ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tim Merrill

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Sex and Lucia
4.5/5	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4/5	Derrida
3.5/5	Time Out
3/5	Under the Skin of the City
2.5/5	Session 9
2/5	Hollywood Ending
1/5	Smokers Only
0/5	Irreversible

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
5/5	The Weather Underground
5/5	Ghost World
5/5	Sex and Lucia
4.5/5	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4.5/5	Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
4.5/5	Pieces of April
4.5/5	How to Draw A Bunny
4.5/5	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Irreversible
1/5	Smokers Only
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

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2/5	"Almereyda is tripped up by this grab at cosmic profundity, and lands in a sticky puddle of pretension." Posted Dec 6, 2005	Happy Here and Now (2002)	45%
4/5	"Wes Anderson simply has a unique way of looking at the world, and through him the ridiculous is made sublime. He has a hell of a distinctive style for someone his age. It would appear he might even be some kind of goddamn genius himself." Posted Dec 6, 2005	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)	80%
3.5/5	"Moore is simply...wonderful." Posted Dec 6, 2005	Far From Heaven (2002)	91%
4.5/5	"A riveting account of this demented and scarcely believable American story." Posted Nov 9, 2004	Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004)	87%
4/5	"Everything you've heard: sad and funny, revealing and compelling, entertaining, devastating." Posted Jul 3, 2004	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)	83%
2.5/5	"It's dark, it's intelligent -- it's also humorless and a bit pretentious." Posted Jun 22, 2004	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004)	42%
4/5	"*The result will stand as one of the most intense, in-depth, warts-and-all rockumentaries ever made -- VH1's Behind the Music* cranked up to 11 and beyond.*" Posted May 18, 2004*	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)	87%
5/5	"Music fans of every stripe should kill to see this film, one of the very best music documentaries in recent years. Then, get thee to a record store." Posted Apr 17, 2004	Tom Dowd and the Language of Music (2004)	89%
3.5/5	"*A sci-fi thriller of uncommon creepiness, One Point 0* makes inventive use of a low budget, and clever story and a terrific cast.*" Posted Feb 18, 2004*	Paranoia 1.0 (2004)	67%
4/5	"Tells the fascinating, horrifying and hilarious tale of two '60s obsessed young American bands, the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre." Posted Jan 28, 2004	DIG! (2004)	88%
3.5/5	"While Braff's script may suffer from long-windedness, his direction - of both cast and camera - is so confident that this debut could well mark the start of a major career." Posted Jan 20, 2004	Garden State (2004)	87%
4/5	"Generates laughs while teaching valuable lessons about how we can all, in small but significant ways, make the choice to 'leave a light footprint' on our imperiled planet Earth." Posted Nov 20, 2003	Go Further (2004)	59%
3.5/5	"Gershon and her cohorts make it all swing." Posted Jul 16, 2003	Prey for Rock & Roll (2003)	57%
4.5/5	"This is everything an indie film could hope to be." Posted May 7, 2003	Pieces of April (2003)	84%
2.5/5	"Is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo, double-pistoled, ballistic-pyrotechnic Hong Kong action aesthetic?" Posted Mar 23, 2003	Fulltime Killer (2002)	58%
4/5	"It is about treasuring life -- sometimes even cheating death -- and it manages to warm hearts in its own uncompromising way, rarely cheating and never belittling." Posted Feb 26, 2003	The Station Agent (2003)	95%
5/5	"Green and Siegel have crafted a breathtaking portrait of one chapter of the '60s story that hasn't been done to death." Posted Feb 19, 2003	The Weather Underground (2003)	91%
0/5	"No 'star rating' has been applied above because conventional indications of 'good' or 'bad' simply do not apply to this film." Posted Feb 3, 2003	Irreversible (2003)	56%
2.5/5	"Rather than tying together into a satisfying whole, the fragments seem to fly off in any number of directions, and a sweet, simple tale of young love dissolves into a mishmash." Posted Jan 21, 2003	All the Real Girls (2003)	71%
1/5	"Humorless, self-conscious art drivel, made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention." Posted Jan 8, 2003	Smokers Only (2002)	15%
3.5/5	"A genuine mind-bender." Posted Dec 16, 2002	Intacto (2002)	71%
3.5/5	"Quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor." Posted Dec 16, 2002	Quitting (2002)	77%
4/5	"*Shivery and seductive, May* is a delicious little creepathon.*" Posted Dec 8, 2002*	May (2003)	68%
3/5	"*The raw sexuality sometimes clangs loudly against the glib comedy, but by the end On_Line* makes you love it.*" Posted Dec 8, 2002*	On_Line (2002)	38%
3/5	"*While the film succeeds as a visceral testament to all the servicemen who fought in Mogadishu, particularly the nineteen who lost their lives, Black Hawk Down* is more punishing than anything else.*" Posted Dec 8, 2002*	Black Hawk Down (2001)	75%
2.5/5	"It's never cheap, but it's also never quite as scary as it thinks it is; the buildups invariably lead to letdowns." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Session 9 (2001)	60%
3/5	"It still manages to slide by, but barely, and only on the strength of its two leads." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Birthday Girl (2002)	57%
4/5	"This is Cult Movie Central -- and there's no livelier tour guide than Michael Winterbottom." Posted Dec 8, 2002	24 Hour Party People (2002)	86%
3.5/5	"It certainly feels unique, and sets itself apart from most American gangster films in its stark refusal to paint the lead gangster as likable or indeed anything other than the vicious socio-psychopath he is." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Gangster No. 1 (2002)	73%
3.5/5	"Never less than clever and often digs down into some uncomfortable realities about the strange lives of that odd species known as 'movie people.'" Posted Dec 8, 2002	My Wife is an Actress (2002)	65%
3/5	"A reasonably intelligent adult comedy." Posted Dec 8, 2002	40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)	38%
3/5	"Favors us with plenty of color, a feast of eye candy. As food for the soul, however... there are always her paintings." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Frida (2002)	75%
5/5	"When it's all said and done, this p�an to the losers, misfits, outcasts and obsessives of the world proves to be nothing less than haunting." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Ghost World (2001)	92%
3.5/5	"*We grow to genuinely care about the people of XX/XY, and their romantic troubles are portrayed with a refreshing, open honesty." Posted Dec 8, 2002*	XX/XY (2003)	44%
4.5/5	"This enthralling documentary ... is at once playful and haunting, an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends." Posted Dec 8, 2002	How to Draw A Bunny (2002)	84%
2/5	"Capra has been embalmed and larded with prefab sentimental glaze, a synthetic 21st century Hollywood idea of what Capra the director stood for." Posted Dec 8, 2002	The Majestic (2001)	42%
3/5	"*At least it's better than Return of the Jedi. If that sounds like faint praise... then line up and find out for yourself." Posted Dec 8, 2002*	Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)	67%
5/5	"The most wondrous love story in years, it is a great film." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Sex and Lucia (2002)	71%
3.5/5	"As a study of how the current corporate idiocy impacts one man�s art, it's priceless." Posted Dec 8, 2002	I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002)	88%
3/5	"Certainly worth looking into, but it feels a little too repressed for its own good." Posted Dec 8, 2002	In the Bedroom (2001)	94%
4/5	"*As a piece of acting, The Quiet American* represents a fitting capper to Caine's illustrious career.*" Posted Dec 8, 2002*	The Quiet American (2002)	89%
2/5	"It's getting difficult to watch this old dog trying so hard to pull off the same old tricks; Allen is becoming a caricature of himself, a cartoon, before our very eyes." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Hollywood Ending (2002)	47%
4/5	"Highly and intelligently amusing stuff, 'arty' in the best, most playful sense of the word." Posted Dec 8, 2002	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)	80%
3.5/5	"*It's a compelling and horrifying story, and The Laramie Project* is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does, in fact, still happen in America.*" Posted Dec 8, 2002*	The Laramie Project (2002)	85%
4/5	"A gripping experience, and often downright sickening." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Bloody Sunday (2002)	92%
4/5	"*In all, Tautou is the most adorable Frenchwoman to grace movie screens since we first laid eyes on La Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Posted Dec 8, 2002*	Amelie (2001)	90%
4/5	"*Blends The Rules of the Game, Upstairs Downstairs* and Ten Little Indians into a rich feast that will have adult filmgoers licking their chops.*" Posted Dec 8, 2002*	Gosford Park (2001)	86%
4.5/5	"To borrow an icon from another legend of English origin, this is the Holy Grail. The big one has finally been delivered to us, and it is a beautiful thing indeed." Posted Dec 8, 2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	92%
3.5/5	"*If you've never heard of '50s auteur Douglas Sirk, much less seen one of his films, you may want to stay far away from Far From Heaven." Posted Dec 8, 2002*	Far From Heaven (2002)	91%
4/5	"He's no easy mark, Derrida, but trying to keep up with him as he reasons his way through even the most simple questions makes for a rewarding experience." Posted Dec 8, 2002	Derrida (2002)	82%

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