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TAMARA STRAUS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 91% of the time.

Biography: San Francisco Chronicle film critic.

Publications: San Francisco Chronicle

Total Reviews: 14

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh 3/4	Fresh 97%	Tulpan (2008)	" A tender, unforgettable comedy about a vanishing way of life." Posted May 8, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 95%	Obscene: A Portrait Of Barney Rosset And Grove Press (2008)	" Obscene, a tribute to New York publisher Barney Rosset, is an entertaining reminder of the ferocity of the culture wars of the 1950s and '60s." Posted Sep 5, 2008
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Warchild (2008)	" Warchild, the second feature of German director Christian Wagner's Balkan Blues Trilogy, is one of those rare war films, like Apocalypse Now and Hiroshima Mon Amour, that makes brilliant use of symbolism." Posted Aug 22, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 73%	Body of War (2008)	" A chance to witness the struggles of a remarkable young man. Young may be paralyzed in the body, but his mind is fiercely alive." Posted Apr 18, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 98%	Blindsight (2008)	" Simultaneously a sports adventure film, a tear-jerking tale of hope and inspiration and a captivating meditation on culture clash." Posted Mar 28, 2008
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm (2008)	" Passion & Power may lay it on too thick with its You Go, Girl! message, but in the end it does bring to life a remarkably amusing and strange secret history." Posted Feb 22, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	" Will go down in film history as a damning historical document of the Bush administration's wartime expansion of executive powers." Posted Feb 8, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 80%	The Business Of Being Born (2008)	" A powerful, frightening look at America's delivery room that makes a strong case for natural childbirth overseen by experienced midwives rather than by surgery-prone doctors." Posted Jan 18, 2008
Fresh 4/4	N/A	Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: Apartheid and the Club of the West (2006)	" The documentary's rousing thesis is that American economic pressure can transform a nation halfway across the globe and do it in the name of liberty and equality." Posted Nov 2, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 85%	Terror's Advocate (2007)	" Jacques Verg�s makes for compelling documentary film fodder: He is arrogant, cosmopolitan, politically unpredictable and enmeshed in the roots of modern international terrorism." Posted Nov 2, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 72%	In the Valley of Elah (2007)	" Elah does have moments of slipping into political sermon, but for the most part it is an effective, disturbing and -- a rarity for Haggis -- subtle exploration of the stateside war story." Posted Sep 14, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 77%	I Have Never Forgotten You (2007)	" The film dramatically shows how many of the criminals on Wiesenthal's lists were eventually sent to jail or died from heart attacks or suicide when they were at last located." Posted Jun 29, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 77%	Crazy Love (2007)	" *Among the weirdest explorations of connubial relationships since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* And like Edward Albee's 1962 play, it leaves one feeling queasy about human nature.**" Posted Jun 8, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 42%	The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006)	" Now the fabricated story of a boyhood that included abandonment, rape and near constant fear and humiliation is a movie. The result is unwatchable." Posted Mar 24, 2006

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