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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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Total Reviews: 2470

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• New York Film Critics Online

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" College Road Trip hurts more than just the eyes and ears, it wreaks havoc on one's humane sensibilities." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
College Road Trip (2008)13%
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" A Broken Sole is a bad movie, worse theater." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
A Broken Sole (2007)n/a
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" Trade has cojones for trying to lay the kind of political guilt trip it does on us with its sham aesthetics and lurid telenovela-writ-large storyline." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Trade (2007)27%
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" Like overpriced costume jewelry, this tasteless, soulless contraption is sure to appeal to anyone who owns Celine Dion and Meatloaf albums." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 11, 2004
 
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)34%
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" If some films are made to order, the market-researched A Cinderella Story has the stretch marks to prove it." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2004
 
A Cinderella Story (2004)10%
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" Sleepover will do for tween girls what Max Keeble’s Big Move did for prepubescent boys: get them beat up at school." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 7, 2004
 
Sleepover (2004)15%
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" Michael Bay’s latest jingoistic fetish film, Bad Boys II, could be the most vile creation to come out of Hollywood since Patch Adams." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 14, 2003
 
Bad Boys II (2003)24%
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0/4
 
" Tailor-made for the K-Mart sect, K-PAX is a weepy regression fantasy for the psychologically half-conscious." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2001
 
K-Pax (2001)41%
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0/4
 
" Sanctimonious drivel." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2001
 
Pay It Forward (2000)39%
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9/100
 
" Think Animal House meets the Revenge of the Nerds and you have the essence of H.O.T.S.’ plot." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 25, 2001
 
H.O.T.S. (1979)33%
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.5/4
 
" A depressing pageant of bad dialogue, uninspired sword fights, corny getaways, and loads of completely unintentional sexual innuendo." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
The Last Legion (2007)17%
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" The storyline is almost too easy to rag on, what with its almost complete incoherence and dead-serious evocation of Mean Girls by way of McNamara's own Raise Your Voice." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 28, 2007
 
Bratz: The Movie (2007)7%
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.5/4
 
" Welcome to the rom-com in the age of Must Love Dogs." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2007
 
Because I Said So (2007)5%
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" Poseidon recognizes and encourages belief in the popular popcorn-movie theory of The Survival of the Whitest." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2006
 
Poseidon (2006)33%
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" A reminder of how low a filmmaker will sink to pander to our most corrupt tendencies." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2006
 
Final Destination 3 (2006)45%
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" More like Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Memoirs of a Geisha." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 3, 2005
 
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)35%
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" A Clear Channel shill." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2005
 
Supercross: The Movie (2005)5%
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.5/4
 
" Where's the lesson here? Don't let your kids out of the house? Don't ask for Ecstasy from strange men in the woods?" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2005
 
Chaos (2005)6%
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" To paraphrase some hackerish blurb I just heard on the shill-y E! network: Must Love Dogs is in the doghouse." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2005
 
Must Love Dogs (2005)35%
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.5/4
 
" Immoral and aesthetically bankrupt, Secuestro Express allows first-time director Jonathan Jakubowicz to exploit and sell out his Venezuelan culture." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 14, 2005
 
Secuestro Express (2005)52%
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" Moodysson doesn’t use this borrowed aesthetic to study what’s on his plate; he’s just out to cause a scene." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 9, 2005
 
A Hole in My Heart (2005)41%
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" An elaborate equation consisting entirely of bad horror tropes and trashy psychological symbolism." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2005
 
Hide and Seek (2005)13%
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" Solondz fancies himself a spokesman for the socially oppressed but does to celluloid what future serial killers of the world do to butterfly wings." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2004
 
Palindromes (2005)43%
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" Add Steven Brill's Without a Paddle to that id-grinding pig-pile that includes Sorority Boys and the American Pie films." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2004
 
Without A Paddle (2004)14%
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" For those who think there'e nothing funnier than yokels acting like idiots for 90 minutes straight." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 2, 2004
 
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)70%
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" Strictly for those who didn’t want to crawl into the fetal position and die when Shaggy grew breasts in Monsters Unleashed." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 19, 2004
 
Garfield the Movie (2004)14%
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.5/4
 
" This is a film that sees only in black-and-white." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 15, 2004
 
Saved! (2004)60%
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" Sundance twaddle of the highest degree." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2004
 
The United States of Leland (2004)32%
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.5/4
 
" Queens living on Castro and Christopher streets will lap this up, but isn’t this kind of we-are-family minstrel comedy getting kind of old?" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2004
 
Iron Ladies 2 (2003)n/a
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.5/4
 
" The war between America and the Middle East is in full metaphoric force in Vadim Perelman’s ridiculous eviction melodrama House of Sand and Fog." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2003
 
House of Sand and Fog (2003)76%
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.5/4
 
" Blood in. Blood out. Eye roll." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2003
 
The Order (2003)7%
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.5/4
 
" Bless Penelope Cruz's Spanish little heart (not to mention her right tear duct) that she can wail a line like “He opened me like a flower of pain” without busting a gut." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2003
 
Gothika (2003)15%
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" Sans the original's entire creative life force, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this "prequel" allows the lame gross-out to trump all romantic poignancy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2003
 
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)10%
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" Its unbearably loud and witless disposition conjures images of studio heads wanting to numb young test audiences into submission." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2003
 
Darkness Falls (2003)8%
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" Not only is the film's boo-yah opening sequence derivative of Beck's 13 Ghosts, so are all the music video tableau morts and cheesy one-liners." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 21, 2002
 
Ghost Ship (2002)13%
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.5/4
 
" Possibly the most maudlin horror film ever made, Dragonfly spells out its scares and faith-speak as if it were lecturing from atop Mt. Sinai." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2002
 
Dragonfly (2002)7%
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.5/4
 
" Sexless Britney is also blasé Britney and Crossroads might as well be a dry-hump through a Baby-Sitters Club book." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 12, 2002
 
Crossroads (2002)15%
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" Director Rob Hedden may have been onto something: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan, the series itself was always drowning in ****. " -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2004
 
Friday the 13th - Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)0%
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15/100
 
" This world, geographically located anywhere between Miami and Bogota, is full of lots of rotting cheese." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 12, 2002
 
Delta Force 2 (1990)0%
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19/100
 
" This lacklustre effort is a disappointment even to its B-movie predecessors." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 24, 2001
 
A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (1991)n/a
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1/5
 
" The story is scarcely grounded in the mechanics of real-world expression." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted May 18, 2007
 
Even Money (2007)23%
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1/5
 
" The movies have always asked us to suspend our disbelief, but Dead Silence demands our ignorance of its own derivations. A conflation of the horror genre's laziest tropes, plot angles and shorthands." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 20, 2007
 
Dead Silence (2007)18%
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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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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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" 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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" 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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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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1/4
 
" Even when 9/11 is invoked the film doesn't so much suggest a melodrama of the heart and spirit as it does an explosion at a fabric store." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 15, 2008
 
Brick Lane (2008)65%
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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)83%

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