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JON LAP

Agrees with the Tomatometer 61% of the time.

Biography: Graduated New York University with a BFA in Cinema Studies and Film & TV.

Favorites: Top 10 2002 1. Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky 2. Dogtown and Z-Boys 3. Yellow Asphalt 4. Max 5. Merci Pour Le Chocolat 6. 25th Hour 7. Full Frontal 8. 13 Conversations About One Thing 9. 8 Women 0. Narc (tie) Possession The 1990s *Goodfellas *Magnolia *My Own Private Idaho *Naked *Everyone Says I Love You *Cold Water *La Belle Noiseuse *Leaving Las Vegas *English Patient *Casino *Wings of the Dove *Poison (Todd Haynes) *Titanic *Legends of the Fall *Carlito's Way *Heat *Exotica *Unzipped *Sweet Hereafter *Crumb *Fallen Angels *Your Friends And Neighbors *Chungking Express The 20th Century Swept Away (1974, Wertmuller) Seven Beauties (1976, Wertmuller) Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming) Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese) East of Eden (1955, Kazan) The Immortal Story (1968, Welles) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles) Moscow in Clad and Snow (Bauer, 1908) Parallax View (1974, Pakula) Sunrise, (1927, Murnau) Running on Empty (1988, Lumet) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Allen) Another Woman (1988, Allen) The Man With A Movie Camera (1929, Vertov) L'Atalante (1934, Vigo) Last Laugh (1924, Murnau) Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi) The Bicycle Thief (1948, De Sica) The Godfather Trilogy (1972-1990, Coppola) The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut) Singin' In The Rain (1952, Donnen) Marjorie Morningstar (1958, Rapper) Notorious (1946, Hitchcock) Bless Their Little Hearts (1984, Woodberry) Bushmama (1976, Gerima) Killer of Sheep (1977, Burnett) Two Underrated Select Works (1990s): Three of Hearts (1993, Yurek Bogayevicz); Amongst Friends (1993, Rob Weiss)

Publications: Apollo Guide, Long Island Press

Total Reviews: 103

Location: New York

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Fresh 92/100	Fresh 70%	Dogville (2003)	" There is one vital DVD feature those interested in understanding von Trier's approach won't want to miss." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 21, 2007
Rotten 60/100	Fresh 85%	Lilo & Stitch (2002)	" Similar to most contemporary American feature-length animation, the film�s overall structure is frayed." — Apollo Guide Posted May 13, 2005
Fresh 75/100	Fresh 94%	Girlhood (2003)	" To the film�s great credit, [director] Garbus evens out her often heavy-hand and we�re given the emotional core of two young female criminals in ways often eluded in the movies." — Apollo Guide Posted May 13, 2005
Fresh 84/100	Fresh 87%	Mystic River (2003)	" The film births wonderful performances from all three lead actors, as well as Marcia Gay Harden, who�s palpable in preternatural ways, Thomas Guiry as the boy in love with Jimmy's daughter, and virtually everyone else with a strip of film time." — Apollo Guide Posted May 13, 2005
Fresh 93/100	Fresh 84%	My Own Private Idaho (1992)	" Works as a brilliant piece of art, and entertainment." — Apollo Guide Posted May 13, 2005
Fresh 81/100	Rotten 55%	El Leyton (2002)	" A sloppy but stylistically incendiary handling of mystery, thriller, suspense, doldrums-of-domestic-romance and labour fraternity tropes." — Apollo Guide Posted Nov 16, 2003
Rotten 59/100	Fresh 91%	Shattered Glass (2003)	" *A fascinating story, with enough dramaturgical potential to make a rock take notice. Unfortunately, Shattered Glass* is an ignorant rock unto itself.*" — Apollo Guide* Posted Nov 12, 2003
Fresh 76/100	Fresh 84%	Gloomy Sunday (2003)	" Cinematographer Edward Klosinki finds many an interesting place for his camera to doss and gurney � giving us a skulking psychoanalytical aesthetic." — Apollo Guide Posted Nov 7, 2003
Fresh 84/100	Rotten 37%	Sylvia (2003)	" Much of this film plays to the audience�s subconscious, forced to deal with the spirals of perverse intertwinement." — Apollo Guide Posted Nov 5, 2003
Fresh 75/100	Fresh 94%	Girlhood (2003)	" Garbus, here, gets at a portion of the metaphysical reality behind the veneer of criminal behaviour." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 30, 2003
Rotten 70/100	Rotten 55%	A Wedding for Bella (2001)	" A story of death-as-deus-ex-machina � where the contrivances are not so offensive � with interesting performances." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 24, 2003
Fresh 92/100	Fresh 70%	Dogville (2003)	" A brilliant tale of intellectual awakening." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 15, 2003
Fresh 75/100	Fresh 71%	Elephant (2003)	" A valiant experiment in existential pathology gone tepid." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 8, 2003
Fresh 92/100	Fresh 75%	Three of Hearts (1993)	" [E]gregiously misunderstood." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 8, 2003
Fresh 84/100	Fresh 87%	Mystic River (2003)	" *[T]he iconography of bridges seems to inform us of Mystic River�s* subtext.*" — Apollo Guide* Posted Oct 7, 2003
Fresh 75/100	Rotten 50%	Southlander - Diary of a Desperate Musician (2001)	" Hanft captures the goosy, roach-of-a-joint lifestyle pressed upon fledgling musicians in underground circles of L.A. and other urban blights." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 2, 2003
Rotten 69/100	Rotten 20%	Stealing the Fire (2002)	" The discursive nature of the information that is presented greets its audience like a plunged inert mass." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 24, 2003
Rotten 60/100	Rotten 50%	Seven Year Zigzag (2003)	" Said ingenuity is at times recursive in its chintzy pell-mell of images and superimpositions..." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 24, 2003
Fresh 85/100	Rotten 53%	Bounce Ko Gals (1997)	" *Harada fashions a socially mimetic picture of seedy street-hustler life a la My Own Private Idaho* and Olivier Assayas� Cold Water.*" — Apollo Guide* Posted Sep 24, 2003
Fresh 92/100	Fresh 78%	Beau Travail (1999)	" Rhythm in Denis� sight is pejorative routine." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 24, 2003
Fresh 80/100	Fresh 79%	Open Range (2003)	" Costner�s epic, as director, is one to behold, not for its 24th hour sentimental about-face, but for the existential knack it has for the pacific, the stately and the quiet." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 18, 2003
Fresh 89/100	Rotten 40%	Anything Else (2003)	" *The most rebelliously, subtly and subversively creative Woody Allen has been since Sleeper." — Apollo Guide* Posted Sep 18, 2003
Fresh 90/100	Rotten 47%	And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003)	" *The most sophisticated love story since In the Mood for Love, The House of Mirth* and The English Patient.*" — Apollo Guide* Posted Sep 18, 2003
Fresh 86/100	Fresh 77%	Taking Sides (2003)	" Istvan Szabo uses his compositions-of-depth as a sort of excavation of the epistemological quandaries haunting the post-Second World War world." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 7, 2003
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 94%	American Splendor (2003)	" One�s reception of the film as art depends solely on whether you see it as a sell-out or an inside joke that takes some time to assimilate." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 5, 2003
Fresh 77/100	Fresh 94%	Dirty Pretty Things (2003)	" Frears has continually built on the foundation of Griffith�s A Corner in Wheat and Chaplin�s The Immigrant." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 4, 2003
Rotten 45/100	Fresh 62%	Camp (2003)	" Gives glib critics something to horselaugh about." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 1, 2003
Fresh 78/100	Fresh 85%	Swimming Pool (2003)	" The swimming pool in the film, as depicted by Ozon, is a self-reflexive epicentre..." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 1, 2003
Rotten 65/100	Fresh 82%	Thirteen (2003)	" Catherine Hardwicke�s idea of context is the trite schematics of schoolyard popularity." — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 30, 2003
Fresh 75/100	Fresh 88%	28 Days Later (2003)	" An agoraphobic New Age." — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 30, 2003
Fresh 85/100	Fresh 77%	Seabiscuit (2003)	" A triumph of a movie � one that, despite a certain historical and emotional gloss, we can only hope gives us as real an account of horseracing as it appears." — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 14, 2003
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 100%	Three Colors Trilogy (1993)	" Beginning with Blue, straight through to White and Red, Kieslowski comes off like a deaf person trying, in fits of frustration, to communicate with the hearing." — Long Island Press Posted Apr 26, 2003
Fresh 75/100	Rotten 31%	Returning Mickey Stern (2005)	" There's a sort of magical realism, but in the vein of a low-budget Big or Groundhog Day, rather than Luis Bu�uel and Jan Svankmajer." — Long Island Press Posted Apr 26, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Open Hearts (2003)	" An astounding investigation of the natural feud within us all: the confusion of wanting self-help, while simultaneously settling for self-complacency." — Long Island Press Posted Mar 21, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 86%	Nowhere in Africa (2003)	" ...the imagery is one to marvel...There's a striking irony in much of what we see." — Long Island Press Posted Mar 7, 2003
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 85%	Spider (2003)	" Most of Cronenberg's previous films are busy with corporeal matter�monsters or creatures�but with Spider, there's a sort of poetic singularity in that Fiennes rarely has actors to play off. The monster is his psyche, the way he interprets existence." — Long Island Press Posted Feb 27, 2003
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 94%	Lost in La Mancha (2003)	" From a puritanical perspective, the genius that is the chronicle is undermined by the laxity of the execution." — Long Island Press Posted Feb 7, 2003
Rotten 71/100	Rotten 43%	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)	" A brand of entertainment that�s dissatisfying intellectually and formulaically." — Apollo Guide Posted Feb 7, 2003
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 67%	Amen (2003)	" The pervasive use of staircases -- whether people are ascending or descending -- lends an interesting leitmotif of class and religious struggle." — Long Island Press Posted Jan 29, 2003
Rotten 64/100	Fresh 74%	Blackboards (2002)	" Samira Makhmalbaf�s new film Blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness, although, it�s unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal" — Apollo Guide Posted Dec 5, 2002
Rotten 61/100	N/A	Ben Harper - Pleasure and Pain (2002)	" The film is a timorous, flailing attempt at docu-philosophy. Co-directors Danny Clinch and Sam Lee must have thought that desultory use of slow motion and quick-cuts can cover for aimlessness." — Apollo Guide Posted Nov 27, 2002
Rotten 74/100	Fresh 76%	Revolution No. 9 (2002)	" [T]he film is never sure to make a clear point � even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation." — Apollo Guide Posted Nov 15, 2002
Fresh 85/100	Fresh 94%	Hell House (2002)	" Ratliff�s two previous titles, Plutonium Circus and Purgatory County show his penchant for wry, contentious configurations, and this film is part of that delicate canon." — Apollo Guide Posted Nov 14, 2002
Fresh 88/100	Fresh 97%	American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002)	" The socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides... [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy." — Apollo Guide Posted Nov 1, 2002
Fresh 79/100	Fresh 81%	Divine Intervention (2003)	" Women take on a role of auxiliary endurance... the only character[s] to confront the camera head-on, in close up, or direct stares." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 26, 2002
Fresh 82/100	Fresh 75%	Arthur Dong: Family Fundamentals ()	" Using his audience as a figurative port-of-call, Dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading, before he continues his longer journey still ahead." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 7, 2002
Fresh 80/100	Fresh 97%	Read My Lips (2002)	" Its primary benefits are held in a quark of arcane visual symbols and cultural criticism." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 10, 2002
Fresh 80/100	Rotten 25%	Heartbreak Hospital (2002)	" A deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession � one that typifies the delirium of post, pre, and extant stardom." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 3, 2002
Rotten 60/100	Fresh 83%	The Execution Of Wanda Jean (2005)	" [Garbus] discards the potential for pathological study, exhuming instead, the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 3, 2002
Fresh 85/100	Fresh 64%	Possession (2002)	" We get the romantic doom of [LaBute's] usual commentary, but this time with new filmic scope and multidimensionality." — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 13, 2002

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