ROTTEN TOMATOES: Dennis Lim

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

(This Critic's Cinematic Taste as Determined by Rotten Tomatoes)

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	The Exiles
	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
	No End in Sight
	Grindhouse
	The Namesake
	The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
	Interkosmos
	Brothers of the Head
	Gabrielle
	Urbanscapes
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	The Amateurs
	Memories of Tomorrow
	Disturbia
	Meet the Robinsons
	Turistas
	Shadowboxer
	Time to Leave
	Agnes and His Brothers
	12 and Holding
	Basic Instinct 2
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

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4.5/5	"Despite its compact time frame the film conjures a powerful sensation of purgatory: a night like many others." -- New York Times Posted Jul 7, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	88%
1/5	"*There are no laughs to be found in writer-director Michael Traeger's would-be comedy The Amateurs, but there is one big mystery: how actors of this caliber could have been convinced to take part." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Amateurs (2007)	17%
4/5	"*Never surrendering its grip on the viewer, 4 Months* is the rare film with gravity and speed -- a moral tale in the form of a suspense thriller.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Nov 2, 2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
4/5	"No End in Sight, the latest Iraq documentary, is the first to attempt a detailed historical overview and probably the only one with the potential to reach across partisan lines, a true rarity in the sphere of political filmmaking." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 2, 2007	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
2.5/5	"The script's subtler nuances are too often drowned out by awkward histrionics." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 8, 2007	Memories of Tomorrow (2006)	82%
1.5/5	"Has nowhere near the conceptual sophistication of Rear Window, where the protagonist's absorption in what he's watching mirrors the viewer's. The problem with Disturbia is that for most of the film you'll wish you weren't watching at all." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2007	Disturbia (2007)	67%
4/5	"*Setting aside the dubious coherence and suspect nostalgia of the enterprise, Grindhouse* is a fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 5, 2007	Grindhouse (2007)	81%
2.5/5	"Zippy if forgettable." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 29, 2007	Meet the Robinsons (2007)	66%
4/5	"An intimate, melancholy look at the isolation and disorientation common to the immigrant experience." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 8, 2007	The Namesake (2007)	85%
2/5	"A wholly predictable bit of slasher unpleasantness and a muddled cautionary tale on the American propensity for foreign misadventures." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 30, 2006	Turistas (2006)	15%
	"The film is alarming, endearing, and utterly unflappable." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006	The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2006)	88%
	"Finn's deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 3, 2006	Interkosmos (2006)	n/a
	"*The golden-hued footage is lovingly faked by ace cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, and the straight-faced result is as improbably touching as the Farrelly brothers' underrated Stuck on You." -- Village Voice* Posted Jul 25, 2006	Brothers of the Head (2006)	67%
	"It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when it becomes clear that this lurid, steroidal neo-noir is certifiably insane (or at least a lot funnier than it means to be), but it's pretty early on." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2006	Shadowboxer (2006)	20%
	"At once robust and ethereal, this is an existential ghost story, with fresh blood pulsing through its veins." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006	Gabrielle (2005)	75%
	"Time to Leave winds up a tiresome affirmation of man's biological duty to procreate; the position is simplistic verging on obnoxious, especially after 5x2's attack on the hetero family model." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006	Time to Leave (2006)	76%
	"Urbanscapes analyzes urban blight as a recurring phenomenon, with economic, social, and moral dimensions." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 7, 2006	Urbanscapes (2005)	n/a
	"Painfully literal/ironic soundtrack choices add to the general unpleasantness, and the nods to Fassbinder's great In a Year of 13 Moons only emphasize what this scattershot satire most decidedly is not." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2006	Agnes and His Brothers (2006)	42%
	"*Fatih Akin's rich documentary follow-up, Crossing the Bridge, digs deeper into Istanbul's musical and social history." -- Village Voice* Posted Jun 6, 2006	Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul ()	86%
	"*A paragon of guerrilla resourcefulness and a model citizen of the global village, Cavite* is a more anxious and vivid experience than most movies with budgets literally a thousand times bigger.*" -- Village Voice* Posted May 24, 2006	Cavite (2006)	73%
	"... thanks to lowered expectations ... and in a season of economically disastrous disaster movies, the mere fact that this Memorial Day juggernaut is not a catastrophe should spell good news for a depressed industry." -- Village Voice Posted May 23, 2006	X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)	56%
	"In Cuesta's cynical formulation, the pretense of empathy is simply license to mock, gawk, and vulgarize." -- Village Voice Posted May 17, 2006	12 and Holding (2006)	74%
	"Like most memorials, it is respectful, premised on competing obligations to the dead and the living, and eager to stress that the deaths were not in vain. It not only tells us we should never forget but also illustrates how we should remember." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 18, 2006	United 93 (2006)	91%
	"*The plot, already mired in nonsensical backstory, collapses with the late-inning introduction of a tired metafictional device (not to mention a wildly lunging Usual Suspects twist)." -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 4, 2006	Basic Instinct 2 (2006)	7%
	"*Sardonic yet moving, Half Nelson* deftly outlines the perils of youthful idealism without lapsing into knee-jerk cynicism.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Mar 22, 2006	Half Nelson (2006)	91%
	"Painful, funny, unsentimental, perfectly measured in its ambiguities, it's exemplary low-budget filmmaking, the rare DV movie with an assured visual style and a strong sense of place." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006	In Between Days (2006)	84%
	"Bahrani and his DP Michael Simmonds illuminate the murky beauty -- and hardscrabble economics -- of New York's all-night shadowland." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006	Man Push Cart (2006)	87%
	"A film of microscopic mood shifts, at once open-ended and precise." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006	Old Joy (2006)	85%
	"The destination is a pageant that will demonstrate, in grotesque, stomach-churning detail, that beauty is skin-deep and that you don't have to win to be a winner." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	91%
	"The hyperactive juvenile whimsy and the stoner dream theories are out of control -- and fascinatingly close to pathology." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006	The Science of Sleep (2006)	69%
	"A satisfyingly bilious satire." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006	Art School Confidential (2006)	36%
	"This mysterious object may be Denis's most gorgeous film (which is saying something), but more than that, it's a fearless filmmaker's boldest experiment yet, a direct line from her unconscious to yours." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 20, 2005	The Intruder (2005)	84%
	"It's hard to fathom why anyone would voluntarily endure a holiday family reunion movie (hereafter HFRM) -- a genre devised solely to demonstrate how grotesque and how heartwarming families can be." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 13, 2005	The Family Stone (2005)	53%
	"A breezy first-person video essay that goes in search of the average Asian American woman, all the while wondering if there is in fact such a thing." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 13, 2005	The Grace Lee Project (2005)	95%
	"*A would-be cross between Showgirls* and Raise the Red Lantern, too dumb to cause offense though falling short of the oblivious abandon that could have vaulted it into high camp.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Dec 6, 2005	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)	35%
	"Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2005	Love Streams (1984)	100%
	"John Madden's competent, monotonous film version, not exactly stagebound but hardly freewheeling, only underscores its mechanical nature." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2005	Proof (2005)	64%
	"*Spare and single-minded, The Cave* is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Aug 30, 2005	The Cave (2005)	13%
	"This lulling, banal, and rather pleasant film cultivates a mood of zone-out voyeurism." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 23, 2005	Three Dancing Slaves (2005)	43%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2005	The Yakuza Papers: Vol.1 - Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973)	40%
	"Craven's terror-alert white-knuckler is a zippy, unpretentious entry in the subgenre, hinging on the enforced proximity of cat and mouse." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 16, 2005	Red Eye (2005)	78%
	"The true subject of Curtis's lucid, pessimistic film, it turns out, is the frightening adaptability of consumer capitalism." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 9, 2005	The Century of the Self (2002)	n/a
	"It illuminates the sinister logic of a new world order that depends on corrupt globalization to put an acceptable face on age-old colonialism." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2005	Darwin's Nightmare (2006)	92%
	"Tony Takitani conveys a powerfully tangible sense of loss and loneliness. In both concrete and existential terms, it's a film that dwells on what the dead leave behind and how the living carry on." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 26, 2005	Tony Takitani (2005)	90%
	"*In place of psychological clarity, Last Days* affords a woozy existential coherence.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jul 19, 2005	Last Days (2005)	60%
	"For Bay, restraint means not dropping a fireball on a large urban center within the first act." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 19, 2005	The Island (2005)	40%
	"World cinema's premier maker of mysterious objects, Apichatpong Weerasethakul is on a one-man mission to change the way we watch movies." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 28, 2005	Tropical Malady (2005)	78%
	"The World is the director's most accessible film. But it's also his most despairing." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 28, 2005	The World (2005)	68%
	"This raw, fascinating, often unpleasant film is not in the least coy about its queasy mix of exploitation and therapeutic exhibitionism." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 14, 2005	The Talent Given Us (2004)	58%
	"The Southeast Asian hot spot of the moment is Malaysia, home to a small, close-knit group of emerging filmmakers, foremost among them Amir Muhammad." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 7, 2005	The Big Durian (2003)	n/a

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