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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
ED GONZALEZ
PUBLICATION(S)
• Apollo Guide
• City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
• House Next Door
• Los Angeles Times
• Slant Magazine
• Village Voice

BIOGRAPHY
Ed Gonzalez is a freelance writer working out of New York City, or thereabouts. A graduate of NYU, he worked for Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, and O Magazine before turning to film criticism.
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Total Reviews: 2454

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• Online Film Critics Society
• New York Film Critics Online

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• Location: Weehawken, NJ


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 I Am Cuba
3/4 The Bubble
2.5/4 Salvador Allende
2/4 December Boys
1.5/4 The Orphanage
1/4 The Brave One
0/4 Trade
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 I Am Cuba
4/4 Siberiade
4/4 Inland Empire
4/4 The Fall of the House of Usher
4/4 Pandora's Box
4/4 Sir Arne's Treasure
4/4 Repulsion
4/4 The Best of Youth
4/4 The New World
4/4 Pickpocket
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 College Road Trip
0/4 A Broken Sole
0/4 Trade
0/4 Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
0/4 A Cinderella Story
0/4 Sleepover
0/4 Bad Boys II
0/4 K-Pax
0/4 Pay It Forward
9/100 H.O.T.S.
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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"The Pool conveys a sense of having been made, not found, but Smith avoids mawkishness and has an ear for how young people speak and relate to one another." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
The Pool (2008)92%
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"Baby Mama confirms that if Tina Fey is in something she didn't write herself, it just ain't funny." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 31, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)62%
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"My Mexican Shivah kvetches its way through an insipid vision of cross-cultural conflict." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 30, 2008
 
My Mexican Shivah (2008)33%
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"This mincing bad time is built entirely around shrill pop-culture references." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
Another Gay Sequel (2008)21%
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"Redbelt may or may not be David Mamet's best feature, but it is most definitely his least sycophantically written." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)72%
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1.5/4
 
"An intellectual and philosophical lost cause." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)53%
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"What should have been a gripping and informative documentary experience is made unwatchable with crappy stop-motion animation." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Chicago 10 (2008)77%
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2/4
 
"Mostly confirms how closely entwined modern-art practices are with intellectual wankitude." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
Richard Serra: Thinking On Your Feet (2005)20%
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"These flies are meant to be one of a kind but they're just pop-culture magpies." -- Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Fly Me To The Moon (2008)16%
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2/4
 
"One of those Chabrol productions perched awkwardly between thriller and comedy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2008
 
A Girl Cut in Two (2008)77%
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2.5/4
 
"The film finds its footing whenever Johnny Coleman, professor of African-American Studies and Fine Arts at Oberlin College in Ohio, speaks openly about Wagner's troublesome images and the appeal those images have for whites." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 10, 2008
 
One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008)67%
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2/4
 
"For artistic representation, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer gets a near-perfect score, less so for its restrained sense of fun." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 10, 2008
 
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008)65%
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1/4
 
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona is basically the most arrogant film of the year, an occasion for Allen to feign interest in challenging heteronormic ideals when all he's doing is advancing a simplified view of female sexual agency." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)81%
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"Smart People is...nah, too easy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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"Brand Upon the Brain! may or may not be your cup of tea, but the title is fitting: You'll never forget it." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)91%
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"Felon won't rock your world but may endear you to more than just Stephen Dorff's abdominal muscles." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Felon (2008)59%
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"Irina Palm blows but Marianne Faithfull gives it her all." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Irina Palm (2008)72%
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"The image and sound, like the hearty collection of extras, are fit for an Oscar-winner." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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"Well, at least its better than Chapter 27." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)35%
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"Brings to mind the chorus to one of the few songs ("Smalltown Boy") from the '80s that Steve Barron wasn't responsible for turning into a music video: "Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away."" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Choking Man (2007)43%
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3/4
 
"The Spanish director gives an almost Wongian expression to the way people seduce one another." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Elegy (2008)74%
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3/4
 
"A series of elegiac episodes from the life and mind of the fantabulous rock n' roll chanteuse and poetess." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)63%
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1.5/4
 
"After Sideways and now Bottle Shock, it's official: I love wine as much as I hate movies about people who love wine." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)46%
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1.5/4
 
"For anyone who preferred Oliver Bean to Malcolm in the Middle." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2008
 
Sixty Six (2008)63%
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2.5/4
 
"The film's production company is appropriately called Sensory Overload, but America the Beautiful is never boring in spite of its dizzying bombardment of sometimes familiar information." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2008
 
America The Beautiful (2008)70%
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"21, in which Kevin Spacey lecherously sizes up a line of female strippers at a Vegas casino, now serves as the greatest testament to the man's talent as an actor." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2008
 
21 (2008)35%
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3/4
 
"Man on Wire becomes a thrilling study in contrast, succeeding not only at extolling Philippe's superhuman performance but attesting to the achievements of those who similarly defied death to give the man the stage he walked on." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2008
 
Man on Wire (2008)100%
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2.5/4
 
"With Back to Normandy, a nostalgic travelogue with philosophical aspirations, director Nicolas Philibert not only returns to the scene of a crime but the scene of a movie shoot." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2008
 
Back to Normandy (2008)88%
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2.5/4
 
"Chimp-related puns and maxims naturally abound, as do references to such unchildlike things as rhetorical questions and NFL expansion teams, and delivered at a clip that's alternately lively and insecure." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Space Chimps (2008)33%
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1/4
 
"Jesus, Bruno is so going to blow this guy out of the water." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
The Doorman (2008)25%
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"The film is confirmation of Paul Haggis's predilection for exploitation and easy sentimentality." -- House Next Door
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)73%
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"Borat's cultural learning is revealing, even if it doesn't adequately convey how it benefits glorious nation of Kazakhstan." -- House Next Door
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)91%
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"Oliver wants to defend restorative justice, but his interest in this form of victim-offender mediation registers only as an afterthought." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Take (2008)44%
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"Felon gives everyone their tidy and expected due but outlines a realistic enough cycle of how a man's life can easily spiral out of his control." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Felon (2008)59%
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"Though not one for literal smoke and mirrors, master of horror Brad Anderson, with his panache for arousing fear from harried reality and rotted atmosphere, is still a shaman." -- Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Transsiberian (2008)88%
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"Essentially a collage of mistrelsy reaction shots, College Road Trip is both a cinematic atrocity and colossal blow for minority representation." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2008
 
College Road Trip (2008)13%
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"No disrespect to Channing Tatum, who does one better than J.T. by bringing both sexy and baggy back, but pencil-thin dweeb Adam G. Sevani is the star of this nonstop dance-a-thon." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2008
 
Step Up 2 the Streets (2008)24%
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"Never thought I would stay this, but give me another hit of Crank instead." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)79%
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1.5/4
 
"A tapestry of intersecting Hollywood lives that illuminates nothing except for writer-director Jason Freeland's obvious fondness for Short Cuts." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 7, 2008
 
Garden Party (2008)11%
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1.5/4
 
"A cheap inventory of old-hat period romping that downplays Houdini's contempt for psychics while saddling him with corny mommy issues." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2008
 
Death Defying Acts (2008)46%
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"Like almost all other Iraq war movies, Stop-Loss is as much about the war as it is about making movies--and like its kin, it isn't any good." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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2/4
 
"Delivers less insight into the psychology of why young girls turn to prostitution than HBO's Hookers." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Very Young Girls (2008)70%
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2.5/4
 
"There's real wit to Prendergast's aesthetic." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Kabluey (2008)88%
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1.5/4
 
"Brings back bad memories of Nearing Grace while tainting fond ones of Catcher in the Rye." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Holding Trevor (2008)14%
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"Filmmaker Carter Smith is going places, something which can't be said about the characters in The Ruins." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
The Ruins (2008)46%
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3/4
 
"WALL-E goes beyond inviting comparisons to E.T., Number 5, R2D2, even Chaplin's Little Tramp--the Waste Allocation Load Lifter relies on them, for writer-director Andrew Stanton understands this robot janitor as a study in memory and inheritance." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)97%
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"Give me Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise instead." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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2/4
 
"Frequently roving around and taking awe at Bourgeois's massive artwork, the filmmakers may understand the artist as a woman and a living creature but they often treat her as if she herself were a museum piece." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 25, 2008
 
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008)91%
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"Like slogging through a pool of molasses, My Blueberry Nights may or may not wreck your love affair with Wong Kar Wai." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 25, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)48%
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"A bathetic Afterschool Special, City of Men is a trendy illumination of social despair." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 25, 2008
 
City of Men (2008)76%

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