ROTTEN TOMATOES: Joe Baltake

BEST REVIEWED FILMS

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4/4	" An unusually observant film marked by dry, acerbic humor." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 17, 2004	Spanglish (2004)	52%
4/4	" The remarkable Liam Neeson does an affectingly self-effacing turn in the title role." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 24, 2004	Kinsey (2004)	90%
4/4	" *Guided by Depp's gentle performance, Winslet's wistfulness and Macdonald's intense Pan, Finding Neverland* will send you out of the theater crying and saying, 'I do believe!'*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Nov 19, 2004	Finding Neverland (2004)	83%
4/4	" *The film's Cassavetes-style aimlessness (think of it as a West Coast Husbands) gets a jolt when each of the guys pairs up with a willing woman." -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Nov 12, 2004	Sideways (2004)	96%
4/4	" *Mike Leigh, who seemingly has single-handedly revived kitchen-sink realism in modern British movies, hits something of a career high with the marvelous Vera Drake." -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Oct 29, 2004	Vera Drake (2004)	92%
4/4	" Let's just give him his Oscar now and be done with it." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Oct 29, 2004	Ray (2004)	82%
4/4	" Brings with it everything a movie goer would want in a bracingly adult film." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Oct 22, 2004	Red Lights (2004)	83%
4/4	" A film of one memorable movie moment after another." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Aug 27, 2004	Hero (2004)	95%
4/4	" An unnerving 'What if?' scenario that you won't be able to shake -- from either your dreams or your waking thoughts." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Aug 20, 2004	Open Water (2004)	72%
4/4	" *In some ways, Riding Giants* overlaps Step Into Liquid. The two complement each other.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Aug 13, 2004	Riding Giants (2004)	92%
4/4	" A genuinely original modern thriller." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Aug 6, 2004	Collateral (2004)	86%
4/4	" I found myself hoping that Linklater, Hawke and Delpy would revisit these characters in another 10 years. And perhaps again in 20 years." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jul 16, 2004	Before Sunset (2004)	94%
4/4	" This movie is for everyone." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jul 2, 2004	The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004)	95%
4/4	" *The closest thing to an art-house action film since Tim Burton's original Batman* in 1989.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Jun 29, 2004	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	93%
4/4	" An enjoyable ensemble movie anchored by Hanks' incredible -- and incredibly generous -- performance." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jun 18, 2004	The Terminal (2004)	60%
4/4	" Offers us a fierce yet often surprisingly friendly debate about the clashing ways in which the U.S. invasion and takeover of Iraq have been portrayed by American and Arab journalists, placing matters in context." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jun 11, 2004	Control Room (2004)	96%
4/4	" Until an even more impressive chapter comes along, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban looms as the apex of the phenomenal new film franchise based on J.K. Rowling's celebrated series of novels." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jun 4, 2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	89%
4/4	" *This fractured, very showbizzy deconstruction of fairy tales is in many ways the Godfather: Part II* of animations -- it tops its successful predecessor.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted May 19, 2004	Shrek 2 (2004)	89%
4/4	" This is one special movie." -- Sacramento Bee Posted May 7, 2004	Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004)	87%
4/4	" It's Adjani, at turns hammy and heartfelt, who makes this film positively levitate." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 23, 2004	Bon Voyage (2004)	77%
4/4	" Simply one of the best films, period." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 16, 2004	Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)	85%
4/4	" Carrey is essentially the straight man, yet he's rarely been funnier. And Winslet is perfect as the model of an unstable woman who's bad news but irresistible." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Mar 19, 2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	94%
4/4	" Touching the Void is one of those rare movies that prove that fact is indeed stranger than fiction." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Mar 5, 2004	Touching the Void (2004)	93%
4/4	" A superior soap opera not unlike what Douglas Sirk might have churned out in the 1950s." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 3, 2004	Gloomy Sunday (2003)	84%
4/4	" One of those rare movies that works as a humbling experience." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jun 4, 2004	To Be and To Have (2003)	96%
4/4	" Singular and unforgettable -- the work of a brilliant crackpot." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 23, 2004	Dogville (2003)	70%
4/4	" [A] powerful film." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 16, 2004	Osama (2003)	96%
4/4	" Movies about acrimony between mothers and daughters are a dime a dozen. But it's difficult to find one about the tensions between fathers and sons." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Apr 2, 2004	My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003)	93%
4/4	" *As original as it is strange, The Triplets of Belleville* not only will win you over with that potent combination, but will likely tempt you to seek out its company again and again.*" -- Sacramento Bee* Posted Feb 6, 2004	The Triplets of Belleville (2003)	94%
4/4	" Walks the thin line of empathizing with its subject without necessarily endorsing or condoning her action." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jan 9, 2004	Monster (2003)	82%
4/4	" A smart, moody film that achieves the delicate balance of having us care about all of its characters." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 26, 2003	House of Sand and Fog (2003)	76%
4/4	" Here is a privileged example of a talented filmmaker at the top of his game, abetted by a dream cast that's every bit as committed and passionate as he is." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 25, 2003	Cold Mountain (2003)	71%
4/4	" It humbles its audience and engenders a sense of empathy." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 19, 2003	In America (2003)	89%
4/4	" Insanely spectacular and never less than absorbing, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King not only fully celebrates J.R.R. Tolkien's classic literary work but fully explains Jackson's outsized obsession with bringing it to the screen." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 16, 2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	94%
4/4	" Too specialized an item to be flat-out declared the best film of the year, but from where I sit, it is inarguably the finest cinematic achievement of 2003 so far." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Dec 12, 2003	Elephant (2003)	71%
4/4	" The closest thing we have today to a W.C. Fields movie." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 26, 2003	Bad Santa (2003)	77%
4/4	" Shattered Glass has the skill and power to make you squirm." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 21, 2003	Shattered Glass (2003)	91%
4/4	" For 88 all-too-brief minutes, we get to hang out with very companionable people, eavesdrop on their small talk and come to know them intimately, perhaps more intimately than we can get to know our own family members." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Nov 7, 2003	The Station Agent (2003)	95%
4/4	" The biggest, baddest B-movie ever made." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Oct 10, 2003	Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)	85%
4/4	" Harsh and angry, this Oscar-worthy film stages a deliberately paced, thoroughly researched indictment of institutionalized cruelty and the kind of ignorance and hypocrisy that validates and encourages it." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Sep 20, 2003	The Magdalene Sisters (2003)	90%
4/4	" A gemlike movie that's intimate and moody but never sentimental." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Sep 20, 2003	Lost in Translation (2003)	95%
4/4	" You don't necessarily have to be a parent to get the shivers from Hardwicke's detailed delineation of one young girl's shocking descent from perfect daughter/honor student to incorrigible rebel/disruptive influence." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Sep 5, 2003	Thirteen (2003)	82%
4/4	" Pulcini and Berman have inventively rethought the notion of the biopic, and the results are audacious." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Aug 29, 2003	American Splendor (2003)	94%
4/4	" These are characters that draw you in and make you care, making it impossible to pull away." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Aug 22, 2003	Dirty Pretty Things (2003)	94%
4/4	" [A] very special and singular film" -- Sacramento Bee Posted Aug 15, 2003	Open Range (2003)	78%
4/4	" Like that summer holiday -- that vacation -- that you hope will never end." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Aug 8, 2003	Camp (2003)	62%
4/4	" The best film of the summer." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jul 25, 2003	Seabiscuit (2003)	77%
4/4	" Witty, poignant and suspenseful." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jul 21, 2003	Spellbound (2003)	98%
4/4	" As humbling as it is remarkable." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jul 11, 2003	Winged Migration (2003)	97%
4/4	" It is one of those rare films whose subject matter alone can wipe you out emotionally." -- Sacramento Bee Posted Jun 27, 2003	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)	97%

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