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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
MARC SAVLOV
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• Anchorage Press
• Austin Chronicle
• Dallas Morning News

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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Mafioso
4.5/5 Control
3.5/4 Right at Your Door
4/5 Brothers of the Head
3/4 American Hardcore
B Fearless
3.5/5 Half Nelson
2.5/4 Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
3/5 Crank
2.5/5 The Prestige
2/4 Fast Food Nation
2/5 Flyboys
1.5/4 Drillbit Taylor
1.5/5 The Black Dahlia
1/4 First Sunday
1/5 The Wicker Man
0.5/5 Man of the Year
0/5 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Mafioso
4/4 Inside Man
5/5 Ran
5/5 M
4.5/5 Control
4.5/5 Kung Fu Hustle
4.5/5 Star Wars
4.5/5 Apocalypse Now
4.5/5 Princess Mononoke
4.5/5 Bringing Out the Dead
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 The Seeker
0/5 Captivity
0/5 Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
0/5 Happily N'Ever After
0/5 Let's Go to Prison
0/5 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
0/5 See No Evil
0/5 RV
0/5 Scary Movie 4
0/5 Basic Instinct 2
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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1.5/5
 
"... has plenty of flesh-and-blood performers milling about, strenuously attempting to advance Speed Racer's minimal plot, but nary an honest emotion in sight. Speed Racer: Color him go, go, gone." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)35%
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3.5/5
 
"Bloodied but unbowed, wounded but walking, Downey Jr.'s sly take on Marvel Comics' cold warrior Iron Man elevates everything about this film." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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3/5
 
"Pairing these two martial arts legends in a story that is essentially one long homage to the great Shaw Brothers films of yore allows The Forbidden Kingdom plenty of leeway for comic moments." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)62%
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3/5
 
"Segel, scripting himself, injects regular bursts of comic genius into the proceedings." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)84%
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3/5
 
"Just like real life but not a damn thing like G.I. Joe." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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3.5/5
 
"Makes for a good anti-war doc, to be sure, but an even finer -- and painfully accurate -- portrait of the former soldier as a young man." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Body of War (2008)72%
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1.5/4
 
"A dispiritingly mediocre tweener comedy from some very talented people who appear to be experiencing a delayed sophomore slump." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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4/5
 
"It's an (arguably) nonexploitive, nightmarish vision of random violence that goes exactly where you don't want it to go and then goes even further." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)49%
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1.5/5
 
"There are, after all, only so many interesting ways to kill a character, and in the end, it's just plain boring." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
Fist of the North Star - Animated Feature (1986)17%
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2.5/5
 
"Less a shocking discovery than the starting-off point for a swell stage play or, as here, a novel from the prefeminist trenches." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)76%
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3/5
 
"The Other Boleyn Girl works both as an engagingly sordid meditation on protofeminism and contemporized sisterhood set in a time and a place where either/or were grounds for, at the very least, defenestration." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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3.5/5
 
"An outright horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy, The Signal takes Marshall McLuhan's famous statement 'the medium is the message' to extremes not explored since David Cronenberg's Videodrome in 1983." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
The Signal (2007)55%
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1/5
 
"If you can work your way past Vantage Point's goofy casting that places a bland, blank-eyed Hurt in the White House, then I suppose you can manage to forgive this Rashomon rip-off's other glaring idiosyncrasies, of which there are many." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)37%
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"Jumper is pretty slick, entertaining stuff, well-crafted by Liman, edited into a tight, action-packed bundle of nerviness." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 13, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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3/5
 
"Wagner's film is an elegy of sorts for that once-mighty beast known as the New York Writer, a creature that now finds itself increasingly marginalized in a world in which readers are getting scarcer and shelf space for serious fiction is dwindling daily." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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2.5/4
 
"Teeth's whirling moral compass actually provides the perfect metaphor for the teenage sexual urge in postpubescent overdrive." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)79%
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2.5/4
 
"Stewart, a Toronto-based marine biologist and underwater photographer, makes up for in passion what he lacks in narrative subtlety." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Sharkwater (2007)80%
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2/4
 
"Bad Santa! No cookie!" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
The Perfect Holiday (2007)17%
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1/4
 
" Do yourself a favor and go rent any Miike film other than this one. You've got somewhere in the vicinity of 75 from which to choose." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
One Missed Call (2008)0%
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1/4
 
"Ice Cube is now Public Enemy Number Fun, although First Sunday is only fun if you're in dire need of a modernist urban take on the strain of comedy Abbott and Costello used to practice, which, let's be honest, wasn't that funny to begin with." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)14%
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1/5
 
"This tepid, borderline offensive cyber-serial killer thriller takes what feels like ages to rehash both better and worse examples of the current, vapid clamor for so-called 'torture porn.'" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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4/5
 
"Cloverfield is the most intense and original creature feature I've seen in my adult moviegoing life, and that's coming from a guy who knows his Gojira from his Gamera and his Harryhausen from his Honda." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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2.5/5
 
"It all ends with what should be the bang of your heart pounding clean out of your chest but feels more like the fidgety whimper of restless kids with nowhere else to go." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
The Orphanage (2007)85%
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3.5/5
 
"One of the most compelling documentary portraits of a musician yet made." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)87%
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3/5
 
"Despite the title, this is Etel's film all the way. His expressive, peaches-and-cream face, overhung by a frequently furrowed brow, is simply a bang-on depiction of childhood anxiety." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 25, 2007
 
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)73%
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1.5/5
 
"LaGravenese is usually a terrific screenwriter, but this adaptation (with Steve Rogers) of Cecelia Ahern's novel is almost insufferably sufferable." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
P.S. I Love You (2007)21%
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1/5
 
"Will true love prevail? Will Dave grow a backbone (and some real songwriting talent)? And most important, will Alvin, Simon, and Theodore survive this bland new form of chipmunk mania? They shoot rodents, don't they?" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)24%
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3.5/5
 
"The King of Kong is as winning, sweet, and occasionally disturbing a documentary about people for whom time has stopped somewhere around 1982 as you'd ever want to see." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)97%
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1/5
 
"One of those rare, so-bad-it's-good shoot-’em-ups." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 1, 2007
 
Hitman (2007)15%
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3/5
 
"There's so much going on in this animated Hungarian feature that if you don't have attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder going in, you may well develop it by the time you exit the theatre, and I mean that as a compliment." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 24, 2007
 
The District (2007)88%
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2/5
 
"Despite an enormously creepy turn from Bentley, the story has nowhere else to go but into the standard (albeit judiciously used) stalk-and-slash territory." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 24, 2007
 
P2 (2007)35%
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2/5
 
"Will his parents, through a magical, utterly unlikely yet strangely compelling of fate, come running once they hear the longing in their little maestro's edgily hip, borderline Ani DiFrancoid slap-strumming? Far be it from me to state the obvious." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
August Rush (2007)37%
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4.5/5
 
"Control is easily one of the finest films ever made about the collision of music, madness, and the human heart." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
Control (2007)87%
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2.5/5
 
"Torture, you may recall, used to be an unparsable, unpardonable sin. Now it's porn." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
Saw IV (2007)19%
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4/5
 
"Classic Lumet." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)88%
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3/5
 
Click here to read article -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)60%
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3/5
 
"The irony inherent in using 21st-century motion-control technology to tell a tale approximately 1,400-years old is just one of many bizarrely entertaining aspects of Beowulf." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
Beowulf (2007)70%
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2/5
 
"Broken has little of any great substance to add to the old truism that L.A. eats its young (especially those who just got off the bus from Ohio) and then picks its teeth with their hopes and dreams." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Broken (2007)13%
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4/5
 
"American Gangster does a crackerjack job at nailing the look and feel of New York City's bad old days." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 31, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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3/5
 
"Monteverde's unobtrusive direction makes Bella into something far more interesting and affecting than the mediocre telenovela it could have been." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Bella (2007)45%
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2/5
 
"Lust, Caution is a major film, but it feels like a minor work in Lee's canon." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
Lust, Caution (2007)69%
/
4/5
 
Click here to read article -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
Vanaja (2007)81%
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1.5/5
 
"It's just that the comedy and the drama never quite crystalize into anything remotely affecting, with the end result feeling more like some extended Southern in-joke than an honest movie." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Randy and the Mob (2007)56%
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3/5
 
"At its core, 30 Days of Night is a siege Western relocated to the frozen north." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
30 Days of Night (2007)49%
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1.5/5
 
"The Nines is the feature-film-directing debut from screenwriter John August, but it feels much more like some Bizarro World collaboration between Jean-Paul Sartre and Charlie Kaufman, and not in a good way, either." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
The Nines (2007)69%
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2/5
 
"Almost all of it has to do with watching the occasionally nude Jovovich look absolutely smashing in duster and sidearms, but sometimes, let's face it, that's not enough." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)22%
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2.5/5
 
"Pleasant but pedestrian." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
December Boys (2007)42%
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3/5
 
Click here to read article -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
Devil's Island (1939)n/a
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0/5
 
"Throughout its interminable and steadfastly, maniacally bewildering running time, neither the cast nor director Cunningham appear to have even the most rudimentary idea of what is going on from one sequence to the next." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
The Seeker (2007)13%

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