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DONALD J. LEVIT

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Biography: Donald J. Levit is a free-lance writer with a B.A. from Duke and a Ph. D. from Chicago. Although born in Nashville and raised there and in Brooklyn, he has lived in many other places in the U.S. He also resided for a time in the Caribbean and, for twenty-two years, in Spain. Dr. Levit now calls New York City his home.

Publications: Film Threat, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 544

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Fresh	Fresh 91%	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	" Not an anti-war tract or a glorification but, rather, a fair consideration of humanity that exists within the inhumanity of armed conflict." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Juno (2007)	" 'Juno' is on some counts unrealistic and does not probe deeply, but it has undeniable charm." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Araya (1959)	" Although dubbed a 'tone poem,' it is better to consider 'Araya' as visual biblical parable, an artfully artless triptych built on sacred-mystical threes." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 7, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 73%	Flags of Our Fathers (2006)	" Sequences fade into the pack and make it difficult to differentiate one player from the others, much less remember them after the lights go up." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 4, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 53%	Shadrach (1998)	" A vignette, really, a couple of days in a boy%u06E5s life recollected in tranquillity." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 28, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 79%	Disgrace (2009)	" Individual or societal in thrust, 'Disgrace' is hampered by a lack of resolution and the impenetrability of motivations." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 69%	Paris (2009)	" 'Paris' works its spell in perceptions heightened for anyone suddenly made aware of mortality and on what was formerly taken for granted." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 16, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 56%	9 (2009)	" Soul is what distinguished man from brute, and 9 and his appealing cohorts have that in abundance." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 49%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" Captures a lost innocence -- but the toneless monosyllables and "very cool's" and "groovy's" grow quickly vapid or spacey." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 27, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 74%	Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)	" Alas for 'Five Minutes of Heaven,' confrontations seem rigged and resolution is tacked on in minutes." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)	" The user-used/player-pawn/Fergus-Marty relationship is what counts here, braced by Kingsley and Sturgess in a consideration of conscience in wartime." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 16, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 72%	I Sell the Dead (2009)	" Bits strike out in every which way but are not long, deep or effective, so 'I Sell the Dead' develops neither momentum nor personality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 9, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" Bits strike out in every which way but are not long, deep or effective, so 'I Sell the Dead' develops neither momentum nor personality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	The Learning Tree (1969)	" Forty years ago, pioneer Gordon Parks had to step with extra care filming 'The Learning Tree' lest the door shut behind him." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 5, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 85%	Flame & Citron (2008)	" This noir in underlit blacks and blues grows too complex for its own good." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 29, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Thirst (2009)	" Among its type, 'Thirst' succeeds despite too many distractions." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 23, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 31%	Deadgirl (2008)	" With a slight hint of developing into more than a teen-pleaser gorefest, 'Deadgirl' instead goes for the jugular and splatters blood." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Shoah (1985)	" 'Shoah' is difficult to watch, but few other films match its consideration of unspeakable evil and indifference." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 17, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 76%	Tropical Malady (2005)	" Camera work in the first half of 'Tropical Malady' appears jumpy and interrupted by confusing cuts and artsy tricks." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 12, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 80%	Nollywood Babylon (2009)	" 'Nollywood Babylon' teases, for its themes are interesting but, too many of them brought up, they do not get the incisive treatment each deserves." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 20%	Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)	" Boys in the audience may groan indulgently, but their dates ought to squeal with delighted pride." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)	" Technique is nothing fancy in this straightforward chronological account that leaves a warm glow for the linked personalities, the programs and the era." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation (2009)	" DJ Spooky's 'Rebirth of a Nation' is an admirable fusion film in its own right." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 28, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 55%	Surveillance (2009)	" The film's late, unprepared-for perversity turnabout undoes what has gone before." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	A Man for All Seasons (1966)	" Political, religious and personal niceties of the period are streamlined, and the movie concentrates on the impressive steadfastness of Sir Thomas More." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 24, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Life on Earth (1998)	" Accurately and lovingly filmed, so one easily slides into this world." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 66%	Dead Snow (2009)	" Far from Scandinavian Lutheran deep seriousness, this is all homage to a generally shallow genre and fun for those who cotton to that sort of thing." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 16, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Unmistaken Child (2009)	" Scripted or posed pieces blend seamlessly with the spontaneous non-fiction in this impressive documentary." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 31, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Afghan Star (2009)	" Fascinating, 'Afghan Star' pictures the familiar dropped into a totally foreign context distanced even more by recent and continuing bloody strife." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 30, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 70%	The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)	" Surface gloss is what you get in this caper-romance." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 21, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 73%	Rudo and Cursi (2009)	" Subtitles, pervasive obscenity, macho mother insults and some nudity/sex probably will not draw in the viewers who made a family hit of Bend It Like Beckham." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 40%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" The tiring repetitiousness of 'Limits of Control' may prove too much for many viewers." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Desert Dream (2009)	" Lovely as a tree." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Tyson (2009)	" This raging bull...is unaware how simultaneously untouchable and vulnerable he is." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	The Pope's Toilet (2007)	" A celebration of hope, humor and resilience among the humble and only secondarily a dig at media distortion and the disconnect between the Church and the poor." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 19, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 73%	American Violet (2009)	" No suspense is developed, and low-income housing and women's house of detention alike are prettied up without any feeling for gritty reality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 17, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Earth (2009)	" Stars Mother Nature and the photography deserve standing applause." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 17, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 90%	Forbidden Lie$ (2009)	" Sucked in by her subject, the director gets too close for objective necessary cutting." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 3, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 35%	Alien Trespass (2009)	" 'Alien Trespass' is neither soulless nor bad. Yet it does not improve on the sources that inspire it, so why not watch them instead?" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Pontypool (2009)	" 'Pontypool' succeeds where many a less intelligent, purely visceral-visual movie leaves us cold." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" The internal nature of the story here is underscored by Michael Simmonds' camerawork, which appears daring in simplicity without being claustrophobic." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" 'Sin Nombre' is informative and gripping in story and technique." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 21, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Milk of Sorrow (2009)	" This Peruvian tale is about the superstitious but psychologically valid effects of terror." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 21, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 8%	New York City Serenade (2009)	" Uninspired performances and a lack of chemistry fail to project whatever has brought and kept the film's odd couple together." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Hearts and Minds (1975)	" Ahead of the pack, filmmaker Peter Davis illustrates the human toll on 'victor' and 'vanquished.'" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 11, 2009
Rotten	N/A	The Spanish Earth (1937)	" A lion's share of the fault lies in the narration, the kind of one-sided screen advocacy journalism that has resurfaced in contemporary non-fictions and based-ons." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 8, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Everlasting Moments (2009)	" This even-keel love story so deliberately unfolds that it seems fuller and longer, but not tiresomely so, than its 131 minutes." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" The film does an excellent job projecting suspense among all castes gathered in front of television sets while watching a popular quiz show in India." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 8, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Fever (1981)	" Although filmed with striking light as though through a fine veil from mists rising from the river, 'Fever' includes no heroes -- just villains and fools." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Cargo 200 (2008)	" Soviet lives are uncomfortable to watch here but as compelling as Richard Widmark's d�but in 'Kiss of Death' or Tarantino's more graphic one with 'Reservoir Dogs.'" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 2, 2009

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