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Robert Julian

Robert Julian's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “By providing the heterosexual audience with a pill they can swallow, [Epstein and Friedman] offer sophisticated gay filmgoers a history lesson that may seem rather dry. ” – Bay Area Reporter Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% EDIT “Here [Darren Aronofsky] delivers a tragedy on the level of Oedipus, while simultaneously providing a wonderful object lesson on the power of film. His approach is startlingly fresh and creative - as compelling as his subject is off-putting.” – Bay Area Reporter Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% EDIT “The film’s dysfunction is due, in equal parts, to its conception and its execution. Moulin Rouge is not a traditional motion picture, but a simultaneous spoof of Hollywood movie musicals and MTV videos.” – Bay Area Reporter Aug 30, 2023 Full Review In the Mood for Love (2000) 92% EDIT “Some viewers will feel frustrated -- and the degree of frustration the audience feels may be in direct correlation to the filmmaker's success.” – Bay Area Reporter Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% EDIT “Like Orson Welles, Robert Altman, and Stephen Soderbergh, Anderson has the courage to challenge the viewer, throwing down his own quirky cinematic gauntlet and daring the audience to pick it up.” – Bay Area Reporter Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Boys on the Side (1995) 73% EDIT “Although Boys on the Side is not a ground-breaking work, it is at least a well-intended step forward for Hollywood.” – Bay Area Reporter Mar 14, 2023 Full Review Backdraft (1991) 72% EDIT “In Universal's Backdraft, Ron Howard establishes that he can get the best actors in Hollywood to do work completely beneath their talents. ” – Bay Area Reporter Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Thelma & Louise (1991) 87% EDIT “Thelma & Louise is destined to be a cult classic, tailor-made for those who have always wanted to put a bullet through the heart of American machismo. ” – Bay Area Reporter Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Queens (2005) 45% EDIT “[It] portrays Spain as a country with a sense of humor, intelligence, and tolerance that should be an example for the world to follow. With so much goodness up there on the screen, it almost seems ungrateful to criticize the film for its technical faults.” – Bay Area Reporter May 14, 2020 Full Review Bugcrush (2006) EDIT “...for full-tilt, jaw-dropping outrageousness, no one is going to beat writer/director Carter Smith's Bugcrush. Not to be missed...” – Bay Area Reporter May 12, 2020 Full Review Bee Season (2005) 44% EDIT “Bee Season is an intelligent, mesmerizing, thought-provoking work, so extraordinary in its content and presentation it is hard to believe it ever got made.” – Bay Area Reporter May 9, 2020 Full Review Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) 86% EDIT “Despite all the blood and gore, Kiss/Bang ends up being a remarkably good-natured and surprisingly moralistic little film.” – Bay Area Reporter May 9, 2020 Full Review Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004) 96% EDIT “Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea remains trenchant, perceptive, hilarious, and more than a little sad.” – Bay Area Reporter Aug 1, 2007 Full Review
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