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Critics / Authors Reviews and Articles
ED GONZALEZ
PUBLICATION(S)
• Apollo Guide
• City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
• House Next Door
• L.A. Weekly
• 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: 2489

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• Online Film Critics Society
• New York Film Critics Online

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" The Atlas Shrugged of narrative avant-garde films, compulsively watchable and insanely self-devouring." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2006
 
Inland Empire (2006)70%
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" A miracle." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2005
 
L'Enfant (2006)86%
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" This epic elegy to family and country is a towering work of narrative fiction." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 5, 2006
 
The Best of Youth (2005)95%
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" The exquisiteness of The New World and how it reveals itself to its audience is flabbergasting...like a heretofore unknown cave painting impeccably preserved except for a few spots here and there eroded by time and nature." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 16, 2005
 
The New World (2005)61%
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" Almodóvar’s canvas—like that of another hot-blooded drama queen, Federico García Lorca—is one of uncensored emotion and pure energy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2004
 
Bad Education (2004)88%
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" Dumont is clearly fascinated by America’s wide-open spaces, and much of Twentynine Palms is a love poem to the way we look at the world." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2004
 
Twentynine Palms (2004)44%
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" Big Fish is love and death, Burton style." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2003
 
Big Fish (2003)76%
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" This elegant movement in still life unravels as a profound metaphor for both the filmmaking process and life itself." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2003
 
The Company (2003)69%
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" A somber evocation of a poor, close-knit section of Boston on the brink of moral collapse." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2003
 
Mystic River (2003)87%
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" This acerbic “illustration” of a small town’s curious notions of entitlement unspools as a Christian allegory by way of Mark Twain or Dr. Seuss." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 27, 2003
 
Dogville (2003)70%
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" Behold Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon’s anime answer to Mulholland Drive." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2003
 
Millennium Actress (2003)94%
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" Not since his first film, Mala Noche, has Van Sant produced a film so pure, uncompromising and ravishing to watch." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 17, 2003
 
Gerry (2003)60%
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" The film's grayish mise-en-scene evokes the texture of a spider web, and the film's characters appear to hang from that web." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2002
 
Spider (2003)85%
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" The filmmakers truly understand the symbolic struggle of Cubans trying to escape their island home’s political and economic suppression." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 23, 2003
 
Balseros (2002)92%
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" This remarkable film's final shot evokes a changing season and perhaps a changing cultural tide." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2002
 
Far From Heaven (2002)91%
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" Sayles continues exactly where Faulkner left off, tackling the institutionalized racism that seethes in the New South." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 30, 2002
 
Sunshine State (2002)80%
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" Tsai Ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-being." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 31, 2001
 
What Time Is It There? (2002)84%
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" Jackson's flights of fantasy bow before Tokien and are quite unlike anything you are likely to ever see on film." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 12, 2001
 
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)92%
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" The most deadpan piece of pop art this side of "The Simpsons."" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 6, 2001
 
Little Otik (2001)83%
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" Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums unfolds like a regal fairy tale." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 4, 2001
 
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)80%
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" An apocalyptic sweat chamber nervously situated between complacency and heartbreaking could-have-been hopefulness." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2001
 
Donnie Darko (2001)83%
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" Tarr's precise yet effortless command for the long take is so transcendent it suggests the presence of God." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2001
 
Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)96%
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" Whether it's a product of stoic contemplation or reefer madness, Linklater's waking life becomes an elusive, one-way vehicle to God." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2001
 
Waking Life (2001)80%
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" Catherine Breillat's vision is so deceptively tranquil that love becomes indistinguishable from rape." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2001
 
Fat Girl (2001)72%
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" A haunting, selfish, difficult masterpiece that literalizes the theory of surrealism as perpetual dream state." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2001
 
Mulholland Dr. (2001)81%
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" Edet Belzberg's heart-breaking documentary transcends exploit by subtly indicting the homeless plight of Romanian youth on Ceausescu's ignorant legacy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 6, 2001
 
Children Underground (2001)94%
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" Lukas Moodysson's hysterical, timeless piece of hippie lore looks for that happy gray area between capitalism and Marxism." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2001
 
Together (2001)90%
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" Apocalypse Now is a frenzied, free-based ode to the grieving soldier and his need-to-numb." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2001
 
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)92%
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" An ironic, humorous, painful and never pandering account of the ghostly nature that accompanies loss, hurt, regret, love and, ultimately, memory itself." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2001
 
Ghost World (2001)92%
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" Rampling continues to reinvent sexual desire." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 6, 2001
 
Under the Sand (2001)94%
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" Wong Kar Wai's latest masterpiece is an erotic and visually stunning meditation on the confines of love." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2001
 
In the Mood for Love (2001)88%
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" A laconic portrait of a remote Chinese city in arrested development." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 23, 2004
 
Platform (2000)79%
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" Besides his remarkable ability to render a profound sense of past in all his films, Davies can uncannily map out the emotions of his characters via his mise-en-scene." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2003
 
The House of Mirth (2000)80%
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" George Washington is the closest thing we have to William Faulkner on screen" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2002
 
George Washington (2000)81%
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" A humanistic masterwork." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2001
 
Yi Yi (2000)96%
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" Run Lola Run could very well be the punchiest piece of concept art to ever hit the silver screen, a shock-dose of German existential cinema you can ride." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2003
 
Run Lola Run (1999)92%
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" Ribald Kafkaesque romp Being John Malkovich contemplates the nature of sexual identity and celebrity with a surrealist shtick that owes plenty to Buñuel and Svankmajer." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 17, 2001
 
Being John Malkovich (1999)92%
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" Pedro Almodóvar's best film to date, a heart-breaking paean to femininity, the maternal instinct and the thirst for drama." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 17, 2001
 
All About My Mother (1999)97%
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" Coppola's adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's novel is both tender and devastating." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2001
 
The Virgin Suicides (1999)77%
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" Beau Travail is an allegorical tale of revenge and jealousy set within a French Foreign Legion outpost in Africa." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2001
 
Beau Travail (1999)78%
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" Emir Kusturica’s tragic-farce Underground may be the most important film of the last 25 years." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 21, 2003
 
Underground (1995)83%
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" A master stylist, Woo is similarly brilliant at examining the moral and social hierarchies of his patriarchal crime worlds." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 27, 2003
 
Hard Boiled (1992)94%
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" Ten years ago, Husbands and Wives played second fiddle to Woody Allen's all-media split with Mia Farrow." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2002
 
Husbands and Wives (1992)100%
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" Fabulously color-coded to resemble a dream world, a purgatory consumed by the sadness of blues and the terror of reds." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2002
 
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)53%
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" A Brighter Summer Day is itself in color, but it may as well be monochrome." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2004
 
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)n/a
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" Argento's Opera is a film of rare beauty, a celebration of love's absence and the ferocious force of the gaze." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 4, 2001
 
Opera (1991)80%
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" Close Up is still the definitive film-on-film commentary." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2002
 
Close-Up (1990)91%
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" It’s a sign of true genius that a director can summon the rise, fall and subsequent rebirth of the cosmos with such a profound understanding and respect for the shape of things." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2003
 
Yeelen (1987)86%
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" David Lynch's mise en scene screams "Leave it to Beaver."" -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 27, 2002
 
Blue Velvet (1986)90%
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" Lanzmann builds the past using tools that exist only in the present, summoning an unfathomable catastrophe with the voices and memories of survivors." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2003
 
Shoah (1985)100%

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