ROTTEN TOMATOES: Richard Schickel

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	What About Bob?
	Tootsie
	Ghostbusters
	Absence of Malice
	Clockers
	Leaving Las Vegas
	Kiss of Death
	Watership Down
	Antz
	I Served the King of England
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	Crooklyn
	Windtalkers
	The Women
	Any Given Sunday
	Eight Men Out
	Slap Shot
	Remember the Titans
	The Incredible Hulk
	Get Smart
	Redbelt
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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	" Murray, with his curious blend of pathos and aggressiveness, is terrific, and so is an acutely uptight Dreyfuss, never once copping a plea for our sympathy." -- TIME Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2008	What About Bob? (1991)	81%
	" It is not just the best comedy of the year; it is popular art on the way to becoming cultural artifact." -- TIME Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2008	Tootsie (1982)	87%
	" Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude." -- TIME Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2008	Ghostbusters (1984)	93%
	" Absence of Malice does not invalidate All the President's Men. But with entertainment values -- and a moral sense -- every bit as high as that film's, it observes that there is an underside to journalistic gallantry." -- TIME Magazine Posted Oct 1, 2008	Absence of Malice (1981)	78%
	" Lee is a great self-promoter. After all his press releases and all his interviews, we are given films that are sketchy, unfelt and distancing -- incidents in Lee's career, the only drama that really interests him." -- TIME Magazine Posted Sep 23, 2008	Crooklyn (1994)	76%
	" There is a force and focus in Lee's work, an absence of intellectual posturing and a willingness to let his material speak for itself that he has not achieved before." -- TIME Magazine Posted Sep 22, 2008	Clockers (1995)	67%
	" *The energy and conviction of the action sequences don't quite compensate for Windtalkers' emotional cliches and historical heedlessness." -- TIME Magazine* Posted Sep 19, 2008	Windtalkers (2002)	33%
	" We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies." -- TIME Magazine Posted Sep 19, 2008	Leaving Las Vegas (1995)	89%
	" *What's most effective about the new Kiss of Death* is Tucci's marvelously slimy prosecutor.*" -- TIME Magazine* Posted Sep 19, 2008	Kiss of Death (1995)	66%
	" One of the worst movies I've ever seen." -- TIME Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	10%
	" A rare movie that keeps kids on the edge of their chairs without inducing in their parents an overwhelming desire to escape theirs for a smoke in the lobby." -- TIME Magazine Posted Sep 4, 2008	Watership Down (1978)	82%
	" Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films." -- TIME Magazine Posted Sep 4, 2008	Antz (1998)	95%
	" I Served the King of England may not be a totally riveting movie, but it is, in its gently insinuating way, a curiously rewarding one." -- TIME Magazine Posted Sep 2, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	80%
	" No one has ever made a funnier jackass of himself than Murphy." -- TIME Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2008	Shrek (2001)	90%
	" A smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects...that you can talk about with the kids for a long time to come." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 31, 2008	The Iron Giant (1999)	97%
	" Pixar's improved computer animation is up to all the demands of this excellent adventure." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 31, 2008	Toy Story 2 (1999)	100%
	" Even in its warmest moments, there is a fearful chill in this hood's air. And on the hearts of its boyz." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2008	Boyz N the Hood (1991)	98%
	" Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly meanspirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2008	Mars Attacks! (1996)	48%
	" An astonishing display of virtuoso cinema that is destined to take its place among the most vivid and freshly imagined fist-to-groin contests in the medium's history." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2008	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)	81%
	" What a concept! Mad Max meets The Cosby Show" -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2008	Lethal Weapon (1987)	90%
	" *It's easy to stand back and wax ironic about The Last Samurai. But it's not all that difficult to succumb to its full-spirited romanticism either." -- TIME Magazine* Posted Aug 25, 2008	The Last Samurai (2003)	65%
	" It must be nerve-racking for the producers to offer a tale so lacking in standard melodramatic satisfactions. But the result is worth it, for this is the clearest film statement yet on how the nature of heroism has changed in this totalitarian century." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2008	The Killing Fields (1984)	91%
	" Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are awfully good at this sort of thing." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2008	Grumpy Old Men (1993)	63%
	" A first-rate thriller." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2008	The Fugitive (1993)	94%
	" Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.'" -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 22, 2008	Blazing Saddles (1974)	89%
	" Moviegoers are hereby alerted to some good fun." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 22, 2008	Arthur (1981)	89%
	" *Almost three hours of this jitter deteriorates from bravura filmmaking to annoying mannerism, and Any Given Sunday* ends up less than the sum of its many, often interesting parts.*" -- TIME Magazine* Posted Aug 22, 2008	Any Given Sunday (1999)	49%
	" Alas, poor Focker. He can't help himself. And we can't help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 15, 2008	Meet the Parents (2000)	84%
	" *As with Anderson's Rushmore, there's a certain annoying preciousness to this film -- it's not so consistently wise or amusing as he thinks it is -- but it has its moments." -- TIME Magazine* Posted Aug 14, 2008	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)	80%
	" By giving his movie a very effective realistic look, by helping his actors to shape strongly believable performances, even when they are doing implausible things, Benton lends credence to...inspirational fibs." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 12, 2008	Nobody's Fool (1994)	90%
	" As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2008	Tin Cup (1996)	69%
	" Whether he would have won at the next Olympics, we'll never know. What we do know is that Towne, a man of ruefully romantic temperament, has found a soulmate in Steve Prefontaine." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2008	Without Limits (1998)	75%
	" What saves it, aside from good performances by Burt Reynolds and a thundering herd of supporting grotesques, is, of all things, a tough, tiny nut of valid social criticism." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 4, 2008	The Longest Yard (1974)	81%
	" Personal Best is likable precisely because it is so unembarrassed." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 4, 2008	Personal Best (1982)	71%
	" Sharing its subject's virtues, it is a lovely addition to the annals of the Greatest Generation." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2008	The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999)	96%
	" A very good film, beautifully shot and edited, intelligently structured and -- to risk what will surely seem at first a highly inappropriate term -- charming." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2008	Pumping Iron (1977)	95%
	" A funny, gentle and honestly sentimental movie that is easily one of the best of the year in any category, and very possibly the best movie about sport ever made in this country." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2008	Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)	91%
	" There are a few moments when the picture's easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2008	Breaking Away (1979)	94%
	" Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	Hoosiers (1987)	90%
	" We are not on Rocky's side of the street, but in Martin Scorsese country, where bent character, not sentiment, shapes destiny, and the best the struggling human spirit can hope for is a split decision." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Color of Money (1986)	91%
	" It gives its fine actors room to breathe and behave -- and in Michelle Rodriguez's case, glow." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	Girlfight (2000)	88%
	" This film's art consists entirely of hiding the cynicism of its calculations under an agreeably modest and disarming manner." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Karate Kid (1984)	89%
	" Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	Eight Men Out (1988)	86%
	" Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast skating and some solid body checking, but in the last period it makes a final costly slip -- and misses its goal." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	Slap Shot (1977)	83%
	" Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted on to it, as so many characters in historical movies seem to be." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	Chariots of Fire (1981)	86%
	" Retains enough of the original novel's authenticity to deliver strong, if brutish, entertainment." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	North Dallas Forty (1979)	86%
	" Energetic, full of goodwill and good feelings, it never quite attains the graceful nonchalance and self-confidence with which finely tuned athletes -- and comedies -- move and enchant us." -- TIME Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008	A League of Their Own (1992)	83%
	" There is a recognizable ordinariness about the way these people stumble in and out of trouble, in and out of grace -- an ambiguous note, at once tart and sweet, knowing and innocent, in their relationships." -- TIME Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2008	Jerry Maguire (1996)	83%
	" Maybe it's all true. But one is always a little discomfited when life, or a movie, imitates weary melodramatic patterns this slavishly." -- TIME Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2008	Remember the Titans (2000)	71%
	" Few have dared what Brandauer accomplishes: showing us a good actor responding to the same neurotic drive for the center of the stage, the immortalizing role. His is a great performance, nothing less." -- TIME Magazine Posted Jul 28, 2008	Mephisto (1981)	69%

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