ROTTEN TOMATOES: Scott Tobias

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Zodiac
A-	The Bourne Ultimatum
B+	The Host
B	Breach
B-	The Astronaut Farmer
C+	Bamako
C	The Messengers
C-	Gray Matters
D+	License To Wed
D	Wild Hogs
D-	Underdog
F	Norbit

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Standard Operating Procedure
A	Funny Games
A	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A	Lake of Fire
A	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A	Knocked Up
A	Zodiac
A	The Departed
A-	Gone Baby Gone
A-	Into the Wild
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
F	Norbit
F	Date Movie
D-	Prom Night
D-	Underdog
D	Zombie Strippers
D	In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
D	Revolver
D	Broken
D	Good Luck Chuck
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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B+	"The vibrant Norwegian debut feature Reprise is one of those rare films about writers where form matches content, with fresh insights about the literary world coming via a complex, liberating series of flashbacks, ellipses, and other bold flourishes." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 15, 2008	Reprise (2008)	93%
C	"*With all these volatile emotions at play, Before The Rains* should percolate like The Postman Always Rings Twice, but� well� it's a Merchant-Ivory production, after all.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted May 15, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	44%
C	"Complain all you want about the affable slobs in Judd Apatow comedies; at least they're not tools." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 8, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	29%
C	"A relentlessly ugly and derivative reworking of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 8, 2008	Frontier(s) (2008)	56%
C	"In the early going, the whiz-bang editing and searing primary colors in Speed Racer work like a sugar rush, but the crash from all that overstimulation is enough to reduce grown men into sobbing infants." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	34%
B	"*Any comedy zany enough to include a veiled, left-field reference to Clara's Heart* has something going for it.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	56%
C	"*From the nondescript title on down, Deception* is a movie made to be forgotten.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
A	"Working from interviews with many of the key players, Morris investigates the Abu Ghraib case with all the rigor of his film The Thin Blue Line, and comes away with an equally convincing argument for miscarried justice." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 24, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
B-	"*Much like Crank, it's the guiltiest of guilty pleasures." -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 21, 2008	Pathology (2008)	47%
D	"*In the not-so-grand tradition of other straight-to-video/late-night-cable T&A-fests, the trouble with Zombie Strippers* is that it doesn't come about its exploitation honestly.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 17, 2008	Zombie Strippers (2008)	36%
B	"Forgetting Sarah Marshall gives another Apatow player a much-deserved day in the sun. Maybe Jay Baruchel or Martin Starr will soon get turns in the rotation." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 17, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
C	"*At best, The Forbidden Kingdom* counts as an amiable time-waster for kids, but much more should be expected from the momentous union of two kung-fu titans.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
D-	"There's really nothing much to Prom Night: No twists, no atmosphere, no big Grand Guignol setpieces, not a single moment when it tries to do something novel with the event, the killings, the villain, or the victims." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 11, 2008	Prom Night (2008)	9%
C-	"*Of the many facile ironies at play in Chaos Theory, the title may be the biggest: How can a movie so stuffed with writerly contrivances call itself Chaos Theory?" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 10, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	30%
C+	"Working from an original story by [James] Ellroy, [David] Ayer's overwrought Kings splashes around in the slop, but its conclusions seem a little rote from these two, who have both expressed their bottomless cynicism more effectively in the past." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 10, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
C	"In compressing the novel down to a sloppy abridgement, the film fails to capture the eerie portent of its setting." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 7, 2008	The Ruins (2008)	42%
B	"Nothing much happens in The Flight Of The Red Balloon, and that's all by design: [director] Hou means to evoke a city and a few of the lonely characters within it, and he does so with consummate grace, affection, and a subtle touch of magic." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 3, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	78%
B+	"A buoyant, light-hearted encore of a movie, paying tribute to the Stones as indefatigable elder statesmen who still go out every night and put on a great show." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 3, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
C-	"Before sinking into a predictable morality tale, 21 coasts on the superficial thrill of watching casinos take a few hits, but gamblers looking for a how-to lesson on winning in Vegas will be putting their pencils down pretty quickly." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 28, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
C-	"Shutter coughs up another vengeful ghost in the form of a spurned Japanese waif who appears in photographs and sets about getting her message across as many ghosts do -- in the most indirect, passive-aggressive, logic-defying way imaginable" -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 22, 2008	Shutter (2008)	9%
C+	"*Too much of The Grand* is eaten up by thin conceits that go nowhere.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Mar 20, 2008	The Grand ()	42%
B-	"Boarding Gate's surfaces are often so staggeringly beautiful that its superficiality becomes forgivable, with the pleasant distractions of Assayas' multi-layered frames, Argento's sinewy allure, and snippets of Brian Eno ambience on the soundtrack." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 20, 2008	Boarding Gate (2007)	26%
C	"In the future, movies this derivative will be made by robots." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 13, 2008	Never Back Down (2008)	25%
C	"*Just because the live-action Seusses have dialed down expectations doesn't mean that Horton* shouldn't aspire to more than time-wasting mediocrity.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Mar 13, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
A	"A chilly and extraordinarily controlled treatise on film violence, Funny Games punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire. Neat trick, that." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 13, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	49%
C+	"There's little imagination in the film's artificial, back-lot-tour vision of London, and little surprise in how the complicated plot finally untangles itself." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 6, 2008	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	76%
C+	"The Bank Job would probably go down a little easier if there weren't so much potential for seizing on a ripe cultural moment. Some stories are too good for mediocrity." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 6, 2008	The Bank Job (2008)	77%
B-	"In spite of strong performances and a characteristically vivid sense of place, the film feels disjointed and heavy." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 6, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	68%
B	"Sachs gets terrific performances out of his actors." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 6, 2008	Married Life (2008)	55%
C	"Watching Charlie Bartlett only makes Wes Anderson's work seem more accomplished by comparison, because it underscores that thin line separating the agreeably fanciful from the overbearingly precious." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 22, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	53%
C-	"Travis dutifully pastes the story-shards together, but he and the actors are hamstrung by a script that's so busy piling on the twists that it never pauses to consider what they mean." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 22, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	37%
B	"Put simply, the film excels most at not being awful." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 14, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
	"When the players themselves are conceived this superficially, LaBute winds up invalidating his own point." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 12, 2008	The Shape of Things (2003)	64%
C+	"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins leans too heavily on bruising slapstick for easy laughs, with Lawrence absorbing blows from most of his family members, when mosquitoes and skunks aren't getting in on the action." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 7, 2008	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)	25%
B	"Lior is a special boy, but the film remains refreshingly down-to-earth about his abilities and limitations, and in the four-month buildup to his bar mitzvah, it wonders openly about where this rite of passage might take him." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jan 31, 2008	Praying with Lior (2008)	72%
C-	"Writer-director Jeff Lowell could have gone many different ways with this idea -- the screwball comedy of Heaven Can Wait, say, or even the wistful, unabashed romanticism of Ghost -- but he takes the low road more often than not." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jan 31, 2008	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	13%
A	"Captures the tenor of a particular era with uncanny force." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jan 24, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
C+	"Cassandra's Dream feels rote and inauthentic. Like so many late-period Allens, it leaves behind the feeling that he's made this movie before, but better." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jan 17, 2008	Cassandra's Dream (2008)	50%
D	"Boll has been compared to Ed Wood, but there's nothing personal about his ineptitude; he's just a deal-maker completing a transaction. Save perhaps for his fan club of ironists, movies like In The Name Of The King could only make a ledger happy." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jan 12, 2008	In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)	5%
	"*More than anything, From Justin To Kelly* needs Simon Cowell.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Jan 8, 2008	From Justin to Kelly (2003)	9%
C-	"*About as fresh and vital as a fifth-generation dub of The Star Wars Holiday Special." -- Onion AV Club* Posted Jan 5, 2008	One Missed Call (2008)	0%
B-	"The film gets better as it goes along, and it closes with a rousing musical flourish, as immensely charismatic newcomer Clark Jr. finally hits the stage. At last, Sayles' sleepy drama wakes with a start." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jan 2, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	67%
F	"The door is left open for another sequel; if someone would kindly shut it and board it up, that would be much appreciated." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 28, 2007	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)	15%
B	"It's a fittingly loose, shambling little nothing of a comedy that's occasionally inspired, but at least a draft or two short of its potential. Still, it's a pleasure to watch Faris wander slack-jawed through a surreal day in Los Angeles." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 26, 2007	Smiley Face (2007)	67%
C	"LaGravenese is known as one of Hollywood's go-to screenwriters, credited or uncredited, but the films he's directed, such as Living Out Loud and Freedom Writers, are memorable more for their terrible titles than any lasting distinction." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 20, 2007	P.S. I Love You (2007)	21%
B-	"Walk Hard offers a quantity of laughs that few comedies could match." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 20, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	74%
C+	"Coppola has gone uprriver again in an effort to reinvent himself and cinema in the process. He ultimately fails, but he can't be faulted for trying." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 13, 2007	Youth Without Youth (2007)	29%
D+	"The Perfect Holiday makes the safest, blandest choices possible in delivering some Christmas cheer for the whole family." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 12, 2007	The Perfect Holiday (2007)	17%
B+	"Strikingly written by newcomer Diablo Cody, Juno will get a lot of attention for its colorful dialogue, which is at times too ostentatious for its own good, but the film's sincerity is what ultimately carries it across." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 6, 2007	Juno (2007)	93%
D	"The prospect of Ritchie going back to the gangster genre a third time is unappetizing, but it has nothing on his feeble attempt to reinvent it." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 6, 2007	Revolver (2007)	16%

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