ROTTEN TOMATOES: Robert W. Butler

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Sicko
3.5/4	300
3/4	Breach
2.5/4	The Astronaut Farmer
2/4	The Number 23
2.5/5	Angel-A
1.5/4	Ray of Sunshine
C-	Norbit
1/4	88 Minutes
0.5/4	10,000 B.C.

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	There Will Be Blood
4/4	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4/4	Things We Lost in the Fire
4/4	Into the Wild
4/4	Killer of Sheep
4/4	Sicko
4/4	A Prairie Home Companion
4/4	Nine Lives
4/4	Pride and Prejudice
4/4	An Unfinished Life
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0.5/4	10,000 B.C.
0.5/4	The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi/Sonatine
.5/4	Valentin
.5/4	Saved!
1/4	88 Minutes
1/4	Underclassman
1/4	Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D
1/4	The Big Bounce
1/4	Cheaper by the Dozen
1/4	The Matrix Revolutions
	more...

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

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3/4	"*None of this is earthshaking, but Prince Caspian* is a largely satisfying experience -- not too serious and not too silly with just the right 'wow' factor.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	70%
3/4	"Priceless ends on a sweet, sentimental note. Yes, it�s unrealistic. But, hey, that�s why we go to the movies." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 9, 2008	Priceless (2008)	85%
2.5/4	"Hunt, who also co-wrote the screenplay from Elinor Lipman�s novel, scrupulously avoids anything that smacks of TV sitcom humor. This is admirable, but the result is one of the glummest romantic comedies in recent memory." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 9, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	54%
3.5/4	"*Its subjects are so compelling that Young @ Heart* becomes a blisteringly funny and deeply moving meditation on music and mortality.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted May 9, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	87%
2/4	"Redbelt is screaming for the guidance of someone with enough distance from the subject to mold it into satisfying drama." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
3.5/4	"The real subject here isn�t post-9/11 xenophobia but rather friendship, how it changes us, heals us and how the arbitrary intrusion of outside forces both threatens and strengthens us." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 2, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	91%
3/4	"A largely satisfying summer entertainment blending brains and geekiness in equal measure." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
2/4	"*A generic thriller with a generic title, Deception* is so predictable you could guess what happens even if the trailer hadn�t already given away just about every important plot development.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
2.5/4	"Cho and Penn are winning leads and play well off of each other. When the film works, it�s often due to their interaction." -- Kansas City Star Posted Apr 24, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	56%
2/4	"*Most of the time Baby Mama* relies on the string-pulling of sitcom television.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
2/4	"As for Argento � yeah, she�s got something. Now we�d like to see her in a movie that makes sense." -- Kansas City Star Posted Apr 24, 2008	Boarding Gate (2007)	26%
2/4	"If it were executed with more energy or panache, it could have been something special, and that makes the disappointment that much harder to take." -- Kansas City Star Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
2.5/4	"Forgetting Sarah Marshall has a workable if unoriginal setup, but as a story it�s like one of those hotel guests lounging in an inner tube and drifting in lazy circles. It doesn�t really go anywhere." -- Kansas City Star Posted Apr 17, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
1/4	"It�s not often you encounter a feature film that contains not even one believable minute." -- Kansas City Star Posted Apr 17, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
3/4	"*The critic in me found plenty of nits to pick with Under the Same Moon. The sentimentalist, though, was ready to blubber." -- Kansas City Star* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	74%
2/4	"The screenplay�s stabs at witty dialogue end up sounding forced (again, only Church delivers his lines with anything like conviction), and the film�s emotions are all synthetic." -- Kansas City Star Posted Apr 11, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
1.5/4	"Just a lot of huffing and puffing � and nothing blows you away." -- Kansas City Star Posted Apr 11, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
3.5/4	"*Lest we forget that they truly are the world�s greatest rock �n� roll roll band, the Rolling Stones make their case loudly, lovingly and conclusively in Shine a Light." -- Kansas City Star* Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
1.5/4	"*A good idea and a great cast are wasted in Nim�s Island, a kiddie flick pitched to second-grade sensibilities that still manages to underestimate its audience." -- Kansas City Star* Posted Apr 4, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
2/4	"Married Life is genteel, well-mannered -- and boring." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 28, 2008	Married Life (2008)	55%
	"All this will be way too arty for most viewers. But those willing to take a chance will find unexpected if hard-to-describe pleasures." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 28, 2008	Paranoid Park (2008)	76%
3/4	"Labaki is so enchanting you�ll find yourself looking forward to her next appearance." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 28, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
2.5/4	"It�s glitzy. It�s suspenseful. It�s a wallow in get-rich-quick ambition. Of course, it�s also largely uninhabited. But at least the empty vessels are attractive." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 28, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
3/4	"Movies have rarely depicted brothers in arms with as much accuracy and compassion as Stop-Loss." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
3.5/4	"*Arab-Israeli relations get the warm fuzzy treatment in The Band�s Visit,* a wonderfully appealing Israeli film that should have been up for a foreign-language Oscar.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
3.5/4	"A deft and dramatic melding of talking-head documentary, historic photos and film footage and readings by a cast of actors, the film is a devastating depiction of man�s inhumanity to man. It is also about how some of us are brave enough to say 'No.'" -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 14, 2008	Nanking (2007)	97%
3.5/4	"It�s an astonishing piece, and Cristian Mungiu establishes himself as a world-class director." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 14, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
3.5/4	"An astonishingly comprehensive look at the use of torture (or whatever euphemism you prefer) in the war on terror." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 14, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
3/4	"Haneke is a master at creating dread and doom. And then he builds upon it." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 14, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	49%
3.5/4	"This is powerful stuff that reasserts both the evil and the good in human hearts." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 7, 2008	War Dance (2007)	86%
3.5/4	"Equal parts sadness and inspiration, fury and compassion, the film is sure to divide audiences along ideological lines. But there�s no denying the reality of Tomas Young�s experiences. A man who has paid so much is more than entitled to his opinions." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 7, 2008	Body of War (2008)	72%
0.5/4	"A strong camp sensibility is just about the only thing that might have saved this lumbering beast." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 7, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
3.5/4	"Don't be surprised if after seeing this movie you find yourself eyeing travel brochures for Barcelona." -- Kansas City Star Posted Feb 29, 2008	Antonio Gaudi (1984)	100%
2/4	"Aspires to be a whimsical modern fairy tale about a princess, a family curse and self-acceptance but just can�t conjure up any magic." -- Kansas City Star Posted Feb 29, 2008	Penelope (2008)	53%
2.5/4	"Semi-Pro is all fancy dribbling and passing, with nobody actually scoring." -- Kansas City Star Posted Feb 29, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
3/4	"Leaves us with images that aren�t easily forgotten and a grudging respect for people who blaze new trails in search of a thrill." -- Kansas City Star Posted Feb 15, 2008	Steep (2007)	55%
3/4	"In Bruges is memorable for its two leading men, whose Mutt and Jeff killers are nearly as fascinating and likable as those played by Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction." -- Kansas City Star Posted Feb 15, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	78%
2/4	"*The biggest problem with Definitely, Maybe* is that leading man Reynolds feels strangely out of water in a role that never lets him unleash his comedy chops.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Feb 14, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
2.5/4	"As a swashbuckler for youngsters it's colorful, diverting and, every now and then, genuinely magical." -- Kansas City Star Posted Feb 14, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
No Rating	"*A classic example of the �what-was-he-thinking?� movie, Youth Without Youth* unfolds in a sort of formal dream state devoid of day-to-day normalcy.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Feb 8, 2008	Youth Without Youth (2007)	29%
3.5/4	"It�s riveting." -- Kansas City Star Posted Feb 1, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	95%
2/4	"Feels more like a polemic than drama. But at least it hammers home the message that under the right circumstances even the 'good guys' can behave like monsters." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jan 25, 2008	Redacted (2007)	44%
2.5/4	"A competent but unremarkable crime thriller." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jan 25, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
4/4	"Ultimately the film belongs to Day-Lewis, whose devotion to character is itself a bit mad, and Paul Thomas Anderson, who takes us places no other filmmaker dares." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jan 18, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	91%
2/4	"The tone feels all wrong." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jan 18, 2008	Cassandra's Dream (2008)	50%
2/4	"[It] may not be awful enough to merit shredding but which evaporates from memory the minute the lights come up." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jan 18, 2008	Mad Money (2008)	21%
3/4	"The f/x guys have provided a seamless blending of computer-generated and real footage, and by limiting our perspective to just what Hud sees through his viewfinder, the fantastic is rendered plausible." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jan 18, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
3.5/4	"The results are emotionally charged but not manipulative." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
3/4	"The Orphanage works in large part because [the filmmakers] create horror through a slow tightening of tension rather than with lurid "gotcha!" moments. And because in Rueda they have a compelling and heartbreaking leading lady." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	85%

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