expect curtains to sweep in at the end." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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3/5
 
"The Counterfeiters joins that class of films like Tsotsi and The Sea Inside that are just good enough to look like they matter" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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3/5
 
"a good start to the year in horror." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
The Signal (2007)55%
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1.5/5
 
"further proof that Ferris Bueller is dead" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)53%
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4/5
 
"a full-blooded satire" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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3.5/5
 
"Jarmusch's most accessible exercise to date while also his least seen" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 13, 2008
 
Night on Earth (1991)81%
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3/5
 
"borders on being something immensely powerful, and then, as if shy or ashamed of its promise, flips its wig and falls back on convention." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
Ezra (2007)63%
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3/5
 
"Just a few notches left of mediocrity." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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4/5
 
"a grievously misunderstood piece of schizo art" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
Walker (1987)40%
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5/5
 
"Devastating." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)96%
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4/5
 
"supremely refined" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Woman on the Beach (2008)86%
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3/5
 
"The rattling whispers of political critique come off as fledgling efforts to give the film an importance above what it is" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 12, 2007
 
The Walker (2007)51%
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3/5
 
"The transition from imagined drama to reality grows tedious." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Atonement (2007)82%
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4/5
 
"Witty and honest." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
Juno (2007)93%
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4/5
 
"Butterfly colors inside the lines but it does so with a dandy sense of personal rhythm." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)94%
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3.5/5
 
"Sharply unsentimental and very funny" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 27, 2007
 
The Savages (2007)90%
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5/5
 
"Haynes' film, certainly his masterpiece to date and one of the year's best" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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4.5/5
 
"There are so many ideas sliding into Kelly's swirling vortex of pop culture overload and apocalyptic forecasting that it's understandable not to find coherence in it." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Southland Tales (2007)35%
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4/5
 
"A dunce who can fight with a contagious likability: Now that's American." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Rocky (1976)93%
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4/5
 
"the neo-western byproduct of a deranged and adrift zeitgeist" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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4/5
 
"Lumet hasn't been this energetic and perceptive since The Verdict, released two-and-a-half decades ago." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)88%
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2/5
 
"Even more than its lame dissection of white grief, Road has no moments of actual tension for a film that has been called, in many publications, a thriller." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Reservation Road (2007)36%
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3/5
 
"can be best described as a fantasy." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Rendition (2007)47%
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2/5
 
"ambitious if not fatally amateurish" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
Sleuth (2007)35%

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