ROTTEN TOMATOES: Brandon Judell

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BRANDON JUDELL

"Writing is one-tenth perspiration and nine-tenths masturbation. (Gary Oldman as
Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears)"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography: Cinema editor of New York Theatre Wire and contributor to CultureCatch.com and indieWire. My articles have also appeared in THE BAY AREA REPORTER; Detour, aRude, Filmmaker, The Bay Area Reporter, SOHO STYLE; SMOKE AFFAIR; The Advocate, and FLAIR. My short stories have been anthologized in Libido, and A Member of the Family (Dutton).

Favorites: Central Station;The Celebration; Beautiful Thing; Battle of Algiers; Another Country; Ghost Dog; Surrender, Dorothy; The King is Alive: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Boys Don't Cry; Keep the River on the Right; I Love You, Alice B. Toklas; Laurel and Hardy's The Brats; Jules and Jim; Once Were Warriors; Ladybird, Ladybird; You're a Big Boy Now; Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

Publications: aRude, Aufbau, Bay Area Reporter, Black Bear Film Festival, Critics Inc./America Online, CultureCatch, Cyberlinc, Detour Magazine, Entertainment Asylum, Fashion Wire Daily, Filmmaker, Forward, Gay City News, Gay.com UK, GreenCine, Hollywood.com, IFC Rant, indieWIRE, Jednet, Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, New York Theatre Wire, PlanetOut, PopcornQ, scotsgay.com, Soho Style, The New Lesbian and Gay Voice

Critics' Group: New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews: 418
Total QuickRatings: 250

Location: New York City

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Rotten 5/10	Rotten 29%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Seldom has a film disparaged the state of virginity as much as has this lethargically- paced, often inane, paean to thwarted post-pubescent horniness. Believe me chastity can be fun. Ask Doris Day." — CultureCatch Posted Nov 21, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	That Evening Sun (2009)	" Hal Holbrook, 84, has always been one of the few great American actors giving those British thespians addressed as "Sir" a run for their knighthood. Now in a tiny little indie, he throws off yet another bravura performance." — CultureCatch Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 59%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" A hoot from beginning to end, plus a Valentine to those days when youth thought music could change the world (and it did), expect Pirate Radio to become a minor cult phenomenon when it's released on DVD next year." — CultureCatch Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten 5/10	Fresh 81%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" A gift for all scholars writing a thesis on Almod�var. Though, for the rest of us less academically bent, Pedro's latest is a paean to Hollywood of the '50s, passion, and jealousy, all topics he's handled with much more wit and panache in the past." — CultureCatch Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 91%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" Like Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue and A Taste of Honey, Mo'Nique best known for comedic trifles tears up the screen. Virulent self-centeredness has never been better portrayed." — CultureCatch Posted Nov 2, 2009
Rotten 2/10	Rotten 38%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" What we have here is a commercial product geared possibly for boys of pre-bar-mitzvah age. It lacks art. It lacks wit. It lacks erythrocytes and leukocytes. It's just a bloody, bloodless mess." — CultureCatch Posted Oct 24, 2009
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 68%	The Road (2009)	" It's hard not to divine that The Road will be receiving near universal acclaim and a truckload of Oscar noms." — CultureCatch Posted Oct 11, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 49%	Antichrist (2009)	" The tale rises or sinks to a level of horror with an unimaginable brutality that no doubt Saw 8 or 9 will pilfer." — CultureCatch Posted Oct 11, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Pyaasa (1957)	" A moving mixture of Bollywood song and dance, plus Christ parable" — CultureCatch Posted Sep 29, 2009
Fresh 8/10	N/A	To Die Like a Man (2009)	" Just be the trippiest film released this year, with several of the most delicious transvestites around being truly absurd. Who knew? Drag and Death, a match made in heaven." — CultureCatch Posted Sep 29, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 92%	The Lemon Tree (2008)	" Abbass's starkly moving performance and the film's closing shots make this metaphor for the unsolvable unforgettable." — CultureCatch Posted Sep 29, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 88%	Amreeka (2009)	" With Amreeka, writer/director Cherien Dabiscertainly doesn't reinvent the genre, making it feel newborn, but with warmth and skill, and a dash of wit, she makes an old trope feel fresh." — CultureCatch Posted Sep 20, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 18%	The Other Man (2009)	" If you like being manipulated by top-notch actors, you'll have a blast here. Otherwise you might lose your patience. I didn't." — CultureCatch Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	World's Greatest Dad (2009)	" There is no limit to this pic's tastelessness, but there's a heart here, too." — CultureCatch Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Tarantino has a created a more moving tale about the Jews and the Nazis during World War II than, for example, last year's much more reverent Defiance, which was actually based on a true story yet came off as shtick." — CultureCatch Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" We'll know if District 9 has become an instant cult classic if this Halloween, children start dressing up as prawns." — CultureCatch Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 75%	Cold Souls (2009)	" the most deliciously off-beat comedy of the year" — CultureCatch Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 63%	Extract (2009)	" Everyone else here is rather gleefully one-note, like the characters in The Andy Griffith Show, amusing caricatures that are pleasing to reconnect with between bathroom breaks. Just remember to flush." — CultureCatch Posted Aug 27, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 70%	My One and Only (2009)	" My One and Only is as probably as close as we'll get this decade to an Auntie Mame or a Travels with My Aunt." — CultureCatch Posted Aug 21, 2009
Rotten 2/10	Rotten 38%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" It's sort of soft-core porn for pederasts who are into sci fi." — CultureCatch Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 75%	Julie & Julia (2009)	" Streep's a walking, talking, rising souffl� who refuses to fall. A vibrating baguette. An impassioned risotto. (Do the French eat risotto?) Streep clearly energizes every scene she's in--and in those she sadly isn't." — CultureCatch Posted Aug 8, 2009
Rotten 4/10	N/A	Irangeles (2003)	" Dan Well's Kip is completely believable as an innocent, transplanted Kansan, although I'm not speaking from too much experience. Other than Dorothy and Toto, I can't think of any other Kansans I've ever interacted with." — New York Theatre Wire Posted Aug 5, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Against a Trans Narrative (2009)	" A slightly amateurish paean to academic solipsism broken up by numerous episodes of power." — CultureCatch Posted Aug 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" Funny People is a film Apatow directed a decade too soon to perfect. But just you wait until 2019, and then he'll really bowl us over." — CultureCatch Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh 7/10	Fresh 85%	Flame & Citron (2008)	" Mads Mikkelsen is one of the most charismatic actors working on the international scene today. Just indulge yourself in the Pusher trilogy and After the Wedding and you'll rejoice. You might also recall him as a Bond villain in Casino Royale." — CultureCatch Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" Apparently, wizards are no more exempt from the trauma of puberty than Muggles. So much for the power of Magic." — New York Theatre Wire Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 67%	Bruno (2009)	" Yes--if you're asking--Br�no is quite possibly the most uproarious, groundbreaking, and shocking comedy of the past decade--and that includes its sister film which showcased the Jew-phobic Borat." — CultureCatch Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 67%	Public Enemies (2009)	" Michael Mann's Public Enemies is epic filmmaking with B-movie content. It's as if a wannabe David Lean got down and dirty Americana-style." — CultureCatch Posted Jul 3, 2009
Rotten 3/10	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" If when you were a child--either with Mr. Wizard or alone--you had passed a magnet over a pile of iron filings, you would have unknowingly created the action scenes of Michael Bay's latest blockbuster, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." — CultureCatch Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Rotten 43%	The Proposal (2009)	" The Proposal is a delicious revamping of a Doris Day-like vehicle for Bullock (e.g. Pillow Talk). A virginal (or near-virginal), uptight heroine loosens up and finds true love after she discovers the man she has little patience for is her ideal mate." — CultureCatch Posted Jun 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 78%	The Hangover (2009)	" Now I'm not sure if urinating explicitly on screen is one giant step for mankind or not, but one should not be surprised that the comedy in which this has occurred has been directed by Todd Phillips." — CultureCatch Posted Jun 13, 2009
Rotten 3/10	Rotten 10%	My Life in Ruins (2009)	" What you wind up with is a comedy in ruins with the one exception of Richard Dreyfus, who plays a widowed jokester with such class and warmth, you can almost start liking American tourists again. Almost." — CultureCatch Posted May 31, 2009
Rotten 6/10	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" T-4 might be mistaken by some as a Transformers sequel." — CultureCatch Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Rotten 36%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" What was most surprising about attending the opening-day, 9:45 A.M. screening of Angels & Demons was not that 200 or so folks had showed up, but how many of these attendees were wolfing down buttered popcorn for breakfast. Hadn't any watched The Biggest L" — CultureCatch Posted May 16, 2009
Rotten 6/10	N/A	Vegas: Based on a True Story (2008)	" If your offspring has a fetish for hole-digging, look no further. For the final hour or so of this venture, your loved ones will be able to giggle and coo as a Vegas couple with addiction problems shovels up its backyard in search of a million dollars." — CultureCatch Posted Apr 28, 2009
Fresh 6/10	N/A	El Ni�o Pez (2009)	" Puenzo's screenplay by flitting back and forth in time with the restlessness of a dragonfly in heat dilutes tension." — CultureCatch Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh 6/10	Rotten 58%	17 Again (2009)	" If you had any doubts about whether Zac Efron is major star material, just watch the first few minutes of Burr Steers' 17 Again." — CultureCatch Posted Apr 14, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 91%	Every Little Step (2009)	" A fast-paced documentary that captures the angst, joys, and disappointments of the young hopefuls as they try out for a show that mirrors their pursuits." — Entertainment Asylum Posted Mar 24, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" This is the perfect post-Abu-Ghraib, country-in-recession, Madoff-Lohan-Limbaugh adventure. Our country is still Bush-ed, and a Superman would be laughed off the world stage." — CultureCatch Posted Mar 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 71%	L'Emmerdeur (2008)	" Veber, who has never met an absurdity he couldn't befriend, moves his comedy of errors along at a breakneck pace starting off with a ceiling collapse." — CultureCatch Posted Feb 17, 2009
Rotten 3/10	N/A	Yatt�man (2009)	Being imprisoned in someone else's nostalgia trip can be a mind-numbing living hell. — CultureCatch Posted Feb 17, 2009
Rotten 5/10	N/A	Villa Jasmin (2008)	" **Villa Jasmin does serve well as a primer on Tunisian history in the last century. But as a drama, it's sort of Victoria's Secret Goes Ghetto.*" — CultureCatch* Posted Feb 17, 2009
N/A	Fresh 100%	Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)	" From a tyrannical leader to child rapists, from the bombing of the infrastructure to starvation, from immeasurable fear to immeasurable courage, Pray the Devil covers it all." — New York Theatre Wire INTERVIEW Posted Feb 10, 2009
Rotten 6/10	Rotten 24%	The Caller (2009)	" Very few actors have the ability to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and almost have you completely forget you're interacting with pork product. Frank Langella is one of these." — New York Theatre Wire Posted Feb 3, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 70%	Last Chance Harvey (2008)	" The proceedings are almost painless, the acting/mugging is acceptable, especially if you adore the stars, and the message is quite applaudable: No matter how over the hill you are physically or mentally, Cupid still has an arrow left for you." — CultureCatch Posted Jan 19, 2009
Rotten 2/10	Rotten 25%	Bedtime Stories (2008)	" It's no wonder when Sandler vows, "I'm like the stink of your feet. I'll always be around," you just might cringe and shout, "Where's Dr. Scholl?"" — CultureCatch Posted Dec 28, 2008
Rotten 2/10	Fresh 61%	Valkyrie (2008)	" There's the absurdity of Cruise intoning to Adolph in his broad American accent, "My F�hrer, if I may . . ." while the rest of the Germans are sounding as if they're auditioning for Henry Higgins in a touring company of My Fair Lady." — CultureCatch Posted Dec 22, 2008
Rotten 6/10	Rotten 50%	Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)	" Moving from a Cassavetes wannabe to an unbranded movie-of-the-week helmer, de Villa still shows promise, and after all, even directors have to eat and pay rent." — CultureCatch Posted Dec 9, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Doubt (2008)	" Doubt, which apparently reached the heavens on stage, is a bit too leaden on the screen to get far past the clouds." — CultureCatch Posted Dec 4, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 52%	Allah Made Me Funny (2008)	" In the end, while the humor is at times bit uneven, Allah Made Me Funny achieves its goal of breaking down stereotypes with a tongue-in-cheek grace." — CultureCatch Posted Sep 29, 2008

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