ROTTEN TOMATOES: Matthew De Abaitua

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	" Funny, disciplined, and acted with great skill and warmth." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 5, 2008	Broken Flowers (2005)	86%
1/5	" Scenes come and go in clouds of confusion, flashbacks and cutaways leaping in and out of the action like misbehaving children, but a moral stink persists." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 26, 2008	Righteous Kill (2008)	22%
3/5	" A tentative mixture of tearjerker and disaster movie, cautious due to the requirement that it bear witness to the true-life heroism, staying within the tonal range that is sanctioned for American films depicting 9/11." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 19, 2008	World Trade Center (2006)	70%
3.5/5	" Patchy but Ben Stiller heaves mainstream Hollywood comedy out of its Will Ferrell-inspired rut. " -- Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 19, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
3/5	" Puts heart and soul back into the good old computer animated, talking animals family film." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 10, 2008	Happy Feet (2006)	74%
3/5	" Del Toro's imagination is as fertile as ever but the plot keeps too much in reserve. " -- Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 22, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	88%
	" *Makes The Phantom Menace* seem like one long clearing of the throat before Lucas could begin to tell the real story.*" -- Channel 4 Film* Posted Aug 13, 2008	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)	66%
5/5	" The action is devastating, high-wire and realistic." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 22, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
3/5	" Each take on the gag reveals a different facet of comic technique." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 23, 2008	The Aristocrats (2005)	80%
	" Shows a more complicated understanding of childhood than you would expect..." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Jun 17, 2008	A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)	72%
3/5	" The accessories are fantastic but we're not sure about that outfit." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 27, 2008	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)	76%
	" How could you dislike a film that takes itself so lightly?" -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 20, 2008	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)	42%
3/5	" Action-packed yet intelligent, this takes the very best of the TV show and gives it epic grandeur." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek: First Contact (1996)	91%
4/5	" Why is this such a good Star Trek movie? Well, Spock makes a mean captain, standing in for the imprisoned Kirk." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)	84%
2/5	" *The worst Star Trek* movie.*" -- Channel 4 Film* Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)	18%
	" As an exploration of the loneliness of a unique machine consciousness, great! As an exciting SF experience, maybe not." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980)	54%
5/5	" Borat is the funniest film imaginable right now." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 18, 2008	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	91%
3/5	" Supposedly a superhero movie for grown-ups, this is actually a pretentious farrago." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 7, 2008	Batman (1989)	69%
5/5	" Glorious escapism that will not make you feel dirty the morning after." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 29, 2008	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	96%
5/5	" A stunning adventure story realized with genuine artistic flair." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 28, 2008	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	92%
3/5	" Pretty funny with brilliant bits but takes a while to warm up." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 25, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
	" Dignified, intelligent filmmaking for liberal grown-ups." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Feb 27, 2008	Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)	94%
3/5	" Michel Gondry is a visionary of sorts, but he needs a talented writer to add emotional depth to his child-like creativity if he is going to reach the heights of Eternal Sunshine again." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Feb 22, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	67%
3.5/5	" Rich and subtle in its characterisation, Brick Lane is an enlightening tale about the breadth and depth of ordinary lives, how they intersect with history, and where they remain hidden away. " -- Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 15, 2007	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
5/5	" A violent taut thriller that explores an entirely different moral universe: Hackney." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 24, 2007	Eastern Promises (2007)	88%
4/5	" Knocked Up reinvents the romantic comedy for a new generation." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 24, 2007	Knocked Up (2007)	91%
2/5	" Anyone over the age of 12 who thinks this film has something to offer is wilfully deluding themselves. This is a superhero film for families with young children for whom Doctor Octopus and Venom are just too intense." -- Posted Jun 15, 2007	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)	35%
3/5	" The visceral stuff - the fighting and chasing - is great. The comedy is funny. But the film unravels with no emotional charge and you'll be pretty restless during the climactic apologies." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 4, 2007	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	61%
3/5	" You can't make the same film three times and not expect people to carp. Go and see it with politically-minded friends and thrash it out afterwards over coffee." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Jan 17, 2007	Babel (2006)	68%
5/5	" Confident, exciting, funny and crafted with real heart." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Dec 15, 2003	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	93%
	" The more you think about it, the worse it gets. What begins as stirring twaddle ends with such absurd self-regard from Tom Cruise that there is not a dry pair of underpants in the house." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 29, 2003	The Last Samurai (2003)	65%
	" We already know how this film turns out and no one at Lucasfilm has the wit to make the journey interesting." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 22, 2003	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)	79%
	" A blood-stained love letter to exploitation movies that seems to be missing a few pages." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 24, 2003	Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)	85%
5/5	" You could open an entire can of hyperbole over this film, and still run short of adjectives to praise its majesty." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 24, 2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	94%
	" A nerdish scientist unleashes his monstrous inner child in this thoughtful superhero movie from director Ang Lee." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 24, 2003	Hulk (2003)	61%
	" *For a preposterous vanity project and notorious cinematic turkey, Under The Cherry Moon* is actually rather charming, rakish and amusing.*" -- Channel 4 Film* Posted May 24, 2003	Under the Cherry Moon (1986)	29%
	" For all its clich�s, it has a cracking third act, helped by doses of 15-rated violence." -- FilmFour.com Posted Feb 18, 2003	Daredevil (2003)	44%
2/5	" A cheapo space battle that has all the cool allure of a disco-dancing Dad." -- FilmFour.com Posted Dec 25, 2002	Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)	36%
5/5	" There is no precedent for what Peter Jackson is doing with these films. Glorious escapism that will not make you feel dirty the morning after." -- FilmFour.com Posted Dec 17, 2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	96%
3.5/5	" For all the director's shortcomings, the material survives." -- FilmFour.com Posted Oct 13, 2002	Red Dragon (2002)	68%
	" *Makes The Phantom Menace* seem like one long clearing of the throat before Lucas could begin to tell the real story.*" -- FilmFour.com* Posted May 14, 2002	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)	66%
5/5	" On its own terms, a stunning adventure story realised with genuine artistic flair." -- FilmFour.com Posted Feb 26, 2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	92%

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