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Jeff Stark

Jeff Stark's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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A Man Apart (2003) 10% EDIT “Yes, Vin Diesel still rocks. But you wouldn't know it from this dreary, predictable sub-Traffic action flick.” – Salon.com Apr 4, 2003 Full Review Spun (2002) 36% EDIT “This tale of Southern California speed freaks works too hard for its high.” – Salon.com Mar 14, 2003 Full Review Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002) 83% EDIT “A beautiful movie about the power of music, about the power of being right.” – Salon.com Feb 22, 2003 Full Review Biker Boyz (2003) 22% EDIT “Biker Boyz is about fast motorcycles and the tough dudes -- and even tougher chicks -- who soup them up in illegal street races. Unfortunately, it's about more than that.” – Salon.com Jan 30, 2003 Full Review Narc (2002) 83% EDIT “About the best thing you could say about Narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture. Whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste.” – Salon.com Dec 20, 2002 Full Review 25th Hour (2002) 80% EDIT “A clumsy, oh-well story about the moral quandary of a drug-dealing recidivist who more or less deserves to go to jail.” – Salon.com Dec 20, 2002 Full Review Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002) 69% EDIT “In a way, it plays like a dated feminist tract, one of those works that wants to show women making tough decisions and being emotionally resilient, but is at root about them being screwed over by men.” – Salon.com Nov 27, 2002 Full Review Roger Dodger (2002) 88% EDIT “There's a lot of tooth in Roger Dodger. But what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the script.” – Salon.com Oct 25, 2002 Full Review The 51st State (2001) 26% EDIT “Director Yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10,000 times.” – Salon.com Oct 23, 2002 Full Review 24 Hour Party People (2002) 87% EDIT “The bad thing about 24 Hour Party People is that it's blindly ambitious, garishly self-indulgent and reckless with the truth. The good thing is it knows all these things. And the best thing is that it might be a great movie.” – Salon.com Aug 9, 2002 Full Review Men in Black II (2002) 38% EDIT “Instead of inhabiting the same world of his original, the delightful 1997 Men in Black, or inventing a new world, this update kitschifies it, rendering it into a silly joke.” – Salon.com Jul 3, 2002 Full Review Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) 92% EDIT “The problem is that Peralta wants it all, and that it doesn't all add up.” – Salon.com May 4, 2002 Full Review Nine Queens (2001) 92% EDIT “A people pleaser that makes use of dozens of great movie tricks and manages to sprinkle great lines throughout.” – Salon.com Apr 26, 2002 Full Review The Piano Teacher (2001) 75% EDIT “This is a smart movie that knows its classical music, knows its Freud and knows its Sade.” – Salon.com Apr 19, 2002 Full Review The Son of the Bride (2001) 86% EDIT “While it's not as fantastical as Amelie or as brutish as No Man's Land, it has something that neither of those movies have: a sort of measured everyday realism.” – Salon.com Mar 21, 2002 Full Review Rollerball (2002) 3% EDIT “John McTiernan's botched remake may be subtler than Norman Jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga. It's also stupider.” – Salon.com Feb 13, 2002 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) 74% EDIT “The classic book had a lot of complex, smart things to say about revenge. The movie doesn't.” – Salon.com Jan 25, 2002 Full Review Startup.com (2001) 93% EDIT “An engrossing documentary follows two friends as they soar and crash with the dot-com wave.” – Salon.com May 10, 2001 Full Review The Legend of 1900 (1998) 58% EDIT “Giuseppe Tornatore's tale of a ship-bound piano virtuoso drowns in its own treacle.” – Salon.com Jan 1, 2000 Full Review
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