ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mike Russell

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Dave Chappelle's Block Party
A-	Russian Dolls
B+	CSA: The Confederate States of America
B	On A Clear Day
B-	Unknown White Male
C+	Aquamarine
C	Failure to Launch
C-	Basic Instinct 2
D	Hoot
F+	Southland Tales

BEST REVIEWED
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A	The Lookout
A	The Namesake
A	Black Snake Moan
A	The Fountain
A	Deliver Us From Evil
A	The Beauty Academy of Kabul
A	The Heart of the Game
A	Shakespeare Behind Bars
A	Dave Chappelle's Block Party
A-	Rocket Science
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F+	Southland Tales
D	Dan in Real Life
D	Hoot
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

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B	"A fascinating, beautifully acted study in philosophical tension." Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
C-	"*You know how some movies feel like they were made by a committee? What Happens in Vegas* feels like it was made by checklist.*" Posted May 9, 2008*	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	29%
C+	"I could just hear the producers in the board room, cigar smoke swirling around their fat heads as they barked into their speakerphones: "Those Hong Kong guys are too old! We need an American in here to capture the Western markets" Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
C+	"The humor tends toward the mildly crass -- bare buttocks and inappropriate scratching are Schwimmer's go-to comedy staples -- and the story is ridiculous." Posted Mar 28, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
b	"There is something, well, awesome about watching these vivid young women...get onstage after five days and ferociously sing earnest lyrics they wrote themselves." Posted Mar 7, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	73%
B+	"Best of all, Waters and his team remember to make the movie about human beings; like E.T., this is a story about dealing with absent fathers that happens to be filled with adventure and outlandish critters." Posted Feb 15, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
C	"*Should I immediately watch DVDs of The Departed* and The Shawshank Redemption to cleanse my palate?*" Posted Jan 11, 2008*	The Bucket List (2007)	40%
B	"Debaters is a real crowd-pleaser." Posted Dec 28, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	79%
B	"Doesn't produce belly laughs so much as steady smiles of recognition over how accurately it's nailing its target." Posted Dec 21, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	74%
F+	"The actors barely comprehend their lines. The pop-culture references are lame. Nearly every moment falls flat. And it's boring." Posted Nov 16, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	35%
B	"Surprisingly touching and humane, thanks to its restrained direction and strong performances and sweet-hearted script." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	80%
D	"Imagine what it would take to make an audience prefer Dane Cook over Steve Carell, then double it." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	64%
C	"*...About as silly as a Curb Your Enthusiasm* episode.*" Posted Oct 19, 2007*	Reservation Road (2007)	36%
B-	"...it's hard to argue with the movie's general good spirits." Posted Sep 28, 2007	December Boys (2007)	42%
C-	"It looks like Billy Bob Thornton has gotten to this lucrative W.C. Fields place in his career where he fills his coffers by playing endless variations on the same character." Posted Sep 14, 2007	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	13%
C-	"An ugly, stupid and meaningless thriller." Posted Aug 31, 2007	Death Sentence (2007)	17%
B+	"*It's Over the Top* via Nintendo, and it is stunning to behold.*" Posted Aug 24, 2007*	The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)	97%
A-	"A dry, vicious and deeply moving little comedy that sort of takes the structure of a teen sports movie, then undermines that structure at every turn." Posted Aug 17, 2007	Rocket Science (2007)	84%
C	"*Sporadically funny, but for the most part, Death* is just thoroughly modest.*" Posted Aug 17, 2007*	Death at a Funeral (2007)	62%
B	"A really solid horror comedy: beautifully shot, decently acted, fast moving and creative with the disembowelments. And it manages the weird feat of making a flock of sheep bounding across a meadow seem vaguely menacing." Posted Jul 20, 2007	Black Sheep (2007)	71%
C+	"Overdramatizes Albert's 24-year career." Posted Jul 13, 2007	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007)	78%
B	"*A strangely relaxed and frequently funny installment. To my thinking, it stands right behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* as the best in the movie series.*" Posted Jul 12, 2007*	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	77%
C-	"The uneven filmmaking renders Minot's ideas impossibly trite. ...Ugh." Posted Jun 29, 2007	Evening (2007)	27%
B	"*If you're willing to do the work, Triad Election* pays you in tragedy.*" Posted Jun 15, 2007*	Triad Election (2007)	96%
B	"*What makes Surf's Up* stand out is its look and texture.*" Posted Jun 8, 2007*	Surf's Up (2007)	78%
B+	"Despite dancing between a story and a story within a story, something seems simple and effortless about Ten Canoes. Director Rolf de Heer and his all-Yolngu cast offer a take on tribal life that's warm, funny and powerfully alive." Posted Jun 1, 2007	Ten Canoes (2007)	98%
C	"*What pushes Mr. Brooks* into 'silly' territory is the way co-writer/director Bruce A. Evans piles on way too many subplots that seem to set up future stories.*" Posted Jun 1, 2007*	Mr. Brooks (2007)	56%
	"*What a pleasant surprise that Shrek the Third* mostly connects with a fairly tight story -- even if it feels less like a movie and more like a really good episode of a Shrek TV series.*" Posted May 18, 2007*	Shrek the Third (2007)	42%
B+	"It's weird to write that a movie chock-full of adultery, stalking, spousal abuse and hatred of the unborn is the feel-good comedy of the summer." Posted May 11, 2007	Waitress (2007)	89%
A-	"Savage little morality tale." Posted May 4, 2007	The TV Set (2007)	64%
B+	"Fracture sneaks up on you. At first, it plays like it might be another in a long line of dullish legal thrillers. But then, in its modest, grown-up way, it keeps getting better and better." Posted Apr 20, 2007	Fracture (2007)	71%
A	"*If you enjoyed any of [writer-director Scott] Frank's previous work, or thought Brick* was the bomb, you'll love this.*" Posted Mar 30, 2007*	The Lookout (2007)	87%
A	"The Namesake doesn't reduce itself to simple ethnic politics and easy critiques." Posted Mar 23, 2007	The Namesake (2007)	85%
B+	"O'Toole just keeps turning up the volume, and it's thrilling to watch." Posted Mar 23, 2007	Becket (1964)	73%
A	"Black Snake Moan is a gorgeous, life-affirming movie. On paper, it sounds lurid bordering on ridiculous." Posted Mar 2, 2007	Black Snake Moan (2007)	66%
B+	"A low-key personal portrait that helps you understand an illegal immigrant's desperate psychology. But mostly, it fills you with an aching empathy for this profoundly decent man, who numbly (even heroically) soldiers on." Posted Feb 2, 2007	Rom�ntico (2006)	96%
A-	"James Longley's Sundance-winning documentary puts the camera uncomfortably close to scenes of abuse, violence, terror, cynicism and racial hatred amid the rubble of U.S.-occupied Iraq. But at the same time, its texture is frequently beautiful." Posted Jan 26, 2007	Iraq in Fragments (2006)	92%
B-	"It's hard to argue with the movie's knowledge-as-power message: To outwit the living artifacts, Stiller has to bone up on history." Posted Dec 22, 2006	Night at the Museum (2006)	44%
B	"The movie's biggest charm is its unpredictable, offbeat tone." Posted Nov 24, 2006	Deja Vu (2006)	56%
A	"It's an ambitious, passionate, grief-stricken work of film art." Posted Nov 22, 2006	The Fountain (2006)	51%
A	"A compelling piece of journalism arguing O'Grady is one of hundreds of 'sexualized' priests shielded by an absolute bureaucracy that's been corrupted absolutely." Posted Nov 10, 2006	Deliver Us From Evil (2006)	100%
C-	"*I haven't seen this much smug, awkward laughter and bathos since, well, Man of the Year." Posted Nov 10, 2006*	Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)	59%
B+	"I loved the little schematic diagrams that track Harold's too-linear existence. Zach Helm's script is very funny and occasionally shocking." Posted Nov 10, 2006	Stranger Than Fiction (2006)	73%
C-	"A soft-edged little movie. It also wants to be more idiosyncratic than it is. Which would be fine if the movie were moderately charming, funny or clever. It really isn't." Posted Nov 3, 2006	Driving Lessons (2006)	49%
B	"It furiously reveals the nonhuman suffering that's easy to overlook in a disaster this vast." Posted Oct 26, 2006	Dark Water Rising: The Truth About Hurricane Katrina Animal Rescues (2006)	n/a
C	"The story of Dito escaping and then facing his demons is meaningful. But that story is so buried in actorly noise that it feels false." Posted Oct 20, 2006	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)	75%
C-	"Good intentions and strong thespians aside, Seidelman's writing and filmmaking are bland, obvious and uninvolving." Posted Oct 6, 2006	The Boynton Beach Club (2006)	60%
C+	"By gilding the lily so shamelessly, Ewing and Grady guarantee they'll preach only to the converted." Posted Oct 6, 2006	Jesus Camp (2006)	87%
A	"The teachers have moxie. The students have courage. Mermin's warm, funny, beautiful and deeply humane documentary certainly honors the latter." Posted Sep 15, 2006	The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006)	87%
C-	"Trust the Man has some good laughs courtesy of its cast -- but they're basically papering over a script that's masquerading as urbane and trenchant, when it's really self-involved and didactic and more than a little foolish." Posted Sep 1, 2006	Trust the Man (2006)	28%

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