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Elbert Ventura

Elbert Ventura's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001) 93% EDIT “The Fast Runner may not be the rebirth of cinema -- it may not even be the best movie I've seen this year (though it's close) -- but it's genuinely sui generis. ” – PopMatters Nov 8, 2023 Full Review The Square (2017) 85% EDIT “There is a tension here between that earnestness and Östlund's rigorous, calculating mind that can be confounding-and, given the film's subject, may in the end be poignant.” – Reverse Shot Oct 26, 2017 Full Review Abundant Acreage Available (2017) 79% EDIT “Abundant Acreage Available may be fixated on death, but it really depicts transitions.” – Reverse Shot Sep 29, 2017 Full Review Columbus (2017) 96% EDIT “There's a self-awareness here matched by modesty: those shots of tour groups walking by offer not just a sense of place but also a nod to a common criticism of American regionalism.” – Reverse Shot Aug 9, 2017 Full Review Okja (2017) 87% EDIT “The creature really is a marvel.” – Reverse Shot Jun 30, 2017 Full Review Meek's Cutoff (2010) 86% EDIT “It is an American independent in the true sense of the word, and it may well be the best homegrown movie we'll see this year.” – Slate Apr 7, 2011 Full Review Spider-Man 3 (2007) 63% EDIT “If the first two Spider-Man movies soared above the banal realm of the Hollywood franchise, the third finds the series falling back to earth.” – Reverse Shot Jul 6, 2010 Full Review The Battle of Algiers (1966) 99% EDIT “Perhaps unwittingly, The Battle of Algiers offers just the balm a troubled radical conscience needs.” – Flak Magazine Feb 23, 2004 Full Review City of God (2002) 91% EDIT “Meirelles plays to the crowd, plays everything for effect, which wouldn't necessarily be a problem if the subject didn't deserve greater intellectual seriousness.” – PopMatters Jan 6, 2004 Full Review The Triplets of Belleville (2003) 94% EDIT “Finding a delicate balance between dystopia and nostalgia, this diaphanous, baroque vision isn't just a disarming trifle: it's genuinely transporting.” – PopMatters Dec 5, 2003 Full Review The School of Rock (2003) 92% EDIT “A welcome reminder that studio comedies need not be shoddy, dumbed down, vulgar, and impersonal.” – PopMatters Nov 1, 2003 Full Review In This World (2002) 89% EDIT “The film fits neatly into Winterbottom's eclectic canon.” – PopMatters Oct 17, 2003 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “This outraged reconfiguration of an all-American genre may be set in the Wild West, but it's also very much a bulletin of its time.” – PopMatters Aug 30, 2003 Full Review Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002) 88% EDIT “Far from gimmicky, it's as personal and unreserved as filmmaking gets.” – PopMatters May 16, 2003 Full Review The Awful Truth (1937) 91% EDIT “As pleasurable as anything a Hollywood studio and the star system ever produced.” – PopMatters Apr 4, 2003 Full Review The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) 95% EDIT “A fast-moving, fluidly told tale, Eugene Jarecki's documentary certainly will likely inflame Kissinger's ardent cronies. And yet, as one-sided as its story is, the movie also manages a measured disposition.” – PopMatters Oct 11, 2002 Full Review Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) 89% EDIT “It's more than a worthy capper to Malle's brilliant career.” – PopMatters Oct 4, 2002 Full Review 8 Women (2002) 79% EDIT “Drop-dead pretty and confidently assembled, it's a shameless, extravagant charmer -- at first. As the movie goes on, it goes deeper, too, until the bleak melancholia that lurks beneath the surface violently breaks through.” – PopMatters Sep 20, 2002 Full Review Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1973) 73% EDIT “Like a flopped anecdote, Pennebaker's disappointing movie can be shrugged off with one line: You had to be there.” – PopMatters Sep 9, 2002 Full Review Sentimental Destinies (2000) 61% EDIT “Death awaits us all, but Assayas, with a humanist's generosity, offers his characters the greatest gift art can give: immortality.” – PopMatters Sep 9, 2002 Full Review Time Out (2001) 95% EDIT “Paced like a Chabrol film and just as riveting.” – PopMatters Sep 9, 2002 Full Review I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002) 90% EDIT “The movie may suffer from creative anemia, but it has sense enough of its raison d'tre, and the performance sequences carry the day.” – PopMatters Aug 23, 2002 Full Review Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) 92% EDIT “Peralta's product may have the whiff of sell-out, but you may find that you're too busy buying it to care.” – PopMatters May 11, 2002 Full Review
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