ROTTEN TOMATOES: M.E. Russell

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	The Upside of Anger
A-	5X2
B+	Festival Express
B	Collateral
B-	Intimate Strangers
C+	Without A Paddle
C	Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
C-	Catwoman
D+	Thr3e
D	Suspect Zero
D-	Pink Panther
F	Underclassman
F+	The Ringer

BEST REVIEWED
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A	The Boys of Baraka
A	The Beat That My Heart Skipped
A	Hustle & Flow
A	Howl's Moving Castle
A	The Upside of Anger
A	The Mother
A-	The Bourne Ultimatum
A-	The Perfect Crime
A-	Hostage
A-	Kontroll
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F+	The Ringer
F	Underclassman
D-	Turistas
D-	Pink Panther
D-	Eurotrip
D	You Don't Mess with the Zohan
D	The Seeker
D	Georgia Rule
D	The Condemned
D	Freedomland
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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B-	"Part of Smith and Berg's subvert-your-expectations game plan involves a major midfilm shocker, one that takes the movie to larger mythological places unrelated to Hancock's self-improvement quest." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
B	"Gunnin' for That #1 Spot is a basketball documentary where the climactic game looks like a Hong Kong wire-fu epic." Posted Jun 27, 2008	Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008)	89%
B	"Bodrov has simply created an overwhelmingly awesome Khan who could believably conquer the overwhelmingly awesome landscape over the course of two more films." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
C+	"The comedian really climbs out on this particular limb -- a limb so far from the tree, it might have given Peter Sellers pause." Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	15%
B-	"[Director] Conrad seems to have used whatever clout he got from The Pursuit of Happyness to fund something personal and sincere -- a story that's ultimately about victories of character and suppressing your worst impulses." Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
C	"Unfortunately, the film loses its merciless rage toward the end, devolving into a stock and broadly comic thriller about unpleasant people you never quite get to know." Posted Jun 6, 2008	Stuck (2008)	71%
D	"You Don't Mess With the Zohan might actually be the stupidest movie with good intentions that I've ever seen." Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
C-	"*Thanks to the documentarian also making his family the film's subject, Bra Boys* feels more than a little like a violence-glorifying infomercial.*" Posted May 30, 2008*	Bra Boys (2008)	60%
C	"*Imagine Funny Games* stripped of all its social commentary, dark humor and information about its killers, and you're starting to get the idea. It's so spare, it's almost abstract.*" Posted May 30, 2008*	The Strangers (2008)	41%
	"The movie's pretty good, occasionally very good. But I also kind of hope they don't make another one." Posted May 21, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
C	"*It's not horrible, but it's droopy, and it left me craving 30 Rock, with its vastly superior skewering of the privileged and self-involved. Fey should stick to writing her own material." Posted Apr 25, 2008*	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
B	"On a basic-premise level, Forgetting Sarah Marshall sounds like any number of rom-coms. But Segel and director Nicholas Stoller go to the trouble of making the little details funny and filthy, and they have fun messing with the formula." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
C-	"Nim's Island never finds its focus, and there's never a real sense of danger." Posted Apr 4, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	49%
C	"*Do yourself a favor. Rent My Bodyguard* instead.*" Posted Mar 21, 2008*	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
B	"*The computer-animated Horton* is largely funny and faithful to the spirit of the Dr. Seuss book.*" Posted Mar 14, 2008*	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
B-	"In a marketplace that tends toward cranked-up action thrills, it's just nice to watch a level-headed crime movie aimed at actual grown-ups." Posted Mar 7, 2008	The Bank Job (2008)	78%
D+	"A mild disaster." Posted Feb 29, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	42%
B	"The film suffers slightly from diminishing returns -- its first third is by far its scariest -- but it's still a bold, artful take on a popular horror idea." Posted Feb 22, 2008	The Signal (2007)	55%
B	"Caramel finds a big-hearted, Mira Nair-ish groove. The characters are gorgeous. And [director] Labaki gets terrific performances out of a largely nonprofessional cast." Posted Feb 15, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
B-	"The movie offers very real pleasures. Reynolds has terrific chemistry with everyone, and watching him romance three of Hollywood's more intelligent, beguiling comediennes is a pleasure." Posted Feb 15, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
C+	"It's almost like you're watching a 100-minute trailer for a much better six-hour miniseries." Posted Feb 8, 2008	Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)	57%
C-	"Untraceable is also relentlessly grim and dull, and runs afoul of all the pitfalls you find in movies in which people rely on computers to do their detecting." Posted Jan 25, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
	"Actually, one cast member doesn't even bother to phone it in: The once-charming Katie Holmes is stunningly horrible as a granola-head diabetic who lives in a trailer." Posted Jan 18, 2008	Mad Money (2008)	21%
C-	"27 Dresses is stunningly dull. And Heigl, freed from the challenges of a Judd Apatow script, does little to distinguish herself from dozens of other actresses forgotten at the cineplex." Posted Jan 18, 2008	27 Dresses (2008)	40%
C	"The filmmakers are so deadly earnest about the power of music and love and all that stuff, you just twiddle your thumbs waiting for the inevitable." Posted Nov 21, 2007	August Rush (2007)	38%
B+	"It's more than a thrilling horror exercise -- it's a master class in this sort of filmmaking, nailing the fundamentals at nearly every turn." Posted Nov 21, 2007	Stephen King's The Mist (2007)	71%
C	"*It gives me no pleasure to report that the [Richard] Pimentel biopic Music Within* plays like a well-intentioned TV movie.*" Posted Nov 9, 2007*	Music Within (2007)	31%
C	"While [writer] Pinter contributes some venom-spitting new dialogue, he also deviates wildly from the original story in the third act -- which would be fine, if the deviations weren't less compelling and more abrupt than Shaffer's original ideas." Posted Nov 2, 2007	Sleuth (2007)	35%
B	"30 Days of Night is a high-concept movie idea that's so good, I'm surprised we haven't seen it." Posted Oct 19, 2007	30 Days of Night (2007)	49%
D	"*The shameless Potter/Tolkien recycling is the least of this movie's problems." Posted Oct 5, 2007*	The Seeker (2007)	13%
D+	"*There's really no nice way to put this: Trade* wants to be the Traffic of sex slavery, and it fails at that task in ways that are alternately dreary, pretentious and vaguely sleazy.*" Posted Sep 28, 2007*	Trade (2007)	27%
C+	"Sydney is forgettable teenybopper flotsam -- but it's better than the usual teenybopper flotsam." Posted Sep 21, 2007	Sydney White (2007)	37%
B	"The movie has 'heart' in a way that doesn't feel cloying or dishonest. And the cast -- especially Janelle Schremmer -- just nails it." Posted Sep 14, 2007	Chalk (2007)	79%
C	"Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig are adequate leads, but no great actor will be more squandered this year than Jeffrey Wright, who does nothing but speak in vast paragraph blocks of exposition while looking haggard and bored." Posted Aug 17, 2007	The Invasion (2007)	19%
C	"Rush Hour 3 is an exercise in critic-proofing: If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like." Posted Aug 10, 2007	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	20%
C-	"If you didn't know Hector Lavoe was a pioneering singer in New York's '70s and '80s salsa scene, it would be hard to glean it from El Cantante, a tepid biopic that relentlessly scratches the surface." Posted Aug 3, 2007	El Cantante (2007)	24%
A-	"A minor miracle in a summer full of weak, perfunctory or downright lousy 'threequels'. It's a relentless finale to the Bourne movie trilogy that raises the stakes, pumps up the action and develops old characters while introducing new villains." Posted Aug 3, 2007	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	93%
C-	"The romance is boring. Everything is blandly good-looking. The emotional beats are so programmed, you can predict the entrance of every single note of the Philip Glass dirge of a score. And the title means nothing beyond its double-entendre." Posted Jul 27, 2007	No Reservations (2007)	39%
B-	"...as an ADD overview of a deliriously trashy TV subgenre, this is a great start." Posted Jul 6, 2007	American Scary (2006)	n/a
C+	"The movie's fine, but it's more safe than interesting." Posted Jun 22, 2007	Evan Almighty (2007)	23%
B-	"Rise of the Silver Surfer is roughly 300 percent less cringe-inducing than its predecessor." Posted Jun 15, 2007	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)	35%
D	"Georgia Rule is a comedy-drama about three generations of women learning to love one another in a small town. It's also an icky soap opera about these women coming to terms with a revelation of sex abuse." Posted May 11, 2007	Georgia Rule (2007)	18%
C	"If anyone could take a movie about a bunch of jerks who play poker and make it interesting, it should be Curtis Hanson. Or rather, it should have been." Posted May 4, 2007	Lucky You (2007)	28%
B	"Surrounded by a strong cast, including Laura Dern as Peggy's insufferably protective sister-in-law, Shannon holds her own." Posted Apr 27, 2007	Year of the Dog (2007)	69%
D	"*There are some nicely over-the-top moments in this Battle Royale/Running Man* puree -- most involving people plummeting and blowing up. But the misogyny and choppy action edits spoil the fun.*" Posted Apr 27, 2007*	The Condemned (2007)	15%
C-	"It gives me no pleasure to report that Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is fairly excruciating to sit through -- because I'm writing this as a fan of the TV series that spawned the movie." Posted Apr 13, 2007	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)	48%
C-	"The weak mystery story massages you into indifference, then tries to clock you with one fungo bat of a loopy twist that leaves you questioning not reality, but why you just spent 109 minutes trying to give a darn." Posted Apr 13, 2007	Perfect Stranger (2007)	10%
B	"Blades doesn't hit the non sequitur heights of Anchorman or Talladega Nights, but the cast is great and several gags hit hard." Posted Mar 30, 2007	Blades of Glory (2007)	69%

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