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ROBERT HORTON
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BIOGRAPHY
Button-cute and rapier-keen, firm yet gentle, Robert Horton has been "enhancing the greater Seattle film scene in all kinds of ways" (as Film Comment magazine put it) since 1979, when he had his first published review with a grouchy knock on "Star Trek--The Motion Picture." He is a past president of the now-defunct Seattle Film Society, a frequent teacher and a guest lecturer for Puget Sound filmic events, and a writer on movies for The Herald (Everett, Washington), film.com, KUOW-FM, and Film Comment.
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Total Reviews: 180

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Fresh Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Fresh Big Eden
Fresh About Adam
Fresh Shadow Magic
Fresh The Taste of Others
Fresh The Brothers
Fresh The Pledge
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Rotten The Anniversary Party
Rotten What's The Worst That Could Happen?
Rotten Town and Country
Rotten The Center of the World
Rotten Freddy Got Fingered
Rotten Bridget Jones' Diary
Rotten Joe Dirt
Rotten Along Came a Spider
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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"As documentary subjects go, the Salton Sea was ripe for the plucking: This man-made phenomenon is one of the weirdest stories of the West."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007)95%
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The dialogue crackles happily and the performances charm.
Posted Jun 14, 2001
 
Big Eden (2001)65%
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Feels more like a backyard relaxation than a movie.
Posted Jun 7, 2001
 
The Anniversary Party (2001)62%
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The movie is a mess.
Posted May 31, 2001
 
What's The Worst That Could Happen? (2001)11%
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There's more than enough freshness of place and keenness of observation to justify this movie's existence.
Posted May 3, 2001
 
About Adam (2001)68%
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When Charlton Heston is the funniest thing in a comedy, you've got problems.
Posted Apr 26, 2001
 
Town and Country (2001)13%
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Everyone involved is capable of more interesting work than this.
Posted Apr 20, 2001
 
The Center of the World (2001)33%
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There is the spectacle of Green forcing things, of desperately willing something to happen when it is all too plain that nothing is happening.
Posted Apr 19, 2001
 
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)10%
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One imagines Bridget Jones attending the film and then writing about it later in her diary, and the likelihood of her savaging the evening seems high.
Posted Apr 12, 2001
 
Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)80%
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Robbed of his usual caustic style, Spade can't work up many laughs, and the movie flops around.
Posted Apr 12, 2001
 
Joe Dirt (2001)11%
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Potter doesn't resemble a Secret Service agent in any significant way, but so little in this movie rings true that it hardly matters.
Posted Apr 5, 2001
 
Along Came a Spider (2001)32%
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It has a real sense of the wonder.
Posted Apr 5, 2001
 
Shadow Magic (2001)71%
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Let's leave Tomcats in the gutter where it belongs, and re-adjust the levels of cinematic hell, because Porky's just got bumped up a notch.
Posted Mar 29, 2001
 
Tomcats (2001)14%
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Like an Eric Rohmer film, but with a bit more breeziness and youth to it.
Posted Mar 22, 2001
 
The Taste of Others (2001)100%
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Hughley and Jones have an explosively comic chemistry together.
Posted Mar 22, 2001
 
The Brothers (2001)63%
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If it weren't so pushy about selling itself, The Dish might have been a very special movie.
Posted Mar 16, 2001
 
The Dish (2001)96%
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It may be possible that people who never go to the movies will stumble across Blow Dry and find it a charming way to spend an hour and a half, but the rest of us will have the ending written in our heads by the end of the first five minutes.
Posted Mar 8, 2001
 
Blow Dry (2001)19%
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Ambitious and more than a little tedious.
Posted Mar 1, 2001
 
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)44%
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Deadly dull.
Posted Mar 1, 2001
 
The Mexican (2001)56%
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There are laughs here, but Selick doesn't corral them, and the movie has no shape.
Posted Feb 22, 2001
 
Monkeybone (2001)19%
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Charlize Theron has charm and skill, but no actress could survive this role, which has the gravity and verisimilitude of a sketch from a late-sixties Nancy Sinatra TV special.
Posted Feb 15, 2001
 
Sweet November (2001)16%
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More complicated, more outrageous, less controlled in every way.
Posted Feb 8, 2001
 
Hannibal (2001)38%
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Seems suffocated by its sources.
Posted Feb 7, 2001
 
The Claim (2001)62%
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This lightweight concoction can't justify a trip out to the multiplex, unless you're a girl between the ages of 12 and 17.
Posted Feb 1, 2001
 
Head Over Heels (2001)10%
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The film overloads itself.
Posted Jan 25, 2001
 
The Wedding Planner (2001)15%
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Much of the film's power is in the worn gravity of watching 'Jack Nicholson' as he treads through a particularly obsessive and difficult character.
Posted Jan 18, 2001
 
The Pledge (2001)77%
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Traffic is movie excitement from beginning to end.
Posted Dec 28, 2000
 
Traffic (2000)92%
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Mild but amusing.
Posted Dec 22, 2000
 
An Everlasting Piece (2000)53%
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This overdone project dissipates its energy in strange ways, and makes you wish its makers had shown the same restraint the government did during the crisis.
Posted Dec 22, 2000
 
Thirteen Days (2000)84%
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This particular excursion into screwball madness is often heavenly, and frankly leaves critical explication somewhat unnecessary.
Posted Dec 21, 2000
 
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)78%
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It all coalesces in a TV-level pleasantness, which isn't quite enough to fill a big screen.
Posted Dec 21, 2000
 
Miss Congeniality (2000)37%
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A lot more intriguing than it might have been.
Posted Dec 20, 2000
 
Finding Forrester (2000)74%
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Despite the best efforts of both actors, the attraction between Gibson and Hunt doesn't flare into light.
Posted Dec 14, 2000
 
What Women Want (2000)53%
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Harris's intensity in the role and commitment to it is ferocious.
Posted Dec 14, 2000
 
Pollock (2000)82%
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Vertical Limit is so wound up in its own bungee cords, it leaves itself hopelessly tied in knots.
Posted Dec 7, 2000
 
Vertical Limit (2000)47%
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28 Days is a reminder of why Bullock became a movie star in the first place
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
28 Days (2000)30%
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A Hard Day's Night conveys not just a joy in music and The Beatles, but a joy in cinema.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
A Hard Day's Night (1964)100%
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A triumph of personal filmmaking ... because it exhibits the care and specificity of an artist working through his own mind, not through a committee's idea of what a movie should be.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Almost Famous (2000)88%
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If it is never really as profound as it seems to think it is, American Beauty is consistently entertaining.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
American Beauty (1999)89%
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Any kind of conversation, such as the boys' gatherings at a diner, is beyond the powers of filmmaking brothers Paul and Chris Weitz.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
American Pie (1999)60%
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Portman's terrific performance in Anywhere But Here is replete with razor's-edge emotions, a watchful stillness, and an exact physical sense of how a teenager struggles to fit into her own body.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Anywhere But Here (1999)64%
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There are many things to dislike about Armageddon, from its stunningly straight-faced Charlton Heston introduction to its casual contempt for the Greenpeace activists protesting the drilling of oil wells
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Armageddon (1998)40%
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Finally ... the melodrama does take over.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Autumn in New York (2000)22%
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Director Antoine Fuqua ... is left buried just as surely as those very unlikely gold bars.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Bait (2000)27%
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It's generic sci-fi right down to the last detail.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Battlefield Earth (2000)3%
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This movie wants to have it both ways: to score points against beauty pageants and the cult of feminine beauty in our culture, but also to root for Mona. It doesn't work.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Beautiful (2000)15%
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Reminds me of some of Jonathan Demme's early movies, where ordinary people are celebrated for their eccentricities but not condescended to.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Beautiful Thing (1996)89%
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A hilariously novel conception.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Being John Malkovich (1999)92%
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Alas, Best in Show probably won't find the big audience in theaters it deserves, but it will have a long life in living rooms thereafter.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Best in Show (2000)94%
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The rampant hucksterism of big-time wrestling is in a long American tradition, and Beyond the Mat is a very smart first step in opening the subject up to clearer view.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Beyond the Mat (1999)82%

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