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	Knocked Up
A-	The Bourne Ultimatum
B+	Private Fears in Public Places
B	Brand Upon The Brain!
B-	I Think I Love My Wife
C+	Crazy Love
C	Dead Silence
C-	The Valet
D+	License To Wed
D	Evan Almighty
D-	Underdog
F	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem

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-	The Strangers
A-	Stuck
	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 78% of the time.

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C	"It's hard to believe that two people could reach middle age acting like grade-schoolers, and not in a funny way, either." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	54%
B+	"It's easy for anyone who survived (or is surviving) high school to feel twinges of identification." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	American Teen (2008)	67%
B+	"Much of the fun of Baghead is that it's unclassifiable, by turns a movie-movie lark, an Eric Rohmer-like relationship comedy, and a surprisingly effective Friday The 13th kids-in-the-woods slasher film." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	Baghead (2008)	87%
C	"Much like the album it's promoting, it's both urgent and regrettably cacophonous." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 24, 2008	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	66%
C	"Most of the time, Peck is cast adrift in an uncertain world, and Levine too often conflates his lack of purpose with the movie's." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	63%
B+	"Though Anderson's storytelling gets murky at times, it's still a fine showcase for his versatility, adding to an impressive, under-the-radar r�sum�." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 17, 2008	Transsiberian (2008)	85%
C	"Constructing a play -- and now a clumsily staged film -- around ABBA songs is the definition of a frivolous enterprise, and little has been done to temper the ecstatic mood with other shadings of human emotion." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 17, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
D+	"It's a production in search of a movie." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 10, 2008	Garden Party (2008)	12%
B+	"Though Argento's full-barreled performance hits some bum notes, her utter lack of reserve stands out as both reckless and courageous against the social rigors of Parisian high society." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 26, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
B-	"The film covers the game's highlights with great flair." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 26, 2008	Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008)	89%
C-	"It's all message, no tension." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 19, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	80%
C-	"In updating a beloved TV show, the filmmakers have gone out of their way to excise everything that was fun about it." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 19, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
B	"The film plays a little like an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, except with scientists instead of cooks, though the low-stakes travelogue format allows for plenty of surprises and fun along the way." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 12, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	95%
B+	"The whole film could be seen a metaphor for America's misadventures in Iraq: Schreiber and company came in expecting flowers and sweets from a grateful native, and wound up in a quagmire." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 6, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
C-	"Mother Of Tears at least has some of the go-for-broke gothic spirit of [Argento's] earlier work. He's just lost the ability to shape it into something artful." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 6, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	50%
A-	"As an exercise in controlled mayhem, horror movies don't get much scarier." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 29, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
A-	"*It's a righteously nasty piece of work, and a rare example of a movie that traffics in B-movie grime without a trace of Grindhouse-style self-consciousness." -- Onion AV Club* Posted May 29, 2008	Stuck (2008)	71%
B-	"When in the presence of a woman like Barbara Baekeland -- and an actress like Moore -- lesser souls are doomed to wither." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 29, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	42%
B-	"Nobody can orchestrate this robust silliness better than Steven Spielberg, who brings effortless visual panache to the proceedings, even when he can't entirely hide its mercenary nature." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 22, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
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)	88%
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)	45%
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)	27%
C	"A relentlessly ugly and derivative reworking of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 8, 2008	Frontier(s) (2008)	65%
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)	36%
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)	54%
C	"*From the nondescript title on down, Deception* is a movie made to be forgotten.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
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)	50%
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)	39%
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)	85%
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)	63%
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)	8%
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)	29%
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)	36%
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)	47%
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)	35%
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)	7%
C+	"*Too much of The Grand* is eaten up by thin conceits that go nowhere.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted Mar 20, 2008	The Grand ()	39%
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)	50%
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)	78%
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)	78%
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)	67%
B	"Sachs gets terrific performances out of his actors." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 6, 2008	Married Life (2008)	57%
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)	55%
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)	35%

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