ROTTEN TOMATOES: Steven D. Greydanus

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Au Hasard Balthazar
A+	Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
A-	Back to the Future
3.5/4	We Are Marshall
B+	Just Like Heaven
3/4	The Prestige
B	The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2.5/4	The Brave One
B-	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
C+	War of the Worlds
2/4	Ghost Rider
C	The Island
C-	Hoot
D+	The Legend of Zorro
D	Match Point
D-	Fantastic Four
F	Brokeback Mountain

BEST REVIEWED
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A+	The Dark Knight
A	WALL-E
A	Longford
A+	Into Great Silence
A	United 93
A	The Ten Commandments
A	The Hiding Place
A	Witness to Hope: The Life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II
A+	Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
A	Judgment at Nuremberg
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Elizabeth: The Golden Age
F	The Da Vinci Code
F	V For Vendetta
F	Brokeback Mountain
F	Million Dollar Baby
F	Kinsey
F	Francesco
F	Man on Fire
F	The Hours
F	National Security
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

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A+	"Delves so deeply into the darkness that lurks in the hearts of men that it comes almost as a shock, bordering on euphoria, to find that it maintains a tenacious grip onto hope in the human potential for good." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
3/4	"*First and foremost, Hellboy II* is a riot of creature and set design as well as big action set pieces. Yet Del Toro never reduces the characters to mere action figures.*" -- Christianity Today* Posted Jul 11, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
A	"Slapstick, adventure and love are all familiar elements in animated family films. Awe, existential themes and wholesale worldbuilding are not … Even Pixar has never attempted anything on a canvas of this scale." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
B-	"Diverting but forgettable entertainment after a strong opening act, though for Hulk fans smarting from the thoughtful, flawed Ang film, it may just be balm for the soul." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
B+	"Both a surprisingly good kung fu movie and a solid family flick… The story is sweeter and shows more heart than you might think." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jun 5, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
B	"Delivers more or less what one would expect: a reunion with a few old friends amid disposable popcorn entertainment … Enjoy it for what it is, but don't hope for more." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 21, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
B+	"*More inspired by the book than adapting it, Caspian* is most likely to appeal to those not especially attached to the book, which is after all a lesser work flanked by two more popular tales.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
N/A	"Filmmaker interview with Douglas Gresham, Mark Johnson, Ben Barnes, Will Moseley and Peter Dinklage" -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
B+	"*After making his feature debut with the rather inspiration-challenged big-screen Hitchhiker's Guide, director Garth Jennings wisely shifts to a more intimate and personal canvas." -- Christianity Today* Posted May 2, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
B+	"*Smart, sardonic and more than a little silly, Iron Man* is a successful super-hero movie that never takes itself too seriously.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 2, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
	"Riddled with historical distortions, at least some of which seem agenda-driven, perhaps even more or less deliberate." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Apr 18, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	83%
A-	"One book can't contain Horton's dogged heroics! His stoical pluck shows up all other stoics! And it gets even better! I'm pleased to relate That Horton's the very best Blue Sky to date." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Mar 13, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
3/4	"[Gondry] seems almost to relish his house-of-cards approach, so much so that the uncharmed critic might reasonably feel it a waste of breath to blow it down. I would agree." -- Christianity Today Posted Feb 22, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	68%
3/4	"*A gooey, insubstantial confection, often sweet, occasionally cloying, sometimes sticky- -- in many respects about on a par with the likes of Beauty Shop." -- Christianity Today* Posted Feb 1, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
A-	"Embodies the humanistic perspective… that simply to relate the story of a significant human event, to tell the truth without gloss or commentary, has value in itself." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jan 25, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
D	"Neophytes may be left in the dust for lack of narrative connections and clarifications, while Pullman admirers of all stripes may feel short-changed on mood and atmosphere." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 6, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	41%
N/A	""A lot of Hollywood directors are always attracted to the dark side… the broken family, the bad friendships, the bad husbands the bad wives, the pain." (Director Alejandro Monteverde)" -- Decent Films Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007	Bella (2007)	47%
B+	"*Bolstered by engaging performances and an appealing Latin milieu, Bella* tells a simple, idealistic story with considerable style and charm.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Oct 26, 2007	Bella (2007)	47%
B+	"Manages to be — yes — sweet and sincere without ever tipping over either into saccharine schmaltz on the one hand or grossout territory on the other." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	81%
B+	"*Though not always faithful in small things, Things We Lost* is faithful in much. The individual moments are sometimes off, but the large emotional resonances are right.*" -- Christianity Today* Posted Oct 19, 2007	Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)	64%
C+	"*Shamelessly rips off interpretive conceits and even specific dramatic beats from The Prince of Egypt." -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Oct 19, 2007	The Ten Commandments (2007)	15%
F	"*A lurid sort of Christopher Hitchens vision of history pervades Elizabeth: The Golden Age* … How is it possible that this orgy of anti-Catholicism has been all but ignored by critics?*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Oct 12, 2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)	34%
2.5/4	"Trade needed to be the United 93 of the human trafficking crisis. It's closer to being the World Trade Center." -- Christianity Today Posted Sep 28, 2007	Trade (2007)	27%
C	"*Plays like The Wizard of Oz* or Alice in Wonderland crossed with a middling episode of "The Muppet Show" guest-starring David Bowie … suffers from a distinct lack of charm.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Sep 21, 2007	Labyrinth (1986)	58%
C	"A distant, uninvolving experience … characters and emotions, even by the archetypal standards of high fantasy, never come to life, and the overarching mythology seems too self-consciously contrived." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Sep 21, 2007	The Dark Crystal (1982)	71%
A-	"*Although not as nerve-wracking as High Noon, 3:10 to Yuma* is even more claustrophobic… and the two-character drama is more intriguing than High Noon's protagonist standing alone.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Sep 21, 2007	3:10 to Yuma (1957)	95%
B+	"Best name for a western of any film in history." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Sep 21, 2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)	75%
2.5/4	"Every slimeball Erica encounters menaces her with remorseless, repulsive sadism—there's never anyone who just has a lewd comment, say… Everyone wants to bludgeon or shoot her, mutilate and molest her…" -- Christianity Today Posted Sep 14, 2007	The Brave One (2007)	44%
D	"Follows closely in the original's footsteps, except for all the business about honor, recovered self-worth and justice… There's no spiritual duel, no earned respect and debt of honor… just a broken man and a capricious one." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Sep 7, 2007	3:10 to Yuma (2007)	89%
B-	"*The heavy-handed ideology and flawed narration don't commend Arctic Tale* as a movie I would care to watch repeatedly, but I'm glad I saw it once, for the spectacular photography.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Aug 17, 2007	Arctic Tale (2007)	62%
C+	"A half-hour of brilliance, preceded by an hour of dreck… a roughly comparable dreck-to-brilliance ratio to the first two Rush Hour movies, I guess, and par for the course for Jackie's Hollywood films." -- Christianity Today Posted Aug 10, 2007	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	20%
A-	"Bourne has gone the distance for three straight films… seals the achievement of a rare action franchise for thinking adults, combining gripping entertainment with an undercurrent of moral seriousness." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Aug 3, 2007	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	93%
B-	"*Boyle gives us sci-fi razzle-dazzle and some undeniably powerful images, but as effective as it is for an hour or so, Sunshine* ultimately settles for puzzling more than mysterious.*" -- Christianity Today* Posted Jul 23, 2007	Sunshine (2007)	75%
B	"The level of magical eye candy is noticeably lower… [yet] no longer is Harry just The Boy Things Happen To, but The Boy Who Acts. It's a welcome step forward in a wunderkind boy of destiny on the road to true heroism." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jul 11, 2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	77%
A-	"*Linguini gives the best physical "performance" from a CGI character to date, virtually (so to speak) rivaling the likes of Steve Martin in All of Me* and Vincent D'Onofrio in Men in Black.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Jun 29, 2007	Ratatouille (2007)	95%
B	"*Wisely, Live Free* doesn't try to replicate the paranoia or intimidation of the first film… This time, it's his unflappable calm that intimidates his brash young opponent, not the other way around.*" -- Christianity Today* Posted Jun 27, 2007	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	80%
C+	"Offers an inoffensive message of conservationism and family togetherness, leavened by bestiary slapstick. Harmless, diverting, very mildly uplifting … [but] bland, generic and unchallenging." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Jun 22, 2007	Evan Almighty (2007)	23%
A	"*Though thematically similar to Dead Man Walking, Longford* grapples more directly and thoughtfully with religious themes, and doesn't glorify its eccentric, somewhat tragic protagonist.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Jun 19, 2007	Longford (2006)	n/a
C	"None of these allegedly "fantastic" heroes has any gravitas… Far from inspiring admiration, they don't rise even to the level of thinking, acting and relating like grown-ups." -- Christianity Today Posted Jun 15, 2007	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)	35%
C+	"*If Dead Man’s Chest* was inspiration gone amok, At World’s End is more — much, much, much more — of the same, only without the inspiration.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted May 25, 2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)	45%
C	"Continues the deliberate bad taste that is the franchise’s hallmark, with the usual hit-and-miss results… What’s missing is the heart that leavened the first two films." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 18, 2007	Shrek the Third (2007)	42%
A-	"Stuffed to bursting — with action, plotlines, characters, humor, energy, moods, spectacle and certainly inspiration." -- Decent Films Guide Posted May 2, 2007	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	61%
3/4	"The film is generally engaging but feels elusively incomplete. One could say it is about the journey rather than the destination." -- Christianity Today Posted Mar 16, 2007	The Namesake (2007)	85%
2/4	"Is this the best they could do with a fiery, chopper-riding skeleton that punishes the wicked -- put him in chase scenes and have him duke it out with other supernatural beings? What a wasted opportunity." -- Christianity Today Posted Feb 16, 2007	Ghost Rider (2007)	28%
A+	"Pure cinema at its purest and most exalted … a transcendent meditation on the human pursuit of meaning, on man as a religious and social creature; on the rhythm of work and prayer, day and night, winter and spring." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Feb 16, 2007	Into Great Silence (2007)	89%
C	"Ella's so blindly devoted to the Prince, and so convinced that he's the one to save the day, that she seems just another swooning groupie rather than a worthy heroine." -- Christianity Today Posted Jan 5, 2007	Happily N'Ever After (2007)	4%
3.5/4	"*More than most films of its ilk, We Are Marshall* rises above the clichés that define the genre, connecting sport to larger issues in an emotionally satisfying way.*" -- Christianity Today* Posted Dec 22, 2006	We Are Marshall (2006)	48%
B-	"Fair family entertainment… the basic appeal of White's story is sturdy enough to survive the filmmakers' more dubious choices." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 15, 2006	Charlotte's Web (2006)	78%
C	"Gibson is still seeking life amid death, but the balance is off." -- Decent Films Guide Posted Dec 8, 2006	Apocalypto (2006)	65%
A-	"*Even at the height of Hollywood biblical epics, the real* meaning of Christmas was essentially ignored. The Nativity Story goes a long way toward redressing this historic omission.*" -- Decent Films Guide* Posted Nov 30, 2006	The Nativity Story (2006)	39%

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