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Arthur Ryel-Lindsey

Arthur Ryel-Lindsey's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011) 88% 2/4 EDIT “This is strong and effective documentary filmmaking, but it's only a lengthy prologue to the story on which Liz Garbus clearly wants to focus.” – Slant Magazine Sep 4, 2011 Full Review A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (2011) EDIT “This hour-long expose on the life and aspirations of Paul Liebrandt is an unrestrained delight in two parts.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010) 81% EDIT “As with Enron, Casino Jack very quietly struggles to reconcile a disturbing history-beneath-the-history.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review The Bengali Detective (2011) EDIT “That Cox follows the best of these slapstick moments with perhaps the most tragic event in any man's life is an indication of his daring and sophistication as a director.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) 65% EDIT “Billed and constructed as a whodunit, Resurrect Dead is marginally more complicated than that, but only marginally.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Do It Again (2010) EDIT “Only about 30 percent of the film is of genuine interest: the interviews when Edgers is not talking, his historical expertise.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) 95% EDIT “A story about Elmo was never likely to penetrate deeply into the darker corners of human nature.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Kings of Pastry (2009) 86% EDIT “Chris Hegedes and D.A. Pennebaker's latest, seemingly effortless masterwork begins as an easy-paced chronicle of one man's preparations for a grueling, three-day pastry showdown.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Born Sweet (2010) EDIT “So much for an otherwise noble documentary journey.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Stonewall Uprising (2010) 84% EDIT “Not to put too fine of a point on it, but Kate Davis and David Heilbroner's essential new history of the events and repercussions of the Stonewall riots is about as expert a piece of analytic documentary filmmaking as can be conceived.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Caretaker for the Lord (2010) EDIT “The subtlety through which this storyline develops is McAllister's boldest stroke, and the perfect cap to this display of profound artistic talent.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) 91% EDIT “You wonder whom the director is trying to prove as a master, Spalding or himself.” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review Microphone (2010) 2.5/4 EDIT “Plays like a film school thesis under construction.” – Slant Magazine Mar 23, 2011 Full Review City Slickers (1991) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “A comedy that was and is ambitious and counterintuitive.” – Slant Magazine Jun 2, 2008 Full Review The Ice Storm (1997) 86% 3/4 EDIT “As in any joke, destiny is a major character.” – Slant Magazine Mar 24, 2008 Full Review The Last Emperor (1987) 86% 4/4 EDIT “The Last Emperor is most decisively a lesson of nobility.” – Slant Magazine Feb 27, 2008 Full Review This Sporting Life (1963) 96% 4/4 EDIT “This Sporting Life is a quintessential entrant in Britain's kitchen-sink realism of the late-'50s and '60s.” – Slant Magazine Jan 21, 2008 Full Review The Lady Vanishes (1938) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “What separates Lady Vanishes</i. from the more fundamentally Hitchcockian 39 Steps, and makes it more remarkable, is its genuine sense of purpose.” – Slant Magazine Dec 26, 2007 Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 90% 4/4 EDIT “Somehow after the decadence of Barry Lyndon and a philosophical look at horror in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick settled into a film of unrestrained vitriol and aggression.” – Slant Magazine Nov 19, 2007 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script: "True love is the greatest thing in the world."” – Slant Magazine Nov 13, 2007 Full Review The Hustler (1961) 94% 4/4 EDIT “This is the purest examination of an athlete's internal struggle ever mounted for the screen.” – Slant Magazine Jun 29, 2007 Full Review Glastonbury (2006) 73% 2/4 EDIT “It's hard to pin down the intent and even the honesty of the filmmaker.” – Slant Magazine Jun 12, 2007 Full Review Big (1988) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The consummate '80s film about kid-dom and growing old too fast.” – Slant Magazine Jun 7, 2007 Full Review The Guns of Navarone (1961) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “David Niven is the subservient but stylish chemist Miller, rounding out a film that ranks among the best war movies.” – Slant Magazine May 7, 2007 Full Review Major League (1989) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Consider Ward's comic framework and Major League is a top-tier baseball film.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2007 Full Review
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