ROTTEN TOMATOES: Rafer Guzman

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3/4	"A small-scale but thoroughly engrossing drama full of strong performances and sharp dialogue." -- Newsday Posted May 9, 2008	Turn the River (2008)	79%
3/4	"Against all odds it succeeds, making for a spectacular -- and spectacularly strange -- viewing experience." -- Newsday Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	34%
1/4	"Redbelt fails on nearly every level, from its incoherent story line to its threadbare action sequences." -- Newsday Posted May 1, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
2/4	"*Despite the superb acting and wonderfully sly dialogue, Roman de Gare* can't tie all its bows neatly enough to be truly satisfying.*" -- Newsday* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	81%
4/4	"You probably won't find a more illuminating account of what happened within the walls of Abu Ghraib." -- Newsday Posted Apr 24, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
3/4	"*Thanks to the two stars' disparate styles - the laser-like focus of Li and the whirlwind whimsy of Chan - The Forbidden Kingdom* makes up for its flaws with plenty of eye-popping moments.*" -- Newsday* Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
3/4	"Director Vadim Perelman blends two powerful performances into a seamless whole, giving equal time to the dreamy sensuality of adolescence and the crushing weight of adulthood." -- Newsday Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	22%
2/4	"Stein claims to denounce the tyranny of dogma, then browbeats us with his own." -- Newsday Posted Apr 17, 2008	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)	9%
1/4	"It won't spoil anything to reveal that Spurlock doesn't find his man, but his failure to do so -- even though it's played for laughs -- is a cowardly cop-out that unintentionally mocks the very real dangers of life in the Middle East." -- Newsday Posted Apr 17, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	35%
2/4	"If you lower your expectations and keep a sense of humor, even that large popcorn will seem worth the money." -- Newsday Posted Apr 17, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
3/4	"Quaid finds what is funny and endearing and worthy in the character, and his performance holds this fine, if somewhat fragile, film together." -- Newsday Posted Apr 10, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
2/4	"David Ayer, who wrote Training Day, directs with enough flash to keep the action crisp and nasty. But he can't swagger his way through Ellroy's swampy storyline, which traps its characters in cynicism and amorality." -- Newsday Posted Apr 10, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
3/4	"*Both behind and before the camera, Clooney imbues Leatherheads* with an irresistible charm and intelligence, raising it far above the average period piece.*" -- Newsday* Posted Apr 3, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
2/4	"*At some point in Shutter* you will probably lose count, along with your patience, but the film will keep right on going.*" -- Newsday* Posted Mar 24, 2008	Shutter (2008)	9%
3/4	"*If you never twirled barefoot in the funky old club, Wetlands Preserved* may be of limited interest, but it's a loving and thorough document of a small slice of rock history.*" -- Newsday* Posted Mar 20, 2008	Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008)	89%
3/4	"Ribas delivers a natural, earthy performance that has helped this film win numerous awards on the festival circuit." -- Newsday Posted Jan 24, 2008	Alice's House (2008)	88%
1/4	"*Somewhere between the acrobatic dance sequences and lead-footed script of How She Move* there exist fleeting glimpses of a serious film that could have been.*" -- Newsday* Posted Jan 24, 2008	How She Move (2008)	68%
3/4	"It's a lovely portrait of a fabled time and place, but wasn't there a bit of ugliness, too?" -- Newsday Posted Jan 2, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	67%
1/4	"*Ostensibly a Christmastime comedy about romance, The Perfect Holiday* manages to be none of the above.*" -- Newsday* Posted Dec 11, 2007	The Perfect Holiday (2007)	17%
2/4	"Writer-director Guy Ritchie returns to his Brit-pulp roots, only this time he gets all intellectual, too. It's a deadly combination." -- Newsday Posted Dec 6, 2007	Revolver (2007)	16%
3/4	"[Director Temple's] documentary can be quite clear-eyed, especially when exploring Strummer's lesser-known years before and after The Clash. As Strummer attempts to define and redefine himself, he seems human but still heroic." -- Newsday Posted Nov 2, 2007	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	87%
3/4	"Pete Seeger: The Power of Song could have been called Pete Seeger: The First Punk. As the film traces the singer's long life, it also, inevitably, tracks the evolution of American countercultures through much of the 20th century." -- Newsday Posted Oct 25, 2007	Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)	95%
2/4	"You don't have to be black to enjoy the film, but you do need a strong desire to watch people work out their issues using pop-psychology and self-help techniques." -- Newsday Posted Oct 15, 2007	Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (2007)	47%
1/4	"Instead of trying to find the heartbeat of reggaet�n, the movie resorts to teen conventions, banking that its target audience -- Latino teens, who don't often see themselves onscreen -- won't know enough to demand better." -- Newsday Posted Oct 8, 2007	Feel the Noise (2007)	14%
2/4	"This second-rate action drama features a mostly Latino but mostly wasted cast." -- Newsday Posted Aug 23, 2007	Illegal Tender (2007)	13%
3/4	"The director, Asger Leth, isn't terribly organized, but he puts us smack in the middle of everything: petty squabbles, horrible riots, casual shootings, even a love triangle." -- Newsday Posted Jun 28, 2007	Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007)	83%
3/4	"So many computer-animated movies are brash, loud and popping with pop-culture comedy, but Ratatouille has the warm glow of a favorite book. The characters are more than the sum of their gigabyte-consuming parts -- they feel handcrafted." -- Newsday Posted Jun 28, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	95%
2/4	"Once or twice the film reveals its good intentions and gets a laugh, but mostly it feels like a store-bought mix of jokes and sentiments." -- Newsday Posted Jun 21, 2007	Evan Almighty (2007)	23%
3/4	"A sensitive case-study of a promising artist who fell afoul of the system but still managed, with the help of family, to reassemble his shattered life." -- Newsday Posted Jun 7, 2007	You're Gonna Miss Me - A Film About Roky Erickson (2007)	78%
3/4	"Like any good documentarian (and unlike most publicists), Klores lets us draw our own conclusions. With a tone free of outrage or judgment, he tells the story of Pugach, a successful young lawyer, and Riss, a hottie with a taste for the good life." -- Newsday Posted May 31, 2007	Crazy Love (2007)	78%
2/4	"The Hip Hop Project has a good heart and more than a little trouble organizing its thoughts." -- Newsday Posted May 10, 2007	The Hip Hop Project (2007)	60%
2/4	"Head-scratching mash-up of zany dance numbers, gooey romance (but no kissing) and random English phrases such as 'awesome,' "bad habit' and 'noisy birthday parties.'" -- Newsday Posted May 1, 2007	Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)	60%
3/4	"... promises slightly more than it delivers but still comes together nicely." -- Newsday Posted Apr 9, 2007	Whole New Thing (2007)	67%
3/4	"The plot isn't much, but that's OK: The directing team of Will Speck and Josh Gordon throw their jokes at the wall in rapid succession, and most of them stick." -- Newsday Posted Mar 29, 2007	Blades of Glory (2007)	69%
2/4	"*One problem with Terabithia* is that the director, Gabor Csupo, puts too much stock in the abilities of computer graphics to make things real.*" -- Newsday* Posted Feb 15, 2007	Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	84%
1/4	"Much of the nearly two-hour film consists of impassioned but lengthy speeches about interest rates, deficits, poverty and corruption. This is no way to entertain an audience, so Sissako throws in a few hastily drawn characters and a threadbare plot." -- Newsday Posted Feb 14, 2007	Bamako (2006)	84%
2/4	"This is a nice Cinderella story, but here's the problem: It doesn't exactly crackle with drama." -- Newsday Posted Sep 28, 2006	Pixies - LoudQUIETLoud: A Film About the Pixies (2006)	67%
3/4	"It's nice to spend time in a mostly sunny world where everyone ends up happy. Except, that is, for the worms." -- Newsday Posted Aug 24, 2006	How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)	58%
1/4	"*The technophobic horror flick Pulse* is a cautionary tale that could have been dreamed up by a frustrated parent: If you don't get off of that computer, kids, you'll turn into a zombie.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Aug 14, 2006	Pulse (2006)	12%
3/4	"Like Hitchcock or Clouzot, Chabrol excels at building a sense of dread." -- Newsday Posted Aug 3, 2006	The Bridesmaid (2006)	90%
2/4	"Been Rich All My Life has a soft, golden glow, but it could have been much richer." -- Newsday Posted Jul 21, 2006	Been Rich All My Life (2006)	78%

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