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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
NATHAN LEE
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• Film Comment Magazine
• L.A. Weekly
• New York Times
• Slate
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 188


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Fresh Quantum Hoops
Fresh Paraguayan Hammock
Fresh Theater of War
Fresh Dilemma
Fresh Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Fresh Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films
Fresh Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art
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Rotten The Fall
Rotten As Tears Go By
Rotten The Hottie & the Nottie
Rotten Doc
Rotten Untraceable
Rotten Lagerfeld Confidential
Rotten DarkBlueAlmostBlack
Rotten Balls of Fury
Rotten Kamp Katrina
Rotten This Is England
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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4/5
 
"Wry, good-natured picture." -- New York Times
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Quantum Hoops (2007)78%
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4.5/5
 
"That Paraguayan Hammock happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity." -- New York Times
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Paraguayan Hammock (2008)56%
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4.5/5
 
"That Paraguayan Hammock happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity." -- New York Times
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Theater of War (2008)n/a
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2/5
 
"Shot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, The Fall is a genuine labor of love -- and a real bore." -- New York Times
Posted May 9, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)57%
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3/5
 
"Dilemma is an earnest if schematic attempt to address conditions in Johannesburg under apartheid." -- New York Times
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Dilemma (1962)n/a
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3/5
 
"Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be." -- New York Times
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)60%
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4/5
 
"A welcome entry in the constituency-cinema canon, Hollywood Chinese surveys a century’s worth of Chinese-American actors and filmmakers, visionaries and dragon ladies, kung fu excellence and Fu Manchu insult, Oscar winners and cliché mongers." -- New York Times
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)100%
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2.5/5
 
"Unpersuasive as drama, Tears is the first and last Wong movie touched by any feel of the obligatory." -- New York Times
Posted May 2, 2008
 
As Tears Go By (1988)71%
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"All told, and well told, this is essential history." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)93%
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"Green keeps mum until the end, charging his tale with an effective (if manipulative) aura of suspense." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2008
 
Snow Angels (2008)68%
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"As signaled by the transparent naming of his characters, Bahrani inflects his drama with documentary, grabbing sights and sounds directly from the street in a dexterous update of neorealist strategies." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
Chop Shop (2007)94%
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"More than a mash note to this nonpareil maestro, Apparition circles around the mystery of music and subjectivity and touches down on a head-spinning array of topics." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006)n/a
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"An impeccably constructed illustration in depth, ceaselessly alert and cumulatively profound." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
State Legislature (2008)n/a
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"The Duchess of Langeais contemplates an especially crazy case of l'amour fou." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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"I leave you to discover, through covered eyes, the gut-splattering delirium to come." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
Inside (2007)100%
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"The devil's in the details, and Diary is diabolically resourceful within its circumscribed framework." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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"The debut feature of writer-director Paul Andrew Williams is a grim, efficient affair." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
London to Brighton (2008)76%
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"Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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"Téchiné's triumph of compassion and craft shames the American cinema's indifference to gay history." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
The Witnesses (2008)85%
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"Immy Humes no doubt needed to make this movie, and the PR set (Mailer, Matthiessen, Plimpton) obviously enjoy the trip down memory lane, but while Doc makes for a fascinating subject, Doc feels intended less for us than for them." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
Doc (2008)78%
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"Untraceable hasn't the brains of a class-act psychothriller like Silence of the Lambs, and lacks the balls to juice up the trashy verve of the Saw series. Stuck in the middle, it leaves everyone stranded, actors and audience alike." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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"The mechanism is the message in Cloverfield, a movie so aluminum-sleek, ultra-portable, and itsy-bitsy sexy, it’s amazing Steve Jobs didn’t pull it out of an envelope at Macworld." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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"A radiant folk fantasia, at once sophisticated and elemental, freewheeling and composed." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
Opera Jawa (2006)100%
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"Produced by indie stalwart Larry Fessenden, the sophomore feature from writer-director Ilya Chaiken stages an uncommonly acute, deftly played drama of the New York working class." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Liberty Kid (2007)86%
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"Dylan Haggerty has written an eleventh-hour candidate for the funniest movie of 2007, that Gregg Araki has directed his finest film since 1997's Nowhere, and that Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
Smiley Face (2007)67%
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"Half a century later, a glut of über-groovy meta-thrillers has blunted the novelty of Diva, but its gamboling flair is still a kick." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 31, 2007
 
Diva (1981)95%
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"Half a century later, a glut of über-groovy meta-thrillers has blunted the novelty of Diva, but its gamboling flair is still a kick." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Diva (2007)n/a
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"Marconi's indifference to detail extends to any consideration of what, exactly, Lagerfeld does for a living, not to mention the history of his rise in the fashion world." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Lagerfeld Confidential (2007)41%
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"A modest chronicle of an audacious life." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)75%
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"Tells [a] ludicrously compact, aggressively 'heartfelt,' colorfully contrived story." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2007)69%
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"It's amazing to explore." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2007
 
The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity (2007)n/a
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"Slipping in and out of character, variously embodying, studying, and commenting on their counterparts, the actors manage both dramatic reenactment and its deconstruction with aplomb." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2007
 
Strange Culture (2007)94%
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"What began as a human-interest story for filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev led down stranger paths than the Duchampian conundrums of modern art." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2007
 
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)93%
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"It's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts -- and unnerves -- in this most chilling of global-warming movies." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
The Last Winter (2007)78%
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"A companion piece to Tenenbaums more than a step in new directions, Darjeeling is a movie about people trapped in themselves and what it takes to get free..." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)67%
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"Cruising is a mediocre thriller but an amazing time capsule -- a heady, horny flashback to the last gasp of full-blown sexual abandon, and easily the most graphic depiction of gay sex ever seen in a mainstream movie." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 4, 2007
 
Cruising (1980)59%
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"The life and times of a fictional monster may not be as respectable a subject as a historical monster like, say, Idi Amin or Truman Capote, but Zombie’s portrait is every bit as reverent, scrupulous, and deeply felt as any Oscar-grubbing horrorshow." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 31, 2007
 
Halloween (2007)27%
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"[Question:] Balls of Fury is a movie about: a. A former table-tennis prodigy enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground Ping-Pong tournament of a legendary Chinese criminal. b. Suppository jokes. c. Nothing worth discussing." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 28, 2007
 
Balls of Fury (2007)23%
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"Stirring and lurid in equal measure, the film is compelling in its details but queasily detached: verité verging on exploitation." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 21, 2007
 
Kamp Katrina (2007)80%
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"Rather than impose actors on the scene, Costa involves the people who already live there. Instead of training them to perform a story, he locates a skeletal narrative from a rehearsal process based on their personal stories." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 31, 2007
 
Colossal Youth (2006)80%
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"[Ultimatum] flips the standard conspiracy thriller on its head. Greengrass gets there so deftly it's enough to make yours spin." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 31, 2007
 
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)93%
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"Isolated excellence and larger lack of nerve—all dots, no connection—grows frustrating as England turns from the personal to the political, from character study to social studies." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 24, 2007
 
This Is England (2007)93%
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"Funny thing is, Sunshine works despite feeling both over-familiar and over-ambitious." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
Sunshine (2007)75%
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"Tremendously savvy in its stupid way, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as Brokeback Mountain, and even more radical." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)14%
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"Talk To Me lacks every kind of specificity (historical, psychological, socio-cultural) but redeems itself through the dedication of its Cheadlicious lead." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2007
 
Talk to Me (2007)81%
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"The Falls turns cinema into a puzzle or game—one that Greenaway continues to play, with increasing indifference to the amusement of lesser minds." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
The Falls (1980)80%
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"An enjoyably decadent, ridiculously convoluted thingamajig." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)78%
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"Artificial in the extreme, it may nevertheless be Greenaway's most naturalistic and easygoing film." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)100%
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"Too clever by half, the plot contrivances deliver flippant satisfactions, and the agile performances keep the twists compelling, if less than credible." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
The Method (2005)71%
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"Transformers twiddles its big, fat, stupid robotic thumbs for the better part of two hours before jabbing them into your eye socket and finger-f***ing your brain in the last 20 minutes. Yes!" -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 3, 2007
 
Transformers (2007)57%

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