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JOHN A. NESBIT

Agrees with the Tomatometer 86% of the time.

Biography: Former teacher on the Navajo reservation who developed a film appreciation course, now seeks happiness in an urban desert setting frequenting Diamondbacks games, the 2 movie arthouses in the area, and travelling whenever possible. Nesbit has written a number of reviews at ToxicUniverse.com and has established his own site at Old School Reviews.

Favorites: Casablanca, Fellini's 8 1/2, Do the Right Thing, Notorious, The 400 Blows, Ikiru

Publications: Old School Reviews, outrate.net, ToxicUniverse.com

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 834
Total QuickRatings: 118

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

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Rotten 0/5	Rotten 10%	Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)	" *If you want to see Bo at the peak of her acting powers, check out Tommy Boy* instead, where she plays a plastic stereotype.*" — ToxicUniverse.com* Posted Sep 29, 2002
Rotten F	N/A	Charro (1969)	" this American spaghetti western leaves out the sauce" — Old School Reviews Posted Aug 15, 2003
Rotten D-	Rotten 42%	The Village (2004)	" Shyamalan extends a decent 30 minute Twilight Zone episode into a two hour endurance test" — Old School Reviews Posted Aug 4, 2004
Rotten 0.5/5	Fresh 84%	Morvern Callar (2002)	" turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters" — ToxicUniverse.com Posted Dec 31, 2002
Rotten 0.5/5	Rotten 23%	Baise Moi (2001)	" the bloody film rapes ... us raw, but the uninitiated may last through the 70 minutes before realizing it." — ToxicUniverse.com Posted May 3, 2002
Rotten D	Rotten 40%	The Night Listener (2006)	" better suited for a 25-minute Twilight Zone episode (one of the forgettable ones)" — Old School Reviews Posted Aug 9, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 32%	Imagine Me & You (2006)	" cinematic mush" — Old School Reviews Posted Feb 2, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 27%	Elizabethtown (2005)	" Dunst and Bloom were far more believable in their widely watched comic book and fantasy films" — Old School Reviews Posted Oct 11, 2005
Rotten D	Rotten 45%	The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)	" Horror Film Screen Writing for Dummies, anyone?" — Old School Reviews Posted Sep 4, 2005
Rotten D	Rotten 21%	Eternal (2005)	" the photography only creates a sense of suspense that something worth seeing may eventually appear" — Old School Reviews Posted Sep 2, 2005
Rotten D	Rotten 41%	The Human Stain (2003)	" non-visionary filmmaking with one of the most insipid screenplays of the year" — Old School Reviews Posted Oct 23, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 73%	Ali Zaoua (2000)	" *Like a treadmill, Ali Zaoua* plays out like a film exercise that goes nowhere*" — Old School Reviews* Posted Mar 13, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 42%	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)	" like Natasha tells Boris: 'Face it. We suck.'" — Old School Reviews Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten D	Rotten 48%	The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)	" Thanks to Steven Spielberg, I now have an ideal sleeping aid." — Old School Reviews Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten D	Fresh 63%	Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1973)	" beautiful and nicely framed photography from northern Italy...not enough to overcome an inane script, inept acting, and Donovan's syrupy music" — Old School Reviews Posted Feb 6, 2003
Rotten D	Rotten 38%	Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)	" With the budgets decreasing, creative ideas waning, and costumes and makeup getting more worn-out, it�s a good thing that this is the final sequel." — Old School Reviews Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten D	Rotten 41%	Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)	" *I had forgotten how dreadful Beneath the Planet of the Apes* was.*" — Old School Reviews* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten D	Fresh 64%	Alice's Restaurant (1969)	" The movie hasn�t improved any over the years, but fortunately this version has Arlo Guthrie supplying commentary, making the DVD worth some historical value for '60s junkies." — Old School Reviews Posted Apr 17, 2001
Rotten D	N/A	The Bible...In the Beginning (1966)	" strictly formulaic Biblical work with an all-star cast that ranks as the most embarrassing directing work that John Huston ever undertook" — Old School Reviews Posted Mar 31, 2004
Rotten D	Rotten 40%	Cleopatra (1963)	" *amazing that 20th Century Fox survived this train wreck long enough to produce Star Wars* some 14 years later*" — Old School Reviews* Posted Apr 26, 2001
Rotten D	Rotten 0%	Alexander the Great (1956)	" would work better as a stage play for high school theatrical productions" — Old School Reviews Posted Nov 20, 2004
Rotten D	Rotten 32%	Glen or Glenda? (1953)	" as insanely bad as this movie is, it retains perverse pleasures that serve it well as a cult icon" — Old School Reviews Posted Mar 9, 2007
Rotten D	N/A	Farewell Israel - Bush, Iran, and The Revolt of Islam ()	" a classic 'Death by PowerPoint' phenomenon common to businessmen, who discover the interface for the first time and go overboard" — Old School Reviews Posted Dec 2, 2007
Rotten 1/5	N/A	Killer Condom: The Rubber That Runs You Out (1998)	" *It�s too bad that Killer Condom* takes itself so seriously.*" — ToxicUniverse.com* Posted Jan 27, 2002
Rotten 1/5	N/A	White Badge (1994)	" It�s a shame that the only cinematic Korean face to the Vietnam War thus far comes through such a clumsy effort" — ToxicUniverse.com Posted Sep 1, 2002

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