ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jim Slotek

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Letters From Iwo Jima
4.5/5	Gone Baby Gone
4/5	Happy Feet
3.5/5	The Good German
3/5	For Your Consideration
2.5/5	Daddy's Little Girls
2/5	The Return
1/5	Deck the Halls
0.5/5	Kickin' It Old Skool

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Letters From Iwo Jima
5/5	The Believer
4.5/5	Juno
4.5/5	Gone Baby Gone
4.5/5	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
4.5/5	United 93
4.5/5	Capote
4.5/5	Downfall
4.5/5	Phone Booth
4.5/5	Narc
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Jackass: The Movie
0.5/5	Prom Night
0.5/5	All Hat
0.5/5	Kickin' It Old Skool
0.5/5	Spymate
.5/5	Taxi
.5/5	House of the Dead
1/5	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
1/5	In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
1/5	Fred Claus
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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2/5	"As refreshing as it is to see an entire 'genre' film without a single CG effect -- because they obviously couldn't afford one -- Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer doesn't bring much to the monster party to justify itself." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 25, 2008	Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008)	50%
3/5	"It's all rather unaffecting." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 25, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	71%
2.5/5	"Any episode of Six Feet Under had more sharp, mordant wit and freewheeling derangement than you'll find in Just Buried." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 25, 2008	Just Buried (2007)	33%
2/5	"Very disappointing. If this were a series episode, it wouldn't be in the top-20." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 25, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
3.5/5	"It is pure silliness, illogic, and unpredictable deviant behaviour played out at a pitch that achieves a kind of joyful note." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	52%
3.5/5	"More than the question of whether the mainstream religions can ever accept homosexuality, Jihad For Love shines a light on religious devotion, a powerful thing for some, even in the face of persecution and death." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 18, 2008	Jihad for Love (2008)	81%
3.5/5	"It makes for a taut little horror story, in which the 'monster' is not identifiable by horns or fangs." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 18, 2008	Stuck (2008)	71%
4/5	"Reading his books will give you better insight, but it's hard to imagine a better primer into Thompson's outlaw life." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 18, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	86%
2.5/5	"*With cheapie effects and a barrage of monkey puns, Space Chimps* is too often content with only going halfway.*" -- Jam! Movies* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Space Chimps (2008)	37%
2.5/5	"A non-movie that whisks its premise by you with a perfunctoriness that suggests you've been standing in line with cranky kids for an hour in the hot Florida sun, so let's get to it. Even in the era of short attention spans, it is slight." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
1/5	"If someone believes in the Tooth Fairy, can they complain about not being taken seriously at dental school?" -- Jam! Movies Posted Jun 27, 2008	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)	8%
4/5	"A dryly hilarious picture." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jun 20, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	97%
3/5	"When the comedy is short of sublime, it is more often sophomorically silly (and I'll confess right here to a weakness for horrible puns, though your mileage may vary)." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	15%
4/5	"It is, in short, a 'funny because it's true' comedy for adults, a potentially commercial film of the sort we should be making in this country. It has a sense of joy. No one in it ever contemplates suicide." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jun 13, 2008	Young People Fucking (2008)	80%
3/5	"In the end, Finn's Girl is a watchable story that grows on you, despite the heaviness of its good intentions." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jun 6, 2008	Finn's Girl (2008)	n/a
3/5	"Seems to have sprung from a how-to-get-to-Sundance template, with a framework plot that serves as a mere Christmas tree on which to hang baubles of quirk." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Go-Getter (2008)	40%
2.5/5	"It is overly heavy -- at least an hour-and-a-half of its two-and-a-half-hour running time is spent with its heroine in abject heartbreak and depression, and that's when her friends aren't experiencing same." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 30, 2008	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
3.5/5	"The Strangers is nothing fancy, though for a first-timer, Bertino paints a nice claustrophobic picture and knows what to do with the dark." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 30, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
3/5	"A movie that draws you in." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 23, 2008	This Beautiful City (2008)	n/a
2/5	"In short, we have a trainwreck of a comedy that goes on far longer than you'd care to watch an actual trainwreck, trying too hard to be offensive the entire time and delivering its jokes with the timing of a 2-year-old with a mixing spoon and a soup-pot." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 23, 2008	Postal (2008)	9%
3/5	"*Who knows? You might be in the mood for a slowly unspooling objet d'art filmique with flashes of brilliance in composition and framing. Or you might want to see Iron Man* again.*" -- Jam! Movies* Posted May 16, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	78%
3.5/5	"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian represents a moody, action-packed flashpoint in the arc of Narnia." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 16, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
3.5/5	"Son of Rambow is too lighthearted a movie to seriously play buzzkill with the audience's good time. And feature film first-timers Milner and Poulter play off each other so smoothly, they could be the Coen brothers as schoolboys." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 9, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
3.5/5	"Redbelt, David Mamet's characteristically sinister take on the mixed-martial arts craze, is like a noir, grownup version of The Karate Kid or of the recent featherweight teen MMA drama Never Back Down." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
3.5/5	"If imaginative presentation is Standard Operating Procedure's biggest fault (and it does arguably create a dispassionate tone, ill-befitting an atrocity), it does make two hours of talking heads easier to absorb." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 2, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
4/5	"It is light, rather than heavy metal, marked by invigorating war-machine FX and a smart and subtle acting performance, at least by the standards of this genre." -- Jam! Movies Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
2.5/5	"The ongoing corporatization of war is definitely ripe for satire of Catch-22 calibre. One hopes others will rise to the bait and hit the target dead centre." -- Jam! Movies Posted Apr 25, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
2/5	"Predictable double-cross piles on predictable double-cross, leading to a conclusion so shocking, you could have knocked me over with a wrecking ball." -- Jam! Movies Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
3.5/5	"*Nothing matches your first time, but Escape From Guantanamo* is still a liberating low humour experience.*" -- Jam! Movies* Posted Apr 25, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
4/5	"Funny and achingly sad." -- Jam! Movies Posted Apr 18, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	88%
3.5/5	"[Director Balthazar] has made a vivid little film about bullying and cyber-bullying, and done a remarkable job of opening up the head of a silent witness." -- Jam! Movies Posted Apr 18, 2008	Ben X (2007)	86%
3.5/5	"The writing is sharp throughout, and the interplay -- particularly when the two couples finally stake their battle lines -- is juicy and believable." -- Jam! Movies Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
0.5/5	"*Even for the low expectations of this genre, Prom Night* is gob-smackingly stupid.*" -- Jam! Movies* Posted Apr 14, 2008	Prom Night (2008)	8%
2/5	"The worst movie of Jodie Foster's adult career, Nim's Island is as big a mess as you might expect from a movie with four credited writers (which means there were probably more) and two directors, all at apparent cross-purposes." -- Jam! Movies Posted Apr 4, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	49%
3/5	"A movie that is smartly written, boasts plenty of funny lines and rides hard on Pegg's ability to look and act like the most stoically put-upon person on the planet." -- Jam! Movies Posted Mar 28, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
3/5	"Married Life is a sumptuously shot homage to the spirit of noir. It is enjoyably sour for its own sake and not dependent on a gruesome payoff (in fact, it sets up a few that pointedly don't come to pass)." -- Jam! Movies Posted Mar 21, 2008	Married Life (2008)	57%
2.5/5	"*As middling mock-docs go, I'll put The Grand* ahead of that paintball one (Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story) and Bob Saget's Farce Of The Penguins. And then I'll fold.*" -- Jam! Movies* Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Grand ()	39%
2/5	"*The weak Drillbit Taylor* is doubly disappointing -- it's one of Wilson's worst movies, and it's the first big mis-step for the Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen freight-train.*" -- Jam! Movies* Posted Mar 21, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
3/5	"City of Men at times seems like City of God-lite, which, mind you, still provides for some heavy moments." -- Jam! Movies Posted Feb 29, 2008	City of Men (2008)	76%
3.5/5	"There are great swaths of plot in Charlie Bartlett that seem unlikely. And yet, there's a likability to the character and a fair bit of thought to the premise and execution that make it one of the better teen movies in recent years." -- Jam! Movies Posted Feb 22, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
4/5	"Eran Kolirin's insightful little film -- about a starched band of cop-musicians whose travel plans go awry -- is more than about what happens when ostensible enemies get to know each other." -- Jam! Movies Posted Feb 15, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
2.5/5	"*Every new Romero film is an occasion for me. But he looks too much like a follower with Diary* -- several years behind the pace at that.*" -- Jam! Movies* Posted Feb 15, 2008	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	60%
2.5/5	"A mildly entertaining rom-com with obvious flaws, with nowhere near the out-of-the-candy-box approach to romance it purports to have." -- Jam! Movies Posted Feb 14, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
3.5/5	"The effects, the pacing, the mood and the stunningly professional job the ubiquitous child actor Freddie Highmore does playing utterly different twins are enough to make you forget about what's not there." -- Jam! Movies Posted Feb 14, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
3.5/5	"[Director Julien Temple] stops short of hagiography, while exhaustively positing Strummer as one of the most important cultural figures of the 20th century." -- Jam! Movies Posted Feb 1, 2008	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	88%
3.5/5	"*A movie with a lot of pulled dramatic punches, Honeydripper* is still very likable. Its real attraction is real blues stars playing live with an energy that would float a much lesser movie than this.*" -- Jam! Movies* Posted Feb 1, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	68%
	"The plot pieces all fit together nicely, the acting is fair and the scary stuff is well executed." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jan 25, 2008	They Wait (2008)	40%
3/5	"Waiter is hardly the mindbender it thinks it is, and there is much potential in the premise that goes unfulfilled." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jan 25, 2008	Waiter (2006)	n/a
0.5/5	"One very tiny part racetrack-caper-movie, and nine parts lethargy, it is wrong in every way." -- Jam! Movies Posted Jan 25, 2008	All Hat (2007)	20%

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