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DONALD J. LEVIT

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Biography: Donald J. Levit is a free-lance writer with a B.A. from Duke and a Ph. D. from Chicago. Although born in Nashville and raised there and in Brooklyn, he has lived in many other places in the U.S. He also resided for a time in the Caribbean and, for twenty-two years, in Spain. Dr. Levit now calls New York City his home.

Publications: Film Threat, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 574

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Fresh	Fresh 100%	Vincere (2009)	" At its center are a strong Filippo Timi as Mussolini and, in a shattering performance, Giovanna Mezzogiorno as the woman he cast aside in the name of expediency." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 18, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 90%	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)	" Fables for a less saturated and cynical age, 'The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad' deserves more than it has received." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 18, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Nosferatu (1922)	" 'Nosferatu' is worthwhile on two counts: mise-en-sc�ne and the actor who is the title (and sole) vampire." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 10, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 0%	Stolen (2010)	" Not pretentious in its implications, 'Stolen' nevertheless depends excessively on coincidence, on unlikely connections and not clearly differentiated characters." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 10, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 92%	Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss (2010)	" Director Moeller's hands-off approach results in too many undigested faces and cross-opinions for the majority unfamiliar with director Harlan." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 4, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 96%	A Prophet (2010)	" The stuffed plot of this blue-hued prison drama spins out of control, and the director's 'world as it is, as it plays out,' complicates itself too much." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 25, 2010
Fresh	N/A	The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)	" In this documentary, striking hand-held photography is done on the spot as opposed to post-production gussying up." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 18, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)	" Slides into unexceptional melodrama, as the films two threads distract from, rather than reinforce, each other." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 18, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)	" Even if taken as social or Freudian statement, Caligari's real star attraction is in the visuals." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 7, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 17%	Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)	" There's nothing much heavenly to find in 'Saint John of Las Vegas.'" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 5, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 81%	Red Riding Trilogy (2010)	" The difficulty shows in organizing four novels into three independent, cross-referential films, for Tony Grisoni's 'Red Riding Trilogy' scripts leave loose ends." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 3, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Delta (2010)	" Despite home front deprivation, films like 'Delta' give evidence of Budapest's reserve of talent and promise." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Feb 1, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Ajami (2010)	" Complex like its nation's own ethnic and cultural stew, this is bracing cinema even while its implications are distressing in the extreme." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 30, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 75%	Soundtrack for a Revolution (2010)	" It's the clips of early television broadcast reportage -- along with the emotional memories of those who participated, that still move one to tears, awe and pride." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 21, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" Those previously in the dark about the story from books or films will remain so, for the 153 minutes make little clear aside from a Be-Sure-To-See-The-Sequel conclusion." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 18, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 100%	My Neighbor, My Killer (2009)	" While 'My Neighbor, My Killer' should be applauded for avoiding the call to sensationalism, its beaten-down, nearly toneless low key grows repetitious." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 15, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Burma VJ (2009)	" Events are movingly and fortuitously recorded here, but the world's attention has shifted to other media moments." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 15, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 83%	Bright Star (2009)	" The plot doesn't have much to go on, so much is imagined but not demonstrably true, with acting, production design and period costume hopefully covering for accuracy." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 14, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 88%	Fish Tank (2010)	" 'Fish Tank' has a spontaneous quality -- but it also, unfortunately, leaves us with a sense that things which matter are going nowhere." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 14, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Antichrist (2009)	" 'Antichrist' begins promisingly for the genre but descends into schlock/slasher-school stuff." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 13, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 69%	The Last Station (2009)	" Both stars holler histrionics to the hilt, but nowhere is any literary effort, much less genius, on display in 'The Last Station.'" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 9, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 83%	Alphaville (1965)	" The self-conscious didacticism of 'Alphaville' sinks its ship." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 4, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Sweetgrass (2009)	" The men who inhabit the land and herd the sheep grow in stature and remain with the viewer after 'Sweetgrass' is over." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 4, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 28%	Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009)	" Far from advertised 'lush, poetic language,' the film's dialogue is pancake flat, including verbal sparring." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	The White Ribbon (2009)	" The narrator-teacher's voice and shy personality lull and convince, and approximation becomes acceptable reality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 27, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 76%	Police, Adjective (2009)	" The film's languid construction mirrors content, the dull everyday of real police routine rather than the usual police procedural." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" Victoria's schooling in responsibility takes a back seat to the emergence of passionate womanhood, not cheapened by cinema's usual descent to sex steam." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 17, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" The tension of life-and-death situations and of egos that need to cooperate to survive, is manifest in 'The Hurt Locker.'" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Intolerance (1916)	" Foreshadows what film could be -- spectacle reinforcing eternal themes of love and death -- and, at its best, would be." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 1, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 67%	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)	" Robin Wright Penn delivers the mature performance of her career as the title character in 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.'" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	" Not an anti-war tract or a glorification but, rather, a fair consideration of humanity that exists within the inhumanity of armed conflict." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Juno (2007)	" 'Juno' is on some counts unrealistic and does not probe deeply, but it has undeniable charm." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Araya (1959)	" Although dubbed a 'tone poem,' it is better to consider 'Araya' as visual biblical parable, an artfully artless triptych built on sacred-mystical threes." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 7, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 73%	Flags of Our Fathers (2006)	" Sequences fade into the pack and make it difficult to differentiate one player from the others, much less remember them after the lights go up." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 4, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 53%	Shadrach (1998)	" A vignette, really, a couple of days in a boy%u06E5s life recollected in tranquillity." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 28, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 84%	Disgrace (2009)	" Individual or societal in thrust, 'Disgrace' is hampered by a lack of resolution and the impenetrability of motivations." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Paris (2009)	" 'Paris' works its spell in perceptions heightened for anyone suddenly made aware of mortality and on what was formerly taken for granted." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 16, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 58%	9 (2009)	" Soul is what distinguished man from brute, and 9 and his appealing cohorts have that in abundance." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" Captures a lost innocence -- but the toneless monosyllables and "very cool's" and "groovy's" grow quickly vapid or spacey." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 27, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 76%	Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)	" Alas for 'Five Minutes of Heaven,' confrontations seem rigged and resolution is tacked on in minutes." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)	" The user-used/player-pawn/Fergus-Marty relationship is what counts here, braced by Kingsley and Sturgess in a consideration of conscience in wartime." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 16, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 73%	I Sell the Dead (2009)	" Bits strike out in every which way but are not long, deep or effective, so 'I Sell the Dead' develops neither momentum nor personality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 9, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" Bits strike out in every which way but are not long, deep or effective, so 'I Sell the Dead' develops neither momentum nor personality." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	The Learning Tree (1969)	" Forty years ago, pioneer Gordon Parks had to step with extra care filming 'The Learning Tree' lest the door shut behind him." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Aug 5, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 86%	Flame & Citron (2008)	" This noir in underlit blacks and blues grows too complex for its own good." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 29, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Thirst (2009)	" Among its type, 'Thirst' succeeds despite too many distractions." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 23, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 31%	Deadgirl (2008)	" With a slight hint of developing into more than a teen-pleaser gorefest, 'Deadgirl' instead goes for the jugular and splatters blood." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Shoah (1985)	" 'Shoah' is difficult to watch, but few other films match its consideration of unspeakable evil and indifference." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 17, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 76%	Tropical Malady (2005)	" Camera work in the first half of 'Tropical Malady' appears jumpy and interrupted by confusing cuts and artsy tricks." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 12, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 80%	Nollywood Babylon (2009)	" 'Nollywood Babylon' teases, for its themes are interesting but, too many of them brought up, they do not get the incisive treatment each deserves." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jul 9, 2009

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