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Judith Egerton

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

I'm a big geek and cartoonist

Favorites:

Waking Life, Spirited Away, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine, Castle In The Sky, The Lion King, Garden State, The Graduate, Powerpuff Girls Movie, Bottle Rocket, Royal Tenenbaums, Harry Potter, etc.

Location:

Louisville

Official Website:

http://www.courier-journal.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Lone Star (1996) 91% 4/4 EDIT “Hot Hollywood hunk McConaughey... Cooper, Morton, Peña and the other members of Sayles' cast endow Frontera with characteristics that give the place a genuine feeling of a small town populated by an ethnic mix of people who share decades of connections.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% 3/4 EDIT “[David Lynch's] movie captures the extraordinary brightness of California day while leaving us with the shadowy sense of unease we feel when navigating a city alone at night. ” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 10, 2023 Full Review Beloved (1998) 71% 4/4 EDIT “Winfrey's performance in the Jonathan Demme-directed movie resounds with emotional honesty, moving one to understand the depth of Sethe's lost self.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Feb 2, 2022 Full Review Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “Chinatown propelled Jack Nicholson to a higher level of stardom, and Devil in a Blue Dress should do the same for Washington.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Oct 20, 2021 Full Review Sideways (2004) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Shame on the academy if Giamatti isn't on the ballot this year” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Dec 2, 2004 Full Review The Forgotten (2004) 31% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Forgotten is kinetic enough to keep you in your seat, but it slips from memory quickly.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Sep 25, 2004 Full Review I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003) 46% 3/4 EDIT “In the end, it is the complex aura surrounding Owen's character...that stay with the viewer long after the threads of the story have unraveled in one's mind.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Aug 13, 2004 Full Review Collateral (2004) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Nice guy Tom Cruise is bad - very bad - in Michael Mann's new movie, Collateral. And that's good.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Aug 6, 2004 Full Review The Manchurian Candidate (2004) 79% 3.5/4 EDIT “With Meryl Streep in an updated version of the Angela Lansbury role, Denzel Washington in the Frank Sinatra part...the movie is a virtual master class of acting.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 30, 2004 Full Review De-Lovely (2004) 49% 3/4 EDIT “Kevin Kline's acting and musical talent combine to make Irwin Winkler's beautiful yet flawed De-Lovely a movie to see.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 16, 2004 Full Review Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) 66% 2/4 EDIT “I hoped for far more laughs, a sharper edge to the humor and a comedy that would attain the rank of other SNL alum works such as Caddyshack.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 9, 2004 Full Review Hilary and Jackie (1998) 88% 3/4 EDIT “No, it's not a movie about two first ladies married to adulterous husbands.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 7, 2004 Full Review Affliction (1997) 88% 3/4 EDIT “One wonders why Dafoe is even in the movie. But Nolte is, and that's what enriches Schrader's bleak drama.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 7, 2004 Full Review In Dreams (1999) 26% 2/4 EDIT “Someday, Annette Bening is going to star in a movie that's as interesting and powerful as she can be as an actress.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 7, 2004 Full Review The General (1998) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Neither Boorman's cinematic expertise nor Gleeson's canny performance is enough to make us care about Cahill's destruction.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 7, 2004 Full Review The English Patient (1996) 86% 4/4 EDIT “It's Casablanca set amid the swirling Sahara sands of North Africa and the voluptuous hills of Tuscany.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 6, 2004 Full Review Unhook the Stars (1996) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Cassavetes' film reveals that he has a sharp eye for human nature.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 6, 2004 Full Review Tin Cup (1996) 73% 3/4 EDIT “Like other Shelton movies, it's dappled with interesting characters.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 6, 2004 Full Review Career Girls (1997) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “More modest and less involving than Secrets & Lies.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 6, 2004 Full Review State of Siege (1972) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “A political thriller with a cautionary message, but it doesn't carry out its mission.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 6, 2004 Full Review A Civil Action (1998) 65% 3.5/4 EDIT “A legal drama that doesn't follow the usual Hollywood-John Grisham formula.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 6, 2004 Full Review eXistenZ (1999) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “Brave moviegoers and fans of writer-director David Cronenberg will find funny dialogue and grotesquely engrossing scenes in his latest sci-fi horror tale.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 2, 2004 Full Review Mysteries of Egypt (1998) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a visually appealing but basic introduction to ancient Egyptian culture.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 2, 2004 Full Review The Red Violin (1998) 73% 2.5/4 EDIT “It is disconcerting to see {Jackson}...after watching his exceptional performances as crazy criminals in two Quentin Tarantino movies.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 2, 2004 Full Review Wild Wild West (1999) 16% 3/4 EDIT “I recommend you suspend any whiff of disbelief and enjoy Sonnenfeld's hammy sci-fi Western, set in the late 1860s.” – Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jul 2, 2004 Full Review
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