Chuck Rudolph
Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:
Chuck Rudolph is a writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Official Website:
http://www.slantmagazine.com
Jules and Jim (1962)
94%
3.5/4
“Jules and Jim is sad yet humorous, breathless yet contemplative, universal yet hermetic.” –
Slant Magazine
May 30, 2005
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The Upside of Anger (2005)
74%
2.5/4
“Endeavors to airmail the middle-aged suburban angst made fashionable by American Beauty safely back to cynicism-free sitcom territory.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 14, 2005
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Country of My Skull (2004)
23%
1.5/4
“Peace, love, and understanding, apparently, are best served with a side order of .45-caliber satisfaction.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 10, 2005
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
60%
2/4
“A textbook example of why the odds of finding a good genre film are currently about equal to those of winning the lottery.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 13, 2005
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Bruce Almighty (2003)
48%
“In several ways the movie is an apathetic revision of The Truman Show, with Carrey starring as both Truman and Christof.” –
Slant Magazine
May 21, 2003
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
74%
“Arrives with the same chilling thud that accompanied the dashed hopes and ruined promises of the last two Star Wars movies.” –
Slant Magazine
May 9, 2003
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Spellbound (2002)
97%
“Blitz is not a filmmaker interested in his subjects, but only in manipulating their experiences for entertainment value.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 2, 2003
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The Good Thief (2002)
77%
“Even with the drugs and the gambling and a host of oddballs who are thankfully never romanticized to the point of nausea, the film is ultimately much too sanitary for its own good.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 1, 2003
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Basic (2003)
21%
“There's some magic on display worthy of the great Houdini--in scene after scene, logic and reason vanish before our very eyes with a well-timed poof!” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 28, 2003
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Assassination Tango (2002)
48%
“At age 72, Robert Duvall has pretty much earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants. Assassination Tango is exactly that: whatever the hell he wants.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 27, 2003
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Levity (2003)
34%
“The kind of downsized, misguidedly sincere movie that is meant to transparently serve as its participants' penance for the slop they make the rest of the year.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 22, 2003
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The Hunted (2003)
30%
“In its handful of principal moments the film compares favorably with the perceptive lyricism of Walter Hill and Michael Mann.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 12, 2003
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Tears of the Sun (2003)
34%
“An imminent favorite at the White House screening room, but the film is ultimately so dry and remote that one can't imagine Chaney or Ashcroft trooping through all the exposition and moral finagling to get to the carnage.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 5, 2003
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Gods and Generals (2003)
8%
“As remote and unyielding as an untouched textbook, often so much so that its academic fanaticism causes it to resemble a spectacular parody of daytime television's breathy, on-the-fly awkwardness.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 24, 2003
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Poolhall Junkies (2002)
33%
“A brassy bit of entertainment that makes up in hard-boiled showmanship what it lacks in subtlety.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 14, 2003
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Dark Blue (2002)
58%
“That Dark Blue's template roughly coincides with the Rodney King race riots reeks of a pathetic attempt to over-conceptualize what is, at heart, a superficial, obvious morality play.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 14, 2003
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Laurel Canyon (2002)
68%
“If the booze-swilling, oversexed evil sister of McDormand's Almost Famous matron were to make her own movie, it might look something like Laurel Canyon.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 9, 2003
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All the Real Girls (2003)
72%
“Broadens the director's rural visual beauty but also benefits from a sharper placement of his narrative shrapnel and his characters' acute internal dilemmas.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 9, 2003
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The Recruit (2003)
44%
“Apparently making a spy thriller that amounts to something more than James Bond clichs taken seriously is indeed mission: impossible.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 28, 2003
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The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
64%
“Feels less tantalizingly ambiguous than it does like a prologue that has somehow taken the place of the story that was meant to succeed it.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 18, 2003
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Year of the Dragon (1985)
53%
5/5
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Matinee Magazine
Jan 18, 2003
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What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
81%
2/5
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Matinee Magazine
Jan 18, 2003
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Three Colors: White (1993)
89%
4/5
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Matinee Magazine
Jan 18, 2003
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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)
85%
3/5
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Matinee Magazine
Jan 18, 2003
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Chaos (2001)
84%
0.5/4
“Remarkable in that it approaches its assortment of characters with an even hand, regardless of their behavior--until the final third, that is.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 18, 2003
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