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Jesse Paddock

Jesse Paddock's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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culturevulture.net film reviewer

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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) 88% EDIT “Taken together, If a Tree Falls and Better This World tell a sad story of the marginalization of the activist left in America.” – House Next Door Apr 27, 2011 Full Review Tropical Malady (2004) 80% EDIT “A weird, gorgeous and disorienting act of exploration” – culturevulture.net Dec 23, 2005 Full Review Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004) 94% EDIT “Brown weaves together audio footage and taped interviews that show a man whose proximity to death had calcified into a sharp blade of self-deprecating wit.” – culturevulture.net Dec 17, 2005 Full Review Breakfast on Pluto (2005) 58% EDIT “So horribly misconceived and shoddily structured that its good intentions are worn out in the first twenty minutes” – culturevulture.net Dec 1, 2005 Full Review Everything Is Illuminated (2005) 65% EDIT “Severely hampered by a screenplay that waters down much of the book's power, but the blow isn't lethal” – culturevulture.net Oct 25, 2005 Full Review The Squid and the Whale (2005) 91% EDIT “Wickedly funny, there's still a recognizable warmth, a sense of familiarity, in Baumbach's writing.” – culturevulture.net Oct 6, 2005 Full Review Oliver Twist (2005) 61% EDIT “'Oliver Twist' proves what 'The Pianist' only hinted at-that Roman Polanski is the world's most talented paint-by-numbers artist.” – culturevulture.net Oct 1, 2005 Full Review Hustle & Flow (2005) 83% EDIT “Gets so much of the rhythms and feel of the Dirty South right, it can be forgiven for its occasional missteps.” – culturevulture.net Jul 21, 2005 Full Review Wedding Crashers (2005) 75% EDIT “Wilson and Vaughn are generous comedians; they love more than anything injecting disarming affection into their comedy.” – culturevulture.net Jul 14, 2005 Full Review War of the Worlds (2005) 76% EDIT “Spectacle filmmaking of the highest order.” – culturevulture.net Jun 28, 2005 Full Review Bad Guy (2001) 45% EDIT “The plotting keeps getting away from Kim as the story progresses.” – culturevulture.net Jun 22, 2005 Full Review Spiritual Voices (1995) EDIT “Never manages to portray its quotidian aspects as meaningfully as its director intends” – culturevulture.net Jun 18, 2005 Full Review Confession (1998) EDIT “Intriguing, poetic, minimal and occasionally dull” – culturevulture.net May 7, 2005 Full Review Bob Dylan World Tours 1966-1974 - Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein (1966) EDIT “Unfortunately for Dylanologists, Gilbert is more interested in his own story than the man whose photographs he seeks out.” – culturevulture.net Apr 26, 2005 Full Review In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) 69% EDIT “Director Jessica Yu makes the case that it's tough to know much about Darger with certainty.” – culturevulture.net Mar 21, 2005 Full Review Gunga Din (1939) 89% EDIT “If PC backlash makes such classics like Gunga Din difficult to revisit, so be it. At this point, there's no getting around it.” – culturevulture.net Mar 7, 2005 Full Review The Jacket (2005) 44% EDIT “The two actors generate a decent chemistry together and manage to give this cobbled-together stinker whatever tiny shred of credibility it possesses as a romance.” – culturevulture.net Mar 3, 2005 Full Review Lenny Bruce Without Tears (1975) EDIT “Baker's portrayal reveals a brilliant social critic and waggish storyteller.” – culturevulture.net Feb 17, 2005 Full Review Bright Leaves (2003) 85% EDIT “McElwee's examination of tobacco culture shows concern but not condescension.” – City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Jan 14, 2005 Full Review In Good Company (2004) 83% EDIT “Weitz continues to make smart, funny movies that parse out the neuroses of the male species.” – culturevulture.net Dec 28, 2004 Full Review The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) 57% EDIT “It's sad to see the filmmaker himself sinking under the weight of his own ambition.” – culturevulture.net Dec 14, 2004 Full Review Little Lili (2003) 65% EDIT “Centers on a small family of wealthy, prominent celebrities, whose indulgent infighting feels forced and predictable” – culturevulture.net Nov 14, 2004 Full Review Tarnation (2003) 93% EDIT “One of the most powerful examples of film as self-healing, 'Tarnation' astonishes both as art and as testament.” – culturevulture.net Nov 9, 2004 Full Review Vera Drake (2004) 93% EDIT “A piercing study...gritty, humane.” – culturevulture.net Nov 8, 2004 Full Review I Heart Huckabees (2004) 63% EDIT “Careful, intelligent writing that is formally arresting, provocative and still wickedly funny.” – culturevulture.net Oct 1, 2004 Full Review
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