ROTTEN TOMATOES: Bill White

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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a	Shotgun Stories
A-	Angels in the Dust
B+	Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy
B	Shakespeare Behind Bars
B-	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
C+	Summer Storm
C	The Dhamma Brothers
C-	Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
D	The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
F	Keeping Up With The Steins

BEST REVIEWED
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a	Shotgun Stories
A	Killer of Sheep
A	Once
A	The Holy Mountain
A	Deliver Us From Evil
A	Time to Leave
A	The Puffy Chair
A	Fall to Grace
A	Drawing Restraint 9
A	Take My Eyes
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Keeping Up With The Steins
F	Get Rich or Die Tryin'
D	Shrooms
D	War Dance
D	Quixotic
D	Self-Medicated
D	Them
D	Ghosts of Cite Soleil
D	Manufactured Landscapes
D	The Architect
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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B	"Although little more than an hour long, it succeeds in telling us why some people choose the monastic life over the worldly, and what spiritual gains they hope to make in submitting to its rituals." Posted May 15, 2008	Daughters of Wisdom (2007)	80%
B	"Alice Neel offers a relatively objective view of a person who, seeing life as a sentence to be served, spent it doing the thing she loved." Posted May 15, 2008	Alice Neel (2007)	70%
C	"The film does a poor job of explaining the discipline or how it works, and naively takes the convicts' testimonials at face value." Posted May 8, 2008	The Dhamma Brothers (2008)	81%
a	"*An allegory of our times, Shotgun Stories* is a tragedy of biblical scale and an intimate family drama.*" Posted May 8, 2008*	Shotgun Stories (2007)	87%
C	"Imagine Moe Howard of the Three Stooges as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and you might get an inkling of the monotone slapstick filling two long hours of Maiko Haaaan!!!" Posted May 1, 2008	Maiko Haaaan!!! (2007)	n/a
B-	"Regardless of its shortcomings, there is a variety of break dancing on display here that will bring the viewer up to speed on the state of the art." Posted Apr 24, 2008	Planet B-Boy (2008)	90%
C	"Too many of the scenes, however, are the standard fodder of which mediocre movies are made." Posted Apr 24, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	22%
B	"The camera is discrete, the characters humane and the mood introspective in director Sam Garbarski's character study of a lonely woman who finds dignity where others might see only degradation." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	75%
B-	"A moving and touching documentary." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Blindsight (2008)	100%
A-	"Most political films involving children are vicious or sentimental. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, set in 1970 when Brazil was under the military dictatorship of General Emilio Medici, is neither." Posted Apr 11, 2008	The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)	84%
B	"Over the six hours spent with Fox as she jets around the globe, a picture emerges, not only of a modern woman contemplating herself, but of Western society boasting of its freedom to a world struggling for mere survival." Posted Apr 3, 2008	Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)	74%
B	"Bomb It offers a new way of looking at the world's cities, courtesy of the art world's fleeting phantoms, who often have to choose between buying food or a can of spray paint." Posted Apr 3, 2008	Bomb It (2008)	85%
A-	"The Singing Revolution becomes a tense political thriller that culminates in one of the most significant events of past century: The collapse of the Soviet Union." Posted Apr 3, 2008	The Singing Revolution (2007)	86%
C	"Writer-director Olivier Assayas must have been working out some personal demons to make something as embarrassing as Boarding Gate, the most trite and trivial piece of sleaze since Abel Ferrara's Snake Eyes." Posted Mar 27, 2008	Boarding Gate (2007)	26%
B	"The first part of Radu Mihaileanu's tale of an Ethiopian refugee's life in Israel promises more than the often trivial soap opera that follows." Posted Mar 27, 2008	Live and Become (2008)	80%
B	"Lost in Beijing tells the story of a man who, when his wife becomes pregnant after being raped by her employer, enters into a series of financial negotiations with him." Posted Mar 27, 2008	Lost in Beijing (2008)	47%
B	"Moore redeems herself from the mediocrity of her Brat Pack years and the career-killing mistakes of early adulthood. Having matured into a convincing middle-age actor, she comes across as intelligent, sophisticated and driven." Posted Mar 27, 2008	Flawless (2007)	62%
C+	"Times and Winds is a mixed metaphor of a movie that structures its episodes about the random escapades of three children around the five daily Islamic prayers." Posted Mar 13, 2008	Times and Winds (2006)	72%
C	"While there are some points of interest along the way -- such as a dissertation on the recruitment and training of resistance fighters -- we emerge from this patchwork of viewpoints with no real picture." Posted Mar 13, 2008	Meeting Resistance (2007)	75%
B	"Chicago 10 is a timely reminder that dissident youth once were viewed by the government as enemies of the state. Morgan's collection of these images forces us to keep watching, and recognize this as part of our very recent history." Posted Mar 13, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	77%
B	"Director Gary Hustwit opens our eyes to the visual culture of typography in much the same way as Andy Warhol once freed us from the tyranny of advertising, by inviting reflection upon that which is intended as a subliminal encounter." Posted Mar 7, 2008	Helvetica (2007)	88%
B	"Interviews with the mothers and footage of the birth process combine to offer intimate portraits of women preparing for and experiencing this natural phenomenon that has become increasingly mechanized." Posted Feb 28, 2008	The Business Of Being Born (2008)	76%
B-	"It is a small message, but a sincere one, about the solitude that separates us, and how the expression of this solitude can bring the unlikeliest of people together." Posted Feb 28, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
B	"*When movies venture into the ghetto, it is usually from an outsider's point of view. City of Men, set in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, is different." Posted Feb 28, 2008*	City of Men (2008)	77%
B	"It is a fascinating journey through a piece of art history, the full impact of which may be yet to come." Posted Feb 22, 2008	Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)	93%
B	"*Like Beauty and the Beast, Eden* is a fairy tale about impossible love, but this beast, instead of a noble soul, has an insatiable appetite.*" Posted Feb 22, 2008*	Eden (2006)	70%
B	"With each turn of events being telegraphed well in advance, there are no surprises in Sayles' script. The cast, however, headed by Glover's complex portrait of a man plagued by his past, is fresh enough to cover the stale plot mechanics." Posted Feb 22, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	67%
B	"Note by Note is a reminder of the deep working class roots of high culture." Posted Feb 22, 2008	Note by Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037 (2007)	93%
B	"In her first leading role, Carla Ribas joins the fast-growing ranks of middle-aged Latina actresses whose performances resonate with a beguiling mixture of emotional complexity and sexual maturity." Posted Feb 22, 2008	Alice's House (2008)	88%
D	"*From the distorting lens used randomly to suggest unreality, to the twist ending lifted verbatim from the superior High Tension,* it's about as imaginative as a portobello steak with onions.*" Posted Feb 7, 2008*	Shrooms (2006)	14%
B	"Taxi to the Darkside journeys into a new heart of darkness, the destination of which lies outside the frontiers of humanity. It is a must-see for anybody concerned with the potential shift in the American character as a result of its war on terror." Posted Feb 7, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
C	"A dull and dreary film that derives its entertainment value from exploiting the sociopathology of its central character." Posted Jan 31, 2008	The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun (2006)	78%
B-	"The film's first half contains a series of sharply satirical scenes." Posted Jan 24, 2008	Teeth (2008)	79%
B+	"Iranian director Majid Majidi... takes his place alongside Robert Bresson as a master of sacred cinema. His Iran is a place of natural beauty so intense that even the sightless can experience its splendor." Posted Jan 24, 2008	The Willow Tree (2005)	88%
b	"Sheds light on the paradoxes and political maneuvering that went on in the studios." Posted Jan 17, 2008	Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2007)	86%
b	"Adrenaline junkies and armchair sports enthusiasts should enjoy this informative history of extreme skiing." Posted Jan 17, 2008	Steep (2007)	55%
b	"In a genre that has been battered by the cheap grotesqueries of special effects, it is a pleasure to be unsettled by something as simple as an invasive beam of light in the shadows of a haunted house." Posted Jan 4, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	85%
B-	"The film is most interesting when showing the ignorance of the Afrikaners. The film falters when trying to address the complexities of the political issues." Posted Dec 13, 2007	Color of Freedom (2007)	44%
C	"Jimmy Carter/Man From Plains... is a smug, self-righteous monologue from a professional politician." Posted Dec 6, 2007	Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)	79%
D	"Directors Sean and Andrea Fine have set out to make an inspirational film about the transcendent power of music in a war zone. What they have achieved is a piece of emotional pornography." Posted Nov 29, 2007	War Dance (2007)	86%
B	"It might be the first movie about the psychedelic generation told from the point of view of the doddering seniors they have become." Posted Nov 15, 2007	The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2006)	100%
D	"Albert Serra's reduction of Don Quixote, the greatest novel in the Spanish language, to a two character sketch emulating Beckett's Waiting for Godot, is among cinema's greatest insults to literature." Posted Nov 9, 2007	Quixotic (2007)	n/a
B	"Julien Temple has assembled a complex portrait of a human being and the times in which he lived." Posted Nov 9, 2007	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	87%
B	"The first of a two-part film about the life of an 11th-century Tibetan mystic, Milarepa evokes a time when sorcery was a poor man's way of making war, and the sight of yogis flying through the sky was commonplace." Posted Nov 1, 2007	Milarepa (2007)	36%
B-	"Although it offers an invaluable record of a self-destructive artist at the end of his life, it is also a repellent exploitation of this artist's decline." Posted Oct 25, 2007	Let's Get Lost (1988)	94%
B-	"Corbijin understands the essentials of the story. He succeeds, with Riley's help, in exhuming a flesh-and-blood person from the myth that Ian Curtis has become." Posted Oct 25, 2007	Control (2007)	87%
B	"Dynner delights in presenting a wealth of contrasting testimonies, and has no intention of delivering a judgment on any of it." Posted Oct 18, 2007	Punk's Not Dead (2007)	88%
B	"Gavras does not impose a political viewpoint upon her material, but respects the convictions of her various characters." Posted Oct 18, 2007	Blame it on Fidel (2006)	93%
B	"Great World of Sound exposes the scams of so-called talent scouts who fleece gullible songwriters answering their misleading advertisements." Posted Oct 4, 2007	Great World of Sound (2007)	82%

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