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KEVIN KOEHLER
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" Scenes featuring the monster are oddly the most realistic."
Posted Jan 30, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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" A deeply self-indulgent picture that exemplifies the worst, navel-gazing preoccupations of so many contemporary documentarians."
Posted Jan 21, 2008
 
51 Birch Street (2006)95%
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" I have little doubt that this all worked a lot better in the book."
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
Atonement (2007)83%
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" More thought seems to have went into providing grist for future [sequels] that have not been made than the film that was."
Posted Jan 3, 2008
 
The Golden Compass (2007)42%
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" This really is a subtly detestable film at times."
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)n/a
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" Andrew Wagner shouldn't take it personally that I dislike his movie with such passion."
Posted Nov 25, 2007
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)85%
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" Adults (and their younger comrades-in-training, teenagers) are uniformly loathsome, spoiling the Garden of Boyhood with their egoism and physical/emotional sadism"
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Stand by Me (1986)91%
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" Teen Wolf begs the question of why being part wolf would improve your basketball (or seduction, or dancing) skills so dramatically."
Posted Oct 10, 2007
 
Teen Wolf (1985)44%
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" Bobcat Goldthwait doesn't simply act in bad comedies, now he writes and directs them, too."
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)40%
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" Despite the interesting questions they raise, it seems the filmmakers' plea for tolerance prevailed over true intellectual honesty and the serious study of a psychologically troubling behavior."
Posted Sep 24, 2007
 
Zoo (2007)55%
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" If Assan Motors wants their employees to to act like Japanese people, why not build the plant in Japan?"
Posted Aug 22, 2007
 
Gung Ho (1986)40%
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" Of course, you try to critique the film they made, not the one you would have preferred. This being said, you rather wish they'd picked a different lie."
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
The Children's Hour (1962)80%
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" It's a story populated by characters not people, all displaying wildly antisocial behaviors for the seeming purpose of giving the teenage Burroughs something to write about when older. It may be factual but it is not truth."
Posted Jul 14, 2007
 
Running with Scissors (2006)29%
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" To his credit, Frears doesn't try to solicit too much sympathy for his Queen, but the film goes down the navel-gazing rabbit hole just the same."
Posted Jul 14, 2007
 
The Queen (2006)96%
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" What, no chance meeting with John Wilkes Booth while hunting for beaver pelts? How about a rail-splitting contest between Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, bragging rights and a crumpled five-dollar bill to the winner?"
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Young Mr. Lincoln (1940)95%
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" I can't help but think the filmmaker got a tad too close to her subject. Like standing a foot away from a Seurat, Ms. Gilbert sees a series of dots rather than a leisurely Sunday afternoon in the park."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Whole (2003)n/a
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" It's always bizarre when films seek to remind us of other, better ones, demonstrating how inferior they are with the comparison."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Vicki (1953)n/a
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" This isn't to say the picture is without merit as it's amusing to watch famous people describe a man they can barely conceal their distaste for."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Tell Them Who You Are (2005)86%
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" Reminders that These Things Actually Happened become something close to a necessary evil for so little in the picture has the ring of authenticity."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Running With Scissors (2003)n/a
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" Todd Haynes' first feature-length picture...is not a particularly good movie regardless of what the Sundance Film Festival says."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Poison (1991)77%
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" Freddy's Revenge is the kind of bad film that's interesting to talk about - this has to count for something."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - Freddy's Revenge (1985)32%
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" Sigh."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
The Mudge Boy (2004)74%
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" Marie Antoinette functions less as a film than a two-hour music video for Sofia Coppola's mix tape of favorite songs."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Marie Antoinette (2006)54%
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" I won't reveal how the whole situation resolves itself, only that there is a musical montage featuring Coldplay...Jacinda Barrett breaks character and speaks in an Australian accent...and some other things happen that...are always happening in movies."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
The Last Kiss (2006)46%
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" A director's love letter to himself, the martyred, fashionably-dressed messiah whose work may someday save the world if only we'd let it."
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Lady in the Water (2006)24%
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" Does David Lynch know he's weird?"
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Inland Empire (2006)70%
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" Not to completely bash this trifle of a movie, as I'm sure writer/director Ol Parker is an entertaining gentleman at parties, but it really is emblematic of everything that is wrong with current independent filmmaking."
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Imagine Me & You (2006)31%
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" Idiocracy is polemic in search of a punch line or plot, and often finding neither."
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Idiocracy (2006)72%
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" If this is blasphemy in certain quarters, then so be it. No masterpiece, Dollars is highly regarded for reasons generally outside its own artistic merits."
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)94%
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" The Devil and Daniel Johnston would have you believe its titular documentary subject...is insane and a genius. I'm only sure that one of these is true."
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006)87%
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" Das Boot, first and foremost, is an action film - but not an always engaging one."
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Das Boot (1982)96%
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" The filmmaking here is at times inexcusably awkward and clumsy."
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
The Da Vinci Code (2006)25%
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" Like Russ Meyer, [director Jack] Hill doesn't empower women so much as act out his fantasies about large-chested women who can beat him up."
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Foxy Brown (1974)53%
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" Like Russ Meyer, [director Jack] Hill doesn't empower women so much as act out his fantasies about large-chested women who can beat him up."
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Coffy (1973)74%
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" How, exactly, does a film like Zardoz happen?"
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Zardoz (1974)39%
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" Roeg has taken what is a relatively mundane plot, a few uninspiring characters, added some bizarrely sordid plot developments, placed this whole unappetizing concoction in a food processor and let rip."
Posted Jun 21, 2007
 
Bad Timing (1980)60%
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" With some irony, the byzantine Babel is the one that babbles, speaking without actually saying much of anything."
Posted Jun 21, 2007
 
Babel (2006)68%
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" The meandering quarrels, beatings, and post-coital chit-chats all have the feel of work-shopping actors being put through an exercise rather than real life, even the life of a sexually-obsessed French person."
Posted Jun 21, 2007
 
A Nos Amours (1983)71%
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" Like The Sixth Sense, Psycho II is largely built to be watched twice. Unfortunately, that necessitates watching it the first time."
Posted Jun 21, 2007
 
Psycho 2 (1983)52%
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" Someday, possible soon, possibly not, an ambitious director will make a provocative, creatively-satisfying motion picture with unsimulated [sex]."
Posted Jun 20, 2007
 
Shortbus (2006)65%
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" Today, we no longer poke lunatics with sticks. Don't have to, as there are films like Napoleon Dynamite that do the poking for us... all we have to do is look, point, and laugh."
Posted Jun 20, 2007
 
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)70%
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" Bobcat Goldthwait doesn't simply act in bad comedies, now he writes and directs them, too."
Posted Jun 20, 2007
 
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)63%
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" Unfortunately, the romanticism of Fur falls flat - a miscast Kidman trying to pretend Robert Downey Jr.'s foul-mouthed wolfman is dangerous and sexy. He is neither."
Posted Jun 9, 2007
 
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)30%

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