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JAMES ROCCHI
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• CBS 5 (SF Bay Area)
• Cinematical
• Common Sense
• Netflix

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Total Reviews: 1159

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 The Upside of Anger
4/4 Zodiac
4/5 Nobody Knows
3/4 The Devil Wears Prada
3.5/5 God of Gamblers
3/5 The Jacket
2/4 All The King's Men
2/5 Constantine
1/4 Snakes on a Plane
1/5 Diary of a Mad Black Woman
0/5 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
0/4 Apocalypto
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 The Dark Knight
4/4 I Am Legend
4/4 The Bourne Ultimatum
4/4 Breach
4/4 Zodiac
5/5 Broken Flowers
5/5 Thumbsucker
5/5 The Constant Gardener
5/5 Murderball
5/5 The Upside of Anger
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
0/4 The Heartbreak Kid
0/4 Good Luck Chuck
0/4 I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
0/4 Transformers
0/4 300
0/4 Hannibal Rising
0/4 Apocalypto
.5/5 Father's Day
1/5 The Foot Fist Way
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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2/5
 
"There are questions about faith and ethics and redemption in The X-Files: I Want to Believe ... Carter and his team want to give us reasons to believe; I just don't think they gave us any reason to care." -- Cinematical
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)33%
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2/5
 
"Early in Step Brothers, Dr. Doback tells his son "Dale, I think that it's time we both made a few changes. " Would that screenwriters Adam McKay and Will Ferrell had taken that advice to heart." -- Cinematical
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)52%
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"If you seek out American Teen looking for an engaging, stylish and surprisingly smart piece of non-fiction entertainment, you're going to be completely won over." -- Cinematical
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
American Teen (2008)67%
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5/5
 
"Comic-book movies are often bland and big meditations on good versus evil; The Dark Knight gives us a more interesting examination of right versus wrong, and how little it can take to shove the one into the other. " -- Cinematical
Posted Jul 14, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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2/5
 
"Bland indie comedy isn't very memorable." -- Common Sense
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
Diminished Capacity (2008)28%
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4/5
 
"I stumbled out of Hellboy II: The Golden Army feeling as if my imagination had eaten too much ... And yet, Hellboy II has more than a little heart to it; it's scrappy and self-aware, and never out of touch with what it is. " -- Cinematical
Posted Jun 29, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)87%
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4/5
 
"Too many kid's movies are created to give kids things to buy; WALL-E is a kid's movie that might, perhaps, give you and your kids pause to think about what things truly cost." -- Cinematical
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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4/5
 
"Wanted's a corporate product, but, thankfully, it's an excellent one -- the two-fisted, double-barreled high-octane guilty pleasure summer action movie you've been waiting for." -- Cinematical
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Wanted (2008)72%
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1/4
 
"If Mike Myers is obsessed with poop, pee and penises, that's his problem; if audiences make him rich for playing that out on-screen, then it becomes ours." -- Cinematical
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)15%
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3/5
 
"Tough indie drama features great performances." -- Common Sense
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Expired (2008)60%
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3/5
 
"Shyamalan crafts a somewhat chilling cautionary tale; it just might have been more chilling if he had been a little less cautious." -- Cinematical
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)19%
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3/5
 
"South Pole documentary is gorgeous, if a bit dry." -- Common Sense
Posted Jun 10, 2008
 
Encounters at the End of the World (2008)95%
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0/5
 
"Let's not mince words here, or hem and haw and add caveats about a few laughs or good intentions: You Don't Mess With the Zohan is astonishingly, impressively, depressingly bad. " -- Cinematical
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)34%
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4/5
 
"Mature satire has unexpected brains and heart." -- Common Sense
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
The Promotion (2008)47%
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3/5
 
"Wrenching, mature drama is a showcase for Julianne Moore." -- Common Sense
Posted May 30, 2008
 
Savage Grace (2008)42%
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1/5
 
"Martial arts "comedy" is crude, mean and unfunny." -- Common Sense
Posted May 29, 2008
 
The Foot Fist Way (2008)58%
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3/5
 
"Spooky horror film has both tension and gore." -- Common Sense
Posted May 29, 2008
 
The Strangers (2008)41%
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"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull feels simultaneously self-conscious and self-satisfied, as if a little warm glow of past glory will soothe our bumps and blows from the clumsiness of the script." -- Cinematical
Posted May 18, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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"Kung Fu Panda may be on the higher edge of the middle rank of computer-animated films, but it'll still provide your kids with a fairly respectable mix of action, amazement and amusement." -- Cinematical
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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3/5
 
"Raunchy romantic comedy has a softer side, too." -- Common Sense
Posted May 7, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)27%
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4/5
 
"... The Wachowskis have created a blast of pure pop family fun; Speed Racer's a bright, bold visual spectacle designed for kids. " -- Cinematical
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)36%
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3/5
 
"Even minor Mamet can be a source of major satisfaction, especially with an actor as compelling as Ejiofor in the lead." -- Cinematical
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)71%
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4/5
 
"It's as if someone snuck a hefty slug of bourbon into your cherry cola; all of the sugar and flavor and fizz you expect from a well-made comic-book movie are there, but there's something a little more grown-up going on behind them." -- Cinematical
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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2/4
 
"Deception is star-filled and competently crafted, but so afraid of real sexuality that it instead offers us soft-lit perfume-ad images, and is erroneously convinced that moviegoers won't be able to spot lazy storytelling once their glasses are steamed up " -- Cinematical
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Deception (2008)11%
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3/5
 
"Stoner social satire is rude, crude, and funny." -- Common Sense
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)54%
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1/5
 
"Tedious slasher flick is both gory and boring." -- Common Sense
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Prom Night (2008)8%
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3/5
 
"Medical thriller mixes extreme violence, sex." -- Common Sense
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Pathology (2008)50%
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3/5
 
"A boxing comedy with a potty mouth and warm heart." -- Common Sense
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
The Hammer (2008)71%
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2/5
 
"Retro London heist caper may not interest kids." -- Common Sense
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Flawless (2007)59%
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3/4
 
""Screwball comedy" implies a certain snap and rotation -- a velocity to the gags and a vector to the plot -- but the people who made Leatherheads don't quite have the strength of arm or skew of angle to make Leatherheads truly screwball ..." -- Cinematical
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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"It's an intellectually and morally challenging film that'll still have you shouting at the screen and lurching in your seat with every jolt." -- Cinematical
Posted Mar 26, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)50%
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3/4
 
"... While (Drillbit Taylor) may not be consistently brilliant or laugh-out-loud funny all the way through, it is at the least consistently amusing." -- Cinematical
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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3/4
 
"Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day may be a fairly small-scale comedy, but it delivers tremendous satisfaction, and that's a victory in and of itself ..." -- Cinematical
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)78%
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1/4
 
"In an age where ... audiences reward blood-and-thunder films ... at the box office, greenlighting 10,000 B.C. must have seemed logical. I can imagine someone pitching the film ...by saying "It's like 300 .... plus 9,700!"" -- Cinematical
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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2/4
 
"With The Other Boleyn Girl, the sheen and shine of the clothing and sets can't quite blind us to the fact there's very little drama under all the drapery, and you'll recall the textures of the fabrics long after you've forgotten the threads of the plot." -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)42%
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"... While Spurlock may not actually answer the question of where, he actually tackles, with humor, probing wit and a certain grace, the much more important question of why. " -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 23, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)35%
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1/5
 
"If Lee had actually directed his performers ... Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins probably would have been a better movie. But frantic flailing isn't consistent forward motion." -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 23, 2008
 
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)24%
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4/5
 
"Shotgun Stories is, at heart, a film about people who discover what they have to let go of, and who confront the terrifying possibility of hope." -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 23, 2008
 
Shotgun Stories (2007)89%
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4/5
 
"Bomb It! is a brisk and bracing portrait of the state of the art. Of course, the fact that the art is often a crime comes up ..." -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 23, 2008
 
Bomb It (2008)87%
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3/5
 
"Be Kind Rewind, like last year's great Sundance film Son of Rambow, is a celebration of the power of film and the joy of the movies; not just great art, but also great trash." -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 23, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)68%
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4/5
 
"Definitely, Maybe has the 'meet cute,' but it also has all the things that can come after -- the awkward moments, the scary possibility of hope, the comforts of sadness, the tough talks, the ugly partings, the hard-won reconciliations." -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 23, 2008
 
Definitely, Maybe (2008)72%
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2/5
 
"Vantage Point's summed up by its name; from some angles, it looks like an above-average studio thriller, but from others it falls out of sight fast." -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 23, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)35%
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"Gonzo is as energetically flawed and rivetingly reckless as its subject, and somehow that seems exactly right." -- Cinematical
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)86%
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Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Assassination of a High School President (2008)60%
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1/4
 
"Nichols's cut, gutted version (of Aaron Sorkin's script) offers a few cheery, breezy moments of rat-a-tat comedy, but Charlie Wilson's War stops being funny when you realize we're living in the sequel." -- Cinematical
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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"The Kite Runner doesn't just make us watch the battling kites in the skies over Kabul; it makes us truly see the people below, in many ways for the first time; that's the film's greatest achievement, and ultimately the best reason to see it." -- Cinematical
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
The Kite Runner (2007)67%
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3/4
 
"" ...even if Alvin and the Chipmunks has one hand reaching for your wallet, at the very least its heart seems to be in the right place."" -- Cinematical
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)25%
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4/4
 
"I don't know how well I Am Legend will hold up on repeat viewings, or over time -- but while it's happening, I Am Legend is a slick, scary, superbly made action/science fiction/horror film with a lot more art, heart and smarts than you'd expect." -- Cinematical
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)69%
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3/4
 
"... Darabont's made what can best be called a grade-A B-movie, full of jolts and jumps and classic monster-movie tricks played out with old-school showmanship and thoroughly modern special effects." -- Cinematical
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Stephen King's The Mist (2007)71%

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