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David Bezanson

David Bezanson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bedtime Stories (2008) 27% 3/5 EDIT “Sandler's innocence about what goes on in the real world is sort of charming, and so is his willingness to make mainstream comedies that are slightly offbeat” – Filmcritic.com Dec 28, 2008 Full Review The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) 3% 1.5/5 EDIT “Why do filmmakers bother? Are they crazy? Are we crazy? And if not, why do we keep paying $8 to see the same movie again?” – Filmcritic.com Nov 7, 2008 Full Review What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) 56% 2.5/5 EDIT “So we need a better movie about this subject. As usual.” – Filmcritic.com Jun 14, 2008 Full Review Eragon (2006) 15% 2/5 EDIT “just too derivative to take seriously” – Filmcritic.com Dec 17, 2006 Full Review Happy Feet (2006) 76% 3.5/5 EDIT “Animal Logic ices Pixar in the animation department” – Filmcritic.com Nov 19, 2006 Full Review How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1967) 100% 5/5 EDIT “It's the kind of weirdly clever, yet innocent and kid-friendly, product that forces me to use this tired clich -- they just don't make 'em like this any more” – Filmcritic.com Sep 20, 2006 Full Review Idiocracy (2006) 71% 4.5/5 EDIT “Many people -- at least, a few people -- have noted the dumbing-down of America, but no one until Judge has blamed it on genetics” – Filmcritic.com Sep 6, 2006 Full Review Fort Apache (1948) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “demonstrates that westerns weren't always one-sided and jingoistic.” – Filmcritic.com Mar 12, 2006 Full Review Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “dry, mannered, and very ironic” – Filmcritic.com Feb 19, 2006 Full Review The Last of England (1988) 60% 1/5 EDIT “I would say it's one of the worst films ever made, but that would make it sound more interesting than it actually is.” – Filmcritic.com Dec 31, 2005 Full Review Ride the High Country (1962) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Ride the High Country vigorously and colorfully brings alive the Old West of cinematic myth.” – Filmcritic.com Dec 20, 2005 Full Review Imagine: John Lennon (1988) 91% 3/5 EDIT “doesn't fail to honor Lennon's memory (which would be unforgivable) but its emphasis is misplaced” – Filmcritic.com Aug 20, 2005 Full Review Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) 9% 1/5 EDIT “when I walked out of the theater after seeing this film, I had the same feeling you get after vomiting -- queasy, shaky, empty” – Filmcritic.com Aug 13, 2005 Full Review A Face in the Crowd (1957) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Next time you feel like you're getting fooled again by a demagogue, rent this movie and get centered” – Filmcritic.com May 13, 2005 Full Review American Graffiti (1973) 95% 4/5 EDIT “A successful tribute to an era of optimism and competitiveness which was bitchin' -- and now seems very far in the past.” – Filmcritic.com May 4, 2005 Full Review All's Well (1972) 50% 2/5 EDIT “succumbs to the worst conventions of seventies filmmaking” – Filmcritic.com Apr 6, 2005 Full Review Charly (1968) 55% 2.5/5 EDIT “another example of a memorable book which ends up diluted by the lesser talents of screenwriters” – Filmcritic.com Mar 11, 2005 Full Review Man of the House (2005) 9% 2/5 EDIT “it could have been worse. That's all I'm sayin'.” – Filmcritic.com Mar 2, 2005 Full Review Stripes (1981) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Murray's insouciant performance carries the movie and has inspired countless imitators, from the young Tom Hanks to Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell.” – Filmcritic.com Jan 15, 2005 Full Review Random Harvest (1942) 82% 3.5/5 EDIT “the abundance of talent rescues the material” – Filmcritic.com Dec 31, 2004 Full Review I Remember Mama (1948) 100% 4/5 EDIT “the characters are portrayed warmly and with unusual realism” – Filmcritic.com Dec 31, 2004 Full Review Gone With the Wind (1939) 90% 5/5 EDIT “One of the classic films that defined American cinema, Gone With the Wind is a rare example of a collaboration involving hundreds of talents and egos that turned out great.” – Filmcritic.com Oct 31, 2004 Full Review Dial M for Murder (1954) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Critics seem to prefer the more theatrical, psychological melodramas to the brainy whodunits. But pay no attention - this film is definitely a classic” – Filmcritic.com Jul 22, 2004 Full Review The Wizard of Oz (1939) 98% 5/5 EDIT “The film is probably as entertaining now as it was in 1939.” – Filmcritic.com Jul 3, 2004 Full Review Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) 82% 4/5 EDIT “among the best of several booze-obsessed Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s” – Filmcritic.com Jun 26, 2004 Full Review
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