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+	Rocket Science
B	Evan Almighty
B-	1408
C+	Day Watch
C	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
C-	Nancy Drew
1/4	Charlie Bartlett
D	Redacted
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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C	" There's been far too much attention paid to physical and narrative detail, not enough to the dimensions of the characters." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Oct 10, 2008	City of Ember (2008)	47%
B	" Performances help hold the movie together -- Brown is solid, Quaid's natural charm takes the edge off Schwartzwalder's recalcitrance, and Omar Benson Miller chips in another charming supporting turn as Davis' best friend." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Express (2008)	64%
B	" Body of Lies moves so fast you don't notice its oddball structure." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	53%
B	" If timing is everything, there's no better time for Flash of Genius and its story of the Little Guy getting ripped off by Big Business." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Oct 2, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	58%
B-	" Leaves the viewer wondering how much more interesting the movie might have been had Maher picked on more people his own intellectual size." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Oct 2, 2008	Religulous (2008)	68%
C	" I, frankly, am too old for this. I did the all-night, bar-hopping, diner-at-dawn thing and, now, just watching it gives me a hangover." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Oct 2, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
C	" Sorely missing is a feeling of immediacy or urgency, undercut by bad dialogue and eye-rolling coincidence." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 25, 2008	Battle in Seattle (2008)	55%
C	" The Duchess fails to define either the personal or political dramas in an exciting way. It's a costume drama that gets the costumes right, but not the drama." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 25, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	60%
C-	" Eagle Eye promises to blow your mind with a big reveal, but my mind was already blown trying to enumerate just how many movies it rips off along the way." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 25, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
C+	" Preserves Palahniuk's acid humor and flair for the ridiculous, but fails to provide a complimentary look." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 25, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
C	" Towelhead is a curious, sometimes messy mixture of tensions that arise from racial, sexual situations." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 18, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	49%
B	" It's a consistently funny comedy that exactly captures Gervais' gift for playing self-centered jerks with a barely visible softer side." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 18, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	85%
B-	" A lurid finale and some late-game script weaknesses work to diminish a character that Jackson has worked hard to embellish." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 18, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	42%
C+	" *Aside from the novelty of two acting legends working together, Righteous Kill* plays like a pumped-up episode of Law and Order, with the lurid benefits of the R rating.*" -- Philadelphia Daily News* Posted Sep 12, 2008	Righteous Kill (2008)	23%
C	" This is a brave but futile endeavor." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	10%
B-	" As expected, the plot-savvy Coens find devilishly clever ways to link these disparate stories. They're less successful in finding a tone to connect them." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Sep 12, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
C	" The story is inoffensively wholesome, and there may be enough goofy antics to engage young, indiscriminate viewers, but the level of creativity in the animation is serviceable at best." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Aug 21, 2008	Fly Me To The Moon (2008)	17%
C-	" It's a tired brand -- designed for urban audiences who wish to be reassured of their broad-mindedness." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Aug 21, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
C	" School of Rock, Tenacious D and about million comedies of prolonged adolescence have stripped most of the bigger nuggets from this particular seam." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	36%
B-	" Stiller is on to something. In an age when self-reverence has made the Oscars all but unwatchable, Stiller pokes a sharp stick at Hollywood pomposity, with the precision of a guy who knows where to aim." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
C	" I felt like putting a bag over MY head." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Aug 8, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
B	" The story is designed to meander, but Green keeps the pace strong, building to an extended slapstick finale." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Aug 5, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
B+	" American Teen feels like truth, and it's still stranger than fiction." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 31, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
C-	" An example of the CGI movie run amok." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 31, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	13%
C	" If this is Everyman (and why else cast Costner?), he's enough to make you think twice about democracy." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 31, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	38%
C	" Intensely superfluous and annoying." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 25, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	32%
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)	55%
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)	53%
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)	20%
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)	67%
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)	88%
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)	62%
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)	79%
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)	73%
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)	52%
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)	18%
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)	35%
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 (2007)	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)	89%
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)	77%
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)	50%
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)	70%

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