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HARVEY S. KARTEN
Harvey S. Karten

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• Film Journal International
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• Rotten Tomatoes
• The Cinema Source

BIOGRAPHY
After teaching high school for quite a while, I took an M.A. in Film and Theater from Hunter College in New York and a Ph.D. in Theater from the City University Graduate Center, also in the Big Apple.
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Total Reviews: 2514

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New York Film Critics Online

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A- The Great Debaters
B+ Lions for Lambs
B I'm Not There
B- Youth Without Youth
C+ P.S. I Love You
C How to Cook Your Life
C- Cloverfield
D Semi-Pro
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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A The Illusionist
A Thank You For Smoking
A The Polar Express
A Being Julia
A Dogville
4/4 Winged Migration
4/4 Chicago
4/4 Road to Perdition
4/4 Amadeus
4/4 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial The 20th Anniversary
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WORST REVIEWED
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F Virgin
F The Whole Ten Yards
0.5/4 Teddy Bears' Picnic
0.5/4 Bubble Boy
D Semi-Pro
D Smokin' Aces
D Miami Vice
D Strangers With Candy
D The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
D Slither
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

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B+
 
"Acrophobics beware: just watching Philippe Petit walk across Twin Towers will make you dizzy." -- Compuserve
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
Man on Wire (2008)100%
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A-
 
"Philip Roth should be overjoyed at this adaptation of his novella 'The Dying Animal' about a professor obsessed about old age and mortality." -- Compuserve
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Elegy (2008)n/a
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B
 
"Dark humor abounds with Lisa Kudrow in a melancholy but humorous role of a woman whose husband has been recalled into Iraq leaving her with two bratty kids to take care of." -- Compuserve
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Kabluey (2008)94%
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B
 
"The low-budget high-school comedy is no 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' but should provide for not only laughs but some insight into the life of a smart, 13-year-old outsider." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 28, 2008
 
Harold (2008)n/a
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B
 
"Convincingly proves even to teens (not likely to be in the audience, unfortunately), that you're never too old for romance." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 28, 2008
 
Elsa & Fred (2008)57%
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C
 
"Subtlety and nuance take a summer vacation." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)36%
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B-
 
"A triumph of style over substance." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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B+
 
"A virtual Walter Mitty fantasy that explodes across the screen." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 23, 2008
 
Wanted (2008)72%
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B+
 
"Plagued by an endless war, inflation, rising unemployment, a weak dollar and borderline recession, we are treated to a crowd-pleaser that does not require us to pick up our brains at the box office on the way out." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)50%
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B-
 
"Frantic action with about as much verbal wit as found in 'The Love Guru' (not a compliment)." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)52%
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C-
 
"Has the feel of a Mike Myers vanity production with bathroom jokes that most of us outgrew before we got to high school." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 17, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)15%
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C
 
"Lacks scares, wit, humor and acting, and Zooey Deschanel, alas, has lost her cuteness." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 14, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)18%
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B
 
"Epistolary dramas are often big bores, but this film is much better than it has the right to be given the variety of actors playing Trumbo." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 12, 2008
 
Trumbo (2008)69%
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B+
 
"Considered by the director to be her favorite picture, we don't wonder why: it's accessible with chemistry between two lovers that could burn up the seats in the cineplex." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
The Last Mistress (2008)74%
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B
 
"Spot-on casting of Brittany Snow in the title role makes the fun movie with a serious turn both entertaining and credible." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 10, 2008
 
Finding Amanda (2008)36%
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B
 
"Should please the targeted audience in their teens and twenties who escape into the air-conditioned multiplex from a June heat wave." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 9, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)68%
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B
 
"Targeted to the super-hip, anchored by Josh Peck's magnetic performance as an angst-ridden teen." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
The Wackness (2008)67%
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B
 
"An entertaining, no-budget tale of an illegal immigrant who delivers take-out Chinese food, illuminating the life of one of the big city's anonymous." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
Take Out (2008)100%
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A-
 
"A stunning feature film that at base asks the question, "What should a woman choose: an unpredictable life with a sexual dynamo, or a stable relationships with a much older man?"" -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
Beauty in Trouble (2008)64%
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Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
The Doorman (2008)n/a
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B
 
"You don't have to be a Sandler fan: if vulgarity mixed with a little sentiment is your thing, you've come to the right place." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 2, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)35%
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B
 
"Though graced with far more sitcom laughs than real wit, the glorified soap opera is entertaining enough to be worth your while." -- Compuserve
Posted Jun 1, 2008
 
Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)51%
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B+
 
"There's nothing barren about Werner Herzog's landscape." -- Compuserve
Posted May 29, 2008
 
Encounters at the End of the World (2008)95%
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B
 
"Some scenes of this docu-fantasy will try the viewers' patience. Others are small gems." -- Compuserve
Posted May 28, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)96%
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"A measured portrait of a pastor who morphed from an advocate of the death penalty to an advocate for a maximum sentence of life without parole." -- Film Journal International
Posted May 28, 2008
 
At the Death House Door (2008)100%
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C
 
"Seriously underwritten, depending too much on Liv Tyler's abiity to pout, to shriek, to cry and to cry again." -- Compuserve
Posted May 27, 2008
 
The Strangers (2008)41%
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B+
 
"A seamless mixture of horror and low comedy." -- Compuserve
Posted May 21, 2008
 
Stuck (2008)70%
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B+
 
"If you're looking for a movie to convince you that money does not buy happiness, you've come to the right place." -- Compuserve
Posted May 20, 2008
 
Savage Grace (2008)42%
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C+
 
"One can only guess at whether director Argento meant the laughs for a campy production or whether the audience guffaws are unintentional." -- Compuserve
Posted May 19, 2008
 
Mother of Tears (2008)51%
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C+
 
"Awesome production design and death-defying stunts mask the movie's flaws: uninvolving relationships and narrative hodge-podge." -- Compuserve
Posted May 18, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)77%
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C+
 
"The original's novelty is lost in a movie that embraces too may battles." -- Compuserve
Posted May 14, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)66%
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B
 
"Isaac Bashevis Singer's spirit lives in the three, nicely interwoven stories." -- Film Journal International
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Love Comes Lately (2008)64%
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B+
 
"Takes on the theme of 'Where is home'--the place where you were born or the locale of your residence--with freshness and sparkling acting." -- Compuserve
Posted May 13, 2008
 
Brick Lane (2008)63%
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C
 
"Even the adorable Ellen Page is entitled to perform in a dud." -- Compuserve
Posted May 9, 2008
 
The Tracey Fragments (2008)38%
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B
 
"Good battle scenes across a Montana-like plains, impressive acting in the title role by a Japanese performer speaking Mongolian." -- Compuserve
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Mongol (2008)87%
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"The concept had potential, but the movie's broad approach (including a ridiculous turn by William Hurt as a mayor with a laughable dye job) drowns out its message." -- Film Journal International
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Noise (2008)52%
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C+
 
"Choppy editing ruins the climactic moment of this Hebrew-language film about the ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem." -- Compuserve
Posted May 7, 2008
 
My Father, My Lord (2006)88%
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B
 
"Too episodic but benefits from crackerjack acting and lush period photography." -- Compuserve
Posted May 6, 2008
 
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)75%
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B+
 
"Evokes a relationship so acidic between a couple of meter maids that the woman would probably feel better breathing in the acidic fumes outside than putting up with her man's insults." -- Compuserve
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Expired (2008)60%
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B
 
"Despite its predictability, the feature has enough satire and comedy to be entertaining." -- Compuserve
Posted May 3, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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B
 
"More Downey-driven wit at the expense of some CGI would have made this pic even better." -- Compuserve
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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B
 
"Chief benefit of this film with its rapid editing and copious flashbacks is its mixture of levity and seriousness as Trier examines the lives of Norwegians just past their teens." -- Compuserve
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Reprise (2008)89%
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B
 
"A valuable addition to the treasure-trove of Holocaust films--this one about a Greek gentile who saves a Polish Jew." -- Film Journal International
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Fugitive Pieces (2008)67%
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B+
 
"Justifiably bleak, exquisitely acted drama of a Mexican teen who seeks his dad in New York only to find that a young man who befriended him claims to be the son." -- Compuserve
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)83%
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C
 
"Visually sumptuous but marred by a fragmented tale." -- Compuserve
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)53%
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"Skolnik, who directs and scripted Without the King, brings vivid, highly critical life to this hapless country." -- Film Journal International
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Without the King (2008)94%
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B
 
"Debut director David Ross's provocative debut puts us squarely into the lives of financially strapped high school girls who find that the end (paying for college) justifies the means." -- Compuserve
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
The Babysitters (2008)28%
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B
 
"The satire is anything but nuanced in this zany comedy targeted to the 17-35 set, and that's just how its audience likes it." -- Compuserve
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)55%
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B-
 
"As a spoof of a spoof the picture becomes repetitive and tiresome in spots but remains entertaining enough to deserve a visit." -- Compuserve
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)75%
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B
 
"Gags fall flat as many times as they sparkle, but the comic take on surrogate motherhood features some Saturday Night Live veterans that are having a good time and are eager to please their audience." -- Compuserve
Posted Apr 21, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%

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