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	The Cats of Mirikitani
3/4	In the Land of Women
2.5/4	Hot Fuzz
2/4	Next
2.5/5	Angel-A
1.5/4	Perfect Stranger
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	"Giving his film real emotional kick are the personal stories of Mad Dog and Stinky, two average guys chasing a media-fed dream that will only result in disappointment." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jul 25, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%
2/4	"*A one-joke comedy that might have made a decent recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live, digested in five-minute doses." -- Kansas City Star* Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	52%
3/4	"In bringing her stage production to the screen, first-time film director Phyllida Lloyd has retained the show�s goofy charm and mostly breathless pacing." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jul 17, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
3/4	"The Dark Knight is a good -- not great -- superhero movie that crams as many ideas into its 2 1/2 hours as it can and still be considered a summer action picture." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
2.5/4	"There�s no editing within a scene, no close-ups. No incidental music. Just life, or a pretty accurate simulation of life." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	78%
2.5/4	"A diverting if shallow entertainment, not to mention a glimpse of things to come." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
2.5/4	"*Enjoy The Golden Army* for what it is, a big fat piece of eye candy. But for the next Hellboy movie could we please have a lot more Hellboy?*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Jul 11, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
2.5/4	"That pain in your neck is cinematic whiplash." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
3/4	"With a star-heavy cast, mind-blowing visuals and more blood than a vampire flick, this modern-day fantasy about an ages-old brotherhood of assassins is an over-the-top guilty pleasure." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
3/4	"*With its split personality, WALL-E* falls short of greatness. Even so, it pushes the animation envelope with every frame.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
2/4	"Give Mongol�s makers credit for taking advantage of the spectacular scenery and creating an almost documentary reality regarding life among Mongolia�s nomads. But as storytelling the film goes nowhere slowly." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jun 20, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
3/4	"*This low-key yarn about lowbrow men isn�t for everyone. But whatever its faults and limitations, Shotgun Stories* casts a spell unlike any other movie we�ve seen in ages.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Jun 20, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	89%
2/4	"The Love Guru is less a movie than a collection of related gags heaved at the screen. It�s a mess, but an affable one." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	15%
1.5/4	"*All this plays like a pale retread of a Mission: Impossible* script. Which would be fine if Get Smart were actually funny.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
2/4	"Part of the problem is the computer-generated Hulk. It's OK in the early going, when the big green guy is mostly hidden by darkness or smoke. But in the light of day he looks cartoonish." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
3/4	"These interlocking stories don�t add up to a conventional narrative. It helps to think of Jellyfish as a tone poem. And like the invertebrate that is its namesake, the film is by turns beautiful, stinging and rather shapeless." -- Kansas City Star Posted Jun 13, 2008	Jellyfish (2008)	86%
2/4	"*Basically it's a half-hour Twilight Zone* episode blown up to feature length.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
2.5/4	"*If you loved Sex* as a TV show, you'll want to check out the film because it's like attending a class reunion. It's a chance to catch up with people who meant a lot to us.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted May 28, 2008	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
2.5/4	"What could have been an insightful look at how film and television mold our personalities is instead just another film about childhood friendship -- sweet, huggable and toothless." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 23, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
3/4	"This is reportedly the last time producer/writer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg will treat movie fans to an Indiana Jones adventure, and it's pretty obvious they were determined to send Indy riding off into the sunset in style." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 22, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	89%
2.5/4	"*It lacks the sense of detail that made Raiders* such a treat. It isn't very clever, very funny or very compelling.*" -- Kansas City Star* Posted May 22, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)	84%
3/4	"It's the perfect vacation-time movie: not a serious moment in its whole two hours but so crammed with laughter, thrills and cinematic sleight of hand that audiences will be sorry when it's over." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 22, 2008	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	94%
2.5/4	"Great to have Indy back. Wish he had more interesting stuff to do." -- Kansas City Star Posted May 21, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
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)	66%
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)	83%
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)	88%
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)	71%
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)	92%
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)	11%
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)	54%
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)	63%
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)	85%
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)	73%
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)	36%
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)	49%
2/4	"Married Life is genteel, well-mannered -- and boring." -- Kansas City Star Posted Mar 28, 2008	Married Life (2008)	57%
	"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)	74%
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)	35%
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)	98%
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%

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