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NATHAN LEE
PUBLICATION(S)
• Film Comment Magazine
• L.A. Weekly
• New York Times
• Slate
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 240


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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  Dias de Santiago
3.5/5  The Ringer
3/5  Poultrygeist
2.5/5  Final Destination 3
2/5  The Fall
1.5/5  Pizza
1/5  Trapped by the Mormons
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  Take
1/5  Postal
1/5  Kettle of Fish
1/5  Haven
1/5  The Covenant
1/5  Little Man
1/5  Uncut
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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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)85%
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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)13%
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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)68%
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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)n/a
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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 (2008)68%
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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)22%
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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)39%
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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)43%
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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)38%
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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)71%
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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)91%
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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)44%
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3/5
 
" Like most flower-power nostalgia trips, “Eight Miles High” has the irksome effect of reminding the audience — whether too young or too square — that it missed out on the grooviest moment in history, man. But as these things go, this one goes with" -- New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Eight Miles High (2007)40%
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2/5
 
" Harold is the type of one-note dead zone ideally suited for a bathroom break while sitting home on a Saturday night, alone and semidrunk, in front of the television." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Harold (2008)27%
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2.5/5
 
" La Rivire Gentille affords an exceedingly long afternoon in the company of the artist Louise Bourgeois." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
La Riviere Gentille (2008)n/a
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3.5/5
 
Youve seen this sort of thing before, but the film, directed by Paul Taylor, happens to be especially well photographed, and the youngsters more winning than most. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 7, 2008
 
We Are Together (2008)100%
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5/5
 
" An eye-popper and brain-boggler, Razzle Dazzle is also, remarkably, a thing to stir the soul." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2008)83%
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4/5
 
" All in This Tea is a delicious documentary about a beverage." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
All In This Tea (2008)82%
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4.5/5
 
" This uncommonly elegant and evocative portrait of Louise Bourgeois reveals much about the haunting and haunted master while leaving intact the thing you cannot explain." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 25, 2008
 
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008)91%
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2.5/5
 
" So earnest it hurts, Kicking It follows a half-dozen homeless men from around the globe as they ready for the fourth annual Homeless World Cup in Cape Town." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
Kicking It (2008)57%
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1.5/5
 
" I take no pleasure in dumping on a 25-year-old pseudo-experimental nature documentary, but neither did I find much to like in Blue Planet." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
Blue Planet (1981)83%
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4/5
 
" The seasons freshest, most sympathetic movie about making your way in modern-day Manhattan with a little help from your friends." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Take Out (2008)100%
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4/5
 
...Silly, awkward, vulgar, outlandish, hysterical, inventive, revolting, flamboyant, titillating, ridiculous, mischievous, uproarious, cheap, priceless, tasteless and sublime. -- New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Mother of Tears (2008)48%
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4/5
 
" Directed by Erik Nelson, Dreams With Sharp Teeth recalls the career of Harlan Ellison, a runty young geek who evolved into a world-famous artist." -- New York Times
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)94%
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3/5
 
" A compendium of six short films by French filmmakers, any one of which might prove diverting in the right place at the right time but all of which, cumulatively, don’t much make for a knockout night at the cinema." -- New York Times
Posted May 30, 2008
 
"L'Origine de la tendresse" and Other Tales (2008)n/a
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4.5/5
 
This sleeper hit in the making is sweet and sour in all the right proportions, the best thing of its kind since Napoleon Dynamite. -- New York Times
Posted May 30, 2008
 
The Foot Fist Way (2008)57%
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1/5
 
" Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max, Postal explodes with bad attitude and lousy filmmaking." -- New York Times
Posted May 23, 2008
 
Postal (2008)8%
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4.5/5
 
" An intrepid, unlikely and altogether splendid feat of D.I.Y. reportage." -- New York Times
Posted May 23, 2008
 
Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)81%
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3/5
 
" A Jihad for Love is a dispatch from the outer limits of marginalization: a documentary on devout Muslims struggling with their homosexuality." -- New York Times
Posted May 21, 2008
 
A Jihad for Love (2008)75%

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