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JOSH BELL

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography: Josh Bell has been a film and TV critic for Las Vegas Weekly since 2002.

Favorites: Heathers, Fight Club, South Park, Clerks, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Craft, Scream, The Big Lebowski, Bound, Wild Things, Almost Famous, Batman (Tim Burton-style), Rosemary's Baby, The Birds, Manhattan, Bring It On, Gattaca, Carrie, Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Breathless, Lone Star, La Femme Nikita, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Heat, To Die For, Interview With the Vampire, Hannah and Her Sisters, Rear Window, The Silence of the Lambs, Quick Change, Clueless, Chasing Amy, The Conversation, Out of Sight, Misery, Annie Hall, Before Sunset, North by Northwest, Face/Off, The Last Picture Show, The Truman Show, The Matrix, Three Kings, Halloween, Memento, The Fly, About Schmidt, Wayne's World

Publications: Las Vegas Weekly

Critics' Group: Las Vegas Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 690
Total QuickRatings: 13

Location: Las Vegas

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Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 82%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" Princess will play fine for its intended young-girl audience, but mere competence isn't enough to declare this a return to form." Posted Dec 9, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 88%	Red Cliff (2009)	" One of the most exhilarating action movies of the year." Posted Dec 9, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 46%	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" Sanitized and colorless." Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 31%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" *You certainly can't accuse Ninja Assassin* of not living up to its title, but the filmmakers clearly never thought beyond that point.**" Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Fans will quiver and sigh; everyone else will shrug, and move on." Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 71%	The Blind Side (2009)	" Some true stories, however pleasant, just don't make for interesting movies." Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 60%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" You'll probably leave with a smile on your face, even if you've forgotten everything except that nice feeling by the next day." Posted Nov 11, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" It's an exhausting, clumsy mess, and its moments of excitement are eventually toppled by the unstoppable tsunami of cheese." Posted Nov 11, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" Were this movie actually what it says it is, it'd be a reprehensible piece of exploitation; instead it's just another lame thriller with a few cheap scares." Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" The whole enterprise is just so empty and pointless, a bunch of bland technical wizardry that will be dated in five years." Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 80%	Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)	" These are great songs. This movie, perhaps, is not the best way to remember them." Posted Oct 28, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" While the characters and situations are typically exaggerated and grotesque, they're also somehow more human than anything the Coens have created in quite some time." Posted Oct 21, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 72%	The Boys Are Back (2009)	" Might just put you off ever having children, if you don't already." Posted Oct 15, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 32%	The Burning Plain (2009)	" Arriaga just sets his cast on mope, with nary a smile present, and the actors slog through the misery as best they can." Posted Oct 7, 2009
Rotten 0/5	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" Has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and makes extra effort to insult its audience whenever possible." Posted Oct 7, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 82%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" *Despite its unconventional approach, Activity* is at heart another haunted-house movie, albeit one that takes the time to think about the true nature of haunting.**" Posted Oct 7, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 82%	Whip It (2009)	" *For a film about a sport that involves lots of pushing, elbowing and bruising, Whip It* is just too overwhelmingly nice.**" Posted Oct 1, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" Uses the undead the way a similarly glib, flashy comedy might use cheerleading or football -- as pure window dressing." Posted Sep 30, 2009
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Thor at the Bus Stop (2009)	" An auspicious start to what will hopefully be a long career in feature filmmaking for the Thompsons." Posted Sep 23, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 75%	Cold Souls (2009)	" Barthes gets bogged down in existentialism in the movie's final third, but until then she engages in some fun absurdist humor, anchored by a strong performance from Giamatti." Posted Sep 23, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 84%	The September Issue (2009)	" *Cutler takes an often riveting nuts-and-bolts look at what goes into creating the Vogue* September issue, and it's a shame that he isn't more focused on the procedural.**" Posted Sep 23, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 86%	Lorna's Silence (2009)	" Offers powerful emotional impact at unexpected moments." Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" Cody's labored quips fall flat coming from these actors and in this context, and her script is maddeningly short on suspense or excitement." Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 57%	9 (2009)	" Acker's originality pretty much ends at his visuals." Posted Sep 10, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 63%	Extract (2009)	" The dialogue is limp, the jokes are stale, and the set pieces rarely pay off." Posted Sep 3, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 47%	The Girl From Monaco (2009)	" Fontaine can't seem to decide whether she's making a dry sex farce or a slow-burn thriller, and the movie never really commits to either." Posted Sep 3, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 95%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" While Bahrani once again shines a light on a fascinating corner of the American experience, he does so while telling a disappointingly contrived story." Posted Aug 27, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 54%	The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)	" A laughably manipulative melodrama." Posted Aug 20, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 9%	Post Grad (2009)	" The uncertainty of post-college life is a potential gold mine of interesting material, and this movie avoids nearly all of it." Posted Aug 20, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 88%	Nights and Weekends (2008)	" Feels entirely true and real." Posted Aug 13, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 26%	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)	" Despite a cast stocked with comedy ringers, everyone flails about aimlessly, as if trying to get through the experience as quickly and painlessly as possible." Posted Aug 13, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 58%	A Perfect Getaway (2009)	" Although it's a mediocre thriller at best, it has a certain pulp charm and appealing toughness to it." Posted Aug 7, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 75%	Julie & Julia (2009)	" It's not enough to sustain a film that runs over two hours, but it does at least make it pleasant to sit through much of the time." Posted Aug 7, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 78%	Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009)	" So enamored of its subject, legendary Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani, that it almost loses sight of explaining why he's so great in the first place." Posted Jul 30, 2009
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Ghost Month (2009)	" Slow and plodding rather than atmospheric, with very few scares." Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" It sets up some high stakes for the big finish, but on its own still feels like it's just getting started by the time the credits roll." Posted Jul 15, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 91%	Every Little Step (2009)	" A straightforward boosterish movie about the glory of musicals." Posted Jul 9, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 20%	Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)	" The action is repetitive and unoriginal, but it at least offers a respite from the horrible writing and acting." Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 98%	Food, Inc. (2009)	" At least Kenner's doing more than simply complaining to the converted." Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" It's a film whose execution often fails to live up to its ambitions, but like all of Mann's films, it has a level of seriousness and craftsmanship that demands your attention." Posted Jun 30, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" It's Mendes' slightest, most inconsequential movie yet, but that's exactly what's so nice about it." Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 20%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" *The only part of Fallen* more boring than when things are exploding is when things aren't exploding.**" Posted Jun 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 43%	The Proposal (2009)	" Oh Sandra Bullock, why do you do this to yourself?" Posted Jun 18, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 100%	The Square (2009)	" A remarkable piece of thriller craftsmanship." Posted Jun 16, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 86%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" Has a refreshing honesty about the messiness of break-ups." Posted Jun 16, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 75%	Humpday (2009)	" It's funny and sweet and curious about the nature of dude friendship, although Shelton, like her characters, equivocates a little too much about the eventual outcome." Posted Jun 16, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 85%	World's Greatest Dad (2009)	" The movie takes a little longer than necessary arriving at the inevitable, somewhat hokey ending, but it's pretty funny along the way." Posted Jun 16, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 51%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" Scott does his best to turn this back-and-forth into an action movie, but it does more to distract from the simple, economical story than enhance it." Posted Jun 11, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 25%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" Tonally inconsistent, incoherently plotted and almost never funny." Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 78%	The Hangover (2009)	" Cooper, Helms and especially Galifianakis find the right tone to give Phillips' Vegas dream world a funny, slightly dangerous appeal." Posted Jun 4, 2009

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