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JOSHUA VASQUEZ
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• Slant Magazine

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A The Blair Witch Project
4/4 Monsieur Verdoux
A- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3.5/4 The Triplets of Belleville
B+ Chicken Run
3/4 The Fog of War
B The World Is Not Enough
2.5/4 Timeline
B- The Mummy Returns
C+ Sweet November
2/4 Looney Tunes - Back in Action
C Almost Famous
1.5/4 Underworld
C- What Lies Beneath
D+ Titus
1/4 Runaway Jury
D Crazy/Beautiful
.5/4 Son of the Mask
D- Scary Movie
F Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 F For Fake
4/4 The Black Cat
4/4 Monsieur Verdoux
A The Powerpuff Girls Movie
A Galaxy Quest
A Sleepy Hollow
A The Blair Witch Project
A- The Cell
A- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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F Mr. Deeds
F The Forsaken
F Bats
F The Contender
F Teaching Mrs. Tingle
F Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
D- The Scorpion King
D- Dracula 2000
D- Scary Movie
.5/4 Son of the Mask
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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"Now that the film is back in the stores, perhaps it can be rediscovered. Too bad that's all one can positively say about this feature-less DVD." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2007
 
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)59%
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"The set is a fine addition to the ever-growing legion of television programs hording the shelves at your local retailer." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2005
 
The West Wing - The Complete Fourth Season (2002-2003)n/a
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.5/4
 
"Remarkably inept." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2005
 
Son of the Mask (2005)5%
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4/4
 
"F for Fake is one of the more wistfully humorous of Welles’s wrestlings with reality." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2005
 
F For Fake (1976)88%
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2.5/4
 
"A documentary of quiet, introspective charm." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2005
 
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)95%
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2.5/4
 
"A bit too creakingly stiff in its allegory, but the film's refusal to provide simple answers is touchingly appropriate." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 26, 2005
 
Travellers & Magicians (2005)94%
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"An enjoyable DVD release of a wonderfully strange film." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
 
The Saddest Music in the World (2004)78%
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3/4
 
"Guy Maddin’s snow globe cinema, hermetically sealed in ghostly adoration of silent cinema, is well matched to this darkly comic fable." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
 
The Saddest Music in the World (2004)78%
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"While perhaps not as necessary a purchase as the release of It’s Alive, the two-for-the-price-of-one approach of this DVD is certainly appealing." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
 
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1986)57%
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2/4
 
"Stretches the darkly comedic aspects of the trilogy to the breaking point." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
 
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1986)57%
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"While perhaps not as necessary a purchase as the release of It’s Alive, the two-for-the-price-of-one approach of this DVD is certainly appealing." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
 
It Lives Again (1978)38%
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3/4
 
"The second and third parts of Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive trilogy are by turns silly and sublime." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2004
 
It Lives Again (1978)38%
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"If not as packed with extras as one may have hoped, this It’s Alive DVD is a much-welcomed event." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2004
 
It's Alive (1974)67%
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3.5/4
 
"One part allegory on familial tensions and one part commentary on environmental and biological poisoning." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2004
 
It's Alive (1974)67%
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4/4
 
"The Black Cat’s impressionist wasteland is composed of equal parts severe allegory and pulp poetry." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 29, 2004
 
The Black Cat (1934)87%
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"Given the rabid love so many fans have for the show, this set will undoubtedly fly off the shelves. " -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2004
 
Batman: The Animated Series - Vol. 1 (1992-1995)n/a
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"The lack of extras may be something to write to Warner Bros. about but not something that should dissuade a fan from picking this one up." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
 
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1970)n/a
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3.5/4
 
"One of the finest of the seven entries in Hammer’s Frankenstein cycle." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
 
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1970)n/a
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"A must! Taste the Blood of Dracula is not only one of best in the Christopher Lee Dracula series but one of Hammer’s best overall productions." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
 
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)63%
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3/4
 
"Taste the Blood of Dracula is unusual in that it keeps Dracula somewhat on the sidelines." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2004
 
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)63%
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"The DVD provides enough substantive insight into the contemporary Hollywood filmmaking process." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2004
 
Panic Room (2002)77%
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4/4
 
"The film is not only an account of the moral slippage of one man but the record of a far larger, seemingly uncontrollable escalation." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2004
 
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)96%
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3/4
 
"Concerned with detailing the various interactions of an unsettling, fragile humanity with its own technology." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2004
 
Robot Stories (2004)71%
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2/4
 
"Director Joseph Kahn's Torque is inoffensively diverting—it's neither a work of inspired genre genius or mere manipulative commercial trash." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 12, 2004
 
Torque (2004)23%
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1.5/4
 
"The possibilities of Dick’s premise are never really exploited, just used as the framework for limp action set-pieces." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2003
 
Paycheck (2003)27%
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3.5/4
 
"The city of Belleville is like some nocturnal amalgam of Paris and New York, on the edge of a vast sea and of the world itself." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 18, 2003
 
The Triplets of Belleville (2003)94%
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3/4
 
"There is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 5, 2003
 
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)59%
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2.5/4
 
"The attempt to stay true to a historically minded adventure by maintaining a strangely subdued tone in terms of action just doesn’t work." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2003
 
Timeline (2003)10%
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1/4
 
"Bad Santa tries to be as vulgar and offensive as possible so that it might somehow justify the inevitability of its own happy ending." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2003
 
Bad Santa (2003)77%
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"If you’re a fan of the show, then the disc will be worth buying, especially when it inevitably goes on sale." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 20, 2003
 
Three's Company - Season 1 (1977)n/a
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2/4
 
"The lunacy isn’t inspired and the film never imitates the sharp comedic wit so frequently on display in the works of Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, and Chuck Jones." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 11, 2003
 
Looney Tunes - Back in Action (2003)57%
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"Just to have the films on DVD is enough to give the set an overall positive rating." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 29, 2003
 
Indiana Jones - The Adventure Collection (1981-1989)100%
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1/4
 
"The humor is confined to watching protagonists smack around the film’s monster and listening to a lot of “whites and blacks are different” jokes." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2003
 
Scary Movie 3 (2003)38%
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1/4
 
"A supremely smug experience, Runaway Jury begins as a thriller and ends as a tract that doesn’t even have the decency to be well made propaganda." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2003
 
Runaway Jury (2003)72%
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3/4
 
"Morris allows McNamara the dignity of his memories, yet never allows the viewer to forget the deeply troubling moral questions bound to those memories." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2003
 
The Fog of War (2003)98%
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1.5/4
 
"Save for its basis in historical reality, there is little that is original in the visualizing of Wonderland’s underbelly tour of compromised lives." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2003
 
Wonderland (2003)34%
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Posted Sep 28, 2003
 
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)36%
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1.5/4
 
"Johnson is a natural action hero, a point presumably made rather cheekily by way of an early cameo from none other than Ahhnold himself." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2003
 
The Rundown (2003)71%
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"Star Trek: Nemesis DVD review" -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 24, 2003
 
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)36%
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1.5/4
 
"The film takes the fetishization of the vampire in contemporary pop culture quite literally." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2003
 
Underworld (2003)30%
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"For anyone who enjoyed the film and seeks to immerse themselves even further into its fabricated world, the DVD is_near indispensable." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 17, 2003
 
The Blair Witch Project (1999)85%
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"The Ring on DVD" -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 16, 2003
 
The Ring (2002)72%
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Posted Jun 22, 2003
 
Oklahoma! (1955)91%
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Posted Jun 22, 2003
 
Two Evil Eyes (1990)50%
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""A compelling musical"" -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 10, 2003
 
Oklahoma! (1955)91%
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""Horror fans have reason to celebrate the release of George Romero and Dario Argento’s Two Evil Eyes on DVD at long last."" -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 10, 2003
 
Two Evil Eyes (1990)50%
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"Beneath the campy comedic gestures and genre spoofing, which are quite enjoyable in themselves, there is an often neglected serious side to Rocky Horror." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted May 26, 2003
 
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)76%
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Posted Apr 7, 2003
 
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)48%

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