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Allison Benedikt

Allison Benedikt's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Strength and Honor (2008) 6% EDIT “Schlocky.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 6, 2007 Full Review Six Days (2007) 63% EDIT “Short on insight and artistry, Six Days takes a dry approach to the hottest of conflicts.” – Village Voice May 15, 2007 Full Review Down in the Valley (2005) 53% 3/4 EDIT “Patchy but powerful rumination on myth, youth and man's capacity for brutality.” – Chicago Tribune May 18, 2006 Full Review The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) 58% 3/4 EDIT “It does a bang-up job of illuminating why many a contemporary pop icon and, online, a whole new generation of men have taken to Bettie.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 20, 2006 Full Review Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The film is packed with hilarious, often poignant interviews with metal luminaries.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 13, 2006 Full Review The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “Feuerzeig recounts it all with clear-eyed candor, turning to Johnston's battered friends and family for insight and empathy and to Johnston's tapes and drawings for an inside look at his illness.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 13, 2006 Full Review Brick (2005) 79% 2/4 EDIT “The mystery feels elementary and his characters, though compelling as sketches, remain one-dimensional from the first to the last good-looking frame.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 7, 2006 Full Review Friends With Money (2006) 72% 3.5/4 EDIT “A class-conscious L.A. tale of four best friends and the men who love (and hurt) them.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 6, 2006 Full Review Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) 60% 2/4 EDIT “As visually stunning as it is, DR9 is also more than two hours and contains, at best, 10 lines of dialogue, an ear-piercing Bjork score and no discernible plot.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 6, 2006 Full Review Adam & Steve (2005) 56% 1.5/4 EDIT “Adam & Steve is a mostly bland, sporadically crude, by-the-numbers romantic comedy about two gay men in love.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 30, 2006 Full Review ATL (2006) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “Like most media these days, ATL feels like the product of video-on-demand-era focus groups, which means that it's entertaining, but not smart.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 30, 2006 Full Review She's the Man (2006) 44% 2.5/4 EDIT “As you can imagine, sticking a girl dressed up as a boy into a dorm with hunky boys lusting for girls is the stuff of comic mix-ups, and in She's the Man, we have plenty.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 17, 2006 Full Review Unknown White Male (2005) 73% 3/4 EDIT “Though problematic, repetitive and stylistically rough, the film raises intriguing questions, the most compelling of which is, does our memory determine who we are?” – Chicago Tribune Mar 11, 2006 Full Review Winter Passing (2005) 40% 2.5/4 EDIT “Midway through, Rapp loses momentum, failing to hone in on just what kind of movie he wants to make, and Winter Passing languishes in that no-man's land between tiny, meandering, indie drama and plotted, pointed family melodrama.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 11, 2006 Full Review 16 Blocks (2006) 55% 2/4 EDIT “In the end it's not the predictable action but the lack of chemistry and camaraderie that sinks 16 Blocks.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 3, 2006 Full Review Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “...an uplifting, funny and engaging star-studded affair.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 3, 2006 Full Review Running Scared (2006) 41% 1/4 EDIT “There's clearly supposed to be tension between Joey's good and bad sides. Sure, he's a mobster, but he's also a family man, which makes him... gray. (Not black and white = very sophisticated.)” – Chicago Tribune Feb 24, 2006 Full Review Workingman's Death (2005) 75% 2/4 EDIT “It's not exactly a good time at the movies, and even as pure education, it's a rather dull film with very little dialogue.” – Chicago Tribune Feb 24, 2006 Full Review Why We Fight (2005) 78% 2/4 EDIT “Jarecki seems to have had his answers before asking the questions. He's a master at filtering, at choosing the best quotes to bolster his argument and at connecting dots that, perhaps, shouldn't be.” – Chicago Tribune Feb 17, 2006 Full Review Eight Below (2006) 73% 2.5/4 EDIT “Eight Below is the Brian's Song of dog movies: schmaltzy, feel-goody, inspired-by-a-true-story-y. It's formulaic and frequently over the top, 30 minutes too long and altogether too slow.” – Chicago Tribune Feb 17, 2006 Full Review Imagine Me & You (2005) 34% 1.5/4 EDIT “I guess there's something progressive going on when a lesbian love story gets to be just as dreadful and tacky as most straight ones.” – Chicago Tribune Feb 4, 2006 Full Review End of the Spear (2006) 42% 1/4 EDIT “End of the Spear is a childish and visually repetitive movie, ham-fisted, proselytizing and overtly simplified.” – Chicago Tribune Jan 19, 2006 Full Review Tristan & Isolde (2006) 31% 2/4 EDIT “Mindless, predictable and mildly entertaining.” – Chicago Tribune Jan 12, 2006 Full Review The Matador (2005) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Funny and touching.” – Chicago Tribune Jan 5, 2006 Full Review Match Point (2005) 77% 3/4 EDIT “It's a pleasure to let the Allenisms wash over you, ever so slightly disguised in the form of a taut dramatic thriller but never diluted.” – Chicago Tribune Jan 5, 2006 Full Review
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