ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jonathan Curiel

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	CQ
3.5/4	Paper Clips
4/5	Yi Yi
3/4	Enigma
3.5/5	Pollock
2/4	Jason X
1/4	Ju-On: The Grudge
0/4	Crop Circles: Quest for Truth

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Opera Jawa
4/4	Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree
4/4	The Future Of Food
4/4	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
4/4	Machuca
4/4	Mana: Beyond Belief
4/4	Le Grand Role
4/4	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
4/4	Voices in Wartime
4/4	The Take
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	September Tapes
0/4	Crop Circles: Quest for Truth
1/4	Ju-On: The Grudge
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 85% of the time.

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	" *It's hit-and-miss. But Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert* is a film that doesn't let go from the very first moment.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Oct 3, 2008	Allah Made Me Funny (2008)	52%
4/4	" Blood and beauty are set in tandem, leaving the audience to wrestle with the contradictions that [director] Nugroho highlights in a film that stands out by any standard of cinema." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 19, 2008	Opera Jawa (2006)	100%
4/4	" *Conversations full of memorable words and what can only be called 'genuineness' push Youssou N'Dour: Return to Gor�e* into the realm of unforgettable filmmaking.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Sep 19, 2008	Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree (2008)	100%
3/4	" Akin's documentary gets its legs from the subtle questions it raises about Turkey's politics, nationalism, religious identity, cultural integrity and international perception." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 14, 2006	Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul ()	86%
2/4	" Shiley, who dedicates his film to all those killed and injured in the war, is a fallible narrator." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 28, 2006	Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories (2004)	80%
4/4	" Garcia, the widow of Grateful Dead star Jerry Garcia, has taken a complex subject and made it digestible for anyone who cares about what they put into their stomachs." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 30, 2005	The Future Of Food (2005)	84%
3/4	" An artful look at religious hypocrisy, interfamily dynamics and the way people wrestle with personal history long after the original events are over." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 9, 2005	My Mother's Smile (2005)	84%
3/4	" Memorable enough to warrant another shot at director. This film ends in a way that proves Mindel doesn't rely on cliches to make a statement." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 9, 2005	Milwaukee, Minnesota (2005)	39%
4/4	" Sweet, funny, sad and profound -- the sort of film that becomes more remarkable when you realize it's based on someone's real life." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 2, 2005	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005)	78%
3/4	" An engaging film about relationship struggles -- struggles that hurt both people in a couple, even if one of them is oblivious to the pain." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 26, 2005	Unwanted Woman (2005)	n/a
3/4	" Rough around the edges, it's still a formidable movie that's stunning visually." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 19, 2005	The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)	43%
3/4	" Richardson commands every scene she's in." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 19, 2005	Asylum (2005)	37%
3/4	" The dry humor is disarming. The ensemble cast is engaging and interesting to watch. And the main plot, as it were (will Nadav and Nina find respective happiness?), is suspenseful." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 29, 2005	Nina's Tragedies (2005)	61%
3/4	" Mostly succeeds in conveying the real- life risks that disgruntled teens will take to prove they're more powerful, more sexy and more in control than they really are." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 22, 2005	Lila Says (2005)	69%
4/4	" It's a sensitively wrought work that reveals a time in Chile when class differences were both ignored and emphasized, depending on your perspective." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 15, 2005	Machuca (2005)	89%
4/4	" Mana -- Beyond Belief doesn't have narration, which is one of the film's strengths." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 8, 2005	Mana: Beyond Belief (2006)	100%
3/4	" Based on a true story from the late 1950s, this thrilling drama looks at the extraordinary lengths taken by a group of West Berliners to dig a tunnel under the city's barbed-wire border with East Berlin." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 10, 2005	The Tunnel (2005)	84%
3.5/4	" *In A Peck on the Cheek,* we get Ratnam at his best, albeit with a few glitches.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted May 27, 2005	Peck on the Cheek (2002)	n/a
4/4	" Their characters are compelling and completely realistic, the acting is first-rate, and many scenes in this black-and-white movie (which was shot in different countries, including Saudi Arabia) are breathtaking." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 20, 2005	Le Grand Role (2005)	63%
4/4	" There will be lots of seething at the sight of it all, but there are enough good laughs to make the experience more than worthwhile." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 29, 2005	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)	97%
3/4	" One of India's greatest feature films has been restored and colorized, giving a new generation of filmgoers a chance to see what all the fuss was about." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 15, 2005	Mughal-E-Azam (1960)	100%
4/4	" An important new documentary that looks at the ways in which poetry helps people come to terms with conflict." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 15, 2005	Voices in Wartime (2005)	81%
3/4	" Works more than it doesn't, though it's easy to conclude that the film exploits some of the elderly in the movie." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 1, 2005	Assisted Living (2005)	77%
3/4	" Deserves attention." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 11, 2005	Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2004)	64%
3.5/4	" *What makes Paper Clips* so powerful and moving is the way everyone in the film seems affected by the Whitwell project. The students change. The teachers change. The townspeople change.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Mar 4, 2005	Paper Clips (2004)	71%
4/4	" A balance of fact and fury." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 18, 2005	The Take (2004)	90%
3/4	" Director Hiner Saleem has created a magical movie that veers, even within scenes, from love story to tragedy to comic relief." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 11, 2005	Vodka Lemon ()	94%
4/4	" Veer-Zaara is so arresting, its scenes so full of beauty and colors, that the three hours go by almost too fast." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 28, 2005	Veer-Zaara (2004)	n/a
3/4	" Moolaad� is not a 'downer' film as much as a parable that lets us see the hardships (and occasional humor) that are inherent in an environment where the slightest change in tradition is a cause for great alarm." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 31, 2004	Moolaade (2004)	99%
4/4	" A good example of a film that lets one person's life tell higher truths about a major time in human history." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 5, 2004	Prisoner of Paradise (2004)	82%
4/4	" It's an approach that even the war's harshest critics should find interesting." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 29, 2004	Voices Of Iraq (2006)	60%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 20, 2004	Our America (2002)	n/a
3/4	" Finally, a documentary about one of America's most important academics." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 15, 2004	Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)	96%
2/4	" A collage of everything that's important to Weber. But what's important to a rich, successful photographer/filmmaker with time and money on his hands is not necessarily important to anyone else." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 8, 2004	A Letter to True (2004)	52%
3/4	" Achieves what any good documentary tries to: It's thought-provoking, insightful and entertaining at the same time." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 1, 2004	The Yes Men (2004)	85%
3/4	" An unabashed paean to Kerry's character at a time in the presidential election when Kerry's character is being questioned" -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 1, 2004	Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004)	90%
0/4	" Afghanistan shouldn't be used as a backdrop for some director's selfish attempt at provocation." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 24, 2004	September Tapes (2004)	21%
4/4	" Enlightening and frightening." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 17, 2004	Bush's Brain (2004)	62%
1/4	" Ridiculous. Unbelievable. Unintentionally funny. It might as well be a parody of a horror film." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 10, 2004	Ju-On: The Grudge (2004)	56%
3/4	" Alexander, a political writer and radio host, gets riveting, emotional confessionals from the veterans." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 3, 2004	Brothers in Arms (2004)	73%
3/4	" A thorough indictment of the Bush administration's focus on Iraq." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 27, 2004	Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004)	76%
4/4	" For some, Pappas' film will simply confirm everything they've suspected of the fourth estate. For others, it will be a reiteration of points they make themselves. Those who've never thought about these issues may be in for the shock of their lives." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 27, 2004	Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2004)	79%
2/4	" As it is, Divan is akin to meeting someone serendipitously on a train or cafe -- someone you like well enough -- who tells you his or her life story in all its detail and assumes you're completely enthralled." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 13, 2004	Divan (2004)	95%
3/4	" A rare opportunity to see a completely different side of Iran. This is an Iran where comedy -- not tragedy -- fills the void for once." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 6, 2004	Lizard (2004)	n/a
3/4	" For filmgoers who like dramas that are spare yet evocative, that focus on the subtleties of relationships, and that feature foreign settings completely off the beaten path, Deserted Station will be a masterpiece." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 2, 2004	Deserted Station (2002)	100%
4/4	" *Like Himalaya, Weeping Camel* essentially lets native people tell their own unforgettable story.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jun 18, 2004	The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004)	95%
4/4	" Without being didactic, the documentary raises important issues about bias and objectivity." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 11, 2004	Control Room (2004)	96%
3/4	" The death penalty has become such a divisive issue that it's easy to forget that people such as Ryan are open to rethinking their positions." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 3, 2004	Deadline (2004)	93%
3/4	" Unwanted guests have a benefit: They can remind us of our own dislikes and vulnerabilities, and help us come to terms (or not) with them." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 30, 2004	Distant (2004)	89%

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