ROTTEN TOMATOES: Paul Schrodt

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2/4	" Under a new name and equally aggressive ethnic branding, Austin Powers is alive again." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 19, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
2.5/4	" Surfwise tries to separate itself from the fray of political documentaries by not taking itself too seriously." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2008	Surfwise (2008)	98%
3/4	" Using title cards, interviews, and endless archival footage, Bialis is able to tie a very specific history to the course of 20th century upheaval." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	90%
3/4	" *The story of a boy and his toy, The Red Balloon* is widely praised for its narrative and visual "purity," but not enough is said about the movie's delightful manipulation.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 26, 2008	The Red Balloon (1955)	100%
2/4	" Jellyfish exists in a no man's land, adrift in vague, waterlogged abstractions on which the filmmakers can hang their characters' collective baggage." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2008	Jellyfish (2008)	87%
2.5/4	" Though it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 7, 2008	Fighting for Life (2008)	89%
2/4	" *As far as fable imports go, Bab'Aziz* is a step up from the Disney-grade moralism of Milarepa, but it's even less memorable.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Feb 8, 2008	Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)	57%
.5/4	" Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness is a movie every bit as cumbersome and trying as its title." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2008	Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2007)	60%
2/4	" Unanswered questions about Derrick's kids and Spanish-speaking mother abound, and their all-too-infrequent interactions point to a hard-knuckled realism about post-9/11 New York that begs to be seen." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jan 10, 2008	Liberty Kid (2007)	87%
2/4	" The most dispassionate account of the Holocaust in the last 20 years." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 22, 2007	Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)	86%
1.5/4	" *One look at Aaron Stanford's chain-smoking, long-haired musician in a Hanes t-shirt and you know Flakes* wants so badly to be hip.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Dec 17, 2007	Flakes (2007)	25%
1/4	" Naked Boys Singing! is the biggest waste of d*k since Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Oct 12, 2007	Naked Boys Singing (2007)	64%
2/4	" *True to its title, My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures* sees the world through its subject's childlike eyes.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 23, 2007	My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures (2007)	n/a
1.5/4	" The Jane Austen Book Club is pitched as The First Wives Club for coffeehouse intellectuals." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2007	The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)	65%
1/4	" Myths are more popular in the movies than ever, but unlike the Christian extravaganza of The Chronicles of Narnia, Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint won't be showing up on your kid's Netflix list." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2007	Milarepa (2007)	37%
3/4	" Honor�'s rambunctious filmmaking process is born truly in the moment." -- Slant Magazine Posted Aug 10, 2007	Dans Paris (2007)	60%
2.5/4	" Greengrass's latest plops on the screen with lots of hi-fi energy but, strangely, very little feeling." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2007	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	93%
3.5/4	" Gavras uses Anna's precocious reason to tackle a generation's idealism head-on." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 27, 2007	Blame it on Fidel (2006)	93%
1/4	" Laura Smiles teaches us that you can't escape misery, least of all in Jersey." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 27, 2007	Laura Smiles (2007)	47%
2/4	" Rescurrecting the Champ is a snooze." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 25, 2007	Resurrecting the Champ (2007)	60%
2/4	" The movie is a collection of disparate anime parts that never really comes together." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2007	Tekkon Kinkreet (2007)	72%
3.5/4	" *At its heart, Drama/Mex* is a story of people struggling to fulfill their roles, and the camera's forceful gaze is their confessional box.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 28, 2007	Drama/Mex (2007)	35%
3.5/4	" Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 23, 2006	Snake Eyes (1998)	41%
3.5/4	" De Palma's characterizations may not have the subtle tongue-in-cheek wit of Tom Wolfe, but his version of the story is both more comic and angrier for it." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 10, 2006	Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)	25%
3/4	" John Hughes was born in 1950 but connected deeply with the next generation's cultural brooding." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2006	Pretty in Pink (1986)	79%
2/4	" The message is clear: Love and protection comes with a white face and a big, black gun. His name is Michael Douglas." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2006	Romancing the Stone (1984)	85%
4/4	" Blow Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare." -- Slant Magazine Posted Aug 26, 2006	Blow Out (1981)	93%
.5/4	" *You might remember it from May when it starred Lindsay Lohan and was called Just My Luck." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Aug 19, 2006	Material Girls (2006)	4%
2.5/4	" Porterfield finds the rhythms of everyday life well enough, but he rarely grasps the key moments that make them art." -- Slant Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2006	Hamilton (2006)	80%
3/4	" Tough-as-nails and with a heavy British accent, director Paul Yule sometimes resembles a more famous BBC documentarian: Nick Broomfield." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 26, 2006	The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover (2006)	75%
3/4	" Reiss takes advantage of the contemporary rift between '70s-born freewheeling gay lifestyle and modern gay domesticity." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2006	Queer Duck: The Movie (2006)	n/a
1.5/4	" Munich this is not." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2006	The Color of Olives (2006)	40%
2/4	" Delicatessen uses its aggressive stylization and capricious visual contraptions as a form of imprisonment." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 21, 2006	Delicatessen (1991)	86%
1/4	" *The shallowness of female pop culture that Holofcener courageously tears down is just the thing Just My Luck* successfully re-perpetuate.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 17, 2006	Just My Luck (2006)	13%
1/4	" God bless her soul, Mo'Nique even stays believable as the story requires her to finally fall apart and hit a new self-hating low." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 10, 2006	Phat Girlz (2006)	24%
2/4	" Shoddy screenwriting devices simply pass the time for Whitney to sling hillbilly-isms at admirers of his stand-up comedy." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2006	Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)	6%
1.5/4	" "Trapped in the closet" fittingly describes Tyler Perry's lurid melodrama, in which characters repeatedly stumble onto others' dark secrets during living room chats." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2006	Madea's Family Reunion (2006)	27%
1.5/4	" The whole thing unravels like a long night of Trivial Pursuit." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2006	Date Movie (2006)	6%
1.5/4	" Goossen misuses recognizable names for dubious cameos and pushes eccentric side characters to uncomfortable parody." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jan 8, 2006	Grandma's Boy (2006)	16%
1/4	" *Do yourself a favor and rent a very campy Radio* instead.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Dec 26, 2005	The Ringer (2005)	40%
1.5/4	" Faris's parody of pop culture's vapid idols transcends the film's own brainless romantic plot." -- Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2005	Just Friends (2005)	43%
.5/4	" *After The Skeleton Key, another lifeless Deep South horror movie charting the myriad frights of costumed black people performing defense rituals." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 22, 2005	Venom (2005)	10%
.5/4	" *Like the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Showtime* and Taxi seemingly haunt every shot of Les Mayfield's shrill white cop/black cop buddy movie.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 12, 2005	The Man (2005)	11%
0.5/4	" Avis layers every sequence with pop singles and confuses poor camera focus and colored lighting for aesthetic flair." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 2, 2005	Undiscovered (2005)	6%

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