ROTTEN TOMATOES: Brian Holcomb

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	My Blueberry Nights
	The Signal
	Cassandra's Dream
	Extras - The Complete Second Season
	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
	Perth
	Fast Food Nation
	Apartment Zero
	Harsh Times
	Re-Animator
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	Dead Man's Bounty
	Marie Antoinette
	Night of the Living Dorks
	Turistas
	Jailbait
	Smokin' Aces
	The Messengers
	Factory Girl
	The Good German
	The Nightcomers
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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3.5/5	"It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted Jul 6, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
3/5	"The film is both an impressive "calling card" work for the filmmakers and a failure as an actual film." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted Jun 15, 2008	The Signal (2007)	55%
3.5/5	"There is an effortless artistry in this film that may have deceived many. It looks like a trifle but it packs a punch." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted Jun 2, 2008	Cassandra's Dream (2008)	51%
4/10	"In attempting to create a shock effect of the new within the old, the baby is tossed out with the bathwater. The core pleasures of genre still have to be respected." -- PopMatters Posted May 29, 2008	Dead Man's Bounty (2007)	38%
4/4	"The cleverest conceit of the show is that celebrity doesn't really change a person so much as fan the flames that were burning from the start." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 22, 2008	Extras - The Complete Second Season ()	n/a
3.5/5	"Where the brilliant "Raiders" was an adventure film aimed at the child at heart, "Temple of Doom" is really designed for the kiddie market itself." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 21, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)	84%
8/10	"Erupts with the freshness and energy only first time filmmakers can generate-yet has the control and mastery over its subject that novice directors take years to command." -- PopMatters Posted May 5, 2008	Perth (2006)	n/a
2.5/5	"This could be the story of Paris Hilton if she were to be married off to an impotent French Prince instead of dating meatheads armed with camcorders." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	Marie Antoinette (2006)	54%
7/10	"This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table." -- PopMatters Posted May 5, 2008	Fast Food Nation (2006)	51%
7/10	"Maybe it's no surprise that the decade in which AIDS reared its ugly head produced an astonishing number of films concerning dangerously repressed homosexual protagonists." -- PopMatters Posted May 5, 2008	Apartment Zero (1988)	88%
2.5/5	"Outside of surface details involving flesh eating and body rot, these zombie stooges look more hung over than dead. This is really a sex comedy with a zombie theme." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	Night of the Living Dorks (2006)	20%
3/5	"A crazy little film, modest in its scope but grand in its ambition. It paints it's story in loud primary colors, with intense pressure cooker characterizations." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	Harsh Times (2006)	48%
5/5	"This is one of the greatest films ever made. Period. It's outrageous, erotic, gory, jaw-dropping, genre-busting ,shocking, and altogether exhilarating filmmaking." -- PopMatters Posted May 5, 2008	Re-Animator (1985)	92%
2.5/5	"With a plot Frankensteined from the remains of "Hostel", "The Descent" and "Wolf Creek", "Turistas" was clearly never going to be on anyone's 10 best list." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	Turistas (2006)	15%
4/5	"Teleporting Zombies! Hanging priests! Bleeding eyes! Organ regurgitation! The plot is meaningless and the characters senseless. But these are pluses for films in this cycle." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	The City of the Living Dead (1980)	29%
8/10	"With "Rocky Balboa", Stallone's created the first real "sequel" to his original, a deserving bookend that recaptures that film's sense of character and realistic detail." -- PopMatters Posted May 5, 2008	Rocky Balboa (2006)	76%
4/10	"It's really not much fun watching the non drama of our hero Randy (Michael Pitt) staring at the walls and keeping the hands of the more brutish Jake from clawing up his skirt." -- PopMatters Posted May 5, 2008	Jailbait (2006)	17%
3/5	"The best Tarantino riff of 1994." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	Smokin' Aces (2007)	27%
4.5/5	"A very detailed portrait of a time and place that is about to change forever. This is a Long Island of 1976 in someone's memory, like a faded Polaroid in an old shoebox." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	Diggers (2007)	70%
2/5	"Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupid and easily duped." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	The Messengers (2007)	11%
4/5	"Hartley pretzels his faux spy plot into "Syriana"-like knots and ends up with a fascinating if somewhat flawed absurdist romp." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	Fay Grim (2007)	44%
3/5	""How can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks a bewildered and ultra-ironic John McClane. Well, make a film as successful as Die Hard and you'll soon find out." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 5, 2008	Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)	62%
7/10	"Like the films of Polanski and Nicolas Roeg, "Head Trauma" is a slow burn movie, the kind which gradually pulls you deeper and deeper into its own twisted reality." -- PopMatters Posted May 5, 2008	Head Trauma (2005)	n/a
2.5/5	"Summing up a complex human being in two hours is like an MTV spot about Nelson Mandela cut to a Kanye West track. We don't really get to know Sedgwick at all." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	Factory Girl (2007)	19%
4.5/5	"Effectively tells the story of "The Black Cat" through the troubled life of the author himself, mixing fact and fiction like a horror movie version of "Shakespeare in Love"." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	Masters of Horror - Stuart Gordon: The Black Cat (2007)	n/a
5/10	"The work of a master visualist trying to walk the line between narrative and visual spectacle. The story is there, but it just sits on the side of the visual experience." -- PopMatters Posted May 2, 2008	The Abandoned (2007)	34%
5/10	"No matter that it's based on a book, the movie is more about how the reality of the time was seen through the lens of a Michael Curtiz while he was filming "Casablanca"." -- PopMatters Posted May 2, 2008	The Good German (2006)	33%
5/5	"Strips the artistry of the Henry James original and leaves us with a hairy, overweight, naked and sweating Brando brutally kneading Stephanie Beacham's breasts into new shapes" -- PopMatters Posted May 2, 2008	The Nightcomers (1972)	n/a
4/5	"It's not too hard to imagine that the inspiration for this show came during a late night, cannabis fueled attack of the munchies. It's no masterpiece but that's the idea." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)	48%
8/10	"Diana Rigg plays the title role without remorse. Her Hedda suffers no fools and appears ready to strike like a coiled snake." -- PopMatters Posted May 2, 2008	Hedda Gabler (1980)	n/a
5/5	"It has a plot that moves as though it were carefully thought out, and yet it also appears to be desperately improvised on the spot." -- PopMatters Posted May 2, 2008	Honor Among Thieves (1982)	n/a
3.5/5	"Imagine a campfire story told by Jack London after downing a bottle of Jack Daniels. The chilly atmosphere would be in full force but the plotting might be a bit punch drunk." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	Wind Chill (2007)	46%
4/5	"While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	Bug (2007)	59%
5/5	"Fighting against pop culture expectations and a century of vampire clich�, Coppola's approach is unique. Like it or not, no one had ever seen a "Dracula" quite like this." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)	82%
2/5	"It's different, but is it any good? As another former President might say, "Depends on how you define 'good'."" -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	The Tripper (2007)	20%
5/5	"Beyond all the "masterpiece" rhetoric, this is actually a great movie." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	Chinatown (1974)	100%
7/10	"This is not the kind of horror that comes from cobwebs and creaky doors. Its horrors are all too human and impossible to cast off with a simple fade out." -- PopMatters Posted May 2, 2008	Witchfinder General (1968)	82%
	"Lindsay Lohan wears more clothes in this movie then she does clubbing in real life." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	I Know Who Killed Me (2007)	8%
	"For Malick, Man is just a small part of a world which just keeps going round with or without his petty squabbles, crimes, loves, or melodramatic plots." -- PopMatters Posted May 2, 2008	Days of Heaven (1978)	91%
3/5	"Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible." -- CinemaBlend.com Posted May 2, 2008	Awake (2007)	24%
	"DePalma is like a magician who dazzles us with a trick only to show us, alas, it really was only a trick, and in the meantime he's stolen our watch." -- Beyond Hollywood Posted Apr 26, 2008	The Black Dahlia (2006)	35%
1/4	"Constructed from spare parts in a bionic writing room, the show has the arms and legs of "Alias" and "Heroes" but without a heart and brain of its own." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 22, 2008	Bionic Woman - Volume 1 (2007)	n/a
	"Movies like "Street Kings" are sitting ducks in a shooting range for film critics who laugh all through the movie only to condemn it for being so damn entertaining." -- Beyond Hollywood Posted Apr 20, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
	"Lots of questions are left unanswered, like a movie you fell asleep watching on late night TV and were never able to find again." -- Beyond Hollywood Posted Apr 20, 2008	The Backwoods (2006)	n/a
	"What is most annoying about "Lady" is that no one ever considers the possibility that nothing magical is actually occurring.The film starts out silly and just gets sillier." -- Beyond Hollywood Posted Apr 20, 2008	Lady in the Water (2006)	24%
	"Amid the sound and fury of most TV, the filmmakers deserve credit for simply having sly fun with a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing more than what it promises." -- Beyond Hollywood Posted Apr 20, 2008	Spring Break Shark Attack (2005)	n/a
	"The budget seems so charmingly low, you actually feel that after Bauer and Hastings share a bottle of wine they might have to pour it back into the bottle to reuse later." -- Beyond Hollywood Posted Apr 20, 2008	Forbidden County (2006)	n/a
4/4	"Unlike the overrated "Brick", Veronica Mars wasn't Hammett in high school attire but the real thing, Hammett in high school himself, late for class and with a hangover." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2008	Veronica Mars: The Complete Third Season ()	n/a
	""The Woods" plays like a classic Lewton film of the '40's, where the emphasis was on telling a good yarn without much ado and wrapping it up in a tightly wound 70 minutes." -- Beyond Hollywood Posted Apr 20, 2008	The Woods (2006)	67%
	"Seven films later, with the conventions of throat croaking and neck cracking having moved into camp, it's amazing that Shimizu can still find new ways to turn the old screw." -- Beyond Hollywood Posted Apr 20, 2008	The Grudge 2 (2006)	12%

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