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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
CHRIS BARSANTI
Chris Barsanti

PUBLICATION(S)
• Cineman Syndicate
• Citysearch
• Elites TV
• Film Journal International
• Film Threat
• Filmcritic.com
• MovieWeb
• PopMatters
• Slant Magazine
• ToxicUniverse.com

BIOGRAPHY
Chris Barsanti is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and New York Film Critics Online. Currently he is a senior writer for filmcritic.com and also writes for Film Journal International, Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Reader, Minneapolis' City Pages, and Publishers Weekly.
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CONTACT INFO
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STATS
Total Reviews: 441
Total QuickRatings: 42

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

OTHER INFO
• Official Website(s)
• Location: New York


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 The Butcher Boy
4.5/5 Inside Man
9/10 A Scanner Darkly
4/5 Street Fight
8/10 Bonnie and Clyde
3.5/5 The King
3/5 Friends With Money
2.5/5 Forbidden Planet
2/5 American Dreamz
1.5/5 The Oh in Ohio
1/5 Tideland
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 Planet Earth - The Complete Collection
5/5 Persepolis
5/5 The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season
5/5 There Will Be Blood
5/5 2001: A Space Odyssey
5/5 Rio Bravo
5/5 The Butcher Boy
5/5 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5/5 The Wages of Fear
5/5 Winter Soldier
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5 Tideland
1/5 Anatomy of Hell
1/5 Games People Play: New York
1/5 S.W.A.T.
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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4/5
 
"as fresh as the day it was minted." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 8, 2008
 
On the Town (1949)93%
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5/5
 
"less a nature show than a series of snapshots of reasons to live." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 3, 2008
 
Planet Earth - The Complete Collection (2007)n/a
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8/10
 
"Those returning to Bonnie and Clyde with this well-deserved special edition could well be shocked by how, well, shocking it is." -- PopMatters
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)93%
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3.5/5
 
"thoughtful" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Constantine's Sword (2008)75%
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"A completely charming piece of work that's as unassuming and winning as the man himself." -- Film Journal International
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2008)64%
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"A surprisingly engaging piece of fluff." -- Film Journal International
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Nana (2005)60%
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3/5
 
"conjures up a handful of winsome delights in its brief running time" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Jellyfish (2008)81%
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3.5/5
 
"mostly a success, though set apart from Wong's previous work in that it won't have people coming back over and over again" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)48%
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3/5
 
"occasionally seems like an MTV/Varsity Blues pop variation of In the Valley of Elah" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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"There's no escaping the fact that the film, well-crafted though it may be, is ultimately just as slow as the proverbial molasses." -- Film Journal International
Posted Mar 26, 2008
 
Shotgun Stories (2007)87%
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"A vibrant account of a remarkable place that will find a warm home in the heart of just about any music fan." -- Film Journal International
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008)89%
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3/5
 
"There are about two or three different films fighting for control of the screen during David Gordon Green's powerful but flawed Snow Angels" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Snow Angels (2008)68%
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"A dazzling, quietly heartrending work." -- Film Journal International
Posted Mar 5, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)78%
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"Even considering its failings on a creative level, Burning the Future remains a film certainly worth seeing." -- Film Journal International
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
Burning the Future: Coal in America (2008)89%
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3.5/5
 
"The well-directed cast competently handles the genre material" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 1, 2008
 
Jar City (2008)89%
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2.5/5
 
"The first sign that somebody will be wholly unable to effectively communicate with kids today is when they refer to them as "kids today."" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Chicago 10 (2008)77%
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"One of the great documentaries of our time, The Unforeseen is a rapturous nightmare." -- Film Journal International
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
The Unforeseen (2007)85%
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4/5
 
"a fantastic start to a new career." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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4/5
 
"The dreadful silence that has followed much of the debate, and the general lack of interest in such necessary films like Taxi to the Dark Side, doesn't give much reason for hope." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 3, 2008
 
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)100%
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2/5
 
"little more than a cursory glance at a particularly eventful period in history, one that deserves art of a more thoughtful nature." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
The Witnesses (2008)85%
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2.5/5
 
"surprisingly tedious" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
An Affair to Remember (1957)64%
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"An unsparingly personal though also warmly charitable portrait of an impossible man." -- Film Journal International
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
Doc (2008)78%
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2.5/5
 
"whatever meaning the film might have had about China's disaffected, new striving capitalists is lost in the chaos and clutter" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Lost in Beijing (2008)47%
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1.5/5
 
"a well-worn piece of formula produced with just enough professionalism to make it clear that those who made it should have known better" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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"Although the film is mindful of Milestone and Irvin's epics of squandered lives, its focus is tighter and less battle-charged, more Samuel Beckett than Oliver Stone." -- Film Journal International
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Beaufort (2008)86%
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"Allen's writing here is so lacking in vigor and purpose that much of the film seems to be on nothing more than autopilot, a faded and tissue-paper-thin retread from a filmmaker who should know better." -- Film Journal International
Posted Dec 31, 2007
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)50%
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2/5
 
"so lacking in punch or drive that you just start waiting for the thing to end" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 24, 2007
 
Honeydripper (2007)67%
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5/5
 
"A work of art that's light as a feather. A true masterpiece." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 24, 2007
 
Persepolis (2007)95%
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2/5
 
"as though the filmmakers were trying to cram the worst of Hollywood into one picture" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 24, 2007
 
The Bucket List (2007)40%
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5/5
 
"...nothing short of emotionally devastating." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season ()n/a
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5/5
 
"A bloody-fanged, no-prisoners take on Manifest Destiny greed ... In short: an all-American tale." -- ToxicUniverse.com
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)91%
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3/5
 
"relies heavily on gimmicky turns in the action leading toward teary crescendos" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)66%
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9/10
 
"Being suppressed by those who wanted [I Am Cuba] made in the first place is a vindication of sorts. Mere propaganda only reinforces the status quo. True art is revolutionary." -- PopMatters
Posted Dec 12, 2007
 
I Am Cuba (1964)100%
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3.5/5
 
"delivers a certain kind of Midwestern pathos that's understated almost to the point of invisibility" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Grace is Gone (2007)58%
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4/5
 
"For a portrait of cinematic obsession and unbridled megalomania... one would be hard pressed to find a more satisfying piece of work than Hearts of Darkness" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)100%
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3/5
 
"a smart and honestly ugly film, with well-toned dialogue and an acute understanding of neurotic compulsion... a minor piece of work" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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"The pretense of authenticity which all the sub-vérité stylings are meant to imply don't lend much credibility to a film that couldn't much be bothered with realism." -- Film Journal International
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Redacted (2007)44%
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"Ultimately no more than an agglomeration of such high-caloric, giddy treats." -- Film Journal International
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Southland Tales (2007)35%
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"It's not to say that the filmmakers should have resorted to pulp dramatics, but in correctly straining to not exploit their subjects, they forgot to fill in the spaces left behind." -- Film Journal International
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Out of the Blue (2007)71%
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5/5
 
"2001 certainly is a colossal bore, unless you're on its wavelength, in which case it's one of the greatest films of all time." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)96%
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2.5/5
 
"For all the good intentions on show here, Darfur Now is not much of a film." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Darfur Now (2007)69%
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4/5
 
"a loving filmic portrait" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)87%
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2.5/5
 
"takes what should have been a mesmerizing slice of urban historical grit and grinds it into roughly two hours of standard issue cinema" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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3.5/5
 
"Maybe the paintings (many of which are quite extraordinarily complex and beautiful) are indeed collaborations of a sort between Mark and Marla; should it matter?" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)93%
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"It's not to say that the filmmakers should have resorted to pulp dramatics, but in correctly straining to not exploit their subjects, they forgot to fill in the spaces left behind." -- Film Journal International
Posted Oct 22, 2007
 
Out of the Blue (2007)90%
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3/5
 
"a worthy distraction from the messy realities of life." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 9, 2007
 
Entourage - Season 3, Part 2 (2007)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"Will reduce a number of people in any audience to quivering jelly." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 29, 2007
 
The Orphanage (2007)85%
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"Although the last scene is an extraordinarily disturbing one, it can't quite erase the letdown of what immediately precedes it." -- Film Journal International
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
The Kingdom (2007)51%
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2/5
 
"A jarring mess of a movie, one that ends up seeming like no more than a particularly heavy episode of the CBS kidnapping drama Without a Trace." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
Trade (2007)27%
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4/5
 
"takes a smart and terrifying scenario and plays it out to the logical extreme" -- MovieWeb
Posted Sep 18, 2007
 
The Last Winter (2007)78%

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