ROTTEN TOMATOES: Gary Thompson

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	No Country for Old Men
A-	Ratatouille
B+	The Namesake
B	300
B-	Hot Fuzz
C+	Reign Over Me
C	Premonition
C-	Perfect Stranger
1/4	Severance
D	Georgia Rule
F	Daddy Day Camp

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Juno
A	No Country for Old Men
4/4	Letters From Iwo Jima
A	Shaun of the Dead
A-	WALL-E
A-	Superbad
A-	Transformers
A-	Ratatouille
A-	Mission: Impossible III
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Zombie Strippers
F	Daddy Day Camp
D	What Happens in Vegas
D	Deal
D	Deception
D	Funny Games
D	Mad Money
D	Revolver
D	Redacted
D	Georgia Rule
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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B	"*As Step Brother* plays out, the expected comedy about perma-boys Ferrell and Reilly blends with a borderline horror-movie about the poor parents who are stuck with them.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Jul 24, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	58%
C+	"*You may find that the movie version of Mamma Mia!* brings out your inner Simon Cowell.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Jul 17, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	54%
B	"Everything rides on the Joker's formidability as a villain who can carry that kind of weight. In his last role, Ledger makes us believe." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
C	"*It's enough to keep smaller kids amused, and the ugly vibe that plagued Norbit* is thankfully absent.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Jul 11, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	21%
C	"We've seen this nexus of teen drug dealer/disreputable shrink before (Charlie Bartlett). We've even seen Brian Cox ("Running With Scissors") chew more scenery (is that possible?) than Sir Ben in what is essentially the same role." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 10, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	64%
B-	"Hellboy has been compared to a '40s noir detective, and that's just about right. With his self-devised code of honor, bruised chivalry and slug-first-ask-questions-later style, he's Philip Marlowe with horns." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 10, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
B	"Even without the 3-D, it's a fast-moving, old-fashioned boys' adventure romp, built for short attention spans and maximum popcorn consumption." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 10, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
B-	"It's corny, but maybe it provides insight as to why American Girl stories are drawn from a nostalgia-tinged past." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 2, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	80%
C+	"*The strain of sadism that's crept into mainstream American movies eventually overtakes and undercuts Hancock, which should embarrass the filmmakers, who pay lip service here to gooey idealism." -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
A-	"WALL-E is probably the sweetest movie ever made about humans destroying the earth." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
B	"Fans of the Nightwatch series will recognize the curiously sour nature of the father-son storyline. Coupled with the blood and body count, it makes for a strangely bleak summer movie, but a welcome, offbeat 'B' for the strong of stomach." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
B+	"Mongol offers an absorbing study of how powerful men with an abiding mutual respect, even love, go about the culturally dictated process of destroying each other." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jun 19, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
C	"It might have worked had Get Smart simply dropped Carell into Don Adams' tapered suit. For the big screen, though, writers have tried to pump Max up and flesh him out, giving him a backstory that makes him more dimensional but somehow less appealing." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jun 19, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
C	"Director Steve Conrad probably counts on the natural likability of Scott and Reilly to make this comedy go down a little easier, but it doesn't always do the trick." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
C	"*There seem to be a lot of people gunning for Philadelphia's own M. Night Shyamalan, and The Happening* will give them more ammo.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
B-	"Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo removed the Do Not Open band from the jar of Terror jokes, and Zohan reaches in with greedy hands, adding Arab-Israeli jokes as well." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
B-	"It ain't pretty. It does, however, manage to achieve a kind of grisly pull that goes beyond mere exploitation." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jun 5, 2008	Stuck (2008)	71%
B	"A hero whose power is gluttony? I almost missed this part, because I was out in the lobby getting a bucket of popcorn and a 40-ounce soda, so I'll refrain from comment." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jun 5, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
C	"[This] fancy, arty, sometimes abstract inquiry (the movie stops to ponder the meaning of photography) into infamous events at the Iraqi prison feels a little flimsy next to the thorough, hard-nosed reporting of Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted May 23, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
B-	"*In the end, though, Crystal Skull* feels too much like a retrospective.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted May 21, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
B-	"I'd hate to live in a movie world that didn't make room for weird, imperfect little movies like this." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted May 16, 2008	Noise (2008)	52%
B	"Offers loads of action, an intriguingly creepy story and a roster of entertaining new characters." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
B	"Reasonably worthy MMA successor to classic downbeat boxing movies like The Set-up, and tells the same kind of truth - you do what you're told, or you're met in the alley by thugs who smash your hand with a brick." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
D	"What Happens In Vegas can be forwarded directly to the nominating committee of the Golden Raspberry Foundation." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted May 8, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	27%
C	"A 140-minute, candy-colored, empty-calorie extravaganza you have to be no more than 12 years old to enjoy." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
C	"The result isn't overacting -- some of the acting is quite good - but a failure of modulation. Big emotions can make a movie, but a succession of them can impede flow and stop a story in its tracks." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted May 2, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	54%
C	"You may find it dreamy, or you may simply be asleep." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted May 1, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
B+	"*You can enjoy Iron Man* (under two hours, if you skip the credits) without being one.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
D	"*A poker movie that has the dubious honor of being even worse than Lucky You." -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deal (2008)	0%
D	"*[I] was able to use my amazing powers of observation to deduce that McGregor's character was being set up. How, you ask? By taking note of the fact that the name of the movie is Deception." -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
F	"To say that this movie is repulsive is the height of understatement." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 24, 2008	Zombie Strippers (2008)	39%
B	"The Visitor is best enjoyed as a chance to see some new faces, or old faces like Jenkins', doing new things." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 24, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
C	"It wears you down, and maybe that's why the conclusion doesn't pack much of a punch." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 24, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
B-	"Baby Mama works best when it's centered on the Odd Couple chemistry of Poehler and Fey." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 24, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	62%
C-	"A documentary just as childish as the title suggests." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 18, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	35%
B	"Apatow, as usual, gives us what we want." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
C-	"The characters are furnished by novelist Mark Jude Poirier, but there's nothing rich or original about them." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 11, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
C	"*The script for Chaos Theory* must have been wrapped in Kevlar -- it's the only way to explain why it wasn't shot down at the pitch meeting.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Apr 10, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	29%
B+	"If you can get past Keanu as a tough guy and you're an action fan, you'll appreciate the lurid grandeur of the hard-charging Street Kings." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 10, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
C	"Jodie Foster isn't the first Oscar winner to be defeated by the deceptively simple demands of slapstick comedy. Only the most recent." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 4, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	49%
B-	"There's a subtlety to the filmmaking that's a refreshing change from the numbing obviousness of movies geared to the teen demo." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Apr 4, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
C	"Snow Angels does nothing to alleviate the pall of depression that hangs over American movies." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Mar 28, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	67%
C	"[21] devoted to the idea that beating Vegas is man's highest purpose." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Mar 28, 2008	21 (2008)	35%
B-	"*The Holllywood-Goes-to-Iraq movie has turned into something of a box office ghetto, but Stop-Loss* may be able to break out.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
C-	"The sort of flat-footed studio film that takes the basic ingredients of an underground hit, drains them of personality and style, and spits them out as a situation comedy." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Mar 28, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
C	"A girl abandoned by her mother, a father unable to offer anything but hatred to his own children -- these are narrative elements of potentially great force, but they play out here without much shape, definition or power." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Mar 21, 2008	Sleepwalking (2008)	19%
B	"If you can slow yourself down to the stately pace of 1950 (a whiskey sour or two might help), you might enjoy the offbeat Married Life." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Mar 21, 2008	Married Life (2008)	57%
B	"*The underdog sports movie and follow-your-dreams narrative gets an interesting makeover in Blindsight." -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Mar 14, 2008	Blindsight (2008)	97%
B-	"Stretched to 85 minutes and padded with action, the story often loses focus and resonance, and seems crammed with modernized material, as if Seuss' themes were insufficient." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Mar 14, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
D	"Haneke appears to assume that we want these bad guys punished, and constructs little tricks to frustrate our desires. But sitting through this airless theater of the depraved was enough punishment." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Mar 14, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	50%

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