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	Downfall
3/4	Walk on Water
2.5/4	Off the Map
2/4	The Ballad of Jack and Rose
2.5/5	Last Holiday
1.5/4	Apres Vous
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 81% of the time.

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3/4	" If this week's headlines have failed to convince you that the United States is on the verge of an economic meltdown, Patrick Creadon's scary new documentary, I.O.U.S.A., will demolish any lingering doubts." -- Seattle Times Posted Oct 3, 2008	I.O.U.S.A. (2008)	87%
3/4	" More than a century later, this is still a juicy story, and the actors don't back away from its more hysterical flourishes." -- Seattle Times Posted Oct 3, 2008	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	85%
2.5/4	" McAdams and Pe�a are affectingly vulnerable, while Robbins convinces as a family man with strong paternal instincts." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 26, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
3/4	" Towelhead needs more breathing room in order to allow the central relationships to grow, but it's a movie that sticks with you." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 19, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	47%
2/4	" While the actors do what they can, too many characters come off as concepts, not people." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	10%
2.5/4	" You might want to file this one under Novelties and Cult Items, Not Completely Baked." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 5, 2008	La France (2007)	89%
2.5/4	" For all the research, courage and passion that went into it, the movie is sometimes curiously one-note." -- Seattle Times Posted Sep 5, 2008	A Jihad for Love (2008)	75%
3/4	" *Jacoby and Carroll make their case skillfully, carefully excerpting key scenes from Lenny* (with Dustin Hoffman doing a Lenny Bruce monologue on anti-Jewish prejudice) and The Robe.*" -- Seattle Times* Posted Aug 29, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	86%
3/4	" [Yu Nan] owns the role of Tuya, delivering a wide-ranging performance that might be called 'star-making' if she didn't already suggest the confidence of an established star." -- Seattle Times Posted Aug 29, 2008	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	91%
3.5/4	" Boy A is one of those rare movies that takes the idea of rehabilitation seriously. In the end, it may present a worst-case scenario, but it does so with unusual depth and conviction." -- Seattle Times Posted Aug 8, 2008	Boy A (2008)	88%
2.5/4	" Too bad the characters are so rote. The women are almost nonentities, and the bond between the men borders on the maudlin. The actors are often better than their lines." -- Seattle Times Posted Aug 8, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
2/4	" Just because a movie is energetic doesn't mean it can't feel sluggish." -- Seattle Times Posted Aug 6, 2008	Bottle Shock (2008)	45%
2/4	" In the end, only the veteran actors playing Elsa and Fred make the movie watchable." -- Seattle Times Posted Aug 1, 2008	Elsa & Fred (2008)	54%
3/4	" Eventually Burstein moves past these objections and slips under your skin." -- Seattle Times Posted Aug 1, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
3/4	" [Breillat's] latest and possibly most entertaining exercise in erotica." -- Seattle Times Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
3/4	" The sepia tones and the claustrophobic camerawork are instantly recognizable as Sokurov's work, and so is the emphasis on family intimacy." -- Seattle Times Posted Jul 18, 2008	Alexandra (2008)	94%
2/4	" Just another contract-player time-killer." -- Seattle Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Garden of Allah (1936)	44%
3/4	" The tone is finally one of wistful resignation." -- Seattle Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2007)	95%
3/4	" Strong performances carry this familiar but always intelligent British rites-of-passage story about a philandering doctor and his much-mocked son." -- Seattle Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	72%
3/4	" Bodrov's movie is most likely to be remembered for its fierce battle sequences, which frequently place the camera smack in the middle of the action." -- Seattle Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
3/4	" Unexpectedly funny [and] sometimes angry." -- Seattle Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%
2.5/4	" Pace and Untaru generate an unforced chemistry that makes them pleasant company for a couple of hours, but they almost work against the movie's need to establish narrative tension. They appear to be having such a good time that Roy's self-destructive impu" -- Seattle Times Posted May 30, 2008	The Fall (2008)	58%
2.5/4	" It might have been more convincing if it had emphasized personalities rather than types." -- Seattle Times Posted May 30, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	47%
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 (2006)	86%
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)	69%
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)	71%
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)	94%
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)	27%
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)	86%
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 ()	40%
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)	25%
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)	67%
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)	76%
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)	68%
3.5/4	" Life-or-death matters are handled with compelling gravity." -- Seattle Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	The Violin (2007)	94%
1.5/4	" Unfortunately wit-deprived." -- Seattle Times Posted Feb 1, 2008	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	14%
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)	78%
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)	77%
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)	56%
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)	94%

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