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SCOTT WEINBERG

""One dollar and NINE CENTS!"

"Not unless round's funny."

"My grandfather's work...was...doo-doo!""

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography: http://www.livejournal.com/users/sweinberg // Born and raised in Philadelphia, I got bit by the movie bug at a very early age. After my father brought home a massive Betamax, I began hanging out at the local Video Village (anyone remember those?) and they put me to work. For a few hours of work after school, I got all the free rentals I could handle. (If I told you how many movies I watched between the ages of 13-20, you wouldn't believe it...and yes, I did have a social life!) From West Coast Video to General Cinemas to Tower Video... if it dealt with movies, I worked there. After studying journalism and film at Temple University, I found myself quite unemployed. The Internet afforded me the option to pursue my goal of becoming a film critic, and it's a wonderful life indeed. Hopefully impressive-sounding resumé-type bio-blurb: Scott Weinberg is the author of over 1,900 movie reviews and is currently a member of the Online Film Critics Society, an organization that represents over 190 of the world's finest online film critics. Scott is the Managing Editor of eFilmCritic.com / HollywoodBitchslap.com, where he focuses on new theatrical releases, classics on DVD, cult films both obscure and atrocious, and extensive coverage of the Sundance, South By Southwest, Toronto, and Philadelphia film festivals. His reviews can also be found on websites such as Cinematical, DVD Talk, JoBlo's Movie Emporium (DVD Clinic), Horror.com, Daily-Reviews.com, The Apollo Movie Guide, Monsters at Play, MrSkin.com, and Netflix, while his opinionated movie rants can regularly be heard on WGN radio in Chicago and WMET radio in Washington D.C. Scott also writes features (and the daily Newsday Reports) for Rotten Tomatoes ... plus he just started doing a DVD column for Femme Fatales Magazine, which is pretty darn cool for a geek like him.

Favorites: (In no particular order):Fight Club, The Blues Brothers, Young Frankenstein, Dark City, Se7en, Airplane!, The Princess Bride, Miller's Crossing, The Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge, Alien

Publications: Apollo Guide, Cinematical, Daily-Reviews, DVD Clinic, DVDTalk.com, eFilmCritic.com, FEARnet, Hollywood Bitchslap, Horror Squad, Horror.com, Monsters At Play, Movie Insider, Rotten Tomatoes

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 5494
Total QuickRatings: 2139

Location: Philadelphia, as seen in several wonderful movies

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Fresh 4/5	N/A	Must Love Death (2009)	" Makes most pitch black comedies look like kids' cartoons ... and I mean that as a rather enthusiastic compliment." — FEARnet Posted Oct 7, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Mutants (2009)	" Certainly does infuse its own distinct brand of emotional horror into a story that generally only works on a physical level." — FEARnet Posted Oct 7, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 16%	Mutant Chronicles (2009)	" Oh, lighten up! It's a pulpy combo of Starship Troopers, The Dirty Dozen and Sky Captain. Perfect for a rainy Saturday afternoon." — FEARnet Posted Apr 14, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" A loud, rushed, choppy, silly, colorful Nintendo game of a movie. And it could have been DreamWorks' version of "The Incredibles."" — Cinematical Posted Mar 29, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 89%	Moon (2009)	" One of the most compelling sci-fi films of the past 20 years." — FEARnet Posted Feb 2, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 55%	My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)	" On par with Chainsaw '03 and Dawn '04. No pretense, no delusions, just slick, basic stalk & shock mayhem with a 3-D coating that works unexpectedly well." — FEARnet Posted Dec 15, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 54%	Martyrs (2008)	" French horror cinema that doesn't shy away from the rough stuff and aims to bring a few extra layers to the typically anemic slash-and-smash concept." — FEARnet Posted Oct 8, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 15%	Mirrors (2008)	" It's not much of a compliment to call Mirrors "considerably better than Shutter, Pulse, or One Missed Call," but the flick is just good enough to make one wish it had shown up before those turkeys." — FEARnet Posted Aug 15, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 14%	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	" I kept waiting for Silver Surfer, Neo, and Snoopy on his damn doghouse to come flying by and yell "Hey Rick! That's a lot of mummies! Mind if WE drop in?"" — FEARnet Posted Aug 1, 2008
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 70%	The Midnight Meat Train (2008)	" Manages to maintain that sly sense of dread that permeates the best of Barker's horror tales. Certainly one of the most effective horror films of the year." — Cinematical Posted Jul 27, 2008
N/A	Rotten 14%	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	" Check out all things 'Mummy 3' at Cinematical." — Cinematical PREVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2008
Rotten 0.5/5	Rotten 2%	Meet the Spartans (2008)	" *Clocking in around 69 minutes total, Meet the Spartans* is not a movie. All involved should feel slightly ashamed.*" — Cinematical* Posted Jan 28, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 11%	The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009)	" I can automatically assume that the characters are a lot more multi-dimensional in Chabon's book -- because in the movie they're pretty much a bunch of paper-doll cutouts" — Cinematical Posted Jan 28, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 64%	The Merry Gentleman (2009)	" A deliberately-paced crime drama that brings a strange sense of warmth, dark humor, and even some odd romance to a potentially dreary tale." — Cinematical Posted Jan 28, 2008
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Masters of Horror - Norio Tsuruta: Dream Cruise (2007)	" *So while I'd stand firm with the assertion that more than half the MOH episodes are worth checking out, Dream Cruise* ranks right near the bottom.*" — FEARnet* Posted Nov 29, 2007
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Masters of Horror - Tobe Hooper: The Damned Thing (2007)	" Offers a few unexpected shocks and an appreciably grim demeanor. And that's always cool." — FEARnet Posted Oct 18, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 13%	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	" Even the lamest comedies out there manage to wring one or two chuckles from yours truly, but this ugly, obnoxious flick couldn't even manage half a smirk." — Cinematical Posted Sep 15, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 49%	Mother of Tears (2008)	" *A bloody, brutal and oddly amusing little Mother* of a flick.*" — Cinematical* Posted Sep 11, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Masters of Horror - Tom Holland: We All Scream for Ice Cream (2007)	" There's very little here that the horror fans haven't seen before." — FEARnet Posted Aug 26, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Masters of Horror - Mick Garris: Valerie on the Stairs (2007)	" Some of the "MOH" episodes turned out to be real clunkers. Unfortunately this is one of 'em." — FEARnet Posted Aug 26, 2007
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Masters of Horror: Joe Dante - The Screwfly Solution (2007)	" A fantastic little throwback, a smart and dark mixture of horror and science fiction." — FEARnet Posted Aug 6, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 53%	The Monster Squad (1987)	" *I'm sure all the Monster Squad* enthusiasts will be absolutely thrilled with the package Lionsgate has put together here.*" — FEARnet* Posted Aug 6, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Masters of Horror - Stuart Gordon: The Black Cat (2007)	" One of the most creative Poe adaptations you're likely to come across." — FEARnet Posted Jul 29, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 56%	Mr. Brooks (2007)	" A high-budget psycho-thriller that lets two of our more "sedate" leading men cut loose with some entertainingly juicy performances." — FEARnet Posted Jun 2, 2007
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 8%	Memory (2007)	" Wait, what movie were we talking about again?" — DVDTalk.com Posted May 21, 2007
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Modern Marvels - Technology ()	" This well-produced, info-packed History Channel series covers the good, the bad, and the fascinatingly trivial, too." — DVDTalk.com Posted May 20, 2007
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Modern Marvels - Architectural Wonders ()	" Nothing flashy or too exciting, but a little bit of brain food, delivered with quality." — DVDTalk.com Posted May 20, 2007
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Masters of Horror - Rob Schmidt: Right to Die (2007)	" *Toss an extra twenty minutes on to Right to Die* andyou'd have one of the year's coolest horror movies.*" — FEARnet* Posted May 16, 2007
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Masters of Horror - John Landis: Family (2007)	" A pretty clever mixture of slow-burn horror and tongue-in-cheek satire." — FEARnet Posted Apr 19, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 66%	Meet the Robinsons (2007)	" A rock-solid piece of animated sci-fi comedy that'll tickle the kids, amuse the parents, and leave everyone walking out of the theater on a sweet little flick-buzz." — Cinematical Posted Mar 30, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Murder Party (2007)	" Surprisingly well-acted, fast-paced, frequently amusing and packed with some really crazy kills near the end." — Cinematical Posted Mar 20, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 38%	Man About Town (2006)	" Binder's made some really fine movies and some curiously weak ones; my opinion is that this one falls firmly in the latter group." — DVD Clinic Posted Mar 1, 2007
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 11%	The Messengers (2007)	" A stunningly inert, painfully derivative, shamelessly cheap and aggressively dull ghost story that delivers nothing you haven't seen before. About 43 times." — Cinematical Posted Feb 2, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 94%	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	" I love a documentary that doles out both sides of an interesting story and then forces you to decide for yourself where the truth actually lies." — Cinematical Posted Jan 23, 2007
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Mozart and the Whale (2006)	" Shapeless and redundant, this flick is exactly the sort of movie you'd envision if I said "mildly retarded yet physically gorgeous young romance."" — DVD Clinic Posted Dec 12, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 4%	Material Girls (2006)	" *Frankly movies like Material Girls* sicken me; they're base and soulless and entirely unworthy of the celluloid they were filmed upon.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Dec 10, 2006
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)	" If you rent these flicks for the goofiness, this one's worthy of a rental. If you're renting them for fresh ideas or high-quality filmmaking, you're plain old nutty." — DVDTalk.com Posted Dec 8, 2006
Fresh 4.5/5	Rotten 53%	MirrorMask (2005)	" It has a strange sweetness and a playful darkness to it." — DVD Clinic DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 15, 2006
Rotten 1.5/5	N/A	Mutation (2006)	" A flick that talks a whole lot and shows very little." — DVDTalk.com Posted Oct 25, 2006
Rotten 1/5	N/A	The Mummy's Kiss - Second Dynasty (2003)	" Real porn is better is better than this stuff. And that includes the writing, the acting, and the cinematography, too." — DVDTalk.com Posted Oct 25, 2006
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 79%	Marathon Man (1976)	" *Although best-known for its infamous "Is it safe?" sequence, Marathon Man* is a whole lot better than just one horrific scene.*" — DVD Clinic* Posted Aug 30, 2006
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Michael Moore: The Best of the Awful Truth ()	" *Even if you think Moore's an obnoxious, manipulative, self-adoring schlub, you'll probably find a few things in The Awful Truth* you can get behind.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Aug 28, 2006
Rotten 1/5	N/A	Mr. Jingles (2004)	" Barely even a "home movie" sort of movie." — DVDTalk.com Posted Aug 9, 2006
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 40%	My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)	" A clever concept brought to colorful life thanks to a witty script, a quick pace, and a pretty darn excellent ensemble of comedic performers." — Cinematical Posted Jul 20, 2006
Rotten 3/5	N/A	Magdalena's Brain (2006)	" It's mostly just a bunch of talk and then a freaky finalé, but that doesn't make it a bad movie." — DVDTalk.com Posted Jul 11, 2006
Fresh 4.5/5	N/A	Medium (2005)	" Take it from a former skeptic turned ardent fan: This is a damn good season of TV right here." — DVDTalk.com Posted Jun 27, 2006
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 59%	The Missing (2003)	" *Basically, The Missing* is Ron Howard's John Ford impersonation, and the end result is as strangely schizophrenic as it sounds.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Jun 12, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 69%	Mission: Impossible III (2006)	" It's not deep or particularly brilliant, but it moves like a bullet, and it's the very best of the series so far." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 7, 2006
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Mercenary for Justice (2006)	" *Those who enjoy Seagal's stuff will probably dig this one a little more than, say, OUT OF REACH FOR A SUBMERGED SUNBEAST'S BLACK BELLY FOREIGN DAWN KILL." — DVD Clinic* Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 76%	Mr. Mom (1983)	" *Even with Erma Bombeck-style domestic humor like Mr. Mom's got in spades, Keaton consistently rises above the mawkish material." — DVDTalk.com* Posted Apr 24, 2006

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