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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4/4	The Dark Knight
3.5/4	Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
3/4	Silence Before Bach, The
4/6	Walk to Beautiful, A
2.5/4	Praying with Lior
2/4	Step Up 2 the Streets
3/6	Never Forever
2..5/4	Wanted
1.5/4	The Eye
2/6	Praying with Lior
1/4	Meet the Spartans
0/4	The Hottie & the Nottie

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Dark Knight
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
	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	"[This] irresistible documentary about self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar is a portrait of a polite, church-going, thoroughly decent man who found his bliss training and trimming discarded plants into fantastical things of beauty." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 18, 2008	A Man Named Pearl (2008)	63%
3/4	"A frantic mother and a desperate criminal cross paths with devastating results in first-time writer and director Charles Oliver's emotionally charged drama." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 18, 2008	Take (2008)	50%
1.5/4	"With such an unconvincing center, all the air-kissing and second-hand glamour in the world can't make the film's mock-doc conceit hold." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Doorman (2008)	25%
3/4	"*The execution is masterful and even as you see the building blocks of the climax being put into place, it's a delight to watch them fit just so." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Transsiberian (2008)	85%
2.5/4	"Kilmer and Dorff, who was also an executive producer, immerse themselves in difficult roles and the film's overall air of social commitment will surprise viewers drawn in by its exploitation-movie promotion." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 18, 2008	Felon (2008)	56%
2/4	"*It's all eminently watchable, but feels more like the run up to a larky crime picture like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* than a serious documentary.*" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Jul 18, 2008	A Very British Gangster (2008)	67%
4/4	"Ledger's mesmerizingly damaged agent provocateur is the film's dark heart, a presence so malevolently unpredictable that it remains palpable even when he's not on screen." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
1.5/4	"It's familiar stuff if you've sampled the vast body of work devoted to LA-dammerung." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Garden of Allah (1936)	44%
2.5/4	"This dumbed-down spin on Jules Verne's classic adventure tale was devised as a kid-friendly roller-coaster ride, and it delivers the goods. Whether anyone over the age of eight wants the goods is another matter altogether." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
3/4	"The wonders are, if not endless, then abundant. And in a movie landscape where "effects" too often supersedes "special," wonders are worth savoring." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 10, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
	"An offbeat a comedy of discomfort." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 10, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	89%
2.5/4	"Gabriel and screenwriter Greg Latter tackle a thorny subject and do justice to its complexities for much of the film's running time, only succumbing to cliches of healing and closure at the end." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 9, 2008	Forgiveness (2004)	n/a
2.5/4	"Gil Junger's TV roots are revealed in his excessive reliance on close-ups and the cast's preponderance of TV actors." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 6, 2008	10 Things I Hate About You (1999)	57%
2.5/4	"Your high school English teacher would approve, and parts are terrifically enjoyable." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 4, 2008	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)	68%
3/4	"The film delivers the requisite twists and turns, along with car chases, gun fights and soup�on of thug life, Paris style." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 3, 2008	Tell No One (2008)	92%
2.5/4	"*Bollywood writer-director filmmaker Kunal Kohli's spin on Mary Poppins* is less cloying than its high proportion of cute orphans, adorable animals and fairy-dusted whimsy.*" -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Jul 3, 2008	Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (2008)	100%
2.5/4	"Proof that Hollywood no longer knows how to make that former staple, the women's picture." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 3, 2008	A Thousand Acres (1997)	24%
3/6	"This fly-on-the-wall doc about underage prostitution and the efforts of NYC outreach worker Rachel Lloyd to help girls leave the life is flawed but profoundly disturbing." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 2, 2008	Very Young Girls (2008)	70%
3/6	"It�s not too cloying for a movie about orphans, angels and cute pets; pray that Hollywood doesn�t buy the remake rights." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 2, 2008	Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (2008)	100%
2..5/4	"McAvoy delivers a strikingly nuanced performance as Wesley and Bekmambatov puts a high gloss on the increasing preposterous goings on, but in the end it's an idiot fable, all sound and fury signifying nothing." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
3/6	"Yes, it�s formulaic and shamelessly manipulative. But Zorrilla and Alexandre have chemistry to burn; only a hard heart could resist their bittersweet romance." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Elsa & Fred (2008)	58%
2.5/4	"It's dramatically unsatisfying." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 25, 2008	Full Grown Men (2008)	39%
2.5/4	"Stripped of a mediating point of view, the film is just a series of pretty pictures and awkwardly connected incidents." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 20, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	63%
2.5/4	"It's a light, silly instantly forgettable comedy peppered with action set-pieces and affectionate nods to its fondly remembered predecessor." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
3.5/4	"Carl Franklin's understated direction keeps the tears and life-affirming revelations from congealing into chicken shmaltz for the soul." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 18, 2008	One True Thing (1998)	89%
1.5/4	"Suffice it to say that it plays exceptionally badly in English." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 18, 2008	Knock Off (1998)	6%
2.5/4	"A shapeless homage to the glory that was Studio 54 in its decadent heyday..." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 18, 2008	54 (1998)	13%
3.5/4	"For every clich� embraced in its entirety, another is subverted just enough that you're pleasantly surprised." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 17, 2008	Dance With Me (1998)	46%
1.5/4	"Both silly and preachy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
3/6	"the director dodges the material�s great potential pitfall: Kohn never comes off as a dirty old man, just one who genuinely likes the ladies and who lives by the hard-won insight that human connection is life�s great buffer against despair." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Love Comes Lately (2008)	60%
2.5/4	"*Like The Buena Vista Social Club, to which it has been compared, the film's great strength is its performance footage." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted Jun 6, 2008	On the Rumba River (2008)	83%
3/4	"Veteran documentary filmmaker Nina Davenport parses an ill-conceived experiment in cross-cultural understanding that began with the best intentions." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 6, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	96%
1.5/4	"A crude, artless bogey tale. Attempts to position it as a camp masterpiece are misguided and condescending," -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 6, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	51%
3/4	"Beautifully animated, the celebrity voice performances are terrific, and the action sequences negotiate the fine line between being physically convincing and becoming too intense for the young children who are the film’s primary audience." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
	"Sadly lacking in the baroque atmosphere and visual aesthetic that elevated Argento above the horror hacks." -- Film Journal International Posted Jun 5, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	51%
2/6	"It�s cute, familiar and forgettable." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	The Go-Getter (2008)	40%
2/4	"Occasionally funny, but all too often driven by the juvenile conviction that anything even remotely connected with homosexuality is riotously funny..." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 2, 2008	Dirty Work (1998)	15%
3/4	"Yes, it's sappy. It's also silly, utterly unironic, a sketch stretched out to feature length, and, if you're in the right mood, pretty darned cute." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 1, 2008	The Wedding Singer (1998)	67%
2.5/4	"A light, formulaic romantic comedy that plays with genre conventions just enough to make its cotton-candy charms feel almost fresh." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 30, 2008	Kiss the Bride (2008)	33%
2.5/4	"It's an uneasy mix, and not an entirely successful one. But the film is flat-out gorgeous and contains moments of sheer lunacy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 30, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	62%
2.5/4	"The filmmaking is rough around the edges, but the dialogue is dead on, McBride, Hill and Best nail their characters (it would be easy to assume they're just playing themselves) and the stunts are uncomfortably convincing." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 30, 2008	The Foot Fist Way (2008)	58%
3/4	"There's nothing more to it than meets the eye, but Bertino understands the mechanics of suspense and knows how to use them." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 30, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
3/4	"The cast is uniformly excellent -- particularly the relentlessly effervescent Posey and the imperious Sasha von Scherler, the director's mother -- and the modern take on old-fashioned romantic comedy is surprisingly effective." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 27, 2008	Party Girl (1995)	75%
2/4	"The trouble with this satirical take US involvement in Iraq, penned by Mark Leyner, John Cusack and Jeremy Pikser, is that the real thing is equally absurd and only marginally less funny." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 23, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
1.5/4	"*Fearlessness isn't inherently funny: Postal's touches of wit are lost in the flying body parts, gross-out gags, and the full frontal spectacle of Foley's no-longer-private parts." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide* Posted May 23, 2008	Postal (2008)	9%
3/4	"The overall effect is either exhilarating or exhausting, depending on your emotional investment in the franchise, but credit where credit is due: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas set out to make one for the fans and delivered." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 21, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
2/4	"Amiable but toothless..." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 21, 2008	George of the Jungle (1997)	53%
2.5/4	"Kilmer slips in and out of a series of ludicrously elaborate disguises, some more convincing than others, while poor Shue shuffles through the role of a sexy, book-reading babe pretending to be a dowdy lady scientist in kneesocks." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 20, 2008	The Saint (1997)	30%
2.5/4	"It's refreshingly non-violent, unflashy, not smart alecky and mercifully free of insipid songs." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 20, 2008	Doug's 1st Movie (1999)	30%
2/4	"Some fans will be pleased, others annoyed and endless online discussion will be generated, while X virgins will most likely wonder what all the fuss is about." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 19, 2008	The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)	64%

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