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Edward Crouse

Edward Crouse's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Baghead (2008) 79% 5/5 EDIT “” – Time Out Nov 18, 2011 Full Review The Ring (1998) 98% EDIT “Eschewing blood for a sinuous tone of Videodromic dread, Ring forces fear into every cut as a psychic telejournalist counts down the hours till a fatal visitation, while making a gung ho attempt to save her brood.” – Village Voice Sep 25, 2007 Full Review Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela (2004) 71% EDIT “The directors and subjects evince enough contagious ecstasy to gladden the most angst-ridden Western hearts.” – Village Voice Apr 12, 2005 Full Review The Red Orchestra (2005) 80% EDIT “Without becoming maudlin or confessional, talking-head testimonies by former Orchestra members and their children recount just how heroic the group's treasonous flyers, broadcasts to Russia, and meeting with U.S. agents really were.” – Village Voice Mar 3, 2005 Full Review Sexual Dependency (2003) 33% EDIT “No worse than a tinny artist's statement, but as moviemaking, it's brutally embarrassing, inexcusable.” – Village Voice Feb 22, 2005 Full Review Schultze Gets the Blues (2003) 74% EDIT “What hints at a wacky one-note polka -- staid, retired German miner and accordion hobbyist upends his life upon hearing zydeco -- ends up an intricate, becalmed take on a soul adrift.” – Village Voice Feb 15, 2005 Full Review Dogs in the Basement (2003) 88% EDIT “A likable, wrinkly taint of a movie.” – Village Voice Feb 8, 2005 Full Review Arakimentari (2004) 55% EDIT “Uncritical as the movie is, it's a pity no one's hip to the possibility that he's endlessly repeating his greatest work of the 1980s.” – Village Voice Jan 25, 2005 Full Review Santa Smokes (2002) 67% EDIT “Overall the acting is sound, the missteps few, and the murky digicam smash-and-grab sheen entirely apt for the cacophonous Christmas crush.” – Village Voice Dec 14, 2004 Full Review Straight-Jacket (2004) 45% EDIT “Offers up a super-queered, tinny 1950s, one that plays loose and preachy with the Passion of Rock Hudson.” – Village Voice Dec 7, 2004 Full Review Scumrock (2002) 60% EDIT “Gripping, strangely beautiful, and poignant.” – Village Voice Mar 16, 2004 Full Review Gloomy Sunday (2000) 84% EDIT “An apocryphal, pretty, and somewhat pat biography of the title ballad.” – Village Voice Nov 4, 2003 Full Review Suspended Animation (2002) 52% EDIT “Alternately tense and cheesy, Suspended Animation returns its director, John Hancock, to the blood-soaked turf he spaded 30 years ago with his ageless nail-biter Let's Scare Jessica to Death.” – Village Voice Oct 28, 2003 Full Review Washington Heights (2002) 79% EDIT “The DV tics (vertiginous pull-zooms, smeary focus) can't bury the movie's immense heart.” – Village Voice May 6, 2003 Full Review Reno: Rebel Without a Pause (2002) 80% EDIT “What seems like a nut-on-a- bar-stool rant morphs into a triumphal evocation of the emotional-political bluster of that time.” – Village Voice Apr 29, 2003 Full Review The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003) 50% EDIT “Nothing if not a scary surge of Indian nationalism.” – Village Voice Apr 15, 2003 Full Review Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) 80% EDIT “Aside from his CGI ghostcraft unwittingly co-opting Pat O'Neill's last feature, Cameron is entirely predictable in a marines T-shirt, exhorting, 'Next stop, Titanic -- rock 'n' roll!'” – Village Voice Apr 15, 2003 Full Review Levity (2003) 34% EDIT “Real levity is barely present.” – Village Voice Apr 1, 2003 Full Review Friday After Next (2002) 25% EDIT “A manically generous Christmas vaudeville.” – Village Voice Nov 19, 2002 Full Review Uzumaki (2000) 61% EDIT “Puts most American would-be chillers to shame.” – Village Voice Apr 30, 2002 Full Review Eternity and a Day (1998) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Overall, Angelopoulos' film gives the viewer a sense of the infinite ... even if its languid artiness occasionally lulls you to sleep.” – Reel.com Oct 30, 2001 Full Review All Over the Guy (2001) 43% EDIT “A painfully earnest case of generic romance spiced with queerness.” – Village Voice Aug 7, 2001 Full Review Kingdom Come (2001) 26% EDIT “Demands high tolerance for low comedy.” – Village Voice Apr 10, 2001 Full Review The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000) 91% EDIT “Melds cushy, humanist-to-the-bone politics with a captivating, if somewhat discordant, cast.” – Village Voice Mar 1, 2001 Full Review Saving Silverman (2001) 18% EDIT “Despite an early, zesty deluge of gags ... it soon settles down to an anxious man-a-thon.” – Village Voice Feb 14, 2001 Full Review
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