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ROB BLACKWELDER
PUBLICATION(S)
• Combustible Celluloid
• SPLICEDWire

BIOGRAPHY
Once upon a time, Rob was the entertainment editor at a small community college with a kick-*** journalism program.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 1889
Total QuickRatings: 317

CRITICS GROUP(S)
San Francisco Film Critics Circle

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• Location: Oakland, CA


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Masculin Feminin
3.5/4 Million Dollar Baby
3/4 The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
2.5/4 William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
2/4 The Sea Inside
1.5/4 Enduring Love
1/4 Be Cool
0.5/4 Son of the Mask
0/4 Alone in the Dark
w.5/4 Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 In the Mood for Love
4/4 Turtles Can Fly
4/4 Masculin Feminin
4/4 The Aviator
4/4 Goodbye Dragon Inn
4/4 Outfoxed
4/4 Garden State
4/4 The Saddest Music in the World
4/4 The Five Obstructions
4/4 Promises
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 Dark Water
0/4 Honeymooners
0/4 Kicking and Screaming
0/4 Boogeyman
0/4 Cursed
0/4 Man of the House
w.5/4 Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
0/4 Alone in the Dark
0/4 Christmas with the Kranks
0/4 First Daughter
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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4/4
 
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Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
In the Mood for Love (2001)87%
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2/4
 
Click here to read article -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
Ghost Rock (2003)n/a
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1.5/4
 
Click here to read article -- SPLICEDWire
Posted May 27, 2006
 
House of D (2005)10%
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2.5/4
 
Click here to read article -- SPLICEDWire
Posted May 27, 2006
 
Don't Move (2005)47%
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3/4
 
Click here to read article -- SPLICEDWire
Posted May 27, 2006
 
Cemetary Man (1994)62%
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2/4
 
"Listless, lifeless, uninterestingly bleak and quite often ridiculous." -- Combustible Celluloid
Posted May 26, 2006
 
The Punisher (2004)28%
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2/4
 
"David Cronenberg is out of his element in A History of Violence, and it shows." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 23, 2005
 
A History of Violence (2005)87%
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2.5/4
 
"The film's last act almost completely self-destructs, falling into blind, metaphor-baiting machinations." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 22, 2005
 
Dear Wendy (2005)37%
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2.5/4
 
"Director Malcolm D. Lee has a gift for finding gold nuggets of personality and comedy in the tailings of over-mined plots." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 21, 2005
 
Roll Bounce (2005)64%
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2/4
 
"The third act begins with another twist — but this one is so arduous, absurd and out of character for the film that the entire plot, stretching back to Scene One, is sabotaged" -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 21, 2005
 
Flightplan (2005)38%
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3/4
 
"Blessed with memorably iconic characters and a creative, if fairly predictable plot, Corpse Bride is quick, droll, and destined to be a perennial Halloween favorite." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 21, 2005
 
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)84%
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2/4
 
"When it comes to romantic chemistry, they never quite mesh, no matter what twinkle effect Waters puts on the screen when Ruffalo's hand touches Witherspoon's ethereal plane." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 15, 2005
 
Just Like Heaven (2005)57%
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3/4
 
"The movie's simple yet spot-on characters and performances make the laughs timeless, no matter how firmly the film is set in 1995." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 9, 2005
 
Clueless (1995)83%
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2.5/4
 
"Part spine-tingling horror movie, part unorthodox courtroom drama, Emily Rose runs into trouble because it's ironically more credible as the former than the latter." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)45%
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1/4
 
"A boring, all-you-can-regurgitate buffet of buddy-movie/cop-movie banality, it would collapse under the weight of its own generic stupidity (without) Jackson and Levy." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
The Man (2005)11%
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2.5/4
 
"Another sleepy, sweeping soft-serve melodrama from director Lasse Hallstrom...the story arc seems to have been drawn on graph paper rather than written in a script." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 8, 2005
 
An Unfinished Life (2005)53%
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2/4
 
"The only thing that prevents The Memory of a Killer from seeming 100-percent Hollywood is the characters' speaking in subtitled Dutch." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 2, 2005
 
The Memory of a Killer (2005)83%
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0.5/4
 
"A catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and conspicuously cheap special effects that can't even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Sep 1, 2005
 
A Sound of Thunder (2005)8%
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0.5/4
 
"Few bad movies are more aggravating than a sequel that betrays everything which made its predecessor entertaining." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 31, 2005
 
Transporter 2 (2005)50%
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3/4
 
"A preachy but gripping socio-political thriller...directed by Fernando Meirelles with the same unblinking, sweaty, ground-level grittiness he brought to City of God." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 30, 2005
 
The Constant Gardener (2005)84%
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1/4
 
"Puerile social satire, stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated wit and overwhelming smugness are painful to sit through." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 26, 2005
 
Pretty Persuasion (2005)32%
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1/4
 
"Can somebody tell me why we're supposed to care about these one-dimensional MTV-spawned caricatures? Writer John Galt and director Meiert Avis sure haven't offered any clues." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 26, 2005
 
Undiscovered (2005)6%
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2/4
 
"A movie with a Terry Gilliam look and feel but without a Terry Gilliam soul. (The director) seems to have had his spirit broken by studio mandates and commercial constraints." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 24, 2005
 
The Brothers Grimm (2005)37%
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3.5/4
 
"In backwards-thinking terms, Malle was the Tarantino of his day, giving French cinema a creative, influential shot in the arm that opened new horizons in directorial thinking." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 18, 2005
 
Elevator to the Gallows (1957)95%
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2.5/4
 
"Since the clever, off-kilter, off-color, surprisingly character-driven guffaws just keep coming and coming, the movie is side-splitting in spite of its fundamental flaws." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 17, 2005
 
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)84%
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2/4
 
"A mid-20th-century bodice-ripper about sexual obsession and questionable sanity, Asylum doesn't live up to its admirable pedigree." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 16, 2005
 
Asylum (2005)37%
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2.5/4
 
"Wes Craven tries his hand at Hitchcockian suspense in Red-Eye, and turns in a modest B-movie thriller that's just as invigorating as it is easy to pick apart." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 15, 2005
 
Red Eye (2005)78%
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0.5/4
 
"I did get through it without being overwhelmed by the urge strangle myself, so the movie has that going for it." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 12, 2005
 
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)11%
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2/4
 
"Singleton fills the screen with moody darkness (but) Four Brothers falls apart completely in the last act." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 12, 2005
 
Four Brothers (2005)52%
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3.5/4
 
"Curiously melancholy yet packed with laughs, the picture's funniest moments aren't even the famous ones." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 11, 2005
 
The Gold Rush (1925)100%
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2/4
 
"A dreary, stagnant story about people who make no effort to think or grow." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 11, 2005
 
Junebug (2005)87%
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2/4
 
"A first-rate concept for a spine-tingling tale...rendered impotent by bland, generic execution." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 10, 2005
 
The Skeleton Key (2005)39%
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3.5/4
 
"Another achingly evocative and melancholy near-masterpiece from Wong Kar-Wai...blessed with vivid, visceral performances that burst at the seams with reserved passion." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 8, 2005
 
2046 (2005)84%
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3/4
 
"...has a bottomless poignancy that Jarmusch cements in quiet character moments, symbolic imagery and out-of-reach temptations that wiggle effectively into the subconscious." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 8, 2005
 
Broken Flowers (2005)86%
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2/4
 
"Too much blah-blah, not enough 'Yeeehawww!'" -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Aug 2, 2005
 
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)14%
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3/4
 
"Those who give themselves over to Harrison's compelling machinations will be rewarded with a superbly unnerving mystery." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 31, 2005
 
November (2005)30%
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2/4
 
"The film's curdled aftertaste is so frustrating that it may be hard to remember why Must Love Dogs ever seemed so endearing and entertaining in the first place." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 28, 2005
 
Must Love Dogs (2005)35%
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2.5/4
 
"A cliché-dependent Disney cheapy that aims no higher than the unsophisticated standards of its pre-adolescent target audience -- and somehow succeeds in spite of itself." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 28, 2005
 
Sky High (2005)72%
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2.5/4
 
"Daisy, Daisy I'll blow you out of the sky / I'm half crazy, seen Top Gun too many times...a plumb guilty pleasure." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 26, 2005
 
Stealth (2005)13%
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3/4
 
"If [i]A Sidewalk Astronomer[/i] can't turn you on to astronomy, I feel sorry for you." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 21, 2005
 
A Sidewalk Astronomer (2005)67%
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2/4
 
"The third act (is) so full of holes it's a wonder the film doesn't get tangled up in the projector." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 21, 2005
 
The Island (2005)40%
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2/4
 
"...feels less like The Bad News Bears and more like the cliché-riddled sports-underdog comedies that have been ripping off The Bad News Bears for 30 years." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 20, 2005
 
Bad News Bears (2005)47%
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3/4
 
"The Vaughn-Wilson chemistry makes Wedding Crashers sing with consistant laughter, but it crosses the finish line with a pronounced limp." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 15, 2005
 
Wedding Crashers (2005)75%
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3/4
 
"Roos has a gift weaving good laughs out of human failings and frailties." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 14, 2005
 
Happy Endings (2005)58%
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3/4
 
"Tim Burton is ideally suited to bringing Roald Dahl's twisted-as-taffy children's tale to the big screen, and the sourball confection created as a result is pure movie magic." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 13, 2005
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)83%
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0/4
 
"Torpid, trite and not the least bit scary — just unrelentingly unpleasant — (and) the most contemptible kind of cinema horror: putting little kids in peril for cheap thrills." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 7, 2005
 
Dark Water (2005)45%
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3/4
 
"What the movie lacks in clarity it makes up for in gallons of campy gore. Undead sure ain't art, but it sure is fun." -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 6, 2005
 
Undead (2005)26%
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1/4
 
"Who are these half-wit Hollywood clowns that keep hiring cleavage-candy actresses with no measurable talent to play laughably bespectacled scientists in action movies?" -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 6, 2005
 
Fantastic Four (2005)26%
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2.5/4
 
Click here to read article -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 5, 2005
 
5X2 (2005)64%
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3/4
 
Click here to read article -- SPLICEDWire
Posted Jul 5, 2005
 
Heights (2005)65%

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