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+	Cars
3/4	Son of Rambow
B	Lady Vengeance
2.5/4	Trade
B-	House of Sand
C+	Water
2/4	Becoming Jane
C	Hoot
1.5/4	The Ten
C-	Scoop
D+	The Wild
1/4	The Final Season
D	Everyone's Hero
D-	The Salon
F	Sydney White

BEST REVIEWED
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A	WALL-E
A	Happy Feet
A	The King
A	The Promise
A-	Kung Fu Panda
A-	The Fall
A-	Redbelt
A-	In Bruges
A-	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A-	Ratatouille
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Sydney White
D-	The Salon
D	War, Inc.
D	Romance & Cigarettes
D	The 11th Hour
D	Shrek the Third
D	Flannel Pajamas
D	Everyone's Hero
D	Ultraviolet
D	Ultraviolet
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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C-	"Like a poorly designed videogame, it's as much a test of endurance of repetition as anything else." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 17, 2008	Space Chimps (2008)	38%
C+	"Like its early predecessors, it's a nominally fun trip, but it's tissue-thin and instantly forgettable." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 10, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
2/4	"*For about half its length, Jonathan Levine's film The Wackness* resembles a grunge remake of The Graduate, updated for the peculiarly specific setting of 1994 New York City.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jul 10, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	66%
3/4	"Accessible, entertaining and hugely kinetic, packed with memorable songs from Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and many more icons of Thompson's era." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 3, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	86%
B+	"It's worth it just to see a ready-made Superman-sized superhero in action without all the baggage of decades of retellings and reworkings; even looking at familiar faces working through a familiar genre, it's nice to be surprised for once." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
B	"Louise Bourgeois is absorbing, largely because of Bourgeois' striking art, prickly personality, and assured intensity." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 26, 2008	Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008)	91%
A	"It's Pixar's most daring experiment to date, but it still fits neatly into the studio's pantheon: Made with as much focus on heart as on visual quality, it's a sheer joy." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
B	"Up The Yangtze goes from sleepily hypnotic to riveting over the course of 90 minutes." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 19, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2008)	95%
C+	"Brick Lane feels slight and late to the table. Still, its pretty musings about small-scale self-actualization can be seductive." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 19, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	63%
3/4	"*[Director Li Yang] Li was a documentarian before he switched to feature films with the highly praised 2003 feature Blind Shaft,* and it shows in his raw style.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jun 19, 2008	Blind Mountain (2008)	75%
3/4	"[Director Christopher] Zalla keeps the tension high through a taut story rather than through manipulative, obtrusive thriller direction." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 19, 2008	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	83%
A-	"Kung Fu Panda is yet another celebrity-voiced animal adventure, but it stands out from the crowd of similar films with its lightning wit and whirlwind brio." -- Onion AV Club Posted Jun 5, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
2.5/4	"Korine falls so thoroughly in love with many of his images, including his opening shot, that he stretches them out in hypnotic slow motion." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 29, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	43%
D	"The overall experience is manic, juvenile, and hit-or-miss, as if the auteurs behind Epic Movie were trying to remake Wag The Dog." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 23, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
B+	"*The packaging is perfect, and the end results beat A View To A Kill* any day.*" -- Onion AV Club* Posted May 23, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)	77%
B-	"It's a polished, beautifully shot story, and it acknowledges the messiness of real life. But like real life, it's often baffling and frustrating." -- Onion AV Club Posted May 23, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	26%
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)	53%
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)	75%
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)	63%
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)	35%
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)	26%
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)	97%
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)	49%
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)	81%
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)	73%
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)	57%
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)	42%
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)	76%
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)	52%
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)	55%
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)	80%
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)	96%
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)	43%
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)	48%
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)	69%
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)	41%
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)	57%
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%

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