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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
ED GONZALEZ
PUBLICATION(S)
• Apollo Guide
• City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
• Los Angeles Times
• Slant Magazine
• Village Voice

BIOGRAPHY
Ed Gonzalez is a freelance writer working out of New York City, or thereabouts. A graduate of NYU, he worked for Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, and O Magazine before turning to film criticism.
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Total Reviews: 2384

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• New York Film Critics Online

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• Location: Weehawken, NJ


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 I Am Cuba
3/4 The Devil Came On Horseback
2.5/4 No End in Sight
2/4 Arctic Tale
1.5/4 Joshua
1/4 Cashback
.5/4 Bratz: The Movie
0/4 Trade
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 I Am Cuba
4/4 Siberiade
4/4 Inland Empire
4/4 The Fall of the House of Usher
4/4 Pandora's Box
4/4 Sir Arne's Treasure
4/4 Repulsion
4/4 The Best of Youth
4/4 The New World
4/4 Pickpocket
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 College Road Trip
0/4 A Broken Sole
0/4 Trade
0/4 Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
0/4 A Cinderella Story
0/4 Sleepover
0/4 Bad Boys II
0/4 K-Pax
0/4 Pay It Forward
9/100 H.O.T.S.
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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"Romero gives his original masterpiece a modern-day reboot and scores a comeback after the dismal Land of the Dead." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 13, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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"In the kennel of gay films, Shelter is a puppy dog: It's cute but it lacks bite." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 13, 2008
 
Shelter (2008)53%
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2.5/4
 
"Encina's idea-driven artistry belies the quiet integrity and poetry of the script, keeping audiences at a rather clinical distance from the lives of her characters." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 11, 2008
 
Paraguayan Hammock (2008)50%
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2/4
 
"The film gives a transparent spin to the saying that whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but Diaz and Kutcher bring a surprising sweetness to their generic roles and the story's contrived situations." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)29%
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2/4
 
"Scratching your head because you don't know why David Duchovny provides narration for Rick Greenwald's Quantum Hoops? Hint: the truth is out there." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Quantum Hoops (2007)88%
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"Woefully reductive and painful." -- Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2008
 
The Babysitters (2008)29%
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"Open[s] with the best trying-to-unfasten-a-bra and zombie-finger-as-buttplug gags in movie history, which are closely followed by the most tasteless fisting scene since William Freidkin's Cruising." -- Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)60%
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1.5/4
 
"Explicit in Frontier(s) is its maker's belief that nothing should be left to the imagination." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Frontier(s) (2008)56%
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2.5/4
 
"It's a bumpy film, and though no one may see it, it's impossible to imagine it playing as gracefully, like its effectively open-ended finale, without Janssen's conviction to her role." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 4, 2008
 
Turn the River (2008)73%
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2/4
 
"Until someone figures out a way of truly subverting what's already been subverted, cartoon stick figures like Austin Powers and Johnny English will never feel fresh, even when they're actually saying funny things." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 4, 2008
 
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)76%
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1.5/4
 
"Shunning logic and compassion, The Fall is a bedtime story impeccably designed to flatter its own maker." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 4, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)57%
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"Half of the running time is devoted to clips both expected (The Good Earth) and refreshing (Marion Wong's undiscovered The Curse of Quon Gwon), the other to the musings of politely enraged talking heads." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)100%
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2/4
 
"How do I loathe the soul-crushingly predictable Made of Honor? Let me count the ways." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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3/4
 
"Adam Hootnick's Unsettled will not bring peace to the Middle East, but the documentary's goodwill is a corrective to Morgan Spurlock's repulsive Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Unsettled (2008)100%
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"If the film is anything, it is a gorgeous eyesore, and the image on the disc does justice to Julian Schnabel's over-direction." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)94%
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"To quote Julia Roberts's character in the film, Charlie Wilson's War is liberal...but not where it counts." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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2.5/4
 
"Image, like identity, is always coming into focus throughout Fugitive Pieces." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
Fugitive Pieces (2008)59%
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2/4
 
"Rather than imitate the postmodernism chic of Far from Heaven or the parodic silliness of Die, Mommie, Die!, Kalin settles for a nondescript style whose sole function is to stay out of Moore's way." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2008
 
Savage Grace (2008)44%
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2.5/4
 
"Like Puiu's later The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Stuff and Dough suggests that time, like procedure, is of the essence in Romania, though it lacks Lazarescu's gravitas and poignancy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 21, 2008
 
Stuff and Dough (2008)67%
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1.5/4
 
"An instruction manual of sorts that doesn't illuminate police corruption and violence so much as it revels in it." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 21, 2008
 
Tropa de Elite (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
"Dialogue is a blunt-force trauma in Hunt's directorial debut, which behaves like some avant-garde theatre production where all the stage directions are spoken aloud." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2008
 
Then She Found Me (2008)55%
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"If Godzilla was a manifestation of Cold War paranoia, the Cloverield monster is a reflection of the chic nihilism that is the J.J. Abrams brand." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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"Uno, dos, tres, throw this shamelessly derivative and inhumane freak show in the trash%u2014no matter how intensely its image and sound may deceive." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The Orphanage (2007)85%
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2/4
 
"Though not to be confused with Madonna's new single, Four Minutes is similarly built from cliché." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Four Minutes (2007)76%
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1.5/4
 
"Spurlock gives currency to the stereotype of the self-absorbed, globetrotting Ugly American." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 13, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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2/4
 
"Williams succumbs to one of the most odious habits of the documentary filmmaker by having Western voices translate the words of her talking heads." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 6, 2008
 
Young & Restless in China (2008)73%
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2/4
 
"The Visitor's allusions to our f----up state-of-affairs feel like gratuitous background noise." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 6, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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2/4
 
"Ari Libsker's film details how books like I Was Colonel Schultz's Private Bitch luridly conflated sex and violence." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 6, 2008
 
Stalags (2008)50%
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3/4
 
"Body of War is a gut-wrenching documentary experience." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 6, 2008
 
Body of War (2008)74%
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"[Director Wang Quan] still maintains an emotional remove from his subject, tracing the encroaching will of capitalism—as in the evolution from horses to motorcycles to cars—more clinically than poetically." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
Tuya's Marriage (2008)82%
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"Well-acted but rife with cliché." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Shelter (2008)53%
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"This misbegotten psychological portrait eagerly foregrounds Leto's excess blubber and histrionic blather, delivered like bad improv outside the Dakota building." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Chapter 27 (2008)21%
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1/4
 
"And you thought Miranda July was twee." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
The Toe Tactic (2008)n/a
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1/4
 
"Priceless, Pierre Salvadori's re-imagining (read: vulgarization) of Breakfast at Tiffany's, wears its contempt on its sleeve." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 23, 2008
 
Priceless (2008)85%
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2/4
 
"My Brother Is an Only Child moves so playfully and briskly you may not notice its glibness, which may have been director Daniele Luchetti's intent." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 23, 2008
 
My Brother is an Only Child (2008)90%
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2/4
 
"Praise Jesus that Tyler Perry found Angela Bassett." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)30%
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2/4
 
"Lance Hammer's Ballast suggests and suffers from the influence of the Dardenne brothers." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
Ballast (2008)n/a
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"Notoriety and financial reward are hard to come by in the world of b-boying, a reality illuminated by Benson Lee's documentary." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 18, 2008
 
Planet B-Boy (2008)90%
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"Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street gets a meaty DVD package fit for a cannibal." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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2/4
 
"Where other films kill you with exposition, Correction delights in providing none, which can be just as shrill." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Correction (2008)n/a
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"Teen horniness is not a crime but Southland Tales is." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2008
 
Southland Tales (2007)35%
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1.5/4
 
"Excuse me while I wash down the film's nasty aftertaste with some Broken English." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2008
 
Irina Palm (2008)72%
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3/4
 
"The love affairs of the film's characters aren't merely expressions of fluid sexual desire but an acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of human life." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2008
 
Love Songs (2008)66%
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1.5/4
 
"The film is not nearly as willful or poetic in its abstraction, dangling enough stray bits of context over audiences' heads to help us get by but still leaving both us and itself caught in a confused lull." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Un Homme Perdu (2007)n/a
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2.5/4
 
"Like Young Rebels before it, Slingshot Hip Hop illustrates how hip-hop appeals to the world's oppressed." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Slingshot Hip Hop (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
"If the insult of La Zona is not as significant as Paul Haggis's Crash, that's because director Rodrigo Plá doesn't trivialize a society's racial dynamics, only its class relations." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
La Zona (2007)63%
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1.5/4
 
"A dubious mix of suspense and social melodrama." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Frozen River (2008)80%
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"Respect is what Horton's preaching, and that's a message to be foisted on children guilt-free." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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"Nothing more than a dumb action picture with delusions of Johnnie To–dom." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Flash Point (2008)47%
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"Finally on DVD, Joe Wright's Atonement insipidly rewards those who blush whenever they think about a lady's jewels." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Atonement (2007)82%

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