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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4/5 In the Shadow of the Moon
3/5 Into the Wild
2/5 The Jane Austen Book Club
1/5 Resident Evil: Extinction
 
  
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 Get Smart
5/5 Young@Heart
5/5 Atonement
5/5 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5/5 Death at a Funeral
5/5 Talk to Me
5/5 Hairspray
5/5 The Namesake
5/5 Bridge to Terabithia
5/5 Volver
 more...
 
  
WORST REVIEWED
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1/5 The Strangers
1/5 Deception
1/5 88 Minutes
1/5 Prom Night
1/5 Leatherheads
1/5 Superhero Movie!
1/5 Doomsday
1/5 College Road Trip
1/5 Witless Protection
1/5 Strange Wilderness
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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3/5		 
"...for kids of all ages from 6 to 7..."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 		Space Chimps (2008)37%
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2/5		 
"...more savagery than grace..."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 		Savage Grace (2008)42%
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3/5		 
"...can't help being fun."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 		Mamma Mia! (2008)53%
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4/5		 
"[Director Werner Herzog] gets an almost perverse pleasure out of staring into abysses..."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 		Encounters at the End of the World (2008)95%
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4/5		 
"...slick and funny, a pitch-perfect spoof..."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 		OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)78%
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4/5		 
"...moves with the virile grace of a prizefighter."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 		Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)87%
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2/5		 
"certainly a step up from Norbit..."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 		Meet Dave (2008)21%
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3/5		 
"...many excellent moments and action set-pieces..."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 		The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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4/5		 
"...sharp and intelligent..."
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 		The Promotion (2008)47%
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3/5		 
"...sweet-tempered and endearing, mining several layers of nostalgia..."
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 		Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)80%
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4/5		 
"...a tale of redemption hard-won, and all the more rewarding for that."
Posted Jul 4, 2008
 		Hancock (2008)38%
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2/5		 
"...goes from poignant to amusing to tiresome..."
Posted Jul 4, 2008
 		Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)97%
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4/5		 
"...charm galore."
Posted Jul 4, 2008
 		WALL-E (2008)96%
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4/5		 
"...captures both the lure of the proto-hippie life and the often unresolved tensions..."
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 		Surfwise (2008)100%
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2/5		 
"...some nice creepy moments -- but other moments, and more, of (presumably) unintended humor."
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 		The Happening (2008)19%
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5/5		 
"...if the shade of the late Don Adams will forgive me for saying it, the original Get Smart should have been this good."
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 		Get Smart (2008)53%
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3/5		 
"...use[s] dynamic animation and slapstick humor to compensate for the story's lack of originality."
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 		Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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1/5		 
"...useless even as a bad example."
Posted May 30, 2008
 		The Strangers (2008)41%
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4/5		 
"...slowly builds an emotional power that takes us by surprise..."
Posted May 28, 2008
 		The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)26%
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4/5		 
"...even improves on C.S. Lewis' original novel..."
Posted May 28, 2008
 		The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)66%
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4/5		 
"...the dash and derring-do are as kinetic and ebullient as ever..."
Posted May 28, 2008
 		Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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2/5		 
"...one of those bird-brained contrivances that would be over in no time if any of the characters had a lick of sense..."
Posted May 18, 2008
 		What Happens in Vegas (2008)27%
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2/5		 
"...way too much of a not-good-enough thing..."
Posted May 18, 2008
 		Speed Racer (2008)36%
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2/5		 
"...relies heavily on an audience's boys-will-be-boys tolerance."
Posted May 18, 2008
 		Son of Rambow (2008)75%
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3/5		 
"[David] Mamet's latest movie, and one of his more accessible ones..."
Posted May 9, 2008
 		Redbelt (2008)71%
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4/5		 
"...great fun, thanks mainly to the power of the original Marvel Comics concept..."
Posted May 9, 2008
 		Iron Man (2008)93%
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5/5		 
"...joyous and brimming with life..."
Posted May 5, 2008
 		Young@Heart (2008)88%
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2/5		 
"...makes little effort to be believable..."
Posted May 5, 2008
 		Made of Honor (2008)12%
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2/5		 
"...unpleasant and mean-spirited..."
Posted May 5, 2008
 		Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)54%
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1/5		 
"...a hopeless 'erotic thriller' that, as it happens, is neither..."
Posted May 5, 2008
 		Deception (2008)11%
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4/5		 
"[Tina Fey and Amy Poehler] could, with luck, be one of the great comedy teams."
Posted May 5, 2008
 		Baby Mama (2008)61%
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2/5		 
"The movie is unpersuasive, but it's amusing..."
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 		Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)8%
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3/5		 
"...less than the sum of its parts, [but] some of those parts are wonderful."
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 		My Blueberry Nights (2008)47%
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1/5		 
"...Hitchcock himself couldn't have saved this turkey."
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 		88 Minutes (2008)6%
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1/5		 
"Every cheap-scare trick in the genre is deployed, but so feebly that not one of them works."
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 		Prom Night (2008)8%
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3/5		 
"...has the salacious sweetness of...The 40 Year Old Virgin."
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 		Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)85%
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4/5		 
"...[puts] a human face on the Holocaust..."
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 		The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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3/5		 
"...the movie has a sweetly affecting fairy-tale atmosphere..."
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 		The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)63%
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3/5		 
"...observes many of the conventions of corrupt-cop movies..."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 		Street Kings (2008)36%
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2/5		 
"...what happens? Well, not much, actually."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 		Smart People (2008)49%
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2/5		 
"[The filmmakers] avoid unwanted laughs only by resorting to relentless sadism. They let us know right off that nothing good will follow, and they carry it straight through to the abandon-all-hope-and-wait-for-the-sequel ending."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 		The Ruins (2008)47%
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2/5		 
"...the promised adventure never quite materializes."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 		Nim's Island (2008)49%
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1/5		 
"Probably only Clooney could expect to get away with a movie this bad..."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 		Leatherheads (2008)53%
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2/5		 
"The word 'adventure' is a bit of an overstatement..."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 		Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)86%
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1/5		 
"...the gags just lie there and die..."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 		Superhero Movie! (2008)13%
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2/5		 
"...road-picture inertia with flashes of overwrought melodrama."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 		Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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4/5		 
"...every bit as energetic and exciting as [the Stones] were 40 years ago..."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 		Shine a Light (2008)86%
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3/5		 
"...a bit rude and uncouth, but sweetly affecting..."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 		Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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2/5		 
"Only the punning title distinguishes this one from...other entries in this exhausted genre."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 		Shutter (2008)7%
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2/5		 
"...[the] latest sausage from writer-director Tyler Perry..."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 		Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)31%

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