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JEREMY HEILMAN
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• Apollo Guide
• MovieMartyr.com

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Total Reviews: 694
Total QuickRatings: 4

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Online Film Critics Society

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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Secret Things
97/100 There Will Be Blood
66/70 Japanese Story
94/100 Tropical Malady
3.5/4 This So-Called Disaster
86/100 Song and Solitude
85/100 The Woman in the Window
82/100 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
81/100 Taxidermia
79/100 In This World
78/100 Howl's Moving Castle
77/100 Everything Will Be OK
76/100 The Doctor's Horrible Experiment
3/4 Forget Baghdad
75/100 Drawing Restraint 9
74/100 Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
73/100 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
72/100 George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
71/100 Time of the Wolf
70/100 Girl with a Pearl Earring
68/100 Chasing Liberty
67/100 Mary
66/100 Biker Boyz
65/100 My Blueberry Nights
64/100 Mother of Tears
63/100 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
2.5/4 All Tomorrow's Parties
60/100 Shoah
58/100 California Dreamin' (Endless)
57/100 Sylvia
56/100 To Each His Cinema
55/100 Koko - A Talking Gorilla
54/100 The Fog of War
53/100 I Don't Want To Sleep Alone
52/100 Jesus, You Know
51/100 Pieces of April
2/4 Iris
49/100 The Fighting Temptations
46/100 Charlie Wilson's War
44/100 American Splendor
43/100 The Hunter
42/100 Beyond the Years
41/100 American Gangster
40/100 Torque
39/100 No End in Sight
38/100 Persepolis
37/100 The Magic Flute
33/100 Schindler's List
31/100 Millennium Actress
29/100 The Banishment
27/100 Opium: Diary of a Madwoman
1/4 Alexandra's Project
15/100 The Incredibles
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 The Black Cat
4/4 Marie Antoinette
4/4 A Moment of Innocence
4/4 The Narrow Margin
4/4 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
4/4 The Color of Money
4/4 Thieves' Highway
4/4 Northwest Passage
4/4 Junior Bonner
4/4 The Beyond
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WORST REVIEWED
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0.5/4 Unbreakable
15/100 The Incredibles
19/100 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
1/4 Alexandra's Project
1/4 Bowling for Columbine
1/4 The Son
1/4 The Ninth Configuration
1/4 Men in Black II
1/4 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
1/4 Cinema Paradiso
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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68/100
 
" Corman's widescreen framing, the blazing Technicolor photography, and the effectively maximized production values created a convincing, if twisted, world." -- Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 27, 2008
 
The Haunted Palace (1963)n/a
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77/100
 
"His elaborate sound design, skillfully deployed comic effects, and sophisticated visual minimalism suggest the work of a master of the form." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
Everything Will Be OK (2006)n/a
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27/100
 
"The whole experience of watching this is tense, dehumanizing, and fairly baffling." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman (2007)n/a
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38/100
 
"Ultimately a feature-length tease, the movie remarkably insubstantial and uninvolving for something that tries so desperately to live in the moment." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 19, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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66/100
 
"Lindsay Anderson's boldly allegorical drama If... features a sly script that very slowly reveals just how strongly it is protesting against authority." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
If... (1969)96%
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31/100
 
"It calls out the clichés of its genre only to end up willingly indulging in them more often than not." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 16, 2008
 
Love and Other Disasters (2006)n/a
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41/100
 
"Both less inventive and less substantial than it seems to think it is, this would-be epic suffers from the comparisons it prompts as it references a series of silent classics." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 16, 2008
 
The Aerial (2007)60%
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64/100
 
"The director employs his entire bag of tricks to keep the audience on the edge of their seats, from shock cuts and loud chords on the soundtrack to performances that devour the scenery." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
Mother of Tears (2008)88%
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55/100
 
"To complain that Andersson's skits are difficult or boring to sit through because they seem too close to the pain of daily life is to pay them some kind of a compliment." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
You, The Living (2007)100%
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29/100
 
"For now, the best that can be said about Zvyagintsev is that he seems like he could potentially be a master filmmaker someday, even if he's still not made a good movie." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
The Banishment (2007)40%
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56/100
 
"Ultimately, The Mourning Forest is not so much flawed as it is unable to create a very powerful impression." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
Mogari no Mori (2007)60%
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82/100
 
"The product of a director in complete control of his talents, Second Breath musters enough depth that by its conclusion it feels only nominally like a heist film." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)100%
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43/100
 
"Ratliff never acknowledges that his audience has likely seen this setup dozens of times before, making the film feel laborious and unsurprising." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
Joshua (2007)62%
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66/100
 
"There's no doubt while watching Ang Lee's Lust, Caution that you're in the hands of a supreme filmmaker." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
Lust, Caution (2007)69%
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55/100
 
"With each new shot, angles and perspectives are shifted, requiring viewers to reorient themselves." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
Schindler's Houses (2007)n/a
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46/100
 
"Ultimately, Happiness seems most distinctive not as a specific director's work, but rather as an entry in a distinctly Korean melodramatic subgenre." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
Happiness (2007)n/a
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76/100
 
"In this day and age, its stripped down incisiveness is nearly unfathomable." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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53/100
 
"Tsai's style is essentially written in stone at this point, and [this] hardly challenges it. [He] is as visually adept here as ever, right up to the film's peaceful final shot." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2007)88%
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37/100
 
"Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute comes on strong %u2013 maybe too strong..." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
The Magic Flute (2006)69%
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81/100
 
"Despite non-stop horror and perversity, nothing in the movie seems gratuitous. Its vision remains so comprehensive and convincing that it justifies everything that it puts you through." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Taxidermia (2006)79%
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55/100
 
"It confronts the viewer with several questions that cannot be easily answered, providing considerable food for thought." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Koko - A Talking Gorilla (1977)100%
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38/100
 
"With the political message of Persepolis considerably softened, the overall effect is dulled significantly." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
Persepolis (2007)95%
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42/100
 
"Beyond the Years suggests, rather simplemindedly, that purity of heart and endless practice are the keys to a great performance." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
Beyond the Years (2007)n/a
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86/100
 
"Like a city symphony film viewed under a microscope, Nathaniel Dorsky’s rapturous non-narrative work Song and Solitude abstracts the everyday in revelatory ways." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
Song and Solitude (2006)n/a
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49/100
 
"Fans of the genre will likely leave it satisfied, although it's not as likely that they’ll feel satisfied the whole time they're watching." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
Flash Point (2008)47%
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58/100
 
"[It] could do with some editing (indeed, the parenthetical in the title refers to its unshaped state), but there's just as little doubt that Nemescu's work is pretty worthy as is." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
California Dreamin' (Endless) (2007)n/a
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72/100
 
"Through its clever advancements of the zombie genre and its consistently surprising series of set pieces, [it] earns the right to stand alongside anything that Romero has made." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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41/100
 
"With all of the bulk, but none of the substance, of your average epic production, American Gangster lumbers across the screen with such obviousness that it is almost shocking." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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39/100
 
"Watching the film, which is well-organized but utterly artless, one wonders who, exactly, it's trying to sway." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
No End in Sight (2007)94%
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46/100
 
"Charlie Wilson's War manages to be at once utterly irresponsible and mildly entertaining." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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56/100
 
"A better than average omnibus film." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
To Each His Cinema (2007)100%
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76/100
 
"Enough is left vague that an abstract quality is achieved, and the effect is one of amplification of the themes running throughout the film." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
Flanders (2006)71%
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52/100
 
"Almost distractingly, faithful to the original novel despite its radically different setting, the film is a pleasure mostly because of its vivid Technicolor backdrops." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
 
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)91%
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33/100
 
"That Juno has been heralded for its realistic portrayal of a teen girl's point of view demonstrates how poorly the demographic has been represented on screen." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 6, 2008
 
Juno (2007)93%
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97/100
 
"Here is a film that makes its enormous intentions abundantly clear, then follows up on them magnificently, resulting in what seems destined to become a bona fide American classic." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)91%
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65/100
 
"To complain that it is hardly a film that shows Wong at the height of his power is to close oneself off to the small, somewhat lovely pleasures that it manages to offer." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)49%
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3.5/4
 
Click here to read article -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
When the Levees Broke (2006)96%
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2.5/4
 
"The essentially nonexistent characterizations do little to help matters." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
Them (2007)63%
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4/4
 
"One of the best in Universal's storied horror cycle." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Aug 4, 2007
 
The Black Cat (1934)87%
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76/100
 
"By stressing the universal elements of Stevenson’s story, Renoir eradicates the creakiness of the plot, spinning the tale into something that still feels relevant." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jul 28, 2007
 
The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1958)n/a
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3/4
 
"Plunges the viewer almost directly into its nightmarish scenario." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Jul 28, 2007
 
Captivity (2007)7%
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85/100
 
"The resultant tone of The Woman in the Window is completely unremitting, until it hilariously does remit." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Oct 17, 2006
 
The Woman in the Window (1944)100%
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3.5/4
 
"This disturbing social order, both inside and outside the Triad, is the series’ defining characteristic. Because of its emphasis, this installment satisfies, even if another sequel feels inevitable." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Oct 7, 2006
 
Triad Election (2007)96%
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4/4
 
"Marie Antoinette creates biography as much through its soundtrack, attitudes and its close-ups as it does through its action and dialogue." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Sep 30, 2006
 
Marie Antoinette (2006)54%
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Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
The Blue Angel - English Version (1930)n/a
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3/4
 
"When [narrator Slavoj Zizek's] firing on all cylinders, such as when he examines a series of voyeuristic characters peering through cracks or when he turns his analytical powers on Psycho, he brings new life to the films he discusses." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)100%
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2/4
 
Click here to read article -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Sep 16, 2006
 
Family Ties (2006)n/a
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3/4
 
Click here to read article -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Sep 2, 2006
 
Container (2006)n/a
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2/4
 
"Despite Hamer’s deadpan, frequently wordless staging of his finely shot scenes, the end result is a disappointingly literal portrayal of a twentieth-century poet’s life." -- MovieMartyr.com
Posted Sep 2, 2006
 
Factotum (2006)75%
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2.5/4
 
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Posted Sep 2, 2006
 
Cherry Falls (2000)43%

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