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James Kendrick

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Biography:

James Kendrick is the film and video critic at QNetwork.com, where he has been writing reviews since 1998. From 1996 to 1998, he wrote reviews at his own, now defunct, web site, "Charle Don't Surf!" He is also an associate professor of film and digital media at Baylor University and the author of three books.

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Favorites:

Current All-Time Top 10 (Chronological Order)
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

Critics' Group:
Location:

Waco, Texas

Official Website:

http://www.qnetwork.com

Reviews

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Daylight (1996) 28% 2.5/4 “supplies plenty of bombast when the disaster strikes (the initial explosion in the tunnel is particularly spectacular), although things feel sluggish when characters talk too much” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Art for Everybody (2023) 100% 3.5/4 “intriguing, absorbing, and genuinely (no pun intended) illuminating” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Godsend (1979) 3/4 “doesn’t plow any new territory, but it does what it does with a steady tenacity that builds with admirable tension” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 2.5/4 “Paul Mescal brings plenty of intensity to the role of Lucius, but he ultimately pales in comparison to Russell Crowe’s towering performance in the original.” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% 4/4 “a marvel of technical ingenuity, formal beauty, and deep reverence for life” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Born Losers (1967) 50% 2.5/4 “The balance Laughlin clearly wants to strike between the popcorn enjoyment of righteous vengeance and the difficulties of true justice is in there somewhere, but it is so buried and muddled that nothing comes through clearly except the exploitation.” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Billy Jack (1971) 65% 3/4 “one of the distinctive aspects of Billy Jack is that it openly addresses its hero’s violent tendencies, portraying them as a war zone between idealism and the all-too-human desire for vengeance and justice, whatever that might look like” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Trial of Billy Jack (1974) 36% 2/4 “tells roughly the same story as its predecessor, but with more speechifying, more peace pandering, more dewy-eyed sentimentalism, and more of just about everything else that could turn a potentially effective story into a bloated mess” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977) 0% 2.5/4 “would be a perfect title for a parody if Laughlin weren’t so serious in the endeavor” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 72% 2/4 “It is as if Audiard didn’t want to really deal with the messiness inherent in a protagonist as brutal and cruel as the one he gives us here, so he dresses the film up with distracting aesthetic flourishes and florid musical numbers.” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Winchester '73 (1950) 100% 3.5/4 “James Stewart's generally affable screen persona melded with the tougher sensibility required of his character, thus helping to forge a new kind of Western protagonist, one who could inflict violence while also reflecting vulnerability” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% 3/4 “Wicked’s themes of persecution, bigotry, and the various masks behind which power manipulates the powerless and gullible feel particularly pertinent” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% 4/4 “a serio-comic film of genuine depth, nuance, and humanity that asks hard questions in a meaningful way” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Yojimbo (1961) 96% 3.5/4 “While it might not be one of Kurosawa’s most thematically accomplished or narratively complex samurai films, it is certainly one of his most visually ravishing, and that alone justifies its place in the pantheon of great action films” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Sanjuro (1962) 100% 3.5/4 “In addition to being a rousing action movie, Sanjuro is also a biting satire of other samurai movies.” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Smile 2 (2024) 86% 3/4 “takes the ideas from the first film and uses them to explore completely different characters inhabiting a completely different world” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% 3.5/4 “a blistering drama about a family torn apart by the institutional and political pressures of the Iranian regime” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Last Summer (2023) 86% 2.5/4 “a cynical take on human relationships in general and sexual relations in particular” – Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% 2/4 “There are moments of palpable reality and dramatic punch, but it is fundamentally contrived in all the worst ways, which bleeds it of the authenticity that is its raison d’etre.” – Q Network Film Desk Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 3/4 “a good example of how to apply old-fashioned intrigue and character drama to current politics without letting one overwhelm the other.” – Q Network Film Desk Jan 13, 2025 Full Review SCALA!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits (2023) 100% 3/4 “A nostalgic trip down the sticky corridor of offbeat and eccentric cinema in the heart of London from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, it will provide cinephiles with a thrilling reminder of how exhilarating the theatrical experience could be” – Q Network Film Desk Jan 13, 2025 Full Review 2020 Texas Gladiators (1984) 2.5/4 “produced on a couple of tattered shoestrings and assembled from bits and pieces of a wide range of genres, it is barely held together by its postapocalyptic premise” – Q Network Film Desk Jan 13, 2025 Full Review The Wild Robot (2024) 96% 3.5/4 “an absolute delight of a film—an animated wonder that merges the spectacle of scientific possibility with a deep reverence for the natural world into which it often comes into conflict” – Q Network Film Desk Dec 3, 2024 Full Review Cellar Door (2024) 22% 2.5/4 “has an absolute howler of a premise that just … almost … works.” – Q Network Film Desk Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Small Things Like These (2024) 94% 3.5/4 “Cillian Murphy gives a masterclass performance in subtlety and nuance” – Q Network Film Desk Nov 25, 2024 Full Review
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