Joshua Land, Village Voice
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For 45 reviews, this critic has graded:
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22% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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76% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.4 points lower than other critics.
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Joshua Land's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 54 |
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90
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10
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 45
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Mixed: 30 out of 45
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Negative: 3 out of 45
45
movie reviews
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Joshua Land 50
It's all pleasant enough, but the pretty pictures, languid pacing, and endless stretches of mood music eventually combine to soporific effect. -
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Joshua Land 50
Grappell implicitly uses the juxtaposition with the martyred Kurbas to gauge her commitment to her own art. Light From the East drinks freely from the triumphalist cup of the glasnost era. -
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Joshua Land 50
Kill Your Idols pulls a few punches, tempering its respect for No Wave values like extremity and contentiousness with a more 2006 concern for not actually offending anyone in particular. -
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Joshua Land 50
Avoids the narrative contrivances of many recent forays into Americana -- by virtually avoiding narrative. -
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Joshua Land 50
The characters are a bit too OCD for LOL to work as the definitive commentary on technology and human relationships that it strives to be...But the movie is unusually attentive to the ironies of communications technology. -
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Joshua Land 40
Raging Dove can't avoid the biodoc pitfall of fixating on its subject's personal saga to the virtual exclusion of all else; by the end it's essentially blaming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Abu Lashin's professional demise. -
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Joshua Land 40
The thriller plot sputters and the romance between Slater and eco-friendly Harvard MBA Selma Blair is a nonstarter, but the movie's threadbare execution actually enhances its queasy vision of a nation in decline. -
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Joshua Land 40
As a director (Caan) occasionally falls prey to the rookie mistake of excessive crosscutting, fragmenting the dramatic momentum created by his fine cast. -
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Joshua Land 40
Witherspoon's oft charming perkiness is merely patronizing here, but mid-'90s MTV staple Donal Logue steals every scene he's in as an ethically challenged therapist. -
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Joshua Land 40
Not only is the candid (but never prurient) treatment of early-teen sexuality and drug use too hot to handle, but the narrative blend of fairy-tale wonder and nightmare logic feels sui generis. -
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Joshua Land 40
Nicely rendered moments of casual intimacy between the men attest to the trip's therapeutic value, but very little of it transfers to the audience. The dull large-group scenes consist mostly of old standbys like writing problems on slips of paper and burning them. -
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Joshua Land 40
Todd Verow's overstuffed Vacationland promises more than it delivers in just about every sense. -
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Joshua Land 30
It's tough to be sure of anything in this murky experimental feature, which sadly fails to live up to its title. -
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Joshua Land 10
This witless satire dares to take on the culture of--get ready for this--reality TV! Arriving a stupefying five years out of date, Surviving Eden is a not particularly rigorous attempt at mockumentary. -
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Joshua Land 10
Chaos lacks the audience-implicating boldness or howling political outrage of that landmark (Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left"); where Last House was provocative, Chaos is merely disgusting.- Posted May 6, 2011
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