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JASON CLARK
PUBLICATION(S)
• Matinee Magazine
• Premiere Magazine
• Slant Magazine

BIOGRAPHY
Jason Clark is a regular contributor to Entertainment Weekly and Slant Magazine. He also has written for Premiere, HX and All-Movie Guide.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 212
Total QuickRatings: 15

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• Location: Astoria, NY


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A+ All About Eve
A Southern Comfort
4/4 Fay Grim
A- Thirteen Days
3.5/4 The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
B+ Startup.com
3/4 Conversation(s) with Other Women
B All the Pretty Horses
2.5/4 Memories of Murder
B- The Closet
C+ American Pimp
2/4 The Edukators
C Woman on Top
1.5/4 Proof
C- Wet Hot American Summer
D+ Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
1/4 Bobby
D A Beautiful Mind
.5/4 Driving Lessons
D- Sexy Beast
F Antitrust
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Fay Grim
A No Such Thing
A Velvet Goldmine
A The Filth and the Fury
A Raging Bull
A Southern Comfort
A+ All About Eve
A- Roger Dodger
A- Another Day in Paradise
A- Gosford Park
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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F 8MM
F Importance of Being Earnest
F Some Body
F Super Troopers
F Love & Sex
F Trick
F Lumumba
F Antitrust
D- Sweet Home Alabama
D- Storytelling
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

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1.5/4
 
"Self-contained and silly." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 18, 2007
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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2/4
 
"Its 99 minutes could have easily been about 65 if you removed all of the celebrity do-gooder filler." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Darfur Now (2007)69%
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1.5/4
 
"Such TV-movie style set-ups may have worked better in the original novel, but on the silver screen play as an eye-rolling chore." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Reservation Road (2007)36%
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2/4
 
"Taymor's signatures are visible throughout, but she is clearly trying hard to gussy up a screenplay that plays more like The Wonder Years without the cultural insight." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2007
 
Across the Universe (2007)53%
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3.5/4
 
"The subtitle of the film is actually an unneeded addition since what the film highlights with piercing exactitude are the lengths grown men won't go to in the long run to prove themselves." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)97%
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1.5/4
 
"Not to put too fine a point on it, but this movie throws like a girl." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 29, 2007
 
Becoming Jane (2007)57%
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3/4
 
"In doing some constructive nip/tuck and staging the musical numbers in splashy old-musical style, Shankman has put some of the bang back into the genre." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 15, 2007
 
Hairspray (2007)92%
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1.5/4
 
"Shrieking like a banshee has unfortunately become Brenda Blethyn's stock in trade ever since her remarkable breakout performance in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2007
 
Introducing The Dwights (2007)52%
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1/4
 
"A turgid, droopy bore." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2007
 
Lady Chatterley (2007)74%
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2.5/4
 
"Basically a hipster's pastiche of every chick flick you've ever seen except with expert breeding, but it doesn't completely erase the feeling of déjà vu." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 17, 2007
 
Broken English (2007)64%
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1.5/4
 
"A feeble entry into the teen-movie lexicon." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 23, 2007
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)53%
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3/4
 
"Even when he's worked with escalated budgets, John Dahl has retained his playful noir side." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 19, 2007
 
You Kill Me (2007)79%
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3/4
 
"A notable addition to highly under-populated field of documentaries about the inner mechanics of putting on a great big show." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2007
 
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)88%
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1.5/4
 
"Everything's Gone Green just barely hangs there in that low-watt Canadian film world deadpan." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 5, 2007
 
Everything's Gone Green (2007)69%
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3/4
 
"Tells a distinctly (sometimes wrenching) feminine tale without making it only relative to Oprah watchers and talk-show bingers." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 30, 2007
 
Stephanie Daley (2007)89%
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4/4
 
"Hartley miraculously manages to make a grandly entertaining (and relevant) movie that never seems as if it's being too cloying." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2007
 
Fay Grim (2007)44%
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1/4
 
"It's awfully hard to review a movie called The Hawk is Dying without avoiding bird synonyms and metaphors." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2007
 
The Hawk Is Dying (2007)27%
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1/4
 
"Zellweger's face has utterly frozen into a human version of a scrunchie, and appears as if it will shatter into 1,000 pieces if an honest smile were to break out." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2006
 
Miss Potter (2006)65%
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2.5/4
 
"If only the movie's early momentum were kept intact." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2006
 
Notes on a Scandal (2006)87%
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2/4
 
"The Painted Veil is more or less from the school of motion picture that Pauline Kael used to say "reeks of quality."" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 1, 2006
 
The Painted Veil (2006)75%
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2.5/4
 
"The heavy lifting is left mainly to the performers, who virtually all make the grade. It's the director that could use a little detention." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2006
 
The History Boys (2006)63%
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2/4
 
"This overcrowded and under-funny assault on Hollywood and the Academy Awards is the latest in Guest's comedy factory of diminishing returns, and there is very little here you haven't seen before." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2006
 
For Your Consideration (2006)51%
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1/4
 
"The movie has no real story to speak of, just a series of barely connected vignettes over the 24-hour period before RFK's demise, only some of which have anything to do with the ever-changing political climate of the early 1960s." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2006
 
Bobby (2006)45%
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.5/4
 
"Driving Lessons is the type of movie that makes you want to single-handedly dismantle the British film industry." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2006
 
Driving Lessons (2006)49%
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1.5/4
 
"Will there ever be a decent movie made about any part of Ludwig van Beethoven's life?" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2006
 
Copying Beethoven (2006)26%
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2/4
 
"Sherrybaby is never really convincing outside of Gyllenhaal's portrayal." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 23, 2006
 
Sherrybaby (2006)73%
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3/4
 
"It's hard to think of a recent movie that nails the circular games of adults trying to get laid and then talking their way out of it." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 14, 2006
 
Conversation(s) with Other Women (2006)73%
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2/4
 
"Another product of the woefully inadequate InDigEnt company, who have almost never turned out an agreeable movie, Lonesome Jim feels as if it's from an earlier time and not in a good way." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2006
 
Lonesome Jim (2006)58%
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2.5/4
 
"One would have to be made of stone not to respond to at least something in this vivid score, and it sounds marvelous." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 20, 2005
 
Rent (2005)48%
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2/4
 
"Writer Deborah Moggach's adaptation is sleek but lacks the judiciousness Emma Thompson brought to her terrific screenplay for Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 31, 2005
 
Pride and Prejudice (2005)85%
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2/4
 
"MacLaine's are the only shoes anyone could ever truly want to be in here. " -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2005
 
In Her Shoes (2005)75%
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2/4
 
"A rather schizo piece of filmmaking that is too busy to ever be dull, but the only Prize in the foreseen future for it might be the boob tube. " -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2005
 
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)58%
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1.5/4
 
"Just as he kept Shakespeare in Love years ago from leaping into greatness with his banal direction, Madden similarly keeps things stately and sleepy here." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2005
 
Proof (2005)64%
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2/4
 
"A well-meaning but direly protracted German/Austrian trifle." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2005
 
The Edukators (2005)68%
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2.5/4
 
"For a film about women getting brutally attacked and dispatched, the movie has no sense of urgency or underlying dread." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 17, 2005
 
Memories of Murder (2003)88%
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B
 
Click here to read article -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Apr 8, 2003
 
Blood Simple (1984)98%
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"It may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie’s various victimized audience members after a while, but it also happens to be the movie’s most admirable quality" -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 12, 2002
 
The Jimmy Show (2002)40%
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"directed in a flashy, empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name" -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 6, 2002
 
Empire (2002)22%
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"The film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future Quentin Tarantino picture" -- Premiere Magazine
Posted Dec 3, 2002
 
Dead or Alive: Final (2002)40%
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"Even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director, it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2002
 
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)77%
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"All the dough in the world doesn't disguise hollow, simplistic storytelling" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2002
 
Spider-Man (2002)90%
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"It's the kind of rare movie that absolutely never needed improving" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Oct 26, 2002
 
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial The 20th Anniversary (2002)98%
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"it’s one of the best films ever made about disaffected youth and the pains of discovering your place in society" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2002
 
Saturday Night Fever (1977)97%
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"Oft-described as the antidote to American Pie-type sex comedies, it actually has a bundle in common with them, as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2002
 
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)91%
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"This is the kind of woeful trash heap where you have to say that the best thing about it is Matthew Lillard" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2002
 
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002)28%
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D-
 
"Here is a movie that asks us to adore a miserable young woman who wrecks lives, treats people like discarded Biore strips and embodies the absolute worst side of metropolitan arrogance" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Oct 8, 2002
 
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)37%
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"Bullock’s complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2002
 
Murder by Numbers (2002)30%
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"a History Channel pageant masquerading as a full-blooded film" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2002
 
Enigma (2002)73%
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"The worst kind of independent; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2002
 
Big Bad Love (2002)42%
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"Opaque, tiresome" -- Matinee Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2002
 
Morvern Callar (2002)84%

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