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Ian Grey

Ian Grey's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Las Vegas Weekly film critic.

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Becoming Jane (2007) 58% 2/5 “The film's notion of Austen's great works being nothing loftier than the result of failed puppy love suggests the filmmakers perversely believe that gross oversimplification is a virtue.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 9, 2007 Full Review Talk to Me (2007) 82% 3/5 “In Talk to Me, director Kasi Lemmons has expertly crafted an uplifting civil rights-era biopic free of false hope and cloying nostalgia.” – Orlando Weekly Jul 26, 2007 Full Review Rescue Dawn (2007) 90% 3/5 “So here we are, mired in a stupid, loathsome war, and what does Werner Herzog do? He creates an absolutely riveting sort-of love letter to America that takes place during that last stupid, loathsome U.S. war, Vietnam.” – Baltimore City Paper Jul 26, 2007 Full Review The Hoax (2006) 85% 2.5/5 “This lie-streaked retelling of a fraud aims not for the meta, but for history-repeating object lesson, explicitly drawing parallels between Irving and Nixon's cons and our current hoax-based regime. But it all rings hollow.” – Orlando Weekly Apr 5, 2007 Full Review The Host (2006) 93% 4/5 “Alternately scary, funny and inspiring, Bong Joon-ho's first-class monster mash is also a scalding rebuke to U.S. interventionism, profiteering and general developing-world opportunism, and a lovely story of familial bonding. In a word, amazing.” – Baltimore City Paper Mar 24, 2007 Full Review Amazing Grace (2006) 68% 2/5 “It's a good story, but director Michael Apted can't help but fall into the usual cinematic habits of the hagiographic species.” – Orlando Weekly Feb 22, 2007 Full Review Sherrybaby (2006) 76% “Watching Maggie Gyllenhaal's bare body and battered soul in Laurie Collyer's quietly extraordinary Sherrybaby, you almost get a sense that the actress knows the load that was her star-making turn in Secretary ...” – Orlando Weekly Jan 18, 2007 Full Review The Good German (2006) 34% 2/5 “The Good German is a self-serving act of fetishistic virtual embalming, with all the liveliness that description implies.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 21, 2006 Full Review Shut Up and Sing (2006) 89% 4/5 “While Shut Up works great as music doc, progressive pep rally and neo-Capra triumph tale, it's even better as a bighearted tale of the love between three extraordinary women.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 7, 2006 Full Review Bobby (2006) 47% 1.5/5 “Terrible, uninformative and embarrassingly amateurish in word and lensing.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 23, 2006 Full Review The Science of Sleep (2006) 71% 2/5 “A cloying confection of candied whimsy and exclusive self-referentiality.” – Baltimore City Paper Sep 28, 2006 Full Review Factotum (2005) 74% 2/5 “... when taking Bukowski at his sodden solipsistic word, there isn't much there there.” – Orlando Weekly Sep 12, 2006 Full Review World Trade Center (2006) 66% 1/5 “In the end, all Stone really seems to be up to is using Sept. 11 to again mourn the loss of mythical white American innocence for what one assumes will be a predominantly white Boomer audience. And no doubt turning a pretty penny doing it.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 10, 2006 Full Review The Descent (2005) 87% 2/4 “Aside from its high concept -- instead of Snakes on a Plane, it's Chicks in a Cave (with monsters!) -- place-setting is almost all Marshall does.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 3, 2006 Full Review Why We Fight (2005) 78% “If the inducement of despair and disgust is an indicator of artistic achievement, Why We Fight is incredibly successful.” – Baltimore City Paper Jul 20, 2006 Full Review A Scanner Darkly (2006) 68% 4/5 “Writer/director Richard Linklater's superbly entertaining/disturbing adaptation of Dick's A Scanner Darkly accomplishes the near-impossible ...” – Las Vegas Weekly Jul 14, 2006 Full Review An Inconvenient Truth (2006) 93% 4/5 “In a way, Truth is almost critic-proof.” – Las Vegas Weekly Jun 19, 2006 Full Review The Proposition (2005) 86% “As directed by music video vet John Hillcoat, Cave's vision of 1880s Australia as outlaw inferno becomes an unforgettable exposed raw nerve of a film.” – Orlando Weekly Jun 8, 2006 Full Review Brick (2005) 79% 2/5 “You can't fault Johnson for a lack of honest genre love, but his forced formalism ... achieves little other than to keep us at a drama-neutering distance.” – Las Vegas Weekly Jun 6, 2006 Full Review The Omen (2006) 26% 1/5 “[John Moore's] work here is -- how to put it politely? -- godawful, an alternating mess of broods and gnashing of teeth.” – Las Vegas Weekly Jun 6, 2006 Full Review L'Enfant (2005) 84% “If it's possible for cinema to be so invisible as to allow us to actually see inside characters -- to be, in short, literary -- this is it.” – Baltimore City Paper May 18, 2006 Full Review 16 Blocks (2006) 55% “A limp, lazy exercise in nostalgia for the buddy genre that director Richard Donner helped define in the '80s.” – Orlando Weekly Mar 2, 2006 Full Review Underworld: Evolution (2006) 17% “True to its title, Underworld: Evolution represents a modest learning curve for director Len Wiseman, who advances from the inept awfulness of his first vampire-versus-werewolf idiocy to the determined mediocrity of this incomprehensible follow-up.” – Orlando Weekly Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Breakfast on Pluto (2005) 58% “In short, the director has finally found material - - Patrick McCabe's novel, which Jordan adapted - - that unifies his obsessions with politics, the Troubles and the dangerous fragility of machismo.” – Baltimore City Paper Jan 6, 2006 Full Review Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 88% “Newell not only does Harry Potter right but eclipses the scope, scares and drama of his J.K. Rowling source novel.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 6, 2005 Full Review
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