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CHRIS CABIN
Chris Cabin

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• Filmcritic.com
• MovieWeb
• Reel.com

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Total Reviews: 305

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Online Film Critics Society


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5  Army of Shadows
4.5/5  Syndromes and A Century
4/5  Battle For Haditha
3/4  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3.5/5  12:08 East of Bucharest
2.5/4  Atonement
3/5  Vacancy
2.5/5  Frontier(s)
2/5  The Tracey Fragments
1.5/5  Civic Duty
1/5  Hostel: Part II
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5  Paranoid Park
5/5  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
5/5  I'm Not There
5/5  Knocked Up
5/5  Army of Shadows
5/5  The Bicycle Thief
5/5  Mafioso
5/5  The Conformist
5/5  Reds
5/5  The Searchers
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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1/5  The Women
1/5  88 Minutes
1/5  Hostel: Part II
1/5  Inland Empire
1/5  Mini's First Time
1/5  Land of the Blind
1/5  Dear Wendy
1/5  Find Me Guilty
1/5  London
1/5  Big Momma's House 2
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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4.5/5
 
" superbly restrained" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 18, 2008
 
Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)100%
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4.5/5
 
" a work of intoxicating genius." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 13, 2008
 
A Christmas Tale (2008)90%
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2/5
 
" As the flash and burn of Boyle's imagery loses its sugar high, the limp proposition that it's covering up becomes more and more evident." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 11, 2008
 
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)92%
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3/5
 
" Proudly irrelevant and inconsequential as it is, Role Models is buoyant and funny and has enough sense not to take itself seriously." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 6, 2008
 
Role Models (2008)76%
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3.5/5
 
" Zack and Miri finds Smith more consistent than many of his contemporaries, especially in terms of focus." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 30, 2008
 
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)64%
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4/5
 
" With HBO's eccentric True Blood series and Twilight galvanizing vampiric bloodlust, Let the Right One In might not be invited to the party, but it belongs in the hall of fame." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Let the Right One In (2008)98%
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2.5/5
 
" For whatever blessings Claudel received with his cast and his admirable writing, Claudel takes very few chances with the material as a director and it sticks the film in neutral" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
I've Loved You So Long (2008)91%
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2.5/5
 
" Suffers from more than its fair share of showy moments." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Changeling (2008)59%
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4/5
 
" Still Life is all about these common people existing in a world that seems more and more unreal" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 13, 2008
 
Still Life (2008)92%
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4/5
 
" the dazzling kick to the head it was always meant to be." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 9, 2008
 
Ashes of Time Redux (2008)82%
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4/5
 
" There are no house-call abortionists or down-on-their-luck families who only find hope in the next pint, just a chipper Finsbury Park bird who always looks at the brighter side" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 9, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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1.5/5
 
" What was a poetic, exhaustively-brilliant piece of fiction has now become a clunky, clattering, ever-collapsing film of bludgeoning rhetoric" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 2, 2008
 
Blindness (2008)41%
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1.5/5
 
" by a wide margin, the director's weakest effort to date" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 18, 2008
 
Lakeview Terrace (2008)44%
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2/5
 
" quickly shifts into standard operating procedure and comedy is swallowed by template" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 18, 2008
 
Ghost Town (2008)84%
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1/5
 
" No cliché, no matter how it screams and pleads for mercy, makes it out of this baby untapped." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 11, 2008
 
The Women (2008)13%
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3.5/5
 
Click here to read article -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 11, 2008
 
The Go-Getter (2008)43%
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4/5
 
" The lines and the character have survived the film's oft-forgotten actual message." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Cool Hand Luke (1967)100%
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2.5/5
 
" s a doozy, but none of the tiresome racial epithets nor the naughty words that surround this magnum opus of raunch deliver the outrage they so badly try to stir up." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 21, 2008
 
Hamlet 2 (2008)63%
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1.5/5
 
" Certainly nothing this year will compete with the inexcusable The Love Guru for its sheer inability to create laughs, but The Rocker does its best to at least come close." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 19, 2008
 
The Rocker (2008)39%
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3/5
 
" Vicky shows Allen deflecting his chapter-and-verse filmmaking for better and worse and, in a career that was already cemented as legendary by the early '90s, that counts for something." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 14, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)81%
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2.5/5
 
" dull and expositional, often working against the authenticity that Leo and Upham bring to their roles" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Frozen River (2008)86%
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1.5/5
 
" For those who felt that the 40 minutes of MTV's True Life were just not enough, your film has arrived." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
American Teen (2008)71%
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3.5/5
 
" an effective workout of genre mechanics" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
Boy A (2008)89%
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2/5
 
" too cluttered to be engrossing or even entertaining" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Mad Detective (2008)83%
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4/5
 
" Schnabel and Kuras know their subject enough to know how to frame him: with space, darkness, and unyielding cool." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)77%
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3.5/5
 
" has all the right moves for a story that has already been filmed approximately 30 thousand times" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
The Wackness (2008)68%
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4/5
 
" Breillat's latest presents one of the great performances of this year and the director's most accessible work to date" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
The Last Mistress (2008)76%
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4/5
 
" an awfully funny rendering of his home life as the runt of the litter" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 12, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)94%
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2.5/5
 
" The Wayward Cloud finds Ming-liang in a rut and unable to elevate his neon wilderness to the heights of the rest of his consistently fascinating oeuvre." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 9, 2008
 
The Wayward Cloud (2007)82%
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1.5/5
 
" not nearly enough action and gore, and there's far too much time spent on uncovering secrets and tracking down random tidbits" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
Mother of Tears (2008)48%
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3/5
 
" It's Dirty Harry goes to Washington" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
In the Line of Fire (1993)97%
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2/5
 
" Worse things can and will happen this year than The Foot Fist Way being a small success." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 29, 2008
 
The Foot Fist Way (2008)57%
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2/5
 
" oozes a milieu of "good enough."" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 29, 2008
 
Savage Grace (2008)39%
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1.5/5
 
" history as drivel, rebellion as Sunday-morning hangover" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 22, 2008
 
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)28%
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2.5/5
 
" a globetrotting human-rights drama about deported Turkish renegades and the lesbians and bookshop owners who love them." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 20, 2008
 
The Edge of Heaven (2008)90%
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4/5
 
" The personal nature of such a film begets the feeling of ownership, especially for the twentysomethings out there. It's about revolting from everything, even revolution." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 19, 2008
 
Reprise (2008)86%
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2/5
 
" Arty to the nth degree, splintered and, yes, fragmented" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 8, 2008
 
The Tracey Fragments (2008)39%
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2.5/5
 
" has neither the weight nor the ingenuity to make a solid impression past its unorthodox dispatching techniques." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Frontier(s) (2008)62%
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4/5
 
" the most sustained and unshakable narrative film to investigate the occupation of Iraq" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Battle For Haditha (2007)63%
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2.5/5
 
" You'll have to forgive the pun, but it simply lacks bite." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)82%
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3.5/5
 
" Engrossing if inexcusably flashy" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)80%
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2/5
 
" filmmaking for filmmaking's sake." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)86%
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1/5
 
" Pacino feels like a bankable source to disguise mediocrity but a dud is a dud and Avnet is wholly indifferent" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)5%
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3.5/5
 
" Never less than enthusiastically fascinating" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Stalags (2008)50%
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3.5/5
 
" Well-restrained and rarely melodramatic" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Dark Matter (2008)36%
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4.5/5
 
" You won't see anything as rapturous as this in any film this year." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)78%
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3.5/5
 
" Beautifully paced with an eerily-consistent tone" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Water Lilies (2007)79%
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3/5
 
" works best as an Italian dramedy with its history used as window dressing and any original thought kept happily to itself." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
My Brother Is An Only Child (2006)86%
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1.5/5
 
" ends up feeling like a boring limerick told over and over again." -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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4/5
 
" hits on something painful and intrinsically human: the feeling of inevitable disillusionment" -- Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Alexandra (2008)94%

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