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Ted Murphy

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Biography:

Raised in New England. Graduated from Boston University; for one year worked as a theater and filmcritic for student newspaper. Got sidetracked into working as an archivist specializing in theater and film before heading to NYC. Worked for a time as assistant to former screenwriter Helen Deutsch, then spent years working with writer Helen Rayburn on an unsold biography of the Astaire family. Spent nine years toiling in electronic publishing before serving another seven at Baseline as editor of the BIOS and REVIEWS databases. Am now freelancing and overseeing my own website.

Favorites:

My taste is rather eclectic. Everything from screwball comedies (My Man Godfrey, The Awful Truth) to sweeping epics (Out of Africa, The English Patient) to the standard great films (Citizen Kane, All About Eve). Among my guilty pleasures are The Big Chill, Gallipoli and Babe.

Location:

Massachusetts

Official Website:

http://www.murphysmoviereviews.net

Reviews

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All the Pretty Horses (2000) 32% B “What is on screen is impressive, even with the sense of something missing.” – Hollywood.com Dec 13, 2009 Full Review All About My Mother (1999) 98% A- “This film is as close to a masterpiece as the director has ever produced.” – Hollywood.com Dec 13, 2009 Full Review Billy Elliot (2000) 85% 5/5 “” – Hollywood.com Sep 8, 2009 Full Review The Contender (2000) 77% 2/5 “” – Hollywood.com Sep 8, 2009 Full Review Down to You (2000) 3% “Both Julia Stiles and Freddie Prinze Jr. deserve better.” – Hollywood.com Sep 8, 2009 Full Review Sleepy Hollow (1999) 71% 2/5 “Burton piles on the artistic gore for this rendition. He just forgets to add the terror.” – Hollywood.com Feb 18, 2009 Full Review But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) 43% “Babbit fouls when tugging at the heartstrings but hits home runs when the humor is at its broadest.” – Hollywood.com Nov 20, 2008 Full Review Tell No One (2006) 93% B+ “... a superb and entertaining thriller.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jun 28, 2008 Full Review Cashback (2006) 47% B “CASHBACK is a likable film that is bolstered by Ellis' terrific eye for composition.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 20, 2007 Full Review Hairspray (2007) 92% A- “One of the best movie musicals in recent times and it only gets better on repeated viewings.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 18, 2007 Full Review The Girl Next Door (2007) 67% B- “The film is quite disturbing and some scenes are difficult to watch.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 16, 2007 Full Review Road to Victory (2007) 88% B “... hopefully what I write might encourage someone to seek out a film. Such is the case with Road to Victory, the debut feature of writer-director-actor Mike Reilly.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 16, 2007 Full Review The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) 90% A- “Laverty's screenplay is not a simple-minded exercise, although there is a schematic aspect to it. He and Loach want to be fair to both sides of the Irish debate ...” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review The Wendell Baker Story (2005) 40% C “just a shaggy dog story dressed up in cowboy boots and a cool belt.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Vitus (2006) 68% B “In addition to the rich classical music on its score (with piano solos played by Gheorgiu who is a real-life musical prodigy), the film boasts strong performances by Ganz as the understanding grandparent and Jenkins and Jucker as the boy's parents.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review The Valet (2006) 70% B+ “Except for a slightly misguided final scene, LA DOUBLURE (THE VALET) is a great dessert movie: a brisk and breezy romp that will leave audiences smiling.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Vacancy (2007) 55% C “It's only in the last act that things begin to get a bit flaky but up till then VACANCY does what it sets out to do without any pretenses.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Two Weeks (2006) 19% C- “TWO WEEKS offers some positive views on hospice care and tackles head-on a theme that few American features do, but it lacks the gravitas of something like the European drama THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Triad Election (2006) 96% B+ “tackles big ideas like the preservation of tradition and the overall reach of destiny, but also slyly suggests that the Triad of the 21st Century has evolved into something like a giant corporation.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review The Treatment (2006) 68% C+ “The three main performances are what carry the film” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Syndromes and a Century (2006) 89% B “If you allow the film to wash over you, it can be appreciated as an essay on the power of memory.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Stephanie Daley (2006) 90% B- “not a great deal that is dramatic happens in the film, but it is that accrual of small details that fleshes out who these people are.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Starter for 10 (2006) 90% B- “enjoyable if lightweight entertainment” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Soap (2006) 55% C “While I might want to applaud Fischer Christensen for attempting to say something pertinent about gender roles and stereotypes, there is something curiously lacking in the characters.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Snow Cake (2006) 63% C- “in the end, it's as viable as its titular confection: pretty to look at but cold.” – Murphy's Movie Reviews Jul 14, 2007 Full Review
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