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JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
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• Las Vegas Mercury
• New York Times

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Total Reviews: 400

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• Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association

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(This Critic's Cinematic Taste as Determined by Rotten Tomatoes)
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5  Back to Normandy
4.5/5  10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
4/5  Primo Levi's Journey
3.5/5  Sunflower
3/5  Naked Boys Singing
2.5/5  Zebraman
2/5  Dedication
1.5/5  Underdog
1/5  Skinwalkers
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5  Back to Normandy
5/5  Bridge to Terabithia
5/5  China Blue
4.5/5  Without the King
4.5/5  Blindsight
4.5/5  Liberty Kid
4.5/5  Strange Culture
4.5/5  Darkon
4.5/5  Antonia
4.5/5  10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/5  Captivity
0/5  Eternal
0.5/5  Black Christmas
0.5/5  Saw III
0.5/5  Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
0.5/5  Wicker Park
1/5  House of the Sleeping Beauties
1/5  The House of Adam
1/5  Everybody Wants to be Italian
1/5  Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

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1/5
 
Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties. -- New York Times
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
House of the Sleeping Beauties (2008)38%
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3/5
 
" Eden is a picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop." -- New York Times
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Eden (2008)69%
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2.5/5
 
" Never begins to tap the talent at its disposal." -- New York Times
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
The World Unseen (2008)40%
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2/5
 
" God and Satan duke it out for the soul of a young girl in The Haunting of Molly Hartley, an unexpectedly cynical addition to the teen-scream genre." -- New York Times
Posted Nov 3, 2008
 
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)3%
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4/5
 
Stripping away centuries of civilization, The Matador confronts something primal in human nature, daring us to do the same. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 31, 2008
 
The Matador (2008)77%
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3/5
 
" Saving Marriage is an in-the-trenches, defiantly partisan and exuberantly big-hearted movie." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Saving Marriage (2008)81%
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2.5/5
 
" There's not a moment of warmth or ease in Ben X, Nic Balthazar's punishingly cacophonous debut." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Ben X (2008)60%
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4/5
 
" Fear(s) of the Dark is an animated anthology that tells its stories with an inventiveness that’s seldom scary but never less than mesmerizing." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 22, 2008
 
Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)73%
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3.5/5
 
Who Does She Think She Is? is an engaging documentary about the struggle to create art while nurturing life. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Who Does She Think She Is? (2008)75%
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2.5/5
 
" Without Daniel Craig's 007-enhanced profile, it's unlikely that Flashbacks of a Fool would have appeared anywhere except the Netflix queues of his most rabid fans." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)35%
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2.5/5
 
Morning Light is a sweepingly beautiful documentary unmoored by democratic intentions. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Morning Light (2008)26%
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3.5/5
 
Dysfunction beguiles in Good Dick, a perverse romantic comedy whose coarse title belies its tender heart. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Good Dick (2008)47%
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3.5/5
 
" Quarantine, yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 13, 2008
 
Quarantine (2008)60%
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4/5
 
" In Delwende the African filmmaker S. Pierre Yameogo tackles social injustice in present-day Burkina Faso with grace, economy and exquisitely controlled anger." -- New York Times
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
Fraude: Mexico 2006 (2008)80%
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3/5
 
Choose Connor, a jaundiced look at political power and moral turpitude, draws you in by creeping you out. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
Choose Connor (2008)43%
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4/5
 
In Delwende the African filmmaker S. Pierre Yameogo tackles social injustice in present-day Burkina Faso with grace, economy and exquisitely controlled anger. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Delwende (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
Propelled by geysers of blood and tidal waves of neuroses, Tokyo Gore Police plumbs wounds both cultural and physical to deliver splatterific social satire. -- New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Tokyo Gore Police (2008)100%
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3.5/5
 
Plumbing the roots of negative campaigning, Boogie Man shines a sickening spotlight on a thriving political strategy, suggesting that the devil may indeed have all the best tunes. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)92%
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4/5
 
A warm, entertaining compendium of counterculture voices (including Jim Carroll and Amiri Baraka) and literary landmarks. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Obscene (2008)92%
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2/5
 
" Marrying small-screen formula to big-screen actors, Shoot on Sight is an earnest melodrama that struggles to surmount its good intentions." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Shoot on Sight (2008)25%
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2.5/5
 
Presents immigrant lives with significantly more empathy than detail. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Fraulein (2008)67%
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4/5
 
" A stunning introduction to a rare new talent." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Taking Father Home (2008)n/a
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2/5
 
This overripe tale of innocence lost has become one of notoriety found. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Hounddog (2008)17%
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2/5
 
There's scant reward for sitting through Igor, an animated twist on the Frankenstein story that never sparks to life. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Igor (2008)32%
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2/5
 
" The message may be clear -- suppress the past at your peril -- but the execution is a mess." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Forgiveness (2008)33%
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4/5
 
" Irena Salina's astonishingly wide-ranging film is less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Flow: For Love of Water (2008)76%
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1.5/5
 
" Modeled on noir and executed on acid, Able Danger is a paranoid fantasy of geek superheroics that lunges desperately for political relevance." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 10, 2008
 
Able Danger (2008)n/a
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1/5
 
Had Jorge Ameer, the writer and director of The House of Adam, aimed for high-flying camp instead of low-rent earnestness, his movie might have stood a chance. -- New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
The House of Adam (2008)0%
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1/5
 
" How atrocious is the comedy Everybody Wants to Be Italian? Let me count the ways." -- New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Everybody Wants to be Italian (2008)0%
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3/5
 
" Repurposing clichés as springboards to deeper issues...[director Springall] reminds us that ritual can ease reconciliation, and that sometimes even meat and dairy can get along." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
My Mexican Shivah (2008)33%
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3.5/5
 
" Onstage or in rehearsal, surrounded by familiars or alone with the camera, Ms. Bethânia is an expressive force of nature whose honeyed voice could lure sailors to their doom." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Maria Bethania: Music is Perfume (2008)100%
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3.5/5
 
Trace[s] influences and celebrate connections with tunes to make you tap and sway. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree (2008)100%
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4/5
 
An adult fable told with childlike simplicity, Year of the Fish updates an ancient Chinese version of the Cinderella story with imagination, charm and just the right amount of sweetness. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Year of the Fish (2008)55%
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2/5
 
" Jeremy Dean makes a valiant attempt to juxtapose past and present, but his goal is consistently undermined by an execution so muddled it's almost unwatchable...Even so, the film deserves to be seen, if only for its wealth of rare historical footage." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Dare Not Walk Alone (2008)86%
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4/5
 
Yet another documentary that everyone should see but most will not. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
I.O.U.S.A. (2008)92%
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3.5/5
 
" Operating at the intersection of art and industrial engineering, Richard Serra is an informative if unanimated guide through Thinking on Your Feet." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
Richard Serra: Thinking On Your Feet (2005)20%
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3.5/5
 
" Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer harks back to the drive-in classics of yesteryear with unapologetic nostalgia and undisguised affection." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008)70%
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4/5
 
" Malcolm McDowell is thoroughly engaging in Never Apologize: A Personal Visit With Lindsay Anderson." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson (2008)64%
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2.5/5
 
" A minor chiller and major downer from the talented Alexandre Aja." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 18, 2008
 
Mirrors (2008)14%
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2.5/5
 
More amusing than tragic in its depiction of the band's infantile behavior. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
What We Do Is Secret (2008)44%
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2/5
 
" Clueless, directionless and altogether pointless, America the Beautiful will outrage only those who have spent the last 50 years in suspended animation." -- New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
America The Beautiful (2008)67%
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3/5
 
A dolorous comedy that leans heavily, if inoffensively, on ethnic stereotypes. -- New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Sixty Six (2008)65%
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4/5
 
" Weird, wicked and wonderfully perverse, Late Bloomer pulses with frigid energy. Watching it is like having your finger trapped in a light socket: no matter how much it hurts, you can't quite tear yourself away." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Late Bloomer (2008)n/a
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3.5/5
 
If the writer-director, Akihiko Shiota, sometimes strains too hard for mythic import, his patience is a gift. As Yuki watches a blind woman fashion an origami bird, the characters' connection to a simpler, collective past is evident in every perfect fold. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Canary (2008)67%
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5/5
 
" Back to Normandy is never less than an extraordinary journey through time, memory and the repercussions of a baffling, bygone crime." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Back to Normandy (2008)88%
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4/5
 
" A struggling anorexic and her physical opposite form an unlikely friendship in disFIGURED, a funny, awkward and often uncomfortable drama." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Disfigured (2008)83%
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3/5
 
" A Very British Gangster plays less like a documentary than an E! exposé of lowlife skulduggery." -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
A Very British Gangster (2008)67%
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4/5
 
Assembled without frills or fuss, A Man Named Pearl is as much a portrait of a small Southern town as of an unassuming black folk artist. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
A Man Named Pearl (2008)73%
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2.5/5
 
Has a dark desperation that’s morbidly compelling. But the movie’s amoral momentum is fatally slowed by an acronym-heavy script and flimsy characterizations that offer fine actors...little to play. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
August (2008)35%
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2.5/5
 
Everyone's sorry about something in this glum drama about the way repentance can do more damage than the sin that precedes it. -- New York Times
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Forgiveness (2004)n/a

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