ROTTEN TOMATOES: Harvey S. Karten

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A-	Love in the Time of Cholera
B+	Terror's Advocate
B	Rendition
B-	We Own The Night
C+	Sleeping Dogs Lie
C	The Heartbreak Kid
C-	Cloverfield
D	Semi-Pro

BEST REVIEWED
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A	The Illusionist
A	Thank You For Smoking
A	The Polar Express
A	Being Julia
A	Dogville
4/4	Winged Migration
4/4	Chicago
4/4	Road to Perdition
4/4	Amadeus
4/4	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial The 20th Anniversary
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Virgin
F	The Whole Ten Yards
0.5/4	Teddy Bears' Picnic
0.5/4	Bubble Boy
D	Semi-Pro
D	Smokin' Aces
D	Miami Vice
D	Strangers With Candy
D	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
D	Slither
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

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C+	"The original's novelty is lost in a movie that embraces too may battles." -- Compuserve Posted May 14, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	69%
B	"Isaac Bashevis Singer's spirit lives in the three, nicely interwoven stories." -- Compuserve Posted May 14, 2008	Love Comes Lately (2007)	n/a
B+	"Takes on the theme of 'Where is home'--the place where you were born or the locale of your residence--with freshness and sparkling acting." -- Compuserve Posted May 13, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	70%
C	"Even the adorable Ellen Page is entitled to perform in a dud." -- Compuserve Posted May 9, 2008	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	38%
B	"Good battle scenes across a Montana-like plains, impressive acting in the title role by a Japanese performer speaking Mongolian." -- Compuserve Posted May 8, 2008	Mongol (2008)	100%
	"The concept had potential, but the movie's broad approach (including a ridiculous turn by William Hurt as a mayor with a laughable dye job) drowns out its message." -- Film Journal International Posted May 8, 2008	Noise (2008)	48%
C+	"Choppy editing ruins the climactic moment of this Hebrew-language film about the ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem." -- Compuserve Posted May 7, 2008	My Father, My Lord (2006)	90%
B	"Too episodic but benefits from crackerjack acting and lush period photography." -- Compuserve Posted May 6, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	82%
B+	"Evokes a relationship so acidic between a couple of meter maids that the woman would probably feel better breathing in the acidic fumes outside than putting up with her man's insults." -- Compuserve Posted May 5, 2008	Expired (2007)	n/a
B	"Despite its predictability, the feature has enough satire and comedy to be entertaining." -- Compuserve Posted May 3, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
B	"More Downey-driven wit at the expense of some CGI would have made this pic even better." -- Compuserve Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
B	"Chief benefit of this film with its rapid editing and copious flashbacks is its mixture of levity and seriousness as Trier examines the lives of Norwegians just past their teens." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 30, 2008	Reprise (2008)	92%
B	"A valuable addition to the treasure-trove of Holocaust films--this one about a Greek gentile who saves a Polish Jew." -- Film Journal International Posted Apr 29, 2008	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	59%
B+	"Justifiably bleak, exquisitely acted drama of a Mexican teen who seeks his dad in New York only to find that a young man who befriended him claims to be the son." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 29, 2008	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	76%
C	"Visually sumptuous but marred by a fragmented tale." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 29, 2008	The Fall (2008)	57%
	"*Skolnik, who directs and scripted Without the King, brings vivid, highly critical life to this hapless country." -- Film Journal International* Posted Apr 25, 2008	Without the King (2007)	93%
B	"Debut director David Ross's provocative debut puts us squarely into the lives of financially strapped high school girls who find that the end (paying for college) justifies the means." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 24, 2008	The Babysitters (2008)	29%
B	"The satire is anything but nuanced in this zany comedy targeted to the 17-35 set, and that's just how its audience likes it." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 23, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	57%
B-	"As a spoof of a spoof the picture becomes repetitive and tiresome in spots but remains entertaining enough to deserve a visit." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 22, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)	76%
B	"Gags fall flat as many times as they sparkle, but the comic take on surrogate motherhood features some Saturday Night Live veterans that are having a good time and are eager to please their audience." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 21, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	60%
B+	"A Middle East primer for Americans who've been living in caves like Osama, delightfully juvenile entertainment for everyone else." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 20, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	36%
B	"Helen Hunt effectively combines comedy with melodrama in a story of a woman whose biological clock is ticking." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 17, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	55%
B+	"Director Lelouche has a ball playing games with the audience, tossing out red herrings, genre-bending with murder and romance." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 16, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	81%
B+	"Exquisitely acted story of a intersex teenage 15-year-old girl who will not commit herself to surgery to correct the duality of genitalia." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 15, 2008	XXY (2008)	71%
	"[A] harsh, frightening and stunning dissection of Church history." -- Film Journal International Posted Apr 15, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	75%
B+	"An engaging, sexy film the punctuates one of the many unusual ways that women today can become pregnant." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 14, 2008	Never Forever (2008)	92%
B+	"Makes political points via a fascinating tale of an unlikely friendship between people of vastly different cultures." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 14, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
B+	"The adept performances and sharp direction of this thriller allow the viewer to see the writer-director's point: that life in communist East Germany may have been preferable for some to the more prosperous existence in the West." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 12, 2008	Yella (2008)	79%
B	"A step down from "Superbad" and "Knocked Up," but still funny enough to be near-vintage Judd Apatow." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 11, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
C	"A dated, unfunny sex comedy." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 11, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	30%
	"Street Kings has a brisk pace and performers who look as though they wish they had brighter things to say." -- Film Journal International Posted Apr 10, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
	"A genuinely funny, intelligent, entertaining tale of a man on his way to becoming likeable, bland and borderline-insipid." -- Film Journal International Posted Apr 8, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
B	"Doesn't match the brilliance of Mike Judge's 'Office Space' but has enough amusing moments to merit your look." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 7, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	67%
A-	"A terrific documentary that hones in on the Israeli government's decision to forcibly evacuate 8,000 of its own citizens from Gaza." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 5, 2008	Unsettled (2008)	100%
B	"A heartwarming doc about the decades-long struggle to free Jews from Soviet oppression." -- Compuserve Posted Apr 4, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	91%
B+	"Chiwetel Ejiofor's powerful performance as a jiu-jitsu instructor steeped in the virtues of honor anchors David Mamet's intriguing film" -- Compuserve Posted Apr 2, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
B+	"A credible evocation of screwball comedies." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 31, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
C	"For special tastes: for others, the film is static, punctuating the harried life of a mother who frankly does not have much reason to be frazzled." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 27, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	78%
B+	"Director Peirce appears to view both rah-rah patriotism and a keen sense of cynicism at the same time." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 27, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
	"*What distinguishes Flawless* from other movies of the kind, unfortunately, is its absence of humor.*" -- Film Journal International* Posted Mar 27, 2008	Flawless (2007)	62%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Compuserve Posted Mar 26, 2008	The Favor (1994)	33%
B+	"The deck may not be the only cardboard character, but this re-telling of an actual event efficiently combines intellect with melodrama." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 24, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
B	"A tearjerker made credible by the director's patient pacing." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 22, 2008	The Favor (2006)	60%
C+	"The banal story serves as an excuse for some stylish, moody photography." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 20, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	49%
	"The entire film is just too low-key and bland to stir enthusiasm." -- Film Journal International Posted Mar 20, 2008	The Grand ()	42%
C	"There's vulgar funny ('Superbad,' 'Knocked Up') and vulgar unfunny. 'Drillbit' is the latter." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 20, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
B	"Girls just wanna have fun but the trio of adolescents in 'Water Lilies' have anxieties that act against that natural desire." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 19, 2008	Water Lilies (2007)	83%
B-	"A Holocaust movie with quite an original twist--about a tollbooth collector who imagines himself to be a survivor of Nazi horrors." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 19, 2008	The Memory Thief (2008)	83%
B+	"Though the humiliating treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib has been shown before, Errol Morris creatively uses re-enactments and animation to hammer home his points." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 13, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
B+	"A sentimental British sex comedy anchored by a delightful performance from Marianne Faithfull." -- Compuserve Posted Mar 12, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	72%

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