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JOHN J. PUCCIO
PUBLICATION(S)
DVDTown.com

BIOGRAPHY
Teacher, English and Film Study, retired. Classical Music Editor, $ensible Sound magazine. Review Editor, DVDTown.com.
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CONTACT INFO
Email Critic

STATS
Total Reviews: 3123
Total QuickRatings: 206

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Online Film Critics Society

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• Location: Martinez, CA

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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10/10  Raiders of the Lost Ark
9/10  Blade Runner - The Final Cut
8/10  Stardust
7/10  Executive Suite
6/10  The Leading Ladies Collection - Vol. 2
5/10  Return to Never Land
4/10  Hot Rod
3/10  The Heartbreak Kid
2/10  Strange Wilderness
 
  
BEST REVIEWED
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10/10  The Godfather Part II
10/10  The Godfather
10/10  The Godfather Collection
10/10  Cool Hand Luke
10/10  Raiders of the Lost Ark
10/10  A Christmas Carol
10/10  Essential Classic Dramas
10/10  The Maltese Falcon
10/10  Toy Story 2
10/10  The Wizard of Oz
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/10  Freddy Got Fingered
2/10  Funny Games
2/10  Strange Wilderness
2/10  Kill House
2/10  Rest Stop
2/10  Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
2/10  Night of the Lepus
2/10  The Crow - Wicked Prayer
2/10  Taxi
2/10  Showgirls
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

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5/10		 
" ...it's hard to find any sympathy for the character or for the movie. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Oct 5, 2008
 		Blow (2001)54%
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5/10		 
" Does the movie make us care? Not really, which is the movie's basic problem."
Posted Oct 5, 2008
 		Blow (2001)54%
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8/10		 
" MGM couldn't have done a better job bringing it to the screen (or Warner Bros. to DVD)."
Posted Oct 4, 2008
 		The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)89%
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8/10		 
" ...dramatic, elegant, witty, thoughtful, and terrifically photographed."
Posted Oct 4, 2008
 		The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)89%
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6/10		 
" I never felt myself caught up in the story line, no matter how multilayered it was. A near-miss for me."
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 		Watership Down (1978)82%
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6/10		 
" ...lovely to look at and fun to listen to, but dull and lethargic in spots, too, and sometimes brutally savage."
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 		Watership Down (1978)82%
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5/10		 
" ...the movie comes off as part pretentious, pseudo, pop psychology and part parody. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Oct 2, 2008
 		Interview with the Vampire (1994)59%
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5/10		 
" ...something for everyone: heterosexuality, homosexuality, eroticism, murder, mayhem, pedophilia, necrophilia, nudity, gore."
Posted Oct 2, 2008
 		Interview with the Vampire (1994)59%
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7/10		 
" It's still fun, mind you, but not as much fun as we might have hoped. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 30, 2008
 		Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)77%
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9/10		 
" ...riveting entertainment for those who enjoy good detective stories, good character dramas, good thrillers, and plain-old good filmmaking. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 		L.A. Confidential (1997)99%
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9/10		 
" ...one of the most absorbing, compelling, most thoroughly enjoyable crime thrillers to have come along in the past decade."
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 		L.A. Confidential (1997)99%
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7/10		 
" ...playful and entertaining, even if it looks, deliberately, as though we've seen it all before."
Posted Sep 27, 2008
 		Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)77%
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6/10		 
" There are any number of good laughs in the film, and I found myself smiling quite a bit. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 25, 2008
 		Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)49%
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3/10		 
" The whole business seems like lark for these guys, who appear to have made up the movie as they went along and shot it in their spare time."
Posted Sep 23, 2008
 		The Foot Fist Way (2008)57%
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3/10		 
" ...there is no way of my getting around saying how badly amateurish the film is and how prosaic it can be."
Posted Sep 23, 2008
 		The Foot Fist Way (2008)57%
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7/10		 
" ...a pleasant picture, with excellent voice characterizations and charming graphics. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 22, 2008
 		Madagascar (2005)55%
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7/10		 
" ...an engaging little diversion that maintains its charm with repeat viewing."
Posted Sep 22, 2008
 		Madagascar (2005)55%
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6/10		 
" ...cuter and sweeter than I expected, a mildly pleasant surprise."
Posted Sep 21, 2008
 		Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)49%
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6/10		 
" ...kind of a milk-toast installment in the Shrek series. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 20, 2008
 		Shrek the Third (2007)42%
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6/10		 
" The best thing Shrek the Third has going for it is its look, which is stunning."
Posted Sep 20, 2008
 		Shrek the Third (2007)42%
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3/10		 
" Pacino is better than this, and I can't believe he needed the money. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 		88 Minutes (2008)5%
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3/10		 
" The movie runs blandly through its paces without generating an ounce of tension or suspense."
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 		88 Minutes (2008)5%
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8/10		 
" ...the movie has a polished grandeur about it that is hard to deny, especially in the closing moments. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 		The Godfather Part III (1990)65%
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10/10		 
" Paramount gave Coppola more money and a freer hand in directing the sequel.... I guess they made him an offer he couldn't refuse. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 		The Godfather Part II (1974)98%
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10/10		 
" The Godfather tells a uniquely personal story that places it in a league of its own. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 		The Godfather (1972)100%
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8/10		 
" ...didn't live up to expectations but turned out to be a pretty good movie in any case."
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 		The Godfather Part III (1990)65%
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10/10		 
" ...an epic landscape of events and an exquisite tapestry of characterizations."
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 		The Godfather Part II (1974)98%
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10/10		 
" Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 classic, The Godfather, is to gangster films what Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments was to super spectaculars."
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 		The Godfather (1972)100%
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10/10		 
" Short of Blu-ray high definition, these standard-def DVDs are about as good as one could ask for. (The Coppola Restoration)"
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 		The Godfather Collection (1997)100%
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10/10		 
" The Coppola Restoration of The Godfather Collection on Blu-ray is an offer that's hard to refuse. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 		The Godfather Collection (1997)100%
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5/10		 
" It practically begs you to watch the racing sequences and skip over the stuff in between. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 		Speed Racer (2008)37%
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5/10		 
" Maybe it's all flash and little substance, but there's no denying the appeal of that flash...."
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 		Speed Racer (2008)37%
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5/10		 
" ...the film's positive attributes were for me not quite enough to make up for the movie's unrelentingly grim tone."
Posted Sep 13, 2008
 		Snow Angels (2008)67%
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5/10		 
" I came away despising most of the main characters (except the two teens) and wondering why the filmmakers were stacking the deck so squarely against them."
Posted Sep 13, 2008
 		Snow Angels (2008)67%
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8/10		 
" ...most of all, enjoy it for Robert Downey, Jr. and a performance you won't soon forget. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 11, 2008
 		Iron Man (2008)93%
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8/10		 
" ...who'd have thought that a successful superhero film could be more about character than action?"
Posted Sep 10, 2008
 		Iron Man (2008)93%
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3/10		 
" ...mainly little-boy potty humor, which starts out dull and stays that way. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 10, 2008
 		The Love Guru (2008)14%
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6/10		 
" I admit I occasionally lost interest in its piecemeal construction. (Blu-ray Digibook Edition)"
Posted Sep 8, 2008
 		How the West Was Won (1962)88%
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6/10		 
" There is no denying the spectacle, the adventure, and the romance in How the West Was Won."
Posted Sep 8, 2008
 		How the West Was Won (1962)88%
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7/10		 
" Luckily, the music and Kelly's dancing save the day. (Two-Disc Special Edition)"
Posted Sep 6, 2008
 		An American in Paris (1951)98%
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7/10		 
" ...the musical numbers have enough life for two pictures."
Posted Sep 6, 2008
 		An American in Paris (1951)98%
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8/10		 
" ...one of Hollywood's most celebrated classics from an era when studios were still making meticulous, tune-filled musicals."
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 		Gigi (1958)76%
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8/10		 
" ...with a strong cast, splendid songs, and wonderful costumes and settings, Gigi continues to entertain, making us forget its dubious story line. (Two-Disc Sp. Ed.)"
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 		Gigi (1958)76%
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3/10		 
" ...fairly mindless stuff that may appeal to die-hard Myers fans."
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 		The Love Guru (2008)14%
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6/10		 
" Eastwood clearly liked the idea of paying homage to a pair of cinema's greatest Westerns, Shane and High Noon. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 		Pale Rider (1985)95%
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6/10		 
" ...who else would you want coming to your rescue than the Preacher Man With No Name?"
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 		Pale Rider (1985)95%
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4/10		 
" With so many better cartoon collections available, this one of old television broadcasts doesn't quite stack up."
Posted Aug 30, 2008
 		Alvin and the Chipmunks Go to the Movies - Daytona Jones and the Pearl of Wisdom (1995)n/a
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4/10		 
" ...if these episodes had been ten-minute shorts and contained a few genuinely funny gags, it might have been different."
Posted Aug 30, 2008
 		Alvin and the Chipmunks Go to the Movies - Daytona Jones and the Pearl of Wisdom (1995)n/a
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9/10		 
" A swashbuckling adventure is more than ever a swashbuckling treasure. (Blu-ray Edition)"
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 		The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)100%
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9/10		 
" ...the quintessential movie swashbuckler."
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 		The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)100%

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