ROTTEN TOMATOES: Emanuel Levy

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	A Christmas Tale
A-	Oliver Twist
B+	Shotgun Stories
B	He Got Game
B-	Smart People
C+	The Catered Affair
C	The Quiet American
C-	Mirrors
D+	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
D	88 Minutes

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Belle de Jour
A	The Adventures of Robin Hood
A	The Class
A	The Man Who Knew Too Much
A	Pickpocket
A	The Dark Knight
A	The Good Fight
A	A Christmas Tale
A	Top Hat
A	Medium Cool
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	The Conqueror
D-	Caligula
D-	Beautiful
D	The Love Guru
D	88 Minutes
D	Bobby Deerfield
D	Witless Protection
D	The Blackout
D	Balls of Fury
D	Trade
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 89% of the time.

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B	"Star vehicle that's playful but anti-glamorous? Goofy comedy-thriller that defies genre expectations in blending satire, spoof, parody and violence? The Coens' new film, which world premiered in Venice, is all of the above, and done in breezy 94 minutes" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 28, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	n/a
C	"Hovering between art and soicology, realism and stylization, Rocco's film seldom finds its right tone, but it serves as a showcase for a young cohort of actors including Will Smith, Sean Astin, Dermot Mulroney, Lara Flynn Boyle and Balthazar Getty." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 27, 2008	Where the Day Takes You (1992)	50%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Variety Posted Aug 27, 2008	Paris France (1993)	n/a
A-	"Merchant Ivory's first artistic and commercial hit is a light, well-acted, nicely mounted comedy of manners based on Forster's classic novel; Daniel Day-Lewis steals all of his scenes" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 25, 2008	A Room with a View (1986)	100%
C-	"Kassovitz second American film is as disappointing as Gothica but for different reasons. The actioner, which opened in France, suffers from weak script, lack of unified vision and other problems of productions with international casts." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 24, 2008	Babylon A.D. (2008)	5%
C	"Playing yet another spinster, Katharine Hepburn is too old (49) for the part of the tomboy in Joseph Andrew's poorly directed film that suffers from its theatrical sensibility." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 22, 2008	The Rainmaker (1956)	n/a
B	"A new generation of black talent (director Gray, actors Chris Tucker and Ice Cube) bring verve to this much welcome comedic view of street life in South Central, after mostly crime and drug pictures set there." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 21, 2008	Friday (1995)	80%
C	"The physical setting and particular racial group may be different, but you have seen these consciously life-affirming sports-family movies before, and this one doesn't disappoint in its by-the-book generic formula." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 21, 2008	The Longshots (2008)	37%
B	"Unabashedly violent, this well-crafted remake is a giddily over the top B-movie, proficient at stringing together a series of vehicular demolition derbies." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 20, 2008	Death Race (2008)	40%
B+	"The superb acting by Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, and Joanne Woodward and some lyrical passages of Tennessee William's challenging play compensate for the stagnant theatricality of Sidney Lumet's direction; a must for Brando fans." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Fugitive Kind (1960)	57%
B	"McQueen's first teaming with director Jewison is not as fun to watch as the later Thomas Crown Affair, but the actor gives a cool, understated perfromance and positing him against old-timers like Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden proves to be good idea" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 19, 2008	The Cincinnati Kid (1965)	94%
A-	"Darkly humorous and visually inventive, Burton's second film, which deservedly won the Makeup Oscar, fulfilled the promise he showed in his debut, launching a brilliant career with Batman and other original movies, many of which starring Johnny Depp." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 18, 2008	Beetlejuice (1988)	82%
C+	"The novel angle of a hero who's Muslim-American, honestly played by Don Cheadle, and an intriguing moral dilemma almost compensate for the flaws of the thriller, which is exactly the opposite of Syriana with its conventional tale and compromised ending." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 18, 2008	Traitor (2008)	54%
C	"What has happened to Cattaneo (Full Monty)? His new formulaic comedy about second chances and comeback in the rock world recycles elements from School of Rock, Spinal Tap, Tenacious D, and it's not even a good star vehicle for talented comedian Wilson." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 17, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	36%
B+	"The full restoration of Wong Kar Wai's 1994 classic highlights its flamboyant visual style, while again showing his idiosyncratic, contemporary vision even when handling a seemingly simpler genre film set in the past." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 16, 2008	Ashes of Time Redux (2008)	n/a
B	"John Huston's dark, cynical comedy about the Mafia, one of his last pictures, suffers from the lack of chemistry between Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner, but Anjelica Huston is excellent in a well-deserving Oscar-winning turn." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 16, 2008	Prizzi's Honor (1985)	88%
B-	"Roberts raises interesting questions, but most of the info is familiar and there's no systematic or comparative perspective to illuminate our culture's obssession with beauty vis-a-vis other wealthy media-saturated countries, which made Sicko a good docu" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 16, 2008	America The Beautiful (2008)	68%
B	"Like most zeitgeist movies, Paul Mazursky's comedy about mate-swapping quickly became outdated, but it's well acted (by Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon) and serves as a sociological document to the shifting sexual mores of the late 1960s." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 15, 2008	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)	90%
B+	"Released in 1939 and boasting patriotic zeal, DeMille's empire-building epic is one of his most impressive pictures, with wonderful performances from Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea at their peak." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 15, 2008	Union Pacific (1939)	n/a
C-	"Mirrors have served as wonderful props and symbols in various genres, but in this poorly conceived and executed remake of the Asian horror flick, French helmer Aja doesn't fully exploit their potential for spooky effects." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 15, 2008	Mirrors (2008)	16%
B+	"Jill Clayburgh received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for playing an ordinary woman who goes through divorce and identity crisis in this quintessential New York movie that was championed by the feminist movement in the 1970s." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 14, 2008	An Unmarried Woman (1978)	90%
B+	"Jill Clayburgh received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for playing an "ordinary" woman who goes through divorce and identity crisis in this quintessential New York film, championed by the women's movement of the 1970s." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 14, 2008	An Unmarried Woman (1978)	90%
B+	"Jill Clayburgh received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for playing an "ordinary" woman who goes through divorce and identity crisis in this quintessential New York film, championed by the women's movement of the 1970s." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 14, 2008	An Unmarried Woman (1978)	90%
B+	"Jill Clayburgh received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for playing an "ordinary" woman who goes through divorce and identity crisis in this quintessential New York film, championed by the women's movement of the 1970s." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 14, 2008	An Unmarried Woman (1978)	90%
B+	"Jill Clayburgh received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for playing an "ordinary" woman who goes through divorce and identity crisis in this quintessential New York film, championed by the women's movement of the 1970s." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 14, 2008	An Unmarried Woman (1978)	90%
C+	"One of Allen's few pretentious films, this somber tale of one troubled WASPish family feels like a tribute to his mentor Ingmar Bergman, though as the two women who represent different subcultures Geraldine Page and Maureen Stapleton are excellent." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 14, 2008	Interiors (1978)	77%
A	"One of the most acclaimed and accessible masterworks of surrealist cinema, an erotic meditaton about reality and fantasy that remains alluring and shocking decades after it was made, at least partly due to Catherine Deneuve's cool, mesmerizing performance" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 13, 2008	Belle de Jour (1967)	94%
C+	"Though visually engaging, overall the film is a mixed bag of the strengths and weaknesses of the sci-fi world Lucas created." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 13, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	20%
A-	"The direction is deliberate, but the attention to detail is impressive, and the perfromances of Jean Arthur, Alan Ladd, and Brandon De Wilde are so good and restrained that they overcome the social-mythical types they're playing." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 12, 2008	Shane (1953)	96%
C	"Adapted and directed by Oscar-winning scribe Alan Ball (American Beauty), Towlehead plays like a kinkier, less-focused riff on theme explored with greater rigor and verve in his 1999 scenario." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 10, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	73%
A-	"Imbued with mythic and even religious dimensions, Al Pacino's resourceful, Oscar-nominated performance takes Lumet's quinessential 1970s New York film beyond the realm of a cop-corruption drama." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 9, 2008	Serpico (1973)	94%
B-	"Despite several flaws, the picture's bunch of anthropomorphized flies may be effective in turning kids attention from Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers and introducing them into the history and magic of space travel." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 8, 2008	Fly Me To The Moon (2008)	16%
B	"It may be ironic that it took a female director (and a foreign one) to turn Philip Roth's novella into a melancholy probing of the sexual anxieties of an aging professor, splendidly interpreted by Ben Kingsley in a sharp, fearless performance." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 8, 2008	Elegy (2008)	73%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Variety Posted Aug 7, 2008	A Price Above Rubies (1998)	57%
C+	"As a reflexive meditation on the nature of love in the AIDS era, this erio-comedy is poignant but it still bears too much the theatrical sensibility of the source material." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 6, 2008	Prelude to a Kiss (1992)	60%
B+	"A return to form and a comeback for Menzel: His first film in over a decade, an adaptation of Hrabal's 1974 novel, displays the serio-comedic and poignantly humanistic perspective that has informed the Czech director's best work." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 6, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	94%
C	"The title is provocative and the timing is right for an examination of the elctorate process, but the data are tentative and anecdotal and the whole execution poor and clumsy." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 5, 2008	Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008)	50%
B-	"The communication mode is no longer novel, but like the first film, the significance of the sequel is more demographic and sociological than artistic, and the coming-of-age saga is pleasant enough as a summer divertissement for young femmes." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 4, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
C	"Knowing that the violence alone was sufficiently ghastly to warrant R-Rating, helmer Larry Bishop had nothing to lose by adding a few more nipples to his mix, which is vastly disappointing as a genre flick and as homage to 1960s movies." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 2, 2008	Hell Ride (2008)	11%
B	"The midlife crisis of a bourgeois housewife is the center of this domestic melodrama, which flaunts the Oscar-nominated turns of Joanne Woodward in the lead and Sylvia Sidney as her tyrannical mother, whose death precipitates major family crises." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 1, 2008	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)	n/a
B	"An intelligent and restrained adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's autobiographical novel with strong visual imagery that deservedly won the Cinematography Oscar for Freddie Francis." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Aug 1, 2008	Sons and Lovers (2002)	n/a
B+	"Despite compromises, a result of interference in director Demme's work, this fictional look at a Rosie the Riveter kind of woman displays a nice feminist perspective on WWII and terrific performances from Goldie Hawn and especially Christine Lahti." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 31, 2008	Swing Shift (1984)	100%
C+	"Well-intentioned and soft, this is yet another failed attempt to update the Capraesque (and Capracorn) political comedies of the Depression era. Do American films always have to reduce macro, real-politics to the micro, interpersonal level?" -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 31, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	40%
B-	"Jack Lemmon won the 1973 Best Actor Oscar in John Avildsen's Arthur Miller-like sentimental melodrama, in which he plays a bitter down-on-his-luck L.A. businessman who feels cheated by the American Dream." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 31, 2008	Save the Tiger (1973)	91%
B-	"By today's standards, Mervyn LeRoy's film is a kitschy spectacle, but in 1951, it was immensely popular and MGM spent its biggest budget to date for a star-driven production that shot for a whole year at Rome's Cinnecitta Studios." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 30, 2008	Quo Vadis (1951)	88%
B	"Boasting yet another shining performance from Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller's politically incorrect satire of Hollywood war-action movies is rude, crude, messy and sharply uneven, containing wildly funny sequences and uneventful ones in equal measure." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 30, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	84%
D+	"Fraser, one of the few actors who can play adventures, deserves better than this mishmash in which there are no ground rules and anything goes: East and West, myth and history, comedy and action, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, swords and guns." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 29, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	11%
B	"Adding another funny panel to his work, Apatow's wild blend of comedy, action (and dope) has other merits, showing that indie helmer Green can handle mainstream fare and displaying hilarious facets of McBride and James Franco after several somber films." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 29, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
C	"One of George Cukor's last (and least impressive) pictures, this version of Graham Greene's eccentric comedy is thematically similar to Auntie Mame but suffers from Maggie Smith's overly stylized turn and lack of rapport with Alec McCowen as her nephew." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 28, 2008	Travels With My Aunt (1972)	33%
A-	"The Blitz as a comedy: Changing pace, director John Boorman offers a warmly nostalgic view of his childhood in a London suburb during WWII; this lovely picture is everything that the schmaltzy and trivial Oscar-winner Mrs. Miniver is not." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Jul 28, 2008	Hope and Glory (1987)	95%

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