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	73 Reviews by Rumsey Taylor 73 Reviews by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You Movie: King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) [The subjects] may be a curious sort of renown, but by the end you are enraptured in their strugg... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Ten Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (6/1) The Ten has a meticulous rhythm and consistency, with aspects of early commandments informing the... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: Knocked Up Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Because its central character is a meticulously architected dude, Knocked Up is a contrived male ... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lookout, The Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) It is as if [Frank] trashes the entire mechanism altogether, resulting in a spoonfed conclusion, ... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brown Bunny, The Release date: 8/27/2004 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Despite its languid, almost hypnotic pacing, The Brown Bunny is exalted with enormous suspense. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eyes Without a Face Release date: 12/31/2003 11:01:30 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Eyes Without a Face has the staging and rhythm of Noir, and, up until one incredible scene, emplo... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Umberto D. Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:46 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Umberto D. is a film of constant desolation, a stalwart example of Neorealist cinema, and a depre... 13 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Release date: 1/11/2002 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Brotherhood of the Wolf supplies enough to satisfy many tastes without overwhelming them. It is o... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Galaxy Far, Far Away, A Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:32 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) To the film’s credit its topic supplies a wealth of material, philosophy, and entertainment -- an... 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fight Club Release date: 10/15/1999 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Fight Club is as curiously appealing as your first learned profanity and as dangerous as chewing ... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Three Kings Release date: 10/1/1999 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The film has the glamour of a Hollywood blockbuster (not to mention A-list actors) and the drive ... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stop Making Sense Release date: 9/17/1999 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Even at its least effective, the film animates one’s foot to tap unknowingly for eighty-eight min... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hell House Release date: 12/31/1998 11:01:33 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) It is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias, especially as temptingly easy as i... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Die Hard Release date: 7/13/1998 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) It may seem, in measure, that watching this in lieu of Frosty or Rudolph violates a practice duri... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Insomnia Release date: 12/31/1997 11:01:34 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) In Insomnia the murderer and his investigator possess a human capacity for mischaracterizing trai... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Face/Off Release date: 6/27/1997 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The concept of Face/Off is a multifaceted benchmark: it is John Woo’s best American film, a requi... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Walkabout Release date: 12/31/1996 11:01:48 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Walkabout’s obvious concern is the relationship between two parties, separated by centuries of di... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lone Star Release date: 6/21/1996 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Lone Star is intrinsically an aggregate of John Sayles’ prior films, politically and racially. 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Short Cuts Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:44 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Short Cuts is deliberately fragmentary, laudable for its individual scenes and even more so for t... 17 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Neighbor Totoro Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:38 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) My Neighbor Totoro has a realistic and dramatic maturity and an ingenuous sensibility (many scene... 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fisher King, The Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:31 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The Fisher King is one of Gilliam’s best films, and I find it strange that it is his most commerc... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rapture, The Release date: 1/1/1991 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The Rapture is not ostensibly a horror film, but I found it deeply frightening, and it i... 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Joe Versus the Volcano Release date: 12/31/1990 11:01:35 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Joe’s unfortunate prognosis and ensuing plight may be completely imagined, though his motivations... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Do the Right Thing Release date: 12/31/1989 11:01:29 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Do the Right Thing operates to approach race frankly, as peoples’ interpretations of the climax b... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Back to the Future Part II Release date: 12/31/1989 11:01:27 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Part II incorporates both the staple features of the first film and, at its base, a more mature t... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thin Blue Line, The Release date: 12/31/1988 11:01:45 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Furthering its genre irregularity, it employs no narration to guide the viewer, and each shot is ... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: They Live Release date: 11/4/1988 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The film’s portrayal of capitalism is so wittingly sharp that I applaud the film. Securing my pra... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Life As A Dog Release date: 12/31/1987 11:01:38 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Ingemar, as the other children in the film, is depicted with a noticeable respect and maturity. 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Raising Arizona Release date: 1/1/1987 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Raising Arizona possesses such a bounty of thematic offerings that, despite its objective strengt... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Robocop Release date: 1/1/1987 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) RoboCop is weighed down by its humor, action, and abundant special effects; its humanity is its d... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sid and Nancy Release date: 12/31/1986 11:01:44 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The inevitable deaths of Sid and Nancy are the only logical conclusions to their behavior; ironic... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blue Velvet Release date: 9/19/1986 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Even some fifteen years after the release of Blue Velvet its vision remains wildly adamant relati... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brazil Release date: 12/1/1985 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Hollywood is notoriously plagued by commercial incentive and a lack of art; Brazil is a rare succ... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stranger Than Paradise Release date: 12/31/1984 11:01:44 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Its characters’ vacant aspirations are equated by Stranger Than Paradise’s lack of conventional p... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paris, Texas Release date: 12/31/1984 11:01:41 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Paris, Texas uses the familiar thematic construct of the Western, and is conducted in somber nost... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brother From Another Planet, The Release date: 12/31/1984 11:01:27 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The principle character is an embellished creation, and serves to exaggerate peoples’ intolerance... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension, The Release date: 12/31/1984 11:01:26 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The characters each look like they are from a first generation music video, speak like they are i... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Videodrome Release date: 12/31/1983 11:01:47 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Videodrome operates as a study in metaphysics; it draws attention to its medium and in doing so c... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tenebre Release date: 12/31/1982 11:01:45 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Tenebre is nearer to body of Argento’s filmography, and seems like an homage to his early gialli;... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fitzcarraldo Release date: 12/31/1982 11:01:31 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Slant Magazine: (7/0) Fitzcarraldo is a more objective record of a comparable fever dream, and as such is the preeminen... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Time Bandits Release date: 12/31/1981 11:01:45 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Director Terry Gilliam’s entire career has been spent as an endearing fight against convention. T... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Possession Release date: 12/31/1981 11:01:41 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Slant Magazine: (7/0) Horror being a profitable genre in the early 1980s, Possession was made to pronounce an aesthetic... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gates of Heaven Release date: 12/31/1978 11:01:32 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Gates of Heaven is a documentary with subject and no argument, and is nonetheless deeply, deeply ... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Day of the Woman Release date: 12/31/1978 11:01:29 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) There is a successful motive at work in I Spit on Your Grave, though its methods of employing it ... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Days of Heaven Release date: 12/31/1978 11:01:29 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Malick emphasizes both his characters' happiness and ignorance. This dilemma is acknowledged in t... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Halloween Release date: 10/25/1978 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The most significant triumph Halloween achieves is measured by the bulk of films that follow and ... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stroszek Release date: 12/21/1977 11:01:44 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) No description is necessary beyond the final line in the film: 'We’ve got a truck on fire. We hav... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Release date: 11/16/1977 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Viewing Close Encounters we are reduced to a childlike perception, overwhelmed by the luster and ... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Realm of the Senses Release date: 12/31/1976 11:01:34 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) It is a task to measure the film’s aesthetics, as it is secondary to frequent sex – shown in such... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Assault on Precinct 13 Release date: 12/31/1976 11:01:26 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Assault on Precinct 13 is derived from the ’70s popular crime genre, largely composed of borrowed... 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Profondo Rosso Release date: 12/31/1975 11:01:41 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) From a technical perspective, the film is a masterwork; considering the unexpectedly engaging nar... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Badlands Release date: 12/21/1973 11:01:27 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Badlands is an arena for apathy, both in regard to the characters’ depictions and their subjectiv... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Straw Dogs Release date: 12/31/1971 11:01:44 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) It is a dilemmatic circumstance, as the discrimination that founds the conflict between David and... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Release date: 12/31/1971 11:01:44 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) It is style, glamour, and even virtuosic direction (in the inclusive use of so many familiar tech... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honeymoon Killers, The Release date: 12/31/1970 11:01:33 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Ray and Martha are violent for their desperation, their fiction the more vilified of the late 60’... 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Graduate, The Release date: 12/21/1967 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Seen in its time, a decade of political identification (sexual, racial, etc.), The Graduate estab... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Playtime Release date: 12/16/1967 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Playtime is an adamant vision whose failure is integral to its philosophy. It is a befitting fate... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Release date: 1/1/1966 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) There are many features that contribute to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s belated renown, and ... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Manchurian Candidate, The Release date: 1/1/1962 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) The Manchurian Candidate is at once brutally intelligent and shocking. Long after the final gunsh... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Peeping Tom Release date: 12/31/1960 11:01:41 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) No film, simply, more rightly depicts the psychology of helming a camera, fashioning scenario, an... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Psycho Release date: 1/1/1960 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Psycho is not sexually exploitative despite its sexuality, though, as the title suggests, psychol... 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vertigo Release date: 1/1/1958 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) Justifying Vertigo's poor initial performance, it is a film that requires distance, as well as th... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beauty and the Beast Release date: 12/21/1946 11:01:27 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) As Cocteau properly retains in his diary of the film’s making, Beauty and the Beast has the struc... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Citizen Kane Release date: 1/1/1941 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (7/0) It is, as a critical benchmark, unavoidable. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Freaks Release date: 12/31/1932 11:01:31 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (6/0) Freaks is a requisite entry in the library of horror. 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: M Release date: 1/1/1931 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (6/0) M is the most dynamic profile of a serial killer in film. 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Terminator 2: Judgment Day Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:45 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (5/2) No reference The film contains every established action device: exploding buildings (when a car is no longer e... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn Release date: 1/1/1987 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (3/4) No reference Harkening back to influences for his 8mm shorts, Raimi owes more to the Three Stooges than he doe... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Enter the Dragon Release date: 12/31/1973 11:01:30 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (3/4) No reference It is a meld of the decade’s most pronounced filmic conventions (the long forward zoom; scoring w... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Bunch, The Release date: 12/31/1969 11:01:48 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (3/4) No reference The film does not highlight genre traits, and replaces them with a violence unparalleled in the g... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: White Sheik, The Release date: 12/31/1952 11:01:48 PM Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (3/3) No reference Such as in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, in The White Sheik Fellini acknowledges his neo-reali... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Johnson Family Vacation Release date: 4/7/2004 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Boston Phoenix: (6/1) Not Reachable Johnson Family Vacation affords the viewer a single offering of suspense in wondering just how th... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rashomon Release date: 1/1/1951 Review by Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You: (5/1) Not Reachable Rashomon is laudable foremost for its very use of its medium, timelessly engaging, and as singula... 14 other reviews of this movie Served turbo style