ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tasha Robinson

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	The Promise
A-	Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol
3.5/4	Persepolis
B+	Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
3/4	Son of Rambow
B	Lady Vengeance
2.5/4	Trade
B-	Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
C+	Unknown White Male
2/4	Becoming Jane
C	Ice Age: The Meltdown
1.5/4	The Ten
C-	Scoop
D+	The Wild
1/4	The Final Season
D	Ultraviolet
D-	The Salon
F	Sydney White

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Happy Feet
A	The King
A	The Promise
A-	The Fall
A-	Redbelt
A-	In Bruges
A-	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A-	Ratatouille
A-	The Science of Sleep
A-	Over the Hedge
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Sydney White
D-	The Salon
D	Romance & Cigarettes
D	The 11th Hour
D	Shrek the Third
D	Flannel Pajamas
D	Everyone's Hero
D	Ultraviolet
D	Ultraviolet
1/4	Married Life
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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A-	"It's the most glorious, wonderful mess put onscreen since Terry Gilliam's Brazil." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 8, 2008	The Fall (2008)	57%
3/4	"The kid-heavy cast tends to substitute enthusiasm for subtlety, but the way they throw their hearts into their games just makes it easier to get drawn in." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 8, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	77%
A-	"A superior, sophisticated, and unusually gentle character study where the point isn't the twists, so much as watching how one man's belief system holds up through them." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 1, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
2/4	"It's a long, eye-rolling haul...hampered by lurching exposition and hammy setup." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
C-	"Where In The World is a conversation-starter for ADD-stricken adolescents who can't bear to think about one thing for too long, or too deeply." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 17, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	36%
D+	"The dread is thick and the atmosphere is so heavy that every simple car ride or bedtime story seems like it's happening on the crumbling edge of a lonely cliff." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	22%
B-	"It's a discomfiting character study in which compelling, convincing acting and lively dialogue help mitigate the feeling that none of these people are worth spending time with." -- Onion AV Club Posted Apr 10, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
3.5/4	"The film is often breathtakingly beautiful, and even as the students triumph over the naysayers, it's melancholy knowing they aren't sharing viewers' experiences of their starkly gorgeous world." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2008	Blindsight (2008)	100%
3/4	"There's a lot to like about spunky Breslin, even when she's unnecessarily recapping events or recapitulating Home Alone as she chases caricatured cruise-ship tourists from her island. She's a charismatic, energetic presence at the heart of the film" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 7, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
2.5/4	"*There's a pleasant, easygoing charm to Caramel,* largely stemming from Labaki's rare determination to depict Beirut as something other than a war-torn, slowly recovering battleground.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 27, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
2.5/4	"Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 27, 2008	Teeth (2008)	79%
C+	"A harmless feel-good movie that tries to tell audiences what it's like to be a victimized immigrant, and mostly winds up telling them what it's like to have their heartstrings yanked, gratuitiously and often." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 20, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	74%
1/4	"Married Life is structured like a Douglas Sirk melodrama or a Hitchcock thriller rather than a mystery, but it's a mystery nonetheless, because it's rarely clear what Sachs intends the movie to be." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 14, 2008	Married Life (2008)	55%
B-	"Shows signs that Chow is trying to put more thought and heart into his films, with uneven success." -- Onion AV Club Posted Mar 6, 2008	CJ7 (2008)	45%
B-	"The Other Boleyn Girl is a fitting prequel to the Elizabeth movies: It's pretty, passionate, and full of historical poppycock." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 28, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	41%
B	"For those who don't mind their history pre-seasoned with a little phantasmagoria and a lot of sarcasm, Chicago 10 is a hugely entertaining piece of pop fluff, as dynamic and modern as the Beastie Boys cut on the soundtrack." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 28, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	77%
C+	"Director Palansky is trying for a deft, hip, modern fairy-tale feel, but the odd material, sprawling story, and complicated tonal balancing act get away from him, and the film winds up as a poorly paced tug-of-war between sweet quirk and sloppy camp." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 28, 2008	Penelope (2008)	53%
B-	"[Star Karl] Markovics largely rescues the film with his mesmerizingly layered, steady performance as a man who solves the problem of compromise by refusing to admit that he's compromising." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 22, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
1/4	"Charlie Bartlett asks audiences to believe that its protagonist is so sheltered that he has no clue how bizarre his precious, overly mannered behavior looks to his peers." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 21, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	53%
C-	"No exciting action can cover the film's profound shallowness and repulsive attitude toward everyone but Christensen." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 14, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
3/4	"It isn't quite the world of the books. But it's a perfectly magical and exciting one in its own right." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 14, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
3/4	"The most extraordinary thing about the grim Best Documentary Academy Award nominee Taxi to the Dark Side is how straightforward its interviewees are about the military prisoner they collectively murdered in Afghanistan in 2002." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 7, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
A-	"When it's funny, it's hilarious; when it's serious, it's powerful; and either way, it's an endless pleasant surprise." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 7, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	78%
C-	"The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary." -- Onion AV Club Posted Feb 4, 2008	The Eye (2008)	21%
3.5/4	"In spite of all the idealistic baggage, the film feels like it's traveling light. The fluid handmade visuals hang onto the uniqueness of Satrapi's heavy-lined work while giving them a smoothness and a visual depth they previously lacked." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	95%
C-	"It's full of mild goofiness and equally mild messages about believing in yourself. It's all good-natured enough. It just isn't actually good." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jan 12, 2008	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A Veggietales Movie (2008)	44%
2.5/4	"By salvaging a troubled script with deep, committed, touching portrayals, Plummer and Walsh help prove Schroeder's points about how Hollywood isn't just the province of the rich, young and pretty." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2007	Man in the Chair (2007)	50%
B	"Enthusiasts and neophytes alike should be able to join together in gasping at the sight of people plunging down vertical walls of ice, taking their lives into their own hands for a brief, lion-lifed adrenaline charge." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 20, 2007	Steep (2007)	55%
B	"Reasonably absorbing." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 12, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	68%
3/4	"*For now, The Golden Compass* can stand on its own, as a standard-issue but still glorious adventure.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Dec 6, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	42%
D	"While it looks like it was great fun to film, it's regrettably little fun to watch." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 6, 2007	Romance & Cigarettes (2007)	53%
B+	"Grace Is Gone attempts to address grief frankly, gently, and without didacticism, and it largely succeeds." -- Onion AV Club Posted Dec 6, 2007	Grace is Gone (2007)	58%
A-	"The putative film adaptation reaches well beyond the contents of that book, expanding its philosophical resignation into a grim but beautiful visual poem." -- Onion AV Club Posted Nov 29, 2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
3/4	"In this case, what looks like an ambitious film-school project, complete with heavy-handed sincerity, experimental camera style, and an overplayed central metaphor, becomes gently lyrical and melancholy." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 26, 2007	Choking Man (2007)	38%
B+	"By catching his protagonists between equally oppressive horrors, Darabont successfully finds the squelchy heart of King's story, and keeps it pumping until the ugly end." -- Onion AV Club Posted Nov 21, 2007	Stephen King's The Mist (2007)	70%
D+	"Massive illogic abounds throughout the video-game-based thriller Hitman, starting with the opening, which posits a mysterious organization 'so secret no one knows it exists,' even though it somehow maintains 'ties to every government.'" -- Onion AV Club Posted Nov 21, 2007	Hitman (2007)	15%
C	"The film strives for mythological depth and epic breadth, but it's hard to get below the flat, shallow gloss over every surface." -- Onion AV Club Posted Nov 17, 2007	Beowulf (2007)	70%
1.5/4	"The filmmakers split time between history and personal drama in ways that do full service to neither." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 15, 2007	O Jerusalem (2007)	30%
2.5/4	"*It's an effective experiment and a hackle-raising drama, and it's far better controlled than De Palma's last film, the flailing noir mess The Black Dahlia." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Nov 15, 2007	Redacted (2007)	44%
B+	"Normally, Scott loves his flash-bang setpieces, but he proves equally adept at low-key verisimilitude and long-form storytelling, the kind that sprawls out over years of incidents that only gradually add up to a powerful whole." -- Onion AV Club Posted Nov 1, 2007	American Gangster (2007)	79%
2.5/4	"*Where 11th Hour* shallowly addressed a wide variety of topics, Crude Impact goes deep and expansive on the political, environmental, and cultural costs of American dependence on oil.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Nov 1, 2007	Crude Impact (2007)	n/a
2.5/4	"In December, Cusack will be back on screen in Grace Is Gone, another portrait of a grieving widower struggling to raise children. Viewers may want to hold out to see him in a film that maintains its sensitivity all the way through." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 1, 2007	Martian Child (2007)	29%
C-	"Steven Sawalich's directorial debut, Music Within, works marginally well when it stays small. Unfortunately, the life story of disabled-rights activist Richard Pimentel begs for a larger-than-life treatment." -- Onion AV Club Posted Oct 25, 2007	Music Within (2007)	31%
2/4	"In his feature directorial debut, Alejandro Monteverde hits the mark as often as he misses it, but the film's problems linger longer than its successes." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 25, 2007	Bella (2007)	45%
B+	"It's a surprisingly playful romantic drama, one less about death than about the quiet, necessary grind of living." -- Onion AV Club Posted Oct 18, 2007	Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)	66%
1/4	"The film's climactic baseball game does crackle with nail-biting energy, but the 90-minute lead-up is full of hokey sentiment and unearned gushiness." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 11, 2007	The Final Season (2007)	23%
B-	"A mixed bag with a lot of cutesy awfulness to wade through, but the acerbic ending is enough of a punchline to suggest that Westfeldt understands what a joke this kind of film can be." -- Onion AV Club Posted Oct 5, 2007	Ira & Abby (2007)	66%
D+	"Final score: Book 1, Movie 0." -- Onion AV Club Posted Oct 5, 2007	The Seeker (2007)	13%

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