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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Arthur Lazere, Bilge Ebiri, Dan Jardine, Gerald Peary, Mark Pfeiffer.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Hummingbird Project (2018) Ed Symkus The film has a great story and some fine people telling it. Too bad, then, that more consideration wasn't given to how end it. Rather than concluding with up or down, or success or failure, it just sort of peters out.
Posted Mar 18, 2019  Edit critic review
C+
For Your Consideration (2006) Rick Curnutte Where For Your Consideration fails the most is in its rather juvenile interpretation of how the entire awards season functions...there was a great film to be made here.
Posted Dec 25, 2006  Edit critic review
A
Rocky Balboa (2006) Rick Curnutte [Stallone] is channeling all the animal and primal method instincts of the late Marlon Brando, and it's exciting to behold the aging actor rediscovering the innate power of his acting prowess.
Posted Dec 25, 2006  Edit critic review
A+
The Departed (2006) Rick Curnutte It's the culmination of a lifelong examination of men and their violent ways...The Departed is, in my estimation, possibly the finest film Scorsese has ever made.
Posted Nov 08, 2006  Edit critic review
A
Capote (2005) Rick Curnutte Capote is a taut, elegant work of cinematic expression...a major work.
Posted Mar 21, 2006  Edit critic review
D+
The Pink Panther (2006) Rick Curnutte Steve Martin...isn't quite up to the task...Shawn Levy...lacks the ability to reign in the broadness of the material, and the film suffers because of it.
Posted Feb 10, 2006  Edit critic review
A
Bubble (2005) Rick Curnutte ...an astonishingly unnerving piece of humanist cinema.
Posted Feb 06, 2006  Edit critic review
A-
Hostel (2005) Rick Curnutte ...Roth has crafted a supremely political film, one that lambasts the jocular xenophobia of the typical American...
Posted Jan 23, 2006  Edit critic review
B
The Land of College Prophets (2005) Rick Curnutte The Land of College Prophets could easily become the first genuine cult hit of the DV era.
Posted Jan 18, 2006  Edit critic review
4/5
La Notte di San Lorenzo (Night of the Shooting Stars) (The Night of San Lorenzo) (1982) Rick Curnutte
Posted Dec 15, 2005  Edit critic review
3/5
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) Rick Curnutte
Posted Dec 15, 2005  Edit critic review
5/5
Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Rick Curnutte
Posted Dec 15, 2005  Edit critic review
A+
Brokeback Mountain (2005) Rick Curnutte Brokeback Mountain is a grand, romantic, staggeringly great epic...the best film of the year.
Posted Dec 15, 2005  Edit critic review
A-
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) Mark Pfeiffer Good Night, and Good Luck. is a riveting newsroom entertainment that beckons [Murrow's] successors to follow his lead.
Posted Dec 09, 2005  Edit critic review
A
Walk the Line (2005) Rick Curnutte Walk the Line is a powerful piece of work, a modern-day Rebel Without a Cause...a potent bit of filmmaking
Posted Dec 03, 2005  Edit critic review
C-
Broken Flowers (2005) Rick Curnutte Though bits of this plodding film work pretty well...Broken Flowers is a mixed bag of vignettes.
Posted Dec 03, 2005  Edit critic review
B
Doom (2005) Rick Curnutte For my money, Doom is the best of the video game adaptations (quite possibly the weakest status label I've ever given a film).
Posted Oct 27, 2005  Edit critic review
C-
Red Eye (2005) Rick Curnutte Once Red Eye leaves the confines of the plane cabin and attempts to open up into a more standard thriller, it loses steam...and intrigue
Posted Aug 29, 2005  Edit critic review
A+
Tropical Malady (2004) Rick Curnutte [a]haunting masterpiece...He [Weerasethakul] is one of the most expressive, important contemporary; his abilities as a master formalist are a large reason for this.
Posted Jul 19, 2005  Edit critic review
D
Hostage (2005) Rick Curnutte ...the whole thing creeps toward the end under the weight of an overbearing narrative.
Posted Jul 19, 2005  Edit critic review
D+
Cursed (2005) Rick Curnutte Cursed, somehow, manages to not be scary, not be funny and not be involving, all of which Craven & Co. are so painfully reaching to attain.
Posted Jul 19, 2005  Edit critic review
A
Maborosi (1995) Mark Pfeiffer [Hirokazu's] also one of the most empathetic filmmakers, softly guiding viewers through his meditations on life and death.
Posted Jul 16, 2005  Edit critic review
D-
Fantastic Four (2005) Rick Curnutte This new adaptation is sorely lacking in nearly everything that made FF such a blast. It's poorly acted, written and directed.
Posted Jul 11, 2005  Edit critic review
A
Land of the Dead (2005) Rick Curnutte Land of the Dead is probably the best-directed film in Romero's canon. It is a stunningly crafted genre work, a film of potent political import.
Posted Jul 11, 2005  Edit critic review
C-
Dark Water (2005) Rick Curnutte Salles' Dark Water abandoned what was an intriguing dramatic narrative and wasted it on what seemed like four climaxes, none of them in service of what came before.
Posted Jul 11, 2005  Edit critic review
A
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) Rick Curnutte Jack and Rose bears a haunting economy of style that appears as near-minimalist...Miller realizes her own screenplay with a stunning lack of self-consciousness.
Posted Jun 17, 2005  Edit critic review
C
Switchblade Romance (2003) Rick Curnutte Haute Tension is the epitome of manufactured terror...succeeds greatly in its first two-thirds, but the contrived, implausible climax leaves much to be desired.
Posted Jun 17, 2005  Edit critic review
C
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005) Rick Curnutte It's essentially a retread of the Spy Kids films...I'd love to see [Rodriguez] invest the...passion he displayed in Sin City into one of these children's films.
Posted Jun 17, 2005  Edit critic review
A
Murder-Set-Pieces (2004) Rick Curnutte Murder-Set-Pieces is a truly pure cinematic expression of violent sexual rage...perhaps the greatest serial killer film ever made
Posted May 25, 2005  Edit critic review
B
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) Rick Curnutte This update, muscular and surprising, captures Carpenter's spirit, if not his pared-down, Hawksian formalism.
Posted May 17, 2005  Edit critic review
F
Alone in the Dark (2005) Rick Curnutte It's tepid cinema, truncated, abbreviated...The worst film of the year.
Posted May 17, 2005  Edit critic review
A
Unleashed (2005) Rick Curnutte Unleashed...is...a rich cinematic experience...A brutal, yet thoughtful, action picture.
Posted May 16, 2005  Edit critic review
F
House of Wax (2005) Rick Curnutte House of Wax is no mere failed attempt on cashing in on a recognizable name...it's...the complete and utter bastardization of a great genre work
Posted May 12, 2005  Edit critic review
D
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) Rick Curnutte Ridley Scott has concocted his most sloppy film to date, a cringe-worthy epic of the Crusades that says absolutely nothing about the Crusades.
Posted May 06, 2005  Edit critic review
A+
F for Fake (1973) Rick Curnutte This will surely be the DVD release of the year. Criterion has finally brought to DVD a wonderful transfer of Orson Welles' most playfully masterful film...
Posted May 03, 2005  Edit critic review
B+
Kung Fu Hustle (2004) Rick Curnutte Equal parts Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, Bubsy Berkeley and Bruce Lee, Kung Fu Hustle tows every line perfectly.
Posted May 03, 2005  Edit critic review
D
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Rick Curnutte mannered, forced and inconsistent...uninspired...a narrative and thematic mess, thrown together, lacking any authorial focus.
Posted May 03, 2005  Edit critic review
B+
Sin City (2005) Rick Curnutte Sin City marks a substantial leap forward in Rodriguez's film craft...[Rodriguez's vision is] fiercely committed.
Posted Apr 07, 2005  Edit critic review
5/5
The Man in the Moon (1991) Mark Pfeiffer Mulligan uses a delicate touch in revealing the confusion in growing up and the loss in discovering that the world isn't as simple or perfect as children believe it to be.
Posted Mar 31, 2005  Edit critic review
B-
Hitch (2005) Rick Curnutte Perhaps the warmest surprise of the year so far is Andy Tennant's smart, big-hearted romantic comedy
Posted Mar 18, 2005  Edit critic review
B+
Constantine (2005) Rick Curnutte Constantine is...kinky, funny and fresh...a true Gothic action spectacular...
Posted Feb 19, 2005  Edit critic review
C-
Sideways (2004) Rick Curnutte ...suffers from Alexander Payne's recurring broad brushstrokes...reductive, anti-intellectual...
Posted Dec 20, 2004  Edit critic review
D
Spanglish (2004) Rick Curnutte ...a sloppy, near-disaster of a picture, in which confusion and tedium are present in nearly every frame.
Posted Dec 20, 2004  Edit critic review
D+
Kinsey (2004) Rick Curnutte ...has absolutely no cinematic spark or vision for framing the implications of what Dr. Kinsey accomplished.
Posted Dec 20, 2004  Edit critic review
A
Closer (2004) Rick Curnutte Closer is Mike Nichols' finest film since Carnal Knowledge...a masterpiece.
Posted Dec 14, 2004  Edit critic review
King Creole (1958) Gerald Peary It's Presley's Danny Fisher in King Creole who is a full-fledged, contradictory human being.
Posted Nov 29, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Ray (2004) Rick Curnutte Taylor Hackford's affecting Ray manages to sidestep nearly all [biopic] roadblocks...Here, against all expectations, he's delivered a gold standard...artist biopic.
Posted Nov 18, 2004  Edit critic review
A
New Guy (2003) Rick Curnutte New Guy is fresh, witty and concise...and marks the arrival of a major new filmmaker.
Posted Nov 12, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
Gozu (2003) Rick Curnutte Gozu is entertaining and lively, but it lacks the focus of earlier Miike masterpieces...
Posted Nov 01, 2004  Edit critic review
C-
The Machinist (2004) Rick Curnutte Anderson allows his film to collapse due to exhaustion, and...contrivance.
Posted Nov 01, 2004  Edit critic review
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