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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
JEANNE AUFMUTH
PUBLICATION(S)
• Aufmuth.com
• Palo Alto Weekly

BIOGRAPHY
Co-host and producer of The Reel Review, a weekly movie review program which originates in the Bay Area and shows throughout the peninsula.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 1201
Total QuickRatings: 1

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• Online Film Critics Society
• San Francisco Film Critics Circle

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• Location: Palo Alto, California


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Half Nelson
3.5/4 Idlewild
3/4 Hollywoodland
2.5/4 Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles
2/4 The Last Kiss
1.5/4 All The King's Men
1/4 The Quiet
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Man on Wire
4/4 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4/4 The Orphanage
4/4 There Will Be Blood
4/4 No Country for Old Men
4/4 In the Shadow of the Moon
4/4 Into the Wild
4/4 Deep Water
4/4 3:10 to Yuma
4/4 The Lives of Others
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 Dante's Peak
0/4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
0/4 Anaconda
0/4 Grease
0/4 Living in Oblivion
1/4 The Bucket List
1/4 Georgia Rule
1/4 The Condemned
1/4 The Quiet
1/4 Miami Vice
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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3.5/4
 
"The laughs fly as fast and furious as enemy fire." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Tropic Thunder (2008)84%
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2.5/4
 
"I'm typically not a fan of the wildly popular Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen collaborative efforts but a pitch-perfect performance by James Franco temporarily sways me in the other direction." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)68%
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3/4
 
"A sweet and easy supplement to summer." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)46%
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4/4
 
"Outrageously entertaining and perfectly profound." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Man on Wire (2008)100%
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3/4
 
"Ambitious, flawed and erratically visionary, Batman is back." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)94%
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3/4
 
"Campy theatrics and Busby Berkeley choreography set on a ridiculously breathtaking island paradise -- what's not to love?" -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Mamma Mia! (2008)54%
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3.5/4
 
"Thriller, love story, whodunit; an unwieldy trio made whole by an up-and-coming mastermind." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jul 8, 2008
 
Tell No One (2008)91%
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3.5/4
 
"The premise alone is worth the price of admission and the first hour is some of 2008's most intriguing cinema." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)38%
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3.5/4
 
"Beautifully executed with a wink and a nudge, this one has heart." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)97%
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3/4
 
"A sense of isolation and struggle for identity in an oppressive culture wash away superfluous formula, leaving a lovely tranquility in their wake." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jun 24, 2008
 
Brick Lane (2008)65%
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3/4
 
"There's an air of unfinished business about it all and I'm a sucker for loose ends in the name of family dysfunction." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jun 9, 2008
 
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)72%
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1.5/4
 
"An ill-conceived weeper that just won't say die." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)27%
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2/4
 
"There's a decent little movie lurking somewhere deep inside this visual panoply that positively chokes on its own symbolism." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted May 30, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)54%
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2.5/4
 
"Bottom line the movie fails Movie Plot 101 by trying too hard. Too hard to appease its fans, too hard to color within the lines and too hard to prove that love conquers all." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted May 30, 2008
 
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)51%
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2.5/4
 
"The relentless stream of exaggerated action is as taxing as the punchline-laden script." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted May 22, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)77%
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2.5/4
 
"Predictable losers-are-people-too jesting raised a notch by the quality work of consummate professionals." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Mar 26, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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3.5/4
 
"Revealing when it needs to be and unpredictable when you least expect it." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Mar 26, 2008
 
Flawless (2007)59%
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3/4
 
"Jim Sturgess turns up the heat as an untapped genius who takes a walk on the wild side." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Mar 26, 2008
 
21 (2008)35%
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3.5/4
 
"Rests so heavily on tenterhooks of guilt that an apology is in order for admiring it." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)50%
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3/4
 
"Director Ira Sachs plays it wistful not wayward, sticking to essential melodrama and tidy infidelities while dropping narrative cherry bombs for calculated effect." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
Married Life (2008)58%
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3.5/4
 
"Plays the concentration camp drama to dynamic effect." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Mar 4, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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3/4
 
"What a difference a day makes in this cheeky comedy of manners." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Mar 4, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)77%
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2/4
 
"Paulo Morelli mines old territory in yet another ode to Rio's vivid favelas." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
City of Men (2008)76%
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3.5/4
 
"In turns tender and awkward yet always with an eye towards the universal language of hope." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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2.5/4
 
"Only crazy rubber-faced Jack Black could pull off such a spoofy, overly-eager slapdash of a project." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)67%
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3.5/4
 
"Smart escapist thrillers are a dying breed but this is one of the good ones." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)35%
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2/4
 
"A lightweight outing heavy on convention." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)55%
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4/4
 
"Utilizes its draconian politics to underscore the desperate determination and nerve-racking fear of stepping outside the box." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Feb 4, 2008
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)97%
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2/4
 
" Life is too short for long-term exposure to relentless agony and distress, even in the guise of entertainment." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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2.5/4
 
"Frilly testament to the romantic secondary and homage to the nice girls who don't always finish last." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jan 14, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)40%
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1/4
 
"Even the one-two punch of A-list heavyweights Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman can't save this terminal tearjerker from itself." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
The Bucket List (2007)41%
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4/4
 
"Saturated in anxiety and dripping with dread." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Jan 1, 2008
 
The Orphanage (2007)86%
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4/4
 
"Visceral, volatile and epic." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Dec 30, 2007
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)92%
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3.5/4
 
"Turns out Denzel Washington makes magic on both sides of the camera." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Dec 23, 2007
 
The Great Debaters (2007)80%
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3/4
 
"Affecting and dangerously close to home." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Dec 22, 2007
 
The Savages (2007)91%
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2/4
 
"Revenge is a dish best served cold, exactly how I was left after watching Helena Bonham Carter butcher a cheeky star turn in Tim Burton's cutthroat musical." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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3/4
 
"Sweet, sassy, and satisfying." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
Juno (2007)93%
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3.5/4
 
"Magnifies its inescapable destiny with dazzling bravura." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Dec 12, 2007
 
Atonement (2007)83%
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3/4
 
"Performances lend heft and humanity to the overriding whimsy." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Dec 10, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)41%
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3/4
 
"Genuine if not exactly inspiring." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Dec 10, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)66%
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3/4
 
"A rag-tag pastiche of genius, wit and irony." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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3.5/4
 
" a cornucopia of cine-cheer and familydysfunction." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
This Christmas (2007)54%
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3/4
 
"Noah Baumbach knows his way around an honest exploration of family and friendship and Margot serves to reinforce the point." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Nov 19, 2007
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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3/4
 
"Brian De Palma has achieved a fresh level of perspective; the psychological wounds of war as seen through the eyes of the damaged and eternally damned." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Redacted (2007)44%
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4/4
 
"The Coens return to form, creating their most idiosyncratic characters since Steve Buscemi's Carl Showalter faced down the wood chipper in Fargo." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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2/4
 
"John Cusack is the only bright spot in an otherwise sentimentally sloppy drama that telegraphs its plot points with a blinding laser beam." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Martian Child (2007)30%
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3/4
 
"Sharkwater has a message or two or three; its intentions are nothing if not noble." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Sharkwater (2007)81%
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2.5/4
 
"Ridley Scott pumps up the volume with a gritty, glitzy valentine to the anarchic American drug wars." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Oct 29, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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3.5/4
 
"Tender, thoughtful and distinctive." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Oct 22, 2007
 
Lars And The Real Girl (2007)81%
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2.5/4
 
"A semi-absorbing but ultimately tiresome waiting game." -- Palo Alto Weekly
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Reservation Road (2007)37%

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