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JEFFREY WESTHOFF
PUBLICATION(S)
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey has been reviewing films professionally since he was a senior in high school and wrote reviews for his home-town paper, the Erie Times News.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 1125
Total QuickRatings: 1565

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Chicago Film Critics Association

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• Location: Palatine, IL


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
FRESH SAMPLE
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Fresh  Australia
Fresh  Quantum of Solace
Fresh  Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Fresh  Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Fresh  Ghost Town
Fresh  Traitor
Fresh  The Clone Wars
Fresh  The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Fresh  Step Brothers
Fresh  Space Chimps
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ROTTEN SAMPLE
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Rotten  Twilight
Rotten  Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Rotten  Changeling
Rotten  W.
Rotten  Body of Lies
Rotten  Eagle Eye
Rotten  Burn After Reading
Rotten  Pineapple Express
Rotten  Journey to the Center of the Earth
Rotten  Hancock
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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3/4
 
" It is a pleasure, and not a guilty one, to place ourselves in the hands of a mischievous director who wants to push screen dimensions back to the era of CinemaScope, Technicolor and stereophonic sound."
Posted Nov 26, 2008
 
Australia (2008)52%
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2/4
 
" The longer the revelations drag out, the duller Twilight gets. And the revelations drag on a long time - three quarters of the movie."
Posted Nov 20, 2008
 
Twilight (2008)44%
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3/4
 
" With his cool blue-eyed gaze and assured athletic moves, Craig holds this insanely uneven movie together."
Posted Nov 13, 2008
 
Quantum of Solace (2008)65%
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2.5/4
 
" Except for the moronic title (Madagascar is part of Africa, so it's not much of an escape, is it?), the sequel is more enjoyable than the original."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)60%
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1/4
 
" The most offensive aspect of Zack and Miri is not the language or the subject matter, but the agonizing predictability of the story."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)64%
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2/4
 
" How could a film with so much turmoil, drama and pulp elements become boring? Because it contains too much of all of the above."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Changeling (2008)59%
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2/4
 
" Stone miscalculates by wanting to talk about George W. Bush just as he has become the lamest of lame ducks."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
W. (2008)57%
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2/4
 
" Body of Lies proves as generic as its title."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Body of Lies (2008)51%
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3/4
 
" Cera and Denning are a winning team."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)71%
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2/4
 
" Eagle Eye occupies a treacherous middle ground. It isn't credible enough to work as a thriller and isn't ridiculous enough to work as a spoof."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Eagle Eye (2008)27%
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3/4
 
" Despite the high-concept premise, Ghost Town has a low-concept feel. The jokes are small, sly and sometimes gentle."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Ghost Town (2008)84%
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2/4
 
" Burn After Reading is part spy spoof and part rumination of middle-aged loneliness, which goes a long way to explain why its elements never cohere."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Burn After Reading (2008)79%
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3/4
 
" Like The Fugitive, Traitor is a thriller where both the pursuer and the pursued are well-developed, compelling and sympathetic figures."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)56%
 N/A  
" The Clone Wars loom large in Star Wars history"
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)19%
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2.5/4
 
" Despite Ahsoka's cloying presence, The Clone Wars is still easier to take than Attack of the Clones."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)19%
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2.5/4
 
" Pineapple Express is funny, but it's not outrageously funny. Such material needs to be outrageously funny to succeed."
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)68%
 N/A  
" Superhero Scorecard: Iron Man tops the summer's comic book fare"
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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3/4
 
" Another enjoyable bit of high adventure and malarkey."
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)14%
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3/4
 
" When Step Brothers is funny, it's hilarious. But when it isn't funny, the second hand of your watch sounds peculiarly loud."
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)54%
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3/4
 
" Some days you just can't resist cartoon chimps mocking William Shatner's delivery."
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Space Chimps (2008)35%
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2/4
 
" Journey to the Center of the Earth isn't playing in 3-D in every theater, but that's the only way to see it. Even then you have to wait until the last half-hour for the good stuff."
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)61%
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2/4
 
" The attempts to deepen the emotions turn Hancock into a strange, conflicted and often joyless film."
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)39%
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4/4
 
" If you can imagine Buster Keaton as a small box with binoculars for eyes and tank treads for legs -- and WALL-E makes this easy to imagine -- then the movie's first half represents the purest visual storytelling since movies started to talk."
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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2.5/4
 
" After four decades of technological improvements, the Cone of Silence still doesn't work, but Get Smart still does - mostly."
Posted Jun 23, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)53%
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3/4
 
" Essentially, this Incredible Hulk is a science fiction, Jekyll and Hyde version of The Bourne Identity."
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)67%
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2.5/4
 
" As imperfect as it is, Chaos Theory is much better than most of Hollywood's output this year."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Chaos Theory (2008)31%
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2/4
 
" "Street Kings" is 107 minutes long and most casual viewers will know the bad guy's identity 100 minutes before Reeves does."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)36%
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2.5/4
 
" Without a clear-cut plot to lead him, first-time director Noam Murro gets muddled in the perpetual sadness of too many characters."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)48%
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3/4
 
" Glib, sophisticated and silly."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)52%
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2/4
 
" For a movie about high-stakes gambling, 21 settles for penny-ante dramatics."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
21 (2008)35%
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2.5/4
 
" Peirce ... dramatizes the problems of the Iraqi War vet with more subtlety than we've seen from other filmmakers."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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3/4
 
" With his laconic attitude, Owen Wilson has a talent for making dumb material funny. That talent serves him greatly in Drillbit Taylor."
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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3.5/4
 
" After two painful messes, Hollywood gets Dr. Seuss right with Horton Hears a Who!"
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
 N/A  
" Horton brings end to Dr. Seuss malpractice"
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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2.5/4
 
" Asks the audience to spend a lot of time waiting for not much to happen."
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Married Life (2008)58%
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3/4
 
" Adams channels every dizzy 1930s ingénue as she sashays about in silk and exclaims, 'Jeepers!' at every opportunity."
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)77%
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2/4
 
" All the lush sets and elaborate costumes cannot disguise the fact that Portman is terribly cast."
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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3/4
 
" The material is flawed, to be sure, but the story is less predictable than you would guess and it exudes an easy-going wit."
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
Penelope (2008)50%
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2/4
 
" Even though there's some smart stuff in Charlie Bartlett, there's a lot more dumb stuff that keeps the worthy elements from aligning."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)55%
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2/4
 
" Vantage Point requires three simultaneous coincidences for the ending to work. That may be a record."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)36%
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3.5/4
 
" The Spiderwick Chronicles is a terrific ride for children who crave genuine excitement, not that tepid Scooby Doo stuff."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)79%
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2.5/4
 
" The opening of Jumper is so similar to the opening of Spider-Man that Stan Lee's copyright infringement sense must be tingling."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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1.5/4
 
" Except for Hilton's delusion that she has comic (or any) talent, the movie's worst sin is that it is inept 95 percent of the time. The remaining 5 percent is kind of cute."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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2.5/4
 
" Thought it falters almost as often as it succeeds, Fool's Gold has an odd, low-key appeal."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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1.5/4
 
" About a dozen other movies have used variations on this plot. And every single one of them has been smarter and more entertaining than Over Her Dead Body."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Over Her Dead Body (2008)16%
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3/4
 
" Newcomer Rutina Wesley brings dynamite physicality and haunted intellect to How She Move."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
How She Move (2008)67%
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1/4
 
" Exploits the very trend it condemns."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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3/4
 
" A monster movie for the YouTube era."
Posted Feb 25, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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3/4
 
" It proves that with the right cast and creative team in place, even an old formula can still entertain."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)40%
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1/4
 
" Getting religion in the end is no excuse for a parade of bad taste."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)14%

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