ROTTEN TOMATOES: Maria Garcia

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	Tuya's Marriage
	My Brother is an Only Child
	Blind Mountain
	Paranoid Park
	Caramel
	Still Life
	Chuck Close
	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
	Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey
	Khadak
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	Battle for Haditha
	Up The Yangtze
	The Life Before Her Eyes
	Irina Palm
	Sleepwalking
	Girls Rock!
	Silence Before Bach, The
	Note by Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037
	The Price of Sugar
	Becoming Jane
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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	"His conflation of reality and narrative filmmaking, unique as it may seem, that doesn't always work." Posted May 7, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2008)	57%
	"Far too many disparate themes are never woven together to explain the underlying purpose of the film's journey." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2008)	89%
	"One only wonders whether distributor Magnolia Pictures and Perelman's cast and crew grasp the film's undisguised misogyny. " Posted Apr 15, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	22%
	"*The film's social commentary is so subtle, and arises so naturally from the plot, that Tuya's Marriage* might be mistaken for simple, straightforward entertainment.*" Posted Apr 3, 2008*	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	82%
	"Luchetti's craftsmanship is evident in the movie's fluid on-location cinematography, excellent production design, and its wonderful period score." Posted Mar 26, 2008	My Brother is an Only Child (2008)	90%
	"A perverse male fantasy masquerading as an earnest story about a woman's life-altering experience." Posted Mar 21, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	75%
	"The actors' Herculean effort to extract meaning from their characters provides a few moments of relief from this troublesome story." Posted Mar 10, 2008	Sleepwalking (2008)	16%
	"While it is absorbing to see girls in this environment, the psychological and sociological perspective which the filmmakers bring teaches us about their subjects rather than allowing us to get to know them. " Posted Mar 7, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	73%
	"Li's documentary approach brooks no sentimentality in its portrayal of the loss of innocence." Posted Mar 6, 2008	Blind Mountain (2008)	77%
	"The film is an illustration of Van Sant's virtuosity, as well as a textbook example of cinema's potential to place us squarely in the emotional landscape of another human being." Posted Feb 27, 2008	Paranoid Park (2008)	76%
	"*Driven solely by the filmmaker's prosaic associations. Portabella does not discover the composer through* his music.*" Posted Feb 5, 2008*	Silence Before Bach, The (2008)	91%
	"*A Lebanese version of Steel Magnolias--a delightful valentine to women of a particular time and place." Posted Jan 23, 2008*	Caramel (2008)	91%
	"Jia's films are singular and beautiful and, like the opening tracking shot in Still Life, a study in the expressive potential of the medium." Posted Dec 31, 2007	Still Life (2008)	93%
	"Through a series of vignettes, interviews with Close's friends and family, the filmmaker reveals the soul of the portraitist." Posted Dec 31, 2007	Chuck Close (2007)	100%
	"*Despite the drama, there is nothing in The Water Horse* that will frighten young children. The cast is good, and the special effects are even better.*" Posted Dec 31, 2007*	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)	73%
	"Death may come with the half moon, but there remains a promise of rebirth%u2014the full moon, which illuminates even the desperate landscape of Kurdistan. " Posted Dec 19, 2007	Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007)	100%
	"Niles purposefully seeks out quirkiness rather than providing meaningful demonstrations of craft." Posted Nov 5, 2007	Note by Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037 (2007)	93%
	"A highly imaginative film, beautifully scored and well-acted." Posted Oct 12, 2007	Khadak (2006)	64%
	"Few will doubt the priest's claims given the Dominican Republic's appalling human-rights record; one only wishes they had been explored in an objective documentary format." Posted Sep 27, 2007	The Price of Sugar (2007)	72%
	"A reflective and thought-provoking documentary, guided by Williams' sensitivity to the subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism that spurred those events." Posted Sep 26, 2007	Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2007)	85%
	"Lives up to its promise of definitiveness...a significant piece of journalism." Posted Sep 25, 2007	Lake of Fire (2007)	94%
	"[A film with] power to stir a memory of beauty beheld and shared." Posted Sep 12, 2007	Forever (2007)	91%
	"The filmmaker compels us to see in the dark, to recognize beauty in the absence of color and light." Posted Aug 3, 2007	The Willow Tree (2005)	88%
	"It's worse than male fantasy: It's Austen for Idiots." Posted Jul 27, 2007	Becoming Jane (2007)	57%
	"After 40 minutes of schoolgirl and schoolboy reminiscences, and the filmmaker's attempts to filter history through nostalgia, the documentary is about as appealing as a home movie." Posted Jul 24, 2007	The Sugar Curtain (2007)	89%
	"Gaggero's vision is gentle and optimistic and, like all things which come upon us slowly and gracefully, it possesses an undeniable verisimilitude." Posted Jul 19, 2007	Live-In Maid (2004)	100%
	"A film with no discernable point of view that's directed at no definable audience." Posted Jul 16, 2007	FairyTale: A True Story (1997)	53%
	"Sokurov has thought deeply about his subject, but he does not dwell in the emotional and spiritual lives of this mother and son." Posted Jul 13, 2007	Mother and Son (1997)	83%
	"Captures the fragile and fleeting impression you often have of life, that's actually closer to life itself than the more comforting, linear perspectives of narrative film." Posted Jul 11, 2007	Nenette and Boni (1996)	78%
	"Composed of dramatic and thoughtful readings followed by surprisingly candid interviews." Posted Jul 11, 2007	O Amor Natural (1996)	83%
	"This story is right out of America's collective unconscious." Posted Jul 11, 2007	Soul Food (1997)	80%
	"Clever as the commentary may be, you simply don't care what happens to the protagonist." Posted Jul 10, 2007	A Self Made Hero (1997)	67%
	"Kudos to Schl�ndorff for celebrating the woman who sacrificed that glory for the greater good--and who continues to fight." Posted Jun 25, 2007	Strike (2007)	87%
	"A riveting portrait of disenfranchisement." Posted May 23, 2007	9 Star Hotel (2006)	63%
No Rating	Click here to read article Posted Apr 25, 2007	The Bridesmaid (2006)	90%
No Rating	Click here to read article Posted Apr 14, 2007	Brat (1997)	n/a
No Rating	Click here to read article Posted Apr 14, 2007	The Specialist (1994)	4%
	"*With the exception of an agonizingly long and overwritten opening scene, Private Fears* is an absorbing if somewhat theatrical drama of six intertwined lives.*" Posted Apr 10, 2007*	Private Fears in Public Places (2007)	79%
	"Everything is in Varda's perspicacious photos." Posted Apr 7, 2007	Cinevardaphoto (2005)	92%
	"Excellent performances by lead actors Beglau and Martin Wuttke...as well as an unforgettable performance by Nadja Uhl...humanize the unfamiliar internal politics of Germany." Posted Apr 7, 2007	The Legend of Rita (2001)	86%
	"U-Carmen is brash, often strident, yet in the end it is not cathartic." Posted Mar 30, 2007	U-Carmen (2007)	95%
	"*Its indictment of Iranian mores is no less incisive than that of The Circle." Posted Mar 8, 2007*	Offside (2006)	96%
	"It's a dissertation, not a story." Posted Mar 8, 2007	The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)	88%
	"*While Blossoms of Fire* avoids the fluff and sensationalism of an Elle article, it is by no means the last word on Zapotec culture.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	Blossoms of Fire (2006)	50%
	"*Like many "documentaries" that are essentially homages, Trudell* often lacks context.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	Trudell (2006)	31%
	"**Manderlay is shorter but just as dull, pretentious and condescending as Dogville.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	Manderlay (2006)	49%
	"Wheel of Time is flawed because Herzog attempts to illustrate faith through the exercise of faithfulness. He runs after the poetry of Buddhism and it eludes him." Posted Mar 1, 2007	Wheel of Time (2005)	94%
	"Mostly manages to feel authentic and uplifting, putting a human face on a complex colonial culture." Posted Mar 1, 2007	Cape Of Good Hope (2005)	68%
	"*An insipid script by Laws of Attraction* co-writer Aline Brosh McKenna packs a few droll one-liners, but mostly the film only aspires to its chick-lit roots.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)	76%
	"*It is that lack of small-minded judgment which distinguishes The Beauty Academy of Kabul* and which makes it thoughtful, yet so much fun to watch.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006)	87%

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