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Critics / Gina Carbone
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GINA CARBONE

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Biography: Summa cum laude graduate of Northeastern University in Boston with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications/Cinema Studies. Third child in a family of Monty Python-loving, Star Wars-silly, Pulp Fiction happy Italian/Irish/Germans.
Favorites: Dead Poets Society, Seven, The Bicycle Thief, The Fisher King, Shakespeare in Love, Better Off Dead, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs,Fight Club,Waiting for Guffman, Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Sweet Hereafter, Chinatown, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Ref, Memento, Amelie, Ordinary People,Grand Hotel, Dog Day Afternoon, The Usual Suspects, Rushmore

Publications: Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)

Total Reviews: 200

Location: Portsmouth, NH

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Rotten
2/4

Rotten
30%

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

" If they spent more time on the scripts, coaching the actors and finding less distracting hair and makeup, they might earn what they have but don't deserve: the fans' unconditional love."

Posted Nov 21, 2009

Fresh
2.75/4

Rotten
38%

2012 (2009)

" The Ron Jeremy of disaster porn."

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Rotten
2.5/4

Rotten
54%

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

" If I could make a mix tape of scenes from this film I'd watch them repeatedly. But as a whole, it was a missed opportunity. And the ending . . . even Obi-Wan would roll his eyes. Definitely not the droids I was looking for."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
22%

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)

" Let's just say it doesn't make me feel like Riverdancing."

Posted Oct 31, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
20%

Amelia (2009)

" The key to selling a story is making people believe it's real. That's the trouble with Amelia -- I didn't buy a minute of it."

Posted Oct 24, 2009

Fresh
3.25/4

Fresh
70%

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

" Where the Wild Things Are is the least fantastical fantasy and the most raw, honest, personal and magical film about childhood angst since ... ever?"

Posted Oct 20, 2009

Rotten
2.5/4

Fresh
83%

Paranormal Activity (2009)

" Sorry. The emperor is naked. It was just an OK indie horror film with more shaky camerawork. Is this really the highest standard we can set?"

Posted Oct 10, 2009

Rotten
2.25/4

Fresh
75%

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

" Michael Moore preaches to the converted in his least insightful op-ed to date."

Posted Oct 3, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
76%

The Informant! (2009)

" The Insider plus The Office plus Fargo plus the forced zaniness of Juno."

Posted Sep 25, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
6%

Whiteout (2009)

" What a stiff."

Posted Sep 12, 2009

Rotten
2.5/4

Fresh
63%

Extract (2009)

" Where's the flair, Dinkus?"

Posted Sep 6, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
88%

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

" Quentin Tarantino has become the third Coen brother."

Posted Aug 22, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
90%

District 9 (2009)

" This is the movie Transformers should've been."

Posted Aug 15, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
36%

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

" Worst 'blockbuster' of the summer."

Posted Aug 8, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
68%

Funny People (2009)

" Sandler and Apatow hitting the heavy drama button is like Darth Vader and Voldemort joining forces to throw a tea party. But a good one!"

Posted Aug 1, 2009

Rotten
2.5/4

Rotten
55%

Orphan (2009)

" It's ... uh ... creepy in that other way."

Posted Jul 25, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
66%

Away We Go (2009)

" Narrowly manages to avoid the insufferably twee hipster cutesiness of, say, Juno, or any other works of Satan."

Posted Jul 20, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
83%

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

" Like the Prince himself, David Yates crosses out portions of J.K. Rowling's text in favor of his own ideas. This produces the best magic to date, until it goes wrong..."

Posted Jul 15, 2009

Fresh
3.75/4

Fresh
98%

The Hurt Locker (2009)

" First female best director Oscar right here."

Posted Jul 13, 2009

Fresh
2.8/4

Fresh
67%

Bruno (2009)

" Ich laughed, Ich cringed, Ich pitied Paula Abdul."

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Rotten
2.5/4

Fresh
67%

Public Enemies (2009)

" Never mind crime, I'm declaring the nation's first war on hand-held cameras."

Posted Jul 3, 2009

Rotten
2.25/4

Rotten
19%

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

" The first movie of 2009 to fail my clock test."

Posted Jun 26, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
15%

Year One (2009)

" Blessed are the cheesemakers? Not this time."

Posted Jun 21, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
78%

The Hangover (2009)

" It's just funny - pretty much from start to finish, or at least whenever Zach Galifianakis' 'Fat Jesus' is on screen."

Posted Jun 5, 2009

Fresh
3.25/4

Fresh
92%

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

" Sam Raimi had me at the ticked-off talking goat, but he gave me so much more."

Posted May 31, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
98%

Up (2009)

" Best since Finding Nemo."

Posted May 30, 2009

Fresh
2.75/4

Rotten
32%

Terminator Salvation (2009)

" An entertaining action film that increases in value the less you actually think about it, with a star-making who-the-heck-is-THAT? performance from Sam Worthington."

Posted May 23, 2009

Rotten
2.5/4

Rotten
36%

Angels & Demons (2009)

" The Da Vinci Code, while not a great movie by a stretch, was better and actually offered some interesting characters."

Posted May 15, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
95%

Star Trek (2009)

" Sacrilege alert! It may even be better than The Dark Knight."

Posted May 8, 2009

Rotten
2.75/4

Rotten
36%

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

" The first X-Men film I didn't absolutely love."

Posted May 3, 2009

Rotten
2.75/4

Rotten
19%

Obsessed (2009)

" Just when I want cheese, you give me caviar."

Posted Apr 26, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
84%

State of Play (2009)

" Like a brief in USA Today, complete with colorful infographics and a really cool map. (In a good way!)"

Posted Apr 19, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
50%

Observe and Report (2009)

" For people disappointed that Paul Blart didn't have more violence, booze, drugs, date rape, f-bombs, 'retarded' insults and full frontal penis shots."

Posted Apr 10, 2009

Fresh
2.75/4

Rotten
28%

Fast & Furious (2009)

" Everyone on screen gets to do the adrenaline-pumping, id-heavy stuff people who park neatly in their little suburban shopping mall parking spaces -- people like us -- never get to do."

Posted Apr 5, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
72%

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

" Attack of the 50 Foot Shrug."

Posted Mar 29, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
65%

Duplicity (2009)

" I'm probably going to buy Duplicity on DVD just to re-experience the joy of Benjamin Franklin slamming his fist into the ground while attacking John Adams."

Posted Mar 20, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
64%

Watchmen (2009)

" Whoever chose the music should get thrown out a window, but there are moments of Snyder's 300 visual flair and a few flashes of character magic."

Posted Mar 6, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
58%

The International (2009)

" Even without that extended thrashing of the Guggenheim, The International is more fun than its 'really, you're going after a bank?' trailer suggests."

Posted Feb 13, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
44%

He's Just Not That Into You (2009)

" Girl porn for The Bachelor set."

Posted Feb 8, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
57%

Taken (2009)

" Women, sit back and accept your victimhood as men abduct you, sell you, and save you amid mindless violence that somehow got a PG-13 rating."

Posted Jan 30, 2009

Fresh
2.75/4

Fresh
86%

Rachel Getting Married (2008)

" Anne Hathaway's overrated, but Rosemarie DeWitt? There's an Oscar waiting to happen."

Posted Jan 25, 2009

Fresh
3.25/4

Fresh
70%

Last Chance Harvey (2008)

" I saw movie stars make a good movie great, because they know how. Emma Thompson is the best actress alive today. Full stop."

Posted Jan 18, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
98%

The Wrestler (2008)

" If The Wrestler doesn't get the Oscar attention it deserves I'm going after someone with a staple gun."

Posted Jan 15, 2009

Rotten
2.75/4

Fresh
62%

The Reader (2008)

" How do you solve a problem like The Reader? It's deep and layered and sexy and Oscary and left no emotional impression. It happened and I left."

Posted Jan 11, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
61%

Valkyrie (2008)

" This is chew-your-fingernails country. Anyone who misses it simply because it stars a couch-jumping Scientologist is missing a great film."

Posted Jan 4, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
68%

Revolutionary Road (2008)

" They should hand out complimentary razor blades at the end of Revolutionary Road. But if anyone can find the refresh button on the exhausted suburban malaise genre, it's Kate Winslet. And she does."

Posted Jan 4, 2009

Fresh
3.25/4

Fresh
91%

Frost/Nixon (2008)

" A Beltway Rocky - the jabs, punches, bobs and weaves political junkies geek out over but Average Joe can also get behind. But which one is the underdog?"

Posted Dec 27, 2008

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
71%

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

" Elegant, understated epic takes its time going backward with forward-thinking director at the helm."

Posted Dec 26, 2008

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
77%

Doubt (2008)

" I loved Doubt, except for the giant spider."

Posted Dec 18, 2008

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
93%

Milk (2008)

" Josh Brolin's double murderer steals the film from Sean Penn's Saint Harvey. That couldn't have been the intention, but the most fully developed character wins."

Posted Dec 14, 2008
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