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RUMSEY TAYLOR

Agrees with the Tomatometer 88% of the time.

Biography: Rumsey is a graduate student and freelance graphic designer. He has written on film in various print and web publications, including The Boston Phoenix, Slant Magazine, Senses of Cinema, and manages the website Not Coming to a Theater Near You. Currently, he lives in Boston, MA.

Favorites: today my favorites are: "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" "Drowning by Numbers" "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" and "Strosek" "The Fisher King" "Freaks" "Gates of Heaven" "Stop Making Sense"

Publications: Boston Phoenix, DVDFuture.com, Not Coming to a Theater Near You, Senses of Cinema, Slant Magazine

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 287
Total QuickRatings: 37

Location: Boston, MA

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Fresh	Fresh 70%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" The emotions at the core of each scene are sincere, and invariably true to the source." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 5, 2009
—	Rotten 33%	Equinox (1971)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You SHORT REVIEW Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Beaver Trilogy (2001)	" A work of considerable ingenuity" — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Make-Out with Violence (2009)	" The entire film possesses a certain longing, the sort that manifests itself and begins to grow at the moment of High School graduation, when some of the most formative circumstances of youth are remembered only as ephemeral moments." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 9, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Con Air (1997)	" Resolutely not boring." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jul 24, 2009
—	Fresh 74%	Under Siege (1992)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jul 14, 2009
—	Fresh 100%	Bullet in the Head (1990)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jul 7, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 86%	Lake Mungo (2009)	" The film conditions you to doubt, growing less suspenseful, less atmospheric, and less frightening as it progresses." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 24, 2009
—	Rotten 0%	Troll 2 (1992)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 24, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 71%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" this film is about seeing Brad Pitt grow younger and handsomer until he becomes so young and handsome that it's a marvel equivalent to the launch of an Apollo rocket." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 18, 2008
—	Rotten 20%	Humanoids from the Deep (1980)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 4, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 38%	The Toe Tactic (2008)	" It�s originality at the expense of comprehensibility." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 75%	Vanishing Point (1971)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 95%	Obscene: A Portrait Of Barney Rosset And Grove Press (2008)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 92%	Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Medicine for Melancholy (2009)	" The film is more ambient than my description will convey, and it doesn�t feel scripted or directed in as much as it feels naturally funny and relaxed." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 90%	Transsiberian (2008)	" Transsiberian makes suspenseful and sometimes violent gestures, but it�s all decoration." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 64%	Beautiful Losers (2008)	" That said, all art deserves biography, and great art deserves recognition." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Rock 'N' Roll Nightmare (1987)	" a cheap, incompetently rendered film, but it is not a deceptive one" — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 16, 2008
—	N/A	Lorna (1964)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Sep 2, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 49%	Mother of Tears (2008)	" A feeble, incidental continuation of his earlier films." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jun 10, 2008
—	Fresh 100%	Titicut Follies (1967)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jun 3, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 46%	Mister Lonely (2008)	" To purists and lovers of abstraction, challenge, and all things fringe, it may feel like a loss of authenticity. But to the larger mainstream audience, it simply makes art more accessible." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted May 6, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Nights and Weekends (2008)	" It�s at times bold, intimate, unfunny, and discomforting, but it is never anything less than sincere." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 15, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 83%	A Necessary Death (2008)	" A Necessary Death, despite its provocations, remains timid and dramatized, ultimately favoring plot machinations to considering the issue of suicide more deeply." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 15, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Explicit Ills (2008)	" Explicit Ills is a filmic tapestry, and it is a cohesive, fluid one." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 8, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Baghead (2008)	" Its horror isn't anticipated because there's nothing about these people that justifies harm; they're just people, not pawns. But this, as with perception of what sort of film this is, isn't ultimately certain." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Order of Myths (2008)	" Revolutionary advances have been made in racial equality, but in Mobile segregation - the most interpretable symptom of racism - has its last stronghold in Mardi Gras." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 35%	21 (2008)	" Because 21 subscribes to the allure of Vegas and not how it is infiltrated with logic and quantification, its details are subordinated in service to familiar cinematic protocol." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 11, 2008
—	Rotten 53%	The Tango Lesson (1997)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 19, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Trafic (1971)	" It�s familiar, and nonetheless spirited and inventive." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 14, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Near Dark (1987)	" As much as it is a horror film and western, it is equally and perhaps more pronouncedly a romance." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 30, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 20%	Boxing Helena (1993)	" It is curious that Lynch, having taken so many visual cues from her father, has an inadequate grasp of this compassion. The paralyzing obsession that permeates many of her father�s works, on the other hand, she comprehends well." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 30, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 63%	The Man from London (2008)	" The Man from London, however comprehensible and demystified, is housed in a world of nonetheless pure, enveloping ambiance -- and it is by this measure that its merits are clearest." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 23, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Into the Wild (2007)	" A wholly and unexpectedly decent enterprise." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 16, 2007
—	N/A	BMX Bandits (1983)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You SHORT REVIEW Posted Aug 17, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 71%	Commando (1985)	" The finale is laughably preposterous, with the speedo-ed commando landing on a remote island, gunning down at least a hundred men with fake moustaches, and indiscriminately blowing up buildings in search of little Alyssa." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You SHORT REVIEW Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	Fresh 88%	Storefront Hitchcock (1998)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You SHORT REVIEW Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	N/A	Ryan (2004)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You SHORT REVIEW Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	Rotten 25%	Return of the Blind Dead (1975)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You SHORT REVIEW Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	Fresh 100%	Lord of the Flies (1963)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You SHORT REVIEW Posted Aug 17, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 38%	The Ten (2007)	" The Ten has a meticulous rhythm and consistency, with aspects of early commandments informing the latter." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007
—	N/A	The Young Ones (1961)	Click here to read article — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007

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