ROTTEN TOMATOES: Walter V. Addiego

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Les Miserables
3.5/4	Lost Embrace
3/4	Babe
2.5/4	Sling Blade
2/4	Tommy Boy
1.5/4	Domestic Import
C-	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1/4	Happy Gilmore
0/4	Deck the Halls

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Rescue Dawn
4/4	Into Great Silence
4/4	The Good Shepherd
4/4	Elevator to the Gallows
4/4	Les Miserables
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Deck the Halls
1/4	The Grand
1/4	Nina's Heavenly Delights
1/4	Hoodwinked
1/4	Domino
1/4	The Talent Given Us
1/4	Secuestro Express
1/4	Garfield the Movie
1/4	Games People Play: New York
1/4	Torque
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

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3/4	"Dujardin nails his character, who is deeply dense but always seems to draw the winning card, mainly through dumb luck. And Hazanavicius clearly knows the '60s-era Bond films, which are full of ripe targets that he lovingly demolishes." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)	74%
2/4	"Graduation isn't some daring amalgam of traditional movie categories; it's simply all over the place." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 2, 2008	Graduation (2008)	n/a
3/4	"Director Daniele Luchetti's strategy is to personify the long-standing divisions of his homeland in a pair of siblings, but make the characters so vital that we don't feel we're being browbeaten with political allegory." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 25, 2008	My Brother is an Only Child (2008)	90%
3/4	" The film's emotional peak comes at the end when the chorus performs for prison inmates who must be, on average, well under half the age of the singers. It's a liberating experience, for both sides." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 18, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	87%
1/4	"You eventually get the feeling that the actors are riffing mainly for each other. Their attitude is, 'We're talented, trust us, we know how to be funny,' but in the end, it's mostly just a bluff." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 4, 2008	The Grand ()	42%
3/4	"An austere rural landscape, festering hatred, class tensions, terse dialogue -- these are common currency in indie movies these days. Shotgun Stories uses them all, but manages to stand out from the crowd." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	87%
3/4	"*I never would have guessed that Adam Carolla, the politically incorrect radio and TV personality, could hold his own in a movie, but here's The Hammer* to prove me wrong.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Hammer (2008)	74%
3.5/4	"[Cinematographer] Daniel has never shot a film for Malick, though you'd hardly guess so, given The Unforeseen's poetic and dreamy shots of nature that, like the images that open the Malick's "The Thin Red Line," hint at an Earthly paradise." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 14, 2008	The Unforeseen (2007)	85%
2/4	"There's a nice pro-education theme struggling to emerge from oceans of clumsy humor here, so let's be generous and say the movie deserves about a C-minus." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 7, 2008	College Road Trip (2008)	14%
2/4	"Director Palansky and screenwriter Leslie Caveny seem to have many of the right ingredients for creating something beguiling, but the film is, finally, surprisingly pedestrian. What a shame, with all these good performers." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 29, 2008	Penelope (2008)	53%
2/4	"As a travelogue, Jumper isn't half bad, with lots of juicy images of Rome, Tokyo, New York and other splendid places. But we're supposed to be watching a sci-fi action film, and that's where things go south." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 13, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
2/4	"[A] half-baked effort." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 8, 2008	Shrooms (2006)	14%
2/4	"The message - stay true to your roots - is solid, and [director] Lee gives his outstanding comic cast some sharp one-liners, but he undermines the effort with crass humor, mugging and slapstick." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 8, 2008	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)	25%
3/4	"Well-made and modestly enjoyable seriocomedy." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 1, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
3/4	"The filmmakers employ a powerful technique of interspersing newsreel footage with wrenching on-camera interviews of survivors and sequences of actors reciting from the letters and memoirs of the Westerners on the scene." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 11, 2008	Nanking (2007)	97%
2/4	"No one says filmmakers have to be objective, but there's a point where you can alienate even those who agree with you. This picture eventually goes off the rails, and it's likely to please only the most virulent of Schwarzenegger haters." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 11, 2008	Running with Arnold (2008)	0%
3/4	"*The goal here is to educate and to inspire, and that's what The Great Debaters* does.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	79%
3/4	"At first, the technique seems gimmicky, but finally it's as compelling a perspective as any to understand how these men passed through agony to some sort of peace." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 14, 2007	Protagonist (2007)	83%
2/4	"[Director] Lawrence is pretty good at the spectacular stuff. And he's smart enough to let Smith be Smith. But there's only so much you can do with CGI monsters that don't seem right for this kind of sci-fi scenario." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 14, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	68%
2/4	"Perhaps Patten is trying to do to us what Rinpoche does to his followers, but the film's meandering structure and intrusive narration detract from the focus on the master." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 7, 2007	Words of My Perfect Teacher (2006)	n/a
1/4	"A lightweight and sentimental exercise that succeeds at little except maybe inspiring the viewer to go out and find a decent curry." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 7, 2007	Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007)	6%
3/4	"One of the producers of What Would Jesus Buy? was Morgan Spurlock, and the film is very much in the spirit of his Super Size Me." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 28, 2007	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)	65%
3/4	"Portraying a version of Disney's Snow White, [Adams] owns the character, down to every warble and twirl." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 21, 2007	Enchanted (2007)	94%
3/4	"We get an all-access pass to watch the master at work, both on location and at his home-workshop-studio in Los Angeles. Those who aren't part of the filmmaker's substantial cult will be less intrigued." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 16, 2007	Lynch (2007)	53%
2/4	"*There's some ghoulish humor in P2,* and a couple of scares, but it's little more than the umpteenth variation of the woman-locked-in-a-house plot.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Nov 9, 2007	P2 (2007)	35%
3/4	"While there's no startling news here -- most people know that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a staple in food processing and isn't particularly good for us -- this documentary neatly, and often humorously, summarizes a very unhealthy situation." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 2, 2007	King Corn (2007)	95%
3/4	"In this compelling documentary, narrated by Paul Newman, Hartley comes off as a man of intense will, and he needs to be." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 2, 2007	The Price of Sugar (2007)	72%
3/4	"The film is directed with humor and a sense of openness that is quite Zen-like." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 26, 2007	How to Cook Your Life (2007)	71%
3.5/4	"[Director] Bier knows the difference between drama and melodrama." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 19, 2007	Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)	65%
2/4	"A lot of the acting is in the broad Disney Channel style." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 6, 2007	Sydney White (2007)	37%
2/4	"It's funny in spots if you can tune out the Farrellys' ultra-crass jokes -- along with any memory of the first movie." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 5, 2007	The Heartbreak Kid (2007)	29%
3/4	"...Cahill wins me over with this poignant depiction of a tender father-daughter relationship." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 28, 2007	King of California (2007)	64%
2.5/4	"[Director Theroux] has a tendency to overplay things, with self-consciously arty direction and an intrusive soundtrack." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 21, 2007	Dedication (2007)	41%
2/4	"*The main point I can extract from Ethan Hawke's The Hottest State* is that even a peevish and self-centered young man is capable of feeling great anguish when his girlfriend dumps him.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Sep 7, 2007	The Hottest State (2006)	35%
2/4	"The real trouble is that it's supposed to be an outrageous comedy, but in fact it's fairly tame and not all that funny." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 30, 2007	Balls of Fury (2007)	23%
2/4	"Plenty of movies have combined a blazing-guns revenge story with a family dynamics drama, but Illegal Tender never gets the mixture right, lurching between bullet-happy shootouts and overwrought domestic content." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 24, 2007	Illegal Tender (2007)	13%
4/4	"Herzog aims this genre effort at a broader audience than he usually gets, and he does so without losing his soul. It's a remarkably straightforward tale that allows the director to dwell on obsessions familiar to those who know his work." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 13, 2007	Rescue Dawn (2007)	90%
3/4	"The acting is uniformly on a high level. Tamblyn is impressive, and Swinton, as usual, is outstanding." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 22, 2007	Stephanie Daley (2007)	89%
3/4	"*Trial movies can be painful, but Bamako* is a powerful polemic leavened with moments of beauty and humor.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 2, 2007	Bamako (2006)	84%
1.5/4	"The script is melodramatic, and Rai's lead performance is thin stuff." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 18, 2007	Provoked (2007)	27%
3/4	"Though not flawless, this is a compelling study, in Dogme style, of a wounded young woman who spends her working life spying on others." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 4, 2007	Red Road (2007)	89%
3/4	"Though set in Vermont in the 1930s, this has the feel of a Western -- one with mystical overtones -- and provides a great role for Kris Kristofferson, who's looking well weathered these days." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 4, 2007	Disappearances (2006)	52%
1.5/4	"The direction, by TV veteran Kevin Connor, and the acting are reminiscent of the Disney Channel." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 27, 2007	Domestic Import (2006)	n/a
3/4	"The portrayal of a wounded society is compelling, and the film ends on a very modestly hopeful note, appropriate for a country where the 'dreams' have been mostly painful." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 30, 2007	Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007)	98%
3/4	"Some nice performances and modest laughs highlight this amiable British comedy about a young man who goes off to Bristol University in the mid-'80s and does what young people naturally do when they go to college." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 16, 2007	Starter For 10 (2007)	89%
4/4	"The silence captured in this documentary may be the most eloquent you'll ever hear." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 16, 2007	Into Great Silence (2007)	89%
3/4	"A free-fall plunge through David Lynch's imagination, a curious and often astonishing place. The film is dazzling and bewildering in equal measure." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 9, 2007	Inland Empire (2006)	70%
3/4	"This is a somber work -- Ceylan's movies have drawn comparisons to Antonioni for their probing of alienation and to Bresson for their unadorned style. But Ceylan has his moments of sly humor." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 26, 2007	Climates (2006)	71%
3/4	"Three Sudanese men struggle to adjust to life in the United States -- from their perspective, a very strange place -- in this affecting and well-made culture-shock documentary." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 19, 2007	God Grew Tired of Us (2007)	91%

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