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JOSHUA TANZER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography: Joshua Tanzer is the founder of <b><a href="http://www.offoffoff.com">Offoffoff.com</a></b>, the guide to alternative New York, which covers independent film, off-off-Broadway theater, local bands, dance and more. By day he's a programmer for BusinessWeek.com and he freelances for the New York Post as an entertainment writer and tabloid headline writer. ("Martha Stewart stock falling like a bad souffle" and "Adults who were spanked often get tanked" -- those were his.) He likes romantic dinners by candlelight and long walks on the beach. His turnoffs are regressive tax policy and mean people.
Favorites: Dr. Strangelove, Lone Star, Do the Right Thing, Repo Man, The Double Life of Veronique, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Delicatessen, Casablanca, The Sweet Hereafter, To Live, The Celebration, The Ladykillers, To Kill a Mockingbird, Platoon, Brazil, Network, The Great Dictator, Peppermint Candy. Best of 2003: City of God, S21. Best I've seen recently: Maria Full of Grace, Garden State, Los Angeles Plays Itself.

Publications: Offoffoff

Total Reviews: 224
Total QuickRatings: 63

Location: Hoboken, New Jersey

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The Definition of Insanity (2004)

" A movie, candid and gently self-deprecating, about the people we rely on never to achieve fame and success."

Posted Oct 19, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
75%

Nine Lives (2005)

" The movie is pleasing in its incompleteness. It colors outside the lines."

Posted Oct 17, 2005

Rotten
2/4

N/A

Escape Artists (2005)

" The movie is about personalities, surroundings, look and style. The atmosphere is the plot. It's, uh, plotmosphere."

Posted Oct 10, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
71%

Bubble (2006)

" With an almost-reality style much like (but far down the socioeconomic scale from) 'K Street', it might have an impact on the arthouse audience and on American filmmaking."

Posted Oct 10, 2005

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
63%

Land of Plenty (2004)

" A caricature that indicts, if not our actual country, then a rather similar country that an outsider imagines America to be."

Posted Oct 10, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
80%

Through the Forest (2005)

" Quick, what's the first thing you do as a director trying to make yourself seem cool, besides editing the movie backwards? Right! You shoot your scenes in one continuous shot."

Posted Oct 5, 2005

N/A

Fresh
83%

One Bright Shining Moment (2005)

" "Democrats have taken on a kind of timidity that isn't natural for people in the party of Roosevelt, Truman, Wilson, Johnson, Kennedy. We shouldn't be cowardly and silent just because we've taken a couple of beatings.""
INTERVIEW

Posted Sep 25, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
83%

One Bright Shining Moment (2005)

" This is an excellent time to remind ourselves of this story. Another McGovern would have been a good thing to have the last five years."

Posted Sep 22, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
83%

The Constant Gardener (2005)

" It would be nice to see Meirelles apply himself to looser, earthier, fleshier films in the future."

Posted Sep 7, 2005

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
84%

2046 (2005)

" 'Did you get it?' Guy 1 asked Guy 2 in the men's room after seeing 2046. 'Yeah...,' said Guy 2. 'I think so. ... Maybe.'"

Posted Aug 15, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
71%

Mondovino (2005)

" Mondovino is not a movie that swirls some wine around in a glass and admires the color and praises the bouquet and speaks of the wine's 'complexity' and uses the whole experience as some kind of rarefied metaphor for middle-aged angst."

Posted Aug 9, 2005

Fresh
3.25/4

N/A

Education Of Shelby Knox ()

" She has the courage to maintain a loud, clear voice of honesty in the kingdom of hypocrisy. As Shelby tells a radio interviewer: 'I'm kinda scary to tangle with. Sorry.'"

Posted Aug 8, 2005

Fresh
3.5/4

N/A

After the Day Before (2004)

" This is one of those movies that you either click with or don't. But for those who do, it's a shot of mental adrenaline."

Posted Aug 8, 2005

Fresh
4/4

Fresh
81%

Oldboy (2005)

" Three couples were talking out loud as the film started. But before I could give them the traditional New York 'Shut the #%*& Up,' the movie shut them the #%*& up for me."

Posted Aug 7, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
67%

Nightingale in a Music Box (2002)

" There is a little action and suspense involved, but the adventure is mostly mental. It works because it's smart, and because of the performances of the two leads."

Posted Jun 13, 2005

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
88%

The Syrian Bride (2005)

" What do you suppose happens when a woman in the Golan Heights decides to marry a man on the other side of the Syrian border? What happens is an international incident."

Posted Jun 10, 2005

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
62%

Winter Solstice (2005)

" Sternfeld started with well-conceived characters and simply didn't succeed in making them flesh. These people have traits instead of personalities; goals instead of dreams."

Posted Jun 8, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
25%

9 Songs (2005)

" Good movie sex without the good movie."

Posted Jun 7, 2005

Rotten
0.5/4

N/A

Max and Grace (2003)

" Parness is a tourist in the land of mental illness, sitting in the air-conditioned tour bus of his mind looking out at the people below & scratching his head for clumsy jokes."

Posted Jun 7, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
68%

Cape Of Good Hope (2005)

" Dog lovers may give Cape of Good Hope an extra star and a half for the way it uses the canine world to slyly comment on the human world. Cat people can go either way."

Posted Jun 6, 2005

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
86%

Junebug (2005)

" It takes one of two things to cut through the critic's desensitized haze — either a smashingly original idea, or the same old ideas re-envisioned with unusual grace. Junebug is a nice example of the second."

Posted Jun 2, 2005

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
88%

The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007)

" If we were better people than we are, we'd all be interested in a documentary about the difficulties of farming life — and the central character wouldn't have to be a cross-dressing, movie-making, play-writing, hippie-loving free spirit."

Posted Jun 2, 2005

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
69%

The World (2005)

" It offers us nostalgia for the present. Remember when we joined the global village? Remember your first cell phone? Remember text messaging? Wow, those were some crazy times."

Posted Apr 22, 2005

Fresh
3.25/4

N/A

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (2004)

" If every audience-manipulating, tear-jerking romance picture were like Crying Out Love, it would give audience-manipulating, tear-jerking romance pictures a good name."

Posted Apr 19, 2005

Fresh
3.5/4

N/A

Frozen (2005)

" It's tempting to call this something like 'Hitchcock for the prozac generation,' except it's not clear that prozac has made it to this part of the frigid north."

Posted Apr 15, 2005

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
80%

Private (2004)

" Saverio Costanzo has a two-state solution for the Middle East -- one state in the living room and the other in the bedroom."

Posted Mar 25, 2005

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
100%

O Heroi (2004)

" Despite the film's obviousness, it does illustrate the many ways war rends society."

Posted Mar 25, 2005

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
84%

The Intruder (2005)

" It's intended to puzzle us -- and sure, the little puzzles peppered throughout the film are fine. It's the grand non-sequiturs that are distracting."

Posted Mar 22, 2005

Rotten
1.5/4

N/A

Holy Lola (2004)

" Aha! The bad guys are the Americans with their big bucks and heartless capitalism, ruining the world for the humble French."

Posted Mar 22, 2005

Fresh
3.25/4

Fresh
95%

The Best of Youth (2005)

" Here's the way you want see the film -- the first two hours in your 20s, the middle two hours in your 40s, and the last two hours in your 60s."

Posted Mar 21, 2005

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
91%

Downfall (2005)

" We start with the human Hitler."

Posted Feb 25, 2005

Fresh
3.25/4

Fresh
91%

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

" There's something about boxing — a.k.a. the most barbaric sport on earth — that the camera loves."

Posted Feb 4, 2005

Fresh
3.5/4

N/A

One Shot (2004)

" A dark, intense exploration of what the assassin's job -- with its secret thrill and its psychological weight -- demands of the people who carry it out."

Posted Nov 23, 2004

Fresh
3.25/4

N/A

The Watershed (2004)

" It's an important window into one of the basic building blocks of American society -- the dysfunctional family."

Posted Nov 8, 2004

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
100%

Strong Shoulders (2004)

" Unlike an American, this Swiss girl is worried that her breasts are too big and her thighs are too small. And as for boys — well, she's mostly interested in outrunning them."

Posted Nov 5, 2004

Rotten
2/4

N/A

Grande Ecole (2004)

" At least it doesn't lack passion. It's just disappointing whenever the characters feel the need to put their clothes back on."

Posted Nov 3, 2004

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
87%

Lightning in a Bottle (2004)

" This concert, dressing up the blues in its funeral-home best for one last bash at Radio City, seems like a eulogy for this patrimonial art form. Why did it leave us so soon?"

Posted Oct 27, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
78%

Woman is the Future of Man (2006)

" Everyone ends up in bed. Given that, you'd expect this to be good, racy fun. Given its thinky title, you might at least expect it to be, in some way, profound. It is neither."

Posted Oct 20, 2004

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
77%

Or (My Treasure) (2005)

" Earnest and, for at least its first half, plotless."

Posted Oct 4, 2004

Fresh
4/4

Rotten
56%

Undertow (2004)

" After the opening credits alone, the two women next to me let out gasps of — what? Pain? Shock? Disbelief? Anger? Whatever it was, this was only the beginning."

Posted Oct 3, 2004

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
78%

Triple Agent (2005)

" I should share one helpful tip for staying awake through the whole two-hour exercise — sit in front of someone who snores. It worked for me."

Posted Oct 1, 2004

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
92%

Tarnation (2004)

" I didn't enjoy Tarnation, I didn't like it, I didn't particularly want to stay and watch it — but I respect it."

Posted Oct 1, 2004

Fresh
3.5/4

Rotten
21%

September Tapes (2004)

" It yanks us eyes-first into a place that we, in our living rooms, have known only as a cliché."

Posted Sep 24, 2004

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
45%

Particles of Truth (2003)

" Particles of Truth is a low-budget indie that first seems scattered and off-putting but in time reveals its writer-director's considerable ability and artistic sense."

Posted Sep 18, 2004

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
48%

Silver City (2004)

" Sayles has made many movies like this, and they've ranged from genius (Lone Star) to just average (City of Hope). Silver City falls in-between."

Posted Sep 17, 2004

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
33%

When Will I Be Loved (2004)

" Can't we at least pretend that we didn't get into the film business so we could meet beautiful actresses and desperate starlets? Guess not."

Posted Sep 15, 2004

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
34%

What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004)

" The 'Bleep' in What the Bleep Do We Know? stands for only one of the three words the film dares not say. The other two are 'Transcendental' and 'Meditation.'"

Posted Sep 8, 2004

Fresh
2.5/4

N/A

Terra Incognita (2002)

" Everything we see seems to spring from the idea of cleavages, and the film itself reflects that -- it's constructed from isolated scenes without flow."

Posted Sep 2, 2004

Rotten
0/4

Fresh
95%

Hero (2004)

" The truly jaw-dropping thing about Hero is how it instantaneously turns from 'Crouching Tiger II' to 'Honey I Shot the Dissidents.'"

Posted Aug 25, 2004

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
41%

High Tension (2005)

" I can't think of a better review of Haute Tension than the one given by the guy sitting behind me in the theater. I quote: 'HAHAHAHA! OH SH**! HAHA!'"

Posted Aug 24, 2004
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4/4

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