ROTTEN TOMATOES: James Berardinelli

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	The Wizard of Oz
3.5/4	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
3/4	The Bank Job
2.5/4	Snow Angels
2/4	Never Back Down
1.5/4	10,000 B.C.
1/4	Shutter

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Dark Knight
4/4	A Short Film About Love
4/4	Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
4/4	The Apartment
4/4	Glengarry Glen Ross
4/4	The Wizard of Oz
4/4	The Departed
4/4	United 93
4/4	Munich
4/4	Maria Full of Grace
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Captivity
0/4	Feast
0/4	A Hole in My Heart
0/4	On_Line
0/4	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
0/4	Freddy Got Fingered
0/4	Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
0/4	Ernest Rides Again
0/4	Ghost in the Machine
0/4	The Mangler
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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2/4	" Quarantine fails to correct some of the problems evident in its predecessor while also incorporating a few defects of its own." Posted Oct 10, 2008	Quarantine (2008)	68%
3/4	" City of Ember has almost anything one could want from a science fiction-based family adventure film: likeable characters, an imaginative setting, and a fast pace." Posted Oct 10, 2008	City of Ember (2008)	47%
3.5/4	" For those who care about there being more to a thriller than pointless car chases and over-edited fight sequences, Body of Lies offers a satisfying dose of truth." Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	53%
3/4	" The buoyant tone of Leigh's latest, Happy-Go-Lucky, is such an unexpected and welcome change-of-pace. For his part, Leigh is just as grumpy as ever, but he has produced a motion picture that can best be described as optimistic." Posted Oct 9, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	97%
2/4	" RocknRolla often feels more like a parody of a Guy Ritchie film than a real movie." Posted Oct 8, 2008	RocknRolla (2008)	57%
3/4	" While Ernie's on-field accomplishments were extraordinary, it was the environment in which he struggled to achieve them that makes him the worthy subject of a motion picture." Posted Oct 8, 2008	The Express (2008)	64%
3/4	" There's a refreshing vein of understated humor running throughout the production. It's neither forced nor unnatural and it keeps things from becoming too somber, even when the bullets start flying." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
2.5/4	" The film's inability to decide whether it wants to be sweet and life-affirming or vicious and nasty creates not only a disconnect on the story level but results in tonal shifts that are dizzying." Posted Oct 3, 2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	33%
2.5/4	" We have seen this kind of tale before, and director Marc Abraham is unable to convince us that we want to see it again." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	58%
3/4	" At times, the movie gets bogged down in minutia but the emotions evoked and captured are as honest and brutal as one is likely to find on film." Posted Oct 1, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	84%
3/4	" The dialogue is witty enough to separate Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist from the rom-com continuum of dumb screenplays, but not so witty that it will receive a Diablo Cody-level backlash." Posted Oct 1, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2/4	" Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher." Posted Sep 30, 2008	Religulous (2008)	68%
3/4	" An absorbing (if admittedly flawed) thought-piece. It engaged me throughout and I found the ending to be surprisingly hopeful." Posted Sep 29, 2008	Blindness (2008)	41%
1.5/4	" I can kind-of, sort-of see how this story might work as a novel. Bad dialogue doesn't sound as howlingly awful when not spoken aloud. Idiotic plot contrivances don't seem as painful and obvious." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	29%
1.5/4	" Should this film be a huge box office success, it will stand as a sad testament to how low the bar for cinematic entertainment has been set." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
2.5/4	" With Choke, director Clark Gregg has maintained writer Chuck Palahniuk's voice but the men and women populating the film come across as the half-finished constructs of a filmmaker's imagination." Posted Sep 25, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
2.5/4	" It's impossible not to admire what Lee has wrought here, and the evident passion with which it has been brought to the screen. However, the realization is flawed, and those flaws make this 160-minute epic feel a little too much like an ordeal." Posted Sep 24, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	31%
2.5/4	" It isn't unpleasant to spend two hours with these three soldiers, although it might have been more enjoyable to spend the time getting to know them rather than force-feeding them artificial road bumps." Posted Sep 22, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
1.5/4	" My Best Friend's Girl isn't just a misfire; it's a misfire compounded by a chain of miscalculations, and it's hard to figure out who this could appeal to (except, perhaps, Dane Cook's fan club)." Posted Sep 19, 2008	My Best Friend's Girl (2008)	18%
2/4	" It's too bad the movie's moderately intriguing qualities are buried under the final half-hour's avalanche of predictability." Posted Sep 18, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	42%
1.5/4	" Take away the 'hound' part of the title and you have an appropriate descriptor of this production." Posted Sep 18, 2008	Hounddog (2008)	16%
2/4	" *It has impeccable production values but feels like a Masterpiece Theater* production of a Harlequin romance novel.*" Posted Sep 17, 2008*	The Duchess (2008)	60%
2.5/4	" Ghost Town's unwillingness to escape from a safe orbit keeps the movie trapped in mediocrity." Posted Sep 17, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	85%
2.5/4	" English has shown herself to be an adept, perceptive, and at times funny writer, but too little of that is on display here." Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	10%
3/4	" Burn After Reading likely won't be a major Oscar contender for 2009, but that doesn't mean it won't offer a hell of a good time in theaters toward the end of 2008." Posted Sep 8, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
1.5/4	" This is a case of a potentially epic tale being pruned and diced to the point where its underlying ideas are reduced to trite clich�s." Posted Sep 2, 2008	Babylon A.D. (2008)	7%
3/4	" The ending may be too pat, but the journey to get there -- bitter, spicy, and poignant -- more than compensates for any last-minute fumbles." Posted Sep 2, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	49%
3/4	Click here to read article Posted Sep 2, 2008	Sherrybaby (2006)	74%
3/4	" Director Eric Guirado has woven an endearing modern-day fable that offers a pleasant 90-minute respite from the worries to be found outside the theater doors." Posted Aug 28, 2008	The Grocer's Son (2008)	88%
3/4	" Traitor is smart, effective, and at times suspenseful. It's one of a very few terrorist-themed movies that presents its situation without resorting to exploitation or oversimplification." Posted Aug 27, 2008	Traitor (2008)	53%
2.5/4	" [A] hodgepodge of unfunny, sophomoric humor and PG-13 T&A, frosted by a sheen of appallingly nauseous 'drama.'" Posted Aug 22, 2008	The House Bunny (2008)	39%
2.5/4	" *Statham's films never promise to be something they're not or offer something they don't provide. Death Race* is not an exception.*" Posted Aug 22, 2008*	Death Race (2008)	43%
2/4	Click here to read article Posted Aug 19, 2008	Dangerous Minds (1995)	31%
2.5/4	" Despite the richness of the premise for comic invention, however, Hamlet 2 remains a rather mediocre experience, offering sporadic laughs but never achieving the level of consistent humor necessary to make this memorable." Posted Aug 18, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
1/4	" Alexandre Aja's inability to delineate credible or interesting characters results in 110 wasted minutes for anyone unfortunate to wander into an auditorium where this is playing." Posted Aug 18, 2008	Mirrors (2008)	13%
3/4	" *The film isn't perfect, but in an environment where things like The Love Guru* and Step Brothers pass for worthwhile entertainment, Tropic Thunder puts a lot of comedy pretenders to shame.*" Posted Aug 12, 2008*	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
3/4	Click here to read article Posted Aug 11, 2008	Q & A (1990)	82%
2/4	" Nostalgia is a poor foundation for any movie, and the film's visceral pleasures are too limited to effectively compensate for the lack of credible characters or a coherent storyline." Posted Aug 7, 2008	Hell Ride (2008)	11%
3/4	" As chick flicks go, this is one men can attend with the expectation that they might just enjoy experiencing two hours alongside these down-to-earth, appealing characters." Posted Aug 7, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
3/4	" The humor in this movie is smart enough that even a moderate level of intoxication or inebriation is not necessary to enjoy it." Posted Aug 5, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
3.5/4	" In Search of a Midnight Kiss is wonderfully romantic and romantically bittersweet. It's not about forever; it's about now." Posted Aug 5, 2008	In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)	85%
2/4	" The problem with Baghead isn't that it's cheaply made but that it's sloppily composed." Posted Aug 5, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
3.5/4	" There is much tragedy and truth in what the makers of this movie have brought to the screen." Posted Aug 5, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
3/4	" A fascinating time capsule: a combination of talking-head interviews, actual footage, and re-creations that evokes a kinder, gentler world and provides insight into one of the most audacious stunts of the 20th century." Posted Aug 5, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
3.5/4	" The Edge of Heaven explores topics as varied as the tensions that accompany multiculturalism and globalization to the simpler human drama of how individuals cope with losses for which they bear a portion of the responsibility." Posted Jul 31, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
3/4	" Swing Vote is more subtle and insightful than the dumbed-down comedy the marketing campaign would have us believe it to be." Posted Jul 30, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	38%
2/4	" *Rather than providing a springboard to a movie franchise, this film puts the final nail in The X-Files' coffin. Mulder and Scully can now fade into pop culture history." Posted Jul 25, 2008*	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	32%
1.5/4	" *Few films are worse to sit through than comedies that don't work. Step Brothers* is one of those.*" Posted Jul 24, 2008*	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
2.5/4	" There was hope in 2005 that Woody Allen had re-discovered his groove with the release of Match Point. Since then, however, he has slipped back into the sinkhole of mediocrity that kept him from greatness throughout most of the '90s and '00s." Posted Jul 22, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
2/4	" This is pre-packaged entertainment, a product designed to give bored teenagers something to watch on a Friday or Saturday night when steamy summer nights are getting longer and Labor Day is just around the corner." Posted Jul 22, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	36%

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