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ED GONZALEZ
PUBLICATION(S)
• Apollo Guide
• City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
• House Next Door
• L.A. Weekly
• 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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STATS
Total Reviews: 2470

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• Online Film Critics Society
• New York Film Critics Online

OTHER INFO
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• Location: Weehawken, NJ


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4  I Am Cuba
3/4  Photos In the City of Silvia
2.5/4  Canvas
2/4  Silent Light
1.5/4  Elizabeth: The Golden Age
1/4  Rendition
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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2/4
 
" The film means well, but it's hardly cutting, made notable only by Bernett's performance." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2008
 
Breakfast with Scot (2008)56%
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" It's always cool to spend time with Sleeping Beauty, but without a game that allows you to determine if you're more like Aurora or Maleficent, this Platinum Edition package falls just shy of definitive." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2008
 
Sleeping Beauty (1959)85%
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" Fireproof stops becoming relatable to us all and only to the already, or easily, indoctrinated." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Fireproof (2008)42%
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2/4
 
" Changeling announces itself as an autopsy of an expansive body of lies that it never actually performs, and as such the surprisingly graceless and phony aesthetic is what lingers most." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2008
 
Changeling (2008)36%
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1/4
 
" Essentially the equivalent of a news story where the facts are still forthcoming." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 
Bullet in the Head (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
" This ain't Elephant, even if it looks like one." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 
Afterschool (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
" Or, rather, Allah Made Me Not Funny." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2008
 
Allah Made Me Funny (2008)52%
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2/4
 
" What are these two privileged teens doing besides recreating scenes from Jean-Luc Godard's canon?" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 27, 2008
 
Voy a Explotar (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
" A more interesting exposé would have elaborated on the dreams of film schoolers and how Singer's ostensibly privileged upbringing gives him an advantage few in his league ever get." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2008
 
Unspooled (2008)n/a
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2.5/4
 
" As fabulous, scraggly, tough-minded, star-eyed and conflicted as the queen it documents." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2008
 
The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela (2008)50%
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" A preferable alternative would be watching Debbie Does Dallas while squirting Hershey's Syrup into my mouth." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Mother of Tears (2008)48%
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" You may appreciate the ballsy critique of a nation's callous obsession with development and reconstruction." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Taking Father Home (2008)n/a
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" Tarr struggles to adapt to an outmoded genre and, in the end, produces his least personal work to date." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
The Man from London (2008)62%
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3/4
 
" This gangly brunette is bananas, and the music on the soundtrack is perfectly in sync with her kooky mode of social expression, so that she suggests Mary Pickford as well as Polly Jean Harvey." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)97%
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2/4
 
" Argues that nearly 60,000 United States armed forces wouldn't have lost their lives in Vietnam had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated. Duh." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 
Virtual JFK (2008)70%
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1.5/4
 
" It seems disingenuous to call Fraulein a film when it's more like a glossy fashion magazine layout." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2008
 
Fraulein (2008)67%
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1/4
 
" Suggests a Black Snake Moan origin story as conceived by Blanche Devereaux." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2008
 
Hounddog (2008)16%
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1/4
 
" A kissing cousin of Todd Field and Todd Solondz, Ball suffocates audiences with a guttersniping view or suburban life, a Haggassian act of exploitation that misrepresents even the most fundamental modes of human interaction." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 7, 2008
 
Towelhead (2008)47%
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2/4
 
" Director Paul Krik would prefer if we all compared his feature-length debut to the practically minimalist The Parallax View, but Able Danger is really a hipster version of Soderbergh's inane The Good German." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 7, 2008
 
Able Danger (2008)n/a
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2.5/4
 
" The Pool conveys a sense of having been made, not found, but Smith avoids mawkishness and has an ear for how young people speak and relate to one another." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
The Pool (2008)95%
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" Baby Mama confirms that if Tina Fey is in something she didn't write herself, it just ain't funny." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 31, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)62%
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" My Mexican Shivah kvetches its way through an insipid vision of cross-cultural conflict." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 30, 2008
 
My Mexican Shivah (2008)33%
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" This mincing bad time is built entirely around shrill pop-culture references." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
Another Gay Sequel (2008)24%
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" Redbelt may or may not be David Mamet's best feature, but it is most definitely his least sycophantically written." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)70%
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1.5/4
 
" An intellectual and philosophical lost cause." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)53%
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" What should have been a gripping and informative documentary experience is made unwatchable with crappy stop-motion animation." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Chicago 10 (2008)78%
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2/4
 
" Mostly confirms how closely entwined modern-art practices are with intellectual wankitude." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
Richard Serra: Thinking On Your Feet (2005)20%
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" These flies are meant to be one of a kind but they're just pop-culture magpies." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Fly Me To The Moon (2008)17%
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2/4
 
" One of those Chabrol productions perched awkwardly between thriller and comedy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2008
 
A Girl Cut in Two (2008)85%
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2.5/4
 
" The film finds its footing whenever Johnny Coleman, professor of African-American Studies and Fine Arts at Oberlin College in Ohio, speaks openly about Wagner's troublesome images and the appeal those images have for whites." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 10, 2008
 
One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008)67%
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2/4
 
" For artistic representation, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer gets a near-perfect score, less so for its restrained sense of fun." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 10, 2008
 
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008)67%
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1/4
 
" Vicky Cristina Barcelona is basically the most arrogant film of the year, an occasion for Allen to feign interest in challenging heteronormic ideals when all he's doing is advancing a simplified view of female sexual agency." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)80%
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" Smart People is...nah, too easy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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" Brand Upon the Brain! may or may not be your cup of tea, but the title is fitting: You'll never forget it." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)91%
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" Felon won't rock your world but may endear you to more than just Stephen Dorff's abdominal muscles." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Felon (2008)61%
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" Irina Palm blows but Marianne Faithfull gives it her all." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Irina Palm (2008)72%
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" The image and sound, like the hearty collection of extras, are fit for an Oscar-winner." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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" Well, at least its better than Chapter 27." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)35%
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" Brings to mind the chorus to one of the few songs ("Smalltown Boy") from the '80s that Steve Barron wasn't responsible for turning into a music video: "Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away."" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Choking Man (2007)43%
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3/4
 
" The Spanish director gives an almost Wongian expression to the way people seduce one another." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Elegy (2008)74%
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3/4
 
" A series of elegiac episodes from the life and mind of the fantabulous rock n' roll chanteuse and poetess." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)68%
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1.5/4
 
" After Sideways and now Bottle Shock, it's official: I love wine as much as I hate movies about people who love wine." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)45%
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1.5/4
 
" For anyone who preferred Oliver Bean to Malcolm in the Middle." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2008
 
Sixty Six (2008)64%
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2.5/4
 
" The film's production company is appropriately called Sensory Overload, but America the Beautiful is never boring in spite of its dizzying bombardment of sometimes familiar information." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2008
 
America The Beautiful (2008)70%
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" 21, in which Kevin Spacey lecherously sizes up a line of female strippers at a Vegas casino, now serves as the greatest testament to the man's talent as an actor." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2008
 
21 (2008)35%
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3/4
 
" Man on Wire becomes a thrilling study in contrast, succeeding not only at extolling Philippe's superhuman performance but attesting to the achievements of those who similarly defied death to give the man the stage he walked on." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2008
 
Man on Wire (2008)100%
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2.5/4
 
" With Back to Normandy, a nostalgic travelogue with philosophical aspirations, director Nicolas Philibert not only returns to the scene of a crime but the scene of a movie shoot." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2008
 
Back to Normandy (2008)88%
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2.5/4
 
" Chimp-related puns and maxims naturally abound, as do references to such unchildlike things as rhetorical questions and NFL expansion teams, and delivered at a clip that's alternately lively and insecure." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Space Chimps (2008)35%
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1/4
 
" Jesus, Bruno is so going to blow this guy out of the water." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
The Doorman (2008)28%
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" The film is confirmation of Paul Haggis's predilection for exploitation and easy sentimentality." -- House Next Door
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)73%

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