ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tom Maurstad

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Speed Racer
A-	Spirited Away
B+	Escaflowne The Movie
B	Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
B-	Safe Conduct
C+	Austin Powers in Goldmember
C	Crossroads
C-	Stolen Summer
D+	A Man Apart
D	Rollerball
D-	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
F	Wet Hot American Summer

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Speed Racer
A	Hero
a-	Wanted
A-	Sex and the City - The Movie
A-	Shaun of the Dead
A-	What the Bleep Do We Know?
A-	Intermission
A-	Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
A-	Spirited Away
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	10,000 B.C.
F	See No Evil
F	BloodRayne
F	Malibu's Most Wanted
F	Wet Hot American Summer
D-	Paparazzi
D-	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
D	Eagle Eye
D	Righteous Kill
D	Hitman
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

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B+	" Nick and Norah takes the relatively radical approach of making a movie that occurs on a genuinely human scale." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
B-	" Many may laugh, and many will surely be offended, but nothing here bridges the gap between those two reactions." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Religulous (2008)	66%
D	" Forget suspending disbelief; you would have to suspend consciousness to go along with this story." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	28%
C	" Along the way, Mr. Lee has some gripping moments. But for every striking irony, there is a hammer-handed scene driving the same point into self-parody." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	30%
B+	" As Ghost Town reminds us, there's nothing wrong with formula filmmaking � as long as it's done with smarts and style. Indeed, formulaic doesn't have to be shorthand for lazy, obvious and uninspired." Posted Sep 19, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	85%
D	" *In every way that matters (indeed, in just about every way a movie can), Righteous Kill* fails to deliver.*" Posted Sep 12, 2008*	Righteous Kill (2008)	23%
B+	" Propelled by the beautiful camerawork and scenery that moves back and forth between pastoral idyll and urban chaos as it takes the viewer on a journey that ends with a final image as quiet and beautiful as any in recent cinema." Posted Sep 5, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
C	" A confused and unsatisfying experience with some nice moments that don't amount to much." Posted Aug 27, 2008	Traitor (2008)	53%
B	" It's beautifully photographed and slowly paced, all the better to emphasize the film's emphasis on and exploration of deep feelings." Posted Aug 22, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
B+	" The movie gets its own Mad Max mojo working, but there's no real attempt at social commentary here -- these churls just want to have fun." Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	43%
B+	" A movie brimming with beautiful people and beautiful scenery; there's a contagious enthusiasm as this movie whirs through the sights and sounds of Barcelona." Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
B	" **Tropic Thunder is more consistently entertaining, and its best moments burn much brighter than those of Pineapple Express.*" Posted Aug 13, 2008*	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
B+	" *There are some gaps in the movie's reality, and some O. Henry-like contrivances, but the masterful trick Boy A* plays on viewers is to get them to care before giving them reasons not to.*" Posted Aug 8, 2008*	Boy A (2008)	88%
B-	" Pineapple Express presents viewers with an oxymoronic experience: the action stoner film." Posted Aug 6, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
a-	" A one-word review of Wanted would be "Wow."" Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
B-	" *Instead of the show's wacky, slapstick tone, Get Smart* presents itself as an action-filled spy movie that just happens to be really funny. And for the most part, it succeeds.*" Posted Jun 20, 2008*	Get Smart (2008)	52%
A-	" Fans rejoice: It's good. And smart. And funny." Posted May 29, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	50%
A	" This is a movie that is giddily, gorgeously overwhelming, from the cool slow-motion to the Kubrick cartoons to the wormhole pyrotechnics to the kaleidoscopic bliss." Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	37%
B	" A really funny, surprisingly smart and genuinely sweet comedy." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	62%
F	" You may be expecting a showcase of cutting-edge visuals -- isn't the appeal of the title the implicit promise of seeing a lost world re-created to presumably dazzling effect? But for the most part, it's just barren landscapes and people in animal skins." Posted Mar 7, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
B-	" Stunningly, unrelentingly violent." Posted Jan 25, 2008	Rambo (2008)	37%
D	" The only thing Hitman succeeds in doing is confirming what common sense could tell you without spending millions of dollars on a special-effects-filled movie: A series of novels is much richer source material than a series of video games." Posted Nov 26, 2007	Hitman (2007)	15%
C	" It's all too simplistic to really engage the deeply complex dilemma it seeks to pass judgment on." Posted Oct 19, 2007	Rendition (2007)	48%
D+	" Utterly humorless and unrelentingly grim. Giving it a grainy, washed-out, fidgety look and choreographing scenes to create an atmosphere of claustrophobic disorientation, Mr. Wan has made a movie that is literally unpleasant to watch." Posted Aug 31, 2007	Death Sentence (2007)	19%
B+	" The movie offers plenty of smarts and imaginative distractions to counter the stacking of improbabilities." Posted Aug 17, 2007	The Invasion (2007)	19%
B+	" As with most fairy tales, it can sound silly and overcomplicated because, really, it is silly and overcomplicated. That's part of the fun, part of its out-of-this-world power." Posted Aug 10, 2007	Stardust (2007)	76%
C-	" *With strong lead performances and sure-footed direction, You Kill Me* isn't terrible, it's just not nearly as smart or interesting as it should be or as it seems to think it is.*" Posted Jul 6, 2007*	You Kill Me (2007)	79%
B-	" This is a movie to see on the big screen." Posted Jul 3, 2007	Transformers (2007)	57%
D	" The movie undercuts whatever good graces it has generated with a feel-good ending that is just stunningly stupid. It's hard to be hip when your finale is so square." Posted May 18, 2007	The Wendell Baker Story (2007)	43%
B	" If Mr. Krause weren't so good at making his psychotic break with reality (or was it?) so steadily, plausibly convincing, the movie would be unwatchable. Instead, it's a disturbing diary of one man's descent." Posted May 4, 2007	Civic Duty (2007)	56%
B	" Good summer fun that's both brain and eye candy." Posted Apr 27, 2007	Next (2007)	29%
B-	" Fittingly, the sequences when the movie actually tries to tell a story are when things bog down and fall apart. Much better is when the movie stops trying to make sense and just lets the pop-art absurdities fly." Posted Apr 13, 2007	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)	47%
B	" Director Antoine Fuqua knows how to stage and shoot scenes of violence and chaos so that they build without ever bubbling over into absurdity." Posted Mar 23, 2007	Shooter (2007)	47%
C+	" The movie never breaks the surface of its characters or their situation. And Mr. Rock's paint-by-numbers approach as director only compounds the movie's flat, formulaic feel." Posted Mar 16, 2007	I Think I Love My Wife (2007)	19%
C-	" This movie is meant to be watched the way a video game is played: just go from scene to scene and start blasting the minute you walk through the door." Posted Jan 26, 2007	Smokin' Aces (2007)	27%
B-	" What keeps you watching is the level of acting, especially between the two male leads." Posted Dec 8, 2006	Blood Diamond (2006)	63%
C-	" It's pointless to nitpick a film this ostentatiously loose and loutish, but in the film's execution much of that spirit just comes off as lazy and careless." Posted Nov 23, 2006	Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006)	53%
C-	" The Genius Club is a stultifying, static movie about a group of people trapped in a dingy boardroom yelling at one another and their tormentor." Posted Oct 27, 2006	The Genius Club (2006)	17%
C+	" The movie ends as it started, with Marie in a carriage, unaware of the fate we know awaits her. It's the last in a long line of things the movie neither shows or tells us." Posted Oct 20, 2006	Marie Antoinette (2006)	54%
C	" Mr. Cohen is funny and charming while being brilliantly observant, so it's especially frustrating that this film about him is so reverent and humorless." Posted Jul 13, 2006	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006)	71%
B+	" To call it a great film would be to oversell it, but as a fun, fascinating work of kinetic art, a 100-minute visual spectacle, it's a knockout." Posted Jun 15, 2006	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)	34%
F	" ... there's the assembly-line predictability of it all." Posted May 19, 2006	See No Evil (2006)	7%
C+	" *Unapologetic partisanship underscores the central question and problem of The Big Buy: For whom and what is it intended?" Posted May 18, 2006*	The Big Buy - How Tom DeLay Stole Congress ()	56%
C+	" V for Vendetta engages in lots of speechifying about the importance of ideas and the freedom to question them. Ironically, though, the movie doesn't really seem to have any ideas of its own." Posted Mar 16, 2006	V For Vendetta (2005)	73%
C-	" *The most effective way of reviewing the new Pink Panther* movie would be to issue two reviews. One would be a simply worded warning to adults: Skip it if you can.*" Posted Feb 9, 2006*	Pink Panther (2006)	25%
C	" It's by no means the longest movie ever made, but it's one of the longest movies ever made in which next to nothing ever happens and barely a word is spoken." Posted Jan 19, 2006	The New World (2005)	60%
F	" *There's nothing certain in life except death, taxes and ... that movies based on video games are going to stink. Cue BloodRayne." Posted Jan 7, 2006*	BloodRayne (2006)	4%
B	" Mr. McLean uses all sorts of storytelling tricks to keep you guessing while the quartet of unknown actors deliver deeply affecting performances." Posted Dec 24, 2005	Wolf Creek (2005)	53%
B+	" Fun With Dick and Jane is the best kind of remake: It takes a dated film most people haven't seen or vaguely remember and updates the basic premise in a way that plugs it into here and now." Posted Dec 21, 2005	Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)	29%
B+	" *There's no way to say it but to come right out with it: Aeon Flux* is a good movie. Actually, it's a really good movie.*" Posted Dec 5, 2005*	Aeon Flux (2005)	11%

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