Bill Weber
Tomatometer-approved critic
The Easy Life (1962)
92%
2.5/4
“Dino Risi's well-cast leads can't quite sell his heavy-handed irony as truths about masculine character.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 28, 2022
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Rembrandt's J'Accuse (2008)
100%
2.5/4
“This immersive tour of the mortal manipulations fueling Europe's 17th-century cultural capital supplies wit and intellect while it starves the emotions.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 20, 2021
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Visitors (2013)
69%
3/4
“Godfrey Reggio's symphony of pristine 4K images doesn't add up to one grand epiphany, but an intermittent cluster of small ones.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 19, 2014
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Tim's Vermeer (2013)
90%
3/4
“It chronicles the quest of a self-described "geek," and there are pleasurable frissons of discovery in the detective work.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 19, 2013
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Argentinian Lesson (2011)
3/4
“This pair of hour-long docs depicts a community of agrarian or hard-laboring citizens without condescension and with a touch of populist poetry.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 16, 2013
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Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
41%
1/4
“Bille August's film is a protracted, soporific trip into Portuguese history that would like to be a romantic thriller.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 6, 2013
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Intolerance (1916)
98%
“D.W. Griffith's masterpiece, likely the most influential film ever made, has been given new life with a gold-standard digital cleanup.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 30, 2013
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Faust (2011)
66%
2.5/4
“Though its ballast of jokes and spectacle are formidable, it often lurches about at a remote, enigmatic distance.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 12, 2013
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Go for Sisters (2013)
74%
2/4
“LisaGay Hamilton and Yolonda Ross persuasively embody modern urban feminine strength, but they're eventually stranded in a recycled road movie.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 2, 2013
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In the Name Of (2013)
79%
2/4
“This Polish "gay priest tempted" drama is almost as confused about the moral quandaries of its characters as they are.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 29, 2013
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The Counselor (2013)
33%
2.5/4
“The film doesn't temper enough of Cormac McCarthy's excesses, but Ridley Scott and his ensemble find enough meat in his scenario to make for diverting, bloody pleasure.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 24, 2013
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
97%
4/5
“Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand's reinvention of the movie musical has tinsel, Technicolor, and a beating, broken heart.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 14, 2013
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Zero Charisma (2013)
77%
1.5/4
“It's a pity that it hews to sitcom-like formula rather than using this bank of knowledge and sympathy to create something more original.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 7, 2013
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Let the Fire Burn (2012)
98%
3.5/4
“An unnerving, all-archival account of Philadelphia citizens suddenly terrorized by the unchecked violence of rogue "law and order."” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 30, 2013
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Parkland (2013)
51%
2/4
“The Peter Landesman film's overt politics are minimal, aside from defaulting to the myth of John F. Kennedy as a martyr for...something.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 29, 2013
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Hôtel Normandy (2013)
60%
1/4
“Another well-upholstered but cheap exercise in luxe pandering that fails as romantic farce.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 23, 2013
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Antoine and Antoinette (1947)
75%
3/4
“It bubbles with an optimistic portrait of a happily married young couple, and a lively gallery of supporting characters worthy of a Preston Sturges farce.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 22, 2013
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Kill Your Darlings (2013)
77%
2/4
“An overmatched star and a scarcity of eccentricity sink this hip-lit origin story from director John Krokidas.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 11, 2013
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Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
33%
2/4
“Billy Bob Thornton's ensemble Southern family dramedy fails to subvert its cutesy formula often enough.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 10, 2013
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The Future (2013)
80%
2/4
“A counterproductively "literary" film with no satisfying payoffs, Rutger Hauer's blind recluse notwithstanding.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 3, 2013
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The Last Christeros (2011)
2.5/4
“The film forsakes most of the underdog sentimentality found in traditional genre treatments of noble sacrifice.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 27, 2013
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The Happy Sad (2013)
71%
1.5/4
“Ken Urban, adapting his own play, fumbles at injections of urban, and decidedly not urbane, levity, in addition to telegraphing entire subplots.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 13, 2013
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Off Label (2012)
50%
2/4
“Sincerely angry about the crisis in polypharmacy, this narrative suffers from a documentarian form of A.D.D.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 5, 2013
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Lovelace (2013)
53%
1.5/4
“Lost in the music, mustaches, and furniture of the early '70s, this docudrama of a porn star's exploitation isn't nearly painful enough.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 26, 2013
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Blackfish (2013)
98%
3/4
“The Frankensteinian rebellion of orcas against their corporate captors turns this doc into a sort of showbiz horror film.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 13, 2013
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