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Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

In addition to writing about movies for Salon, my writing on film has also appeared in Sight and Sound, Details, and the Boston Phoenix

Favorites:

My favorite film of all time is "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" A random sampling of some others would be Rules of the Game, The Godfather, Parts I and II, The Lady Eve, L'Atalante, A Hard Day's Night, The Wild Bunch, Last Tango in Paris, The Lady Eve

Location:

Boston

Official Website:

http://www.salonmagazine.com

Reviews

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Withnail and I (1987) 83% “Withnail must be one of the most complete put-on artists the movies have seen in a long time -- he even manages to put one over on the director” – Boston Phoenix Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% “[Brooks's] latest, Spaceballs, is more uneven than History of the World was, and without the naughty charge. Spaceballs never works up a full head of steam, but it does have some inventive shtick, as well as a few flashes of Brooks’s comic genius.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 11, 2024 Full Review White Men Can't Jump (1992) 75% “There's more wit, maturity, brains, and entertainment in "White Men" than in any commercial movie released so far this year. It's a jumper from outside, fast, clean, and a thing of beauty. ” – Boston Phoenix Aug 31, 2023 Full Review Elvis (2022) 77% “Thrillingly, director Baz Luhrmann makes the remarkable response to the singer feel like the only possible option to being offered this much pleasure, this much freedom.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 11, 2022 Full Review Bullet Train (2022) 53% “If Brad Pitt's remaining performances are numbered, I would hate like hell to think of what we missed just so that we could have this.” – Esquire Magazine Oct 11, 2022 Full Review Blonde (2022) 42% “A garish expressionistic illustration of what was already in Oates’ novel: claptrap Freudianism, victimization feminism, and the moral shock over the squalidness of Hollywood.” – Esquire Magazine Sep 30, 2022 Full Review Sidewalk Stories (1989) 79% “[Sidewalk Stories] has the feel of a whim carried through to its wrongheaded conclusion.” – Boston Phoenix Jan 24, 2022 Full Review Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) 100% “It's a flawed, contradictory movie -- aggressive and tender, stiff and graceful, clichéd and fresh, sophisticated and naive, traditional and modern. It's also, I think, a classic.” – Salon.com Nov 18, 2021 Full Review Lost & Found (2017) 73% “"The trick is just in understanding how to invite the spirit into the reality of each situation." Forty-seven years after it was filmed, this is the possibility of deliverance that Amazing Grace holds out to us.” – Los Angeles Review of Books Jun 24, 2019 Full Review Spotlight (2015) 97% “Spotlight joins the ranks of the great American muckraking pictures, from I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang to On the Waterfront, All the President's Men, and The Border.” – Los Angeles Review of Books Jan 18, 2019 Full Review Paterson (2016) 96% “Driver marries the surface stoicism of the classic male hero with the rich inner life of a man of deep feeling. And that's why we feel so close to him.” – Los Angeles Review of Books Jan 18, 2019 Full Review Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) 60% “Malek holds the movie together through its shaky passages.” – Los Angeles Review of Books Jan 18, 2019 Full Review The Bad News Bears (1976) 97% “At a time when sports movies can't be just sports movies anymore, it's both startling and soothing to take a second look at Michael Ritchie's Little League comedy The Bad News Bears.” – Slate May 30, 2018 Full Review Personal Shopper (2016) 81% “Stewart is in nearly every scene, and she's phenomenal.” – Newsweek Feb 28, 2018 Full Review The Wizard of Lies (2017) 73% “It's not a terrible piece of work, but the most you can claim for it is a kind of bloodless competence.” – Newsweek Dec 28, 2017 Full Review The Villainess (2017) 85% “What is entirely new about The Villainess is that it marries its revenge scenario to a melodrama of maternal sacrifice, with the film's terrific star, Kim Ok-bin, suffering more than Joan Crawford ever did.” – Newsweek Aug 24, 2017 Full Review An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) 80% “The movie is a piece of advocacy, and it succeeds at that: The conclusive science presented is powerful evidence that there is only one side to this story.” – Newsweek Jul 28, 2017 Full Review Lady Macbeth (2016) 89% “It is so calculated that you can see every shock from 3 miles out, and if it weren't for cold cruelty, Lady Macbeth would have no life at all.” – Newsweek Jul 21, 2017 Full Review War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) 94% “A consistently intelligent, morally thoughtful and often beautiful picture.” – Newsweek Jul 13, 2017 Full Review The Beguiled (2017) 79% “Coppola gets at thorny and complex ideas about how expectations of female gentility poison female sexuality and cause these women to experience desire as sickness.” – Newsweek Jun 22, 2017 Full Review My Cousin Rachel (2017) 76% “Du Maurier's novel was melodrama infused with the poisoned suspicions of male-female relations. Weisz does full justice to the tragic realism inside the contrivance.” – Newsweek Jun 9, 2017 Full Review Ball of Fire (1941) 100% “Ball of Fire came out five days before Pearl Harbor. You can imagine Americans listening to its flood of slang and knowing exactly what they were fighting for.” – Village Voice Dec 22, 2015 Full Review Tab Hunter Confidential (2015) 87% “Hunter, casual and good-humored throughout, tells a story that defies expectations ...” – Village Voice Oct 13, 2015 Full Review E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 99% “What's perhaps most amazing about E.T., what distinguishes it from many of the other fantasy films of its era, is its ability to put an audience under a spell of childlike wonderment without infantilizing it.” – Salon.com Jun 29, 2015 Full Review Pickup on South Street (1953) 93% “As good as are Widmark, with his proto-Method grin, and Peters, with her tawny, untutored naturalism, this is Thelma Ritter's movie. She transforms what could have been no more than a colorful eccentric to a figure of unshakable dignity.” – Village Voice May 26, 2015 Full Review
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