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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: 5493
Total QuickRatings: 2139

Location: Philadelphia, as seen in several wonderful movies

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Fresh 4/5	N/A	Winnebago Man (2009)	" Don't laugh TOO hard at those YouTube 'fools.' That's you and me, don't forget." — Cinematical Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" A powerfully good film, one that takes a bunch of familiar ingredients, and whips them up into a stew you've never tasted before." — FEARnet Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	World's Greatest Dad (2009)	" A truly strange comedy that actually has a message hidden beneath its colorfully tacky exterior. Admirably twisted, too." — Cinematical Posted Mar 3, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	When You're Strange (2009)	" *Yank the narration straight out of the movie, telling the story in only songs and pictures, and When You're Strange* would be a much better film.*" — Cinematical* Posted Mar 3, 2009
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Wizard Of Gore (2008)	" It's not really a scary movie, no matter how you slice it, but this remake offers plenty of the stuff promised in the title, in addition to a divertingly circuitous "whodunnit" aspect that works a bit better than one would expect." — FEARnet Posted Aug 22, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 72%	Wanted (2008)	" Simply wants to dazzle you for 100 minutes, at least enough to get you excited for the DVD release and yep, the eventual sequel. Count me in for both please." — FEARnet Posted Jun 27, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 28%	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	" I just don't know what to make of a scene in which a judge sentences two selfish jerks to "six months hard ... marriage," but I'm simply too old and too smart for material this insipid." — Cinematical Posted May 9, 2008
Fresh 3/5	N/A	The Wild Man of the Navidad (2008)	" A little scary, occasionally funny, and rather enthusiastically splattery before it's all done with." — Cinematical Posted May 7, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 54%	What Just Happened (2008)	" Really, how many times will you get to see Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, and Robert De Niro work together? (And in a comedy, no less.)" — Cinematical Posted Jan 28, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 69%	The Wackness (2008)	" Trim a good twenty minutes from this overlong exercise, and you'd help the comedic pacing a whole lot." — Cinematical Posted Jan 28, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 86%	White Noise 2: The Light (2008)	" A few cheap jolts, a handful of clever ideas, and just enough energy and creativity to make it across the finish line." — FEARnet Posted Jan 8, 2008
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Welcome to the Jungle (2007)	" *As a gritty throwback to a sub-genre that doesn't get much airtime these days, I'd call Welcome to the Jungle* a surprisingly effective little experiment.*" — FEARnet* Posted Nov 20, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 53%	The Walker (2007)	" An unexpectedly candid character study that features a supremely solid cast of characters." — Cinematical Posted Sep 16, 2007
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 14%	War (2007)	" *If you've seen the trailer, then you've already seen a much more entertaining version of War." — Cinematical* Posted Aug 26, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 48%	Wind Chill (2007)	" At the very least, it's an old-fashioned ghost story with half a brain -- and that's got to be worth more than a casual glance." — FEARnet Posted Aug 26, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 78%	Wrong Turn 2 (2007)	" *A fast-paced and completely unapologetic love-letter to the old-school '80s splatter sequels like Friday the 13th Part 2* and Texas Chainsaw 2. (Gory, too!)*" — FEARnet* Posted Aug 16, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 50%	Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004)	" Credit is definitely due to writer/directors Kim Roberts and Eli Despres for trying to come up with something a little brainier than "three chicks get killed in a cabin."" — DVDTalk.com Posted May 2, 2007
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Wicked Flowers (2006)	" *What Saw 5* might look like if it were co-directed by David Lynch, Rod Serling and the Pang brothers.*" — Cinematical* Posted Apr 20, 2007
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Wicked Little Things (2006)	" Feels like something that was written, shot and glued together over the course of one drab and uneventful weekend." — Cinematical Posted Mar 28, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Wilder Days (2003)	" precisely the sort of mild and harmlessly familiar TV schmaltz that goes down easy - and leaves nary a trace." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 21, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 89%	Waitress (2007)	" I loved this movie. Loved every last character, twist, kiss, joke and pie found within it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 3, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 0%	Weapons (2007)	" It's basically just another "teens hate everyone, especially each other" story." — Cinematical Posted Jan 26, 2007
Rotten 1.5/5	N/A	Woodchipper Massacre (1998)	" After sitting through the whole of Woodchipper Massacre you'll no doubt find yourself wondering how a movie this amateurish could ever find distribution. Hint: It's the title." — DVDTalk.com Posted Dec 27, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 70%	World Trade Center (2006)	" *It's plainly evident that all of the filmmakers approached the subject matter with appropriate honor and respect. (In other words, this movie is no Pearl Harbor.)" — DVD Clinic* Posted Dec 8, 2006
Fresh 3/5	N/A	We Are Going to Eat You (1980)	" It's a kung fu party, a loopy comedy, a gore flick, and a slap-your-forehead acid trip at the same time." — DVDTalk.com Posted Nov 29, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 41%	When Do We Eat? (2006)	" *We're basically left with a wild-eyed group of actors who probably had a lot more fun shooting When Do We Eat?* than they did watching it.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Oct 25, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 67%	The Woods (2006)	" *Those expecting a shock-a-minute gore-fest will most likely walk away scratching their head, but as a semi-homage to Dario Argento's Suspiria, The Woods* is a creepy little winner.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Sep 2, 2006
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 15%	The Wicker Man (2006)	" A half-compelling, half-goofy and half-redundant piece of remake revisionism. (Yes, that's three halves, but it's that weird a movie.)" — Cinematical Posted Sep 1, 2006
Rotten 2/5	N/A	White Coats (2006)	" Imagine a feature-length episode of Scrubs, only take out the laughs and slap in a bunch of gross-out garbage, and that's White Coats." — DVDTalk.com Posted Aug 4, 2006
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Wings - Seasons 1-2 (1990)	" Normally I have next to no patience for sitcom material, but there's just enough wit, character, and creativity to make Wings worthy of a visit. Well, the first three or four seasons, anyway." — DVDTalk.com Posted May 25, 2006
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 41%	Winter Passing (2006)	" A strangely moving experience." — DVDTalk.com Posted May 14, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 33%	Windtalkers (2002)	" A couple of cool jolts and a few tips of the hat to cinematographer Jeffrey Kimball save this one from being a total disaster." — DVDTalk.com DVD REVIEW Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh 4/5	N/A	The White Shadow - Season 2 (1979)	" ...best of all, the series showed no discernible dip in quality between its first and second seasons." — DVDTalk.com Posted Apr 3, 2006
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 23%	Who's That Girl (1987)	" This patently painful flick marks the first and last time that director James Foley would tackle comedy. And the reasons why are right up there on the screen." — DVDTalk.com Posted Feb 13, 2006
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 9%	When a Stranger Calls (2006)	" This thing is a movie like static is a song." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 5, 2006
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 30%	Waiting... (2005)	" Funny flick plus fantastic extras equals a highly recommended DVD release." — DVDTalk.com DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 1, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 65%	Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)	" The Wizard of Oz meets What Dreams May Come by way of, oh I dunno, something post-apocalyptic, snarky, and fun." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 30, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 95%	Wordplay (2006)	" Well-polished and craftily constructed, this is a documentary that's at its best when sitting down with the various crossword crackers from around the country" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 28, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Welcome to Planet Earth (1996)	" If you dig weird, silly comedies that are weird and silly on purpose, you could find a worse way to spend 75 minutes." — DVDTalk.com Posted Jan 15, 2006
Fresh 4/5	N/A	The White Shadow - Season 1 (1978)	" A brave, entertaining, and well-intentioned piece of network television." — DVDTalk.com Posted Jan 5, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Written In Blood (2002)	" Despite what the back of the DVD case says, the flick's not really a "nail-biter," nor is it "throbbing with passion and thrills." (Who writes this stuff anyway?)" — DVDTalk.com Posted Nov 13, 2005
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 54%	Weird Science (1985)	" Feels like something that Hughes slapped together over the course of one weed-filled weekend. It's a novelty flick, but a fairly funny one ... for the most part." — DVD Clinic Posted Nov 11, 2005
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Women's Prison Massacre (1984)	" If you're the sort who likes to dig around in the bottoms of barrels, here's a grungy little exploitationer that may wring a few chuckles out of you." — DVDTalk.com Posted Nov 3, 2005
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	" *It took me a while to dig through everything this set has to offer, and I came out feeling like I'd spent a week inside a classy and well-curated Wizard of Oz* museum.*" — DVDTalk.com* DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 28, 2005
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites - Classic Holiday Stories (2005)	" The Little One is the real find within this three-cartoon collection, but the other pair are more than enjoyable enough -- particularly if you're a hardcore Disneyfan." — DVDTalk.com Posted Oct 11, 2005
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 30%	Waiting... (2005)	" *As a parody of the corporate restaurant scene, Waiting* has more than enough snarky insight (and laughs) to balance its numerous and often unnecessary trips to the potty*" — eFilmCritic.com* Posted Oct 6, 2005
Fresh 3/5	N/A	What's Happening!! - The Complete Third Season (1978)	" Fans of the old show will doubtlessly enjoy adding this third and final DVD set to their "Happening!!" collection." — DVDTalk.com Posted Sep 23, 2005
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 80%	Without You I'm Nothing (1990)	" I think the world of entertainment can always use a few angry, gifted oddballs like Sandra Bernhard." — DVDTalk.com Posted Sep 7, 2005
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 96%	Witness (1985)	" It's got some action, some romance, a few drips of comedy, and a lot of fascinating insight into a culture we know very little about." — DVD Clinic Posted Aug 17, 2005
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	When Billie Beat Bobby (2001)	" Hunter and Silver elevate this game into something pleasantly surprising. " — DVDTalk.com Posted Aug 13, 2005

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