Biography

Famous for never agreeing with other critics.

Has a reputation for giving negative reviews to otherwise universally-acclaimed films while giving positive reviews to films overwhelmingly disliked by critics.

Film critic Roger Ebert called him a "troll".

Film critic at New York Press since 1997.

Editor, "City Arts".

Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1990.

The humorous tangents of Just Go with It (2011) are testaments to the fine art of improvisation and of comedy that doesn't take itself overly seriously.

Each scene in The King's Speech (2010) is so poorly staged that its ineptitude sometimes borders on the avant-garde.

[on Promised Land (2012)] The love triangle between Steve, Dustin and local schoolteacher Alice ('Rosemarie Dewitt') lacks the gay sexual tension typical of [Gus Van Sant]; this is just a propagandistic gimmick relying on the sentimentality of white-picket-fence heterosexual normalcy.