ROTTEN TOMATOES: Maitland McDonagh

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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3.5/4	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
3/4	Southland Tales
4/6	Walk to Beautiful, A
2.5/4	How to Cook Your Life
2/4	Saawariya
3/6	Never Forever
1.5/4	Tony N' Tina's Wedding
2/6	Praying with Lior
1/4	Revolver
0/4	The Hottie & the Nottie

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Ringu
4/4	In the Shadow of the Moon
4/4	Zodiac
4/4	Pan's Labyrinth
4/4	Volver
4/4	The Departed
4/4	Blood Tea and Red String
4/4	Somersault
4/4	King Kong
4/4	Pride and Prejudice
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	The Hottie & the Nottie
0/5	Vulgar
1/5	A Sound of Thunder
1/5	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
1/5	Stealth
1/5	King's Ransom
1/5	Nowhere Man
1/5	Cursed
1/5	Boogeyman
1/5	Fascination
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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3/4	"*German writer-director Christian Petzold transforms the classic American cult movie Carnival of Souls* into a bleak drama about soul-sucking alienation in the reunited Germany.*" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted May 16, 2008	Yella (2008)	82%
3/4	"The combination of David Duchovny's wry narration and the genuine charm of Greenwald's subjects is pretty tough to resist." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 16, 2008	Quantum Hoops (2007)	78%
3/4	"Chockablock with intense battle sequences and suffused with a sense of paradise lost, Prince Caspian is a worthy successor to The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 16, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	69%
1.5/4	"This shotgun marriage of coarse laughs and low-rent action cliches is, of course, utterly predictable: Cutting-edge comedy isn't lurking under the corpses of old TV shows." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 15, 2008	McHale's Navy (1997)	4%
2/4	"Bhoothnath never finds a comfortable balance between broad comedy and the bittersweet relationship between Nath and Banku, each of whom fills a void in the other's existence." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 14, 2008	Bhoothnath (2008)	n/a
3.5/4	"The story is rooted in real feelings and relationships, and parents will find as much to enjoy as children." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 12, 2008	Paulie (1998)	63%
2/4	"A little...have gone a long way to offsetting the film's sticky sweetness." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	A Previous Engagement (2008)	35%
2.5/4	"Though neither subtle nor particularly original, Gens' spin on the meat-movie classic has both nightmarish energy to spare." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	Frontier(s) (2008)	56%
3/4	"Director and co-writer Hazanavicius' comedy generally avoids broad jokes in favor of tweaking the conventions and attitudes of cold war-era spy thrillers just enough to bring their fatuous absurdities to the surface." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)	74%
3/4	"[Tarsem] Singh's visual sense is stunning, but he's also attuned to the darker corners of children's imaginations." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	The Fall (2008)	57%
1/4	"Kaufman runs a vaguely clever premise right into the toilet, both literally and metaphorically." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)	60%
3/4	"Few documentaries parse the complexities of family dynamics so effectively." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	Surfwise (2008)	100%
2.5/4	"Walker's histrionic voice-over meditations on guilt, destiny and life's fundamental injustice are painfully juvenile, but the film overall oozes an all-too-convincing atmosphere of despair, resignation and bitter self loathing." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	Vice (2008)	40%
2.5/4	"A resolutely old fashioned story of personal tribulations played out against a backdrop of political turmoil, Sivan's film is well acted, beautifully photographed and oddly reassuring." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	38%
2/4	"It's kind of cool, but it's also more than a little like being trapped in a pinball machine while being asked to feel the Racer family's pain for the better part of two hours." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	34%
2.5/4	"Amateurish, badly acted and shot on the cheap (many sequences don't even have sync sound), this cult item features a 40-minute car chase (almost half the film's running time) that's nothing short of breathtaking." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 6, 2008	Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)	33%
3/4	"Informative and thoroughly engaging." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 2, 2008	Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)	100%
3/4	"First-timers Milner and Poulter are engagingly unaffected and convey a real sense of the explosive joy the right movie at the right time can spark, along with the fierce desire to make it your own." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 2, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	77%
2.5/4	"Inspired by his interest in mixed martial arts, Mamet's ode to the samurai spirit quickly bogs down in coincidence-driven plotting that's only partially offset by a colorful cast of supporting characters." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 1, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
3/4	"Robert Downey, Jr.'s effortlessly nuanced performance as Tony Stark is a dark delight that combines pop-culture wit and genuine emotional depth." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
3/4	"A nutty, ridiculously entertaining neo-noir pastiche with lavish musical numbers." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 30, 2008	Tashan (2008)	n/a
2.5/4	"Their increasingly colorful, elaborate and large signatures sparked heated debate: Was graffiti an emerging art, a legitimate form of social criticism or vandalism pure and simple?" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 25, 2008	Bomb It (2008)	85%
2.5/4	"It's a b-movie lark that aspires to something more and falls short, and the less you expect in the way of believability, the more enjoyable it is." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
2.5/4	"Hurwitz and Schlossberg's sensibilities are coarse, juvenile, lewd, relentlessly tasteless and sometimes surprisingly perceptive when it comes to the glorious variety of racial stereotyping. The film isn't subtle but it can be funny." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 25, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	56%
2/4	"It's sad to see such subtle, wrenchingly emotional work expended on such trifling material." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	22%
2.5/4	"The message is wrapped in facile video-game imagery, snarky commentary and simplistic sequences in which Spurlock enjoys the hospitality of Muslim families who decry terrorism and remind him that the Koran preaches hospitality and confidence." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 18, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	36%
2.5/4	"On its own low-bar terms, it delivers the goods: pole-dancing, gut-chomping and Jenna J." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 18, 2008	Zombie Strippers (2008)	36%
2.5/4	"The unfortunate fact is that it's more than a little dull when it isn't preposterous." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 18, 2008	Anamorph (2008)	27%
1/4	"Might have made an entertainingly direct-to-DVD B-movie thriller with the courage of its sleazy convictions. But expectations are different for a theatrical feature starring Al Pacino, and by those standards it's a preposterous misfire." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 17, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
3/4	"Chan is terrific in a familiar role and Li is right at home in the role of the warrior monk, though less so as the Monkey King; cheeky humor isn't his forte. But to see the two of them on screen together, even past their primes, is a delight" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
No Rating	"It gets off to a grating start, but this slight comedy eventually finds its feet and delivers a holiday-themed package made up in equal parts of mild laughs and sweet-as-sweet-can-be sentiment." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 16, 2008	I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998)	18%
2.5/4	"The first half is dumb kid stuff, but the second is classic melodrama aimed straight at viewers who've experienced life's cruel caprices and taken stock of what really matters." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 16, 2008	U Me Aur Hum (2008)	n/a
2.5/4	"A real-life soap opera you can feel sophisticated for watching -- after all, it's really about globalization, even if broken hearts and family dysfunction occupy center stage." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 11, 2008	Young & Restless in China (2008)	73%
2.5/4	"What it lacks in objectivity, it makes up for in vivid intimacy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 11, 2008	Bra Boys (2008)	77%
2/4	"Formulaic to the core." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 11, 2008	Prom Night (2008)	9%
2/4	"*Everything that worked brilliantly in L.A. Confidential* and Dark Blue falls flat here.*" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
3/6	"Writer-director Gina Kim channels Douglas Sirk by way of Korean tearjerkers of the 1960s in this overheated melodrama." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008	Never Forever (2008)	92%
3.5/4	"Spacey's Vincennes is the standout in a just about flawless ensemble, and director Curtis Hanson keeps the hugely complicated story zooming along the boulevard of broken dreams without losing sight of the details that make the trip worthwhile." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 9, 2008	L.A. Confidential (1997)	99%
3/4	"Though the material is familiar, [director Celine] Sciamma has a light touch and avoids many teen-movie cliches. Her girls aren't hyperverbal -- in fact, they're the opposite, guarded and always listening for cues before they reveal themselves in words." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 4, 2008	Water Lilies (2007)	84%
3/4	"A vivid record of the aging rockers' ability to put on a great show -- not a great show for a bunch of guys in their sixties, but a great show, period -- and Scorsese's canny use of archival footage makes it more than a mere concert film." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 3, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
2/4	"Director and star George Clooney's game attempt to capture the high-spirited silliness of classic screwball comedies falls flat, in large part because Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly's screenplay lacks sparkle." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 3, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
2.5/4	"The bad news is that it's a one-joke picture." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 1, 2008	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)	67%
2/4	"Just a series of character skits, some charming and others tedious." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 28, 2008	Backseat (2008)	8%
2.5/4	"Polished but oddly lifeless heist thriller." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 28, 2008	Flawless (2007)	62%
2/4	"The film's 85 minutes drag by painfully slowly, because there's no respite from Chapman's tedious, self-pitying reveries." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 28, 2008	Chapter 27 (2008)	21%
2.5/4	"The end result is still utterly predictable, thoroughly disposable and less true than truthy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 28, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
2.5/4	"This ode to the allure of clipping suckers and psyching out the competition is richly atmospheric but thin in the character department." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 25, 2008	Rounders (1998)	64%
2/4	"Is it dumb? You bet. Is it funny? Sporadically." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 25, 2008	Baseketball (1998)	41%
2/4	"Atlanta-based playwright-turned-entertainment mogul Tyler Perry's fourth feature may be his most awkwardly plotted, clich�-ridden effort to date." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 24, 2008	Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)	30%
3/4	"Ochiai directs with calm assurance -- no eyeball-rattling quick cuts here -- and Dawson's screenplay preserves most of the original script's strengths and fixes a couple of weaknesses." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 22, 2008	Shutter (2008)	9%

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