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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
JON LAP
PUBLICATION(S)
• Apollo Guide
• Long Island Press

BIOGRAPHY
Graduated New York University with a BFA in Cinema Studies and Film & TV.
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Total Reviews: 100

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• Location: New York


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Nowhere in Africa
95/100 Goodfellas
93/100 My Own Private Idaho
92/100 Beau Travail
90/100 Sound & Fury
89/100 American Splendor
88/100 American Experience - Daughter from Danang
3.5/4 Amen
86/100 Taking Sides
85/100 Yellow Asphalt
84/100 Mystic River
83/100 Indecent Proposal
82/100 The Komediant
81/100 El Leyton
80/100 Heartbreak Hospital
79/100 Esther Kahn
78/100 Spider-Man
77/100 Dirty Pretty Things
76/100 The Robe
75/100 Soapdish
3/4 Spider
74/100 Ice Age
73/100 The Back of the World
72/100 Signs
71/100 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
70/100 Bucktown
69/100 Jim Brown: All American
65/100 Mean Machine
64/100 Blackboards
63/100 Marathon Man
2.5/4 Lost in La Mancha
62/100 Return to Never Land
61/100 Ben Harper - Pleasure and Pain
60/100 Life or Something Like It
59/100 Colors
58/100 Shrek
50/100 The Butcher's Wife
49/100 Hell Up In Harlem
45/100 Doctor Dolittle
40/100 Mule Skinner Blues
39/100 The Independent
37/100 The Dress Code
8/100 The Erotic Witch Project II
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Open Hearts
4/4 Nowhere in Africa
95/100 Goodfellas
93/100 My Own Private Idaho
92/100 Dogville
92/100 Three of Hearts
92/100 Beau Travail
90/100 And Now Ladies and Gentlemen
90/100 Dogtown and Z-Boys
90/100 Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
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WORST REVIEWED
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8/100 The Erotic Witch Project II
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 61% of the time.

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92/100
 
"There is one vital DVD feature those interested in understanding von Trier's approach won't want to miss." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Apr 21, 2007
 
Dogville (2003)70%
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75/100
 
"To the film’s great credit, [director] Garbus evens out her often heavy-hand and we’re given the emotional core of two young female criminals in ways often eluded in the movies." -- Apollo Guide
Posted May 13, 2005
 
Girlhood (2003)94%
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81/100
 
"A sloppy but stylistically incendiary handling of mystery, thriller, suspense, doldrums-of-domestic-romance and labour fraternity tropes." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 16, 2003
 
El Leyton (2002)55%
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59/100
 
"A fascinating story, with enough dramaturgical potential to make a rock take notice. Unfortunately, Shattered Glass is an ignorant rock unto itself." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 12, 2003
 
Shattered Glass (2003)91%
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76/100
 
"Cinematographer Edward Klosinki finds many an interesting place for his camera to doss and gurney – giving us a skulking psychoanalytical aesthetic." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 7, 2003
 
Gloomy Sunday (2003)84%
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84/100
 
"Much of this film plays to the audience’s subconscious, forced to deal with the spirals of perverse intertwinement." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 5, 2003
 
Sylvia (2003)36%
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75/100
 
"Garbus, here, gets at a portion of the metaphysical reality behind the veneer of criminal behaviour." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 30, 2003
 
Girlhood (2003)94%
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70/100
 
"A story of death-as-deus-ex-machina – where the contrivances are not so offensive – with interesting performances." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 24, 2003
 
A Wedding for Bella (2001)55%
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92/100
 
"A brilliant tale of intellectual awakening." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 15, 2003
 
Dogville (2003)70%
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75/100
 
"A valiant experiment in existential pathology gone tepid." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 8, 2003
 
Elephant (2003)71%
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92/100
 
"[E]gregiously misunderstood." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 8, 2003
 
Three of Hearts (1993)69%
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84/100
 
"[T]he iconography of bridges seems to inform us of Mystic River‘s subtext." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 7, 2003
 
Mystic River (2003)87%
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75/100
 
"Hanft captures the goosy, roach-of-a-joint lifestyle pressed upon fledgling musicians in underground circles of L.A. and other urban blights." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 2, 2003
 
Southlander - Diary of a Desperate Musician (2001)50%
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69/100
 
"The discursive nature of the information that is presented greets its audience like a plunged inert mass." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 24, 2003
 
Stealing the Fire (2002)20%
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60/100
 
"Said ingenuity is at times recursive in its chintzy pell-mell of images and superimpositions..." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 24, 2003
 
Seven Year Zigzag (2003)50%
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85/100
 
"Harada fashions a socially mimetic picture of seedy street-hustler life a la My Own Private Idaho and Olivier Assayas’ Cold Water." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 24, 2003
 
Bounce Ko Gals (1997)53%
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92/100
 
"Rhythm in Denis’ sight is pejorative routine." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 24, 2003
 
Beau Travail (1999)78%
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80/100
 
"Costner’s epic, as director, is one to behold, not for its 24th hour sentimental about-face, but for the existential knack it has for the pacific, the stately and the quiet." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 18, 2003
 
Open Range (2003)78%
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89/100
 
"The most rebelliously, subtly and subversively creative Woody Allen has been since Sleeper." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 18, 2003
 
Anything Else (2003)41%
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90/100
 
"The most sophisticated love story since In the Mood for Love, The House of Mirth and The English Patient." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 18, 2003
 
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003)46%
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86/100
 
"Istvan Szabo uses his compositions-of-depth as a sort of excavation of the epistemological quandaries haunting the post-Second World War world." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 7, 2003
 
Taking Sides (2003)77%
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89/100
 
"One’s reception of the film as art depends solely on whether you see it as a sell-out or an inside joke that takes some time to assimilate." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 5, 2003
 
American Splendor (2003)94%
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77/100
 
"Frears has continually built on the foundation of Griffith’s A Corner in Wheat and Chaplin’s The Immigrant." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 4, 2003
 
Dirty Pretty Things (2003)94%
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45/100
 
"Gives glib critics something to horselaugh about." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 1, 2003
 
Camp (2003)61%
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78/100
 
"The swimming pool in the film, as depicted by Ozon, is a self-reflexive epicentre..." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 1, 2003
 
Swimming Pool (2003)85%
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65/100
 
"Catherine Hardwicke’s idea of context is the trite schematics of schoolyard popularity." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 30, 2003
 
Thirteen (2003)81%
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75/100
 
"An agoraphobic New Age." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 30, 2003
 
28 Days Later (2003)88%
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85/100
 
"A triumph of a movie – one that, despite a certain historical and emotional gloss, we can only hope gives us as real an account of horseracing as it appears." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 14, 2003
 
Seabiscuit (2003)78%
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2.5/4
 
"Beginning with Blue, straight through to White and Red, Kieslowski comes off like a deaf person trying, in fits of frustration, to communicate with the hearing." -- Long Island Press
Posted Apr 26, 2003
 
Three Colors Trilogy (1993-1994)100%
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75/100
 
"There's a sort of magical realism, but in the vein of a low-budget Big or Groundhog Day, rather than Luis Buñuel and Jan Svankmajer." -- Long Island Press
Posted Apr 26, 2003
 
Returning Mickey Stern (2005)31%
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4/4
 
"An astounding investigation of the natural feud within us all: the confusion of wanting self-help, while simultaneously settling for self-complacency." -- Long Island Press
Posted Mar 21, 2003
 
Open Hearts (2003)96%
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4/4
 
"...the imagery is one to marvel...There's a striking irony in much of what we see." -- Long Island Press
Posted Mar 7, 2003
 
Nowhere in Africa (2003)85%
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3/4
 
"Most of Cronenberg's previous films are busy with corporeal matter—monsters or creatures—but with Spider, there's a sort of poetic singularity in that Fiennes rarely has actors to play off. The monster is his psyche, the way he interprets existence." -- Long Island Press
Posted Feb 27, 2003
 
Spider (2003)85%
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2.5/4
 
"From a puritanical perspective, the genius that is the chronicle is undermined by the laxity of the execution." -- Long Island Press
Posted Feb 7, 2003
 
Lost in La Mancha (2003)94%
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71/100
 
"A brand of entertainment that’s dissatisfying intellectually and formulaically." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Feb 7, 2003
 
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)42%
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3.5/4
 
"The pervasive use of staircases -- whether people are ascending or descending -- lends an interesting leitmotif of class and religious struggle." -- Long Island Press
Posted Jan 29, 2003
 
Amen (2003)67%
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64/100
 
"Samira Makhmalbaf’s new film Blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness, although, it’s unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal" -- Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 5, 2002
 
Blackboards (2002)74%
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61/100
 
"The film is a timorous, flailing attempt at docu-philosophy. Co-directors Danny Clinch and Sam Lee must have thought that desultory use of slow motion and quick-cuts can cover for aimlessness." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 27, 2002
 
Ben Harper - Pleasure and Pain (2002)n/a
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74/100
 
"[T]he film is never sure to make a clear point – even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 15, 2002
 
Revolution No. 9 (2002)76%
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85/100
 
"Ratliff’s two previous titles, Plutonium Circus and Purgatory County show his penchant for wry, contentious configurations, and this film is part of that delicate canon." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 14, 2002
 
Hell House (2002)94%
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88/100
 
"The socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides... [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 1, 2002
 
American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002)97%
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79/100
 
"Women take on a role of auxiliary endurance... the only character[s] to confront the camera head-on, in close up, or direct stares." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2002
 
Divine Intervention (2003)81%
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82/100
 
"Using his audience as a figurative port-of-call, Dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading, before he continues his longer journey still ahead." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Oct 7, 2002
 
Arthur Dong: Family Fundamentals ()75%
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80/100
 
"Its primary benefits are held in a quark of arcane visual symbols and cultural criticism." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 10, 2002
 
Read My Lips (2002)97%
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80/100
 
"A deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of post, pre, and extant stardom." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 3, 2002
 
Heartbreak Hospital (2002)25%
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60/100
 
"[Garbus] discards the potential for pathological study, exhuming instead, the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 3, 2002
 
The Execution Of Wanda Jean (2005)83%
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85/100
 
"We get the romantic doom of [LaBute's] usual commentary, but this time with new filmic scope and multidimensionality." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 13, 2002
 
Possession (2002)64%
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72/100
 
"It’s a terrain that reverses the cultural value assigned to the low angle shot... but ultimately transforms the viscera of horror/ sci-fi cinema to a feckless point." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 3, 2002
 
Signs (2002)73%
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85/100
 
"The film is an odd little piece, one in which its malaise disposition persists to engender the cinematic thrill that subcultural viewers hope for." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 29, 2002
 
Trouble Every Day (2002)47%
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79/100
 
"In a constant war of pros and cons... Mendes is manipulative, and demagogical in his approach to free mindedness... with intermittent marks of ingenuity." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 24, 2002
 
Road to Perdition (2002)82%

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