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EDWARD HAVENS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Biography: Edward Havens currently serves as the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of FilmJerk.com. Since 1972, he has worked as an extra, actor, production assistant and assistant director on a number of feature films and shorts. He has also written several screenplays, none which were recently optioned. Edward likes kitties, ice cream, books with more words than pictures and DVDs with director's commentary. He blames Hunter S. Thompson, Lenny Bruce, Terry Southern, the collective members of Monty Python, Michael O'Donoghue, Lloyd Kaufman and Andy Kaufman for helping to shape his persona. He lives in the heart of Hollywood, between Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Cinerama Dome, with his wife.
Favorites: For the longest time, my answer would have been "Bull Durham," but I've come to realize that Cameron Crowe's director cut of "Almost Famous" is perhaps the most perfect movie ever made. Other favorites include "Brazil," "The Third Man," "L.A. Confidential," "My Man Godfrey," most of the films of William Powell and Myrna Loy, "Sullivan's Travels" and "Bring It On."

Publications: FilmJerk.com

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 278
Total QuickRatings: 62

Location: Hollywood

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Fresh
B-

Rotten
52%

Leatherheads (2008)

" To call something a screwball comedy instead of just a comedy is to add an extra level of farcical expectations all too easy to not meet."

Posted Apr 4, 2008

Fresh
A-

Rotten
49%

CJ7 (2008)

" If most Americans weren't so adverse to spending time with any film which has subtitles, Stephen Chow's "CJ7" just might have had a chance to become a perennial family favorite."

Posted Mar 6, 2008

Rotten
C

Fresh
67%

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

" The new 20th Century-Fox Home Video release of "The Darjeeling Limited" offers quite a conundrum for fans of Wes Anderson..."
DVD REVIEW

Posted Feb 26, 2008

Fresh
B+

Fresh
80%

In Bruges (2008)

" Doesn't need to be too hip or too cool to be damn good."

Posted Feb 22, 2008

Fresh
B+

Fresh
100%

Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton ()

" We may not learn much about who Val Lewton was. We may never truly know what made him tick. And we might find ourselves too engrossed in what we see and hear to even care."

Posted Jan 16, 2008

Fresh
A+

Fresh
89%

Zodiac (2007)

" Watching the movie on a widescreen HDTV monitor in HD-DVD is an ocular orgy."
DVD REVIEW

Posted Jan 9, 2008

Rotten
F

Rotten
14%

Blonde Ambition (2007)

" Just how bad is the latest Jessica Simpson film? It doesn't just belong on a Worst of 2007 list or even a Worst of the Decade list, but high amongst The Worst Movies Ever Made."

Posted Dec 27, 2007

Fresh
A

Fresh
85%

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

" If there were a cinematic version of a harmonic convergence, it would look something like "Sweeney Todd.""

Posted Dec 21, 2007

Rotten
C-

Rotten
50%

Man in the Chair (2007)

" A film that probably never wouldn't have seen the light of a projector if it wasn't for some kind of "Let's get Actor X that long-deserved Oscar" grab."

Posted Dec 12, 2007

Fresh
A+

Fresh
60%

Look (2007)

" Once or twice a year, if we are lucky, a movie comes out of seemingly nowhere and grabs ahold of us, with thoughts and ideas that stick in our heads long after the credits have rolled out and the lights in the auditorium has illuminated again."

Posted Dec 10, 2007

Rotten
C

Fresh
89%

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

" The omission of John Travolta in any of the commentaries or documentaries is a major shadow that the new disc cannot get out from."
DVD REVIEW

Posted Oct 13, 2007

Fresh
A

Rotten
43%

What We Do Is Secret (2008)

" Hits quick, hits hard and never lets go."

Posted Sep 17, 2007

Fresh
B-

Rotten
54%

Across the Universe (2007)

" A resplendent feast for the eyes. Just don't expect anything resembling a coherent storyline."

Posted Sep 13, 2007

Fresh
A-

Rotten
26%

Fierce People (2007)

" Too bad this wasn't made twenty-five years ago, when it still had a chance of being accepted by the masses because it was quirky."

Posted Sep 7, 2007

Fresh
B-

Fresh
64%

Poultrygeist - Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

" When it comes to Lloyd Kaufman.. you either fanatically love what he does or you think the world could do without his low-brow brand of horror comedy."

Posted Aug 23, 2007

N/A

Fresh
74%

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

" Observations on "The Assassination of Jesse James""
ESSAY

Posted Aug 13, 2007

Fresh
A-

Rotten
48%

Cashback (2007)

" The first thing one will probably respond to, after the brief rampant nudity, is the exquisite cinematography by Angus Hudson."

Posted Jul 28, 2007

Fresh
B

Fresh
90%

Punk's Not Dead (2007)

" Punk might not be dead, but it sure has seen better days."

Posted Jul 27, 2007

Fresh
B+

Fresh
74%

Sunshine (2007)

" "Sunshine" is 90% a great film, a believable and intriguing meditation on life, the human spirit and how far some people are willing to go for the betterment of all mankind."

Posted Jul 27, 2007

Fresh
B-

Fresh
77%

A Mighty Heart (2007)

" Every day, we are reminded how much of a great beauty Angelina Jolie is. But it's not every day we are reminded how much of a great actress Jolie is."

Posted Jun 22, 2007

Fresh
B-

Rotten
43%

Choose Connor (2008)

" Has flashes of incredible maturity and complexity [but the filmmaker] still has some things to learn about the basic tenets of storytelling before he can become a quality filmmaker."

Posted Jun 18, 2007

Fresh
B-

Rotten
54%

Eagle Vs. Shark (2007)

" Has eccentricity in spades, and a winning performance in lead actress Loren Horsley, yet doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts."

Posted Jun 15, 2007

Rotten
C+

N/A

All This and World War II (1976)

" Nostalgia often incurs when an item is kept from public consumption, and it is likely all wistful feelings for this film would disappear if it ever becomes available for mass consumption."

Posted May 30, 2007

Rotten
D+

Fresh
62%

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

" It's schizophrenic pacing and apathy towards its audience's acceptance means the film never needs to be seen more than once, if that."

Posted May 2, 2007

Rotten
D

Rotten
48%

Wind Chill (2007)

" All surface and no depth, with an incongruous ending that makes for an unsatisfying ending to an indecisive movie."

Posted Apr 29, 2007

Fresh
A-

N/A

WKRP in Cincinnati - Season 1 (1978)

" Was the music the only thing that made the show good?"
DVD REVIEW

Posted Apr 27, 2007

Fresh
B-

Fresh
69%

Everything's Gone Green (2007)

" The blandness of director Paul Fox's execution leaves much to be desired."

Posted Apr 13, 2007

Rotten
C-

Fresh
64%

The TV Set (2007)

" [Except for Sigourney Weaver] everyone else looks so damn solemn, it's as if neither they nor their director understood this was meant to be a parody."

Posted Apr 6, 2007

Fresh
A-

Fresh
82%

Grindhouse (2007)

" Gloriously grotesque, hilariously horrific and exactly the shot in the arm movies have been needing for far too long."

Posted Mar 29, 2007

Rotten
C-

Rotten
58%

First Snow (2007)

" It's quite admirable of Guy Pearce to try and eschew a Hollywood career, [but] if he keeps making films like First Snow..."

Posted Mar 24, 2007

Fresh
A

Fresh
60%

300 (2007)

" The film is little more than a colorfully stylish, throwaway epic, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with something that simply aims to be populist entertainment."

Posted Mar 10, 2007

Fresh
B-

Fresh
89%

Starter For 10 (2007)

" Familiar enough to be instantly comfortable with and entertaining enough to be over with before you'd like to leave these characters."

Posted Feb 24, 2007

Rotten
D-

Rotten
19%

The Hitcher (2007)

" Zachary Knighton's second-rate impersonation of Matthew Lillard's Shaggy makes one long for C. Thomas Howell's irresolute interpretation of Jim Halsey (truly an amazing feat)."

Posted Jan 19, 2007

Fresh
B+

Fresh
76%

Rocky Balboa (2006)

" By remembering the little things that made the first film so successful in the first place, Sylvester Stallone has made the best "Rocky" film since the original."

Posted Dec 20, 2006

Rotten
C

Rotten
51%

Fast Food Nation (2006)

" Linklater has mostly missed a golden opportunity to not only create an enduring work of art but to shame an industry into changing their ways."

Posted Nov 25, 2006

Fresh
A+

Fresh
97%

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

" Re-imagining "The Nightmare Before Christmas" as a three dimensional film has taken Henry Selick's modern masterwork and turned it into a timeless classic."

Posted Oct 20, 2006

Fresh
B-

N/A

King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries (2005)

Click here to read article
DVD REVIEW

Posted Sep 30, 2006

Rotten
C

Rotten
34%

The Black Dahlia (2006)

" Vilmos Zsigmond's lush cinematography alone is almost worth the price of admission, and Jenny Beavan's costumes remind us why the late 1940s were one of the best times for fashion in the modern era."

Posted Sep 18, 2006

Fresh
A

Fresh
74%

Idiocracy (2006)

" The theatrical release of Mike Judge's new comedy Idiocracy is one of the most egregious travesties of modern cinema."

Posted Sep 4, 2006

Rotten
C+

Fresh
83%

This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)

" Is it possible for a documentarian to hit the bullseye and completely miss his mark on the same shot?"

Posted Sep 1, 2006

Fresh
B-

Rotten
48%

Idlewild (2006)

" Like too many video directors turned filmmakers, Barber has forgotten having more than four minutes to tell a story does not mean take your sweet time getting to the point."

Posted Aug 25, 2006

Fresh
B+

Fresh
95%

Wordplay (2006)

" What is an eight letter word for a totally engrossing and entertaining documentary about crossword puzzles, those who create them and those who obsessively solve them?"

Posted Jun 15, 2006

Fresh
A

Fresh
81%

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

" With APHC, quite possibly the iconoclastic filmmaker's final work, Altman becomes reflective, melancholy and, most surprising of all, sentimental."

Posted Jun 9, 2006

Fresh
A+

Fresh
97%

Alien (1979)

" A wondrous reminder of how imagination can triumph over budget."

Posted Jun 1, 2006

Rotten
D

Fresh
62%

Ju-on: The Curse (2000)

" A nearly bloodless and scare-free exercise in futility, jumping from scene to scene with very little continuity and even less comprehension of the concept of true fear."

Posted Jun 1, 2006

Fresh
A-

Fresh
97%

Repo Man (1984)

" It is going a bit far to call "Repo Man" a modern classic, but it is amongst the defining films of the decade."
DVD REVIEW

Posted May 26, 2006

Rotten
D

Rotten
24%

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

" It is simply one of those movies which may have been made with the best of intentions but tries to appeal to too many people to be remotely interesting."

Posted May 18, 2006

Fresh
A

Fresh
94%

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)

" Arguably the best movie about movies ever made."

Posted Apr 26, 2006

Fresh
B-

Fresh
90%

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)

" Acts not as the window for the outsider into the spectacle of heavy metal music, as the filmmakers proclaim it to be, but an unprovoked fan's defense for liking what he likes"

Posted Apr 14, 2006

Rotten
C-

Rotten
27%

The Zodiac (2005)

" Bulkley shows flashes of virtuosity... but for now, we'll just have to look at this film as a stepping stone in what could be a promising career."

Posted Mar 17, 2006
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