ROTTEN TOMATOES: Carla Meyer

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Charlotte's Web
3.5/4	Children of Men
3/4	Blood Diamond
2.5/4	We Are Marshall
2/4	Rocky Balboa
1.5/4	Premonition
C-	The Reaping
1/4	Norbit
D	Perfect Stranger

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4/4	No Country for Old Men
4/4	Into the Wild
4/4	The Bourne Ultimatum
4/4	Away From Her
4/4	Pan's Labyrinth
4/4	Little Children
4/4	Charlotte's Web
4/4	The Queen
4/4	Little Miss Sunshine
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Love Object
0/4	Frailty
0/4	Soul Survivors
0/4	Tomcats
.5/4	Basic Instinct 2
D	Perfect Stranger
1/4	Fool's Gold
1/4	Norbit
1/4	The Libertine
1/4	Domino
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

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2/4	"It's all there: the whoosh and bash of close-contact racing, the raised-oval sliding, the loop-de-loops. All but the ability to discern what's going on." -- Sacramento Bee Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	34%
2/4	"Directed by Tom Vaughan and written by Dana Fox, who also wrote the excruciating The Wedding Date, this film often seems improvised, and not in a good way. Some setups go nowhere, and some jokes never get set up at all." -- Sacramento Bee Posted May 9, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	29%
2/4	"Director Paul Weiland and the film's screenwriters offer standard sitcom setups and forgettable supporting characters, in effect hanging the whole picture on Dempsey." -- Sacramento Bee Posted May 2, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
3/4	"Action scenes in comic-book films? Overrated. That's the lesson of Iron Man, which goes light on CGI fireworks but heavy enough on its most electrifying element -- Robert Downey Jr. -- to compensate." -- Sacramento Bee Posted May 2, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
1.5/4	"High in gloss and light on brains." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
2.5/4	"This story of a corporate vice president and the surrogate mother she hires is so committed to convention that it runs into clich�." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 25, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	60%
2.5/4	"Assigning Chan and Li to supporting status underscores how ordinary this would-be- extraordinary film turns out to be." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
3/4	"Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a heartwarming romantic comedy in which boy loses girl, meets new girl and eventually finds himself." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
2.5/4	"An amiable dramedy that never quite kicks into gear." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 11, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
2.5/4	"*A B-level cop thriller with an A-list cast, Street Kings* engages when taken on its own, trashy terms. But even at that, the film provokes unintentional laughter.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
3/4	"Scorsese, who has used Stones songs so prominently in his movies that he's probably paid for a few outbuildings on the band members' country estates, brings an obvious fondness for the group to Shine a Light." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
3/4	"Directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, and adapted from a novel by Wendy Orr, Nim's Island offers a nice message for kids and grown-ups: Be the hero of your own story, whether confronting a volcano or 'borderline agoraphobia.'" -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 4, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
2.5/4	"When a film stars three people you adore and still falters, the instinct is to blame the director. But that's tricky when the director is one of the people you adore." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 4, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
3/4	"*Carolla is winning in The Hammer, which evokes Rocky* and just about every other lovable-loser sports movie while showing enough comic originality to hold interest throughout.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Hammer (2008)	74%
2/4	"Like Wilson, Mann can wring laughs even from mediocre lines. Here's an idea: How about Apatow and Rogen forget the freaky-geeky boys for a while and give Mann a starring role?" -- Sacramento Bee Posted Mar 21, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
	"Though its smaller story of a mother and son will elicit tears, Under the Same Moon is clear-eyed in its larger examination of the cycle of poverty that persists for immigrants on this side of the border." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Mar 21, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	74%
2.5/4	"Reynolds lets us see the wheels turn throughout this process, crafting Frank's stark behavior change as the thinking man's flip-out." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Mar 14, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	30%
2.5/4	"At times, the action in Horton overwhelms its softer, more Seussian traits. At these moments, the picture comes across as just another computer-animated film -- and there must be 100 by now -- about an animal on a quest." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Mar 14, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
2/4	"The film's deliberate pace combines with an overall bleakness to alienate the viewer." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Mar 14, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	49%
1.5/4	"*So much of Youth Without Youth* is impenetrable, and not in a way that makes you want to solve the puzzle, but in a way that makes you want to knock the puzzle pieces off the table and flee the room.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Feb 29, 2008	Youth Without Youth (2007)	29%
1.5/4	"Most of us know where this story is headed (ba-da-bum), and in order for the moment in question to have impact (ba-da-thump), Anne should engender at least a modicum of sympathy." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Feb 29, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	41%
2/4	"*The Will Ferrell man-boy persona, a combination of obstinacy, idiocy and innocence that Ferrell has ushered through several successful comedies, finally gets called for traveling in Semi-Pro." -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Feb 29, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
1.5/4	"Jumper takes leaps that have nothing to do with telepathic transporting. They involve logic and storytelling, and they doom this sci-fi film." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Feb 14, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
	"*The degree of talent attached to Spiderwick Chronicles* is exceptional. It's an unlikely assembly of people for a studio fantasy film, and perhaps that's what makes the picture so fresh.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Feb 14, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
3.5/4	"With poignancy, humor and evocative animation, Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, who co-wrote and co-directed, detail a coming of age that coincided with the deterioration of a nation." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Feb 8, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	95%
1/4	"The action does kick in eventually, but director Andy Tennant's staging is uninspired. The picture also grows more violent than you might expect -- a development that smacks of desperation." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Feb 8, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
3/4	"Director Ari Sandel includes too many tour stops along with life-on-the-road laments, ...but the film still should please fans of stand-up comedy -- especially those who haven't seen the featured comedians before." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Feb 8, 2008	Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)	56%
1.5/4	"Blithe Spirit seems an obvious inspiration for this film, which contains touches of Ghost as well. But Over Her Dead Body ultimately belongs in a different category, one usually occupied by straight-to-DVD releases." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Feb 1, 2008	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	13%
3/4	"*The dance scenes in How She Move* are so vibrant and infectious that they glide the movie past its script problems.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Jan 25, 2008	How She Move (2008)	68%
1.5/4	"Technology is the film's only hook. Otherwise, it's a standard B-movie thriller featuring basement torture chambers and an FBI agent-single mom who tracks a killer before becoming a target herself." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jan 25, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
4/4	"While introducing artistic elements that border on fanciful, the filmmakers also insist on realism, resulting in a film that is always relatable, never sappy." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jan 18, 2008	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
2.5/4	"Much of the film is predictable. But to its credit, it doesn't present the men in the women's lives as the usual losers who drive them to crime." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jan 18, 2008	Mad Money (2008)	21%
3/4	"The Orphanage contains jolts and gruesome moments. But most of the time, the film unsettles in quieter, more encompassing ways, its horrific qualities derived from implication instead of imagery." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	85%
2.5/4	"The film lacks much zest or narrative drive -- essentials for a movie about appreciating the time one has left." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	40%
	"Washington the director certainly knows the strengths of Washington the actor." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 28, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	79%
2.5/4	"Walk Hard doesn't know when to quit." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 21, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	74%
2.5/4	"Director Marc Forster and screenwriter David Benioff fail to capture the full impact of Khaled Hosseini's mega-best seller The Kite Runner." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 21, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	66%
3/4	"Together, Cody and Page have crafted a highly memorable character." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 21, 2007	Juno (2007)	93%
2.5/4	"The political messages come in fits and starts, but the film's bittersweet final section hints at the far-reaching impact of Wilson's efforts, both positive and negative." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 21, 2007	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	83%
3.5/4	"It's Sondheim's gorgeously dissonate score that makes the greatest impact. The lush strings and emphatic horns can't help but lift the spirit even as they chill the bones." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 21, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
3.5/4	"*Epic and heart-rending, Atonement* accents its old-fashioned qualities with a modern-day frankness.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Dec 14, 2007	Atonement (2007)	82%
2/4	"The film engages for about 30 minutes, or about 10 minutes longer than you might expect. This picture, after all, has only one idea: chipmunks that talk and sing. It's the same idea that fueled novelty recordings and a two cartoon series." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 14, 2007	Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)	24%
3/4	"*Will Smith passes a big test -- let's call it the Tom Hanks-in-Cast Away* test -- for any movie star: carrying a movie alone for most of the way.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Dec 14, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	68%
2/4	"The Golden Compass never seems to follow a single thread for very long. Instead, it introduces new characters for Lyra to meet on her journey. Few make an impact, and one who does makes the wrong kind." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	42%
2.5/4	"King is too strong a presence to be convincing as a pushover. She's still interesting to watch, and her character's friction with sister Kelli seem truthful at moments. But just about everything involving Lisa and her husband is a stretch." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 21, 2007	This Christmas (2007)	53%
4/4	"Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen build and sustain tension so masterfully throughout this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel that even trouble that's been telegraphed still shocks when it arrives." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 16, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
3.5/4	"Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead starts with a bad idea -- a plan by two brothers to rob their parents' jewelry store -- and whips itself into a beautifully acted, nervous-making frenzy of a melodrama." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 16, 2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
2/4	"Plays more like an adaptation of Wilt Chamberlain's autobiography than of García Márquez's novel." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 16, 2007	Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)	27%
2.5/4	"The special effects are too obvious at times, and in trying to impart an eccentric vibe, Helm relies too heavily on kooky camera angles." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 16, 2007	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)	36%
3/4	"Director Robert Zemeckis and his technical wizards have turned an English-class staple into a ripping -- not to mention ripped -- comic-book yarn that looks spectacular in Imax 3-D." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 16, 2007	Beowulf (2007)	70%

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