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Critics / Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner

    JULES BRENNER

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

    Biography: Movie reviews from the heart of Hollywood

    Publications: Cinema Signals, Filmcritic.com

    Total Reviews: 1311
    Total QuickRatings: 388

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    Rotten
    3/5

    Fresh
    90%

    The Messenger (2009)

    " This character piece may be for the arthouse, but the artistry has a gaping wound, large enough to allow credulity to seep out." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Nov 17, 2009

    Rotten
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    70%

    Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

    " The emotionality that is aspired to doesn't rise to the occasion and leaves you as deprived of dramatic nourishment as the poor boy who went to bed without his supper." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Nov 15, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    80%

    Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)

    " Now, when I see and hear the fan worship, I don't silently cringe. Never again. I nod my head in affirmation." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Nov 15, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    70%

    The Road (2009)

    " Despite the carps, a receptiveness to this material will pay off in tension and suspense, pushing you off The Road in a state of emotional exhaustion." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Nov 13, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Rotten
    59%

    Pirate Radio (2009)

    " Though it gets a bit stuffy belowdecks at times, the soundtrack, and the comedic package of oddball humanity that keeps its vibe going, remain buoyant." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Nov 9, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    67%

    Bruno (2009)

    " There are more consequences of his situations than there are laughs derived from them. Not everyone around here is a Howard Stern." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Nov 7, 2009

    Rotten
    3/5

    Rotten
    18%

    The Fourth Kind (2009)

    " Such originality as Osunsanmi's usually wins me over, but his artificial realism here leaves me cold--like taking a stroll on a Nome sidewalk, in winter, without a parka." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Nov 4, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    85%

    Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

    " There's much to be said for a movie that portrays as much imperfection as life itself and, clearly, Herzog and company have a ball in creating it for us." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Nov 3, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    N/A

    Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)

    " Would be nothing without the squishy sound track." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Oct 23, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Rotten
    45%

    Turning Green (2009)

    " It's clear that Mr. Hutton enjoyed every minute of doing gruff, gross thugishness and boorish simplicity." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Oct 20, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    98%

    Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)

    " Two musical wannabes in a perpetual reach for the brass ring. But where it will lead remains unanswered by anything more than what they've always had in great quantity. Hope." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Oct 16, 2009

    Rotten
    3/5

    N/A

    Buddenbrooks (2008)

    " Isn't likely to achieve a widening of American interest in German cinema any more than it realizes its literary pedigree." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Oct 2, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    93%

    The Damned United (2009)

    " A sports bad boy - well acted and photographed. I'll give it that." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 30, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    39%

    Surrogates (2009)

    " This play between the plastic and the organic asks if perfect safety is worth sitting in the womb of virtual reality for the rest of your life." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 28, 2009

    Rotten
    3/5

    Fresh
    86%

    A Serious Man (2009)

    " The bemusements of family turmoil, ambition in academia, three rabbis and one lawyer, and the universality of self-absorption demonstrate that the Coen's love of satire is intact, but with a guy to whom you're too unattached for a warm hug." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 23, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    90%

    Iron Monkey (1993)

    " Woo-ping is as unembarrassed by the hokiness of his narrative as he is by that of his unending combat enactments, which you can accept as intentional stylistic exaggerations." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 22, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    50%

    Observe and Report (2009)

    " If this were an audition reel and I was the head of a studio I'd call security to make sure this guy Seth Rogen and his writer-director Jody Hill never got near enough to my office to cast a shadow on it." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 22, 2009

    Rotten
    3/5

    Fresh
    83%

    Bright Star (2009)

    " Whatever else it is--a romantic biopic without compromise--it is also, and for me, mostly, a celebration of the huge talent that is Abbie Cornish." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 19, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    76%

    The Informant! (2009)

    " The lighter side of an unstable participant throwing a monkey wrench into the illicit gears of corporate power. It's a just-right tone that matches Damon's pitch-perfect one." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 18, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    N/A

    Zatoichi (2003)

    " Three-frame cuts of the action from multiple camera angles, hose-spurted blood and superimposed wounds do what they can in their primitive way to get you past the problem of improbability." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 17, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    94%

    In Search Of Beethoven (2009)

    " Reminds us that the person who wrote the Fifth and Ninth Symphonies wasn't residing on a plane somewhere beyond our gravity field." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 16, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    6%

    Whiteout (2009)

    " The mystery grows thick while the ice on which the story elements struggle to survive melts away." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Sep 11, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    64%

    Off Jackson Avenue (2009)

    " Count me in for this filmmaker's next offering. I detect a burgeoning talent here." — Filmcritic.com

    Posted Aug 31, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    88%

    Inglourious Basterds (2009)

    " Satire and sanctimony -- Tarantino rules." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Aug 24, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    N/A

    American Son (2009)

    " Meticulously crafted, low-budget, excellently performed character piece that resonates with integrity as it shows us one more example of what an American son looks like." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Aug 21, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    67%

    Young & Restless In China (2008)

    " We see a lot of ambition and cell phone connectivity, but little style or drama to set this apart as a superior documentary" — Filmcritic.com

    Posted Aug 19, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    90%

    District 9 (2009)

    " A superb realization of satire, irony, humor and the horrific, with a kick in the guts to human nature and the technical challenges of sci-fi action and destruction." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Aug 19, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    67%

    Public Enemies (2009)

    " The popular reaction to what the defiant anti-hero came to represent in depression-era America made it almost criminal to call him one." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Aug 19, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    38%

    The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

    " I can be patient with a little romantic squishiness after such an engagingly written bounce around time with these two." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Aug 13, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    12%

    The Tiger's Tail (2006)

    " Amateurish technical contrivance isn't this awkward, retro failure's only deficiency." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Aug 6, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    55%

    The Soloist (2009)

    " Fine as a series of columns in the Los Angeles Times but a misfit as a movie." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 29, 2009

    Rotten
    3/5

    Fresh
    87%

    500 Days of Summer (2009)

    " I feel for Tom, I commiserate with him for his tragedy but, for me, 300 days of Summer would have been more than sufficient." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 24, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    26%

    Shrink (2009)

    " A tart drama that probes and exposes shadowy entrails of the glamor capital but illuminating depth is not its most therapeutic effect." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 23, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    N/A

    Stock Shock (2009)

    " If this film doesn't affect your approach to the market, can I interest you in a really promising gold mining stock?" — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 22, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    33%

    Knowing (2009)

    " Excessive finale aside, its novel concept makes for a mental and action package worth seeing." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 22, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    64%

    Watchmen (2009)

    " On balance I have to come down on the side of the fanboy demographic. "Watchmen" goes to the positive side of the critical scales." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 21, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    83%

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

    " The heavy transitional content does no harm to the popularity of the series, the essentials of which are the enduring emotional attachments to the book and the visual elegance of what's seen on screen." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 20, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    0%

    Echelon Conspiracy (2009)

    " When the only elements that could be called professional are the photography and the poster art, you can consider this a movie only the producer's mother could love." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 15, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    28%

    12 Rounds (2009)

    " A very satisfying and well made action thriller that could only be improved if Arnold Schwarzenegger was the star." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 9, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    N/A

    The Betrayed (2008)

    " The clashes of mind and motivation are stressful enough that the only space we occupy for around 90 minutes doesn't seem confining--and that is an achievement worth seeing." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 9, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    76%

    Shall We Kiss? (2008)

    " Charming, but too contrived for a great turn on" — Filmcritic.com

    Posted Jul 8, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    98%

    The Hurt Locker (2009)

    " A memorable, must-see movie mission to experience, with enough sticks of dynamite and blocks of C-4 to shatter your equanimity. I can promise that you'll come out of it shaken, but alive." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 3, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    19%

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

    " Director Michael Bay sure knows something the rest of us above the age of 19 don't." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jul 1, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    89%

    Moon (2009)

    " Astutely imagined as a futuristic thriller with formidable impact--a dark and well thought out moonscape in what we may hope is pure fantasy." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jun 22, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Rotten
    23%

    Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

    " Doesn't operate on a level of logic, being the fantasy that it is, but the enthusiasm of its star and the color dynamics of its lush parade of fashion makes it a solid must see for the teenage girl crowd." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jun 19, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    79%

    Miracle (2004)

    " This isn't anyone's finest hour." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jun 18, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    43%

    The Proposal (2009)

    " With Ms. Bullock playing a lady only a polar bear could warm up to and Ryan Reynolds' exquisite balancing of the dynamics of the situation, this romantic comedy finds a sweet comfort level." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jun 16, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    80%

    Ballerina (2008)

    " Behind-the-curtains has never been more ravishing nor more rewarding" — Filmcritic.com

    Posted Jun 16, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    63%

    The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

    " I don't want to just take their word for it! Show me what was so special about this guy's game!!" — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Rotten
    3/5

    Rotten
    25%

    Nobel Son (2008)

    " Rickman's a professorial womanizer who's not above turning a "C" student's grade to "A" if she looks like City Hall (Eliza Dushku) and puts out." — Cinema Signals

    Posted Jun 11, 2009
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