ROTTEN TOMATOES: Adam Fendelman

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	The Band's Visit
4.5/5	The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
4/5	Son of Rambow
3.5/5	Standard Operating Procedure
3/5	The Darjeeling Limited
2.5/5	Speed Racer
2.5/5.0	CJ7
2/5	Rush Hour 3
1.5/5	Alvin and the Chipmunks
1/5	Death Sentence
0.5/5	Postal
.5/5	Sleepwalking

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	The Dark Knight
5/5	WALL-E
5/5	Kung Fu Panda
5/5	Redbelt
5/5	The Band's Visit
4.5/5	Choke
4.5/5	Man on Wire
4.5/5	The Last Mistress
4.5/5	Wanted
4.5/5	My Winnipeg
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0.5/5	Postal
.5/5	Sleepwalking
1/5	Deal
1/5	One Missed Call
1/5	The Final Season
1/5	Sydney White
1/5	Death Sentence
1/5	Resident Evil: Extinction
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Genre: # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
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3/5	" "Megan Fox is mind-bogglingly beautiful. When she walks into a room, you almost have to look away," Simon Pegg said with a laugh in an interview with HollywoodChicago.com on his new film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People." Posted Oct 3, 2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	33%
2.5/5	" In this interview, The Lucky Ones director Neil Burger speaks about understanding the modern soldier, his surprising casting choice of anti-war activist Tim Robbins as a veteran and why he relates the story while the Iraq conflict continues." Posted Sep 30, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
4.5/5	" Standing and pacing during our interview, Sam Rockwell made a hilarious theatrical moment out of his frustration while lighting a cigarette. He talked about his latest characterization, which is a challenging performance channeling an Oedipal personality." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Choke (2008)	56%
4/5	" Already an important and controversial American playwright, Neil LaBute is looking to make the same individual mark as a director in films. His most recent effort is an incisive and poignant meditation on race, class and gender relations in America." Posted Sep 22, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	42%
2/5	" Al Pacino and Robert De Niro seem to make this schlock palatable, but for everyone thinking Righteous Kill is going to be the next Heat, you're going to be left burnt. It's more like a bad episode of Law & Order." Posted Sep 12, 2008	Righteous Kill (2008)	22%
N/A	" *This is a link to 25 free admit-two passes to a Chicago screening of The Duchess." Posted Sep 8, 2008*	The Duchess (2008)	60%
2.5/5	" Hamlet 2 star Steve Coogan told HollywoodChicago.com: "It did make me nervous to play Jesus. I wondered whether the director was just trying to be provocative to annoy Christians or if it was just funny."" Posted Aug 26, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	63%
2/5	" The unfortunately simple message of Death Race merely says we're living in a time and place where financial corruption can allow us to prostitute ourselves to charge $250 to watch one guy violently off another for our viewing pleasure." Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	43%
2/5	" Rainn Wilson said in an interview on The Rocker: 'There is something about a drummer. They're not cerebral. I have a tendency to be more cerebral and reserved. But he's a big puppy dog. It was lot of fun to plunge into that character.'"" Posted Aug 19, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	36%
4.5/5	" The story that looks back at the incident plays like a great caper film. The operation to get into the tower and string the wire was a combination of ingenuity, planning and exquisite timing since the top of the building was still a construction site." Posted Aug 18, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
2.5/5	" The inaugural animated Star Wars feels and looks every bit as introductory as a foundational attempt could be. The animated format, though, actually manages to dial down the dreadful acting and makes it more tolerable than the human format." Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	19%
4/5	" While legendary filmmaker Woody Allen can't always be equated with sheer genius and is more accurately described as a hit-or-miss proposition, this sorely undermarketed film serves as unquestionable retribution for his recently questionable work." Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
4/5	" In this interview, Frozen River star Melissa Leo from the TV show Homicide discusses why she channeled John Wayne for this role and how she captures the desperation and strength of a woman with everything to lose." Posted Aug 14, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	86%
4/5	" While Tropic Thunder is an offensively complicated picture that certainly has figured out to whirl about a laugh around every corner, so does its complication sometimes force the story to tug about in many different directions." Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
N/A	" *This is the first Soul Men* production still with Samuel L. Jackson, the recently deceased Bernie Mac and the recently deceased Isaac Hayes.*" Posted Aug 12, 2008*	Soul Men (2008)	n/a
N/A	" *Free: 25 admit-two passes to a Chicago screening of Traitor." Posted Aug 11, 2008*	Traitor (2008)	53%
3.5/5	" *If god had a vajoojoo, Judd Apatow and company think it'd taste something like smoking Pineapple Express. There's no question this is ultimately a stoner film, but the ultimate stoner film? Sorta." Posted Aug 7, 2008*	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
4/5	" In this interview, filmmakers Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass talk about the road to their first distributed feature, the process of their filmmaking and the meaning of the term mumblecore." Posted Aug 6, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
3/5	" *There's an old saying about show business being "high school with money". In the new documentary American Teen, there's an expressed feeling that high school is show business without a safety net." Posted Aug 5, 2008*	American Teen (2008)	69%
2/5	" This threequel is so hackneyed that even star Brendan Fraser wasn't enough to sell audiences on a third return. Even Jet Li couldn't save the day." Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	13%
N/A	" *Chicago TV critic Dustin Levell of HollywoodChicago.com analyzes season two and calls Mad Men* the easiest sell on TV today.*" Posted Jul 30, 2008*	Mad Men - Season 1 (2007)	n/a
2.5/5	" The problem isn't what it's communicating. It's the awkward structure and tendency toward redundancy. The film's a hodgepodge of songs, old footage and stories of the Iraq War that just doesn't come together with any sense of narrative cohesiveness." Posted Jul 29, 2008	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	64%
3.5/5	" The celebrated Evelyn Waugh novel and 1981 BBC miniseries Brideshead Revisited have put the unusually titled story into cultural consciousness. The adapted miniseries brought the characters to life and cemented the epic journey of class awareness." Posted Jul 29, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	63%
2.5/5	" Series creator Chris Carter not only has penned an even more anemic script than his 1998 film but also manages to serve even less justice to a distinctly original TV series that has catered to people's fantasies and curiosities everywhere." Posted Jul 24, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	32%
4.5/5	" The cynicism and fire of the film all emerges from the heat of Asia Argento. In giving a truly fearless performance as the title character, she uses her body and audacity to tweak the upper-class society that can't take their eyes off her." Posted Jul 21, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
4/5	" The beauty of this rather conventional, kiddy adventure is that it revels in not taking anything seriously. The script is peppered with stupid physical comedy, silly puns and dry witticisms on the concepts of space and monkeys." Posted Jul 20, 2008	Space Chimps (2008)	35%
3/5	" While it'd be embellishment to say you'd have the time of your life, any dancing queen or an admirer of seeing Pierce Brosnan croon a tune instead of trigger James Bond destruction can at least have some of the time of your 108 minutes." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
5/5	" With only three short words comprising the film's enigmatic title, it also boasts three epic claims to fame: the role of a lifetime for the late Heath Ledger, one of the best films of 2008 and one of the greatest superhero films of all time." Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
N/A	" *Warner Bros. Releases Official Watchmen* Teaser Trailer*" Posted Jul 17, 2008*	Watchmen (2009)	n/a
3.5/5	" "More twists than a barrel of pretzels"? Take that barrel and put it through the zigzag of a taffy-pulling machine and those results might be able to straighten out the labyrinth of circumstances in Tell No One." Posted Jul 14, 2008	Tell No One (2008)	92%
2.5/5	" *The subplot in Meet Dave* is too complicated for a film of this type. It drags the entire story down with it. However, this did give the screenwriters an excuse to camp up the situation.*" Posted Jul 14, 2008*	Meet Dave (2008)	20%
3/5	" Journey to the Center of the Earth isn't so much an adaptation of the book but a very weak narrative film that uses action sequences from the book to make for cool, 3-D effects." Posted Jul 13, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	62%
3/5	" "I let Ben Kingsley do whatever the [bleep] he wanted (laughter)," director Jonathan Levine said in this interview. "He is very, very smart. As a relatively new director, it was incumbent upon me to just say: 'What do you need?'"" Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	67%
2.5/5	" In Hellboy II, director Guillermo del Toro delivers the Hollywood filet mignon we've come to expect wrapped nicely in all the special-effects bacon we've come to desire but without the heart we've come to demand." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	88%
2/5	" With superhero films as hot in 2008 as psychedelics were in the 1960s, the new blockbuster superhero film Hancock fits with the label but without any of the ancestry. The 1983 film The Return of Captain Invincible is flipping in its grave." Posted Jul 3, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
4.5/5	" With curving, clinking and kissing bullets, Wanted indeed does Chicago proud. And Angelina Jolie sells it. And Morgan Freeman is ominous. And in his body of work, James McAvoy -- the star of this orgasmic summer blockbuster -- becomes a man." Posted Jul 2, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
5/5	" *Though perfection in film is a highly unlikely proposition, WALL-E* indeed has become 2008's first perfect film and one of the best Pixar projects of all time.*" Posted Jul 2, 2008*	WALL-E (2008)	96%
4.5/5	" This is an achingly beautiful film full of black-and-white images working as both stark reality and soft-focus dreams. Maddin contemplates the far-off sense of leaving Winnipeg and seeks renewal through an anti-nostalgic look back at it." Posted Jul 1, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	94%
4/5	" Interview: These two incredibly insightful women (director Sarah Gavron and lead actress Tannishtha Chatterjee) talk about the essence in creating this amazing female lead and an overall perspective on the Muslim experience in London." Posted Jun 28, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
3/5	" While this is not a laugh-out-loud film, it does revel in the quirks of the James Bond movies and makes fun of those conventions accordingly. But the film never settles into a groove that feels comfortably paced." Posted Jun 27, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008)	74%
3/5	" China is on the world's mind. The once-mysterious communist "enemy" is now the economic friend of all the essential profiteers. Up the Yangtze is a new documentary that expounds upon China in transition." Posted Jun 22, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2007)	95%
2/5	" Combining dull action-movie elements, badly cast movie stars and an uncomfortable romance, Get Smart has forgotten all about its TV roots and most of the humor. Steve Carell is clearly not up to the challenge of filling Don Adams' phone shoe." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
3.5/5	" While for some The Love Guru may feel as though its gags were forced and unworthy as a script of pure hilarity, those same opponents will find themselves either secretly snickering or outright chortling in a seat-bouncing fashion." Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
3/5	" The acting is superior in a rather spotty story. Jim Broadbent is a consummate actor who finds the pinpricks in a dry script and sharpens them to magnify Arthur's negative characteristics." Posted Jun 19, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	72%
4/5	" While Fatih Akin's script and direction give his actors room to grow, they don't necessarily give them the tools to do so. This is a film about being human that's characterized by the final shot of yet another temporal period of anticipation." Posted Jun 18, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
3/5	" Julianne Moore once again puts the acting pedal to the metal. Her absorption into the role actually seems better than the thankless craziness written for the character. She is the highlight of this otherwise expendable film." Posted Jun 15, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
4/5	" Technology has done double-edged duty to the legendary Hulk character. The CGI-created ripped body of nothing remotely reminiscent of Edward Norton blows away Lou Ferrigno's 1978 character -- as long as you don't look him in the face." Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
3.5/5	" Trying to understand the thought process of writer and director M. Night Shyamalan is akin to analyzing Jell-O. What keeps it wiggling and what binds it together? This particular circumstance also had an Alfred Hitchcock vibe." Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	18%
2/5	" If you like multi-arced episodes of Masterpiece (formerly Masterpiece Theatre), the pacing might work in this padded film. As it was, experiencing this in real time was akin to watching two snails race on a muddy track." Posted Jun 10, 2008	The Duchess of Langeais (2008)	68%
2/5	" There's a feeling of skimming the surface of a true story that would be better served by being grittier or more challenging. As well, the narrative deserves more than an obvious and improbable love story between two good-looking movie stars." Posted Jun 7, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	27%

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