ROTTEN TOMATOES: G. Allen Johnson

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Hukkle
3.5/4	Watermarks
4/5	Hero
3/4	Millennium Mambo
2.5/4	Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
2/4	The Big Animal
1.5/4	Marrying the Mafia
1/4	Porn Theater
0/4	The Singing Forest

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Up The Yangtze
4/4	Deep Water
4/4	Offside
4/4	Mafioso
4/4	Linda Linda Linda
4/4	Tazza: The High Rollers
4/4	China Blue
4/4	Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
4/4	Mutual Appreciation
4/4	Three Times
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	The Tiger and the Snow
0/4	Eternal
0/4	15
0/4	Gozu
0/4	The Singing Forest
1/4	Lost in Beijing
1/4	Weirdsville
1/4	Trade
1/4	Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
1/4	In Debt We Trust
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Genre: # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
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3/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 1, 2008	Come Drink With Me ()	n/a
3/4	"A strong addition to the burgeoning canon of China's so-called Sixth Generation filmmakers." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 20, 2008	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	88%
3/4	"Woman on the Beach, perhaps [director Hong's] most accessible film (and often a funny one, too), is a good introduction, even if it is not a masterpiece. Here's hoping more of his films see the light of an American day." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 20, 2008	Woman on the Beach (2008)	88%
4/4	"*What Chinese Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang achieves in his documentary Up the Yangtze* is remarkable.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 13, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2008)	95%
2/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 20, 2008	Dangerous Crossing (1953)	n/a
3/4	"*Never has destruction looked more beautiful than the demolished buildings in Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life." -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted May 9, 2008	Still Life (2008)	91%
1/4	"Begins with a wild coincidence and goes rapidly downhill from there, becoming one of the most unintentionally hilarious tragedies in quite some time." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 18, 2008	Lost in Beijing (2008)	47%
3/4	"Though made in 2006, its American release could not have been better timed." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 21, 2008	Summer Palace (2008)	65%
2/4	"This is lesser Chow because there is less Chow." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 7, 2008	CJ7 (2008)	45%
2/4	"Feels like a vanity project, or worse, like homework." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 15, 2008	Tre (2008)	53%
3/4	"There is good writing here, and Thomas is very good as always, but the movie works because of Harrelson's performance." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 14, 2007	The Walker (2007)	52%
2.5/4	"Joe Swanberg's film wears out its welcome about halfway through its 83 minutes." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 30, 2007	Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)	66%
3/4	"This Christmas is not your typical family holiday movie, and thank goodness for that. It's warm, witty and alive, with a fantastic cast and a belief in its characters that transcends its formulaic tendencies." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 21, 2007	This Christmas (2007)	54%
2/4	"*All inspiring stuff, but Music Within* is strictly by the numbers, even down to the predictable mood-setting period soundtrack numbers*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Oct 26, 2007	Music Within (2007)	31%
1/4	"One of the most unlikable films of the year." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 19, 2007	Weirdsville (2007)	56%
3.5/4	"A solid, well-done and seemingly balanced look at Moore's work, his celebrity, his methods and the ethical problems in his reporting." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 12, 2007	Manufacturing Dissent (2007)	52%
2/4	"Garlin's directing has little pacing, and many of the borderline gags could have been salvaged with some sharper editing. And there's a shocking amount of jokes and situations that just don't work." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 5, 2007	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007)	74%
2.5/4	"Quirky with a capital Q..." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 5, 2007	The Taste of Tea (2004)	100%
1/4	"Other than showing how a trafficking pipeline might work, Trade is a total misfire, a strange attempt at making a buddy movie featuring a morose Kevin Kline and a 17-year-old Mexican boy looking for his kidnapped sister." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 28, 2007	Trade (2007)	27%
3/4	"*There are worse ways to spend two hours with your children, and The Game Plan, in trying to please everybody, fairly much succeeds." -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Sep 28, 2007	The Game Plan (2007)	27%
2/4	"......often less than compelling." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 28, 2007	Angels in the Dust (2007)	82%
3/4	"Exiled is creative and bizarre, maybe too bizarre, but since most action films adhere to a cookie-cutter formula, its quirkiness is most welcome." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 7, 2007	Exiled (2007)	81%
4/4	"One of this year's better studies of the human soul." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 7, 2007	Deep Water (2007)	96%
3/4	"Though the script and storytelling could have used more polish, Lapica's honesty provides the lasting impression." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 31, 2007	Self-Medicated (2007)	35%
3/4	"There have been several documentaries about the Dalai Lama, but few have done a better job of packaging the Tibetan religious leader's circumstances, both historical and current, along with his philosophies, than 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 30, 2007	10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2007)	77%
3/4	"This oddball story is more than a one-joke concept. Its characters are sometimes cruel, sometimes sweet, but always recognizably human." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 11, 2007	Adam's Apples (2007)	71%
4/4	"*Although its message is deadly serious, Offside* is almost lighthearted, filled with wit and winning characters.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 20, 2007	Offside (2006)	95%
3.5/4	"A story that needed to be told." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 13, 2007	Journey From The Fall (2007)	92%
4/4	"If you crossed Meet the Parents with The Godfather and filmed it 45 years ago in Italian, you might come close to Mafioso, a black-and-white gem from 1962 whose appearance in local theaters is inexplicable but most welcome." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 13, 2007	Mafioso (1962)	96%
4/4	"An extremely well-written, emotionally complex coming-of-age tale that has a John Hughesian respect for teenage angst." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 7, 2007	Linda Linda Linda (2006)	78%
3/4	"A straightforward, breezy 77-minute documentary on the Japanese Zen master that, although it seems to be made for television and isn't particularly cinematic, does the job." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 30, 2007	Zen Life - D.T. Suzuki (2007)	n/a
1.5/4	"It harks back to those sand-and-sandals epics of the 1950s and '60s, with an international cast speaking in awkwardly dubbed English." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 30, 2007	Nomad (The Warrior) (2007)	7%
3/4	"A good-looking, relatively ambitious movie that respects and enhances [sci-fi writer] Kuttner's vision." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 23, 2007	The Last Mimzy (2007)	53%
4/4	"It's a ton of fun, a totally irresistible tale of gambling, greed, love and violence. With gorgeous actors, designer clothes and thrilling action, it's fast-moving (even at 2 hours, 20 minutes) popcorn entertainment." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 23, 2007	Tazza: The High Rollers (2006)	n/a
3/4	"Watching Jonathan Berman's affectionate documentary, Commune, about the influential establishment in Siskiyou County, brought to mind the recent documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 23, 2007	Commune (2006)	95%
3/4	"The film version, like many concert films, is probably not as captivating as the live event, but the end note of 'hope,' 'We Arm the World,' ... couldn't be any funnier." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 26, 2007	I Wanna Be a Republican (2007)	n/a
4/4	"*The most heartbreaking, moving film in theaters right now is not Babel, Letters From Iwo Jima* or Little Children. It is China Blue, a documentary about sweatshop workers at a denim factory.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jan 19, 2007	China Blue (2005)	100%
1/4	"Loaded with silliness and eye candy." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 5, 2007	Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006)	43%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 30, 2006	The Tiger and the Snow (2006)	17%
0/4	"This film, one of the worst of 2006, almost has to be seen to be believed -- a comedy about a man who goes to Iraq, and, amid a string of comic misadventures, tries to save the life of his love, who has been gravely wounded in a bombing." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 29, 2006	The Tiger and the Snow (2006)	17%
3/4	"You don't have to know anything about the sport of cricket to be charmed by Wondrous Oblivion, a British film that is finally getting a well-deserved theatrical release after opening the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in 2004." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 22, 2006	Wondrous Oblivion (2006)	65%
2/4	"If nothing else, this breezily entertaining fable ups the ante on depicting modern communication. I haven't seen a film that has more characters online or on a cell phone or both." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 8, 2006	Train Man (2005)	100%
2/4	"The scenery is marvelous, but Belic is a bit too admiring of his subjects." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 1, 2006	Beyond the Call (2008)	56%
2/4	"If the film proves anything, it's that people don't shock as easily as they did in Waters' heyday." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 1, 2006	This Filthy World (2006)	85%
2.5/4	"If nothing else, [director Thom] Fitzgerald has demonstrated how huge a challenge the AIDS epidemic is on a worldwide scale, and how it will take a concerted, intelligent effort to solve it. It'll take a lot more than throwing money around." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 1, 2006	3 Needles (2006)	35%
3/4	"[Director] Longley shows a poetic, almost elegiacal artistry. After two years, he might not understand the Iraqi people fully, but they have won his heart and mind." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 10, 2006	Iraq in Fragments (2006)	91%
1/4	"*Unfortunately, there isn't much insight into this possible bleak future, nor is there anything new in this 89-minute film, which plays more like an episode of 20/20* or Dateline NBC.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Nov 10, 2006	In Debt We Trust (2006)	n/a
2/4	"This is an ugly film, but with an undeniable allure." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 10, 2006	Cocaine Cowboys (2006)	69%
4/4	"One of the year's most important documentaries, a real must-see." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 3, 2006	Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)	94%
3/4	"*Perhaps The Motel* meanders a bit too much -- hard to do in a 76-minute film -- but it is an engaging little movie.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Oct 20, 2006	The Motel (2006)	87%

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