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WALTER CHAW

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Favorites: The Conversation Marnie Seven Men From Now Viridiana The Evil Dead II

Publications: Bad Movie Night, Film Freak Central, L.A. Weekly, Strange Horizons

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 2028
Total QuickRatings: 446

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Rotten
0/4

Rotten
30%

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

" The irony in this movie about vampires is that the only thing doing any sucking is the movie itself." — Film Freak Central

Posted Nov 19, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
70%

The Road (2009)

" And unlike the better-than-the-book No Country for Old Men, it's only as good as the book. I guess I'm saying there's enough blame to go around." — Film Freak Central

Posted Nov 12, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
92%

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

" Sure, Anderson's making a statement about the human animal, but he proves no Aesop and Fantastic Mr. Fox is, alas, no Animal Farm." — Film Freak Central

Posted Nov 12, 2009

Rotten
0/4

N/A

The Cell 2 ()

" They should've called it "The Cell 2: Poor Frank Whaley."" — Film Freak Central

Posted Nov 8, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
70%

Night of the Creeps (1986)

" I remember sort of loving it when I was twelve, meaning only that twelve-year-olds are idiots." — Film Freak Central

Posted Nov 8, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
86%

Trick 'r Treat (2009)

" It's not a smart movie." — Film Freak Central

Posted Nov 8, 2009

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
47%

The Box (2009)

" What The Box resembles most, in fact, is a distended episode of "The Simpsons"' annual Halloween special." — Film Freak Central

Posted Nov 8, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
87%

Bedlam (1946)

" Lewton had something to say. Perhaps inevitably, he found less interesting ways of saying it over the course of nine films in a short four years." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
85%

Isle of the Dead (1945)

" quite bad" — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
79%

The Body Snatcher (1945)

" there's a fascination with the ultimate futility of ever being something beyond opportunistic and solipsistic." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

N/A

Ghost Ship (1943)

" It's almost noir in its pitting of an individual against a closed society." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
90%

The Seventh Victim (1943)

" the gauziest, maybe the most influential, surely the most underestimated, Lewton production." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
91%

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

" Sultry, claustrophobic, the guilt repressed here is the spectre of slavery stencilled over another abandonment of another wife..." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
86%

Curse of the Cat People (1944)

" Lewton's masterpiece" — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
94%

Cat People (1942)

" In its complexity, it functions as a sharp, canny blueprint for the rest of Lewton's pictures." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
70%

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

" the rare work of art in any media that actually evokes the experience of sadness, the sensation of melancholy, the mechanism of regret. We're lucky to have it." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 15, 2009

Rotten
0.5/4

Fresh
75%

About Last Night... (1986)

" It takes a lot in order for Jim Belushi to be the best actor in something." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 13, 2009

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
45%

St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

" there's a perceptive, brilliant essay buried somewhere in St. Elmo's Fire on the dangers of deeply, tragically stupid people trying to write the great American novel." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 13, 2009

Rotten
0.5/4

Rotten
41%

Indecent Proposal (1993)

" Yes, it's true: in this astonishingly distasteful bit of dreck, there is at the bottom a sappy little romance." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
80%

Fatal Attraction (1987)

" has the makings of a serious examination of adult relationships and interactions under duress, only to end as a seriocomic slasher film dictated by popular taste." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Rotten
0.5/4

Fresh
89%

Zombieland (2009)

" ...written so deliberately that the zombies aren't the only ones moaning and craving brains by the end." — Film Freak Central

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
92%

Go (1999)

" It's fantastic stuff." — Film Freak Central

Posted Aug 20, 2009

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
88%

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

" a war film about war. That's rarer than you think." — Film Freak Central

Posted Aug 20, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
36%

Sleuth (2007)

" It requires a light touch; I admire Branagh a great deal, but not for his light touch." — Film Freak Central

Posted Aug 14, 2009

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
90%

District 9 (2009)

" District 9 is the real deal. Hallelujah." — Film Freak Central

Posted Aug 14, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
68%

Funny People (2009)

" a movie about freaks and geeks written by a famous millionaire married to Leslie Mann; is it any wonder that it loses its way?" — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 30, 2009

Rotten
0.5/4

Rotten
36%

Southland Tales (2007)

" It's the sort of experience you feel embarrassed about even though you had nothing to do with it, because it's not just a mess, it's a pretentious mess" — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 29, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
61%

Valkyrie (2008)

" It's the perfect film for our age of reassessment and ambiguity." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 29, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
46%

The Ruins (2008)

" If it could happen to these kids, smart and beautiful, then it sure as shit is going to happen to me." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 23, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
83%

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

" An ungainly tween romcom sprinkled arbitrarily with a sudden horde of amphibious zombies; inexplicable cameos from Ursa, Non, and Zod; and silly broomstick rugby." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 14, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Rotten
51%

Easy Virtue (2009)

" It's only a surprise if you haven't seen his other films." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 12, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
40%

Waterworld (1995)

" actually pretty good" — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 12, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
92%

Enchanted (2007)

" Inaugurates an entirely new demographic into the formula machination of the chick-flick (marital edition)." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 12, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
40%

27 Dresses (2008)

" there's a desire to see their characters displaced into a better film with more on its mind than to be better than it should be because of its casting director." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 12, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
28%

What Happens in Vegas (2008)

" a funny movie about the sexes that doesn't diminish either gender in its execution--a tougher task, obviously, than one would presume." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 12, 2009

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
22%

Catch and Release (2007)

" ...harbours a secret crush on Gray but, hey, so does everybody, since Gray has fairies and butterflies flying out of her vagina." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 12, 2009

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
12%

Bride Wars (2009)

" reptilian, hateful stuff, biologically engineered to disrespect--with maximum efficiency--the precise demographic to which it targets itself." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jul 12, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
45%

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

" Beyond pointless." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 30, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
67%

Public Enemies (2009)

" a collection of beautiful pictures as inert as a coffee-table book." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 30, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
88%

Roxanne (1987)

" for all the things this movie is, it's probably Martin's fault." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 24, 2009

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
19%

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

" It's all so last administration." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 23, 2009

Rotten
0.5/4

Rotten
58%

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

" The popularity of over-scored, "let's hug" bullshit like Robin Hood predicts the certainty of a one-term George H.W. presidency better than any number of Gallup polls." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 15, 2009

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
52%

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

" the worst kind of dreck" — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Rotten
0.5/4

Rotten
21%

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

" It's just like us to be arrogant enough to believe, like Marvell's coy mistress, that our cherry is the ripest for busting of the lot." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 9, 2009

N/A

Fresh
93%

Sugar (2009)

" An interview with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck" — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 9, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
60%

The Fall (2008)

" I wonder if it's unforgivable heresy to say The Cell is badly underestimated and due for revisionism while The Fall, despite its relative obscurity, is badly overestimated." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 9, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
67%

2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

" What is 2010 but a conservative Cold War "message" flick." — Film Freak Central

Posted Jun 9, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
98%

Up (2009)

" There's still something breathless about Up, but I wonder if the Pixar formula isn't starting to show its seams..." — Film Freak Central

Posted May 28, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
95%

Being There (1979)

" a product not of Ashby's essential modesty but of Kosinski's essential egoism." — Film Freak Central

Posted May 20, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
32%

Terminator Salvation (2009)

" shooting guns at things that aren't harmed by guns... following which there will be cheap philosophizing and the promise of another sequel." — Film Freak Central

Posted May 20, 2009
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