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TIM BRAYTON
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• Antagony & Ecstasy
• Film Threat

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Total Reviews: 410

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Online Film Critics Society

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• Location: Chicago, IL


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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10/10  Viridiana
9/10  Shine a Light
8/10  Snow Angels
7/10  Paranoid Park
6/10  21
5/10  The Tiger's Tail
4/10  Drillbit Taylor
3/10  Shutter
2/10  The Ruins
1/10  Zombi 3
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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10/10  Spirit of the Beehive
10/10  Burn After Reading
10/10  Johnny Guitar
10/10  Alexandra
10/10  Love Me Tonight
10/10  A Short Film About Killing
10/10  Vampyr
10/10  The Dark Knight
10/10  Halloween
10/10  My Winnipeg
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/10  Zombie Lake
0/10  Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1/10  Halloween: Resurrection
1/10  Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
1/10  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
1/10  88 Minutes
1/10  Zombie 4: After Death
1/10  Prom Night
1/10  Zombi 3
1/10  Strange Wilderness
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

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6/10
 
" It is [funny], although much of the humor is extraordinarily cheap and obvious." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Religulous (2008)68%
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3/10
 
" Tremendously routine, in a way that an adventure film about talking Chihuahuas should not be." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)43%
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4/10
 
" A movie rotten with the fear that the audience might possibly miss the point if the filmmakers don't hammer us over the head repeatedly." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 6, 2008
 
Blindness (2008)41%
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10/10
 
" A most exceptional vision of the inner life of a child just learning about the darker complexities of life." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 6, 2008
 
Spirit of the Beehive (1973)100%
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7/10
 
" If it isn't as iconic and elemental as its predecessor, that's no reflection on how well it works as a vampire entertainment on its own...an unusually original way to continue the closed-off story of Bram Stoker's novel." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 5, 2008
 
The Brides of Dracula (1960)67%
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9/10
 
" There will never be a greater vampire film than Nosferatu or Vampyr, not ever. But Hammer's Dracula puts up a strong fight to come in at third place." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 4, 2008
 
Horror of Dracula (1958)88%
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6/10
 
" The sumptuous dresses and hats are the best and almost the only reason to see the film." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
The Duchess (2008)61%
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5/10
 
" It wants to be sleazy, or at least naughty; it's only tired. And it's just too slight to really say much more for or against it." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 2, 2008
 
Choke (2008)55%
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6/10
 
" A messy patchwork of ideas spinning off every which way...but failing to be good doesn't mean that it's not interesting." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 30, 2008
 
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)31%
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3/10
 
" [LaBeouf]'s just not very credible in elaborate action set-pieces, although at least this time he's not trying to convince us that he's a '50s greaser." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 
Eagle Eye (2008)27%
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8/10
 
" A masterpiece of the human condition...[but] below the very peak of Imamura's filmmaking powers." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)100%
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7/10
 
" The film would rather give us an earned smile than strain fruitlessly for a guffaw, and its humor is much more dialogue- and character-driven than goofy" -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Ghost Town (2008)85%
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5/10
 
" A glossy "bad cop" thriller that achieves only a banal, surface-level recreation of Neil LaBute's old cage-rattling proclivities." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 24, 2008
 
Lakeview Terrace (2008)42%
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4/10
 
" Towelhead is too eager to shock us, and it's therefore only stupidly offensive instead of cutting and insightful." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 23, 2008
 
Towelhead (2008)49%
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7/10
 
" A fine character study with some exceptional performances...but there's no getting around the fact that it's a saggy affair in places." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 22, 2008
 
A Girl Cut in Two (2008)85%
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9/10
 
" A note-perfect dissection of how male sexual solipsism and the world at large intersect." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 22, 2008
 
Closely Watched Trains (1966)100%
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5/10
 
" The chaotic elements never really coalesce into a sensible whole beyond the idea that this is what, at that moment, Miike thought would be really cool...the film is cluttered and not very fun." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 18, 2008
 
Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)58%
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4/10
 
" While there are many ways in which it falls short of its predecessor the fact that it possesses, arguably, a more retrograde view of gender roles...is probably the most depressing." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 16, 2008
 
The Women (2008)10%
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3/10
 
" Good in the way that makes it worth catching on basic cable during the commercial breaks of something better." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 
Righteous Kill (2008)23%
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7/10
 
" Best enjoyed as a sample of the state of the art circa 1925, not as a timeless masterpiece." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 
Ben-Hur - A Tale of the Christ (1926)100%
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10/10
 
" Easily the funniest film by Joel and Ethan Coen since The Big Lebowski...feels more like their old stuff than anything else they've done in a decade." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 14, 2008
 
Burn After Reading (2008)78%
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4/10
 
" Appallingly cynical...desires to appeal to the biggest possible audience while offending nobody. Which means, inevitably, that it has something to offend everybody." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 10, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)53%
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2/10
 
" Would that the film were a tenth as deliciously bad as its title." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 9, 2008
 
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)10%
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6/10
 
" There's a lot to not love about the film...[but it's] one of the most thoughtfully designed post-apocalypse futures put on film in years." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 4, 2008
 
Babylon A.D. (2008)7%
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9/10
 
" Not just a showcase for motifs that Bergman would use to create masterpieces later; it's a great film all by itself." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)100%
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1/10
 
" Provides the Halloween franchise with a clear, objective Worst Movie Of The Series...a virtually flawless collection of all the things that can make a slasher film unwatchable." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)10%
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5/10
 
" Kingsley and Cruz both give performances that rank among the best of their recent careers...all by themselves making a terrifically flat movie seem marginally human." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 30, 2008
 
Elegy (2008)74%
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" What the film has that so many of its impoverished cousins lack, is a fairly delightful personality, and a cute story born not of anybody's conflicted relationship with sex or obsession with urban life, but of an unbridled love for live theater." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Never Say Macbeth (2007)100%
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4/10
 
" The best of all Paul W.S. Anderson's films, although how much lower we can set the bar, I don't know." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
Death Race (2008)43%
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5/10
 
" Collapses, despite a game and talented cast, and a brilliant concept. Well, concepts don't make movies." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
Hamlet 2 (2008)63%
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4/10
 
" Anna Faris gives one of the best performances of the year thus far in a movie that never comes within swiping distance of deserving it." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 26, 2008
 
The House Bunny (2008)39%
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6/10
 
" Notwithstanding its quintessentially indie need to develop character through quirk rather than, y'know, characterisation...the opening fifteen or twenty minutes are actually pretty great." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 26, 2008
 
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)85%
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10/10
 
" Quite possibly the weirdest Western ever made by a mainstream studio in the 1950s... I flat-out loved this movie." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Johnny Guitar (1954)95%
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3/10
 
" It's somewhere around minute 58 - that's in a film that runs 80 minutes before credits, folks - before anything particularly interesting happens." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 24, 2008
 
Halloween: H2O (1998)50%
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10/10
 
" Here is what filmmaking looks like at its absolute best: a movie of bold and aggressive originality that expresses itself with the utmost delicacy." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Alexandra (2008)94%
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7/10
 
" Leo gives the kind of performance that's easy to overlook because it doesn't have any Big Moments...so fully inhabited that it never crosses your mind that you're not watching a real woman." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 21, 2008
 
Frozen River (2008)86%
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7/10
 
" A pleasing and fairly smart film that reveals an unexpected willingness on Allen's part to finally stretch beyond endless copying of the triumphs of his middle-age." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)80%
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1/10
 
" The series' nadir...nothing but a delivery system for murder and half-glimpses of naked women." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1996)4%
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4/10
 
" In the end, if you weren't already a believer, you're not going to leave with any kind of appreciation for the band's art." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
What We Do Is Secret (2008)46%
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3/10
 
" I suppose Offscreen Spring-Loaded Cats is in active development even as I write." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 18, 2008
 
Mirrors (2008)13%
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9/10
 
" An extremely honest attempt to convey abstraction in an essentially non-abstract medium." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 17, 2008
 
The Color of Pomegranates (1969)83%
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4/10
 
" Better than Episode I and Episode II. True, many of the same flaws are present - awful dialogue, contrived narrative - but at least The Clone Wars is much shorter." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 16, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)19%
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4/10
 
" Having a properly slimy bit of modern exploitation filmmaking isn't something to scoff at, but I do wish that the experience had even a bit of fizz to it." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Hell Ride (2008)11%
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9/10
 
" One of the nastiest American comedies in what feels like decades, taking a well-trod subject - how movies are made - and attacking with a savage gusto that calls to mind Sunset Blvd. and The Player ." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Tropic Thunder (2008)83%
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9/10
 
" A talking-heads documentary has no business working as a nerve-wracking thriller, but here we have Man on Wire....one of the most exciting movies to come out all year." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 12, 2008
 
Man on Wire (2008)100%
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10/10
 
" Hollywood's first musical masterpiece...pushed the limits of conventional narrative filmmaking until they just about broke." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 12, 2008
 
Love Me Tonight (1932)100%
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3/10
 
" Completed the transition to full-fledged brainless slasherdom begun in Halloween 4 at at time when the brainless slasher film was at its very worst." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 11, 2008
 
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)10%
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7/10
 
" It is not in the remotest sense a challenging or extraordinary film...cannot reasonably be described as anything other than adequate. But it is a pleasing film in a very simple way." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)45%
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8/10
 
" Assuredly the best film yet by the Judd Apatow crew, and probably director David Gordon Green's flimsiest." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 7, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)68%
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4/10
 
" Teenagers are restless and get very worked up over interpersonal dramas. Gee willickers, I'm sure glad a film crew traveled all the way to north central Indiana to make that shocking discovery." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
American Teen (2008)69%

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