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Harvey S. Karten

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Biography:

After teaching high school for quite a while, I took an M.A. in Film and Theater from Hunter College in New York and a Ph.D. in Theater from the City University Graduate Center, also in the Big Apple. Having sat through one innocuous Broadway show after another and a great deal of talky off-Broadway productions as a so-called second-night critic, I realized that you don't always get what you pay for. Broadway shows may be $75 a ticket and movies just $9.50 (in New York), but you're more likely to have fun AND take away something of substance from the big screen. The switch from reviewing theater to reviewing movies was an easy one to make.When my application for membership in the New York Film Critics Circle was circular-filed (print media only, sorry), I founded the Online Film Critics Society in January 1997 and three years later, NYFCO (New York Film Critics Online).

Favorites:

Favorite films: Amadeus, Schindler's List, Lassie Come HomeBest of 2006: Thank You for Smoking

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Location:

Brooklyn, New York

Reviews

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Shtetlers (2020) B+ “This colorful but tragic look at Jewish settlements brings to mind "Fiddler on the Roof."” – Big Apple Reviews Jan 23, 2023 Full Review Kompromat (2022) 73% B+ “Stunning performance from Gilles Lellouch shows the French standing up to the Russians.” – Big Apple Reviews Jan 23, 2023 Full Review Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2022) 100% B “Newly released films of Nazi war crimes are covered. The archival films should have received more attention even at the expense of the talking heads.” – Big Apple Reviews Jan 21, 2023 Full Review White Noise (2022) 64% B “The movie captures the absurdities in the novel.” – Big Apple Reviews Jan 4, 2023 Full Review The Menu (2022) 88% B+ “From amuse bouch to dessert, this thriller earns its stripes in satirizing pretensions.” – Big Apple Reviews Dec 7, 2022 Full Review Living (2022) 96% B+ “This year you are not likely to find a movie about repression that is as finely honed as this one.” – Big Apple Reviews Dec 4, 2022 Full Review Wildcat (2022) 92% B+ “Lush jungle photography captures the emotional connection between an English war veteran and the ocelots he prepares for life in the wilds of Peru.” – Big Apple Reviews Nov 29, 2022 Full Review Tantura (2022) 94% B+ “Not a movie that will please an Israeli audience. That's a compliment.” – Big Apple Reviews Nov 27, 2022 Full Review EO (2022) 96% B “Travel broadens as we meet people who are different from us. EO, a donkey, discovers through travel that people are different from him; that even those who are called asses are not like him.” – Big Apple Reviews Nov 19, 2022 Full Review No Bears (2022) 99% B “Panahi's subdued filmmaking will appeal to an audience that enjoys the director's modus operandi.” – Shockya.com Nov 12, 2022 Full Review Nothing Lasts Forever (2022) 100% B “Enlightens us to what we all knew: that the price of diamonds is high not because the stone is rare but because the industry tells us that your boyfriend cherishes you only when he gives you an engagement ring that he can't afford.” – Shockya.com Nov 10, 2022 Full Review Sam & Kate (2022) 73% B “The director of The Matrix Reloaded deals this time with superstars instead of superheroes. Low key movie.” – Shockya.com Nov 10, 2022 Full Review Soft & Quiet (2022) 84% B “The message is that once you hate, there is no telling what you may do. Mission accomplished.” – Shockya.com Nov 9, 2022 Full Review My Policeman (2022) 44% A- “A class act with political dimensions: an endearing picture which may find enlightened viewers reaching for Kleenex.” – Shockya.com Nov 7, 2022 Full Review Resistance: 1942 (2021) C+ “Germans and French speak English. That should warn viewers of the amateurish of the production.” – Shockya.com Nov 6, 2022 Full Review Utama (2022) 96% B+ “You may not want to live there, but the movie is a cinematic wonder.” – Shockya.com Oct 30, 2022 Full Review Call Jane (2022) 82% B+ “A lesson to today's anti-abortion extremists.” – Shockya.com Oct 23, 2022 Full Review Holy Spider (2022) 82% B+ “Potent drama about a serial killer in Iran who intends to kill 200 streetwalkers and who has the support of crowds of the country's residents.” – Shockya.com Oct 23, 2022 Full Review Eternal Spring (2022) 79% B “Live action complements stunning 3D animation centering on how the Chinese Communist government has arrested, imprisoned and tortured vocal members of the Falun Gong society. The documentary ignores a dark side of the group.” – Big Apple Reviews Oct 11, 2022 Full Review Conception (2022) C “Can any movie about fertility problems be more banal? Inconceivable.” – Big Apple Reviews Oct 9, 2022 Full Review A Piece of Sky (2022) 92% B+ “Filled with long takes, this look at Alpine village life against a stunning mountain background, shows us what happens to a family when a husband and father is diagnosed with a brain tumor.” – Shockya.com Oct 4, 2022 Full Review Some Like It Rare (2021) 100% B “It's not Sweeney Todd or Delicatessan but it could stimulate your appetite.” – Shockya.com Oct 2, 2022 Full Review Hinterland (2021) 82% B+ “This could be the year's most expressionistic film.” – Shockya.com Oct 2, 2022 Full Review Blonde (2022) 42% C+ “A well-acted slog.” – Big Apple Reviews Sep 29, 2022 Full Review Bandit (2022) 74% B+ “The title character makes robbing banks as easy as go-to-Canada.” – Big Apple Reviews Sep 20, 2022 Full Review
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