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JEFFREY CHEN
PUBLICATION(S)
• ReelTalk Movie Reviews
• Window to the Movies

BIOGRAPHY
Jeff's movie-loving father made movies more a part of his life by opening a couple of video stores. His born-again movie-loving son now makes movies a part of his life by writing reviews about them.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 815

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Online Film Critics Society

OTHER INFO
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• Location: Los Angeles, CA


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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10/10  Ratatouille
9/10  Knocked Up
8/10  Breach
7/10  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
6/10  A Mighty Heart
5/10  Shrek the Third
4/10  Nancy Drew
3/10  Bad Boys II
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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10/10  The Dark Knight
10/10  Be Kind Rewind
10/10  WALL-E
10/10  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
10/10  There Will Be Blood
10/10  Persepolis
10/10  Ratatouille
10/10  Hot Fuzz
10/10  Grindhouse
10/10  Curse of the Golden Flower
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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1/10  The Dukes of Hazzard
1/10  House of the Dead
1/10  Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
1/10  101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
1/10  Scooby-Doo - The Movie
1/10  Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
2/10  Basic Instinct 2
2/10  Chicken Little
2/10  Into the Blue
2/10  Alien vs. Predator
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

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7/10
 
" If the movie has a skeleton which betrays its artifice and deliberateness, its actors give it real human flesh and blood." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 31, 2008
 
Doubt (2008)75%
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6/10
 
" [Wendy's] story works on an empathetic, functional level, and it thankfully resists extreme turns of any kind, though that lack of distinction also contributes to the generalization of both her character and this particular scenario." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 31, 2008
 
Wendy and Lucy (2008)84%
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8/10
 
" Almost like viewing a nature documentary. I could imagine David Attenborough's voice: 'See here this woman whose way of positively viewing life can grate on those around her.'" -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 31, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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7/10
 
" Stiller's parody of Hollywood opportunism and insecurities is fairly lacerating, but perhaps could've been more so had not the whole thing been played so broadly." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 31, 2008
 
Tropic Thunder (2008)83%
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5/10
 
" So straight and formal there's no room to breathe." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 25, 2008
 
Revolutionary Road (2008)65%
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9/10
 
" Animation turns out to be the perfect medium to show this ... It's an outstanding marriage of form and content." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 24, 2008
 
Waltz with Bashir (2008)95%
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8/10
 
" Fincher mainly succeeds in making the movie charming, a ride as gentle and whimsical as its protagonist, a technical triumph backing, yes, a curious narrative." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 24, 2008
 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)72%
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7/10
 
" A showcase role for otherwise supporting actor Richard Jenkins, and he makes the most of it without ever being showy." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 24, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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7/10
 
" The movie floats about and feels very much like Allen just dropped these characters together and watched them play themselves out." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 24, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)82%
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8/10
 
" A feat like the one Philippe Petit pulled off deserves to be documented." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 24, 2008
 
Man On Wire (2008)100%
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6/10
 
" Tricky territory, but surprisingly the whole thing comes off as disarming." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 24, 2008
 
Gran Torino (2008)73%
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5/10
 
" It tries for depth while holding your hand and glossing its surface; in the end, you get what you'd expect, which is a decent Holocaust-related drama, and not much more." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 19, 2008
 
The Reader (2008)61%
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6/10
 
" Frankly, if Clint Eastwood added some arias, this might've made a pretty good opera." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 19, 2008
 
Changeling (2008)59%
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9/10
 
" The absolute key to the movie's success is that it's mainly one actor playing one man in a way that we can join him inside his skin, and that's all the movie needs to be about, just pure pathos." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 17, 2008
 
The Wrestler (2008)98%
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5/10
 
" Che Guevara, it seems, shall ever be a symbol, and Che doesn't even seem interested in cracking that, thus leaving us no more enlightened than when we stepped in." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 12, 2008
 
Che (2008)55%
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9/10
 
" The time is right for Milk." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 12, 2008
 
Milk (2008)93%
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8/10
 
" An unapologetic modern fairy tale ... The construct is so appealing, it's almost instantly classic." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 11, 2008
 
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)94%
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9/10
 
" After it's through, a lot will have been said about friendship, injustice, and both faith in and letdown from the legal system, along with the intriguing thought that moral fortitude provides both its own punishments and rewards." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 9, 2008
 
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)93%
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7/10
 
" Very much a loyal sequel to its predecessor, essentially showing that if it ain't broke, don't fix it." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 9, 2008
 
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)63%
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7/10
 
" Langella gives Nixon a chance at audience sympathy -- for everything you know and possibly hate about the man, you can see, through the performance, that third dimension." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Dec 5, 2008
 
Frost/Nixon (2008)91%
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4/10
 
" Its elements are actually quite typical of a syndicated cartoon series, aimed mostly at the young'uns and contributing pretty much nothing to the Star Wars mythos." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 21, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)18%
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6/10
 
" For a film that's been lauded for its daring display of full-frontal male nudity, I got the nagging feeling that it actually played things pretty safe." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 21, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)85%
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7/10
 
" The joy in Blade II simply comes from watching Snipes as Blade doing his thing -- destroying vampires and whipping out martial arts on whomever gets too close." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 21, 2008
 
Blade 2 (2002)57%
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8/10
 
" Examines both the mystery of primitive human instincts and the nature and power of photography." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)80%
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9/10
 
" A comprehensive movie, an everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask film, engaging, paced well, informative, and professionally polished." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)100%
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4/10
 
" Cut from car to driver to announcer to audience and over and over again, ad nauseam. Such pretty racing scenes, so little to actually see." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)36%
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6/10
 
" While Hou's cinematic techniques are as sound as ever, this time it feels as if they're being used to peer into nothing of particular, specific significance." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)79%
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3/10
 
" More than anything, what bothers me about it is a sense of cheapness that ... centrally comes from a concept mainly built for shock value." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)19%
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7/10
 
" The wall-to-wall action, while quite entertaining, overshadows the refreshed Bond character just enough to make the movie look a little too much like it would rather be about Bourne." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Nov 13, 2008
 
Quantum of Solace (2008)65%
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6/10
 
" Mostly simply tries for fun, and for a good part of it, it delivers. But with it's jumble of elements, it doesn't allow a central one to take hold and truly fly." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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8/10
 
" Leave it to Wong Kar Wai to take a straightforward martial arts tale and weave its characters into one of his movies about soul-searching, love, isolation, and longing." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Oct 9, 2008
 
Ashes of Time (1994)91%
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8/10
 
" [Wong's fans] should have no trouble navigating the amorphous, dreamy threads of either version of Ashes of Time." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 9, 2008
 
Ashes of Time Redux (2008)80%
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7/10
 
" Green is a director who takes his time with characters, allowing their different sides to self-illustrate in naturalistic settings as he simultaneously paints their worlds." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Snow Angels (2008)67%
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8/10
 
" It's the details that make the whole thing work, from the performances ... to its deadly honest observations that Michelle's disabilities would create obstacles that would reach far beyond her loss of sight and hearing." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Black (2005)n/a
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8/10
 
" Better viewed as an illustration of the extreme dynamics of a friendship of personality contrasts than as a movie about illegal abortion or oppressive Communist regimes." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Oct 1, 2008
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)97%
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6/10
 
" Straightforward wish fulfillment -- imagine what crimes against humanity we could punish if we had real, indestructible Rambos." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Oct 1, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)37%
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8/10
 
" Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen could direct a movie like Burn After Reading in their sleep, and I don't mean that as a slight." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Sep 11, 2008
 
Burn After Reading (2008)78%
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7/10
 
" The Orphanage [is] durable and engrossing, traits that help overshadow its genre-bound features." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
The Orphanage (2007)86%
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8/10
 
" Even if some of the gags about dumb people start becoming tiresome, it's linked to a sensation of discomfort that should make us legitimately worry about the direction we're headed in." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Aug 18, 2008
 
Idiocracy (2006)72%
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7/10
 
" Pop moviemaking aimed towards an underserved demographic, but one respects its approach in assuming its audience is at least intelligent and emotionally mature." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Aug 18, 2008
 
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)77%
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7/10
 
" A whirlwind demo of technical proficiency. It's recommendable on camera choreography and seamless editing alone." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Aug 4, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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6/10
 
" Consider it Wong lite." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)47%
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6/10
 
" Mostly successful [in creating fun], but along the way its strengths struggled mightily against its weaknesses." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
Mamma Mia! (2008)53%
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10/10
 
" [Gotham City] stands in for any of today's civilized nations and becomes ripe for thematic exploration. And Nolan wastes no chance to utilize this world for a tale about how fragile our morality is." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)94%
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8/10
 
" Seeing the movie becomes a method of understanding, of putting into perspective, our place and limited privilege on Earth." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Encounters At the End of the World (2007)93%
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10/10
 
" An ode to finding one's creative side and the joys of being able to share one's creations with others." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)68%
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7/10
 
" Hellboy II is downright goofy. When it's not being funny, the creatures steal the show." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)88%
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5/10
 
" Only half a good movie -- the whole of it becomes confusing, disappointing, and non-sensical." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Jul 1, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)39%
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10/10
 
" It wouldn't be a stretch to call the movie pitch perfect." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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5/10
 
" The main characters themselves -- Max and Agent 99 -- and their relationship receive a rather disappointing stock treatment that lacks creativity." -- Window to the Movies
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)53%

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