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JONATHAN F. RICHARDS

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Biography: Jonathan Richards is an author, journalist, actor, and cartoonist. He has published a number of novels, including The Whitmarsh Chronicles, a generational trilogy set against the background of the American labor movement; Tularosa, and Cherokee Bill, both historical fiction with Western settings; and Santa Fe, a contemporary novel of greed and growth in the capital of New Mexico. His movie reviews appear in print in the Pasatiempo magazine of the Santa Fe New Mexican. His political cartoons are seen in the Albuquerque Journal North on Wednesdays and Sundays.

Publications: Film.com, FilmFreak.be, In the Dark, rec.arts.movies.reviews

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 505
Total QuickRatings: 4

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Fresh	Fresh 70%	American Casino (2009)	" The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down." — Film.com Posted Nov 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Bright Star (2009)	" Campion, who won fans with The Piano (1993) and lost them with the dismal In the Cut (2003) here returns to the top of her form." — Film.com Posted Nov 22, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 57%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" There are cycles of inspiration and rebirth, but the barbed promise of the early going loses its way in choices aimed at sentimentality rather than, as Harvey Kurtzman memorably put it, humor in a jugular vein." — Film.com Posted Nov 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Yes Men Fix the World (2009)	" Bichlbaum and Bonanno don't just try to make the world a better place. They treat it as if it already were." — Film.com Posted Nov 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" The centerpiece of An Education is the breakout performance of young Carey Mulligan. She is enchanting, and almost convincing as the teenage Jenny, though she can't completely obscure the (justified) suspicion that she's in her twenties and old enough f" — Film.com Posted Nov 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 87%	Big Fan (2009)	" Writer-director Robert D. Siegel grew up listening to callers like Paul on The FAN, New York City's all-sports radio, and he gives us a bizarrely sympathetic portrait of a guy who is as devout and as obsessive as any religious fanatic." — Film.com Posted Nov 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 60%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" Curtis's movie is loosely based on the historical truths of the time, but it isn't meant as a documentary, a rockumentary, or even a docucomedy. It's just a hell of a lot of fun." — Film.com Posted Nov 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 87%	Jerichow (2009)	" Petzoid takes the Cain themes of lust and duplicity and twists them into a reflection on modern Germany, where nationalism and loyalties and identity and economics are jumbled and thrown into confusion." — Film.com Posted Sep 10, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined." — Film.com Posted Sep 10, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" The good parts of this movie are often wonderful, but Apatow never finds the rhythm to keep it going. It lurches from inspiration to inspiration, but always manages to muddy its feet in mediocrity in between, as it drags on toward the two-and-a-half-hour" — Film.com Posted Aug 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Class (2008)	" But ultimately it's a fascinating, sometimes exhilarating movie that seems to make a genuine contact with the classroom, and shows us an educational system struggling, and managing, to survive." — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Il Divo (2009)	" The film takes flight on the brilliant title performance by Tony Servillo (Gomorrah), who plays Andreotti like a mummified Alec Guinness, as if encased in layers of plaster of Paris." — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Tyson (1995)	" The most remarkable revelation of the movie is its subject's thoughtful, reflective eloquence and unflinching self-perception." — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	The Cove (2009)	" The Cove is guerrilla journalism at its best. Structured and paced by director Louie Psihoyos as a thriller/caper movie, it brings audience-grabbing cinematic conventions to work in telling its story of dolphin genocide" — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Summer Hours (2009)	" n Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas's gently provocative rumination on family and possessions, a trio of siblings wrestles with the problem of what to do with the old homestead once Mother is gone." — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	O'Horten (2009)	" Hamer creates a quirky, beguiling, and very funny mood piece that reflects on age, adventure, uncertainty, and humanity. Owe gives the character of Horten an off-center dignity that will suggest comparisons to Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton" — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	The Lemon Tree (2008)	" Eran Riklis, who directed and co-wrote with Suha Arraf (they also collaborated on The Syrian Bride), has made a compelling movie that takes its strength from the ground-level picture it gives of the human aspect of the problems in that part of the world." — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Every Little Step (2009)	" It's all up there on the screen in this impassioned, exhilarating documentary. They want to dance for you. It's what they did for love." — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Burma VJ (2009)	" In traditional terms, this is hardly a film at all. It's more like a bootlegged YouTube video." — Film.com Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 25%	Class (1983)	" Director Laurent Cantet has pulled together a story that feels startlingly authentic, using Mike Leigh-like methods of extensive improvisation with a cast of real inner-city kids and a real teacher. To paraphrase the Buck Owens/Beatles hit, all they had" — Film.com Posted Jun 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	The Secret of the Grain (2008)	" Time stretches out to the limits of endurance, Slimane's and ours, and there are moments toward the conclusion of this picture when you will want to scream and throw things at the screen, but it's mesmerizing. When it does end, suddenly, it feels a little" — Film.com Posted Jun 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Shall We Kiss? (2008)	" Mouret is the cinematic offspring of Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer. From the former he takes the actor-director presenting himself as neurotic but satisfying lover; from the latter he absorbs the pleasure of extended talk. Mouret's talk is enjoyable, but i" — Film.com Posted Jun 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" In the hands of a director more suited to the material The Soloist might have been a deeply moving experience. Here, we know something important is being played out before us, and there are times when it hits home with force. But in their exercise of dram" — Film.com Posted Jun 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Tokyo Sonata (2009)	" Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to the master) is best known for his up-market horror films (Cure, Retribution, and many others.) Here he is dealing with a horror of a different sort: the meltdown of the Japanese economy and the collapse of the soc" — Film.com Posted Jun 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 36%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" Why are quality pros like Howard and Hanks involved in this enterprise? Do they need the money? Angels and Demons is sure to make plenty. But their artistic souls will do hard time in purgatory for it." — Film.com Posted Jun 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Tyson (2009)	" The most remarkable revelation of the movie is its subject's thoughtful, reflective eloquence and unflinching self-perception...Tyson may or may not be entirely who he says he is, but he's probably not who we thought he was, either." — Film.com Posted Jun 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	The Great Buck Howard (2009)	" This is not a rare movie, but it does have a warm red center. It's likable, and its appeal grows as it recovers from a shaky start and finds its footing." — Film.com Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Gomorrah (2009)	" The sense of authenticity in this movie is palpable, but the scenes are sometimes so dark and so impenetrable that it takes a herculean effort to keep up with who's who and what's going on." — Film.com Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Un Secret (2008)	" The title of this movie suggests the difficulty in writing about it. You can't reveal a secret without spoiling it, and in this intriguing, complex family drama spread out over several time frames covering half a century, the secrets keep on coming" — Film.com Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 58%	The International (2009)	" The International is strewn with wild improbability, but that hardly deters from its appeal." — Film.com Posted Mar 6, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 62%	Che (2008)	" There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries" — Film.com Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Katyn (1991)	" Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds), the octogenarian master of Polish cinema, sets the stage for the tragedy of a nation caught in a conflict of forces of destiny and evil immeasurably greater than itself." — Film.com Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Gran Torino (2008)	" If Mt. Rushmore were to make a movie, it would probably look a lot like a Clint Eastwood movie." — Film.com Posted Jan 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Revolutionary Road (2008)	" If Revolutionary Road had been filmed back in 1961, when the novel came out, it would have been timely and powerful." — Film.com Posted Jan 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 47%	Towelhead (2008)	" There is hardly a scene that does not produce exquisite discomfort and a strong desire to be somewhere else." — Film.com Posted Dec 11, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 90%	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	" This is a thriller, though, in the sense that it is a thrill to watch Scott-Thomas give one of the finest performances of the year." — Film.com Posted Dec 8, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Torn from the Flag (2008)	" Klaudia Kovacs's riveting documentary on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution sketches the fragile, shifting line between war and peace, liberty and tyranny, hope and despair, and life and death." — Film.com Posted Dec 8, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" Langella inhabits the pouchy skin of the man he's playing, until soon any meaningful distinction between actor and subject disappears." — Film.com Posted Dec 8, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 78%	Doubt (2008)	" Shanley, who has not directed a feature film since his maiden misadventure almost twenty years ago with Joe Versus the Volcano, has neither the skill nor the perspective to turn his Broadway powerhouse into a movie of similar punch." — Film.com Posted Dec 8, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)	" Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 45%	Soul Men (2008)	" Considering the canvas the story provides, and the richness of the tradition it taps into, the amount and quality of the music is pretty disappointing." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 61%	Changeling (2008)	" Eastwood, who has made fine movies in recent years, has got hold of a humdinger of a story. But he's too detached and lazy here." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 34%	Pride and Glory (2008)	" What it lacks in subtlety and intelligence it makes up in violence, brutishness, and hackneyed story lines. These are qualities best enjoyed at home." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 60%	W. (2008)	" As Poppy Bush says, and says again,"You disappoint me, Junior."" — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 51%	Body of Lies (2008)	" Good solid far-fetched multiplex action-adventure fare in the Bondian mode, with awe-inspiring technology and just enough moral philosophizing laced through it to give the mind a little something to chew on." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 80%	I Served the King of England (2008)	" The movie is filled with wonderful moments, set pieces of absurdity, and a richness of humor. But underneath, Menzel and Hraba have a wry and sometimes painful story to tell of the history of their country in the 20th century." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 58%	Flash of Genius (2008)	" If it doesn't rise to the level of It's a Wonderful Life, it's because Marc Abrams is no Frank Capra. And after all, this isn't about angels, it's about windshield wipers." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 69%	Religulous (2008)	" Maher is essentially and professionally a comic, and the measure of this movie is not just the thoughts it provokes but the laughs it generates." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 34%	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	" Lee is a filmmaker who, through talent, accomplishment, and a constant working of the refs in the Hollywood system, has earned autonomy over his films. I'm all for artistic freedom, but here he could have used a bit of oversight." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Trumbo (2008)	" The transporting power of this experience is in the passionate and almost outlandishly eloquent verbal expression Trumbo poured into his correspondence, and the vividly American principles he defends." — Film.com Posted Nov 10, 2008

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