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TIM BRAYTON
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• Antagony & Ecstasy
• Film Threat

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Total Reviews: 456

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Online Film Critics Society

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• Location: Chicago, IL


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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10/10  Shoah
9/10  The Tiger of Eschnapur
8/10  The Indian Tomb
7/10  Jellyfish
6/10  Get Smart
5/10  Mister Lonely
4/10  Wanted
3/10  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
2/10  The Happening
1/10  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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10/10  Spring in a Small Town
10/10  Don't Look Now
10/10  Happy-Go-Lucky
10/10  Of Time and the City
10/10  24 City
10/10  Jenny Lamour
10/10  Spirit of the Beehive
10/10  Burn After Reading
10/10  Johnny Guitar
10/10  Alexandra
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/10  Zombie Lake
0/10  Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1/10  Halloween: Resurrection
1/10  Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
1/10  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
1/10  88 Minutes
1/10  Zombie 4: After Death
1/10  Prom Night
1/10  Zombi 3
1/10  Strange Wilderness
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

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4/10
 
" The film adaptation of Twilight isn't nearly as bad in its own medium as the source material was, though it's still quite a chore to endure." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 26, 2008
 
Twilight (2008)43%
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7/10
 
" Easily the best Disney animated film since 2002's Lilo & Stitch... a return to core values for the studio." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 26, 2008
 
Bolt (2008)84%
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9/10
 
" A picture of unpleasant people treating each other poorly that comes across as buoyant and frankly joyful at times." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 25, 2008
 
A Christmas Tale (2008)90%
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10/10
 
" One of the most delicate, subtly moving stories of domestic suffering that has ever been put to film." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 23, 2008
 
Spring in a Small Town (1948)n/a
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8/10
 
" If not for a third act that starts to fall asleep on itself, this would be in a walk the best-written satire of 2008." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 21, 2008
 
JCVD (2008)87%
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8/10
 
" Unfathomably gorgeous; perhaps even the most gorgeous film Wong Kar-Wai has yet made, which is not a bit of praise I hand out lightly." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 20, 2008
 
Ashes of Time Redux (2008)82%
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" The most emotionally powerful film of 2008... as deeply personal as any film you will ever see." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 19, 2008
 
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)98%
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9/10
 
" An awfully wonderful vampire story, thanks largely to pushing itself so far beyond the limits that "vampire story" usually implies." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 18, 2008
 
Let the Right One In (2008)98%
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8/10
 
" There's a line between "great film" and "masterpiece", and Mizoguchi crossed it enough times that I think it's fair to point out one of the instances where he didn't." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 17, 2008
 
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)n/a
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5/10
 
" I don't need the producers of the James Bond series to turn their superspy into a Jason Bourne clone... and if that weren't frustrating enough, they haven't even done it very well." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Quantum of Solace (2008)66%
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9/10
 
" Such style! ...the most exhilarating movie of prestige season, even as it is almost entirely taken up with suffering." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)92%
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2/10
 
" Contemptible awards-bait... The Holocaust deserves far more than this prim Masterpiece Theater treatment." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)63%
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7/10
 
" Where most mainstream comedies strain to make their jokes as zany and crazy as possible, Role Models has the unspeakable bravery to base almost all of its comedy on things that could actually happen." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Role Models (2008)76%
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5/10
 
" Somewhat better than the original, a film which it is mainly content to clone shamelessly." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 10, 2008
 
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)60%
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9/10
 
" Pretty great, but also overwhelming: Vigo clearly had a good 80 or 90 minutes worth of movie that he had to fit into half the running time." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 10, 2008
 
Zero for Conduct (1933)92%
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10/10
 
" The most adult horror picture I've ever encountered, or indeed can even imagine." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 9, 2008
 
Don't Look Now (1974)95%
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10/10
 
" Leigh finally discovers the entire other half of human experience that he's always ignored, and in the process directs his best film since Secrets & Lies." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Nov 2, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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3/10
 
" Square in the middle of the series, quality-wise: though the new film has some unabashedly dumb moments, its plot lacks the pathetic contortions that we saw in Saw IV" -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 31, 2008
 
Saw V (2008)14%
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7/10
 
" Among the most visually distinctive movies of the year." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 30, 2008
 
Sita Sings the Blues (2008)n/a
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8/10
 
" It's flawed, without question. But it also has more originality and invention than any given half-dozen films." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 30, 2008
 
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2009)n/a
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7/10
 
" Like listening to a great violinist scraping the bow across the strings: for the most part it's quite beautiful, but the scratches are what stand out." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Changeling (2008)59%
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4/10
 
" In its headlong rush to declare its own importance, it forgets to be whatsoever engaging. Though a decently-crafted film, it is resolutely airless and leaden." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Katyn ()n/a
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10/10
 
" A compelling and unique character study." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 28, 2008
 
Of Time and the City (2008)83%
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4/10
 
" It isn't Bad any more than it's Good, for it is a business venture after all, and Disney can rightly assume that their target audience won't care." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 27, 2008
 
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)67%
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10/10
 
" One of the year's best... a narrative film masquerading as a documentary, and more of an essay on the status of life in a modernising China than either" -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 27, 2008
 
24 City (2008)n/a
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9/10
 
" Launched the series of masterpieces in the late '40s and 1950s that forever after defined [Ford] as the greatest director of Westerns in history," -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 27, 2008
 
My Darling Clementine (1946)100%
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5/10
 
" Silly beyond words, but it's the kind of silly that's also incredible fun and awesome, especially if you are or once were or ever wanted to be a twelve-year-old boy." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 26, 2008
 
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1973)n/a
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3/10
 
" An original direction to take a tremendously played-out franchise, but I think I'd have been happier with no eighth Dracula film at all, rather than this particular eighth Dracula film." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 25, 2008
 
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)n/a
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4/10
 
" A sad way to watch a formerly great series enter its death throes." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 25, 2008
 
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)n/a
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7/10
 
" You're not going to come out of the movie a [Plympton] fan if you don't go in as one." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Idiots and Angels (2008)n/a
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5/10
 
" Whatever work it takes to unpack the film's levels upon levels of meaning, it's not worth it... Unremittingly grim, without any spark of life." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Synecdoche, New York (2008)64%
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6/10
 
" Lies squarely on the very thin line that separates intelligent art films from plodding misfires, with a few too many diversions onto the wrong side of that line." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Delta (2008)n/a
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9/10
 
" One of the most brutal, devastating things I have seen in long time, and I cannot imagine that a more seasoned director would have been able to improve upon it." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Hunger (2008)94%
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8/10
 
" Moving and entertaining in a modest way...it's nice to have a reminder that America doesn't have a monopoly on sweetly uplifting movies about life lessons." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 21, 2008
 
The Song of Sparrows (2008)n/a
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4/10
 
" A rattling collection of warmed-over ideas filmed on a paltry budget...doesn't do anything that Dracula and Prince of Darkness didn't already do better." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 21, 2008
 
Scars of Dracula (1970)n/a
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8/10
 
" Plays out with the light energy of a dance for most of its brisk running time." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 20, 2008
 
Man Jeuk (2008)n/a
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6/10
 
" It's largely Tilda Swinton's presence that saves Julia from itself." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 20, 2008
 
Julia (2008)n/a
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9/10
 
" Lousy history, absolutely perfect filmmaking." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 19, 2008
 
JFK (1991)84%
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5/10
 
" The strangest and most confused of the Dracula films up to that point, and the first of Hammer's vampire films where the bad elements seriously threaten to outnumber the good." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 19, 2008
 
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)60%
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4/10
 
" It's not quite right to call W. a wasted opportunity: that would suggest that the idea of a biopic of the sitting president had some value in the first place." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 18, 2008
 
W. (2008)57%
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5/10
 
" Obnoxiously typical, and only its pointlessly convoluted series of double crosses in the middle even gives it the semblance of drama." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
Body of Lies (2008)51%
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6/10
 
" Despite Quarantine's theft from nearly every film in the subgenre, there are parts of the film that just plain work, no matter how much it doesn't seem like they should." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2008
 
Quarantine (2008)60%
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8/10
 
" A great example of a "little" movie, both in its story and its aesthetic; it's also a reminder that littleness doesn't keep a film from touching greatness." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2008
 
Rachel Getting Married (2008)88%
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10/10
 
" A beautifully-made and beautifully-written film about people stuck in a place that won't let them lead anything but a crummy, second-rate life. Classical French cinema at its very best." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 12, 2008
 
Jenny Lamour (1947)100%
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7/10
 
" The film props itself up mostly on [director] Francis's often-thrilling visual sense, and the visceral impact of the first and final scenes." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 12, 2008
 
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968)90%
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8/10
 
" Perhaps Hammer's most effectively horrific Dracula movie." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 12, 2008
 
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965)89%
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6/10
 
" It is [funny], although much of the humor is extraordinarily cheap and obvious." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Religulous (2008)71%
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3/10
 
" Tremendously routine, in a way that an adventure film about talking Chihuahuas should not be." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)41%
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4/10
 
" A movie rotten with the fear that the audience might possibly miss the point if the filmmakers don't hammer us over the head repeatedly." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 6, 2008
 
Blindness (2008)41%
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10/10
 
" A most exceptional vision of the inner life of a child just learning about the darker complexities of life." -- Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 6, 2008
 
Spirit of the Beehive (1973)100%

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