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David N. Butterworth

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Biography:

David N. Butterworth studied Film & Television Production and History of Art at West Surrey College of Art & Design in Farnham, England before relocating to the United States in 1983. He started writing film reviews in 1988 for the "Daily Pennsylvanian," the student-run newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. His first review was of Godfrey Reggio's visually resplendent yet wordless tone poem, Powaqqatsi -- he figured it should get a little easier after that! Since that time, David created and edited the film review website, "La Movie Boeuf," and served as Film Editor for OFFOFFOFF.com -- "the guide to alternative New York arts, entertainment, and culture." Author of "Celluloid Friends: Cinematic Quakers, Real and Imagined (1922-2012)," David has also worked as a staff writer and film critic for various print and online publications including the "Ritz Filmbill," the "Las Vegas Weekly," and Philadelphia's "Broad Street Community Newspapers." He lives in Moorestown, New Jersey with his wife Emily Lockwood Corse and has four daughters -- Zoë, Grace, Lilla, and Bailey.

Location:

Moorestown, NJ, USA

Official Website:

http://lamovieboeuf.wordpress.com/

Reviews

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The Vast of Night (2019) 92% 3.5/4 “Style becomes substance in this captivating throwback to those classic science fiction films of the 1950s.” – La Movie Boeuf Oct 25, 2020 Full Review The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020) 79% 2/4 “A meditative yet muddled Canadian horror yarn that quickly unwinds if you look at it too closely.” – La Movie Boeuf Oct 2, 2020 Full Review Marriage Story (2019) 95% 4/4 “Writer/director Baumbach coaxes the very best out of his players. "This is why I love Scarlett and Adam..."” – La Movie Boeuf Jul 27, 2020 Full Review Military Wives (2019) 77% 1.5/4 “Painfully formulaic of its "crowd pleasing" ilk.” – La Movie Boeuf Jun 22, 2020 Full Review Judy & Punch (2019) 77% 3/4 “A canny debut from Ms. Foulkes, with surprisingly few missteps.” – La Movie Boeuf May 10, 2020 Full Review Cremaster 4 (1995) 43% 2/4 “A repetitive and not altogether successful entry in the mind 'n' bum numbing "Cremaster" series.” – La Movie Boeuf Apr 30, 2020 Full Review Cremaster 5 (1998) 57% 2.5/4 “Barney climbs the stage of the Budapest opera house while underwater androgynous faeries attend to the nether regions of a differentiated being in a finale that "defers definitive conclusion."” – La Movie Boeuf Apr 30, 2020 Full Review Cremaster 2 (1999) 71% 3/4 “The only film in recent memory in which serial killer Gary Gilmore attempts to conjoin two Ford Mustangs with petroleum jelly.” – La Movie Boeuf Apr 30, 2020 Full Review Cremaster 1 (1996) 67% 3/4 “Barney explores the creation of form in a universe that is by turns jaw-dropping, laughable, head-scratching, infuriating... but never less than unique.” – La Movie Boeuf Apr 30, 2020 Full Review She's Allergic to Cats (2016) 77% 1.5/4 “Michael Reich's uber-experimental, semi-autobiographical fantasy has a propensity for showing us in close-up things we'd rather not see, not even in long-shot.” – La Movie Boeuf Apr 22, 2020 Full Review Images (1972) 71% 2/4 “Committed contributions from York (acting), Zsigmond (photography), Williams (score), and Yamash'ta (sound design) amount to little more than a jangling jumble of hyperbolic head games.” – La Movie Boeuf Mar 28, 2020 Full Review Hard to Be a God (2013) 95% 3/4 “Aleksei German's immersive cinematic vision is like the mucky, muddy parts of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" scrutinized, lionized, and revitalized to the nth degree -- call it The Knights Who Say "Nyet!"” – La Movie Boeuf Feb 23, 2020 Full Review Just Mercy (2019) 85% 2.5/4 “A competent, if predictable, treatment of Bryan Stevenson's bestselling book.” – La Movie Boeuf Feb 23, 2020 Full Review Hustlers (2019) 88% 2/4 “Everything about "Hustlers" feels like a hustle.” – La Movie Boeuf Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Little Women (2019) 95% 3/4 “In Greta Gerwig's fine retelling of Louisa May Alcott's revered classic, the giddy gaggle that is the mad March clan are an easy lot to love.” – La Movie Boeuf Jan 18, 2020 Full Review The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2003) 3/4 “More of the same, including Isabella Rossellini, who plays someone called Madame Moitessier (Character Number 61).” – La Movie Boeuf Jan 5, 2020 Full Review The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 3: From Sark to Finish (2003) 2.5/4 “Part 3 of Peter Greenaway's typically-excessive Tulse trilogy makes a strong case for keeping everything intact. Greenaway aficionados are unlikely to be put off by a piddly 6-hour running time, after all.” – La Movie Boeuf Jan 5, 2020 Full Review All Is Bright (2013) 48% 3/4 “The Two Pauls -- Giamatti and Rudd -- shine in another downbeat ode to humanity from director Phil Morrison ("Junebug").” – La Movie Boeuf Jan 4, 2020 Full Review The Dawn Wall (2017) 100% 4/4 “The best mountaineering film (and then some) since Joe Simpson and Simon Yates first touched the void in 2004. Absolutely mesmerizing.” – La Movie Boeuf Nov 16, 2019 Full Review Joker (2019) 68% 3/4 “It's undeniably bleak to watch, but Phoenix demands our attention... and gets it.” – La Movie Boeuf Oct 18, 2019 Full Review 78/52 (2017) 88% 2.5/4 “When it sticks to its guns, "78/52" is fascinating. But Alexandre O. Philippe's inconsistent documentary needs much more cut-by-cut critique, and much less rah-rah repetition.” – La Movie Boeuf Oct 9, 2019 Full Review Victoria (2015) 82% 3/4 “"One City. One Night. One Take." One Wow.” – La Movie Boeuf Oct 9, 2019 Full Review The Road Movie (2016) 87% 2.5/4 “A spectacular dash-cam compilation of head-ons, side-swipes, t-bones, fishtails, jackknives, roll-overs, and other moving violations unfolding daily (heaven forbid!) on Russian roads.” – La Movie Boeuf Sep 24, 2019 Full Review Running With the Devil (2019) 25% 1.5/4 “"It's Nic Cage. How bad could it be?"” – La Movie Boeuf Sep 24, 2019 Full Review Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) 38% 2.5/4 “"Slaughterhouse Rulez" is just not in the same league as those early Wright/Pegg/Frost collaborations (of which this is not one).” – La Movie Boeuf Aug 29, 2019 Full Review
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