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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
JIM RIDLEY
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• L.A. Weekly
• Nashville Scene
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 143

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Southeastern Film Critics Association


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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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"Movies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute slow-motion shot of a Michael Jackson impersonator and a stuffed monkey aboard a clown bike." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)48%
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"It’s as relentless as it is hateful, hammily directed and derivative of the dreariest slop in contemporary American horror cinema." -- Village Voice
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Frontier(s) (2008)53%
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"Son of Rambow evokes the rush of discovery that turns budding cinephiles into lifers -- that delight in finding a film that seems to express or coalesce some inchoate yearning, including a yen to share." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Son of Rambow (2008)76%
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"Movies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute shot of a clown bike." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)48%
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"[A] searching, intellectually lively documentary." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Constantine's Sword (2008)75%
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"Director/co-writer H.S. Miller just lays on the chilly blues and a wet-blanket mood of arty anguish, leaving cinematographer Fred Murphy and production designer Jackson De Govia to trump up trompe l'oeils of carefully posed carrion." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Anamorph (2008)27%
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"Floridly plotted but acutely detailed." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Never Forever (2008)92%
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"[Star Michael Shannon is] one of the most formidable unsung actors working today in American movies." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
Shotgun Stories (2007)87%
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"Bruce Van Dusen's 2005 comedy plots a meandering course due north without locating a word of truth." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Backseat (2008)8%
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"Pegg has staked out a peculiar slant on genre material that ventures beyond irony toward rehabilitation -- and nobody plays blithe humiliation with more style." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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"Staggeringly inane." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 18, 2008
 
Irina Palm (2008)72%
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"I still believe with all my heart that no movie with real car stunts, a tough-chick hero, and a severed head that thunks directly into the camera can be all bad. But this is pushing it." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 18, 2008
 
Doomsday (2008)41%
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"Put Herzog at the same table as Hines, Harrelson, Parnell, Cross, and Farina, and poker on film starts to look a lot less dull. Imagine what they could do with Monopoly." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 18, 2008
 
The Grand ()42%
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"A modest surprise: better acted than needed, better made than expected." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Never Back Down (2008)25%
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"[It] could pass for an episode of CSI: Reykjavik, only with less high-tech gimmickry, more pavement-pounding, and a head-clearing view of crime as anything but a cool diversion." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
Jar City (2008)89%
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"The movie's glacial pace and willingness to let its mind and eye wander that produces its spiritual and intellectual heft—not to mention its atypical visual splendor." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
The Unforeseen (2007)85%
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"This uneven but impressive shot-on-digital shocker earns a marker in the mausoleum of apocalyptic horror -- a genre that's proving (un)surprisingly durable in the new century." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
The Signal (2007)55%
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"Forms, with Killer of Sheep, a landmark diptych about work as the crucible of the American character—either in its abundance or its absence." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)n/a
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"Despite the unhurried pace, the stories unfold without compelling details, and the interweaving is more pedestrian than artful." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)63%
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"Ever had a premonition of imminent catastrophe, only to watch helplessly as the worst unfolds? You have if you saw the previews for this snoozer of a paranormal shocker and bought a ticket anyway." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 4, 2008
 
The Eye (2008)21%
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"As vehement in its stereotyping as World War II propaganda." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)33%
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"An unforgettable all-access pass behind the scenes of Bob Dylan's '65 British tour, D.A. Pennebaker's landmark 1967 rock doc all but invented the form while presaging the music video." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967)100%
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"The performances, culled from seven shows on the “Vertigo” tour from Mexico City to Buenos Aires, burn with the old unforgettable fire." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
U2 3D (2008)92%
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"For once, the movie -- written by Annmarie Morais and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid with a gritty overlay of 16mm grain -- regards book learning as at least as important as physical prowess." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
How She Move (2008)68%
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"Credit writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein with making a first feature that every man in America will watch with his legs crossed." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)79%
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"Walk Hard limps soft." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)74%
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"This burlesque of biopic cliches flounders from one setup to the next without the engine that drives the genre: a strong central character." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)74%
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"A medical thriller with a noggin full of novocaine, this shocker about a botched heart surgery evidently suffered brain surgery to match." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Awake (2007)23%
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"They [Rounders] stand as perhaps the truest heirs to the Harry Smith Anthology's wild and woolly Americana—a point Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul C. Lovelace's affectionate doc makes with a minimum of fuss and lots of bawdy hilarity." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2006)100%
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"As a study of stubborn artisanal tradition in the Pro Tools age, Note by Note is a stirring symphony of specialized labor." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Note by Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037 (2007)93%
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"This blast of homecoming claustrophobia is being released for the holidays, when it may prove therapeutic. Bring the family. Or better yet, leave them." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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"I'd be lying if I didn't say it overcame my naturally complacent instincts." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 6, 2007
 
War Dance (2007)86%
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"The Future Is Unwritten is less a eulogy than a wake, and one in which the subject is startlingly present." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)87%
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"Much of this is tedious -- no more or less exciting than surveillance-cam footage of a regional sales manager." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Lynch (2007)53%
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"Do-nothing Sarah may be the dullest, most featureless and inactive protagonist in recent movies -- great news for those Scooby-Doo die-hards who never got enough Freddy." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007)0%
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"In his strikingly downbeat directorial debut, Affleck has created something of a blue-moon rarity: an American movie of genuine moral complexity." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
Gone Baby Gone (2007)93%
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"It’s the first of the agonizing Resident Evil movies that could remotely be considered fun." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 24, 2007
 
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)22%
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"In the Shadow of the Moon recalls the wondrous moment when America had the entire world looking up, up, and not away." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 4, 2007
 
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)94%
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"Pure straight-to-video rope-a-dope." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 27, 2007
 
War (2007)14%
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"With the dithery Marion playing off Jack's nattering nebbish of negativism, Delpy invokes the Woody Allen–Diane Keaton chemistry of the '70s as consciously as Allen referenced the European art movies of the '60s." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2007
 
2 Days In Paris (2007)87%
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"What makes the first fiction feature from documentarian Blitz persuasive is its late-film detour from the inspirational niche-sports genre to something altogether unexpected -- and the winning lead performance of Reece Daniel Thompson." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2007
 
Rocket Science (2007)84%
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"Even the promising team of Peter Dinklage’s mad scientist Simon Barsinister and Patrick Warburton’s henchman Cad turns out to be a bust." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
Underdog (2007)15%
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"Watch the mallrats’ jaws drop as they pay to see the same old teen slicer-dicer, only to get this wacko hodgepodge of the Brian De Palma horror filmography and -- I swear to God -- Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 27, 2007
 
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)8%
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"Wong Kar-wai on aisle 4 and Michel Gondry on aisle 6, with Kevin Smith as mop jockey at all points in between -- such is the lost-in-the-supermarket milieu of writer-director Sean Ellis's whimsical comedy." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
Cashback (2007)44%
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"The least concrete and most artificial of Buscemi's films. But that's as much because of the situation as Buscemi and David Schechter's slippery script." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2007
 
Interview (2007)57%
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"Amores Perros is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2007
 
Drama/Mex (2007)35%
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"Director Chalerm Wongpim's skull-buster makes up in wild-eyed insanity (and excessive, arbitrary slow motion) what it lacks in acting, pacing, and coherence." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
Dynamite Warrior (2007)67%
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"Nothing illustrates the monstrosity of globalized commerce more vividly than the lateral tracking shot that opens Jennifer Baichwal's mesmerizing documentary Manufactured Landscapes." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 20, 2007
 
Manufactured Landscapes (2007)84%
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"Writer-director King deserves credit for wringing every ounce of ovine mayhem from his sheep-for-brains premise. There is no such thing as an unfunny cutaway to a sheep." -- Village Voice
Posted Jun 20, 2007
 
Black Sheep (2007)71%

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