ROTTEN TOMATOES: John Hartl

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Mysterious Skin
3.5/4	Bright Leaves
3/4	The Five Obstructions
2.5/4	Gojira
2/4	The Best Two Years
2.5/5	Last Holiday
1.5/4	Twist
1/4	Bad Guy
2.5	Garcon Stupide

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Lives of Others
4/4	Mysterious Skin
4/4	The Corporation
4/4	Battle of Algiers
4/4	Russian Ark
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/4	Rape of the Soul
1/4	House of D
1/4	Bad Guy
1/4	Secret Things
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

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3/4	"That it clicks is largely due to the daredevil chemistry of the actors playing the brothers, who can be a handful whenever they're together." -- Seattle Times Posted May 9, 2008	My Brother is an Only Child (2008)	90%
2.5/4	"The movie has more heart than art, but it's unfailingly genuine." -- Seattle Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	The First Saturday in May (2008)	72%
3.5/4	"A tough, affecting documentary about an American soldier in the Iraq war." -- Seattle Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	Body of War (2008)	72%
3.5/4	"We've been hearing a lot this year about human-rights abuses and the potential impact of organized protests and diplomacy on uncooperative countries. Rarely is the subject addressed as effectively as it is in Laura Bialis' absorbing new documentary." -- Seattle Times Posted Apr 11, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	91%
1.5/4	"As a writer, Waters is best-known for creating Ryder's sharp black comedy, Heathers, and Bruce Willis' self-indulgent bomb, Hudson Hawk. As a director, he tends to waste actors, and he fails to establish a consistent comic tone." -- Seattle Times Posted Apr 11, 2008	Sex and Death 101 (2008)	26%
3/4	"*This Brazilian coming-of-age drama, co-produced by City of God* creator Fernando Meirelles, charms because it rarely spells things out.*" -- Seattle Times* Posted Apr 11, 2008	The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)	84%
2.5/4	"There may be too many cooks here, too many TV stars trying to make an impression in a relatively high-profile independent film, but they connect just often enough to leave you smiling." -- Seattle Times Posted Apr 4, 2008	The Grand ()	42%
2/4	"*Like just about everything in Boarding Gate, the finale suggests that its creators have been watching too many other movies with similar premises and payoffs." -- Seattle Times* Posted Mar 28, 2008	Boarding Gate (2007)	26%
3.5/4	"What could have been a standard-issue coming-out, coming-of-age movie develops a remarkable intimacy." -- Seattle Times Posted Mar 21, 2008	Shelter (2008)	53%
3.5/4	"Rockwell gives a towering performance, perhaps the best of his zigzagging career." -- Seattle Times Posted Mar 21, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	68%
3.5/4	"Of all the Iraq documentaries that have been released since the war began five years ago, this is the one that most seriously addresses the nature of the insurgency." -- Seattle Times Posted Mar 14, 2008	Meeting Resistance (2007)	75%
2/4	"In spite of one energetic performance, a few tense moments and some stylish nighttime cinematography, it's a long sit." -- Seattle Times Posted Mar 14, 2008	Tall as Trees (2008)	n/a
3/4	"*A study in 19th-century European extremes, The Duchess of Langeais* may put you off at first, but its playful tone could just as easily leave you pleasantly exhausted.*" -- Seattle Times* Posted Mar 7, 2008	The Duchess of Langeais (2008)	68%
3.5/4	"Turns out to be just as challenging and effective a political drama as Persepolis and 4 Months." -- Seattle Times Posted Mar 7, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
2.5/4	"As long as it's whimsically celebrating the ambiguous joys of cooking, writer-director Michael Hofmann's movie has charm and a sweetness verging on the tart." -- Seattle Times Posted Feb 22, 2008	Eden (2006)	70%
2.5/4	"Although Honeydripper won a screenplay award at the San Sebasti�n Film Festival, it's not Sayles' strongest work. Part of the problem is that it keeps building to a rock-'n'-roll payoff that never quite arrives." -- Seattle Times Posted Feb 22, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	67%
3.5/4	"Life-or-death matters are handled with compelling gravity." -- Seattle Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	The Violin (2007)	97%
1.5/4	"Unfortunately wit-deprived." -- Seattle Times Posted Feb 1, 2008	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	13%
1.5/4	"Director August once had a knack for telling stories of adolescent bonds, and he makes good use of one childhood flashback and a scene in which Bafana and Mandela blend into one person. For a moment, he achieves a balance the rest of the film lacks." -- Seattle Times Posted Dec 14, 2007	Color of Freedom (2007)	44%
3/4	"It's the childhood scenes, and the truthfulness of the boys' performances, that you remember." -- Seattle Times Posted Dec 14, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	66%
3/4	"Whether you're of the opinion that Carter is a misguided meddler or a worthy Nobel Peace Prize-winner (he won the award in 2002), Jonathan Demme's new documentary about the 39th president will provide you with plenty of ammunition." -- Seattle Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)	79%
2.5/4	"Inspired by her grandmother to make a film about Williams, Robinson painstakingly makes the case that her uncle was exploited by Warhol as well as by fellow Factory workers, yet she doesn't quite justify a feature-length film about his brief career." -- Seattle Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)	75%
3.5/4	"Exhaustive, spectacular, often dazzling in its ambition and faithfulness to Tolstoy, the movie is still regarded as one of the wonders of epic cinema." -- Seattle Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	War and Peace (1968)	100%
3/4	"*Simultaneously nostalgic and sinister, King Corn* mixes full-blown Americana with fast-food follies in the Iowa heartland.*" -- Seattle Times* Posted Nov 16, 2007	King Corn (2007)	95%
3.5/4	"The casting is spot-on; the blend of erotic comedy and political drama is stunningly smooth; the finale is both devastating and inevitable." -- Seattle Times Posted Nov 9, 2007	The Bubble (2007)	55%
3/4	"*Scott guided Crowe to an Oscar in Gladiator, and once more he brings out the actor's vulnerable side." -- Seattle Times* Posted Nov 2, 2007	American Gangster (2007)	79%
3.5/4	"There's nothing flashy about Ben Affleck's direction. He clearly adores actors, and he's found the right vehicle to express what they can do." -- Seattle Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	93%
3.5/4	"It's the arguments on both sides that make this long, gripping film such a vital contribution to the national conversation about abortion." -- Seattle Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Lake of Fire (2007)	94%
2.5/4	"A hit-and-miss drama." -- Seattle Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Reservation Road (2007)	36%
3/4	"*What finally gives Rendition* its headlong narrative momentum is the sense that we're rarely certain what argument the filmmakers are endorsing.*" -- Seattle Times* Posted Oct 19, 2007	Rendition (2007)	47%
	"A gripping true tale of attrition and obsession." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 18, 2007	Zodiac (2007)	89%
3/4	"May not have much new to say about the war on drugs...but it says it awfully well." -- Seattle Times Posted Oct 12, 2007	We Own The Night (2007)	55%
1.5/4	"It communicates almost no sense of its own identity; everything seems borrowed and tired." -- Seattle Times Posted Oct 5, 2007	The Seeker (2007)	13%
2/4	"The Kingdom does suggest the potential to mix action and the complexity of Middle East politics in a revealing fashion. It simply fails to establish its central characters properly." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 28, 2007	The Kingdom (2007)	51%
3.5/4	"If you've seen such NASA boosters as For All Mankind, Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon, do you really need to catch the latest one, In the Shadow of the Moon on the big screen? In a word: Yes" -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 21, 2007	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	94%
2/4	"Rarely has self-pity become so monotonous so quickly." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 21, 2007	Fierce People (2007)	24%
2/4	"A well-acted comedy-drama that may feature the most disagreeable gang of characters to populate any movie this year. Too bad they're not quite as much fun to watch." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 21, 2007	Dedication (2007)	41%
3/4	"There are still moments when the tone is uncertain and the actors visibly struggle, but for the most part there's a freshness about the performances that could probably not have been achieved in any other way." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	Chalk (2007)	79%
3/4	"*Echoing the 2006 Oscar-winning German film The Lives of Others, Leeson's film is a scary testament to the power of fear." -- Seattle Times* Posted Sep 14, 2007	Strange Culture (2007)	94%
1.5/4	"Faithful to the book but much less stylish, it succeeds only in demonstrating that Michael Pitt can cause anyone's eyelids to droop when he's handed the leading role." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	Silk (2007)	8%
3/4	"Thanks largely to the intricate, committed performances of Jones and Theron, it succeeds as an effective whodunit." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	In the Valley of Elah (2007)	71%
2/4	"While two novice screenwriters are officially credited with the script, the movie lurches around like something assembled by committee." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	13%
3.5/4	"*It may be the best work to date from the talented 34-year-old writer-director of Twenty Four Seven* (1997).*" -- Seattle Times* Posted Sep 7, 2007	This Is England (2007)	93%
3/4	"The shadowy photography of the interviewees lends an ominous tone to nearly every scene, but what they're saying is often pragmatic and helpful." -- Seattle Times Posted Aug 24, 2007	The 11th Hour (2007)	66%
3.5/4	"Parts of that narrative are surprisingly frank and irreverent." -- Seattle Times Posted Jul 27, 2007	Ten Canoes (2007)	98%
2/4	"*Cluttered storytelling undermines Sunshine." -- Seattle Times* Posted Jul 27, 2007	Sunshine (2007)	75%
	"Gypsy Caravan has been compared with Tony Gatlif's 1993 film Latcho Drom, which took a dreamier approach to Gypsy culture. This one's more down-to-earth, but it's just as entertaining." -- Seattle Times Posted Jul 20, 2007	Gypsy Caravan (2006)	85%
3/4	"Opens with [an] extended moment: a 10-minute-long tracking shot of workers, rows and rows and rows of them, putting in their hours at a Chinese factory. It's an epic touch and reason enough to see this movie in a theater with a large screen." -- Seattle Times Posted Jul 13, 2007	Manufactured Landscapes (2007)	84%
3/4	"Spooky, relatively realistic, grounded in psychology rather than displays of gore, it could be just the thing to rejuvenate the fading horror genre." -- Seattle Times Posted Jul 13, 2007	Joshua (2007)	62%

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