Edward Crouse, Village Voice
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For 32 reviews, this critic has graded:
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37% higher than the average critic
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9% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Edward Crouse's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 48 |
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80
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10
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 32
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Mixed: 15 out of 32
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Negative: 8 out of 32
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movie reviews
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Edward Crouse 80
Majesty's reissue is a delirious and loony surprise in this season of nattier ape-suits. -
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Edward Crouse 80
A shaggy, appealing parable involving two lovers, some gorgeous heifers, gentle Maori gangster-golfers, and a dilapidated suitcase packed with used baby shoes, The Price of Milk throws itself onto the magic-realist sword with aplomb. -
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Edward Crouse 70
What seems like a nut-on-a-bar-stool rant morphs into a triumphal evocation of the emotional-political bluster of that time. -
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Edward Crouse 70
One-upping Latino immigrant movies like "Luminarias" and "Tortilla Soup," Washington Heights zeroes in on go-getters (mostly of Dominican lineage) whose ambitions are transformed by familial demands. -
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Edward Crouse 70
With playful, compelling gore having slowed to a near trickle stateside, Uzumaki demands attention. -
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Edward Crouse 70
A grassroots refutation of Discovery Channel/National Geographic dispassion, The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story is hot and sweaty with fetching curves. -
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Edward Crouse 70
Overall the acting is sound, the missteps few, and the murky digicam smash-and-grab sheen entirely apt for the cacophonous Christmas crush. -
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Edward Crouse 60
Admittedly compulsive in both sex and shutterbuggery, Araki has long lived on the art-porn border, though this doc aims to show him as conversant in flowers, kitties, skies, and neorealist kids' faces as he is with bondage. -
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Edward Crouse 60
The best sequences -- auditions in a strip bar and a public bathroom -- still can't compete with that industrial musical called "Pola X." -
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Edward Crouse 60
Even if actorliness sometimes invades the tired faux-doc form, Unscrewed is, in the end, a likable, wrinkly taint of a movie. -
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Edward Crouse 50
A free-for-all doc that, like its subject, seems on several planes at once. -
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Edward Crouse 50
Chock-full of feisty-frank go-girl sextalk speculating on white guys' underplayable size. -
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Edward Crouse 50
Manages to gracefully step out of the way of its own referential overload. -
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Edward Crouse 50
"Check this out, bro," James Cameron says as he returns to the site of the real Titanic, armed with robots, a 3-D Imax camera, and the same colossal hubris that necessitated a call for silence as he accepted his Oscar on behalf of those who perished. -
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Edward Crouse 50
Far from terrible, Leconte's latest movie suggests the work of a slightly hip preacher. -
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Edward Crouse 50
First-time director Ed Solomon, a comedy writer (MIB, both Bill and Ted movies), clots up Levity with symbols -- empty chairs, reflections, winter slush -- and achy, tastefully drawn characters. -
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Edward Crouse 50
If "Next Friday" approximated smoking the same old shit, FAN is a manically generous Christmas vaudeville. -
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Edward Crouse 50
Worth sticking around for: the triumphant end credit sequence of each Red Orchestra mug shot morphing into the next one. -
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Edward Crouse 40
Dissolving four characters' lives into the dank smoke of the bitterest of torch songs, Gloomy Sunday fashions an apocryphal, pretty, and somewhat pat biography of the title ballad. -
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Edward Crouse 40
Jacket's shrill, Necco-colored sets and distractingly awful CGI long shots almost mask the movie's real coup: Letscher's physique. -
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Edward Crouse 20
Mushy and musty itself, A Piece of Eden takes an eternity...this time to cheat and shortcut its way to lesser Frank Capra moments without the gritty touch of, say, a Garry Marshall. -
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Edward Crouse 20
In this visually malnourished film, quirks substitute for character. -
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Edward Crouse 20
A painfully earnest case of generic romance spiced with queerness. -
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Edward Crouse 20
Green, saucer-eyed, cokey, frying in flop sweat, gives the viewer the shrill thrill of being in someone else's nightmare. But the songs? Swung, man, swung. -
