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Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin was born a bicentennial baby in Kansas City, Missouri. During a childhood that could easily be described as "Dickensian," he spent his formative years in Chicago and came of age in the Jewish Children's Bureau group home system. While... Read full bio

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Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
A. If I could change the channel on the TV without actually getting up and doing so manually, that would be almost inconceivably awesome.
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My life in 8 words: "This is my happening and it freaks me out!"
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My Year of Flops is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Oct 19, 2010
My Year of Flops will be released on October 19, 2010 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Oct 19, 2010
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Chapter 1 from My Year of Flops
Oct 06, 2010
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Sep 12, 2010
The Big Rewind will be released on July 13, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Jul 13, 2010
The Big Rewind is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Big Rewind is now available in Hardcover
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May 19, 2009

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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. I got a good Christian raisin' and an eighth grade education. Ain't no need in y'all treating me this way Q. What’s your fantasy profession? A. I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing right now. Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", "Everyday Struggle", "Too Much Tenderness", "Be My Wife", "These Days" Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. Presidents who aren't adept at making small talk Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. At the UN, accepting an award for being the greatest person in human history Learn more about Nathan Rabin

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The Vine, February 1, 2012
...telling some local kids to get off his lawn. Roger, Roger, Roger, you're missing the point entirely. Nathan Rabin from The AV Club revisited the film in 2009 and summed it up well: To the film’s detractors, of which there were many, it must have looked...
Onion AV Club, January 26, 2012
...The Words: This punishingly idiotic melodrama is a maddening contradiction: a film about the publishing world and a great literary fraud that doesn’t have a literary bone in its body or a thought in its pretty, empty little head. It appears to be the...
Onion AV Club, December 30, 2011
...I won’t have to ask Scott embarrassing questions like, “So, this move Drive, what’s that about?” Nathan Rabin Every year, I make a resolution to experience more diverse culture and entertainment. And every year, I fail miserably. I started out in...
Onion AV Club, December 30, 2011
...I won’t have to ask Scott embarrassing questions like, “So, this move Drive, what’s that about?” Nathan Rabin Every year, I make a resolution to experience more diverse culture and entertainment. And every year, I fail miserably. I started out in...
Onion AV Club, August 22, 2011
...someone else’s hands so they could make up their own mind. In fact, my copy’s available. Nathan Rabin For My Year Of Flops, I wrote about a fair number of films I couldn’t say I liked, necessarily, but that I would recommend all the same. That...
Onion AV Club, August 19, 2011
...someone else’s hands so they could make up their own mind. In fact, my copy’s available. Nathan Rabin For My Year Of Flops, I wrote about a fair number of films I couldn’t say I liked, necessarily, but that I would recommend all the same. That...
Onion AV Club, July 22, 2011
...on comics over the next few years (and decades), she probably got out at just the right time. Nathan Rabin When I was 15 years old, my social worker enrolled me in a class on Film Noir And Gender Roles at Chicago’s Facets Multimedia. So I was in...
Onion AV Club, December 9, 2011
...was going to resume, for five years, Jack Nance had to keep getting his hair cut like that. Nathan Rabin Backstories don’t get much sadder or more dramatic than the story behind J-Dilla’s Donuts. One of the most prolific and influential hip-hop...
New Zealand Herald, December 8, 2011
...if anything, ideas were nixed for not being sentimental or cheesy enough," said The AV Club's Nathan Rabin. In other words, don't go. Check out the trailer for New Year's Eve: Other films being released this week include Magic To Win, Fastest, Ladies vs...
Onion AV Club, December 8, 2011
...Michael Ian Black, Very Famous (10) 4. Patton Oswalt, Finest Hour (10) 5. Tig Notaro, Good One (5) NATHAN RABIN 1. Patton Oswalt, Finest Hour (10) 2. Louis C.K., Hilarious (10) 3. Amy Schumer, Cutting (10) 4. The Sklar Brothers, Hendersons And Daughters...
Onion AV Club, December 6, 2011
...So Beautiful Or So What Mates Of State, Mountain Tops The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Belong NATHAN RABIN 1. The Lonely Island, Turtleneck & Chain (10) 2. Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (10) 3. Phonte, Charity Begins At Home (10) 4. “Weird...
X-Media Online, December 4, 2011
...quirk, non-conformist charm and an inspirational world view is a valuable one. The term coined by film critic Nathan Rabin in his 2005 review of Elizabethtown, is explained thus: “The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of...
Onion AV Club, November 30, 2011
...make fun of but then rush to see. And of course, as always, our own Noel Murray and Nathan Rabin will be among those people come festival time (though not necessarily at that Chris Crocker movie). Beasts of the Southern Wild/ U.S.A. (Director: Benh...
Michigan Live, November 29, 2011
...film is aimed at, Hollywood doesn't have a very high opinion of you"; The AV Club's Nathan Rabin called it "muddled and slight." Not all reviewers piled on it - James Berardinelli of Reelviews wrote that it's a "dark, biting comedy often strays into...