ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ruthe Stein

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Little Miss Sunshine
3.5/4	The Astronaut Farmer
3/4	Only Human
2.5/4	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2/4	John Tucker Must Die
2/5	Sleuth
1.5/4	Diggers
1/4	Step Up
0/4	Tideland

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Visitor
4/4	Nim's Island
4/4	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
4/4	Death at a Funeral
4/4	Away From Her
4/4	The Wind That Shakes the Barley
4/4	Pan's Labyrinth
4/4	Notes on a Scandal
4/4	Charlotte's Web
4/4	51 Birch Street
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Wild Hogs
0/4	Tideland
0/4	Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
0/4	Dear Wendy
0/4	Paparazzi
0.5/4	Ask the Dust
0.5/4	The Deal
1/4	Sleepwalking
1/4	Southland Tales
1/4	Rails & Ties
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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3.5/4	"Mamet's love for the sport comes through in every frame." Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
3/4	"There's one image you're likely to take away from this mind-boggling documentary. It's of rows and rows of men dressed completely in white and seated cross-legged on royal blue mats." Posted May 2, 2008	The Dhamma Brothers (2008)	81%
3/4	"Where it really matters -- working with actors -- veteran filmmakers could learn from Hunt." Posted May 2, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	54%
3/4	"The film is carried by its charismatic stars, John Cho as Harold and Kal Penn as Kumar. Kumar plays Laurel to Harold's Hardy, continually getting the pair into messes. Cho is a marvel at displaying exasperation, his face contorting into a frown." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	56%
4/4	"McCarthy puts a mark on each film, identifying it as distinctly his own. A couple more like them, and he'll be knighted an auteur." Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
3/4	"[Director] Bialis may have been too diligent in tracking down sources." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	91%
3/4	"Although Faithfull only sporadically makes movies anymore, it's hard to imagine anyone who could have done this role better." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	75%
3/4	Click here to read article Posted Apr 11, 2008	The Apartment (1960)	89%
3/4	"Sometimes, Hollywood producers are too myopic to recognize a winner even when they made it." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	30%
4/4	"Nim's aquatic adventures and those on land provide the majority of thrills in this exhilarating and enchanting family picture. It's the best I've seen this year and highly recommended for girls and for boys, too." Posted Apr 4, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
3/4	"There's nothing wrong with being difficult if there's a payoff at the end. Screenwriter-director Nacer Khemir provides that with a visually stunning final scene that makes sense of everything that came before." Posted Apr 4, 2008	Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)	63%
3/4	"This is a romantic comedy light on romance but heavy on comedy, and it's well cast to skew in that direction." Posted Mar 28, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
3/4	"David Gordon Green, among the most gifted of the young independent filmmakers, creates a mood that engulfs you in the lives of his characters." Posted Mar 21, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	68%
3/4	"It has the feel of truth and is a vivid reminder of the hell Mexicans put themselves through to live in the United States, even illegally." Posted Mar 21, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	74%
1/4	"Sleepwalking is a slow-moving family drama guaranteed to induce a nap if not somnambulism." Posted Mar 14, 2008	Sleepwalking (2008)	16%
2/4	"The fights are parceled out at intervals during the last half, all leading to a climactic battle. But it's hard to build suspense when you know it is coming and you know who will win." Posted Mar 14, 2008	Never Back Down (2008)	25%
2/4	"*Jay Jonroy, who wrote and directed David & Layla,* has come up with some potentially funny material that doesn't quite work.*" Posted Mar 7, 2008*	David & Layla (2007)	50%
4/4	"Frothy and exuberantly entertaining -- in part because of the sexual innuendoes -- it's the best romantic comedy so far this year." Posted Mar 7, 2008	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	76%
3/4	"A compelling and visually arresting drama from Brazil." Posted Feb 29, 2008	City of Men (2008)	77%
2/4	"A finale has the young people all dancing in the rain. Like almost everything else about the movie, it has been done before. But it's still foot-stomping fun." Posted Feb 13, 2008	Step Up 2 the Streets (2008)	27%
3/4	"Romance & Cigarettes is not your usual drama about a troubled marriage. It attempts something startlingly original by melding light opera with soap opera." Posted Nov 21, 2007	Romance & Cigarettes (2007)	53%
1/4	"The movie's failure to come together -- indeed to make sense for most of its 144 minutes, each one passing with the speed of molasses -- is a major disappointment." Posted Nov 16, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	35%
1/4	"One highly unlikely circumstance after another become laughable, preventing you from being moved by the family tragedies depicted. They beg for tears, but a script this chock-full of holes is unlikely to elicit the desired effect." Posted Nov 9, 2007	Rails & Ties (2007)	32%
3/4	"Wristcutters is a cut above most low-budget American indies, with something original to say about the human condition and an artful way of saying it." Posted Nov 2, 2007	Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)	66%
3.5/4	"A tearjerker that earns its sobs with heartfelt emotions." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Bella (2007)	45%
2/5	"Shaffer, who adapted the 1972 version himself, surely would be less than thrilled by the post-modern, minimalist interpretation given to his best-known work, and understandably so." Posted Oct 19, 2007	Sleuth (2007)	35%
3/4	"The danger in making a costume drama is that all of it will be as lifeless as wax figures. Kapur escapes this fate by relying on sex and a luminous star capable of being at once regal and alluring." Posted Oct 12, 2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)	34%
2/4	"Ludwig, a relative unknown with some TV and film experience, is awfully cute, but lacks the needed gravitas and charm to turn Will into more than a caricature." Posted Oct 5, 2007	The Seeker (2007)	13%
2/4	"The problem with making a movie on topical subjects is that by the time of its release, it can seem awfully stale." Posted Sep 28, 2007	Outsourced (2007)	78%
3/4	"Austen devotees are sure to lap up the central premise that her notions of love and friendship are as relevant today as ever." Posted Sep 21, 2007	The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)	64%
2.5/4	"You long for all this combined talent to be in the service of something more deserving than a retread of a story that has lost the edge it had 33 years ago." Posted Sep 14, 2007	The Brave One (2007)	43%
2/4	"The humor dissipates as we watch one weird death after another." Posted Sep 7, 2007	The Darwin Awards (2006)	25%
1.5/4	"Even more distressing is the presence of Owen and Paul Giamatti. I understand the concept of working as much as possible while you're hot, but it's a slippery slope." Posted Sep 7, 2007	Shoot 'Em Up (2007)	67%
2/4	"Needlessly complicated and kind of silly." Posted Aug 31, 2007	Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)	62%
2.5/4	"An only intermittently funny sequel that finally livens up in the last third. But that part -- a hilarious putdown of the pretension at the Cannes Film Festival -- is worth sticking around for." Posted Aug 24, 2007	Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)	50%
4/4	"Screenwriter Dean Craign exhibits a real feel for the way that a crisis brings out age-old hostilities. Craig uses humor as a cover-up to say something about the way families pull apart as well as together at difficult times." Posted Aug 17, 2007	Death at a Funeral (2007)	62%
2/4	"Although the formula seems a tad tired, it's still more entertaining than most sequels to a sequel." Posted Aug 10, 2007	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	20%
2/4	"The proud owners of Bratz dolls almost surely have had more imaginative fantasies about them than anything onscreen." Posted Aug 3, 2007	Bratz: The Movie (2007)	7%
2.5/4	"This latest effort, winner of five C�sar awards (the French Oscar) including for best film and actress, is supremely sensuous -- while presenting an intriguingly complex Constance." Posted Jul 20, 2007	Lady Chatterley (2007)	74%
2/4	"Watching it becomes an exercise in frustration when a potentially great movie winds up buried inside a just OK one." Posted Jul 14, 2007	Talk to Me (2007)	81%
3/4	"Ultimately this wondrous film is about letting go -- of old wardrobes, bad jokes, unrealistic dreams and of children and parental ties. You leave glad to have met the Dwights and applauding their adaptability, if not Mom's jokes." Posted Jul 13, 2007	Introducing The Dwights (2007)	52%
3/4	"*Australian writer-director Rolf de Heer is an extremely visual filmmaker, and his images stay with you. Ten Canoes'* authenticity is guaranteed by a close collaboration with the Aboriginal community.*" Posted Jul 13, 2007*	Ten Canoes (2007)	98%
2.5/4	"Director Fredi Murer strains too hard for it to be something more, a magical opus about childhood and taking flight, in this instance literally and figuratively. You wind up feeling manipulated instead of emotionally moved." Posted Jul 13, 2007	Vitus (2007)	65%
3.5/4	"Caravan sounds great and if nothing else should help diminish the stereotype, blasted by the film's subjects, of Gypsies as little more than pickpockets whom travelers need to be wary of." Posted Jul 6, 2007	Gypsy Caravan (2006)	85%
No Rating	"Broken English doesn't break any code or offer original insights on the subject. But there's a spark whenever Posey and Poupaud are together, and Paris and Manhattan glisten in the background." Posted Jul 6, 2007	Broken English (2007)	64%
2.5/4	"A novelty that the Bard's worshipers will probably find blasphemous and everyone else a puzzlement, although far from a bore." Posted Jun 29, 2007	Macbeth (2007)	48%
2.5/4	"Grim and disturbing yet perversely riveting." Posted Jun 22, 2007	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007)	78%
3/4	"Deserves to be seen for its sheer originality and audacity." Posted Jun 22, 2007	Colma: The Musical (2007)	90%
3.5/4	"*Much of A Mighty Heart* plays like a documentary. It feels truthful instead of puffed up to be more commercial.*" Posted Jun 22, 2007*	A Mighty Heart (2007)	77%

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