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JOHN ANDERSON
John Anderson

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• Christian Science Monitor
• Los Angeles Times
• Newsday
• Variety
• Village Voice
• Washington Post

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Total Reviews: 1058

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• National Society of Film Critics
• New York Film Critics Circle


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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35/4 Freedom Writers
4/4 Shut Up & Sing
3.5/4 Romántico
4/5 The Royal Guard
3/4 20 Centimeters
2.5/4 Wondrous Oblivion
3/5 Marigold
2/4 Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
1.5/4 Stomp the Yard
1/4 Shottas
3-4 Summer in Berlin
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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35/4 Freedom Writers
4/4 My Winnipeg
4/4 The Flight of the Red Balloon
4/4 Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File
4/4 Still Life
4/4 I'm Not There
4/4 Terror's Advocate
4/4 Private Property
4/4 I Don't Want To Sleep Alone
4/4 Offside
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 Saw II
0/4 High Tension
0/4 DysFunKtional Family
0/4 Irreversible
0/4 Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
0/4 Swept Away
.5/4 Beyond the Sea
.5/4 Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
.5/4 How to Deal
.5/4 Sorority Boys
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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"Seesawing from the gleefully stupid to the desperately stupid, Step Brothers is an indicator that the Judd Apatow juggernaut has made one too many trips to the well." -- Variety
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)53%
 No Rating  
"So over-the-top it's purple." -- Variety
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)n/a
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3/4
 
"[A] lush, bold, intellectual treatment of the Evelyn Waugh novel about Catholicism and nonconformity, which ventures where the fabled '80s miniseries couldn't." -- Newsday
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Brideshead Revisited (2008)70%
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2/4
 
"Nothing is revealed here, save for the sad fact that while young people's appetite for nonfiction film was supposed to be whetted by reality television, nonfiction film instead has turned into reality television." -- Newsday
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
American Teen (2008)67%
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3.5/4
 
"The way the film marries its subplots will keep audiences off balance, which is exactly right for an X-Files movie." -- Newsday
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)32%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- Variety
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
The Hip Hop Project (2007)60%
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3/4
 
"Dramatically, however, Take consistently works, and, with such a story, that's an amazing thing." -- Newsday
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Take (2008)44%
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3/4
 
"Tough, brutish prison drama with an easy windup, but good acting and an uncompromising take on the prison system." -- Newsday
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Felon (2008)56%
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3/4
 
"Smartly scripted, convincingly atmospheric morality fable in which Hartnett, usually insubstantial as a good guy, plays a convincingly flawed character galloping toward the precipice." -- Newsday
Posted Jul 14, 2008
 
August (2008)36%
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2/4
 
"Prendergast seems clueless that an excess of pure weirdness won't lead to an excess of laughs. It won't." -- Newsday
Posted Jul 4, 2008
 
Kabluey (2008)86%
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"Probably has the highest screams-per-capita ratio in the history of action-adventure pics, and a better thrill-per-minute deal than most." -- Variety
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)60%
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"There's a precision to the visual ornateness of Hellboy II that exceeds even that of its predecessor." -- Variety
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)87%
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"A jewel of a film in conception, execution and message." -- Washington Post
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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"Pic's condescending attitude toward its subjects won't help its already limited commercial chances." -- Variety
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
Paper or Plastic? (2008)n/a
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"Mike Myers is anti-comedy . . . that is, if one presumes comedy ought to be smart, new, surprising or, yes, funny." -- Washington Post
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)15%
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2.5/4
 
"Where it's going all seems predetermined, but the visual journey is lovely, Robbie Ryan's camera turning even council-housing London into something optically enchanting." -- Newsday
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Brick Lane (2008)62%
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"Overacted and overblown, pic will underwhelm commercially, with theatrical perhaps limited to friends and family." -- Variety
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
The Art of Travel (2008)40%
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4/4
 
"A movie that is as happily warped and enthusiastically disturbed as the rest of [director Guy] Maddin's eccentric cinema." -- Newsday
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)97%
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"The portrayal of employment in America is too close for comfort. Or comedy...Not the stuff of lighthearted summer comedy." -- Washington Post
Posted Jun 12, 2008
 
The Promotion (2008)47%
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2.5/4
 
"While they might have had their ups and downs, the subjects of Chris & Don are a testament to fidelity." -- Newsday
Posted Jun 12, 2008
 
Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)96%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- Variety
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
Sisters (2006)n/a
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"A lot of the comedy seems to have been lost in the translation." -- Variety
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)53%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- Variety
Posted Jun 10, 2008
 
Trucker (2008)n/a
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3/4
 
"Bold, epic battle-happy movie that humanizes the world-conqueror and gives him plenty to be aggressive about." -- Newsday
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Mongol (2008)88%
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"The best thing about Children is the cinematography by Zhao Xiaoding (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), which is so distracting because it so out-classes the rest of the movie." -- Washington Post
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)26%
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3/4
 
"Director Tucker's virtuosity is in marrying Blake's memories to the present and finding they are one." -- Newsday
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)73%
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"This computer-animated DreamWorks film is infectious and inspiring, despite one's best efforts to resist its charms." -- Washington Post
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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2.5/4
 
"Stuck is genuinely suspenseful and grotesque. It may make you wonder why anyone thought it had to be made, but it is absorbingly macabre." -- Newsday
Posted May 29, 2008
 
Stuck (2008)71%
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2.5/4
 
"The performance-enhancing quality behind this muscular movie is director Chris Bell's willingness to go far beyond the call of duty." -- Newsday
Posted May 29, 2008
 
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)97%
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"A film crying out to be discovered by midnight movie mavens." -- Variety
Posted May 22, 2008
 
The Foot Fist Way (2008)58%
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"Suffers from, if anything, a lack of pure confidence in the story, the actors or the audience." -- Washington Post
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Then She Found Me (2008)54%
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3.5/4
 
"A beautifully made film, one that possesses a troubling visual sense of spiritual corruption." -- Newsday
Posted May 15, 2008
 
My Father My Lord (2008)92%
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2/4
 
"Prince Caspian has the same problems as its predecessor: a C.S. Lewis story line rendered anemic, and a cast of sweet but unengaging principals." -- Newsday
Posted May 15, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)66%
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"Terra isn't sugar-coated -- the humans are hardly paragons of virtue, but neither are the Terrareans. And the story's resolution won't make Terra the feel-good cartoon of 2008, although it is a work of art." -- Variety
Posted May 12, 2008
 
Terra (2008)n/a
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"Despite the occasional detour into mawkishness, "A Previous Engagement" nicely balances unutterable truths about marriage and love with the comedy that is human interaction and the unending drama that is man and women, repulsion and attraction." -- Variety
Posted May 12, 2008
 
A Previous Engagement (2008)35%
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2.5/4
 
"What Happens in Vegas contains enough unbridled silliness to salvage its lowbrow high concept." -- Newsday
Posted May 9, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)27%
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3/4
 
"The film is well-acted, a broad colonial allegory, and again, visually gorgeous." -- Newsday
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Before the Rains (2008)45%
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"A blackly comic take on the first totally outsourced war? We're too close to being in one right now, which makes this John Cusack vehicle too close for comfort. It's also so close to being funny you can just about taste it -- just about." -- Variety
Posted May 6, 2008
 
War, Inc. (2008)31%
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"If it manages not to lose its assets while dipping its toe into murkier issues -- becoming, say, a brow-knitting thumb-sucker -- then it's really a work of art; such is Guest of Cindy Sherman." -- Variety
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008)n/a
 No Rating  
"What auds will find, however, is the same kind of pugnacious self-celebration that affects many nonfiction films about relatively obscure subjects -- relentless, stentorian bombast about how important it is. Which only serves to make one think, maybe not." -- Variety
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
SqueezeBox! (2008)n/a
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"Deal is perhaps too briskly paced: The narrative moves along a bit too fleetingly for any genuine character development." -- Variety
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Deal (2008)0%
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2/4
 
"What may be the first real outsourcing comedy, Baby Mama is like a pacifier: floppy, nourishment-free and may even keep your teeth from growing in straight." -- Newsday
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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3/4
 
"The atmosphere created by director H.S. Miller is gothic, tortured, stylized yet tinged with a classicist's sense of composition, symmetry and, yes, perspective." -- Newsday
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Anamorph (2008)26%
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"A work of art on the order of a poem by Yeats or a painting by Rothko." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)78%
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2.5/4
 
"Kunis is not just Peter's savior, but the saving grace of a comedy that is really a series of sketches, a few of which sparkle, and most of which you'll soon forget." -- Newsday
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)85%
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"Obvious, plodding, cloying and politically innocuous." -- Variety
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Home of the Brave (2006)23%
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4/4
 
"Hou Hsiao-hsien's first French-language film shows why the Taiwanese master is considered one of the world's great filmmakers." -- Newsday
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)78%
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"Just showing us what ex-sitcom stars and Bavarian directors do in their spare time isn't quite enough to justify The Grand, which does for poker what Best in Show did for dogs while completely avoiding any jokes about poker-playing canines." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
The Grand ()39%
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"The director has created a not-to-miss gem for the discriminating viewer." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Chop Shop (2007)95%
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2/4
 
"It concludes in a way that will have you asking whether the ending was misguided, or maybe it was just the rest of the movie." -- Newsday
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Dark Matter (2008)34%

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