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MARYANN JOHANSON
PUBLICATION(S)
• Apollo Guide
• Flick Filosopher

BIOGRAPHY
"One of online’s finest" film critics, or so says trade mag Variety, MaryAnn Johanson is a New York City-based freelance writer who loves movies but hates what Hollywood sometimes does to them.
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CONTACT INFO
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STATS
Total Reviews: 2531
Total QuickRatings: 4

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• Online Film Critics Society
• Cinemarati

OTHER INFO
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• Location: New York City


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LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES
A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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9/10  1776
81/100  Murphy's Romance
75/100  Nikki - Wild Dog of the North
70/100  The Kennel Murder Case
6/10  All Quiet on the Western Front
60/100  The Cassandra Crossing
55/100  The Legend of Lobo
45/100  Surviving the Game
3/10  Santa With Muscles
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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9/10  BookWars
9/10  Olive, the Other Reindeer
9/10  Kestrel's Eye
9/10  Cast Away
9/10  The Gift
9/10  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
9/10  The House of Mirth
9/10  The Emperor's New Groove
9/10  1776
9/10  All About Eve
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WORST REVIEWED
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2/10  Goodbye, 20th Century
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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" [C]lever and subtle and demands that you pay attention, and rewards you for doing so..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
Body of Lies (2008)53%
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Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 (2004)n/a
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" [A] wild, outrageous ride through the conspiracy theories of the moment, wrapped in a paranoid, blow-'em-up, all-stops-out thriller..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Mobile (2008)n/a
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" [K]inda like Ferris Bueller's Night Out, but way less snarky and way sweeter, and the whole gang is Ferris." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Oct 6, 2008
 
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)72%
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" [An] unnerving trill on the classic sci-fi disaster movie: think an arthouse Day of the Triffids." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Oct 2, 2008
 
Blindness (2008)41%
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" Delicious in a costume-drama-y way that will delight fans of the genre while being as entirely lightweight as the enormous ostrich feathers on Georgiana's hats..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 28, 2008
 
The Duchess (2008)61%
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" [Q]uite sweet and moving and full of cynicism that really just wants for a hug, pretty please..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 28, 2008
 
Choke (2008)55%
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" [O]bviously crafted with deep earnestness and profound love and serious talent... [but] it fails entirely, on every level, in every way that a movie can fail." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)31%
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" Maybe Ricky Gervais is a funny guy, but you'd never know it from this charmless excuse for a supernatural romantic comedy, which doesn't have the first clue how to take advantage of his dry, tangential, self-deprecating wit." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 20, 2008
 
Ghost Town (2008)85%
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" Has there ever been so amiably demented a flick as this one...?" -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Igor (2008)28%
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" Oh, to live to see such a rarity: a horror movie for grownups! No mad slashers... [j]ust the plausible pettiness of human nastiness slowly, inexorably building to a tragedy of suburban proportions." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Lakeview Terrace (2008)42%
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" [W]e like these Torchwood people... even when we don't like them, which is pretty frequently, actually, because they're often not very likable..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 16, 2008
 
Torchwood - The Complete Second Season (2007)n/a
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" Is this the most adorable show ever, or what?... nine episodes of sweet-and-snarky perfection..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 16, 2008
 
Pushing Daisies - The Complete First Season (2007)n/a
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" DeNiro is 65, Pacino is 68, and they look it. Not just physically: spiritually, too. They're exhausted." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Righteous Kill (2008)23%
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" If I hadn't known this was written and directed by a woman, I'd have sworn it was the mean-spirited invention of a man who doesn't know any women but despises us all anyway, on general principle." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
The Women (2008)10%
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Posted Sep 10, 2008
 
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007)0%
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" [H]onestly, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo and the gang got into spookier situations than this." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 9, 2008
 
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007)0%
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" The Coens do comedy with the same level of intensity as they do drama, and in Burn that comes through in the mock-thriller atmosphere they create..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 8, 2008
 
Burn After Reading (2008)78%
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Posted Sep 8, 2008
 
Bangkok Dangerous (2001)54%
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" Hollywood came a-callin', and said [to the Pang brothers], 'Come work for us. We're pay you a sh*tload of money. All you have to do is sell us your souls.' And the brothers said yes." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 7, 2008
 
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)10%
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" [Picks] up on whatever is in the zeitgeist that makes us suddenly fascinated by grownups... who dress up in pseudo medieval garb, pick up fake swords and maces, and beat the hitpoints out of one another. You know, for fun." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Monster Camp (2007)62%
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Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Boyfriends (1996)n/a
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" [I]nteresting... for the sense you can gather, in the subtext of the bonus materials, of a series that became a victim of outside circumstances as well as its own success." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 4, 2008
 
Heroes Season 2 (2008)n/a
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Click here to read article -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 3, 2008
 
Babylon A.D. ()0%
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" [I]t's a terrible pity that this ensemble drama about people hurting and coping in small-town America is so relentlessly dull..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
The Sensation of Sight (2008)50%
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" I found myself sorta not hating it, and sorta fascinated by it, for about 45 minutes or so. Alas that the movie's about 90 minutes long." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 
Babylon A.D. (2008)7%
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Click here to read article -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 
Cranford (2007)n/a
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Click here to read article -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Sep 1, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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" Oh god, have I ever seen a more tedious 'erotic' movie than this one?" -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
The Last Mistress (2008)76%
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" The stories of women are so disparaged -- or worse, ignored -- in our culture unless they have something to do with pleasing men, but here's one that demands to be seen." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
Frozen River (2008)86%
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" [T]he smartest, savviest, most seditious movie yet about the 'global war on terror'... by far one of the best movies of 2008 so far..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)53%
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" [P]rimarily a catalogue of performances, and they are magnificent..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 28, 2008
 
Gypsy Caravan (2006)86%
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" Boll mistakes shock for satire and crudity for cleverness in this desperately unfunny, hopelessly clueless catalogue of the ills of America... that ends up rejoicing in what it believes it is sending up." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 26, 2008
 
Postal (2008)8%
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" [B]rilliant British satirist Steve Coogan... is actually hard to watch at times, he's so raw and honest in how he strips Dana of all dignity in the teacher's search for meaning and feeling in his life..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 26, 2008
 
Hamlet 2 (2008)63%
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" Of course it's outrageous: it's supposed to be." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 26, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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" [T]he historical context probably is the best way in which to appreciate this hit-or-miss collection of sight gags, wordplay, and middle-class angst..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 25, 2008
 
Alfresco ()n/a
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" [T]he only thing deadly about it is how dull it is..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Death Race (2008)43%
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" You've heard the term sex bomb. Now hear this: The House Bunny is a nuclear sex bomb, a radioactive weapon deadly to all forms of life..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 21, 2008
 
The House Bunny (2008)39%
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" Crap. The Nazis had TV in 1935?... I guess we should be grateful they focused on television first and left the A-bomb for later." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 18, 2008
 
Television Under the Swastika (1999)n/a
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" [P]retty darn awesome... [a]t least as far as overblown Saturday morning cartoons go..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)19%
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" My eyes are still burning from... the horrible racial, cultural, and gender stereotypes of the 1960s [and the] weirdly, disturbingly human-ish flies..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Fly Me To The Moon (2008)17%
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" This isn't a movie: it's a sermon." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)36%
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" Mostly what you need to know about VCB is this: Cristina is Woody. Vicky is Mia. They have the same conversations we've heard a million times before in Allen's movies." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)80%
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" [I]nventively clever in its sendup of the self-involvement of pretty much anyone who's anyone in Hollywood... aggressive[ly] outrageous..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 14, 2008
 
Tropic Thunder (2008)83%
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" This is a charming triumph-of-the-underdog flick, and mostly for one reason: Alan Rickman." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)45%
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" Ill-conceived, poorly written, badly acted, and incompetently directed, this is a disaster from start to finish..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 11, 2008
 
When I Find the Ocean (2006)n/a
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" Thirty sketches jammed into 23 minutes is a certain recipe for insanity, or at least for making milk spurt out your nose, you're laughing so hard." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Robot Chicken Star Wars ()n/a
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" Here's yet another excellent argument for the legalization of marijuana... it will prevent us seeing more movies like this one..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)68%
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" [T]he fact that the jeans are entirely incidental to everything happening here is the least of its problems..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)63%
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" A damned intriguing thriller that asks more questions than it answers and leaves you dazed and upset and also a little inspired..." -- Flick Filosopher
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%

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