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Misha Berson

Misha Berson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Babe (1992) 47% 2.5/4 EDIT “Thanks to Goodman and the great Ruth mystique, The Babe does maintain a median level of entertainment. But somehow you want a movie about a fellow this big-natured and mythic to hit a home run. What we have here is more of a solid base hit.” – Seattle Times May 9, 2014 Full Review The Crucible (1996) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “Too bad, though, that The Crucible fails to probe deeper into the sexual, religious, and political conditions that can give false accusations so much power -- even today.” – Seattle Times May 17, 2013 Full Review Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011) 100% 4/4 EDIT “The film adroitly sets the writer's works, his triumphs and tribulations, against the backdrop of a tumultuous period for European Jewry.” – Seattle Times Sep 29, 2011 Full Review And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “This is not a standard bio-documentary. It is the artist giving us a guided tour of himself, through a mosaic of clips from his shows and TV interviews, craftily assembled by Soderbergh.” – Seattle Times Jan 13, 2011 Full Review For Colored Girls (2010) 31% 2/4 EDIT “Who could imagine, 35 years on, For Colored Girls would become a star-studded mess of a movie directed by a black, male Hollywood mogul?” – Seattle Times Nov 4, 2010 Full Review ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2005) 88% 3/4 EDIT “This is an entertaining visit to a strange planet.” – Seattle Times Jun 29, 2007 Full Review Absolute Wilson (2006) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's difficult for the uninitiated to glean from this film a real sense of Wilson's oeuvre, or its influence on the zeitgeist.” – Seattle Times Feb 9, 2007 Full Review Don't Come Knocking (2005) 41% 3/4 EDIT “For those in tune with Shepard's oeuvre; Wenders' sly, muted tone; and the exquisite cinematography of Franz Lustig, Don't Come Knocking can be quirkily resonant.” – Seattle Times Mar 24, 2006 Full Review Proof (2005) 62% 2.5/4 EDIT “A respectable but mild, drab little film.” – Seattle Times Sep 23, 2005 Full Review March of the Penguins (2005) 94% 4/4 EDIT “Mostly upbeat, visually stunning and in awe of the resiliency and loyalty of its subjects.” – Seattle Times Jul 1, 2005 Full Review Lightning in a Bottle (2004) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The best thing about this film of an all-star 2003 Radio City Music Hall concert is, perhaps predictably, the still-sizzling power of elder statesmen and stateswomen of the blues.” – Seattle Times Oct 29, 2004 Full Review Rosenstraße (2003) 56% 3/4 EDIT “For all its flaws, Rosenstrasse is a welcome reminder that humans are capable of valor and generosity in the worst of times.” – Seattle Times Oct 8, 2004 Full Review Broadway: The Golden Age (2004) 83% 3/4 EDIT “McKay's straightforward cinematic valentine, which also includes rare archival stage footage, is a treat for those bedazzled by the idea of Broadway in its prime.” – Seattle Times Sep 24, 2004 Full Review The Door in the Floor (2004) 67% 2.5/4 EDIT “A languorous, fitfully compelling screen adaptation.” – Seattle Times Jul 14, 2004 Full Review The Reckoning (2004) 38% 2.5/4 EDIT “Once the actors set up shop, and Nicholas gets obsessively involved in proving Martha's innocence, melodrama and ponderousness encroach.” – Seattle Times Mar 19, 2004 Full Review The Cuckoo (2002) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Rogozhkin's unusual film has the audacity to consider those which uplift the human spirit, as well as those that erode it.” – Seattle Times Aug 22, 2003 Full Review Love the Hard Way (2001) 28% 3/4 EDIT “Brody pulls the juggling act off -- bringing to mind some riveting cinematic misfits before him, from Brando to McQueen to Pacino.” – Seattle Times Aug 1, 2003 Full Review Baran (2001) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “It stays with you in fleeting images of gazing faces, muddy footprints, small fires lit against the chill.” – Seattle Times Dec 20, 2002 Full Review In Praise of Love (2001) 54% 3/4 EDIT “In Praise of Love can bore you to tears at times -- yet leave you in awe.” – Seattle Times Oct 11, 2002 Full Review The Cockettes (2002) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “It celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity, glancing vividly back at what Hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light.'” – Seattle Times Jul 26, 2002 Full Review The Believer (2001) 82% 3/4 EDIT “A somewhat crudely constructed but gripping, questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing, he becomes an enemy to his own race.” – Seattle Times Jul 12, 2002 Full Review Late Marriage (2001) 88% 3/4 EDIT “It feels like a devastatingly honest portrait of how old-world family loyalties are both a haven and a prison -- for two generations.” – Seattle Times Jun 7, 2002 Full Review Triumph of Love (2001) 49% 3/4 EDIT “It's a treat watching Shaw, a British stage icon, melting under the heat of Phocion's attentions.” – Seattle Times Apr 19, 2002 Full Review The Cherry Orchard (1999) 54% 3.5/4 EDIT “Scrupulously acted (in English), visually perfected and skillfully complemented with Tchaikovsky piano music.” – Seattle Times Apr 12, 2002 Full Review Borstal Boy (2000) 47% 2.5/4 EDIT “Well-made but mush-hearted.” – Seattle Times Apr 12, 2002 Full Review
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