Rob Nelson

Variety

Rob Nelson has been a member of the National Society of Film Critics since 1998. He is the recipient of three awards each from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Society of Professional Journalists, and has served on film festival juries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, and Vancouver. His writing has appeared in Variety, Film Comment, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, indieWIRE, and Cinema Scope. His article about “The Insect Woman” is included in the Smithsonian Institution’s Shohei Imamura booklet, “A Man Vanishes.”

Links: Rob's Rotten Tomatoes Page


Films

35 Shots of Rum B

500 Days of Summer D+

A Prophet B+

A Serious Man C

A Single Man C

Adam C-

Adventureland B

Amreeka B+

An Education B+

Antichrist D

Anvil! The Story of Anvil B

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans A-

Beeswax A-

Big Fan A-

Black Dynamite B+

Bright Star A-

Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) A-

Bronson B

Bruno B+

Cold Souls C

Collapse A-

Drag Me to Hell C

Goodbye Solo B+

Humpday B+

In the Loop C

Inglourious Basterds B+

Life During Wartime B

Lymelife A-

Me and Orson Welles B+

Micmacs A-

Moon C

Motherhood D-

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done C-

Outrage B

Paranormal Activity C-

Police, Adjective A-

Ponyo A-

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire C-

Red Cliff B+

Sunshine Cleaning B-

Tetro B

That Evening Sun B

The Box B

The Cove C+

The Girlfriend Experience B

The Hurt Locker A

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus B

The Limits of Control B+

The Maid (La nana) B+

The Men Who Stare at Goats C+

The Messenger B

The Missing Person B+

The Road B+

The September Issue B+

The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) B+

The Young Victoria B

Thirst (Bakjwi) A-

Trash Humpers A-

Treeless Mountain B

Trucker C-

Up B+

Up in the Air A-

We Live in Public A

Whatever Works C+

Where the Wild Things Are A

Whip It A-

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe C-

Women In Trouble C+

Youth in Revolt C
AFI Fest
AFI Fest '09
BROKEN EMBRACES
A Film By Almodovar, Starring Penelope Cruz
Opens New York 11/20, Opens Los Angeles 12/11
Opens additional cities 12/25
Where is it opening by you?
www.sonyclassics.com/brokenembraces/dates.html
"Astonishing! A Masterpiece!"
Jeffrey Lyons, KNBC Weekend Today
"Cruz with Almodovar makes BROKEN EMBRACES soar!"
Richard Corliss, TIME
Written and Directed by Pedro Almodovar
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