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FRANK OCHIENG
PUBLICATION(S)
• Filmcritic.com
• Movie Eye
• rec.arts.movies.reviews
• TheWorldJournal.com
• World Voice News

BIOGRAPHY
Frank Ochieng has been devoted to writing and discussing film over the last several years. An observer of pop culture whose passion lies in the medium of film and television, Ochieng has been involved in the aspects of media in the Boston-area for quite some time.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 734
Total QuickRatings: 134

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Online Film Critics Society

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• Location: Based in Massachusetts (USA)


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Taxi to the Dark Side
3.5/4 United 93
3/4 Mission: Impossible III
2.5/4 Superman Returns
2/4 Poseidon
1.5/4 An American Haunting
1/4 Just My Luck
1/5 Delta Farce
1.5 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Taxi to the Dark Side
4/4 Match Point
4/4 Capote
4/4 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
4/4 Sideways
4/4 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4/4 The Piano Teacher
4/4 Y Tu Mama Tambien
4/4 What Time Is It There?
4/4 The Royal Tenenbaums
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WORST REVIEWED
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F Kangaroo Jack
D- In Praise of Love
1/5 Delta Farce
1/5 Jason X
1/4 Full of It
1/4 The Grudge 2
1/4 The Covenant
1/4 Zoom
1/4 Little Man
1/4 Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 91% of the time.

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2.5/4
 
"Travel is an ambitious, involving and extensive travelogue that challenges the imagination. [A] feasible fable that allows one to remain contemplative and connected " -- Movie Eye
Posted May 6, 2008
 
The Art of Travel (2008)n/a
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3/4
 
"...absorbing, mysterious, lyrical and distinctively titillating...a moody masterpiece that is thrillingly alarming...[a] tale of wandering hedonism and anguish" -- World Voice News
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Tre (2008)53%
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3.5/4
 
"Resourcefully intriguing, sentimental and cunningly relevant, Road to Victory juggles its revolving subject matters with effortless candor and consideration." -- Movie Eye
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Road to Victory (2007)83%
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4/4
 
"Utterly engrossing and captivating in its inquisitive scope. Provocative and polarizing, Taxi invites us to eavesdrop on a movement of mistrust and mischievous mayhem " -- World Voice News
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)100%
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2/4
 
"Pared-down with flat-footed characterizations, tacked on scenic shots of worldly venues and a choppy script that isn't disciplined enough to tap into our escapist imaginations, Jumper is a toothless travelogue that treks up the wrong charted route." -- TheWorldJournal.com
Posted Mar 2, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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2/4
 
"The cornea-deprived caper The Eye definitely sports a blurry vision in the meager horror B-movie sweepstakes...never sees clearly in its search for doomsday enlightenment. " -- TheWorldJournal.com
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
The Eye (2008)21%
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2/4
 
"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins feels like a rudimentary retread of previously outrageous "black attack" farces... needlessly cluttered, unfocused and pointless... " -- World Voice News
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)25%
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1.5/4
 
"The "fool's gold" in this case is the money being thrown down by the clueless moviegoer to see this trivial travelogue...Gold has no distinctive shine to its glitter " -- Movie Eye
Posted Feb 17, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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3.5/4
 
"Resourcefully intriguing, sentimental and cunningly relevant, Road to Victory juggles its revolving subject matters with effortless candor and consideration. " -- Movie Eye
Posted Feb 2, 2008
 
Road to Victory (2007)83%
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2/4
 
"[A] pointless payday for director Khourie's banal blank check comedy...a straining pseudo-hysterical heist flick that has all the giddy appeal of an empty bank draft. " -- World Voice News
Posted Jan 20, 2008
 
Mad Money (2008)20%
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3.5/4
 
"Carney's Once is definitely not enough...thoroughly inspirational, lyrical, charming and cheeky...a winning spark that ignites the lovelorn imagination. " -- TheWorldJournal.com
Posted Dec 15, 2007
 
Once (2007)97%
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3.5/4
 
"Wagner's penetrating narrative is poetically stimulating in its smart approach to its dialogue-driven excellence and standout performances. " -- World Voice News
Posted Dec 15, 2007
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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2/4
 
"Synthetically dull, manipulative and emotionally clunky, Baumbach's mawkish melodrama is a pretentious and garrulous character study that sits idly in its moping gibberish. " -- World Voice News
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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2/4
 
"George sustains this lightweight soap opera with the predictable pap of a Lifetime channel movie...this particular Road is certainly under construction. " -- Movie Eye
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Reservation Road (2007)36%
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3/4
 
"Hysterically potent, thought-provoking and deliciously nostalgic. Overall, the proposed chatter is warranted in the movingly impish Talk to Me. " -- TheWorldJournal.com
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Talk to Me (2007)81%
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3/4
 
"Despite Shelly's twist of disturbing fate, WAITRESS will be a memorialized nod of a little gem of a film that delivered a slice of pie to our hungry, entertaining expectations " -- Movie Eye
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Waitress (2007)89%
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3/4
 
"Cunningly perceptive and hip in its irresistible skepticism about the comforts and uncertainties of love, Juno is enchantingly bright and breezy in its effecting resonance." -- World Voice News
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Juno (2007)93%
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2/4
 
"The anemically kooky coal-in-the-stocking comedy feebly employs the same tactics. The toothless slapstick Fred Claus is merely "ho ho ho" and a bottle of dumb! " -- Movie Eye
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Fred Claus (2007)22%
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3/4
 
"Absorbingly touching and terrifying, A Mighty Heart is an intimate film but has the gutsy and reflective ingredients of sorrow, introspection and outrage." -- World Voice News
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
A Mighty Heart (2007)77%
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2/4
 
"Unfortunately for Martian Child this has more maple sap pouring out of it than a neglected Vermont tree looking for a good tapping." -- TheWorldJournal.com
Posted Nov 6, 2007
 
Martian Child (2007)29%
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2/4
 
"A spelling bee. A busy bee. A killer bee. But a Seinfeld bee? Sorry Jerry, your hapless honey-seeking hero doesn't create much of an animated buzz." -- World Voice News
Posted Nov 4, 2007
 
Bee Movie (2007)53%
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3/4
 
"American Gangster dares to look in the menacing mirror and reflect the scabrous priorities that define some handsomely yet disillusion others hauntingly." -- World Voice News
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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1.5/4
 
"Stultifying in its pseudo-sensationalistic schlock, this numbingly and nightmarish narrative has no legitimate creepy conviction beyond flexing its meaningless, morose muscles" -- World Voice News
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Saw IV (2007)19%
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2.5/4
 
"Heartwarming, quirky and quietly affecting...the overall package is peppered with an easy-going dosage of reflective schmaltz...warm, inviting and actively spirited..." -- World Voice News
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Dan in Real Life (2007)64%
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2/4
 
"...housing top-notch actors and their hefty paychecks but nothing else beyond the obviousness of the melodramatic malarkey it spouts with empty conviction." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Rendition (2007)47%
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3/4
 
"[A] tortured morality play that takes place on the salacious sidewalks where bluebloods and bombastic blue-collared souls equally pound the pavement in cynical unity." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Gone Baby Gone (2007)93%
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2.5/4
 
"Bleak, bombastic and belligerent, Slade's blood-busting bohemians will indeed take a caustic chunk out of your imaginative horrifying souls." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
30 Days of Night (2007)49%
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3/4
 
"Surprisingly, this insightful tearjerker is padded with expressive layers well beyond the average made-for-television sentiments because of the penetrating performances." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)65%
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1.5/4
 
"Let's face it, folks...we need another repetitive spoof movie like a piglet needs dirty fingernails...never registers beyond aping its lazy connect-the-dots jocularity." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
The Comebacks (2007)11%
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2/4
 
"Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 15, 2007
 
The Final Season (2007)23%
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3/4
 
"Lyrical and reflective, Married is an entertaining inquiry into that everlasting hunt for elusive marital bliss and the empty-hearted casualties that are all too familiar with its unpredictability." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (2007)47%
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2/4
 
"A sluggishly regurgitation of the noteworthy 70's-style cop dramas. The nocturnal naughtiness behind Gray's mean streets saga begs for a compelling ounce of creative daylight" -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
We Own The Night (2007)55%
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2/4
 
"Somehow, the Beatles' precious diamonds are glaringly missing from Lucy's sky if not in Julie's unevenly charismatic but cluttered and customary Universe." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
Across the Universe (2007)53%
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1.5/4
 
"Extinction is basically a robotic and wretched screen-sized visual video game that never challenges or stimulates the audience's rush for genuine outrageous freakiness." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 9, 2007
 
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)22%
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3.5/4
 
"[An] intimate look at a tragic footnote in entertainment. A moody yet strangely melodic concoction about creativity and confusion in an overwhelming abyss of artistic isolation" -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 8, 2007
 
Control (2007)87%
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2/4
 
"Cunningham's scope is myopic and minimal in a mystical yet meandering piece of malarkey that masquerades as a long-winded Tolkien treasure hunt for teenage thrill-seekers." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 8, 2007
 
The Seeker (2007)13%
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1.5/4
 
"The Farrellys' The Heartbreak Kid is a seemingly sketchy and erratic farce that begs for some of the wayward cinematic siblings' trademark outlandish quirkiness." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)29%
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2/4
 
"Feast does nothing concrete to make us embrace this uneven romancer that has all the giddy spirit of a melted box of chocolates." -- World Voice News
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Feast of Love (2007)41%
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2/4
 
"Sappy and simplistic, The Game Plan belongs on the sidelines of stale cotton candy creativity." -- World Voice News
Posted Sep 27, 2007
 
The Game Plan (2007)27%
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3/4
 
"Aside from the movie's mouthful title, this [is a] contemplative and carousing exposition. [The] prairie-induced pathos is plenty to digest with absolute reverence." -- World Voice News
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)75%
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1.5/4
 
"[A] fetid romantic comedy...In short, if it weren't for bad Luck then the chump Chuck wouldn't have any cinematic luck at all." -- World Voice News
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
Good Luck Chuck (2007)3%
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2/4
 
"Jordan's Brave delves into a showy yet sluggish crime drama that incorporates all the cliched parts of a fatalistic fantasy audiences have seen over and over." -- World Voice News
Posted Sep 17, 2007
 
The Brave One (2007)43%
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2/4
 
"Generically silly-coated and pointless, [this] "gym teacher from hell" frivolity has all the freshness of stale athletic socks tucked away in a pimple-faced boy's locker." -- Movie Eye
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
Mr. Woodcock (2007)13%
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3.5/4
 
"Sprawling, intriguing and handsomely shot, Yuma builds its gruff tension while being reminiscent of the frothy frontier flicks from yesteryear." -- TheWorldJournal.com
Posted Sep 7, 2007
 
3:10 to Yuma (2007)89%
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3/4
 
"The method to the madness behind Shoot 'Em Up is etched in stone from a surreal popcorn perspective drenched in cynicism and silliness." -- Movie Eye
Posted Sep 7, 2007
 
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)67%
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2/4
 
"...blood-spilling banality...the sensationalism behind Zombie's directorial demeanor is merely a follow-the-dots frightfest with an exaggerated twitching disorder." -- TheWorldJournal.com
Posted Sep 5, 2007
 
Halloween (2007)27%
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2/4
 
"Look, it could have been worst if the premise involved yak racing so we need to thank our lucky stars...[this] paddle-swinging piece of piffle leaves much to be desired." -- Movie Eye
Posted Sep 1, 2007
 
Balls of Fury (2007)23%
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3/4
 
"...subversively spry...one will come away with a strange sense of raunchy resonance that hasn't been quite felt before in aimless fratboy flatulent farces." -- Movie Eye
Posted Sep 1, 2007
 
Superbad (2007)87%

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