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DANIEL M. KIMMEL
Daniel M. Kimmel

PUBLICATION(S)
• Christian Science Monitor
• The Jewish Advocate
• Variety
• Worcester Telegram & Gazette

BIOGRAPHY
Proud dad; active in Boston area science fiction conventions; author of THE FOURTH NETWORK: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004) -- which won the Cable Center Book Award, and THE DREAM TEAM: The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006). Forthcoming: Essay in "Batman Unauthorized" (BenBella Books, March 2008); "I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies" (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Fall 2008).
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STATS
Total Reviews: 787
Total QuickRatings: 1128

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Boston Society of Film Critics

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4  Ratatouille
3.5/4  A Mighty Heart
3/4  Ocean's Thirteen
2.5/4  Knocked Up
2/4  1408
1.5/4  The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
1/4  Superbad
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4  Hamlet 2
4/4  WALL-E
4/4  Young@Heart
4/4  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4/4  Gone Baby Gone
4/4  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4/4  Michael Clayton
4/4  Hairspray
4/4  Sicko
4/4  Ratatouille
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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1/5  Venom
1/5  Underclassman
1/5  The Cave
1/5  Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
1/5  The Dukes of Hazzard
1/5  The Island
1/5  The Perfect Man
1/5  Mr. and Mrs. Smith
1/5  Honeymooners
1/5  High Tension
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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3/4
 
" Quaid and Brown are completely credible. We may know where things are going, but they don't, and they're feeling their way into a modern world... " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
The Express (2008)64%
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3.5/4
 
" Knightley turns in a performance that impresses us with the strength of her character even as we're appalled by the system that produced it. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
The Duchess (2008)60%
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1/4
 
" ...one of those films that's dead on arrival. There's just nothing here worth salvaging. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Oct 7, 2008
 
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)33%
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3/4
 
" ...a classy entry that's as much about the moral choices facing the characters as the horses and six guns." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Appaloosa (2008)75%
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2/4
 
" However the makers of Flash of Genius faced a problem they couldn't quite solve: This is a story about windshield wipers." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Flash of Genius (2008)58%
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2/4
 
" ...an interesting idea that may work better on the page than on the screen. The resulting film, alas, is less than meets the eye. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Blindness (2008)41%
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2.5/4
 
" ...an interesting and funny film by a man full of doubt. Had he been a bit more open-minded, he might see belief and doubt are partners, not opposites. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Religulous (2008)68%
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3/4
 
" If Miracle at St. Anna fails, let it be said that most filmmakers would kill for a failure like this." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)31%
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1.5/4
 
" ...a cinematic engine design to elicit cheap emotional responses instead of earning them through deep characterization and well thought out plotting. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)29%
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1.5/4
 
" ...a cinematic engine design to elicit cheap emotional responses instead of earning them through deep characterization and well thought out plotting. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)29%
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2/4
 
" [Y]oung viewers [who] like a mix of slapstick and watered down scares they'll have a fine time. Adults will be left rolling their eyes and checking their watches. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Igor (2008)28%
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3/4
 
" Ghost Town" is given a bit of bite by Gervais... It's not destined to be a classic, but it is one that will make you laugh..." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Ghost Town (2008)85%
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2.5/4
 
" ...a great actor's showcase in spite of being only an okay movie." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Righteous Kill (2008)23%
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3/4
 
" ...an inspiring tale of a man answering a call to greatness even if he doesn't fully understand why it's fallen to him. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)27%
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3.5/4
 
" Call it Sex and the City with brains. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
The Women (2008)10%
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4/4
 
" [It] is not going to be for every taste, but it is easily the funniest movie to be released this year." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Hamlet 2 (2008)63%
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3/4
 
" ...a thriller that won't make you feel you wasted your money%u2026 or your time." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)53%
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" ...the sort of Jewish film that the whole family can enjoy without feeling they're fulfilling an obligation to see it." -- The Jewish Advocate
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Sixty Six (2008)64%
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3/4
 
" When you get beyond her adorable looks, Faris is a hilarious comic actress. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
The House Bunny (2008)39%
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2.5/4
 
" ...it doesn't bore, and it doesn't embarrass the actors who appear in it. For a late summer action flick, that's high praise indeed." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Death Race (2008)43%
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2/4
 
" [It] works only insofar as you buy into its premise. If you're a skeptic... the real miracle may seem that the film was made at all." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)36%
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1.5/4
 
" ...audiences once cheered the notion of a new Woody Allen film. Now, instead, we merely endure them." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)80%
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3/4
 
" ...a raucous Hollywood spoof that takes no prisoners. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Tropic Thunder (2008)83%
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2.5/4
 
" Teenage girls (and women getting in touch with their inner teenager) will have a fine time... " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 11, 2008
 
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)63%
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1.5/4
 
" ...stoner humor is primarily funny to people who are stoned." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 11, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)68%
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3/4
 
" You don't believe it for a minute, but you may find yourself having too much fun to care." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)13%
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2.5/4
 
" As a political shaggy dog story, [it's] an entertaining diversion from the real life 2008 campaign. For moviegoers hungry for substance, that may not be enough." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Swing Vote (2008)38%
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3/4
 
" Although there's no romantic triangle as in Francois Truffaut's classic 1961 film Jules and Jim, it seems obvious that film was an influence here." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 28, 2008
 
Reprise (2008)86%
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3/4
 
" ...an intelligent and moody thriller [that] may send newcomers off to discover what the original series was all about. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)32%
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1/4
 
" It's a movie that makes you wonder if Hollywood even remembers how to make comedies anymore." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)55%
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1.5/4
 
" From the animation to the plot to the characterizations, Space Chimps is second-rate goods, and that's only if you're being kind." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 20, 2008
 
Space Chimps (2008)35%
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3.5/4
 
" ...in the world of movies based on comic book heroes, there are the new Batman films, and then there's everything else." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 20, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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3/4
 
" ...a fun amusement part ride that may actually get some young moviegoers to read the Jules Verne novel that inspired it. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)62%
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3/4
 
" ...easily one of the most imaginative films of the summer." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)88%
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2.5/4
 
" About halfway through the film it shifts gears... One wishes [they] had focused on a single story and saw it through." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 3, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)38%
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2.5/4
 
" [I]t may seem like it's part of a commercial juggernaut, but it's also a well-made and well-acted family film. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jul 3, 2008
 
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)79%
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" As sparse as a Torah narrative, it raises profound theological and emotional questions. " -- The Jewish Advocate
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
My Father My Lord (2008)93%
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3/4
 
" It's almost as if the filmmaker wants to lull audiences into thinking this is a conventional action movie, and then pull the rug out from under us..." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Wanted (2008)73%
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4/4
 
" ...an immensely appealing film for all ages. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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3.5/4
 
" ...an action movie that, for a change, comes from the history books, not the comic books." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Mongol (2008)88%
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2/4
 
" It's not very good but it won't want to make you tear your eyes out either." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)14%
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3.5/4
 
" ...a Get Smart for the big screen: a feature length spy spoof with up-to-date gags, some thrilling stunts, and a top-notch cast. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)52%
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2.5/4
 
" ...a one-of-a-kind movie about the power of storytelling. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)58%
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2.5/4
 
" By the time the Hulk is battling the Abomination it's simply watching two special effects go after each other. Were Norton and Roth even on the set?" -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)67%
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2/4
 
" ...a minor, not quite successful film, but for M. Night Shyamalan - whose career has been circling the drain for some time now - it's a step back from the abyss. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)18%
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2/4
 
" The notion that both sides are equally responsible for the intentional killing of civilians requires total ignorance of what's actually transpiring in the region. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)35%
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3/4
 
" This is one kid's movie where the grownups shouldn't have to fight over who has to take the children. Instead, everyone should get in on the fun." -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)89%
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" It's hard to imagine any pro-Palestinian filmmaker turning out a movie, a comedy no less, condemning the extremism of Hamas while calling for peace with Israel." -- The Jewish Advocate
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)35%
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1/4
 
" Writer-director Bryan Bertino, making his debut, seems to understand the mechanics of the genre without having the slightest sense as to what do about the content. " -- Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Posted May 30, 2008
 
The Strangers (2008)43%

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