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Critics / Jay Carr
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    JAY CARR

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

    Publications: Boston Globe

    Critics' Group: Broadcast Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics

    Total Reviews: 507
    Total QuickRatings: 6

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    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    57%

    Harriet the Spy (1996)

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    Posted May 6, 2003

    Fresh
    4/4

    Fresh
    89%

    Baran (2002)

    " It reminds us of what a film can be when it's drawn from the heart of an artist who believes in the medium as something more than a product or commodity."

    Posted Dec 13, 2002

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    70%

    The Cider House Rules (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    56%

    The Big Tease (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    —

    N/A

    The Messiah (1975)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    27%

    Diamonds (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    44%

    Holy Smoke! (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Fresh

    Fresh
    95%

    The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999)

    " While it preserves his baseball feats, it looks beyond them to clarify Greenberg's place in American culture."

    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Fresh
    4/4

    Fresh
    100%

    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Fresh
    80%

    Following (1998)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    —

    Fresh
    79%

    Judy Berlin (1997)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    38%

    Scream 3 (2000)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    98%

    All About My Mother (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    89%

    Galaxy Quest (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    88%

    The Cup (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    42%

    Miss Julie (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    67%

    The End of the Affair (1999)

    No article or quote available
    Posted Jun 18, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    34%

    Crush (2002)

    " There are as many misses as hits, but ultimately, it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior, and it's a welcome return to the roots of a genre that should depend on surprises."

    Posted May 17, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    57%

    Wendigo (2002)

    This film is only scary if you're afraid of artfully self-conscious, grainy cinematography.
    Posted May 10, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    72%

    The Cat's Meow (2002)

    " It's pretty linear and only makeup-deep, but Bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period."

    Posted May 3, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    35%

    World Traveler (2002)

    Crudup's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy, existential exploration of why men leave their families.
    Posted Apr 26, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    62%

    Dark Blue World (2001)

    A bittersweet world, and it's frankly one to which we've been before, but seldom do we see it rendered with such exquisite, if pained, craftsmanship.
    Posted Apr 5, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    70%

    Waydowntown (2002)

    The film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone.
    Posted Apr 5, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    83%

    Pauline and Paulette (2002)

    Petersen and van der Groen play affectingly against each other in this geriatric heartwarmer.
    Posted Mar 29, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    82%

    The Rookie (2002)

    " A welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic, this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story."

    Posted Mar 29, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Fresh
    77%

    Panic Room (2002)

    " Foster usually makes intelligent choices, but, time and again, one wonders what she could have seen in David Koepp's script, which ranges from flimsy to nonexistent."

    Posted Mar 29, 2002

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Rotten
    43%

    Piņero (2001)

    " It's impressionistic and risks incoherence, but it works as a successful montage of the unruly life of a sensitive, talented, but conflicted man whose self-destructiveness it never tries to sugarcoat or deny."

    Posted Mar 22, 2002

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    35%

    Stolen Summer (2002)

    " Plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel."

    Posted Mar 22, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    78%

    Ice Age (2002)

    " It has taken 20th Century Fox a while to land on the animation scoreboard. Now it has. Ice Age is the coolest animation in town."

    Posted Mar 15, 2002

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    78%

    Last Orders (2002)

    " There's been no richer cinematic tapestry of humanity so far this year."

    Posted Mar 8, 2002

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    94%

    Monsoon Wedding (2002)

    " Cinematic home cooking at its most savory."

    Posted Mar 8, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    28%

    The Time Machine (2002)

    " The truth is that Wells wasn't that penetrating a writer when it came to probing character or the human heart. His speculations and gimmicks were what propelled his books. The film, given the chance to deepen its source, instead falls back on its gadgets."

    Posted Mar 8, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    34%

    Mean Machine (2002)

    Earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner.
    Posted Mar 1, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    62%

    We Were Soldiers (2002)

    As in Black Hawk Down, the combat sequences are filmed with great skill and pulse-pounding immediacy.
    Posted Mar 1, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    38%

    40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

    A one-joke sex comedy that seems to go on about 38 days and 38 nights too long.
    Posted Mar 1, 2002

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    59%

    Scotland, PA (2002)

    Scotland, PA. blurs the line between black comedy and black hole.
    Posted Feb 26, 2002

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    7%

    Dragonfly (2002)

    " If Oscars were dished out for tin ears, screenwriters David Seltzer, Brandon Camp, and Mike Thompson would be in the running."

    Posted Feb 22, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    17%

    The Queen of the Damned (2002)

    Queen of the Damned degenerates into a lot of dull declaiming and attitudinizing, despite a sly tongue -in-cheek quality brought by a preening Stuart Townsend to the Lestat role he inherited from the utterly humorless Tom Cruise.
    Posted Feb 22, 2002

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    79%

    Iris (2001)

    " Iris glows with rightness and convinces us we're sharing its characters' understanding that when the books and the memory go, love can remain."

    Posted Feb 15, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    85%

    Monster's Ball (2001)

    " The best thing Marc Forster's direction does is take these characters through their experiences at a convincingly naturalistic respiratory rate..."

    Posted Feb 8, 2002

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    3%

    Rollerball (2002)

    It had a chance to improve upon the crude and stupid 1975 original, set in a future America. Instead, it's only cruder and stupider.
    Posted Feb 8, 2002

    Rotten

    Rotten
    43%

    Big Fat Liar (2002)

    " Where there's dumb and dumber, there's invariably dumbest, a case in point being Big Fat Liar."

    Posted Feb 8, 2002

    Fresh

    Fresh
    88%

    Italian for Beginners (2002)

    " Who'd have thought one could fall in love with a Dogme 95 film? But I have, and this is it. Skoal and bellissima!"

    Posted Feb 1, 2002

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    34%

    I Am Sam (2002)

    " Penn and Pfeiffer carry I Am Sam further into plausibility than it has any right to expect."

    Posted Jan 25, 2002

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    90%

    Lantana (2001)

    " The film is as dense as its namesake, and it reminds us how few contemporary thrillers are adult."

    Posted Jan 25, 2002

    Rotten

    Fresh
    76%

    Black Hawk Down (2001)

    Despite all the hard work by an army of craftsmen working on location in Morocco, the film takes the easy way out, subsiding into a thing of technical challenges met rather than attempting to probe the events at a deeper level.
    Posted Jan 18, 2002

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    32%

    Charlotte Gray (2001)

    " It's that most unfortunate of commodities, a thing of muffled usualness, virtually generic."

    Posted Jan 11, 2002

    Fresh

    Fresh
    72%

    The Brotherhood of the Wolf (2002)

    " Frequently gripping and visually striking."

    Posted Jan 11, 2002

    Fresh
    4/4

    Fresh
    86%

    Gosford Park (2001)

    " One could go on and on, cataloging the pleasures that pour forth from the screen."

    Posted Jan 4, 2002

    Fresh

    Rotten
    47%

    Kate and Leopold (2001)

    It's a charmer.
    Posted Dec 26, 2001
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