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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
MARYANN JOHANSON
PUBLICATION(S)
• Apollo Guide
• Flick Filosopher

BIOGRAPHY
"One of online’s finest" film critics, or so says trade mag Variety, MaryAnn Johanson is a New York City-based freelance writer who loves movies but hates what Hollywood sometimes does to them.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 2511
Total QuickRatings: 4

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• Online Film Critics Society
• Cinemarati

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• Location: New York City


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LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES
A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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9/10 1776
81/100 Murphy's Romance
75/100 Nikki - Wild Dog of the North
70/100 The Kennel Murder Case
6/10 All Quiet on the Western Front
60/100 The Cassandra Crossing
55/100 The Legend of Lobo
45/100 Surviving the Game
3/10 Cocktail
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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9/10 BookWars
9/10 Olive, the Other Reindeer
9/10 Kestrel's Eye
9/10 Cast Away
9/10 The Gift
9/10 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
9/10 The House of Mirth
9/10 The Emperor's New Groove
9/10 1776
9/10 All About Eve
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WORST REVIEWED
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2/10 Goodbye, 20th Century
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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"[Picks] up on whatever is in the zeitgeist that makes us suddenly fascinated by grownups... who dress up in pseudo medieval garb, pick up fake swords and maces, and beat the hitpoints out of one another. You know, for fun." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Monster Camp (2007)62%
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Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Boyfriends (1996)n/a
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"[I]nteresting... for the sense you can gather, in the subtext of the bonus materials, of a series that became a victim of outside circumstances as well as its own success." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 4, 2008
 
Heroes Season 2 (2008)n/a
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Posted Sep 3, 2008
 
Babylon A.D. ()0%
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"[I]t's a terrible pity that this ensemble drama about people hurting and coping in small-town America is so relentlessly dull..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
The Sensation of Sight (2008)50%
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"I found myself sorta not hating it, and sorta fascinated by it, for about 45 minutes or so. Alas that the movie's about 90 minutes long." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 
Babylon A.D. (2008)7%
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Click here to read article -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 
Cranford (2007)n/a
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Click here to read article -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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"Oh god, have I ever seen a more tedious 'erotic' movie than this one?" -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
The Last Mistress (2008)77%
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"The stories of women are so disparaged -- or worse, ignored -- in our culture unless they have something to do with pleasing men, but here's one that demands to be seen." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
Frozen River (2008)86%
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"[T]he smartest, savviest, most seditious movie yet about the 'global war on terror'... by far one of the best movies of 2008 so far..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)53%
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"[P]rimarily a catalogue of performances, and they are magnificent..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
Gypsy Caravan (2006)86%
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"Boll mistakes shock for satire and crudity for cleverness in this desperately unfunny, hopelessly clueless catalogue of the ills of America... that ends up rejoicing in what it believes it is sending up." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 26, 2008
 
Postal (2008)9%
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"[B]rilliant British satirist Steve Coogan... is actually hard to watch at times, he's so raw and honest in how he strips Dana of all dignity in the teacher's search for meaning and feeling in his life..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 26, 2008
 
Hamlet 2 (2008)62%
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"Of course it's outrageous: it's supposed to be." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 26, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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"[T]he historical context probably is the best way in which to appreciate this hit-or-miss collection of sight gags, wordplay, and middle-class angst..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Alfresco ()n/a
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"[T]he only thing deadly about it is how dull it is..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Death Race (2008)39%
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"You've heard the term sex bomb. Now hear this: The House Bunny is a nuclear sex bomb, a radioactive weapon deadly to all forms of life..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 21, 2008
 
The House Bunny (2008)39%
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"Crap. The Nazis had TV in 1935?... I guess we should be grateful they focused on television first and left the A-bomb for later." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 18, 2008
 
Television Under the Swastika (1999)n/a
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"[P]retty darn awesome... [a]t least as far as overblown Saturday morning cartoons go..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)20%
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"My eyes are still burning from... the horrible racial, cultural, and gender stereotypes of the 1960s [and the] weirdly, disturbingly human-ish flies..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Fly Me To The Moon (2008)16%
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"This isn't a movie: it's a sermon." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)37%
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"Mostly what you need to know about VCB is this: Cristina is Woody. Vicky is Mia. They have the same conversations we've heard a million times before in Allen's movies." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)81%
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"[I]nventively clever in its sendup of the self-involvement of pretty much anyone who's anyone in Hollywood... aggressive[ly] outrageous..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 14, 2008
 
Tropic Thunder (2008)84%
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"This is a charming triumph-of-the-underdog flick, and mostly for one reason: Alan Rickman." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)45%
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"Ill-conceived, poorly written, badly acted, and incompetently directed, this is a disaster from start to finish..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 11, 2008
 
When I Find the Ocean (2006)n/a
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"Thirty sketches jammed into 23 minutes is a certain recipe for insanity, or at least for making milk spurt out your nose, you're laughing so hard." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Robot Chicken Star Wars ()n/a
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"Here's yet another excellent argument for the legalization of marijuana... it will prevent us seeing more movies like this one..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)69%
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"[T]he fact that the jeans are entirely incidental to everything happening here is the least of its problems..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)63%
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"A damned intriguing thriller that asks more questions than it answers and leaves you dazed and upset and also a little inspired..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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"[W]hat some consider the definitive rendition of the Robin Hood story..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Robin of Sherwood - Set 2 (1985-1986)n/a
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"[W]hat some consider the definitive rendition of the Robin Hood story..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Robin of Sherwood - Set 1 (1984)n/a
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"If you need any more proof that a movie like Swing Vote is complete balderdash, with its fantasy about getting couch potatoes out to the polls as the cure-all for what ails America, then here is it." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008)50%
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"[Y]ou almost want to hug Swing Vote... it's so cute in how it thinks... that one-man-one-vote really is something akin to, well, maybe nine innings of baseball on a glorious summer's day." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Swing Vote (2008)39%
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"[E]ven with bar set low and my unconditional love set high, I cannot freakin' believe how cruelly Tomb rips out my geeky little heart and stomps on it..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)11%
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"The cleverness of it all varies wildly..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 30, 2008
 
TV Funhouse (2000)n/a
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"[W]hy does it have to pretend that Chicago sportswriter P.J. is such an oddball among women?" -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 30, 2008
 
My Boys - Complete First Season, The (2006-2007)n/a
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Click here to read article -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 30, 2008
 
Twisted: A Balloonamentary (2007)83%
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Posted Jul 30, 2008
 
Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005)n/a
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"If you're not clear what all the fuss over Ellen Page is about, check out this 2007 Canadian film..., a showcase for her extraordinary and challenging talent..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 29, 2008
 
The Tracey Fragments (2008)40%
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"Beautifully animated... a movie for the whole family to enjoy..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 29, 2008
 
Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005)n/a
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"[V]acillate[s] between eager earnestness and too-cutesy preciousness..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 29, 2008
 
Exes and Ohs - The Comeplete First Season (2006)n/a
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"[A] lovely, honest film about the hopes and dreams of... young women..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 29, 2008
 
Ballet Shoes (2008)n/a
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"[A] cheery and friendly look at a little-known subculture..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 29, 2008
 
Twisted: A Balloonamentary (2007)83%
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"[S]atirizes the trend that's all the rage now: men wallowing in adolescence through their 30s... [H]alf the other movies we've been assaulted with over the last few years have actually seemed to celebrate that horror..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 28, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)53%
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"[A]bsolutely worth a look for American fans of British drama even if much of the political stuff will go over our heads, because of the intense performances by Sheen and... Morrissey..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 27, 2008
 
The Deal (2003)n/a
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"Ahhhh. Now this is what I want to see in a Stargate movie. It's not just a fantastic overlong episode of the show, it actually feels like a movie..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 27, 2008
 
Stargate: Continuum (2008)n/a
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"[S]cience fiction drama with the emphasis on the drama... [T]here are no monsters [here] except the all-too-human kind, and no demons except the all-too-familiar ones that plague us all." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)33%
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"Like, oh my god, chick superheroes! And they are, like, as totally dull and shallow as chick superheroes almost always are in Hollywood's limited imagination." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Birds of Prey - The Complete Series (2007)n/a
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"[A] meaty morsel of Gotham mythos that will satisfy fans and may even captivate newcomers to the modern retellings of the superhero's tale..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Batman - Gotham Knight (2008)83%

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