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Critics / Authors Reviews and Articles
NATHAN LEE
PUBLICATION(S)
• Film Comment Magazine
• L.A. Weekly
• New York Times
• NPR
• Slate
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 257


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
(This Critic's Cinematic Taste as Determined by Rotten Tomatoes)
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5  Blood Tea and Red String
4.5/5  Theater of War
4/5  That Man: Peter Berlin
3.5/5  The Hills Have Eyes
3/5  Poultrygeist
2.5/5  Final Destination 3
2/5  The Fall
1.5/5  Pizza
1/5  Hoodwinked
0.5/5  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
.5/5  Another Gay Sequel
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5  Death Race
5/5  Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
5/5  Blood Tea and Red String
4.5/5  Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
4.5/5  Wonderful Town
4.5/5  Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine
4.5/5  The Foot Fist Way
4.5/5  Heavy Metal In Baghdad
4.5/5  Paraguayan Hammock
4.5/5  Theater of War
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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.5/5  Disaster Movie
.5/5  Another Gay Sequel
0.5/5  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
1/5  Saw V
1/5  Take
1/5  Postal
1/5  Kettle of Fish
1/5  Haven
1/5  The Covenant
1/5  Little Man
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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2/5
 
The Beautiful Truth is a documentary about contemporary health hazards and alternative treatments. -- New York Times
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
The Beautiful Truth (2008)50%
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3.5/5
 
" In Dinner With the President the filmmakers go in search of nothing less than the meaning of democracy in Pakistan." -- New York Times
Posted Nov 13, 2008
 
Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey (2008)n/a
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2.5/5
 
" Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of several Saw sequels, has devised an excruciating new torture with Repo! The Genetic Opera." -- New York Times
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)27%
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4/5
 
" One of the more disciplined entries in the LaBruce oeuvre, Otto is sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart." -- New York Times
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (2008)45%
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3/5
 
" Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, an ambitious but unfocused documentary, bids to immortalize this short-lived if influential group." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 31, 2008
 
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback (2008)88%
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3/5
 
The First Basket, a functional (if narrowly interesting) history lesson by the filmmaker David Vyorst, recollects the rich history of Jewish participation in basketball. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
First Basket (2008)63%
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1/5
 
" The latest and least of the Saw films is just plain boring and even a little tame -- albeit by the standards of a genre that helped bring the phrase "torture porn" into the lexicon." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 27, 2008
 
Saw V (2008)12%
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2/5
 
" An indecisive mix of tepid camp and gory gross-out, "The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror" doesn't go far enough in either direction." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
" Keith Haring was not a great artist. He might not even have been a very good one. But he was the right person in the right place at the right time." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
u Universe of Keith Haring (2008)57%
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Posted Oct 18, 2008
 
Hellboy (2004)80%
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Posted Oct 18, 2008
 
Mistress (1992)100%
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Click here to read article -- NPR
Posted Oct 18, 2008
 
The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)63%
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Click here to read article -- NPR
Posted Oct 18, 2008
 
Transsiberian (2008)90%
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Click here to read article -- NPR
Posted Oct 18, 2008
 
Hell Ride (2008)11%
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4/5
 
Despite a stiffness of movement that suggests an upscale take on the cutout animation of “South Park,” the movie has a terrific flair for arabesque patterning, a gemlike luminosity of surface and a handsome, classical cast of mind. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Azur and Asmar - The Princes' Quest (2008)73%
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3/5
 
" There is in fact an elephant in The Elephant King, but his keepers are far from royal." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
The Elephant King (2008)11%
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3/5
 
Does the world need yet another peppy gay self-esteem indie like Tru Loved? Probably not, though the writer and director Stewart Wade pulls this one off with heart. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Tru Loved (2008)38%
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3/5
 
Night and Weekends simultaneously plays like a critique of the mumblecore ethos and an especially obnoxious example of its whimsical tics and insouciant solipsism. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
Nights and Weekends (2008)88%
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1.5/5
 
Cheap shots and mean spirits abound, as do celebrity cameos. But its the laziness of the writing that most offends. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 6, 2008
 
An American Carol (2008)14%
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2.5/5
 
" Beverly Hills Chihuahua approaches but never quite achieves a truly spectacular level of absurdity." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)41%
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4.5/5
 
" A tender, fascinating documentary by Matt Wolf, will delight the cult and instantly convert new members." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008)n/a
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2.5/5
 
" The Man From London, directed by Bela Tarr, is an outrageously stylized, conceptually demanding film." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 22, 2008
 
The Man from London (2008)62%
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4/5
 
" This powerful, conceptually sure film is relevant beyond the concerns of the moment as both a model of documentary method and compassionate social filmmaking." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
All of Us (2008)n/a
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3.5/5
 
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a gentle, pleasantly unrushed piece of moviemaking. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2008)75%
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4/5
 
" Unavoidably, an insidery affair. But even those who have never talked mise-en-scene...will be intrigued by this affectionate look at a legendary cinephile and prime mover of the movies." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 18, 2008
 
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
" If the movie follows no single thread of inquiry, nor sustains any argument or research in depth, it nevertheless explores some chilling corridors of the clandestine." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Secrecy (2008)100%
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3.5/5
 
" Joins show-time antics to sociocultural commentary without reducing its characters, colorful as they are, to cartoons." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Loins of Punjab Presents (2008)56%
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4/5
 
If it sounds like the cutest thing in the history of cuteness, that's because it is. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
The Little Red Truck (2008)29%
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2/5
 
Directed by the Pang brothers (Danny and Oxide), Bangkok Dangerous is a halfhearted remake of their 1999 picture of the same name. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 8, 2008
 
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)10%
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3.5/5
 
There's a deeper, touching acknowledgment of braggadocio as persona, how the commodified dissent of hip-hop lends itself to masking insecurities. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Ping Pong Playa (2007)67%
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2/5
 
Never quite shaking off its aura of second-rate made-for-TV movie, this gay conversion melodrama has a lot of heart but little nerve and no surprise. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Save Me (2007)71%
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.5/5
 
" Disaster Movie, the latest disposable parody of disposable Hollywood movies, has a shelf life of about five minutes, tops." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
Disaster Movie (2008)2%
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.5/5
 
This wretched gaysploitation number is, in fact, the worst gay sequel ever. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Another Gay Sequel (2008)21%
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2.5/5
 
" Puts a cheerful spin on its many cliches. This particular wheel hasn't been reinvented, but at least it gets a nice fresh coat of bubblegum-pink paint and a star to pilot it with aplomb." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
The House Bunny (2008)40%
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2/5
 
" The really oppressive thing here is the filmmaking itself." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
The Sensation of Sight (2008)50%
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5/5
 
No fancy talk here, just solid, monosyllabic obscenities; no flights of digital fancy, just souped-up monster cars flipping end over end in a napalm blaze and crashing in a crunch of flaming metal ouch. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Death Race (2008)42%
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2/5
 
What makes this one different? Absolutely nothing. (Sure, it's based on a true story, but I mean come on, whatever.) -- New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
The Longshots (2008)37%
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4/5
 
Directed by Thomas G. Miller, One Bad Cat brings fresh light to the artist Albert Wagner. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008)67%
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1.5/5
 
" Lets go ahead and get this out of the way because Im sure youre dying to know: no, you shouldnt see Blitzkrieg: Escape From Stalag 69." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69 (2008)n/a
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2/5
 
Fly Me to the Moon bills itself as the first animated feature created expressly for 3-D. Too bad it wasnt created expressly for, you know, pleasure or art. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
Fly Me To The Moon (2008)17%
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2/5
 
Star Wars: The Clone Wars comes as something of a surprise: it isnt the most painful movie of the year! -- New York Times
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)19%
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4/5
 
" Mr. Mehta's picture is a documentary, and while it ought to be included on every future copy of the Water DVD, his free-form portrait of real widows has more than enough visual beauty, graceful compassion and understated anger to stand on its own." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
The Forgotten Woman (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
" While Poston bears witness to a historical disgrace, it also resonates with more current conflicts." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Passing Poston (2008)71%
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2/5
 
Though [Director] Mr. Rose can't be blamed for waxing nostalgic, he can't much expect us to care about so fawning and self-serving a document. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Beautiful Losers (2008)72%
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2.5/5
 
" Stealing America: Vote by Vote might have been this year's most alarming and patriotic documentary if it weren't so shoddy and dull." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008)50%
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2/5
 
" [Director] Leesong fails to extrapolate the insights of the brothel milieu into his larger agenda: a melodramatic love-hate affair between Sumin and Jaemin so schematic it's unintelligible." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
No Regret (2008)63%
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4/5
 
Happily, the filmmaker, Jeremy Gosch, puts his wide-eyed narrative together with an easy touch. With its amazing wall-to-wall footage of oceanic derring-do Bustin' Down the Door plays like visual air-conditioning. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Bustin' Down the Door (2008)64%
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3/5
 
" A mockumentary about the people who run Manhattan nightlife, has solid-gold satire at its cocaine-stained fingertips." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
The Doorman (2008)28%
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4.5/5
 
It's no small feat to pull off as sweet and sensitive a romance as that between Na and Ton, and something rarer yet to suffuse such affections into a poem of wounded landscape. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Wonderful Town (2008)92%
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1/5
 
" If there is anything the cinema needed less than another angst-ridden, cross-cutting tragedy about crime, fate, memory and redemption, it�s the kind shot in an ugly monochromatic palette like Take." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Take (2008)42%

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