ROTTEN TOMATOES: Bryant Frazer

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BRYANT FRAZER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Biography: Bryant took film classes at the University of Colorado while neglecting his journalism studies. He moved to New York to be closer to the publishing industry and real repertory cinema. When he's not spouting off about movies on the Web, he's on the tech beat as executive editor of the trade rag Film & Video.

Publications: Apollo Guide, Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus, Film Freak Central, White Plains Times

Critics' Group: Cinemarati

Total Reviews: 611
Total QuickRatings: 45

Location: Sleepy Hollow, NY

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Fresh B+	Fresh 85%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" Nicolas Cage, a born Hollywood skin-walker, somehow hints at a spiritual dimension to all this lunatic mayhem." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" Fantastic Mr. Fox isn't exactly a kids' movie. It's just kid-friendly." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 38%	2012 (2009)	" 2012 is the expensive, large-scale version of the same spectacle presented by downmarket counterparts like the Final Destination and Saw franchises." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 16, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 49%	Antichrist (2009)	" *For this kind of Satan-in-the-woods scenario, Von Trier is doing a little too much Scenes From a Marriage* and not quite enough The Evil Dead.*" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus* Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 63%	Hardware (1990)	" They say all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. But if you've got a girl and a killer robot, then you're really onto something." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 14, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 100%	Playtime (1967)	" Tati is constantly fiddling with his images, constructing sets and placing his camera in exactly the right place to execute a visual transformation of space." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 26, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" *It's a violent wish-fulfillment fantasy, and if such a thing is necessarily immoral, then Inglourious Basterds* is immoral. But it's also -- necessarily -- a provocation.*" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus* Posted Aug 26, 2009
Rotten C+	Fresh 68%	Grace (2009)	" Grimaces its way through 85 long, low-key minutes just to marvel again and again that, gosh, mommies really love their babies." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Aug 13, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 85%	Flame & Citron (2008)	" Despite the panache, Flame & Citron maintains a generally dour sensibility." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 30, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 10%	Ghosted (2009)	" A blandly romantic drama with just the whiff of the otherworldly about it." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 55%	Orphan (2009)	" Its many outright depictions of children in jeopardy are scary, but its marital drama is even more unsettling." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 27, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 95%	In the Loop (2009)	" Unfailingly witty in its speculation that international aggression isn't driven by mania as much as facilitated by banality." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 25, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 86%	Tony Manero (2009)	" Perhaps best appreciated as a deadpan dark comedy about how ignorance, delusion, and selfishness can conspire to keep a people under the bootheels of a dictatorship." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 67%	Public Enemies (2009)	" This romance is a real romance; these clich�s are good clich�s. The result is a conflicting and haunting experience." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 2, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 21%	Passengers (2008)	" Fly me away, please, from this condescending supernatural twaddle." — Film Freak Central DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 1, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 55%	Surveillance (2009)	" *Falls somewhere in between the somewhat tongue-in-cheek tone of Wild at Heart and the more au courant* trend toward savage, nihilistic deranged-killer movies.*" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus* Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 98%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" An affectionate but ambiguous tribute to the career soldier that's free of condescension, cynicism, or jingoism." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jul 1, 2009
Rotten C+	N/A	Riptide (1934)	" Gets wrapped up ever-tighter around one very small idea — the notion that a marriage requires much honesty and patience in order to work." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jun 11, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 98%	Up (2009)	" Both a breezy children's adventure yarn and a serious consideration of love, death, and lives left behind." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 29, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 61%	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)	" Less a sexy confection than a sly satire on capitalism. Or, more specifically, a satire on capitalists during a recession" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 27, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 94%	Summer Hours (2009)	" A perfectly, magnificently sad film that dwells on the ravages of time while simultaneously celebrating rebirth." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" Faced with the task of acclimating new audiences to this venerably corny space opera, J.J. Abrams simultaneously executes a franchise reboot and nostalgia play." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten D	N/A	The Sign of the Cross (1932)	" The film's generous helpings of sex and violence are overwhelmed by its general air of condescension and phony piety." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 3, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 94%	Revanche (2009)	" Spielmann urges his actors in the direction of emotional credibility by way of impressively, intently physical performances." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted May 3, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 50%	Observe and Report (2009)	" *Imagine Taxi Driver* or The King of Comedy if everyone in sight had been written and performed as a maladjusted loser.*" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus* Posted Apr 12, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 34%	The Edge of Love (2009)	" Notably only for a first act that credibly depicts a four-way relationship among friends and lovers without tilting embarrassingly toward titillation and/or soap opera." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 19, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 90%	Hunger (2008)	" So effectively depicts a special kind of hell that it makes you root for those poor sons-of-bitches in the prison regardless of what they may have done to earn their place there." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 19, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 41%	The Last House on the Left (2009)	" The requisite studio-movie gloss reduces the gritty, documentary-style efficiency of the original." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 18, 2009
Rotten C+	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" I spent most of the movie scorning Snyder's reverence to the original, then spent the last half-hour resenting him for changing my favorite part." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 16, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 72%	Sunshine Cleaning (2009)	" Rose is unhappy, delusional, and not entirely virtuous, but Amy Adams makes it easy to invest in the idea of her happy ending." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Mar 12, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 88%	Coraline (2009)	" Doesn't pander to the audience by gratuitiously accenting the heeby-jeebies." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 12, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 25%	Friday the 13th (2009)	" Most of the space between sex scenes and bloody murders is padded, condescendingly, with 110-decibel phony shock effects." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 12, 2009
Rotten C-	N/A	Virgin Witch (1972)	" Half of the film plays as a surprisingly straightforward nudie picture, the other half as a somewhat ambitious psychological horror movie." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 4, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 79%	Gran Torino (2008)	" The genius of Clint Eastwood is evident in the fact that nobody else could get away with this." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Feb 4, 2009
Fresh B+	N/A	Angelique, Marquise des Anges (1964)	" By contemporary standards, this is hilarious stuff -- yet somehow it's still stirring, swooning through its melodramatic paces with the speed and heft of the proverbial greased pig." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 19, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 55%	My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)	" This lowest-common-denominator remake of/sequel to a minor slasher classic succeeds on purely technical terms but, despite the depth effects, it's a serious snooze." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 18, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 71%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" Coming out of the theater, not only are you three hours older than you were when you went in, but you get the sense that your too-human flesh is also that much closer to obsolete." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Jan 15, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 93%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" *Engineered to go down easy, Slumdog Millionaire* is occasionally chilling and frequently delightful in its artifice.*" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus* Posted Dec 20, 2008
Fresh B+	Fresh 87%	Timecrimes (2008)	" A grimly funny sci-fi determinist's challenge to the very idea of free will." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Dec 11, 2008
Fresh B-	Fresh 64%	Quantum of Solace (2008)	" Daniel Craig's James Bond is already expected to shoulder the karmic burden of more than four full decades of PG-13 callousness." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 17, 2008
Fresh B	Rotten 59%	Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)	" Clever costuming and production design set off an intriguingly off-kilter vision of a tiny western town in a "Nevada" out in the Japanese desert." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Nov 10, 2008
Fresh A	Fresh 98%	Let the Right One In (2008)	" Brings the pain in genre fashion. But it's also a kind of Scandinavian gothic -- a love story between 12-year-olds, one of whom has been 12 for a very long time." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 30, 2008
Fresh B	Fresh 67%	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	" This film never sings, exactly, but it moves, and it does so bearing a great sadness." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 28, 2008
Fresh B+	Fresh 88%	Almost Famous (2000)	Click here to read article — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh B+	Fresh 86%	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	" There's a real joy there -- genuine feelings of warmth that the cinema rarely manages to convey with such unalloyed sincerity." — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Posted Oct 2, 2008
Fresh B-	Fresh 60%	Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)	" Can be recommended more enthusiastically than most bargain-basement genre exercises." — Film Freak Central Posted Sep 25, 2008
Rotten C-	Rotten 28%	Eagle Eye (2008)	" *As an election-year riff on current events, it's moderately clever, even though it has no nerve whatsoever. (Last year's Shooter* had more guts.)*" — Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus* Posted Sep 25, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 35%	Vantage Point (2008)	" It's most interesting as a one-gimmick film--which is to say that it's not very interesting at all." — Film Freak Central DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 21, 2008
Fresh B-	Fresh 65%	Felon (2008)	" Felon is compulsively watchable, largely because of its entertainingly big performances." — Film Freak Central DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 21, 2008
Rotten C+	Rotten 22%	P.S. I Love You (2007)	" *Inasmuch as P.S. I Love You* works, it works as metaphor--it's about honouring the dead by living well.*" — Film Freak Central* DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 21, 2008

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