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Dennis Schwartz

""Wisdom is not in knowing but in having known." - Edmond Jab�s, "

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography:: Dennis Schwartz is editor of the Vermont based film magazine "Ozus's World Movie Reviews." He has been a prolific online movie reviewer since 1998, also contributing to various publications all over the globe and maintaining an active website--where it's not uncommon for him to review as many as 365 films a year. In his other life, he was a poet, teacher, restaurant owner, wanderer and follower of Tibetan Buddhism (where he studied in Kasa, Devi, India).The first film he saw as a child, Bob Hope's Paleface, left a hunger for films that has not been sated with all the passing years. The critic who influenced him the most was Walter Benjamin, not a film critic but one of the truly great scholarly critics of the 20th century. The lesson the film critic learned from Benjamin is that all true art is subversive and unsettling.
Favorites:: Movie favorites (in no particular order): Dead Man/Beau Travail/Eyes Wide Shut/2001: A Space Odyssey/The Searchers/Dybbuk/Greed/Touch of Evil/The Passion of Joan of Arc/Eyes Without A Face.
Publications:: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 8495

Location:: Bennington, Vermont

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
A-	66%	Hitchcock (2012)	" An alluring docudrama, with a sharp droll wit." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 10, 2012
C-	10%	Jack and Diane (2012)	" It stinks worse than rotten fish." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 9, 2012
D	37%	Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)	" Everything about this amateurishly made unpleasant gross-out comedy stinks and is degrading." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 9, 2012
A-	90%	Lincoln (2012)	" A fascinating history lesson taking place mostly in the backrooms of Washington." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 8, 2012
C-	51%	V/H/S (2012)	" The six segments vary in quality from awful to just bad, and at two hours the film is too long and too uneven to be a worthwhile watch." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 8, 2012
A-	100%	Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)	" A heart-felt movie that gives you a good idea of how backward a state is Mississippi." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 7, 2012
B+	50%	Dracula's Daughter (1936)	" A worthy sequel to Tod Browning's Dracula (1931)." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 7, 2012
B+	83%	Neighbouring Sounds (2012)	" A well-made thriller that serves as an allegory for contemporary Brazilian society." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 6, 2012
B-	81%	This is 40 (2012)	" Replete with Apatow's signature comedy." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 6, 2012
B	96%	The Imposter (2012)	" Intriguing fictionalized true-crime psychological thriller doc." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 5, 2012
A-	95%	Marley (2012)	" So far, the definitive biopic documentary on the elusive Bob Marley." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 5, 2012
C	85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	" Rings inauthentic throughout." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 4, 2012
C	85%	Sound of Noise (2012)	" It never achieves much coherence when it tries for more than slapstick comedy." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 4, 2012
B+	76%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" Routine crime drama made gripping by effective acting, great characterizations and a snappy dialogue like in Pulp Fiction." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 3, 2012
C	67%	God Bless America (2012)	" Sicko one-trick pony film, whose black comedy is tiresome and mostly unfunny." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 3, 2012
B-	78%	The Impossible (2012)	" Rare disaster film that's not a complete disaster on film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 2, 2012
C-	51%	Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)	" It's a bad trip LSD-like movie you either love or hate, no in-between." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 2, 2012
B+	70%	The Hunter (2012)	" Well-crafted and finely acted adventure story that held my interest throughout." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 1, 2012
B-	31%	Deadfall (2012)	" It circles its way from a conventional thriller to a dodgy love story, and leaves in its path a few dead bodies and a few living crippled psyches... ." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Dec 1, 2012
B-	82%	The Flat (2012)	" Since there's no big payoff, the family drama documentary fizzles in the end." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 30, 2012
B-	95%	The Queen of Versailles (2012)	" My problem with this riches to rags Americana story is that I felt no sympathy for the featured self-absorbed materialists." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 30, 2012
B+	73%	The Loneliest Planet (2012)	" An intriguing film, that has a sense of poignancy, sparse dialogue and offers a deep suspicion of love if it's untested." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 29, 2012
A	98%	Room 237 ()	" Astonishing playful and idiosyncratic cult film documentary by LA filmmaker Rodney Ascher." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 29, 2012
C+	53%	On the Road (2012)	" Too calculated and respectful to bring on any needed spontaneity." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 28, 2012
B	100%	How to Survive a Plague (2012)	" Compelling, important and inspiring documentary about the fight against AIDS." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 28, 2012
B	96%	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)	" Klayman never demonizes the authoritarian Chinese government, as her purpose seems to be to show how difficult it is to be a rebel in such a closed society as China." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 27, 2012
B+	96%	First Position (2012)	" It's enjoyable watching the motivated youngsters pirouetting their way to success." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 27, 2012
B-	93%	The Central Park Five (2012)	" Depressing documentary about a rush to judgment over one of NYC's most notorious and heinous crimes."" — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 27, 2012
B-	88%	A Royal Affair (2012)	" Slow moving factually based historical drama about political intrigue and sex among the royals in 18th century oppressive Denmark." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 26, 2012
B+	99%	Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012)	" The no-nonsense documentary about a compulsive sushi chef wet my appetite even though I never liked sushi. " — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 26, 2012
C	63%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" Lacking in coherence, as it tries but fails to juggle six distinct stories through different time periods that cover five centuries." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 25, 2012
B	61%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" Stoppard wisely keeps intact Tolstoy's great dialogue." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 25, 2012
A	94%	The Day He Arrives (2012)	" Off-beat romcom." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 24, 2012
B-	——	Man On The Train (2012)	" Worth seeing for the hammy performance by Donald Sutherland." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 24, 2012
B-	92%	Headhunters (2012)	" Though not completely satisfying or believable, the absurd cat-and-mouse potboiler at least is always entertaining and biting doggy style." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 23, 2012
B	——	That Sinking Feeling ()	" A witty, gentle, breezy, low-brow, low-key comedy ... ." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 23, 2012
B	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" A well-crafted and intelligent feel-good survivalist film that struggles to survive its obsessive religious God theme." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 22, 2012
B+	100%	The Invisible War (2012)	" A disquieting investigative essential documentary that sheds light on the massive problem of rape and the systemic cover-ups in the US military." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 22, 2012
B-	79%	The Innkeepers (2012)	" Entertaining creepy B horror pic." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 21, 2012
B-	39%	Nobody Walks (2012)	" It's soap opera with a Hollywood tan." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 20, 2012
B	83%	Goon (2012)	" An appealing low-brow farce going at full speed to capture in its cartoonish presentation the cliches, macho dynamics, violence and fights of minor league hockey players." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 20, 2012
C+	89%	Compliance (2012)	" Irritating one-note indie film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2012
C	64%	2 Days in New York (2012)	" A misguided breezy offbeat sitcom, that visits all the wrong places."" — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 18, 2012
B	——	Heat and Sunlight (1987)	" An agonizing low-budget improvised indie about a bunch of neurotics going ape over a relationship split." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 18, 2012
C	33%	Criminal Law (1989)	" The pretentious psychological thriller has nothing worth saying about the American criminal justice system." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 17, 2012
B-	——	Three Secrets (1950)	" A well-constructed but poorly paced formulaic soap opera, that turns sentimental with its feel-good surprise ending." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 17, 2012
A-	93%	The Sessions (2012)	" The uplifting struggle for living a life of dignity for paralyzed from the neck down polio victim Mark O'Brien." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 16, 2012
B	——	Sands of the Kalahari ()	" Schematic but enthralling survival thriller." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 16, 2012
C-	——	South Sea Woman (1953)	" Third-rate unbelievable WWII adventure/romantic comedy." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Nov 15, 2012

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