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Jon Lap

Jon Lap's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Graduated New York University with a BFA in Cinema Studies and Film & TV.

Publications:
Favorites:

Top 10 2002 1. Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky 2. Dogtown and Z-Boys 3. Yellow Asphalt 4. Max 5. Merci Pour Le Chocolat 6. 25th Hour 7. Full Frontal 8. 13 Conversations About One Thing 9. 8 Women 0. Narc (tie) Possession The 1990s *Goodfellas *Magnolia *My Own Private Idaho *Naked *Everyone Says I Love You *Cold Water *La Belle Noiseuse *Leaving Las Vegas *English Patient *Casino *Wings of the Dove *Poison (Todd Haynes) *Titanic *Legends of the Fall *Carlito's Way *Heat *Exotica *Unzipped *Sweet Hereafter *Crumb *Fallen Angels *Your Friends And Neighbors *Chungking Express The 20th Century Swept Away (1974, Wertmuller) Seven Beauties (1976, Wertmuller) Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming) Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese) East of Eden (1955, Kazan) The Immortal Story (1968, Welles) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles) Moscow in Clad and Snow (Bauer, 1908) Parallax View (1974, Pakula) Sunrise, (1927, Murnau) Running on Empty (1988, Lumet) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Allen) Another Woman (1988, Allen) The Man With A Movie Camera (1929, Vertov) L'Atalante (1934, Vigo) Last Laugh (1924, Murnau) Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi) The Bicycle Thief (1948, De Sica) The Godfather Trilogy (1972-1990, Coppola) The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut) Singin' In The Rain (1952, Donnen) Marjorie Morningstar (1958, Rapper) Notorious (1946, Hitchcock) Bless Their Little Hearts (1984, Woodberry) Bushmama (1976, Gerima) Killer of Sheep (1977, Burnett) Two Underrated Select Works (1990s): Three of Hearts (1993, Yurek Bogayevicz); Amongst Friends (1993, Rob Weiss)

Location:

New York

Official Website:

http://apolloguide.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Lilo & Stitch (2002) 86% 60/100 EDIT “Similar to most contemporary American feature-length animation, the film's overall structure is frayed.” – Apollo Guide May 13, 2005 Full Review Girl Hood (2003) 94% 75/100 EDIT “To the film's great credit, [director] Garbus evens out her often heavy-hand and we're given the emotional core of two young female criminals in ways often eluded in the movies.” – Apollo Guide May 13, 2005 Full Review Mystic River (2003) 89% 84/100 EDIT “The film births wonderful performances from all three lead actors, as well as Marcia Gay Harden, who's palpable in preternatural ways, Thomas Guiry as the boy in love with Jimmy's daughter, and virtually everyone else with a strip of film time.” – Apollo Guide May 13, 2005 Full Review Colors (1988) 75% 59/100 EDIT “What is there to write about a lacklustre gang-related film that wants to be more than it amounts to?” – Apollo Guide May 13, 2005 Full Review My Own Private Idaho (1991) 81% 93/100 EDIT “Works as a brilliant piece of art, and entertainment.” – Apollo Guide May 13, 2005 Full Review El Leyton: Until Death Do Us Part (2002) 55% 81/100 EDIT “A sloppy but stylistically incendiary handling of mystery, thriller, suspense, doldrums-of-domestic-romance and labour fraternity tropes.” – Apollo Guide Nov 16, 2003 Full Review Shattered Glass (2003) 92% 59/100 EDIT “A fascinating story, with enough dramaturgical potential to make a rock take notice. Unfortunately, Shattered Glass is an ignorant rock unto itself.” – Apollo Guide Nov 12, 2003 Full Review Gloomy Sunday (2000) 84% 76/100 EDIT “Cinematographer Edward Klosinki finds many an interesting place for his camera to doss and gurney - giving us a skulking psychoanalytical aesthetic.” – Apollo Guide Nov 7, 2003 Full Review Sylvia (2003) 37% 84/100 EDIT “Much of this film plays to the audience's subconscious, forced to deal with the spirals of perverse intertwinement.” – Apollo Guide Nov 5, 2003 Full Review The Bread, My Sweet (2001) 54% 70/100 EDIT “A story of death-as-deus-ex-machina - where the contrivances are not so offensive - with interesting performances.” – Apollo Guide Oct 24, 2003 Full Review Dogville (2003) 70% 92/100 EDIT “A brilliant tale of intellectual awakening.” – Apollo Guide Oct 15, 2003 Full Review Elephant (2003) 74% 75/100 EDIT “A valiant experiment in existential pathology gone tepid.” – Apollo Guide Oct 8, 2003 Full Review Three of Hearts (1993) 53% 92/100 EDIT “[E]gregiously misunderstood.” – Apollo Guide Oct 8, 2003 Full Review Southlander (2001) 50% 75/100 EDIT “Hanft captures the goosy, roach-of-a-joint lifestyle pressed upon fledgling musicians in underground circles of L.A. and other urban blights.” – Apollo Guide Oct 2, 2003 Full Review Stealing the Fire (2002) 20% 69/100 EDIT “The discursive nature of the information that is presented greets its audience like a plunged inert mass.” – Apollo Guide Sep 24, 2003 Full Review 7 Year Zig Zag (2003) 50% 60/100 EDIT “Said ingenuity is at times recursive in its chintzy pell-mell of images and superimpositions...” – Apollo Guide Sep 24, 2003 Full Review Bounce Ko Gals (1998) 53% 85/100 EDIT “Harada fashions a socially mimetic picture of seedy street-hustler life a la My Own Private Idaho and Olivier Assayas' Cold Water.” – Apollo Guide Sep 24, 2003 Full Review Beau travail (1999) 87% 92/100 EDIT “Rhythm in Denis' sight is pejorative routine.” – Apollo Guide Sep 24, 2003 Full Review Open Range (2003) 79% 80/100 EDIT “Costner's epic, as director, is one to behold, not for its 24th hour sentimental about-face, but for the existential knack it has for the pacific, the stately and the quiet.” – Apollo Guide Sep 18, 2003 Full Review Anything Else (2003) 40% 89/100 EDIT “The most rebelliously, subtly and subversively creative Woody Allen has been since Sleeper.” – Apollo Guide Sep 18, 2003 Full Review And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (2002) 47% 90/100 EDIT “The most sophisticated love story since In the Mood for Love, The House of Mirth and The English Patient.” – Apollo Guide Sep 18, 2003 Full Review Taking Sides (2001) 73% 86/100 EDIT “Istvan Szabo uses his compositions-of-depth as a sort of excavation of the epistemological quandaries haunting the post-Second World War world.” – Apollo Guide Sep 7, 2003 Full Review American Splendor (2003) 94% 89/100 EDIT “One's reception of the film as art depends solely on whether you see it as a sell-out or an inside joke that takes some time to assimilate.” – Apollo Guide Sep 5, 2003 Full Review Dirty Pretty Things (2002) 94% 77/100 EDIT “Frears has continually built on the foundation of Griffith's A Corner in Wheat and Chaplin's The Immigrant.” – Apollo Guide Sep 4, 2003 Full Review Camp (2003) 65% 45/100 EDIT “Gives glib critics something to horselaugh about.” – Apollo Guide Sep 1, 2003 Full Review
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