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Daniel M. Kimmel

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Daniel M. Kimmel is a past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics and current co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. His reviews appeared in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for 25 years and can now be found at Northshoremovies.net. He is Boston correspondent for Variety, the "Movie Maven" for the weekly Jewish Advocate and teaches film at Suffolk University. He writes on classic science fiction films for Clarkesworld and Space and Time magazine. His book on the history of FOX 온라인카지노추천, The Fourth Network, received the Cable Center Book Award. His other books include a history of DreamWorks, The Dream Team, and I'll Have What She?s Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies. His collection of essays, Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction movies has been nominated for a Hugo Award for "Best Related Work."

Favorites:

Annie Hall, The Producers, North by Northwest, Holiday, The Fly (1986), Lilo and Stitch, Dr. Strangelove, Sunset Boulevard, High Noon, The Stunt Man.

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Scrap (2022) 98% 3/5 “ “Scrap” is the sort of festival film that should thrive on streaming. Never intended to be a blockbuster, it’s a grown-up movie that doesn’t make you feel like you’ve just wasted your time on two hours of explosions and special effects.” – North Shore Movies Apr 18, 2025 Full Review The President's Wife (2023) 87% 4/5 “This marks the feature film debut of director/co-writer Léa Domenach who shows a deft touch balancing both the comedy and the more dramatic moments. With the radiant Deneuve leading the way, “The President’s Wife” is a delight.” – North Shore Movies Apr 18, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 88% 3/5 “Ultimately “The Wedding Banquet” stands as an example of a remake that was done for the right reasons. The world of 2025 is different from the world of 1993, and the new film reflects those changes in a positive way.” – North Shore Movies Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Time Travel Is Dangerous (2024) 90% 3/5 “For my novel Time on My Hands, I set out to spoof every cliché of the time travel story. The makers of TIME TRAVEL IS DANGEROUS have come up with something I didn’t think of: having a time machine would be handy if you owned a shop selling vintage items.” – North Shore Movies Apr 11, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 83% 2/5 ““Great Danes are the king of dogs,” declares a character in THE FRIEND. If you believe that, you may be engaged by this story of a woman bequeathed a hulking dog named Apollo. Otherwise, in spite of a game performance by Naomi Watts, it is a chaotic mess.” – North Shore Movies Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Thank You Very Much (2023) 90% 3.5/5 “Do people remember Andy Kaufman today? It’s hard to believe he's been gone more than 40 years. THANK YOU VERY MUCH is a wonderful introduction to his unique talent. It provides interviews and insights into who he was and what made him tick.” – North Shore Movies Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Disney's Snow White (2025) 40% 3/5 ““Snow White” should do well as family entertainment but perhaps the best news is this: with the upcoming “live action” version of “Lilo & Stitch,” Disney is running out of animated features to remake.” – North Shore Movies Mar 21, 2025 Full Review October 8 (2024) 72% 4/5 ““October 8” makes no attempt to solve the issues between Israel and Palestinians. It’s a message to all of America: the world’s oldest hate has staged a comeback – what are we going to do about it?” – North Shore Movies Mar 15, 2025 Full Review The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) 71% 2/5 “Watching two veteran actors bringing their characters to life is one of the pleasures of movies. Watching them struggle in vain against a script that’s spinning its wheels is not. THE RULE OF JENNY PEN – a purported psychological thriller – is the latter.” – North Shore Movies Mar 7, 2025 Full Review My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) 95% 4/5 “MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE sounds like the title of a horror film, while in fact, it’s a comedy/drama that proves to be an emotionally powerful story about what life is like for veterans. ” – North Shore Movies Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Old Guy (2024) 29% 3/5 ““Old Guy” meets expectations for an action comedy while harkening back to the similarly plotted Burt Reynolds film “Breaking In” (1989). Generational change is a story that will never get old.” – North Shore Movies Feb 21, 2025 Full Review Cleaner (2025) 50% 4/5 “CLEANER is a crackerjack action film that takes its time setting things up and then tears loose. The cleverly plotted script has more originality than a dozen superhero movies.” – North Shore Movies Feb 21, 2025 Full Review The Dead Thing (2024) 83% 2.5/5 “It takes a while to figure out what THE DEAD THING is about, as it’s more of a puzzle box than an out-and-out horror film. While director Elric Kane has style to spare, some may find this a bit of a slow burn.” – North Shore Movies Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Renner (2025) 42% 3/5 “RENNER is a real curio, pulling you in with its novel take on Artificial Intelligence, and then supplying enough plot twists for several stories. If you think you have it figured out… you still won’t see where it’s going.” – North Shore Movies Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Touristic Intents (2021) 3/5 “TOURISTIC INTENTS is about a massive seaside resort named Prora – constructed in Nazi Germany – and what became of it. Over the course of a tight 72 minutes, it raises questions about history, industrialism, and leisure time.” – North Shore Movies Jan 20, 2025 Full Review Under the Crystal Sky (2025) 2/5 “Given the care given to the look and feel of “Under the Crystal Sky,” it seems odd that they would put so much effort into a movie that has – literally and figuratively – nothing to say.” – North Shore Movies Jan 19, 2025 Full Review Aladdin 3477- I: The Jinn of Wisdom (2025) 2/5 “ALADDIN 3477: THE JINN OF WISDOM takes the Aladdin story into the 35th century and then moves the action from the Middle East to southeast Asia. The question is whether there’s an audience for it.” – North Shore Movies Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Chasing Chasing Amy (2023) 94% 3/5 ““Chasing Chasing Amy” is a unique film about how a movie can affect people differently and how even the filmmaker can’t predict what that outcome could be.” – North Shore Movies Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% 5/5 “WICKED may be the best movie musical since “Chicago” (2002).” – North Shore Movies Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Armor (2024) 0% 2/5 ““Armor” is the sort of movie that leaves you wondering why it was made in the first place. If Stallone didn’t do this for the money, let’s at least hope he was doing it as a favor for a friend.” – North Shore Movies Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Okie (2024) 91% 3/5 ““Okie” leaves us contemplating whether the things we tell ourselves about our own lives may be acts of self-deception. The result is a simply told story that, nevertheless, has some disturbing questions directed to us just below the surface.” – North Shore Movies Nov 8, 2024 Full Review Director's Cut (2024) 62% 2.5/5 ““Director’s Cut” – yes, the title is a play on words – is a film where you go in knowing most of the cast won’t survive, and wondering if it’s a set up for a horror franchise. Stranger things have happened.” – North Shore Movies Oct 31, 2024 Full Review Hangdog (2023) 2/5 “In the end, “Hangdog” is just a shaggy dog story in search of a punchline.” – North Shore Movies Oct 27, 2024 Full Review My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2022) 93% 4/5 “MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK is an unusual approach to the oeuvre of filmdom’s “Master Of Suspense.” Some forty years after his death, it imagines him coming back and discussing his life and career from a modern perspective. It is audacious and it works.” – North Shore Movies Oct 27, 2024 Full Review The Goldman Case (2023) 98% 4/5 “THE GOLDMAN CASE is a riveting courtroom drama from France, detailing a trial that caught national attention in a similar manner to the way that the O.J. Simpson trial did here. ” – North Shore Movies Oct 22, 2024 Full Review
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