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Critics / Neva Chonin
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    NEVA CHONIN

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

    Publications: San Francisco Chronicle

    Total Reviews: 37

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    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    83%

    Rock the Bells (2007)

    " Humorously, but with knuckles bared, captures every twitch of angst, chaos and near-calamity that unfolds as the concert draws near and Weisberg's dream devolves into a nightmare."

    Posted Jun 8, 2007

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    56%

    Zoo (2007)

    " Punch lines and outrage come easy, but beware: If you walk into this film with a secure moral judgment, prepare to have it shaken by the time you leave."

    Posted May 25, 2007

    Fresh
    2/4

    Fresh
    68%

    Aurora Borealis (2006)

    " Every bromide, plot twist and stock character arrives right on time and, to give director James Burke his due, function as well as they ever have."

    Posted Sep 29, 2006

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    86%

    Jesus Camp (2006)

    " It stares into the face of faith run amok, and for those willing to follow its gaze, it provides sad revelations."

    Posted Sep 29, 2006

    Rotten
    2/4

    Fresh
    60%

    Crank (2006)

    " Leave it alone, or leave your brain and pocket change at the gate, strap yourself in and just enjoy the ride."

    Posted Sep 23, 2006

    Fresh
    2/4

    Rotten
    29%

    Zen Noir (2006)

    " For all its shortcomings, Zen Noir still entertains."

    Posted Sep 15, 2006

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    75%

    American Blackout (2006)

    " American Blackout makes a credible case, with some of its most damning evidence coming from the mouths of the conservatives themselves."

    Posted Sep 15, 2006

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    48%

    Idlewild (2006)

    " Idlewild comes alive only during the production numbers, which look and feel more like music videos than music as storytelling."

    Posted Aug 25, 2006

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    21%

    La Mujer de mi Hermano (2006)

    " Repressed desire! A sultry soap-opera star! Incest! Gay politics! La Mujer de Mi Hermano has it all. Now if it only had a decent plot."

    Posted Apr 14, 2006

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    58%

    Kinky Boots (2006)

    " The only thing kinky about this movie is its title. But maybe there's an upside to this: Parents, if you want to teach the kids about sexual difference without having to deal with sex, here's your chance. Have I mentioned it's heartwarming? That too."

    Posted Apr 14, 2006

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    52%

    Lucky # Slevin (2006)

    " Not as clever as it thinks, a little too clever for its own good, it's a fun ride, nonetheless."

    Posted Apr 7, 2006

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    78%

    Brick (2006)

    " Johnson isn't the first director to subvert suburbia, but he's probably the first to have done such a fine job of it on his first outing."

    Posted Apr 7, 2006

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    85%

    Slither (2006)

    " Slither is a labor of love made by a horror aficionado who knows just when to tweak the tropes."

    Posted Mar 31, 2006

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    9%

    Stay Alive (2006)

    " It's unlikely that Stay Alive could ever have been a good movie in the traditional sense, but it might have been better if Bell and co-writer Matthew Peterman had done more to exploit their gaming premise."

    Posted Mar 28, 2006

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    90%

    Duck Season (2006)

    " The beauty of Duck Season is its insistence that profound human experiences can arrive slowly, in incremental packages, scattered over the course of an average Sunday."

    Posted Mar 17, 2006

    Fresh
    2/4

    Rotten
    50%

    Summer Storm (2006)

    " Though the characters and plot are all paint-by-numbers, Summer Storm is still a fairly charming look at what it's like for a typical teen jock to admit he's not so typical, after all."

    Posted Mar 17, 2006

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    31%

    The Libertine (2005)

    " The point seems to be that too much of a good thing leads to a vast sense of nothingness and bleak cinematography. Alas, it also results in transforming a film about a sensualist into a remarkably sexless enterprise."

    Posted Mar 10, 2006

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    79%

    Why We Fight (2006)

    " A somber polemic that presents a convincing case against using war as an economic booster -- although, Jarecki argues, that is precisely what the United States has been doing under every president since Truman."

    Posted Feb 10, 2006

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    14%

    London (2006)

    " Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy spends hours in a bathroom snorting a mother lode of cocaine while annoying everyone within earshot with his tales of woe. Sounds like a great idea for a movie. Let's do it!"

    Posted Feb 10, 2006

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    45%

    The Ice Harvest (2005)

    " Ice Harvest, sir, is no Groundhog Day."

    Posted Nov 23, 2005

    Fresh
    2/4

    Rotten
    51%

    Ellie Parker (2005)

    " Watts is alternately annoying, sympathetic and hilarious in the title role. She's always entertaining."

    Posted Nov 18, 2005

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    58%

    Never Been Thawed (2006)

    " What we're left with is a movie filled with cultural gags that mock without achieving the level of good satire. Sometimes, alas, being funny just isn't enough."

    Posted Nov 4, 2005

    Rotten
    2/4

    N/A

    The Californians (2005)

    " So leaden and obvious it's too somnambulant to be funny."

    Posted Oct 21, 2005

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    27%

    Stay (2005)

    " A pretty package that's empty on the inside."

    Posted Oct 21, 2005

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    43%

    Three Dancing Slaves (2005)

    " A luscious yet ultimately empty film."

    Posted Oct 7, 2005

    Fresh
    4/4

    Fresh
    90%

    Tony Takitani (2005)

    " Whether you view it as a metaphor for a country or a singular study of the human condition, Tony Takitani explores the borders between solitude and loneliness, hunger and consumption, memory and loss."

    Posted Sep 2, 2005

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    25%

    9 Songs (2005)

    " This disappointing new film from director Michael Winterbottom suffers from a similar malaise: It's poetic and pretty, strives for profundity without attaining it, and finally ends up saying nothing."

    Posted Aug 12, 2005

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    94%

    The Nomi Song (2005)

    " Horn does more than simply pay homage to a late artist. He uses his subject to revisit the euphoria of artistic and musical culture at a crossroads, and in the process brings it, briefly and poignantly, back to life again."

    Posted Feb 18, 2005

    Fresh
    2/4

    Fresh
    72%

    Primer (2004)

    " By turns inventive, confounding and obtuse, it doesn't always work, but it challenges, nonetheless."

    Posted Oct 15, 2004

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    44%

    The Brown Bunny (2004)

    " It's a somber poem of a film sure to frustrate those who prefer resolution to ambiguity. Controversial hype aside, that indeterminacy is its primary draw."

    Posted Sep 3, 2004

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    87%

    Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

    " Transcends the rockumentary genre and becomes something uniquely its own."

    Posted Jul 9, 2004

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    80%

    Biggie and Tupac (2002)

    " In exploring their deaths, Broomfield sheds light on his subjects' lives and art, reminding us why their loss still reverberates and their albums still sell in the millions."

    Posted Sep 20, 2002

    Fresh

    Fresh
    100%

    A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (2004)

    " A documentary that plays like a visual poem."

    Posted May 21, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    93%

    Scratch (2002)

    " Pray has managed to create a historical document accessible enough for novices and credible enough for aficionados."

    Posted Mar 13, 2002

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    23%

    Snow Dogs (2002)

    " There's little to recommend Snow Dogs, unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity."

    Posted Jan 18, 2002

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    80%

    Better Living Through Circuitry (1999)

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    Posted Jan 1, 2000
     
     
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