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MARK DUJSIK

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Biography: Mark is the sole writer/editor/webmaster of Mark Reviews Movies(www.markreviewsmovies.com) and co-film critic at UR Chicago Magazine (www.urchicago.com). He has been a member of the Online Film Critics Society since 2002 and the Chicago Film Critics Association since 2006.

Favorites: The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Third Man, Vertigo, Grave of the Fireflies, The Seventh Seal, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, On the Waterfront, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, Singin' in the Rain, Schindler's List, Mon Oncle, Die Nibelungen, Fantasia, Raging Bull, The Thin Red Line

Publications: Mark Reviews Movies, Movie Insider, Movie Reviewing Teens, UR Chicago Magazine

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Chicago Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 697

Location: Chicago, IL

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Fresh 3/4	Fresh 71%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" *Ultimately, it is this mature understanding of the couple's relationship, which goes beyond politics and romantic love, that makes The Young Victoria* affecting.*" — Mark Reviews Movies* Posted Dec 17, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 10%	Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)	" The movie doesn't just quickly run out of its fish-out-of-water jokes but doesn't have any unique or funny gags in its arsenal the moment the couple from New York City lands in Wyoming." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Dec 17, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 82%	Avatar (2009)	" The artistry behind the images is clear, and the technical implementation of them is the most seamless and persuasive so far. Beyond that detached appreciation, though, there's little more in which to be invested in Avatar." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Dec 17, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 77%	Invictus (2009)	" Overcomes the heavy-handed means of reaching its goal ... simply because Freeman believes every word and owns every sentiment that the Mandela of the film expounds, and we believe it right along with him." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Dec 10, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 83%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" It's not to say that this formula couldn't work again; it simply doesn't pass muster with this attempt." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Dec 10, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 84%	Me and Orson Welles (2009)	" The Welles material is key, but the script also understands the world of a theatrical production, fleshing out all the backstage drama that inhabits it." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Dec 10, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 40%	The Lovely Bones (2009)	" The opening scenes promise one thing, and the rest of the movie is spent contradicting it." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Dec 10, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Up in the Air (2009)	" This is Reitman's third film, and he has proven in each of them to be able to transcend gimmick and make it personal and then further transcend that and make it universal." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 57%	Brothers (2009)	" A solidly developed look at the toll of war on individuals and the bonds they have." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 72%	The Road (2009)	" So intent on finding the shortest route to the essence of the book that it never discovers its own soul." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" The film has a renegade attitude but is also clearly respectful of the purpose of children's stories -- to entertain, to teach, to imagine -- and it's a joy to experience." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Because Bella does a half-hearted attempt to understand Jacob's lycanthropy compared to the half-assed job she did trying to comprehend Edward's vampirism, it has less than half the intrigue of the first movie." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 23%	Planet 51 (2009)	" The movie has little ambition to the creation of its world and even less when it comes to the humor." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 71%	The Blind Side (2009)	" Works in its own simple way because we believe and connect to these characters." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" There's so much ambitious spectacle, but it's surrounded by so many lazy contrivances that one would want to gasp in astonishment if one weren't chuckling and groaning in aggravation so often." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 60%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" The closest the movie comes to a rebellious statement is in naming one of its British government officials "Twatt." Forgive me if I don't want to throw on the Who and start ranting against the Establishment after that bit of scathing criticism." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 87%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" The cinematic equivalent of foreplay. It's all about building mood, teasing us, and, in between the lines, promising an eventual payoff." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" So honestly written, so vividly directed, and so brilliantly performed we are transported to a psychological nightmare of despair, insecurity, only the slightest glimmer of hope, and the smallest, most bittersweet rewards." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 54%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" Hilarious and also sobering." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" *A lot of nothing happens in The Fourth Kind." — Mark Reviews Movies* Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 44%	The Box (2009)	" This is easily [Kelly's] most accessible movie, but it's also his least involving." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" *In spite of its holiday trappings, A Christmas Carol* is an incredibly bleak look into the deepest and darkest human fears, but it is also a vibrant celebration of our better natures.*" — Mark Reviews Movies* Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 25%	Motherhood (2009)	" The lesson, I guess, is that it really sucks being a mom, but it's also incredibly unrewarding." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 37%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" A darkly funny and fun macabre fantasy that constantly winks at itself and expectations." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 22, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 21%	Amelia (2009)	" If ... you have completed a third grade social studies class, this biopic will only tell you what you already know then tell you a third time but not before telling you a second time." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 22, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" Does indeed deserve admiration for its loving actualization of Sendak's world ... but the movie's dissertation-like expansion of the story never truly comes together into anything meaningful." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 15, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 24%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" A frustrating example of an intriguing premise and skillful execution gone formula." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" A living, breathing, affectionate look at all the possibilities and pitfalls of growing up." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 82%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" Undeniably scary." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 13, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" Joel and Ethan Coen show how good they are at collecting their esoteric ideas and putting them on display in a meaningful way." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" Doesn't have either the guts or wherewithal to follow through with the humor and stick to its setup." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" Has a few flashes of genre-bending inspiration ... but the rest is a little too low-key and obvious to really set this zombie comedy apart." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 83%	Whip It (2009)	" Manages to make a sport about women on roller skates beating the crap out of each other tedious." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 1, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 57%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" Its later digression in tone and reliance on formula are alternately incompatible and lesser than what comes before it." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 75%	Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)	" *Considering the vast spread of the subject matter of Capitalism: A Love Story, that the film works as well as it does is an accomplishment." — Mark Reviews Movies* Posted Oct 1, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" The whole affair is surprisingly dialogue-heavy, in spite of the fact it has nothing meaningful to say." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 25, 2009
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 22%	I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)	" It's all terrible, ugly ... and not funny." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 27%	Fame (2009)	" There's no time taken for their individual progress, so we don't care about these kids as individuals." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 18%	Love Happens (2009)	" Comes so close to defying formula and expectations only to conform to them." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" Wants a lot but doesn't manage to achieve any of it." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" We'd love to sympathize with Mark Whitacre if he weren't such a crook." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 85%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" Bright (although that brightness is quite diminished if you see it in 3-D), cheery, and at times flat-out hilarious." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 32%	The Burning Plain (2009)	" *Arriaga's affinity for the humanistic ... propels The Burning Plain." — Mark Reviews Movies* Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" We do wish you the best in your future endeavors and that you do manage to find a warmer climate." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 10, 2009
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 30%	Gamer (2009)	" Takes itself far too seriously, saying nothing of timeliness or value in a banally overblown fashion." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 58%	9 (2009)	" A visually striking piece of work from first-time feature director Shane Acker." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 8, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 6%	All About Steve (2009)	" Which of these characters is even recognizable enough in the sphere of human existence that we might be able to think, yes, I get him/her[?]" — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 3, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 21%	Halloween II (2009)	" Moments that add up to a bit more than incoherence ... and an overall sense that Zombie has a clear idea of what he's trying to say but is without the skill to say it." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Sep 1, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 29%	The Final Destination (2009)	" A quick, cheap cash-in." — Mark Reviews Movies Posted Aug 31, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 49%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" *Despite setting itself up as a behind-the-scenes, insider's look at the making of the Woodstock Festival, Taking Woodstock* tells us nothing new about the 1969 event that defined a generation.*" — Mark Reviews Movies* Posted Aug 27, 2009

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