ROTTEN TOMATOES: Sean Axmaker

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Two or Three Things I Know About Her
A+	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A-	The Host
B+	Venus
B	Inland Empire
B-	God Grew Tired of Us
C+	Reno 911!: Miami
C	Smokin' Aces
C-	The Ex
D+	The Condemned
D	Hannibal Rising
F	Norbit

BEST REVIEWED
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A+	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A	Persepolis
A	No Country for Old Men
A	My Kid Could Paint That
A	Golden Door
A	The Taste of Tea
A	The Wind That Shakes the Barley
A	Two or Three Things I Know About Her
A	51 Birch Street
A	Pan's Labyrinth
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	What Love Is
F	Norbit
F	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
F	Mindhunters
F	National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
F	See Spot Run
D	Never Back Down
D	The Bucket List
D	Hannibal Rising
D	Happily N'Ever After
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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	"By returning to the pictures over and over again, Morris shows the power of the photos, how the visual record became the only evidence that carried any power in the media..." -- Seanax.com Posted May 15, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	79%
B	"It has the modest scope of a short-story collection, with simply but vividly sketched characters that briefly glow within their tales." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 15, 2008	Jellyfish (2008)	82%
	"First time feature director Roland Joffe shoots the drama with an unforced realism lent a terrible grace by the handsome images and smooth, unobtrusive long takes..." -- Seanax.com Posted May 14, 2008	The Killing Fields (1984)	90%
	"Mann's direction is strong, and the lavish sets and costumes and massive crowd scenes are truly magnificent..." -- MSN.com Posted May 14, 2008	The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)	100%
	"... surely the most magnificent period piece of its era." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted May 14, 2008	The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)	100%
N/A	"Garth Jennings on Son of Rambow" -- Seanax.com Posted May 10, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	77%
	"[Abel Gance] is a master conductor who plays scenes like symphonies of feelings..." -- Seanax.com Posted May 9, 2008	La Roue (1923)	n/a
	"... for all the bizarre elements (such as a veteran voyeur who calls himself Captain Banana), it doesn't go anywhere." -- MSN.com Posted May 8, 2008	Party 7 (2000)	n/a
	"[Morris] Engel and [Ruth] Orkin capture the range of emotions and the complicated evolution as each member of the triangle adjusts to new situations and relationships..." -- MSN.com Posted May 8, 2008	Lovers and Lollipops (1955)	n/a
	"... a leisurely paced tale less concerned with story than character and the flavor of its locations." -- MSN.com Posted May 8, 2008	Little Fugitive (1953)	80%
	"One of the great technical innovators and visual artists of his time, [Abel] Gance was a master conductor of the cinematic form." -- MSN.com Posted May 8, 2008	La Roue (1923)	n/a
	"Haynes delivers a song-cycle of a movie: vivid, exaggerated, contradictory impressions of a man who confounds a culture looking to peg him with a definition." -- MSN.com Posted May 8, 2008	I'm Not There (2007)	78%
	"... a tribute to the freewheeling energy and youth of the French New Wave." -- MSN.com Posted May 8, 2008	Dans Paris (2007)	58%
B	"In this lively drama of rebellion and revolution, emotion is even more inflammatory than politics." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 8, 2008	My Brother is an Only Child (2008)	90%
	"I sounds crazy when you say it - David Mamet writes and directs a martial arts drama - but it�s a superb match of sensibility and genre." -- Seanax.com Posted May 8, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
A-	"Writer/director Garth Jennings captures the innocent ecstasy of boys discovering the elemental power of cinema and the unfettered play of imagination with disarming humor." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 8, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	77%
	"... Ozu fills the film with deft sight gags, many thanks to the antics of the son, yet there's undercurrent of desperation to the comedy." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted May 7, 2008	Tokyo Chorus (1931)	n/a
	"... utterly contemporary to the times, a stylized snapshot of working class life in 1933 Japan, and Ozu's details of their subsistence existence... creates a rich atmosphere." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted May 7, 2008	Passing Fancy (1933)	n/a
	"It's overripe melodrama with an overtone of camp, a comically lush score, and plenty of heaving d�colletage from (Michele) Mercier." -- MSN.com Posted May 7, 2008	Angelique, Marquise des Anges (1964)	n/a
	"... a familiar lesson in the futility of war, but [director Frank] Sinatra has an easy way with the actors and lets them carry the scenes." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted May 3, 2008	None But the Brave (1965)	n/a
	"Hobson's Choice is a crisply directed comedy of lively and quirky characters in a vivid world of social snobbery and working-class life..." -- Seanax.com Posted May 3, 2008	Hobson's Choice (1954)	100%
	"Behind the deft comedy and spirited performances of the two boys is a rather somber engagement with the compromises adults make to the demands of the social order." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted May 3, 2008	I Was Born, But... (1932)	90%
B+	"[Christophe] Honore drops the brightness and joy of the form into the chilly, gray winter of Paris to explore love and loss and intimacy." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 3, 2008	Love Songs (2008)	66%
	"Hou's first film made outside of Asia is his most emotionally turbulent, yet he remains, like the balloon, outside looking in, a compassionate but distant observer..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 3, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	80%
	"The transfer is so vivid that the balloon seems to pop from the screen, glowing luminous red against the gray of Paris streets and skies." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	The Red Balloon (1955)	100%
	"... a handsome and grandly realized big-screen adventure." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	The Golden Compass (2007)	42%
	"... Jean Arthur (is) a different kind of working class girl elevated into high society by the fickle finger of fate." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Easy Living (1937)	100%
	"One of the most deliciously sexy and sweet romantic comedies of the '30s (or any era)..." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Midnight (1939)	92%
	"... the film revels in spooky scares and goose-pimply eeriness but is grounded in a human drama of loss and sacrifice." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	85%
	"The sophomore feature from director Andrew Wagner is a marvelous, nuanced work with rich characters and complicated relationships..." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
	"Director Matt Reeves and screenwriter Drew Goddard have plenty of tricks up their sleeves... but it's all clever flourishes with no story smarts." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
	"... director Mike Nichols brings a light touch to this breezy take on "the outrageous true story" scripted by Aaron Sorkin." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	83%
	"*The film plays like an unholy marriage between the realist films noir of the '40s like The Naked City* and the early independent dramas of John Cassavetes...*" -- MSN.com* Posted May 3, 2008	Blast of Silence (1961)	88%
	"Director Sidney Lumet digs deep into the tawdry souls, peeling back the layers of arrogance and anger and self-delusion until all that's left is fury and fear and hate." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	88%
	"It's a bundle of joy with heart, charm, intelligence and wit to spare." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Juno (2007)	93%
	"The celebration of storytelling and the magic of fantasy is not really a kids film... but the whimsical treat does capture the spirit of innocent wonder, even with the nightmare ripples." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)	85%
	"*... it's more silly than clever, quoting Ray* and Walk the Line (among other biopics) as Dewey morphs through country, R&B, rock, folk and other musical genres.*" -- MSN.com* Posted May 3, 2008	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	74%
	"... reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as an elemental frontier myth, roughly hewn out of the landscape that is remade in its wake." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	91%
	"The last film directed by Hollywood legend King Vidor is a Super Technirama wide-screen spectacle shot in Spain with an international cast." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Solomon and Sheba (1959)	n/a
	"Paolo and Vittorio Taviani won the Grand Prix at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival with their delicate and delirious story of war and survival as seen through the eyes of a 6-year-old girl." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)	67%
	"Burton plays the black comedy as both threepenny opera and Grand Guignol, a revenge melodrama in the squalor of a 19th century London the color of bone and ash and stone." -- MSN.com Posted May 3, 2008	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
C+	"Writer/director Michael McCullers... pacing is poor and he doesn't know how to showcase the small-screen chemistry of Fey and Poehler on the big screen." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 24, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
B+	"My Blueberry Nights captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 21, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	49%
	"This is a kind of storytelling I love, about moments captured in time, about the sensuality of image, about the overwhelming emotional assault of loving and living." -- Seanax.com Posted Apr 17, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	49%
C+	"Backseat satisfies itself with small observations and minor breakthroughs of self-awareness." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 17, 2008	Backseat (2008)	8%
B	"The Forbidden Kingdom may lack the grace of Crouching Tiger or the grandeur of Hero, but [Rob] Minkoff's affection and respect for the film culture is genuine." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
B	"What is revealing here is the heretofore unseen civil-rights movement, small but dedicated, that began in the 1960s behind the Iron Curtain." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 10, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	91%
C	"... one might expect a little runaway energy or a dash of wild spirit under the antics, but there's little punchy anarchy in this controlled experiment." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 10, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	30%
	"... another ridiculous story that justifies itself in the historic one-time-only pairing of MGM's Queen of Tap Powell and the cinematic grace incarnate Fred Astaire." -- Seanax.com Posted Apr 6, 2008	Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)	n/a
	"The original songs by Cole Porter aren't all memorable, but they are lively and two of them are among is classics: "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "Easy to Love."" -- Seanax.com Posted Apr 6, 2008	Born to Dance (1936)	n/a

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