ROTTEN TOMATOES: John Petrakis

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	Valentin
	The Seagull's Laughter
	James' Journey to Jerusalem
	Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
	The Stone Reader
	Bonhoeffer
	Charlotte Sometimes
	American Experience - Daughter from Danang
	Shanghai Ghetto
	Biggie and Tupac
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	Ichi the Killer
	S.O.S. Planet
	Darkness Falls
	Just Married
	Uzumaki
	Crop Circles: Quest for Truth
	Chain Camera
	Secret Society
	The Cherry Orchard
	The Affair of the Necklace
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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3/4	"The film is plenty charming, but lacks a connection to its time and place that would put Valentin's dilemma in context." Posted May 21, 2004	Valentin (2004)	59%
3/4	"Writer-director Agust Gudmundsson skillfully balances romantic comedy and melodrama with a coming-of-age story and morality play." Posted May 6, 2004	The Seagull's Laughter (2001)	84%
3.5/4	"This wise, clever Israeli film reintroduces the once-popular concept of film as allegory, as it follows a Christian pilgrim on his bumpy road to salvation." Posted Mar 11, 2004	James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003)	90%
2/4	"Any serious message has been sacrificed on the altar of excess, making us realize why the stylish story probably worked better as a graphic comic book than as a film." Posted Oct 23, 2003	Ichi the Killer (2002)	66%
3/4	"The overriding sense one gets from this short but powerful film is awe." Posted Sep 4, 2003	Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII (2002)	92%
4/4	"*Moskowitz may soon find himself in the same boat as many of the artists he is analyzing, because Stone Reader* is going to be one tough act to follow.*" Posted Jul 10, 2003*	The Stone Reader (2003)	81%
3.5/4	"[A] well-crafted film." Posted Jun 26, 2003	Bonhoeffer (2003)	72%
3/4	"Byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle. Instead, he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground." Posted May 1, 2003	Charlotte Sometimes (2002)	82%
2/4	"*Though its intentions are honorable, SOS Planet* turns out to be more convoluted than motivational.*" Posted Feb 19, 2003*	S.O.S. Planet (2002)	n/a
4/4	"It rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide." Posted Feb 13, 2003	American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002)	97%
.5/4	"A lamebrained attempt at horror that is just a derivative pastiche of ideas lifted from other bad films." Posted Jan 23, 2003	Darkness Falls (2003)	8%
3/4	"A salute to those who were blessed not only with savvy and courage, but something between an uncanny sense of foresight and an unforeseen stroke of good fortune." Posted Jan 16, 2003	Shanghai Ghetto (2002)	81%
1/4	"I laughed exactly once during the whole film." Posted Jan 9, 2003	Just Married (2003)	20%
3/4	"You don't need to know your Ice-T's from your Cool-J's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned, something is rotten in the state of California." Posted Jan 9, 2003	Biggie and Tupac (2002)	80%
3.5/4	"If you're a connoisseur of this type of gory head-banging, you should be impressed." Posted Dec 19, 2002	Fudoh: The New Generation (1997)	100%
3/4	"*This film would be an excellent companion piece to Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, which deals with angels looking down on this scarred city." Posted Dec 13, 2002*	Berlin Babylon (2001)	67%
3.5/4	"[Bennett's] quite convincing as she tries to figure out what has gone wrong in her personal life -- and how she can fix it before it is too late." Posted Nov 14, 2002	Some Body (2002)	41%
3/4	"A quasi-documentary by French filmmaker Karim Dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of Cuban music." Posted Oct 17, 2002	Cuba Feliz (2002)	63%
2.5/4	"This is the debut feature for Columbia College graduate Gilio, and it shows great promise." Posted Oct 10, 2002	Kwik Stop (2001)	100%
2/4	"Gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh." Posted Oct 3, 2002	Uzumaki (2002)	55%
3/4	"Goofy but enjoyable." Posted Sep 27, 2002	Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999)	57%
2.5/4	"Less a pure documentary than it is a fact-finding mission, with the real story waiting to be presented somewhere down the line." Posted Sep 26, 2002	Crop Circles: Quest for Truth (2002)	63%
3/4	"It's a difficult film to follow and figure out (I've only seen it once), and yet there is something mesmerizing about the way director Nakata whips the tale to a frenzy and drags us in." Posted Sep 5, 2002	Chaos (1999)	69%
2/4	"Absorbing in places, but considering the large and diverse pool the filmmakers had to draw from, it's a surprisingly repetitive and predictable collection of big-city sagas." Posted Aug 29, 2002	Chain Camera (2001)	69%
3/4	"*If you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life, Eisenstein* delivers.*" Posted Aug 22, 2002*	Eisenstein (2002)	64%
1.5/4	"Starts out with tremendous promise, introducing an intriguing and alluring premise, only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter." Posted Aug 15, 2002	Secret Society (2002)	33%
4/4	"In many ways, Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, scripted by former crime reporter Sydney Boehm, laid the groundwork not only for "Dirty Harry," but for the whole sub-genre of 'rogue cop' films that began to surface during the Vietnam era." Posted Jul 20, 2002	The Big Heat (1953)	100%
3.5/4	"One of those welcome visitors, a movie that turns out to be much more than we expected." Posted Jul 20, 2002	Late Marriage (2001)	88%
3.5/4	"One of those classic westerns that has maintained its status by reinventing itself every decade since its release in 1954." Posted Jul 11, 2002	Johnny Guitar (1954)	94%
3/4	"Rather than living on as reminder of India in the early 1900s, the film now exists as a period piece of another sort, namely, as a cult film of the psychedelic era." Posted Jul 11, 2002	Siddhartha (1972)	59%
3/4	"It's impossible not to appreciate the remarkable performances (both Harris and Roberts were nominated for Oscars) or the realistic rugby scenes that earned Harris a broken leg." Posted Jun 27, 2002	This Sporting Life (1963)	100%
3/4	"I have no way of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration, but I've got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than I want to believe." Posted Jun 27, 2002	ivans xtc. (2002)	75%
3/4	"Smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of architectural oddities. Instead, he shows them the respect they are due." Posted Jun 27, 2002	Home Movie (2002)	87%
2.5/4	"Any Chekhov is better than no Chekhov, but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years." Posted Apr 4, 2002	The Cherry Orchard (2002)	54%
2.5/4	"There are ... images that are shocking and disturbing." Posted Mar 21, 2002	Adanggaman (2001)	90%
	"Most of all, it is a salute to Shackleton himself, whose calm and grace under extreme pressure helped guarantee that not a single crew member would be lost." Posted Jan 3, 2002	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001)	95%
3.5/4	"*My guess is that The Human Body* will inspire more than a few enterprising young men and women to consider entering the fields of science and medicine.*" Posted Dec 29, 2001*	The Human Body (2001)	89%
2/4	"Shyer ... exhibits little flair for the ebb and flow of a costume caper movie." Posted Dec 24, 2001	The Affair of the Necklace (2001)	15%
1.5/4	"The end result may not be a full-blown disaster, but it comes close." Posted Dec 6, 2001	Texas Rangers (2001)	2%
3/4	"An intelligent coming-of-age story about a girl who realizes, for better or for worse, that there's no turning back." Posted Nov 15, 2001	A Real Young Girl (2001)	60%
	"Ultimately a disappointment because it refuses to take any aspect of itself seriously." Posted Oct 19, 2001	Dead or Alive (2001)	55%
	"Gives us a glimpse of the city as it was, suggesting that there was something revolutionary, even inspiring, about those days of not-so yore." Posted Sep 20, 2001	Downtown 81 (1981)	71%
	"If you can ignore the cookie-cutter story and wooden characters and focus instead on the natural wonders that are passing us by as we travel up the Yangtze, chances are good that you won't be disappointed." Posted Sep 13, 2001	China: The Panda Adventure ()	42%
	"The concept of the story is far more interesting than the finished product, which is standard fare at best." Posted Sep 13, 2001	Soul Survivors (2001)	4%
	"Once again [Kurosawa] takes on a familiar genre, the murder mystery, but he imbues it with so much angst and psychological juice that it takes on a life of its own." Posted Aug 16, 2001	Cure (2001)	93%
	Kinney is solid, as usual, but it is young Muth who gobbles up the screen. Posted Jul 20, 2001	Young Girl and the Monsoon (2001)	53%
	"Rich with scenes of affection, anger and reconciliation, along with moments of unfeigned humor." Posted Jul 5, 2001	Our Song (2001)	90%
3.5/4	"Juxtaposes breathtaking cinematography with an ancient, almost epic story." Posted Jul 5, 2001	Himalaya (2001)	89%
	"We are left with a mildly amusing comedy and the lingering memory of a sterling cast that deserved better material." Posted Jul 5, 2001	The Closet (2001)	87%
	"This early effort is more a curiosity piece than anything else." Posted May 31, 2001	Lakeboat (2001)	83%

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