ROTTEN TOMATOES: Andrea Gronvall

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	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
	Kung Fu Panda
	Elegy
	Bottle Shock
	Beaufort
	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
	My Father My Lord
	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
	Up The Yangtze
	WALL-E
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	The Women
	Ping Pong Playa
	Mirrors
	Hell Ride
	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
	Brick Lane
	Meet Dave
	The Love Guru
	Savage Grace
	The Happening
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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	" It's a familiar formula, but as the title characters, Michael Cera and Kat Dennings give it such a fresh spin you'd think they invented love at first sight." -- Chicago Reader Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
	" *Ryan, barely refining her When Harry Met Sally* persona, is a dud.*" -- Chicago Reader* Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	10%
	" Hands down the most visually striking of DreamWorks Animation's releases, this lively CGI comedy is tailor-made for Jack Black." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 10, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	89%
	" This thin premise can't sustain a feature, and the racial and gay jokes are jarring, but the child actors are cute." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 3, 2008	Ping Pong Playa (2008)	68%
4/4	" Elegy gives Ben Kingsley one of the best roles of his career." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 22, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
	" Rickman adds a welcome astringency." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 22, 2008	Bottle Shock (2008)	45%
	" [A] blistering antiwar film." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 22, 2008	Beaufort (2008)	87%
	" Alexandre Aja keeps the suspense tight for most of the movie, only to fritter it away in an overblown ending." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 18, 2008	Mirrors (2008)	15%
	" As cheesy as the American-International biker flicks of the 60s were, they had a raw vitality missing from this self-conscious tribute." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 8, 2008	Hell Ride (2008)	11%
	" Screenwriter Elizabeth Chandler gracefully condenses three of Ann Brashares's best-selling teen novels, striking the right balance between humor and pathos as the characters cope with jealousy, heartbreak, family conflicts, and a pregnancy scare." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 7, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
	" For a movie about the undead, this lacks any supernatural chills, and by the time its obligatory final showdown arrives, it seems as hollow as the terra cotta soldiers brought to life by CGI." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	13%
	" Volach doesn't waste a word or action in his spare, finely crafted screenplay." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 1, 2008	My Father My Lord (2008)	93%
	" Its flat, static quality belies the novel's richness." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 11, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
	" The key image is a close-up of Murphy's gleaming choppers, but aside from that the movie is toothless." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 11, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	20%
	" The edifying lesson -- that helping others brings out the best in us -- should sit well with everyone." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 1, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	79%
	" Visually stunning, this documentary by Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang is part travelogue, part social critique of China's economic miracle and the sweeping cultural changes it is forcing in its wake." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 26, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2007)	95%
	" Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton tops himself with this adorably loopy Pixar animation that sends up consumerism, musicals, Apple computers, and 2001: A Space Odyssey." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
	" With its scatological humor, penis jokes, feeble puns, and middle-school ideal of love, this Mike Myers vehicle exemplifies American comedy's continuing slide into infantilism." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
	" Julianne Moore proves game for anything in this pitch-black true-crime reconstruction, where she stars as mercurial socialite Barbara Baekeland, wife of the taciturn heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune (virtuoso Stephen Dillane)." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 13, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
	" An example of advocacy filmmaking at its most inspired." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Dhamma Brothers (2008)	82%
	" Wahlberg turns in one of his worst performances ever, but then he's saddled with preposterous scenes (like one where he tries to placate a ficus) and such lame lines as "Could this really be happening?" Funny, I was wondering the same thing myself." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	18%
	" *There's enough adrenaline pulsating throughout this bang-up Marvel Comics adaptation to erase 2003's Hulk* from memory (Ang who?).*" -- Chicago Reader* Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
	" Director Roger Spottiswoode uses the children and action sequences to good effect, but a lack of chemistry between Rhys Meyers and Mitchell makes the love story fizzle." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	27%
	" Though a bunch of the jokes are milked too thin, there are some absurdly goofy sight gags, and a lineup of fun, silly cameos by guests from Chris Rock to Mariah Carey." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	35%
	" Coying and manipulative." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 30, 2008	Blindsight (2008)	98%
	" Lelouch and his longtime writing partner, Pierre Uytterhoeven, slyly exploit and subvert audience expectations." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 30, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
	" *Cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari (Offside) conjures magic from an array of pastels, shimmering lights, and enigmatic ruins." -- Chicago Reader* Posted May 30, 2008	Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)	57%
	" The melodrama form allows Tornatore to examine such current issues as human trafficking and black-market babies within a yarn that, for all its sentiment, is never less than gripping." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 28, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	61%
	" During their late-70s heyday the Muppets won huge TV audiences with their corny puns and showbiz in-jokes, but stretched to feature length the formula loses some of its snap." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 20, 2008	The Great Muppet Caper (1981)	71%
	" Writer-director Georgina Garcia Riedel makes inventive use of the wide-screen format in this gentle, poetic 2005 comedy." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 16, 2008	How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2008)	84%
	" The Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski barrel through this adaptation of the 60s animated series, hoping perhaps that no one will notice the story is as flat as roadkill." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	37%
	" The felicitous pairing of Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher overcomes the mechanical setup of this amiable screwball comedy about mismatched Manhattanites who wed in Las Vegas following a drunken first date." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 9, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	27%
	" Kofman includes real-life Holocaust survivors in his cast, a bold and unsettling stroke in a fictional story that's more challenging than most documentaries about the subject." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 7, 2008	The Memory Thief (2008)	77%
	" The comic scenes can be arch or shrill, but director Marcos Siega (Pretty Persuasion) does better when the story turns somber and the emotions feel genuine." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 11, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	28%
	" The celebrated Israeli author Etgar Keret and his wife, screenwriter Shira Geffen, directed this luminous foray into magic realism, Tel Aviv style." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 2, 2008	Jellyfish (2008)	88%
	" Labaki elicits expressive performances from a cast of amateurs, aided by Khalad Mouzanar's entrancing score and Yves Sehnaoui's lush cinematography." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 28, 2008	Caramel (2008)	92%
	" This nuanced coming-of-age drama by Cao Hamburger exudes warmth without getting mired in nostalgia." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2008)	86%
	" A macabre comedy of manners with the sting of dry ice, this 2007 ensemble piece captures the social climate of America in the late 40s." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 14, 2008	Married Life (2008)	58%
	" Jeff Wadlow directed this exploitation flick, which seems designed for students on spring break." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 14, 2008	Never Back Down (2008)	24%
	" The tolerance and loopy poetry of the beloved book by Dr. Seuss have been nicely captured in this CGI adaptation." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 14, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
	" The comedian Sinbad once said that Hollywood seeks out original talents but then tries to make them just like everyone else. A case in point is Martin Lawrence." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 10, 2008	College Road Trip (2008)	13%
	" Overblown and stupefyingly dull." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 7, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
	" In one slender documentary codirectors Shane King and Arne Johnson accomplish what Hollywood routinely bungles: incisively depicting the inner lives of complicated young females." -- Chicago Reader Posted Mar 6, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	71%
	" More tart than sweet, this contemporary fairy tale provides a worthy vehicle for the fearless Christina Ricci." -- Chicago Reader Posted Feb 28, 2008	Penelope (2008)	52%
	" Meticulously rendered CGI creatures spike this dark adventure, shot marvelously by Caleb Deschanel." -- Chicago Reader Posted Feb 15, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
	" This stale comedy about a vengeful ghost would be depressing if it weren't so disposable." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 31, 2008	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	14%
	" Feels derivative of 28 Days Later." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 11, 2008	30 Days of Night (2007)	50%
	" This heist comedy has a hackneyed introduction, and its feel-good ending lacks credibility, but the big, funny chunk in the middle marks writer-director-producer David E. Talbert as a talent to watch." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 10, 2008	First Sunday (2008)	14%
	" Profoundly moving." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jan 4, 2008	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%

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