ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ty Burr - Rotten Tomatoes

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3.5/4	Michael Clayton
3/4	The Last Winter
2.5/4	Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
2/4	Lust, Caution
C+	Dark City
1.5/4	The Seeker
1/4	Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
.5/4	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Man on Wire
4/4	WALL-E
4/4	Up The Yangtze
4/4	Contempt
4/4	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4/4	I'm Not There
4/4	No Country for Old Men
4/4	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4/4	This Is England
4/4	Once
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Bratz: The Movie
0/4	Gigli
.5/4	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
.5/4	Georgia Rule
0.5/4	Let's Go to Prison
.5/4	An American Haunting
0.5/4	The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
.5/4	Underclassman
.5/4	Stealth
.5/4	Envy
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

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2.5/4	" The story's powered by the sense of discovery that moves classic quest tales -- the idea that there's something much, much bigger out there if only you can find it. It's a modest movie that understands the sky's the limit." -- Boston Globe Posted Oct 10, 2008	City of Ember (2008)	46%
3/4	" The movie is an urgent current-events thriller that falls somewhere between Syriana and the Bourne movies." -- Boston Globe Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	50%
2/4	" Ultimately, the problem with An American Carol is the problem with far too much political discourse in this country, left or right: It highlights the worst excesses of the opposition for the sole purpose of discrediting the vast middle." -- Boston Globe Posted Oct 6, 2008	An American Carol (2008)	13%
1.5/4	" Nothing in How to Lose Friends feels fresh or on target." -- Boston Globe Posted Oct 3, 2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	33%
2/4	" *...The problem with Flash of Genius* isn't that the subject is dull but that the movie is.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	59%
3/4	" *Sollett's working with stale material, clearly. He genuinely likes people, though, and his fondness revives Nick and Norah* and sets it spinning with camaraderie and hope.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2.5/4	" When filmmaker Irena Salina does marshal the facts, Flow is an eye-opening, troubling 90 minutes that makes us think twice about an element we take for granted." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 26, 2008	Flow: For Love of Water (2008)	73%
2.5/4	" *I'm not sure why The Duchess* doesn't wholly succeed, because the pieces are all there and they're very watchable.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Sep 26, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	61%
	" The chief culprits are Townsend's TV-movie characterizations and a very muddled message." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 26, 2008	Battle in Seattle (2008)	55%
2/4	" Choke is disappointing not for what it is but what it could have been." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 26, 2008	Choke (2008)	56%
2.5/4	" [Hitchcock] for a modern age bloated by steroids, addled by action, and incapable of long-term attention." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 26, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	28%
3.5/4	" On the surface, it's a straightforward low-budget tale about a grown man who visits his parents and refuses to leave. Yet deeper, darker currents move through Momma's Man, eddying around fears of letting go on both sides of the generational divide." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 19, 2008	Momma's Man (2008)	96%
1.5/4	" [Director] Ball's trying to be honest about adolescent coming of age, but since he's dishonest about everything else, the movie collapses in on itself, ending with a laughably pat resolution that renders Towelhead a Bizarro World After School Special." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 19, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	49%
	" Plays like a cross between Hitchcock and tabloid feminism, a mix that shouldn't work and doesn't." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 19, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	61%
2.5/4	" Someone once said about W.C. Fields that he had the rare ability to despise amusingly. I can imagine no greater compliment than to say that Ricky Gervais seems, at his best, like a young Fields." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 19, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	85%
1.5/4	" The movie plays almost exactly like four daily soap episodes stitched together." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 15, 2008	Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008)	51%
2/4	" The difference between Burn After Reading and much better Coen comedies like Raising Arizona, Fargo, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? is that the brothers� smugness has finally gone over the top." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 12, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
3/4	" The moral translates darkly and it translates well." -- Boston Globe Posted Sep 5, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	81%
3/4	" Traitor offers up one of the more maddeningly, gratifyingly complex lead characters seen in movies lately." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 27, 2008	Traitor (2008)	53%
3.5/4	" Frozen River does what too many independent American movies only pretend to do: Takes you to an unnoticed corner of our country and shows what it's like to actually live there." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 22, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	86%
3.5/4	" *What makes The Girl Who Leapt Through Time* such an unexpected treat is the contemplative pace and painterly visuals.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Aug 22, 2008	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2008)	87%
1/4	" *At nearly two hours, Mirrors* is overlong for a summer horror toss-off, and the movie's three or four false endings make it seem even more of a haul.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Aug 18, 2008	Mirrors (2008)	13%
3/4	" A celebration of a large-hearted contrarian, and if it's over-worshipful, the film gets you in an indulgent frame of mind." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 15, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	78%
2.5/4	" For the first time in my experience, a 3-D movie felt bigger than my ability to take it all in." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 15, 2008	Fly Me To The Moon (2008)	17%
3/4	" A stylishly funky Hong Kong thriller from cult director Johnnie To and co-writer/codirector Wai Ka Fai." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 8, 2008	Mad Detective (2008)	83%
4/4	" A documentary about a towering act of daring proves a spine-tingling memorial to recklessness as art." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 8, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
3/4	" *If movies were wine, Bottle Shock* would be a pleasant varietal you'd find on the half-price shelf. Nothing fancy but tasty nonetheless.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Aug 5, 2008	Bottle Shock (2008)	45%
2.5/4	" Guys, you're asking us to swallow a pot farce, a buddy thriller, an action parody, and a touching tale of two men on the run? You must be high." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 5, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
3/4	" How are girls supposed to behave in a culture that tells them they're Disney princesses for the first 12 years and sex toys after that? Girls Rock! has one answer: Strap on a Fender and rage against the machine." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 1, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	71%
3/4	" The movie's cheap, it's clever -- it's even a little scary in places." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 1, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
3/4	" Consciously or not, the movie's about the way we structure our lives as drama if we want them to have any meaning at all." -- Boston Globe Posted Aug 1, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
1.5/4	" *Despite exotic locations, epic cinematography, and much spectacular crash and bang, this Mummy* feels like a threadbare toss-off.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	13%
2.5/4	" The movie makes you glad that CSNY is still out there rocking in the free world. It makes you doubly glad they're not leading it." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 25, 2008	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	64%
3/4	" *Cool, carnal, and lethal, The Last Mistress* is a period drama with a difference.*" -- Boston Globe* Posted Jul 25, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
2.5/4	" Has one joke that it beats into the ground: 40-year-old men acting like petulant 9-year-olds. Luckily, Ferrell and Reilly were born with no shame or sense of personal dignity, and they give good tantrum." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
3/4	" You come away impressed, oppressed, provoked, and beaten down, holding on to Ledger's squirrelly incandescence as a beacon in the darkness." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
3.5/4	" This is a secret history, and it's a wonder." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 11, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	94%
2.5/4	" Man, have we been here before." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	67%
2.5/4	" The gimmickry can't lift the boats of a threadbare storyline. What the proselytizers and the investors forget is that if the characters and emotions aren't three-dimensional, the rest of the movie will always look flat." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	62%
3/4	" A blast of fanboy wit, style, imagination, and prodigious noise that comes on like heavy-bore pop art." -- Boston Globe Posted Jul 11, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	88%
3/4	" *There's nothing remotely cool about Kit Kittredge. That's why it's cool." -- Boston Globe* Posted Jul 2, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	79%
3.5/4	" David Volach has created a drama that, in retrospect, feels positively biblical." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 27, 2008	My Father My Lord (2008)	93%
4/4	" The best American film of the year to date." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
2.5/4	" Wanted is quite happy to judge a man by the size of his gun. The irony is that the biggest one here belongs to Jolie, and her Amazon smile indicates she knows exactly how nervous that makes the boys." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
3/4	" Everyone here comes out smelling bad -- that's why the film's so good." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 20, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
2.5/4	" Get Smart, version 2008, surrounds skilled, likable players, and a handful of solid belly laughs with $80 million worth of formulaic summer-movie mediocrity. A lot of things explode, but the movie never detonates." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
2.5/4	" Savage Grace contemplates passion without sampling it, though, and the film quickly becomes as remote as a magazine spread." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 13, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
1.5/4	" War, Inc. fires off dozens of lethal dialogue squibs like 'War is the improvement of investments using other means,' but it doesn't connect them into anything that can truly rattle an audience's complacency." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 13, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	30%
1/4	" You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career." -- Boston Globe Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	18%
4/4	" *In his masterful and haunting documentary Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang shows the old China drowning helplessly under the weight of the new." -- Boston Globe* Posted Jun 6, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2007)	95%

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