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Tom Block

Tom Block's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Publications:
Favorites:

The Wild Bunch, Seven Samurai, '30s Renoir, The Long Goodbye, Chinatown, Godfather I & II, John Ford, L'Atalante, GoodFellas, The Sorrow & the Pity, Sunrise, Buster Keaton, & well on into the night...

Location:

San Francisco

Official Website:

http://www.culturevulture.net

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) 60% EDIT “...it could've %u2014 should've %u2014 been [Peckinpah's] third or fourth masterpiece (that depends on who's doing the counting), and the movie he'd been building towards his entire career.” – culturevulture.net Nov 19, 2006 Full Review California Split (1974) 87% EDIT “...the big thing holding back American movies is that they aren't more like California Split.” – culturevulture.net Nov 19, 2006 Full Review The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 97% EDIT “An extravagantly plotted epic propelled by waves of free-flowing emotion and a palpable love for the American past” – culturevulture.net Jul 4, 2003 Full Review A Decade Under the Influence (2003) 77% EDIT “A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film” – culturevulture.net May 25, 2003 Full Review Blood Simple (1984) 94% EDIT “The Coens' trademark aloofness works to perfection in Blood Simple because only the audience has a bird's eye view of the action.” – culturevulture.net Apr 8, 2003 Full Review Hart's War (2002) 60% EDIT “A solid film...but more conscientious than it is truly stirring.” – culturevulture.net Feb 14, 2002 Full Review Birthday Girl (2001) 59% EDIT “A keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters.” – culturevulture.net Jan 31, 2002 Full Review Final (2001) 44% EDIT “A lifeless vacuum.” – culturevulture.net Jan 18, 2002 Full Review Impostor (2001) 25% EDIT “What 'Blade Runner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a UHF channel.” – culturevulture.net Jan 3, 2002 Full Review Monster's Ball (2001) 85% EDIT “an Oprah-mistic movie in which people overcome a lifetime's worth of bad habits by 'opening up.'” – culturevulture.net Dec 25, 2001 Full Review Ocean's Eleven (2001) 83% EDIT “The man who helped spark the indie revolution is now making pictures that bow and scrape before the most depleted Hollywood conventions.” – culturevulture.net Dec 7, 2001 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “A celestial alignment of man, medium, and material.” – culturevulture.net Nov 19, 2001 Full Review Novocaine (2001) 38% EDIT “a comically mordant tone that's all its own” – culturevulture.net Nov 19, 2001 Full Review The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000) 95% EDIT “Frank Hurley's images by themselves make 'The Endurance' worth seeing.” – culturevulture.net Oct 4, 2001 Full Review Joy Ride (2001) 74% EDIT “...begins evaporating in your mind before it's even over.” – culturevulture.net Oct 4, 2001 Full Review My Son the Fanatic (1998) 79% EDIT “” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review Show Me Love (1998) 91% EDIT “...a warm coming-of-age story that happens to be a coming-out story.” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review Broken Vessels (1998) 69% EDIT “weighted down by conventional morality and predictable storytelling” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999) 45% EDIT “” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review Following (1998) 82% EDIT “...offers more pleasure as a jigsaw puzzle than it does as a movie.” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review Arlington Road (1999) 62% EDIT “...could have been a superb dark fantasy, but takes its own malarkey seriously.” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 76% EDIT “...more rewarding to analyze than it is to see.” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review The Haunting (1999) 17% EDIT “” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review The Blair Witch Project (1999) 86% EDIT “...the movie isn't half as diabolical as its marketing plan.” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review The Minus Man (1999) 58% EDIT “” – culturevulture.net Sep 18, 2001 Full Review
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