ROTTEN TOMATOES: Joe McGovern

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Mulholland Dr.
4/4	Cach�
A-	Eureka
B+	Memento
3/4	Kinsey
B	Too Much Sleep
2.5/4	Close Your Eyes
B-	Songcatcher
C+	The King is Alive
2/4	The Reckoning
C	Shrek
1.5/4	Half Past Dead
C-	Pandaemonium
D+	Glitter
1/4	Eurotrip
D	Tape
D-	Bride of the Wind
F	Baise Moi
short	Gremlins

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Cach�
A	Wonderland
A	Run Lola Run
A	Code Unknown
A	Donnie Darko
A	Mulholland Dr.
A	The Million Dollar Hotel
10/10	The Straight Story
A-	After Life
A-	O
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Storytelling
F	Bartleby
F	John Q
F	Kingdom Come
F	Down to Earth
F	The Last Castle
F	Baise Moi
F	Here on Earth
D-	Enough
D-	The Caveman's Valentine
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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2/4	" Like being stuck behind an old man on the highway." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 19, 2005	White Countess (2005)	51%
3/4	" Jones carries Pete's weight of grief but without betraying the character's emotional impenetrability or slack conscience." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2005	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)	84%
4/4	" A mind-blowing modern allegory in the exceedingly persuasive guise of an art house thriller." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 8, 2005	Cach� (2005)	88%
3/4	" *As in The Center of the World, July's focus is on people's deformed longing for human connection." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 14, 2005	Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)	84%
2.5/4	" Played so broadly as to be mocking." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2005	Up and Down (2005)	84%
1.5/4	" Paul Weitz warms over the cold truth of corporate globalization in this sub-Ephron gloss on the white-middle-class-in-peril." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 31, 2004	In Good Company (2004)	83%
3/4	" *In a post-November 2nd world, Kinsey* is just what we need.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Nov 11, 2004	Kinsey (2004)	90%
2/4	" So oppressively identified with its predecessor�s look, sound, and design that Doug Liman warrants a co-director credit." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 21, 2004	The Bourne Supremacy (2004)	81%
1.5/4	" The Clearing needed the firm hand of a Hollywood insubordinate, not a sycophant." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 3, 2004	The Clearing (2004)	44%
2.5/4	" If Wolfgang Peterson had any guts, she would have been offered Helen of Troy." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 25, 2004	The Intended (2004)	31%
	" Crudely embraces reverse ethnic stereotypes." -- Village Voice Posted May 13, 2004	Breakin' All the Rules (2004)	33%
2.5/4	" *For Visnjic, who is sometimes associated with George Clooney because of the ER hand-off, this is his Out of Sight." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 21, 2004	Close Your Eyes (2004)	47%
2/4	" *Magnanimous yet slapdash, The Blonds* records Carri�s effort to satiate her�and her nation�s�parentless identity.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 5, 2004	The Blonds (2004)	63%
2/4	" There is a noticeable stench in the air when the movie makes a reference to Billy Bob Thornton�s performance in Sling Blade. It�s stale ink." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 30, 2004	Home on the Range (2004)	54%
1.5/4	" Julianne Moore currently essays maybe the most obnoxious white woman in a Hollywood movie since Erin Brockovich." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 30, 2004	Laws of Attraction (2004)	19%
2/4	" Scottish director Paul McGuigan is fast approaching Baz Luhrmann status in the wasteland of stylistic braggadocio." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 4, 2004	The Reckoning (2004)	40%
1.5/4	" *There�s a reason why the poster for Taking Lives* is better than the movie itself�those lips ain�t made for talking.** " -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2004	Taking Lives (2004)	23%
1/4	" Represents the latest pestilence from DreamWorks's subterranean id-grinder." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2004	Eurotrip (2004)	46%
	" Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has an unparalleled knack for assembling Z-grade talent, particularly when operating in family-fun mode." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2003	Kangaroo Jack (2003)	8%
	" Chicago represents something of an artifact from a dark and dangerous era, reconstructed with lots of zest and little depth." -- Premiere Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2003	Chicago (2002)	87%
	" *Rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword, Jiang Wen's Devils on the Doorstep* is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of Joseph Heller or Kurt Vonnegut.*" -- Premiere Magazine* Posted Dec 20, 2002	Devils On The Doorstep (2000)	90%
	" The band scenes are downright gladiatorial in their visceral impact and energy...edited with the tightness of a snare drum and photographed with the geometrical majesty of a Busby Berkeley musical." -- Premiere Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2002	Drumline (2002)	79%
1.5/4	" [Seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's Razzie." -- Premiere Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2002	Half Past Dead (2002)	2%
short	" Deliriously satirizes every facet of contemporary pop culture while also blasting away with a smart and rowdy imagination of its own." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2002	Gremlins 2 - The New Batch (1990)	65%
short	" A ringing reminder of Joe Dante�s unerring wit and cinematic significance." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2002	Gremlins (1984)	78%
	" Anglosized Indian director Mira Nair pilfers every lame ceremonial clich� through the ages." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2002	Monsoon Wedding (2002)	94%
B+	Click here to read article -- Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 8, 2002	10 (1979)	70%
B+	" Olivier Gourmet's touching performance is an act of meticulousness that you will either catch out of the corner of your eye, or not at all." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002	The Son (2003)	88%
C+	" Contains about a half-dozen intellectually stimulating moments of discourse but is drowned out by Bellocchio's reluctance to carry through all the way with any of them." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002	My Mother's Smile (2005)	84%
	" A porn film without the sex scenes." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002	The Uncertainty Principle (2002)	20%
B	" As the voyage progresses towards its tremendous conclusion, it becomes tempting to ignore the subtitles so that your eyes can fully comprehend the suspended opulence." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2002	Russian Ark (2002)	88%
	" An artistic expression that could easily have been bitter and threatening to the point of impatience, yet comes off as not only fluid and honest, but even a little lovely." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2002	Ten (2003)	86%
	" Westfeldt characterizes Jessica Stein with ample neurosis yet never draws her as a pathetic figure." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 24, 2002	Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)	84%
C	" Rides a standard trajectory with meager little surprise in the details." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 4, 2002	The Good Girl (2002)	81%
	" The sight gags and poop jokes are mercifully unsafe and unhinged, and many composed with the kind of primordial, dank wit reminiscent of old John Waters." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2002	National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)	18%
	" Instilled with every awful clich� and stereotype available--and even invents anachronistic ways to perpetuate new ones." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2002	We Were Soldiers (2002)	63%
F	" Solondz hates himself so deeply and single-mindedly that contempt is the only sensibility he is able to express." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002	Storytelling (2002)	55%
D	" A Hollywood satire made by people who clearly hate movies but love Hollywood." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002	Full Frontal (2002)	37%
C+	" Evans's "brass knuckles in the balls" personality is simply too hollow for any lasting profundity to stick." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2002	The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)	91%
C	" A movie that, while impressed with its own style, is truly ignorant and terrified of itself -- of its own heart, its soul and its moral awareness." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2002	Road to Perdition (2002)	82%
D+	" Heavy with flabby rolls of typical Toback machinations." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2002	Harvard Man (2002)	33%
C+	" The greatest myth on display here is the belief that ostensible impoliteness somehow equals a break from the norm." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 21, 2002	Lilo & Stitch (2002)	86%
C+	" The corniness and contrivance that has marked Schumacher's movies all along is not suddenly absent here." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2002	Tigerland (2000)	76%
B	" Athletically limber and enthusiastically offbeat, both serious and fun." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2002	The Bourne Identity (2002)	83%
B	" *Fulfills the mandate for outrageous comic adventurism ignored by the rigidly coordinated Spider-Man* and the insipidly plagiaristic Austin Powers.*" -- Matinee Magazine* Posted Jun 1, 2002	Undercover Brother (2002)	76%
N/A	" "I mean, it was forced, maybe, but still humanistic."" -- Matinee Magazine Posted May 30, 2002	2001 Year-in-Review (2001)	n/a
B-	" Photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic." -- Matinee Magazine Posted May 30, 2002	The Sleepy Time Gal (2002)	78%
D-	" Pity the masses of tired and poor women who will flock to Jennifer Lopez's latest loud blast of self-empowerment." -- Matinee Magazine Posted May 22, 2002	Enough (2002)	21%
F	" *The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joff� and Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter." -- Matinee Magazine* Posted May 22, 2002	Bartleby (2002)	36%
	" Inappropriate for audiences of all ages." -- Village Voice Posted May 19, 2002	Diamonds (1999)	25%

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