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Dennis Schwartz

""Wisdom is not in knowing but in having known." - Edmond Jabs, "

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% 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:: 8324

Location:: Bennington, Vermont

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
C	77%	Hope Springs (2012)	" It seems more like attending a sex therapy session than a movie." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 10, 2012
B	——	Tarzan Triumphs (Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan Triumphs) (1943)	" Gets some laughs courtesy of the chimp Cheeta's playful antics upsetting the Nazis, in this rousing flag-waver." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 9, 2012
B-	——	Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Leopard Woman) ()	" Silly but amusing Tarzan adventure." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 9, 2012
B-	——	Tarzan's Desert Mystery, (Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan's Desert Mystery) (1944)	" I give it a pass for being so goofy and entertaining and irresistible." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 8, 2012
B	100%	Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)	" A hoot and a blast." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 8, 2012
B+	71%	Tarzan Escapes (1936)	" An above average film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 7, 2012
C	69%	There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)	" If you're looking for a good film that features Irving Berlin tunes, this one is not the film you're looking for." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 7, 2012
B-	86%	The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)	" Genial but Dull and heavy-handed Ruritarian comedy that co-stars the 50-year-old British stage great Olivier with the 30-year-old American Hollywood sex queen Marilyn Monroe." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 6, 2012
B-	92%	Bus Stop (1956)	" The Broadway based movie reduces romance to a physical attraction and of never saying I'm sorry for being a male predator." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 6, 2012
B-	45%	To Rome with Love (2012)	" There's enough of Woody's familiar shticks to please his regular audience." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 5, 2012
B-	——	Doomed to Die (The Mystery of Wentworth Castle) (1940)	" Routine but enjoyable fifth entry in the Mr. Wong series." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 5, 2012
C+	31%	Total Recall (2012)	" After a fast start it runs out of ideas and energy." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 4, 2012
C	——	La Bandida (2012)	" Too bad the stars were just too old to make their melodramatic romances that believable." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 3, 2012
B-	——	The Fatal Hour (1940)	" Hopes to cash in on the Charlie Chan success." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 2, 2012
B+	——	Boy Meets Girl (1984) (1984)	" Pensively poetic." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 1, 2012
C+	——	Room for One More (1952)	" Turns mawkish." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Aug 1, 2012
B+	——	I Saw What You Did (1965)	" Nifty little thriller." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 31, 2012
C	——	Downhill (When Boys Leave Home) (1927)	" Blame Novello for this turkey, Hitchcock did all he could to make this creaky story work with some creative visuals." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 31, 2012
B+	71%	Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht) (1978)	" Unpleasant but thoughtful and provocative psychodrama set in Berlin, in the 1930s." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 30, 2012
C+	64%	Dick Tracy (1990)	" Fails to be a compelling watch." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 30, 2012
B-	——	The Walking Dead (1936)	" Creaky but entertaining supernatural thriller about bringing back the dead." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 29, 2012
B-	96%	Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)	" Serves as a moralizing Hollywood lecture on racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 29, 2012
B	——	The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)	" An expose on the inside Hollywood scene." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 29, 2012
B-	89%	The Wanderers (1973)	" Crudely entertaining." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 28, 2012
B	——	Shunpu den (Story of a Prostitute) (1965)	" Give me a Suzuki yakuza film anytime." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 27, 2012
B	——	Pay Or Die ()	" Aside from Marty, this is my favorite Ernest Borgnine role where he plays a good guy." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 26, 2012
C-	——	Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (2006)	" A bomb." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 26, 2012
B-	96%	King of the Hill (1993)	" Tenderly directed and written by Steven Soderbergh." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 25, 2012
C-	75%	C'est arriv prs de chez vous (Man Bites Dog) (It Happened in Your Neighborhood) (1992)	" It proves that a catchy title does not necessarily make for a good movie." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 25, 2012
B-	——	Cold Heaven (1992)	" The ambitious film doesn't always make sense." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 24, 2012
B+	100%	The Face of Another (I Have a Stranger's Face) (Tanin no kao) (1967)	" Asks probing questions about one's identity." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 23, 2012
B+	95%	Mala Noche (Bad Night) (2007)	" About open homosexual lust." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 23, 2012
A-	89%	The Turin Horse (2012)	" Though a heavy and somnolent watch and not for all tastes, it has redeeming value for being so full of reality." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 22, 2012
B	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" Relies on eye-opening spectacular action sequences throughout to provide the thrills." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 21, 2012
C	——	Vierges et vampires (Requiem for a Vampire) (1999)	" Sleazy dream-like fairy tale lesbian vampire flick." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 20, 2012
C+	——	The Scarlet Coat (1955)	" The storyline is highly suspect." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 19, 2012
C+	——	No Time for Love ()	" Watchable hokum." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 19, 2012
B	63%	Keyhole (2012)	" Maddin bathes it in his usual weirdness." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 18, 2012
B+	80%	Haywire (2012)	" If you're a fan of the action-thriller genre, Soderbergh superbly nails what thrills it takes for those films to work so well." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 17, 2012
B-	——	Kim (1951)	" Bombastic, animated and lush, but hardly convincing or genuine in attitude or atmosphere." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 16, 2012
C+	——	Beauty Beneath The Dirt ()	" Though only about an hour in length, I couldn't wait to get off the trail and away from all the shrill talk." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 16, 2012
B	94%	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)	" A sweet love story." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 16, 2012
A-	——	Via Dolorosa (2005)	" If you're into eloquent storytelling, you should be moved by this intimate personal take on current Israel and Palestine." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 15, 2012
A+	94%	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012)	" It's a masterpiece crime story that tells us as much about searching for the truth in modern Turkey as it does about violent criminals and those who prosecute them." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 14, 2012
A	84%	Bullhead (2012)	" A ferocious crime thriller that grabbed my attention and held my interest throughout." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 13, 2012
B+	——	Mg kr a np (Red Psalm) (1972)	" Vibrant socialist musical." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 12, 2012
B	84%	Wandfuru raifu (After Life) (1998)	" An affecting and unpredictable film that lingers on one's mind long after viewing." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 11, 2012
B	——	Red Ball Express (1952)	" Routine but solid old-fashioned WW II war story." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 10, 2012
C+	——	John Paul Jones (1959)	" Dramatically stiff but visually pleasing costume historical drama on American Revolutionary naval hero John Paul Jones." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews Posted Jul 9, 2012

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