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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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STATS
Total Reviews: 2489

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• 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  Jimmy Carter Man From Plains
2.5/4  Meeting Resistance
2/4  Wristcutters: A Love Story
1.5/4  Bella
1/4  The Kite Runner
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 Tiger's Tail, like Cassandra's Dream, prominently features a boat that is both symbol of financial attainment and emotional ruin; it also finds a master filmmaker defying the "show, don't tell" principle with almost crippling cynicism." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 24, 2008
 
The Tiger's Tail (2006)0%
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1.5/4
 
" One reacts to Joel Hopkins's Last Chance Harvey with about the same level of revulsion directed at its titular character by the people around him." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2008
 
Last Chance Harvey (2008)74%
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" The film's calculatingly minimalist style is in many ways as affected as all the gay Amerindie films at which writer-director Yen Tan snottily thumbs his nose." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 3, 2008
 
Ciao (2008)36%
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2.5/4
 
" Never feels philosophically uncommitted, nor does it scan as neo-colonialist exploitation." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 2, 2008
 
Dust (2008)75%
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3/4
 
" Clearly Van Sant struggled to deliver something as conventional as he has, but if his visual digressions aren't exactly subversive, they affect a feeling of angst that's very much in sync with the time period depicted in the film." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 24, 2008
 
Milk (2008)92%
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2/4
 
" Quaintly shot and paced, not unlike Shotgun Stories, but insanely over-written, Lake City dumps on audiences a plot that consists of 500-some-odd puzzle pieces that all come together exactly as you expect." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 16, 2008
 
Lake City (2008)8%
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3/4
 
" The material has been playfully updated, made into a parable of gay desire and wish fulfillment, but its significance remains the same, right down to Timothy's understanding that free will must ultimately be restored." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 16, 2008
 
Were the World Mine (2008)67%
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" Give me the first Hellboy any day, but it's always fun to see the new creatures Del Toro comes up with for his netherworlds." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 11, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)88%
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2.5/4
 
" The end result not only constitutes an uncomfortable--dare I say, inorganic--collusion of fact and fiction but also suggests we're being indoctrinated into a cult." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 10, 2008
 
The Beautiful Truth (2008)46%
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" The film never quite recovers from writer-director Damian Harris's dithering way of shooting things." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 5, 2008
 
Gardens of the Night (2008)58%
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2/4
 
" Director Mijke de Jong employs a fractured style to match the personalities of its characters, but this synchronicity isn't so much heartfelt as it is solipsistic." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2008
 
Stages (2008)50%
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1.5/4
 
" Give me torture porn any day." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2008
 
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)30%
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1.5/4
 
" Without its weirdo visual flourishes, The Guitar would be completely reprehensible." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2008
 
The Guitar (2008)33%
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2/4
 
" Issues of class don't matter to the filmmakers, who pride above all else Fandila's justifications for what he does, romanticizing the possibility of his dying while giving the bulls he dances with the shaft." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 26, 2008
 
The Matador (2008)80%
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1.5/4
 
" Balthazar's aesthetic is ugly, aloof, maddeningly literal and unimaginative." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 19, 2008
 
Ben X (2008)62%
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2/4
 
" In the end, it probably doesn't matter if you think Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie is in fact a documentary, because the film's psychoanalysis is dull and reductive." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie (2008)n/a
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" Pure bliss, Malick's incantatory New World suspends us in time--regardless of how long it runs." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2008
 
The New World (2005)61%
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2/4
 
" All that's missing from this Edenic scenario is Cyndi Lauper belting "Living High and Mighty."" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2008
 
Tru Loved (2008)35%
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2.5/4
 
" Scraggly and aimless, a little cartoonish but highly personable." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2008
 
Filth and Wisdom (2008)28%
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2/4
 
" The film means well, but it's hardly cutting, made notable only by Bernett's performance." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2008
 
Breakfast with Scot (2008)50%
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" It's always cool to spend time with Sleeping Beauty, but without a game that allows you to determine if you're more like Aurora or Maleficent, this Platinum Edition package falls just shy of definitive." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2008
 
Sleeping Beauty (1959)90%
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" Fireproof stops becoming relatable to us all and only to the already, or easily, indoctrinated." -- L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Fireproof (2008)39%
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2/4
 
" Changeling announces itself as an autopsy of an expansive body of lies that it never actually performs, and as such the surprisingly graceless and phony aesthetic is what lingers most." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2008
 
Changeling (2008)59%
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1/4
 
" Essentially the equivalent of a news story where the facts are still forthcoming." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 
Bullet in the Head (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
" This ain't Elephant, even if it looks like one." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 
Afterschool (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
" Or, rather, Allah Made Me Not Funny." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2008
 
Allah Made Me Funny (2008)52%
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2/4
 
" What are these two privileged teens doing besides recreating scenes from Jean-Luc Godard's canon?" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 27, 2008
 
Voy a Explotar (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
" A more interesting exposé would have elaborated on the dreams of film schoolers and how Singer's ostensibly privileged upbringing gives him an advantage few in his league ever get." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2008
 
Unspooled (2008)n/a
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2.5/4
 
" As fabulous, scraggly, tough-minded, star-eyed and conflicted as the queen it documents." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2008
 
The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela (2008)44%
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" A preferable alternative would be watching Debbie Does Dallas while squirting Hershey's Syrup into my mouth." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Mother of Tears (2008)49%
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" You may appreciate the ballsy critique of a nation's callous obsession with development and reconstruction." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Taking Father Home (2008)n/a
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" Tarr struggles to adapt to an outmoded genre and, in the end, produces his least personal work to date." -- Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
The Man from London (2008)63%
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3/4
 
" This gangly brunette is bananas, and the music on the soundtrack is perfectly in sync with her kooky mode of social expression, so that she suggests Mary Pickford as well as Polly Jean Harvey." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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2/4
 
" Argues that nearly 60,000 United States armed forces wouldn't have lost their lives in Vietnam had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated. Duh." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 15, 2008
 
Virtual JFK (2008)79%
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1.5/4
 
" It seems disingenuous to call Fraulein a film when it's more like a glossy fashion magazine layout." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2008
 
Fraulein (2008)67%
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1/4
 
" Suggests a Black Snake Moan origin story as conceived by Blanche Devereaux." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2008
 
Hounddog (2008)17%
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1/4
 
" A kissing cousin of Todd Field and Todd Solondz, Ball suffocates audiences with a guttersniping view or suburban life, a Haggassian act of exploitation that misrepresents even the most fundamental modes of human interaction." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 7, 2008
 
Towelhead (2008)47%
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2/4
 
" Director Paul Krik would prefer if we all compared his feature-length debut to the practically minimalist The Parallax View, but Able Danger is really a hipster version of Soderbergh's inane The Good German." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 7, 2008
 
Able Danger (2008)40%
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2.5/4
 
" 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)97%
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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)43%
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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)69%
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1.5/4
 
" An intellectual and philosophical lost cause." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)55%
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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)79%
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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)18%
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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)79%
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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)64%

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