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STEPHEN GARRETT
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• Time Out
• Time Out New York

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Total Reviews: 67


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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

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2/6
 
"Imagine a Jewish L’Avventura without any of the profound existential rumination, troubling emotional ennui or unnervingly seductive filmmaking, and a picture will form of this well-intentioned but ultimately simplistic tale of loss." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Tehilim (2007)29%
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2/6
 
"What emerges is a short movie that feels too long, a heartfelt drama too playful to be sincere, and a narrative touching on adult themes but sabotaged by schematic false notes." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Chaos Theory (2008)30%
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3/6
 
"Harajuku lovers will get a kick out of Japanese box-office smash Nana, a very kawaii celebration of girl power based on a popular manga about two 20-year-olds who share the same first name." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Nana (2005)60%
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2/6
 
"Sloppy execution and too-cheeky dialogue capsize an outdated modern myth about confronting fate amid feminist saber rattling and sexist prejudices." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Sex and Death 101 (2008)26%
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1/6
 
"Chapman’s villainy isn’t tragic or misunderstood; it’s simple insanity. To dwell on it is to wallow in pain. Elevate yourself, and stay away." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Chapter 27 (2008)21%
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5/6
 
"A bleak thriller realized with utter vibrancy, Robert Hamer’s savory stew of London’s lower class roils with an emotional brutality and precision that most films don’t dare attempt, let alone achieve." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)n/a
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1/6
 
"Gratuitous support-our-troops iconography and post-9/11 paranoia permeate a harebrained plot." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Witless Protection (2008)0%
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4/6
 
"A welcome, sweet-natured road trip that happily and willfully exploits Vince Vaughn’s marquee value to showcase a quartet of very deserving upstart comedians." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)56%
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3/6
 
"The situations may be forced, but the struggles with basic vices -- greed, jealousy, lust, deception -- are convincingly elemental." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Lost in Beijing (2008)47%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Hitman (2007)15%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Canvas (2007)75%
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1/6
 
"A cesspool of irrational plot points and flaccid punch lines." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Good Luck Chuck (2007)3%
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1/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)62%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
The Game Plan (2007)27%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Sydney White (2007)37%
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2/6
 
"Overdirected and underwritten, this litany of Hallmark Channel tropes and button-pushing sentiment uses Tinseltown treacle to gussy up an otherwise forgettable message movie about humane treatment for the elderly." -- Time Out New York
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
Man in the Chair (2007)50%
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4/6
 
"Heartbreaking and life-affirming." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
War Dance (2007)86%
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2/6
 
"A mealy adaptation of one installment in Susan Cooper’s acclaimed book series." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
The Seeker (2007)13%
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1/6
 
"There’s no good time of the year for such a depressingly insincere movie that shirks any sense of reality but still desperately claws for emotional redemption at the end. Better to abort next time." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
The Brothers Solomon (2007)16%
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2/6
 
"The girls face prejudice from their families, while their amateur moves frustrate the dance instructor. Will they ever triumph? Just guess." -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Hula Girls (2007)50%
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"The film has its flaws, but [director Majidi's] gift for giving a cinematic texture to the emotional senses validates his work as a visionary." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 2, 2007
 
The Willow Tree (2005)88%
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2/6
 
"This wanna-be neonoir ends up being as half-committed to its goals as its protagonist." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 2, 2007
 
If I Didn't Care (2007)37%
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3/6
 
"Just the sort of simplistic preaching that alienates adults and insults the intelligence of their offspring." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 26, 2007
 
Arctic Tale (2007)62%
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3/6
 
"The writing and direction pull their punches, opting for a 'be cool, y’all' ethos and the hazy glow of tribute instead of the messy reality that Greene himself reveled in lancing." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
Talk to Me (2007)81%
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2/6
 
"Presenting these lives as a parable about the merits of good sportsmanship is a stretch; when the game is over, all that’s left is a low-scoring portrait of human vanity." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)97%
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5/6
 
"The real dialogue is the music, as the lovers communicate through lyrics. The filmmaking is unadorned, but the emotional virtuosity is rhapsodic." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 23, 2007
 
Once (2007)97%
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1/6
 
"An earnest cast of talented actors can’t save this well-meaning but torturously banal message movie about parental responsibility from poor writing, elementary plotting and pedestrian direction." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 23, 2007
 
And Then Came Love (2007)9%
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5/6
 
"A true-blue, heart-swelling doozy that’s deceptively simple in form but as sweetly structured, and as potent, as a sonnet." -- Time Out New York
Posted May 19, 2007
 
Once (2007)97%
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1/6
 
"If ribbing the U.S. armed forces was considered unpatriotic after 9/11, then Delta Farce proves that discussion of the Iraq War has now officially jumped the shark." -- Time Out New York
Posted May 19, 2007
 
Delta Farce (2007)3%
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2/6
 
"Even though the cinematic foundation of this cheap prefab fluff is a message of family togetherness, the building materials -- boneheaded behavior, overwrought conflict, treacly sentiment -- have classic dry rot." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 7, 2007
 
Are We Done Yet? (2007)8%
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4/6
 
"What might have been a bland Back to the Future rip-off suddenly hums with a screwball sensibility chockablock with singing gangster frogs and evil bowler hats." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 7, 2007
 
Meet the Robinsons (2007)66%
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1/6
 
"What remains is intensely numbing action scenes, poor plot machinations and joyless character sketches all rendered in exquisitely cold CGI." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 31, 2007
 
TMNT (2007)31%
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1/6
 
"Unfortunately for God-fearing youths in desperate need of counseling on the horrors of sin-eating, [Cadi's] spiritual awakening will likely put audiences to sleep." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2007
 
The Last Sin Eater (2007)19%
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1/6
 
"Eric Red’s sturdy genre script from 1986 has been diluted in the worst way possible." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
The Hitcher (2007)20%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
The History Boys (2006)63%
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4/6
 
"The movie’s sense of doom is powerfully conveyed; one graphic scene has weeping soldiers blowing themselves up with grenades." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)91%
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2/6
 
"A lazy fairy-tale pastiche reveling in mite-size cherubs, which cribs from gnomic mythology, elvish lore, Harry Potter, Arthurian legend and can’t-pay-the-rent melodrama." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007)20%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
The Holiday (2006)47%
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4/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
Hermanas (2006)71%
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1/6
 
"Frost turns the occasion into a swag-saturated consumer orgy, which the film condemns even as it hams up product placement for Red Bull." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)13%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
Happy Feet (2006)74%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
Flushed Away (2006)74%
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1/6
 
"Ponderous wisecracks and cloak-and-dagger high jinks pass for comic intrigue in this hapless mix of yuks and kicks." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)4%
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0/6
 
"Earnest but lazy, fitfully laughable and insulting, Home of the Brave is cowardly work." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
 
Home of the Brave (2006)23%
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"... this fizzled action flick lacks the wit, style and substance of so many better efforts ..." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Zoom (2006)2%
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3/6
 
"Gorgeous mountain photography frames this predictably heartwarming look at a group of sightless Tibetan teenagers who attempt to climb the 23,000-foot-tall Lhakpa Ri, one of Mount Everest’s highest peaks." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 28, 2006
 
Blindsight (2008)100%
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"Tacky." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Sleeping With the Enemy (1991)23%

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