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DAN JARDINE

"To paraphrase Martin Scorcese, films are contemporary society's altar. We go to the movies with the same devotion that past generations preserved for their churchgoing. We enter the darkness, seeking the light. The best movies provide pseudo-religious experiences: they transform us.

<B>Quote:</B> "There is no wisdom without leisure."
--ancient Hebrew epigram"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

Biography: A little mystery in a blossoming relationship like this is a good thing.

Favorites: Top 10 of 1999: 1. The Straight Story 2. The War Zone 3. Being John Malkovich 4. Magnolia 5. American Beauty 6. Fight Club 7. Eyes Wide Shut 8. The Insider 9. The Talented Mr. Ripley 10. The Red Violin Faves from 1998: Life is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, Slam, The Butcher Boy, Smoke Signals, The Celebration, Saving Private Ryan, Out of Sight, Red Violin (Canadian release), The Truman Show, Primary Colors. Favorite Films from 1997: Titanic, The Sweet Hereafter, When We Were Kings, Rosewood, Kolya, Shall We Dance?, Good Will Hunting, The Ice Storm, As Good as it Gets, She's So Lovely Favorite Films of All Time: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Schindler's List, Taxi Driver, It's a Wonderful Life, Seven Samurai, Casablanca, Deer Hunter, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dr. Strangelove, Manchurian Candidate, A Clockwork Orange Favorite Directors: Kubrick, Scorcese, Spielberg, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Coen Brothers.

Publications: All Movie Guide, Apollo Guide, Cinemania, Daily-Reviews, Jacksonville Film Journal, TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Cinemarati

Total Reviews: 891
Total QuickRatings: 148

Location: Victoria, BC, Canada

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Fresh
80/100
N/A
Between the Folds (2010)
" Gould's film turns abstract inquery into concrete reality before our eyes." — Cinemania
Posted Feb 15, 2010
Fresh
83/100
Fresh
90%
I Killed My Mother (2010)
" Xavier Dolan has done at 19 what most of us will never accomplish: produce a legitimate work of art that communicates to us in innovative, challenging and affecting ways." — Apollo Guide
Posted Feb 4, 2010
Fresh
83/100
Fresh
95%
Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
" The film's energy is a key aspect of its optimism, a dawn to dusk challenge to show us a day in the life of a Soviet urban dweller" — Cinemania
Posted Jan 24, 2010
Fresh
90/100
Fresh
100%
Ordet (1955)
" Ordet's faithfulness is both old fashioned and invigorating" — Cinemania
Posted Jan 23, 2010
Fresh
82/100
Fresh
93%
Straw Dogs (1971)
" Ugliness that must be taken seriously" — Cinemania
Posted Jan 22, 2010
Fresh
84/100
Fresh
100%
Stroszek (1977)
" The amazing and brilliant thing about Herzog is the pure poetry he creates in his films. Really, the man is a poet" — Cinemania
Posted Jan 21, 2010
Fresh
87/100
Fresh
94%
Come and See (1985)
" a helluva journey, told with with brutal bluntness and numbing, unflinching realism." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 20, 2010
Fresh
81/100
Fresh
96%
The Killing (1956)
" 1956 and it's already Kubrick, being Kubrick." — Cinemania
Posted Jan 17, 2010
Fresh
91/100
Fresh
95%
Before Sunset (2004)
" the film takes a miraculous healing turn at the end, and the characters rise above their ruefulness, and use it as a springboard into hope" — Cinemania
Posted Jan 17, 2010
Fresh
90/100
Fresh
100%
Before Sunrise (1995)
" the film asks us to consider the very nature and purpose of our existence in a fragmentary, superficial and transient universe." — Cinemania
Posted Jan 17, 2010
Fresh
88/100
N/A
Silent Light (2007)
" A beautiful, thoughtful and haunting film" — Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 15, 2010
Fresh
85/100
Fresh
72%
Climates (2006)
" I will not soon forget Ceylan's cinematic haikus" — Cinemania
Posted Jan 14, 2010
Fresh
86/100
Fresh
80%
Wit (2001)
" Thompson gives a real tour-de-force performance, moving professor Bearing from bemusement to curiousity, fear to confusion, anger to anguish with skilful subtlety" — Cinemania
Posted Jan 10, 2010
Rotten
62/100
Fresh
90%
Up in the Air (2009)
" Good performances are not enough to salvage this glib film from it's own superciliousness." — Cinemania
Posted Jan 8, 2010
Fresh
89/100
Fresh
96%
Chop Shop (2007)
" A film brimming with humanity. Gritty, smart, attentive and truthful." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 5, 2010
Fresh
88/100
Fresh
98%
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
" Groundbreaking and thrilling" — Cinemania
Posted Jan 3, 2010
Fresh
82/100
Fresh
100%
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
" A slew of terrific performances help to elevate Wilder's twist-ridden courtroom drama above your standard fare in the genre." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2010
Fresh
70/100
Fresh
87%
Jellyfish (2008)
" This festival favourite has moments of promise but Jellyfish is lacking, has an unwillingness to completely contextualize the women in this contemporary setting" — Cinemania
Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh
80/100
Fresh
90%
A Walk to Beautiful (2008)
" A powerful, resonant, cautionary tale." — Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh
89/100
Fresh
98%
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
" The fellas in Leone's films are seething cesspools of hatred and frustration whose only satisfaction-however fleeting-is found in pursuit and acquisition of money" — Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh
84/100
Fresh
92%
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
" He indulges in a certain sexually-charged imagery lifted straight from film noir" — Cinemania
Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh
81/100
Fresh
97%
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
" A deliciously ripe spaghetti western" — Cinemania
Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh
85/100
Fresh
100%
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
" the film's resolution has a willfully ironic edge" — Cinemania
Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh
89/100
Fresh
92%
Amarcord (1974)
" A masterpiece of personal filmmaking" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 30, 2009
Fresh
76/100
Fresh
69%
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
" The film does what it sets out to do, re-establish Holmes as a cinematic hero worth knowing and watching." — Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 30, 2009
Fresh
85/100
Fresh
98%
Up (2009)
" One of Pixar's most emotionally satisfying creations." — Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 28, 2009
Fresh
87/100
Fresh
88%
A Serious Man (2009)
" A Serious Man challenges head on some might big issues, including the meaning of it all" — Cinemania
Posted Dec 28, 2009
Rotten
68/100
Fresh
97%
The Hurt Locker (2009)
" Bigelow displays a fine Hitchcockian skill set, but her politics are muddy-headed at best." — Apollo Guide
Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh
90/100
Fresh
100%
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
" Ground zero for film noir. Iconic." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh
88/100
Fresh
100%
The African Queen (1951)
" Part buddy action flick, part screwball comedy, it's all good." — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh
86/100
Fresh
91%
The Messenger (2009)
" Powerful and resonant, this is a film that asks us to look at the human cost of war. Ben Foster is a revelation." — Cinemania
Posted Dec 22, 2009
Fresh
76/100
Fresh
90%
District 9 (2009)
" Intriguing premise; unfulfilled promise" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 21, 2009
Rotten
38/100
Rotten
48%
Antichrist (2009)
" A cinematic violation made worse by the fact that von Trier is such a gifted filmmaker." — Cinemania
Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh
93/100
Fresh
94%
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
" A great American-ization of the classic Scrooge tale, told from the POV of Bob Cratchet." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh
88/100
Fresh
95%
Goodbye Solo (2009)
" One of the year's best films!" — Cinemania
Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh
89/100
Fresh
95%
Hero (2004)
" Extras include a making-of featurette and a conversation with actor Jet Li and the movie's key North American promoter Quentin Tarantino." — Apollo Guide
DVD REVIEW
Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh
93/100
Fresh
100%
The 400 Blows (1959)
" Truffault's masterpiece. Timeless and true, heartbreakingly sad." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 25, 2009
Fresh
94/100
Fresh
100%
Rashomon (1950)
" a game-shifter that challenges all we think we know about truth" — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 25, 2009
Fresh
76/100
Fresh
90%
District 9 (2009)
" An energetic and tantalizing film that promises more than it can ultimately deliver" — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 24, 2009
Fresh
86/100
Fresh
89%
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
" Damn Gud Fun" — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh
80/100
Fresh
100%
One Love (2009)
" A real gem" — Cinemania
Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh
84/100
Fresh
98%
Vertigo (1958)
" a disturbing and darkly revealing psychological thriller" — Cinemania
Posted Aug 8, 2009
Fresh
86/100
Fresh
100%
Rear Window (1954)
" a taut and (verbally) jaunty thriller" — Cinemania
Posted Aug 8, 2009
Fresh
85/100
Fresh
93%
In the Loop (2009)
" Vicious. Unrelenting. Brilliant. See it!" — Cinemania
Posted Aug 4, 2009
Fresh
82/100
Fresh
64%
The Brothers Bloom (2009)
" A fine piece of cinematic legerdemain" — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 3, 2009
Fresh
77/100
Fresh
87%
All That Jazz (1979)
" Energetic Fellini-esque autobiographical examination of the life (and near death) of Bob Fosse" — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 3, 2009
Fresh
82/100
Fresh
100%
12 Angry Men (1957)
" taut, well-crafted sociological study" — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 3, 2009
Fresh
92/100
Fresh
100%
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
" Kubrick's overt connection of sexuality and violence underlines many of the film's best jokes while placing an exclamation point on many of his most critical assertions" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh
94/100
Fresh
96%
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
" Kubrick's film not only changed the way I viewed film, but the way I experienced art and life" — Cinemania
DVD REVIEW
Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh
77/100
Fresh
78%
Team America: World Police (2004)
" Putting the fun back into misanthrope" — Cinemania
Posted Jul 22, 2009
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38/100	AntichristOffsite
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Fresh 80/100	N/A	Between the Folds (2010)	" Gould's film turns abstract inquery into concrete reality before our eyes." — Cinemania Posted Feb 15, 2010
Fresh 83/100	Fresh 90%	I Killed My Mother (2010)	" Xavier Dolan has done at 19 what most of us will never accomplish: produce a legitimate work of art that communicates to us in innovative, challenging and affecting ways." — Apollo Guide Posted Feb 4, 2010
Fresh 83/100	Fresh 95%	Man With a Movie Camera (1929)	" The film's energy is a key aspect of its optimism, a dawn to dusk challenge to show us a day in the life of a Soviet urban dweller" — Cinemania Posted Jan 24, 2010
Fresh 90/100	Fresh 100%	Ordet (1955)	" Ordet's faithfulness is both old fashioned and invigorating" — Cinemania Posted Jan 23, 2010
Fresh 82/100	Fresh 93%	Straw Dogs (1971)	" Ugliness that must be taken seriously" — Cinemania Posted Jan 22, 2010
Fresh 84/100	Fresh 100%	Stroszek (1977)	" The amazing and brilliant thing about Herzog is the pure poetry he creates in his films. Really, the man is a poet" — Cinemania Posted Jan 21, 2010
Fresh 87/100	Fresh 94%	Come and See (1985)	" a helluva journey, told with with brutal bluntness and numbing, unflinching realism." — Apollo Guide Posted Jan 20, 2010
Fresh 81/100	Fresh 96%	The Killing (1956)	" 1956 and it's already Kubrick, being Kubrick." — Cinemania Posted Jan 17, 2010
Fresh 91/100	Fresh 95%	Before Sunset (2004)	" the film takes a miraculous healing turn at the end, and the characters rise above their ruefulness, and use it as a springboard into hope" — Cinemania Posted Jan 17, 2010
Fresh 90/100	Fresh 100%	Before Sunrise (1995)	" the film asks us to consider the very nature and purpose of our existence in a fragmentary, superficial and transient universe." — Cinemania Posted Jan 17, 2010
Fresh 88/100	N/A	Silent Light (2007)	" A beautiful, thoughtful and haunting film" — Apollo Guide Posted Jan 15, 2010
Fresh 85/100	Fresh 72%	Climates (2006)	" I will not soon forget Ceylan's cinematic haikus" — Cinemania Posted Jan 14, 2010
Fresh 86/100	Fresh 80%	Wit (2001)	" Thompson gives a real tour-de-force performance, moving professor Bearing from bemusement to curiousity, fear to confusion, anger to anguish with skilful subtlety" — Cinemania Posted Jan 10, 2010
Rotten 62/100	Fresh 90%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Good performances are not enough to salvage this glib film from it's own superciliousness." — Cinemania Posted Jan 8, 2010
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 96%	Chop Shop (2007)	" A film brimming with humanity. Gritty, smart, attentive and truthful." — Apollo Guide Posted Jan 5, 2010
Fresh 88/100	Fresh 98%	Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)	" Groundbreaking and thrilling" — Cinemania Posted Jan 3, 2010
Fresh 82/100	Fresh 100%	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	" A slew of terrific performances help to elevate Wilder's twist-ridden courtroom drama above your standard fare in the genre." — Apollo Guide Posted Jan 1, 2010
Fresh 70/100	Fresh 87%	Jellyfish (2008)	" This festival favourite has moments of promise but Jellyfish is lacking, has an unwillingness to completely contextualize the women in this contemporary setting" — Cinemania Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh 80/100	Fresh 90%	A Walk to Beautiful (2008)	" A powerful, resonant, cautionary tale." — Apollo Guide Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 98%	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	" The fellas in Leone's films are seething cesspools of hatred and frustration whose only satisfaction-however fleeting-is found in pursuit and acquisition of money" — Apollo Guide Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh 84/100	Fresh 92%	For a Few Dollars More (1965)	" He indulges in a certain sexually-charged imagery lifted straight from film noir" — Cinemania Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh 81/100	Fresh 97%	A Fistful of Dollars (1964)	" A deliciously ripe spaghetti western" — Cinemania Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh 85/100	Fresh 100%	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)	" the film's resolution has a willfully ironic edge" — Cinemania Posted Dec 31, 2009
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 92%	Amarcord (1974)	" A masterpiece of personal filmmaking" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 30, 2009
Fresh 76/100	Fresh 69%	Sherlock Holmes (2009)	" The film does what it sets out to do, re-establish Holmes as a cinematic hero worth knowing and watching." — Apollo Guide Posted Dec 30, 2009
Fresh 85/100	Fresh 98%	Up (2009)	" One of Pixar's most emotionally satisfying creations." — Apollo Guide Posted Dec 28, 2009
Fresh 87/100	Fresh 88%	A Serious Man (2009)	" A Serious Man challenges head on some might big issues, including the meaning of it all" — Cinemania Posted Dec 28, 2009
Rotten 68/100	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" Bigelow displays a fine Hitchcockian skill set, but her politics are muddy-headed at best." — Apollo Guide Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh 90/100	Fresh 100%	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	" Ground zero for film noir. Iconic." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh 88/100	Fresh 100%	The African Queen (1951)	" Part buddy action flick, part screwball comedy, it's all good." — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh 86/100	Fresh 91%	The Messenger (2009)	" Powerful and resonant, this is a film that asks us to look at the human cost of war. Ben Foster is a revelation." — Cinemania Posted Dec 22, 2009
Fresh 76/100	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" Intriguing premise; unfulfilled promise" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 21, 2009
Rotten 38/100	Rotten 48%	Antichrist (2009)	" A cinematic violation made worse by the fact that von Trier is such a gifted filmmaker." — Cinemania Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh 93/100	Fresh 94%	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	" A great American-ization of the classic Scrooge tale, told from the POV of Bob Cratchet." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh 88/100	Fresh 95%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" One of the year's best films!" — Cinemania Posted Dec 21, 2009
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 95%	Hero (2004)	" Extras include a making-of featurette and a conversation with actor Jet Li and the movie's key North American promoter Quentin Tarantino." — Apollo Guide DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh 93/100	Fresh 100%	The 400 Blows (1959)	" Truffault's masterpiece. Timeless and true, heartbreakingly sad." — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 25, 2009
Fresh 94/100	Fresh 100%	Rashomon (1950)	" a game-shifter that challenges all we think we know about truth" — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 25, 2009
Fresh 76/100	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" An energetic and tantalizing film that promises more than it can ultimately deliver" — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 24, 2009
Fresh 86/100	Fresh 89%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Damn Gud Fun" — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 23, 2009
Fresh 80/100	Fresh 100%	One Love (2009)	" A real gem" — Cinemania Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 84/100	Fresh 98%	Vertigo (1958)	" a disturbing and darkly revealing psychological thriller" — Cinemania Posted Aug 8, 2009
Fresh 86/100	Fresh 100%	Rear Window (1954)	" a taut and (verbally) jaunty thriller" — Cinemania Posted Aug 8, 2009
Fresh 85/100	Fresh 93%	In the Loop (2009)	" Vicious. Unrelenting. Brilliant. See it!" — Cinemania Posted Aug 4, 2009
Fresh 82/100	Fresh 64%	The Brothers Bloom (2009)	" A fine piece of cinematic legerdemain" — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 3, 2009
Fresh 77/100	Fresh 87%	All That Jazz (1979)	" Energetic Fellini-esque autobiographical examination of the life (and near death) of Bob Fosse" — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 3, 2009
Fresh 82/100	Fresh 100%	12 Angry Men (1957)	" taut, well-crafted sociological study" — Apollo Guide Posted Aug 3, 2009
Fresh 92/100	Fresh 100%	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	" Kubrick's overt connection of sexuality and violence underlines many of the film's best jokes while placing an exclamation point on many of his most critical assertions" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh 94/100	Fresh 96%	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	" Kubrick's film not only changed the way I viewed film, but the way I experienced art and life" — Cinemania DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh 77/100	Fresh 78%	Team America: World Police (2004)	" Putting the fun back into misanthrope" — Cinemania Posted Jul 22, 2009