ROTTEN TOMATOES: Les Wright

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	For the Bible Tells Me So
	Sound of the Soul
	The Witnesses
	The Rape of Europa
	Four Minutes
	La Vie En Rose
	Marie Antoinette
	Death of a President
	Summer in Berlin
	Pervert!
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	The Astronaut Farmer
	Haven
	The Quiet
	Wah-Wah
	Grain In Ear
	Friends With Money
	The End of August at the Hotel Ozone
	The Shaggy Dog
	Firewall
	Annapolis
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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	"The Bible Tells Me So" Posted Oct 30, 2007	For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)	98%
	"Part travelogue, part primer on world religions, part concert film, Sound of the Soul delivers a powerful and timely message to a world increasingly seized in the paralyzing grip of self-destructing partisan fundamentalist-fueled strife." Posted Aug 4, 2007	Sound of the Soul (2005)	n/a
	"Never polemical, frequently philosophical, occasionally saturnine, and beautifully filmed and acted, this film is a minor masterpiece, and one of the best films about AIDS to date." Posted Jul 11, 2007	The Witnesses (2008)	85%
	"The relationship between Hitler's obsession with art, as a means to dehumanize his enemies and apotheosize his master racial aesthetic values -- and just how integral to Hitler this strategy to redraw the geopolitical map through bald physical brute force" Posted Jul 10, 2007	The Rape of Europa ()	n/a
	"A riveting film-going experience, Four Minutes may prove "too German" for many non-German-speaking audiences." Posted Jul 10, 2007	Four Minutes (2007)	76%
	"A memorable cast, vivid cinematography, crisp and resonant sound recordings, and dramatic storytelling make this a must-see film for fans and novices alike. Though, at 140 minutes, the film may feel like it runs as long as Piaf's tragically short life." Posted May 14, 2007	La Vie En Rose (2007)	75%
	"As a serious film, only an American could love Marie Antoinette. To the French, it must be gravely insulting. As an unwitting camp, it may have a great future." Posted Mar 27, 2007	Marie Antoinette (2006)	54%
	"There is little of the fall of the Twin Towers trauma, but much of All the President's Men here. That this film's buzz has launched such vitriol and condemnation is not surprising. Range's film exposes wider audiences to some basic truths of our times." Posted Mar 27, 2007	Death of a President (2006)	36%
	"In Summer in Berlin, director Andreas Dresen presents the portrait of a friendship between two women, Nike (Nadja Uhl) and Katrin Engel (Inka Friedrich). In the German tradition of the Kammerspielfilm, this is a closely and lovingly observed study in psyc" Posted Mar 26, 2007	Summer in Berlin (2005)	62%
	"The heteros become homos, the unsatisfied virgins become red meat, over and over. If you liked Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, you will like this bit of silliness. And, if you understand this film, then, truly, you are a pervert too. Go, be with your peopl" Posted Mar 20, 2007	Pervert! (2005)	n/a
	"A sad, powerful, austere experience of a movie, this is the story of a man who has known profound, compound loss." Posted Mar 12, 2007	Man Push Cart (2006)	87%
	"Meanwhile, D�rrie sends up, more with humor than rebuke, the present decade's global-wide obsession with its win-at-all-cost competitive spirit, the blurring of boundaries between profit-making and service providing, the West's infatuation with Japanese d" Posted Mar 12, 2007	The Fisherman and His Wife (2005)	n/a
	"Keilich strikes a sweetly engaging balance between humor and pathos." Posted Mar 12, 2007	Three Kings (1999)	94%
	"Relative newcomer screenwriter and director Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck makes a remarkably self-confident and promising debut with the tensely sublime film The Lives of Others...The Lives of Others is a rare film achievement, arguably a "perfect" film" Posted Mar 12, 2007	The Lives of Others (2006)	93%
C-	"It could be portending the decline and fall of Hollywood, except that it is so unexceptionally bad, and unexceptionally typical of the studio fare right now." Posted Feb 25, 2007	The Astronaut Farmer (2007)	58%
	"When it flies, it soars. But it develops leaden feet as it spins over into a convoluted, overly long wind down. This is an intelligent, engaging film that gets it right, for the most part, before ultimately capitulating to the demands of Hollywood." Posted Dec 30, 2006	Stranger Than Fiction (2006)	73%
	"It is an impossible hybrid, (in the words of at least one observer) an epic comedy." Posted Dec 30, 2006	Volver (2006)	91%
	"Always engaging, often insightful, [and] at times deeply moving." Posted Nov 11, 2006	Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)	59%
	"By the time this quasi Robert Altman-like meeting of unrelated characters happens -- and even if the viewer has kept track of all the characters -- it's hard to care about much of anything, other than knowing the film is nearly over." Posted Oct 16, 2006	Haven (2006)	14%
	"The acting is stylized, the sets are stylized, the editing is stylized, all toward a Zen-like minimalist aesthetic." Posted Oct 16, 2006	Zen Noir (2006)	29%
	"Journalism at its finest, as has not been practiced in the U.S. in some time." Posted Sep 5, 2006	My Country, My Country (2006)	85%
	"In the most inappropriate moments, the film slides into archly dark humor, even bombast. The prompted urges to laugh tend less to defuse the sting and more to render banal." Posted Aug 31, 2006	The Quiet (2006)	22%
	"Brynych draws upon German Expressionist film techniques, blending both Hollywood noir and classic horror film styles." Posted Aug 28, 2006	The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1964)	n/a
	"Philosophically sound, dramatically absorbing, highly entertaining and highly instructive, 'Half Nelson' is hands down one of the best films of the year." Posted Aug 26, 2006	Half Nelson (2006)	91%
	"Dillon shambles, dishevels and enunciates, simulating with precise timing and bearing a wholly satisfying portrayal of Charles Bukowski." Posted Aug 25, 2006	Factotum (2006)	75%
	"*The slow-moving plot, the oppressively vast and empty landscapes of The House of Sand* hearken back to the moral landscapes of John Ford and seem to fill up with the deep passions of Greek heroines.*" Posted Aug 10, 2006*	House of Sand (2005)	79%
	"Set in a cultural borderland, the film...straddles realism and melodrama, telenovela and parable." Posted Aug 10, 2006	Quinceanera (2006)	86%
	"A mostly engaging, informative, entertaining film" Posted Jul 15, 2006	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006)	71%
	"Taut, superb acting, narrative told by mood rather than action, the understated visuals, the elements of 'Army of Shadows' merge to seep in under the skin and create an unforgettable and disturbing experience." Posted Jul 8, 2006	Army of Shadows (1969)	97%
	"[Director Singer] reinvigorates an original American archetype. 'Superman Returns' gets it exactly right." Posted Jun 28, 2006	Superman Returns (2006)	77%
	"A transparently formal film that plays along the narrative boundary between the psychological and the supernatural." Posted Jun 17, 2006	Lemming (2006)	70%
	"The excellent casting and acting, the strong script and subtle plotting build into a carefully crafted roller coaster ride." Posted Jun 16, 2006	12 and Holding (2006)	74%
	"Richly silly, but also solid, with something for the kids and the adults" Posted Jun 8, 2006	Cars (2006)	75%
	"Gore's multimedia presentation is like a rock concert: ever-changing visuals and on-stage mini-shticks that draw the audience into a mountain of scientific data, anecdotes that connect the dots and make the larger picture clear..." Posted Jun 2, 2006	An Inconvenient Truth (2006)	93%
	"The directing duo brilliantly stretch the limits of their very low budget to moving aesthetic and dramatic effect." Posted Jun 1, 2006	Cavite (2006)	73%
	"By turns a riveting study of the world of competitive gymnastics, a parable for an alternative vision for today's society, and a study in the psychology of mentoring, 'Peaceful Warrior' is a satisfying movie-going experience, with or without 'the message." Posted Jun 1, 2006	Peaceful Warrior (2006)	23%
	"A somewhat unsettled balance between domestic and epic, serious drama and nostalgic recollection." Posted May 25, 2006	Wah-Wah (2006)	52%
	"The film is entirely without human interiority, the sets and camera work serving as objective substitutes." Posted Apr 12, 2006	Grain In Ear (2005)	n/a
	"The second half of 'Evil' takes this genre into new and challenging territory." Posted Apr 12, 2006	Evil (2003)	68%
	"Refreshing and inspirational" Posted Apr 9, 2006	On A Clear Day (2006)	67%
	"A 'must-see' documentary which seeks to return to the historical record the pivotal story of the GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam War." Posted Apr 7, 2006	Sir! No Sir! (2006)	88%
	"Witty and fast-paced as [some] scenes are, after a while the big picture grows tired and trivial." Posted Apr 6, 2006	Friends With Money (2006)	71%
	"Ponderously slow pacing and vague historical, psychological, and moral allusions." Posted Apr 6, 2006	The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (1966)	n/a
	"The light, understated gallows humor often demonstrates the lack of any clear line separating the comic and the tragic." Posted Apr 3, 2006	Lonesome Jim (2006)	58%
	"An amazing, mind-boggling, disturbing, hilarious, and utterly moving and unforgettable film experience" Posted Apr 2, 2006	The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006)	87%
	"The single most satisfying cinematic experience of 'Brick' lies in witnessing director Johnson's matter-of-fact transformation of the contemporary American suburban landscape into a moral stage of mythic proportion." Posted Apr 1, 2006	Brick (2006)	78%
	"'Don't Come Knocking' is about traversing landscapes of memory. Even as the American Dream is fading in the open, once empty, surreal western landscapes now strewn with the detritus of an entirely disposable material society, so too the western-movie hero" Posted Mar 23, 2006	Don't Come Knocking (2006)	42%
	"Framing the visual haphazardness of urban streets in exquisite, dense, Shiko-like scroll paintings, Hou demonstrates how even in a megalopolis life is lived on a human scale, one day, one person at a time." Posted Mar 19, 2006	Cafe Lumiere (2004)	94%
	"'Water' glows from rich and natural lighting, warm and radiant colors, and powerful symbolic imagery." Posted Mar 18, 2006	Water (2006)	91%
	"At its most interesting, The Zodiac spins a tale of the consequences of homicide, painting a palpable and realistic-seeming portrait of a family and a community falling victim to the psychological terrorism of a serial killer." Posted Mar 16, 2006	The Zodiac (2005)	25%

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