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Carlo Cavagna

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Biography:

A few years ago, frustrated by the daily grind of working as a surly government troglodyte, Carlo began pestering his friends with unsolicited e-mailed critiques of movies he had seen. With a surfeit of reviews clogging his hard drive and no Web experience whatsoever, Carlo eventually decided that the only thing to do was to create a film criticism site. With the assistance of Dreamweaver, a book on how to use Dreamweaver, and a couple reluctant friends, AboutFilm.com was born in March 1999. AboutCultFilm.com, administered by Marc Slanger, followed in 2000. AboutFilmBoards.com, the AboutFilm community site, was launched in 2002. At present, Carlo aspires to recognition as a great hegemon of cinematic critique, but has instead found his niche as a shifty-eyed site administrator. Composing diatribes in his ratty paper-lined lair, Carlo expends great energy quixotically scheming to topple the bloated ranks of the Hollywood hierarchy. Not possessed of a lengthy attention span, however, Carlo can instead often be found consuming unhealthy quantities of cheese. Carlo has been a member of the Online Film Critics Society since June 2000.

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Marina del Rey, CA

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http://www.aboutfilm.com

Reviews

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Face (2002) 63% B- “Face is a film of considerable charm and warmth, even if the material sometimes feels well worn.” – AboutFilm.com Mar 13, 2021 Full Review B- “Face is a film of considerable charm and warmth, even if the material sometimes feels well worn.” – AboutFilm.com Oct 20, 2018 Full Review The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) 58% B+ “Recreating the unusual spirit of the photos is what the film does best...” – AboutFilm.com May 28, 2006 Full Review Friends With Money (2006) 72% B “Holofcener has a gift for wonderfully oblivious and in-denial characters, and the subtly ridiculous situations that such characters get themselves into.” – AboutFilm.com May 28, 2006 Full Review District B13 (2004) 82% B “Besson's script may be formulaic crap, but he obviously still has an eye for fresh action talent, and an instinct for how to show it off.” – AboutFilm.com May 22, 2006 Full Review Fierce People (2005) 24% D “Dunne weighs down a light social satire with a ponderous anthropological analogy.” – AboutFilm.com May 22, 2006 Full Review Wah-Wah (2005) 54% C- “The sort of film that's obviously deeply meaningful to the filmmaker, but he fails to make it particularly meaningful to you.” – AboutFilm.com May 13, 2006 Full Review Manderlay (2005) 50% D “The most self-important, heavy-handed film since...well, since DOGVILLE.” – AboutFilm.com Jan 17, 2006 Full Review Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) 88% D- “A thin slice of a not-very-interesting nothing... The book they said was unfilmable turns out to be a film that is unwatchable.” – AboutFilm.com Jan 17, 2006 Full Review The Matador (2005) 75% B- “insubstantial, but fun” – AboutFilm.com Jan 10, 2006 Full Review Match Point (2005) 77% A- “Thank goodness Allen has left New York and left himself out of the script.” – AboutFilm.com Dec 29, 2005 Full Review The Ice Harvest (2005) 47% C- “Memo to John Cusack: There's a thin line between humorous unflappability in the face of strange events, and sleepwalking.” – AboutFilm.com Dec 24, 2005 Full Review The World's Fastest Indian (2005) 82% C+ “The *ahem* engines take far to long to rev up.” – AboutFilm.com Dec 19, 2005 Full Review Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) 68% C+ “Just because the film starts taking itself seriously doesn't mean you have to.” – AboutFilm.com Dec 14, 2005 Full Review Ellie Parker (2005) 52% B- “While the material wears thin, every minute of this film is a tour-de-force performance.” – AboutFilm.com Dec 14, 2005 Full Review Brokeback Mountain (2005) 88% B+ “An introspective film, but not, thankfully, an inert film.” – AboutFilm.com Dec 10, 2005 Full Review Pride & Prejudice (2005) 87% C+ “CliffsNotes version” – AboutFilm.com Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Proof (2005) 62% B- “A decent film that...remains married to its words and bound to its limited sets.” – AboutFilm.com Nov 1, 2005 Full Review Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) 93% B+ “Strathairn is riveting.” – AboutFilm.com Nov 1, 2005 Full Review The Constant Gardener (2005) 83% B- “Meirelles isn't interested in either character or suspense. He's interested in political issues and the scenery.” – AboutFilm.com Oct 16, 2005 Full Review Pretty Persuasion (2005) 33% B- “a dark teen comedy that tries way too hard to be a dark teen comedy” – AboutFilm.com Oct 16, 2005 Full Review Nine Lives (2005) 76% B+ “Nine Lives does contains a few tedious acting-school-exercise moments. Yet the accumulated power of the vignettes packs a wallop.” – AboutFilm.com Sep 12, 2005 Full Review Grizzly Man (2005) 93% C+ “Herzog comes across as the worst kind of cinematic jackass-the filmmaker who doesn't trust his own work to speak for itself.” – AboutFilm.com Sep 10, 2005 Full Review Cronicas (2004) 71% B+ “a gritty story about a reporter who gets carried away by his ego while he believes he is pursuing the greater good” – AboutFilm.com Sep 1, 2005 Full Review The Devil's Rejects (2005) 54% B “In the genre of low-budget hillbilly slasher movies, it's a masterpiece.” – AboutFilm.com Jul 19, 2005 Full Review
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