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Film Written 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): Andrew Howe, Shay Casey.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/4
(undefined) Andrew Howe Six hours of unadulterated brilliance.
Posted Feb 21, 2021  Edit critic review
Dogville (2003) Jaime N. Christley Accusations that von Trier is "manipulative" are well-founded. He certainly is. Where we are being manipulated to is a question we might do well to consider before answering.
Posted Oct 07, 2003  Edit critic review
Hamlet (1996) Jaime N. Christley If it was [Branagh's] goal to make a film of Hamlet for all time, and to say the last word, I should say he probably emerges triumphant.
Posted Sep 09, 2002  Edit critic review
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A Walk to Remember (2002) Shay Casey Lopes along from predictable plot twist to predictable anti-climax.
Posted Jun 21, 2002  Edit critic review
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Black Hawk Down (2001) Shay Casey Remains consistently stimulating for its entire running time.
Posted Jun 21, 2002  Edit critic review
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The Shipping News (2001) Shay Casey Another beautifully-made and serious-minded celebration of having nothing to say.
Posted Jun 21, 2002  Edit critic review
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In the Bedroom (2001) Shay Casey Contains some of the best starkly dramatic scenes you're likely to see on a movie screen all year.
Posted Feb 02, 2002  Edit critic review
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Ali (2001) Shay Casey The problem is that none of these very well-directed scenes manage to fit together into any kind of collective whole.
Posted Feb 02, 2002  Edit critic review
(undefined) Jaime N. Christley 2001: Pleasures, Regrets, and Grievous Omissions
Posted Jan 19, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
A Beautiful Mind (2001) Shay Casey It's the kind of project that should have been awarded to a writer-director team of true vision, and not to Akiva Goldsman and Ron Howard.
Posted Jan 19, 2002  Edit critic review
0/4
The Shipping News (2001) Jaime N. Christley The movie would probably be laughed out of the very locale in which it's set. It's the kind of movie that they've got rigged to play on an endless loop in hell.
Posted Jan 11, 2002  Edit critic review
3/4
Black Hawk Down (2001) Jaime N. Christley You won't come away from the movie knowing more about the situation in Somalia, then or now, but you'll know more than President Clinton in October of 1993.
Posted Jan 11, 2002  Edit critic review
1/4
Orange County (2002) Jaime N. Christley I'm not sure if Stay Home is a message I care to invest a great deal of faith in, but it ties up the story neatly and wraps things up in less than ninety minutes.
Posted Jan 10, 2002  Edit critic review
4/4
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (2000) Jaime N. Christley Works as an essay far better than printed film criticism ever could.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
1/4
Subway (1985) Jaime N. Christley As far as Besson's movies go, Subway has all the right ingredients, but comes out all wrong.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
2/4
Brother (2000) Jaime N. Christley Second-rate Takeshi Kitano: likely to be better than ninety-nine percent of whatever else is out there.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
0/4
Audition (1999) Jaime N. Christley Insipid "human drama" gives way to relentless brutality. Is this cinema? If it is, you can have it.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
2/4
Ali (2001) Jaime N. Christley I have yet to see a bad Michael Mann film, but Ali is probably the director's worst.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
0/4
Series 7 (2001) Jaime N. Christley Nothing more than the bad television it purports to tease.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
2/4
Made (2001) Jaime N. Christley Walks a fine line between plausibility and absurdity, safety and violence, without slipping.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
1/4
Gosford Park (2001) Jaime N. Christley Despite my complaints, this second-rate Altman has many first-rate touches.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
4/4
Code Unknown (2000) Jaime N. Christley A great movie, probably a masterpiece.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
1/4
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) Jaime N. Christley A merchandising tie-in for a popular novel.
Posted Jan 08, 2002  Edit critic review
The Paper Chase (1973) Shay Casey Simply an intelligent film about intelligent people.
Posted Dec 16, 2001  Edit critic review
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Donnie Darko (2001) Shay Casey An interesting film and certainly worthy of more attention than it got.
Posted Dec 16, 2001  Edit critic review
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The Road Home (1999) Shay Casey Well-made tripe.
Posted Dec 16, 2001  Edit critic review
1/4
From Hell (2001) Jaime N. Christley Heather Graham plays Heather Graham playing a prostitute...Mike Leigh veteran Cartlidge wipes the floor with her...the ex-Rollergirl dons a British accent - bad idea, oh very bad!
Posted Nov 30, 2001  Edit critic review
0/4
Spy Game (2001) Jaime N. Christley If you ignore the xenophobia and Aryan-colonialism design of this fantasy-adventure replaying of the CIA's greatest hits, you might have a chuckle or two.
Posted Nov 30, 2001  Edit critic review
1/4
The Last Castle (2001) Jaime N. Christley There is mistreatment, reluctance, acceptance, uprising, tragedy, uplift, credits. Take it or leave it.
Posted Nov 30, 2001  Edit critic review
3/4
Heist (2001) Jaime N. Christley The climactic shoot-out will have you sighing "Oh, come on" but smiling and cheering for the good guys all the same.
Posted Nov 30, 2001  Edit critic review
2/4
Monsters, Inc. (2001) Jaime N. Christley Doesn't play fast and loose quite as well as the two Toy Story movies or A Bug's Life, and the the joke hit-to-miss ratio is less than excellent.
Posted Nov 30, 2001  Edit critic review
3/4
Two Hands (1999) Jaime N. Christley Plenty entertaining: stunner of a shoot-out at the climax, and a remarkable amount of humor.
Posted Nov 13, 2001  Edit critic review
0/4
Pocahontas (1995) Jaime N. Christley Everything seems to have been surgically transplanted from prior Disney successes.
Posted Oct 30, 2001  Edit critic review
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Shay Casey There is no doubt about it - Star Trek V is a bad movie.
Posted Oct 28, 2001  Edit critic review
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Shay Casey The original cast appears to be having more fun than they ever had before.
Posted Oct 28, 2001  Edit critic review
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Shay Casey The best odd-numbered Trek movie.
Posted Oct 28, 2001  Edit critic review
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Shay Casey Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Posted Oct 28, 2001  Edit critic review
The Godfather (1972) Shay Casey It engulfs us in the lives of a lot of despicable people, but it fails to repulse us.
Posted Oct 28, 2001  Edit critic review
1/4
The Lady and the Duke (2001) Jaime N. Christley Stately, stagey, interminable.
Posted Oct 28, 2001  Edit critic review
3/4
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) Jaime N. Christley If you're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining, you're in luck.
Posted Oct 28, 2001  Edit critic review
Back to the Future (1985) Shay Casey This is one of those movies that folds in on itself, and reveals perfect symmetry.
Posted Oct 07, 2001  Edit critic review
4/4
Mulholland Dr. (2001) Jaime N. Christley [Lynch's] most purely entertaining film to date, featuring his most assured amalgam of bizarre comedy and haunting otherworldliness...it's also one of his best-looking movies.
Posted Oct 06, 2001  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Bad Boy Bubby (1993) Andrew Howe A memorable, affecting and quietly exceptional tale
Posted Sep 25, 2001  Edit critic review
4/4
Close-Up (1990) Jaime N. Christley One of the most extraordinary detective stories.
Posted Sep 25, 2001  Edit critic review
Hamlet (1990) Shay Casey Frustratingly cold and distant ... actually starts to feel like the dusty work of a dead European guy.
Posted Sep 23, 2001  Edit critic review
4/4
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Jaime N. Christley Hellman creates a character study with faces, spaces, and noises.
Posted Sep 23, 2001  Edit critic review
3/4
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Jaime N. Christley Solid filmmaking that does its genre proud.
Posted Sep 23, 2001  Edit critic review
3/4
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Jaime N. Christley A phenomenal and exhilarating piece of work...who could not love Hedwig?
Posted Sep 23, 2001  Edit critic review
1/4
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) Jaime N. Christley Rote Americana of the Spielberg/Zemeckis vein...with King's touchy-feely-creepy metaphysics, his gallery of iconic villains, and a mist of facile nostalgia...
Posted Sep 23, 2001  Edit critic review
4/4
Scorpio Rising (1964) Jaime N. Christley Self-indulgent, incoherent, heavy-handed, and a landmark of underground cinema.
Posted Sep 11, 2001  Edit critic review
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