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STEVEN SNYDER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Biography: I am the lead film critic and arts writer for Greater Milwaukee Today Newspapers, as well as the film critic for Zertinet Movies, KUOM Radio Minneapolis and columnist for The Rake Magazine and Cinestar Magazine. I have served as a judge for numerous film festivals, and have guest lectured on film at the University of Minnesota.

Favorites: It is impossible to rank the best movies of all the time. The following are my cumulative top 10 of all time: 2001: A Space Odyssey The Godfather The Godfather part II Casablanca Citizen Kane Chinatown Gone With The Wind Star Wars Taxi Driver Psycho

Publications: Greater Milwaukee Today, Newark Star-Ledger, TIME Magazine, Zertinet Movies

Total Reviews: 411
Total QuickRatings: 17

Location: Minneapolis, MN / Milwaukee, WI / Boston, MA

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Fresh	Fresh 72%	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)	" A comedy with horsepower to spare." — TIME Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 42%	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)	" The special effects sequences, silly jokes, tantalizing outfits and overbearing soundtrack seem painfully forced and fake. Or maybe a better word is shallow. This film, for whatever it achieves, is painfully shallow." — Zertinet Movies Posted Apr 16, 2008
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 75%	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)	" The bigger the scope gets, the less we really care." — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 26, 2008
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 76%	Rocky Balboa (2006)	" There�s nothing particularly memorable here -- no profound triumphs or lasting rallying cries." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jan 10, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 16%	The Condemned (2007)	" What a base, and baseless, film this is." — Zertinet Movies Posted Sep 22, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 74%	Sunshine (2007)	" It may, at the very end, be a failure, but it�s a glorious failure." — Zertinet Movies Posted Sep 22, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 90%	Knocked Up (2007)	" It�s hard to deny the fact that, all this considered, it�s a work of art, even with that title." — Zertinet Movies Posted Sep 15, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 90%	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	" Is it as good as the television show? Yes. Does it have some of the sharp writing from the series� earlier years that has gone missing from the show as of late? Yes." — Zertinet Movies Posted Aug 1, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)	" This comedy isn�t just juvenile, it�s borderline brainless � the sort of bland, unfunny and, at times, slightly offensive drivel that one might expect from a grade schooler." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jul 25, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 72%	Sunshine (1999)	Click here to read article — Zertinet Movies Posted Jul 25, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 62%	Joshua (2007)	" A trippy film that falls somewhere between tired genre picture, hilarious satire and ingenious game of cat-and-mouse." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jul 14, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 77%	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	" *For almost the entirety of Order of the Phoenix, we see much the same thing we did in Goblet of Fire." — Zertinet Movies* Posted Jul 14, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 24%	Evan Almighty (2007)	" It�s a trifle of a thing; the kind of thing you�d see on a broadcast network on a Saturday afternoon, at least before you grew bored and changed the channel." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jul 14, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 29%	Lucky You (2007)	" Gambling and love rarely mix." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 30, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 72%	28 Weeks Later (2007)	" *Against all odds, Weeks* proves to be a jarring and effective follow-up to its equally-shocking predecessor.*" — Zertinet Movies* Posted Jun 30, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 88%	Red Road (2007)	" It�s a jarring sensation, for a thriller not to be about the chase, or the mysterious force of evil lurking in the shadows, but about an intangible gulf dividing two people occupying the same room." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Ratatouille (2007)	" This is a summer animated film aimed at your 15-year-old youngster, not your toddler. [While] younger fans will enjoy the sight of these furry heroes in a man�s world, they will easily lose track of the intricate story, smart dialogue and complex themes." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 27, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 37%	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)	" The makers of the franchise better find something more interesting for their four heroes to do -- and quick." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 44%	Angel-A (2007)	" What�s at once refreshing and disorienting about the way Luc Besson -- one of the most interesting international visionaries at work today -- handles the story is his attempt to de-romanticize one of the most idealistic and sublime formulas around." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 89%	Into Great Silence (2007)	" By the final third of the documentary, we evolve to a state of envy � envious at their resolute commitment and their utter faith � and even the most cynical atheist might find himself convinced that if anyone will find God, it is these men." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 24%	Peaceful Warrior (2006)	Click here to read article — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 93%	Sicko (2007)	" Provocative, funny, and all around exceptional." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 77%	A Mighty Heart (2007)	" While the movie does indeed work as a thriller, it�s more the tale of a state of mind that is fierce and vigorous until it shatters into a million pieces." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 27, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 59%	Bug (2007)	" A disaster on every level." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 97%	Casablanca (1942)	" It is one of the most timeless of all movies in terms of topic, emotion, acting and motivation." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 44%	Fay Grim (2007)	" Nothing short of a comic feast." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 69%	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	" Even the most cynical person must concede that it�s kind of fun watching beautiful people act cool." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 85%	Paris, Je T'aime (2007)	" There�s something romantic about the big city, because with so many people in such a small space, something unexpected and joyful is bound to cross your path one day. And this is the precise mentality that makes [this movie] such a breath of fresh air." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 41%	Shrek the Third (2007)	" What�s lacking is that intangible sense of fun, of inventiveness, of ingenuity, that made the first Shrek something you ran to your friends, grabbed them by the arms and told them they simply HAD to see." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 62%	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	" A successful bit of thoughtful escapism that balances the sensory thrills of the number one with the more serious thoughts of number two." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 64%	The TV Set (2007)	" Is it a travesty? A farce? Utterly preposterous? Exactly." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)	" A film that shows the slow push for freedom as the sticky, messy and lengthy process it really is." — Zertinet Movies Posted Jun 13, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 69%	Year of the Dog (2007)	" Sure, the film seems formulaic, plays out at times in a clunky fashion as one storyline stops abruptly and another picks up. But by the end, it will have you rooting for this sad woman, that she can find the happiness that eludes her." — Zertinet Movies Posted Apr 25, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 26%	Copying Beethoven (2006)	Click here to read article — Zertinet Movies Posted Apr 4, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 92%	The Host (2007)	" A delirious mix of scares, laughs and surprising political critiques, a movie which always seems to be running ahead of the audience and daring us to keep up." — Zertinet Movies Posted Apr 4, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 87%	The Lookout (2007)	" *What makes The Lookout* such a surprise � and such a joy � is that it runs wild across multiple genres.*" — Zertinet Movies* Posted Apr 4, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 69%	Blades of Glory (2007)	" It�s the new Will Ferrell movie. Need we say more?" — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 28, 2007
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 33%	TMNT (2007)	" The Turtles are back -- and as they say, new and improved." — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 28, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 53%	The Last Mimzy (2007)	" *All great children's stories treat their target audience seriously, and here Mimzy* sees something simultaneously pure, naive, brave and tragic in its adolescent adventurers.*" — Zertinet Movies* Posted Mar 22, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 47%	Exterminating Angels (2007)	" A sexually-charged, eyebrow-raising thriller that often straddles that fine line between erotic thriller and all-out pornography." — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 21, 2007
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 74%	The Dead Girl (2006)	" With The Dead Girl, this technique of breaking the narrative apart and then piecing it back together has led to a sort of narrative vacuum at its center -- an empty hole where a thing called exposition would typically reside." — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 21, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 40%	Road (2006)	" It�s a less �entertaining� movie, but a much more life-affirming one." — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 21, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 60%	300 (2007)	" While the film is an inspired bit of production design, ingeniously conceived and skillfully crafted, what it ultimately lacks in its final, sweeping gestures is any sense of gravity." — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 14, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 75%	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)	" It’s a movie about the nature of time, about getting older and struggling to connect with who we once were. And above all, it’s a story about taking a breather from the marathon of life to find our way home." — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 7, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 89%	Zodiac (2007)	" Maybe the movie is less about finding the answer than the intricacy of the mystery itself, in the remarkable -- outright shocking -- persistence of those determined to bring a guilty man to justice." — Zertinet Movies Posted Mar 7, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 84%	Breach (2007)	" *It�s stunning how much drama Breach* is able to evoke with only a few, angry words.*" — Zertinet Movies* Posted Feb 21, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 89%	Venus (2006)	" *There are scenes in Venus* when rational thought seems lost to something more powerful, and ambiguous.*" — Zertinet Movies* Posted Feb 21, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 71%	Inland Empire (2006)	" Inland Empire might just be the funniest movie of the year. Or maybe its the most horrifying. Trust me: It�s difficult to tell." — Zertinet Movies Posted Feb 21, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 56%	Days of Glory (1944)	Click here to read article — Zertinet Movies Posted Feb 21, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 58%	The Astronaut Farmer (2007)	" It�s hardly subversive, but it is a powerful, PG-rated punch in the gut of America�s heartland." — Zertinet Movies Posted Feb 21, 2007

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