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Matinee Magazine is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Chuck Rudolph, Jason Clark, Jeremiah Kipp, Nick Schager.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
You Won't Miss Me (2009) Nick Schager A work that radiates a boozy, Bukowski-esque downward spiral, all alcohol-fueled anger and aimless sadness.
Posted Dec 07, 2010  Edit critic review
5/5
Year of the Dragon (1985) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Jan 18, 2003  Edit critic review
2/5
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Jan 18, 2003  Edit critic review
4/5
Three Colors: White (1993) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Jan 18, 2003  Edit critic review
3/5
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Jan 18, 2003  Edit critic review
4/5
Julia (1977) Joe McGovern
Posted Jan 18, 2003  Edit critic review
1/5
Soul in the Hole (1997) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Dec 14, 2002  Edit critic review
4/5
Laura (1944) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Dec 14, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
Alligator (1980) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Dec 01, 2002  Edit critic review
4/5
Executive Decision (1996) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Dec 01, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
Marnie (1964) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
Rome, Open City (1945) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
0/5
Kids (1995) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
Dead Alive (1992) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
1/5
Single White Female (1992) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
The Color Purple (1985) Chuck Rudolph
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
The Thing (1982) Chuck Rudolph A bit too heavy on the shock effects, but far scarier than most average horror films.
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
1/5
Dersu Uzala (1975) Chuck Rudolph Beautifully photographed but far too isolated in its characterizations.
Posted Nov 26, 2002  Edit critic review
C+
Frida (2002) Nick Schager Just as in Kahlo's life, Rivera is the commanding centrifugal force of Taymor's film, and remains the best reason to sit through the otherwise uneven, mildly captivating Frida.
Posted Nov 10, 2002  Edit critic review
C+
White Oleander (2002) Nick Schager
Posted Nov 10, 2002  Edit critic review
A
Far From Heaven (2002) Jeremiah Kipp Haynes uses the antiquated style without winking, and begs questions of whether a modern filmmaker can actually recreate Sirk without reinventing it in the process. Fused through Haynes's modern sensibility it becomes something Other.
Posted Nov 07, 2002  Edit critic review
A
Femme Fatale (2002) Jeremiah Kipp De Palma's radical script-flip [of the genre] is a healthy indication of film culture rejecting the stupidity of crime movie violence and, with it, the failure of the imagination.
Posted Nov 07, 2002  Edit critic review
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) Jason Clark Even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director, it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment
Posted Nov 03, 2002  Edit critic review
Spider-Man (2002) Jason Clark All the dough in the world doesn't disguise hollow, simplistic storytelling
Posted Nov 02, 2002  Edit critic review
C-
Welcome to Collinwood (2002) Nick Schager The kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea.
Posted Oct 27, 2002  Edit critic review
C-
The Tuxedo (2002) Nick Schager With a story that would be right at home in a lame-brained Rob Schneider comedy, the film seems to have been spit out by some sort of devious Hollywood assembly line.
Posted Oct 27, 2002  Edit critic review
C-
Red Dragon (2002) Nick Schager A tepid mishmash of directorial blandness, bad casting, and hoary serial killer clichs that exudes neither the clinical creepiness of Jonathan Demme's original Lecter masterpiece nor the lurid camp of Ridley Scott's disastrous sequel.
Posted Oct 27, 2002  Edit critic review
B-
The Transporter (2002) Joshua Vasquez It's the kind of film where the villain even gives an evil look for his passport photo. How can you resist that?
Posted Oct 27, 2002  Edit critic review
A-
All or Nothing (2002) Jeremiah Kipp The Southeast London working class housing estate of Mike Leigh's All or Nothing becomes a melting pot for issues that this most humanistic of directors has continually returned to over the years: parents, children, secrets, love, resentment...
Posted Oct 25, 2002  Edit critic review
Y tu mamá también (2001) Jason Clark Oft-described as the antidote to American Pie-type sex comedies, it actually has a bundle in common with them, as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough
Posted Oct 25, 2002  Edit critic review
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Gremlins (1984) Joe McGovern A ringing reminder of Joe Dante's unerring wit and cinematic significance.
Posted Oct 19, 2002  Edit critic review
Scooby-Doo (2002) Jason Clark This is the kind of woeful trash heap where you have to say that the best thing about it is Matthew Lillard
Posted Oct 11, 2002  Edit critic review
D-
The Rules of Attraction (2002) Jeremiah Kipp Mean spirited, mocking, and puerile. Roger Avery adapts Bret Easton Ellis's nasty college collage of self-absorbed trust fund drones. Imagine an '80s slasher flick where the masked killer never shows up
Posted Oct 11, 2002  Edit critic review
B-
Below (2002) Jeremiah Kipp ...has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive. It's a sly wink to The Others without becoming a postmodern joke, made creepy by its "men in a sardine can" warped logic.
Posted Oct 11, 2002  Edit critic review
C-
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Chuck Rudolph The kind of brain fart a young and creatively impotent hothead thinks up when what he really wants to do isn't coming to him.
Posted Oct 11, 2002  Edit critic review
Monsoon Wedding (2001) Joe McGovern Anglosized Indian director Mira Nair pilfers every lame ceremonial clich through the ages.
Posted Oct 10, 2002  Edit critic review
C+
The Banger Sisters (2002) Nick Schager A middling, overly predictable comedy.
Posted Oct 08, 2002  Edit critic review
D-
Sweet Home Alabama (2002) Jason Clark Here is a movie that asks us to adore a miserable young woman who wrecks lives, treats people like discarded Biore strips and embodies the absolute worst side of metropolitan arrogance
Posted Oct 08, 2002  Edit critic review
B+
10 (1979) Joe McGovern
Posted Oct 08, 2002  Edit critic review
A-
8 Women (2002) Nick Schager Beautifully constructed, unexpectedly touching, and gorgeous to behold, it's a swirling kaleidoscope of murder, intrigue, and musical numbers that cinematic bon vivants will eagerly devour.
Posted Oct 02, 2002  Edit critic review
C
Unknown Pleasures (2002) Chuck Rudolph As fascinating as some of the individual scenes and shots are, they never connect into a formative whole.
Posted Oct 01, 2002  Edit critic review
B+
The Man From Elysian Fields (2001) Chuck Rudolph If The Man from Elysian Fields is doomed by its smallness, it is also elevated by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the lucky few who sought it out.
Posted Oct 01, 2002  Edit critic review
D-
Moonlight Mile (2002) Chuck Rudolph Cranks up the oldies soundtrack and embraces narrative contrivance like there will be no tomorrow, as if the concept of death is nothing more than a feel-good exercise in smiley primetime enlightenment.
Posted Oct 01, 2002  Edit critic review
C
Bloody Sunday (2002) Chuck Rudolph An authentically vague, but ultimately purposeless, study in total pandemonium.
Posted Oct 01, 2002  Edit critic review
D
Skins (2002) Jeremiah Kipp It's another video movie photographed like a film, with the bad lighting that's often written off as indie film naturalism.
Posted Sep 30, 2002  Edit critic review
B+
The Son (2002) Joe McGovern Olivier Gourmet's touching performance is an act of meticulousness that you will either catch out of the corner of your eye, or not at all.
Posted Sep 29, 2002  Edit critic review
C+
The Religion Hour (My Mother's Smile) (2002) Joe McGovern Contains about a half-dozen intellectually stimulating moments of discourse but is drowned out by Bellocchio's reluctance to carry through all the way with any of them.
Posted Sep 29, 2002  Edit critic review
The Uncertainty Principle (2002) Joe McGovern A porn film without the sex scenes.
Posted Sep 29, 2002  Edit critic review
Murder by Numbers (2002) Jason Clark Bullock's complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film
Posted Sep 26, 2002  Edit critic review
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