ROTTEN TOMATOES: Sam Adams - Rotten Tomatoes

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Romántico
4.5/5	Wondrous Oblivion
A-	Brideshead Revisited
4/5	Two Drifters
B+	The Unforeseen
3.5/5	51 Birch Street
B	Jar City
3/5	The Motel
B-	Roman de Gare
2.5/5	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2/5	The Whore's Son
1.5/5	Norbit
1/5	Iowa
D	Eight Miles High
0/5	The Hottie & the Nottie

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Romántico
A-	Brideshead Revisited
4.5/5	Wondrous Oblivion
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	The Hottie & the Nottie
D	Eight Miles High
1/5	Black Christmas
1/5	Unknown
1/5	Romeo & Juliet, Sealed With a Kiss
1/5	Iowa
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

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2.5/5	"If you put the collected works of Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Judd Apatow in a pot, boiled off the excess and let the remainder cool, you'd have something very much like Step Brothers." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	52%
A-	"It's rare to find a work that explores issues of faith without veering into religious fundamentalism or militant atheism, which is reason enough to revisit Brideshead one more time." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	71%
3.5/5	"Reed's dour, bombastic song-suite about the lives of the drug-addicted and downtrodden steadily acquired cult cachet over the decades, peaking with its staging as a complete-album concert in 2006, which Lou Reed's Berlin documents." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 18, 2008	Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)	76%
2/5	"Meet Dave pays lip service to the joys of exploring new worlds, but it never steps off the tour bus." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	21%
D	"Notwithstanding the occasional unintended guffaw, Obermaier's fabulous life is resoundingly unexciting." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 10, 2008	Eight Miles High (2007)	42%
B+	"*While the context, in the U.S. as well as its native country, lends Days And Clouds* added resonance, Soldini's main interest is in the politics of marriage.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Jul 10, 2008	Days and Clouds (2008)	86%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 9, 2008	Planet B-Boy (2008)	91%
3/5	"Wanted's hyperkinetic antics are sometimes weighed down by a surfeit of adolescent misanthropy. But the adrenaline-overdose strategy works for viewers as well as hit men." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Crime Spree (2003)	50%
B-	"*Making the minutiae of life hold continuous interest is no easy task, as demonstrated by [Cristi] Puiu's fledgling first feature, 2001's Stuff And Dough." -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Stuff and Dough (2008)	67%
B-	"Roman De Gare's neatest trick is [Dominique] Pinon's performance, which draws out a hitherto unseen leading-man allure." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 24, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
B	"The story hits too many familiar beats, but Kormákur flavors his familiar dish with beauty shots of Iceland's pitted landscape and the occasional cooked sheep's head." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 28, 2008	Jar City (2008)	91%
B+	"The movie wavers between Sundance-friendly issue film and spiritual reverie." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 28, 2008	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%
	"Gets inside Chapman's head but never under his skin." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 15, 2008	The Killing of John Lennon (2008)	35%
0/5	"Hottie goes from insufferable to downright intolerable. While it pays lip service to inner beauty, the movie winds up as a feature-length advertisement for cosmetic surgery." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)	5%
1.5/5	"*Uwe Boll isn't the worst director in the world, but In the Name of the King* might be more enjoyable if he were.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jan 14, 2008	In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)	5%
	"Starting Out is a movie for savoring, not one whose flavor explodes on your palate, but its minor-key attractions are substantial." -- Philadelphia City Paper Posted Dec 14, 2007	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
3.5/5	"Most of the movie's villains are slack-jawed variations on Beavis and Butt-Head, but Kern's high-pitched dimwit steals the show. As his eyes glaze over, you can see a thought try to cross his face and give up halfway." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 3, 2007	The Sasquatch Gang (2007)	46%
1.5/5	"Building to a climactic twist as arbitrary as it is unsatisfying, WarK ties itself in knots trying to bring something new to a stale formula. It's never painful to watch, but that's only because it provokes no feeling at all." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 27, 2007	War (2007)	14%
2/5	"Drama/Mex has flashy style but puppetlike characters and unconvincing stories." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 16, 2007	Drama/Mex (2007)	35%
2/5	"The movie's sloppiness is galling, especially given its target audience. It's one thing to feed grown-ups junk, and another to serve it to consumers too young to know they're being had." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 3, 2007	Underdog (2007)	14%
4/5	"Rife with bloody gore and funny gags." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 21, 2007	Black Sheep (2007)	71%
2/5	"The movie could have had much greater resonance were it not focused so monolithically on basketball. One wonders what life was like at Attucks High, or how the players' success on the court affected their lives off it." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 27, 2007	Something to Cheer About (2002)	43%
3.5/5	"Vacancy becomes a critique of sadistic thrillers, at the same time still serving as a crackerjack example of the genre." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 19, 2007	Vacancy (2007)	56%
2.5/5	"The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2007	Adam's Apples (2007)	71%
3/5	"A little of this junk-drawer fusillade goes a long way. It would have been interesting to see Maiellaro and Willis up the ante for their big-screen outing, rather than simply riffing at greater length." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2007	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)	48%
2/5	"Although Ice Cube is still happy to haul out his old snarl when it serves his purposes, he's clearly trying to reinvent himself as a family entertainer. But the milder he gets, the less confident he seems. What's a reformed gangsta rapper to do?" -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 3, 2007	Are We Done Yet? (2007)	8%
2.5/5	"Pride wades into the shallows when it ought to be diving into the deep end. In waters this familiar, everyone knows how to swim." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 23, 2007	Pride (2007)	46%
2/5	"My Brother is brimming with would-be life lessons. But the movie goes in so many directions, and follows through on so few of them, that all it transmits is a vague glow. It's watered-down chicken soup for the soul." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 15, 2007	My Brother (2007)	30%
1.5/5	"*The landscape of Wild Hogs* is cluttered with the comic equivalent of suburban sprawl, an endless cyclorama of rehashed jokes and whiny complaint.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 1, 2007	Wild Hogs (2007)	15%
2/5	"Drawing on their sitcom chops, Graham and Cavanagh cover for their cloth-eared dialogue with trumped-up camaraderie, pushing and pulling at each other like toddlers in playgroup." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2007	Gray Matters (2007)	10%
2/5	"*It's a good thing the performances are subtle, since little else about Starter for 10* is. Director Tom Vaughan has a particularly leaden hand with music cues.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Feb 22, 2007	Starter For 10 (2007)	89%
1.5/5	"*Lacking the wit to qualify as a sick joke, the ongoing saga of Hannibal Lecter has become the Grand Guignol* equivalent of a shaggy-dog story.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Feb 9, 2007	Hannibal Rising (2007)	15%
1.5/5	"Surely some humanitarian organization will recognize the selflessness with which Murphy has taken three of the movie's major roles, thus saving two other actors from a nasty black mark on their résumés." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2007	Norbit (2007)	9%
2/5	"The objective view gives the audience too much room to unravel its schematic plot, which is far less inspired than its creepy visuals." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 2, 2007	The Messengers (2007)	11%
5/5	"The movie's interests tend more toward the personal than the political. Cultural differences notwithstanding, Sánchez is the archetype of the overachieving dad, sacrificing his present to provide for his family's future." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 11, 2007	Romántico (2006)	96%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 30, 2006	Black Christmas (1975)	57%
4.5/5	"*For all its bright-hued nostalgia (the cricket greens are practically incandescent), Wondrous Oblivion* edges up to hard truths, most powerfully expressed in Lindo's towering performance.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 30, 2006	Wondrous Oblivion (2006)	65%
1/5	"*Like an ugly tie or a pair of slipper socks, Black Christmas* is destined to be forgotten the instant it's unwrapped, gathering dust until the season rolls around again.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 26, 2006	Black Christmas (2006)	17%
2/5	"[Its] mild-mannerness is especially disappointing when compared with such documentaries as The War Tapes and the excellent Home Front, vivid and incisive explorations of post-Iraq anger and disillusionment that have gone largely unseen." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 15, 2006	Home of the Brave (2006)	23%
2.5/5	"It's understandable that Scott wants to highlight snowboarding's diversity, but perhaps a winter-sports documentary shouldn't try to cover the waterfront." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 8, 2006	Snow Blind (2006)	20%
2.5/5	"*That Empire* lacks clear-cut heroes and villains is not necessarily a fault, but the movie's muddle too often comes across as an attempt to avoid assigning responsibility where it belongs.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Dec 8, 2006	The Empire in Africa (2006)	67%
2/5	"If Biraben had devoted more energy to the human contours of his story, its metaphorical implications would have sorted themselves out." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 24, 2006	Cautiva (2005)	67%
2/5	"*Like a fatally snarled string of Christmas lights, Deck the Halls* promises holiday cheer but delivers only frustration.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Nov 21, 2006	Deck the Halls (2006)	6%
2/5	"The Return universally fails to establish any sense of reality, which makes it hard to register when Joanna's world starts falling apart." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 13, 2006	The Return (2006)	15%
1/5	"The movie's disinterest in character might be forgivable were its plot not riddled with holes." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 9, 2006	Unknown (2006)	36%
3/5	"Michael Taylor and Karen Coshof's slickly made documentary serves as a tidy primer on climate change, making up in breadth what it lacks in exhortation." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 2, 2006	The Great Warming (2006)	67%
1/5	"*A comprehensive list of what's wrong with Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With a Kiss* would stretch farther than the unabridged works of William S.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Oct 26, 2006	Romeo & Juliet, Sealed With a Kiss (2006)	n/a
3.5/5	"What makes 51 Birch Street a moving revelation rather than a therapeutic exercise is Block's commitment to understanding his parents, Mike and Mina, on their own terms, regardless of what it does to his image of them." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 19, 2006	51 Birch Street (2006)	95%
2/5	"Tideland's unmodulated frenzy has the effect of a prolonged shriek, too high and shrill for individual words to make themselves heard." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 19, 2006	Tideland (2006)	28%

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