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Ron Stringer

Ron Stringer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007) 41% EDIT “A must-see.” – L.A. Weekly Jul 16, 2009 Full Review The Cool School (2008) 92% EDIT “Veteran documentarist Morgan Neville's illustrated history of the painters and sculptors associated with Venice's Ferus Gallery (1957-1967) is at once lively and analytical.” – L.A. Weekly May 22, 2008 Full Review The Other Conquest (1998) 85% EDIT “An arresting, balletic performance by Damian Delgado powers this vividly imagined, elegantly paced mystery play beyond period exoticism to a bona fide illumination of social, and sacred, history.” – L.A. Weekly Jun 6, 2007 Full Review Edmond (2005) 47% EDIT “Go, by all means, but be prepared to take a beating.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 10, 2006 Full Review Twist of Faith (2004) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The pain and the contradictions and the ironies are manifold, and Dick...does justice to all.” – L.A. Weekly Jul 21, 2005 Full Review One Missed Call (2004) 46% EDIT “A prolonged, maddening, predictable -- yet curiously pleasurable -- descent into incomprehensibility.” – L.A. Weekly May 5, 2005 Full Review Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003) 76% EDIT “Haunting and provocative documentary.” – L.A. Weekly Mar 17, 2005 Full Review The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003) 95% EDIT “Following an arc from whimsical detachment to profound engagement, this is a remarkable document from a filmmaker who enters -- deeply, personally and, above all, tactfully -- into the lives of all her subjects.” – L.A. Weekly Mar 4, 2005 Full Review Celsius 41.11 (2004) 11% EDIT “Chetwynd and company at least attempt to score their points honestly, avoiding the spurious or ad hominem attacks of those for whom many little lies somehow constitute fair play in November's battle against the Big Red One.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 21, 2004 Full Review The Hillside Strangler (2004) 9% EDIT “A good horse kick, or a fistful of Valium, may help you get through this relentlessly sadistic exercise with your soul more or less intact.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 14, 2004 Full Review Around the Bend (2004) 29% EDIT “[There is] a final revelation which, however anticipated, however contrived, stings just enough to make it feel like life.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 7, 2004 Full Review Friday Night Lights (2004) 82% EDIT “Boilerplate stuff, though livened by flashy editing and cinematography.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 7, 2004 Full Review Vanity Fair (2004) 50% EDIT “Nair's turgid, melodramatic travesty of Thackeray's gimlet-eyed satire.” – L.A. Weekly Sep 2, 2004 Full Review Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) 10% EDIT “Blood, flies, maggots, ravenous hyenas, power failures, grave-digging and much ineffectual voodoo ensue.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 26, 2004 Full Review Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003) 55% EDIT “Occasionally scary, never coherent Ring wannabe.” – L.A. Weekly Jul 21, 2004 Full Review The Hunting of the President (2004) 74% EDIT “The problem, of course, is that the president himself was neither [hero nor martyr], and no amount of hand wringing -- however justified -- can make him one.” – L.A. Weekly Jul 21, 2004 Full Review Broadway: The Golden Age (2004) 83% EDIT “With all those heads talking, there's precious little time for singing and dancing, though more than enough for a consensus to form around cherished memories of the bigger personalities.” – L.A. Weekly Jun 30, 2004 Full Review Faster (2003) 53% EDIT “Great pains have been taken -- in mostly intelligible interviews and voice-overs -- to make absolutely clear what's involved in pushing these hunks of metal, rubber and plastic to the limit.” – L.A. Weekly Jun 4, 2004 Full Review The Prince & Me (2004) 28% EDIT “Falls, finally and irrevocably, flat.” – L.A. Weekly Mar 31, 2004 Full Review Bon Voyage (2003) 77% EDIT “The cast's sometimes capable, sometimes gross mugging is overwhelmed by lavish costumes, shiny vintage cars, hordes of meticulously directed extras.” – L.A. Weekly Mar 25, 2004 Full Review Suspended Animation (2002) 52% EDIT “The devil -- and the delight -- here is in the detours.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 30, 2003 Full Review Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) 94% EDIT “Whether altered for the sake of incorporating superfluous extra material (cat fight!) or for reasons even less compelling, the editing rhythms here are way off.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 30, 2003 Full Review Last Party 2000 (2002) 56% EDIT “Those seeking anything resembling a real discussion of the issues had best seek elsewhere.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 29, 2003 Full Review The Singing Detective (2003) 40% EDIT “Potter's script pares down to virtual nothing the very narrative threads that allowed us, in the full-length version, to identify with his prickly protagonist.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 23, 2003 Full Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) 37% EDIT “Sheer simplicity of the idea gets overwhelmed by, of all things, production values.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 23, 2003 Full Review
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