ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tim Appelo

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	The Squid and the Whale
9.5/10	Junebug
4.5/5	Being Julia
9/10	The Holy Girl
8.6/10	The 40-Year-Old Virgin
8.5/10	Crash
4/5	Thumbsucker
8/10	Lost Embrace
7.5/10	Kontroll
3.5/5	Inside Deep Throat
7/10	Finding Neverland
3/5	The Machinist
5/10	The Ballad of Jack and Rose
2/5	The Passion of the Christ
4/10	Kingdom of Heaven
3.5/10	The Talent Given Us
3/10	The Longest Yard
2.5/10	Pretty Persuasion
2/10	Diary of a Mad Black Woman
1/10	Stealth
.5/10	Head in the Clouds

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Moolaade
5/5	The Squid and the Whale
9.5/10	Junebug
9/10	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
9/10	The Holy Girl
4.5/5	Being Julia
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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.5/10	Head in the Clouds
1/10	Stealth
2/10	Proof
2/10	Diary of a Mad Black Woman
2.5/10	Pretty Persuasion
	more...

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

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	" Candy sets up the tense situation, builds it up patiently, masterfully, then has no idea where to go with it. At least Page's career has an obvious direction -- up." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Apr 26, 2006	Hard Candy (2005)	68%
7/10	" *In the annals of no-sex-please Brit nudie revues, this Oscar hopeful falls between the The Full Monty's Rabelaisian stew and Calendar Girls' charming but thin broth." -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Dec 15, 2005	Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)	65%
5/10	" *A psycho-underworld tour de force like Irreversible* or The Machinist, impressive as far as it goes (not far), single-minded but without enough on its mind, a gimmick flick.*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Dec 15, 2005	Keane (2004)	83%
7/10	" The kids are disastrous, except for Henley. Her irresistible crooked grin is a triumph over British dentistry. She makes Dakota Fanning look like a calculating android." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Dec 9, 2005	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)	75%
7/10	" A pale echo of the Tolkien trilogy, worse than Cuaron's third Harry Potter film, better than Chris Columbus' first two, and about on a par with Mike Newell's new one." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Dec 5, 2005	Chronicling Narnia ()	n/a
8/10	" The 1940 version had its flaws, too--who wants to Mrs. Miniver? Knightley is a Lizzie for our profane time. " -- Seattle Weekly Posted Nov 28, 2005	Pride and Prejudice (2005)	85%
7.5/10	" Rent works best as a centaur creation: half-movie, half-play, plunging into theater world in all its mindless, cheesy, sentimental splendor." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Nov 28, 2005	Rent (2005)	48%
7/10	" Impressively reduces Murakami's hard-boiled word world to a floating-picture world. But like Lish's edits of Ray Carver, it mutes a story that was nearly mute to begin with." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Oct 17, 2005	Tony Takitani (2005)	90%
4/10	" *Much of it is not half bad. Some moments achieve the transcendence they ache to find. But it's like a concept album with no concept, Singles* with fewer hit singles.** " -- Seattle Weekly Posted Oct 13, 2005	Elizabethtown (2005)	28%
9/10	" Nick Park is Tim Burton's opposite: his storytelling is smooth, his visual technique jerky. Go for the guy who can tell a story, as Burton has failed to do for 11 years now." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Oct 4, 2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)	95%
7/10	" Fails to topple Lean's untoppable version; still one of the best movies of 2005. Startlingly unemotional, but for the stormy torments behind Fagin's overhanging eyebrows." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Sep 26, 2005	Oliver Twist (2005)	59%
4/10	" *It doesn't stink, but it's a mere technical advance that pales next to Nightmare. The maggot's a Jiminy Cricket manque. And it's just not very animated." -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Sep 21, 2005	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)	84%
2/10	" *Catherine is an infinitely less convincing version of Arcadia's girl genius; the proof is just a MacGuffin; it runs out of plot and has not one idea in its head." -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Sep 21, 2005	Proof (2005)	64%
2.5/10	" Wood's not an interesting psycho�just numb, mumbling, and dull. Pretty unpersuasive." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Aug 31, 2005	Pretty Persuasion (2005)	32%
8.6/10	" Even Keener transcends her famous ball-busting screen persona and registers real warmth." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Aug 31, 2005	The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)	84%
8/10	" *Djay is the Fezziwig of pimps. His hit tune, as catchy as "That Thing You Do," also wears out its welcome. But his quest for le mot juste* and mo' bling is charming.*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Aug 10, 2005	Hustle & Flow (2005)	82%
8/10	" *The surprise ending is gimmicky, but the character study is consistently enthralling. The Edukators* is educational�not intellectually, but emotionally.*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Aug 10, 2005	The Edukators (2005)	68%
1/10	" *For at least the first hour, Stealth* is a SAEBCPSOS (Shockingly and Excruciatingly Boring Columbia Pictures Sack of S---).*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Aug 10, 2005	Stealth (2005)	13%
7/10	" Compared to Keitel, he's a fluttery lightweight, whether banging the ivories or his victims. His nature isn't divided. He's no hoodlum--not even Belmondo impersonating Bogart." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Aug 10, 2005	The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)	84%
3.5/10	" The big problem with this verit� film is that nothing in it is verified. Verily, a lot of it is just B.S." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Aug 10, 2005	The Talent Given Us (2004)	58%
9.5/10	" *If the Academy has any brains, heart, and balls, at least one Oscar will go to the quietly brilliant Junebug." -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Aug 10, 2005	Junebug (2005)	87%
9/10	" *Alche's crooked grin is as gleeful as the nose-wriggling enchantress in Bewitched. The elliptically implicit ending reminds me of Purple Noon* minus the murder.*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Jun 22, 2005	The Holy Girl (2005)	77%
8.5/10	" *Tim Burton's Batman* could probably lick Nolan's Batman Begins. But in a fight between Nolan's Batman and Burton's, I know who'd kick whose cape-draped *. " -- Seattle Weekly Posted Jun 16, 2005	Batman Begins (2005)	84%
3/10	" *Sandler is trying to outrun his clownish boy-man past, but since everything about Yard* is transparently fake, it loses him career yardage.*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted May 25, 2005	The Longest Yard (2005)	30%
5/10	" A rigorous test of cineaste sitzfleisch: to savor the Dames' deep acting, you have to endure a story that goes nowhere. You must suffer for this art." -- Seattle Weekly Posted May 25, 2005	Ladies in Lavender (2005)	61%
7.5/10	" *A frivolous fable and a fabulous frivol, a lighthearted romp and a dark night of the existential soul�Slacker* meets Metropolis.*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted May 25, 2005	Kontroll (2005)	81%
8.5/10	" *Though it lacks Magnolia's messy greatness, you won't hear more fiendishly articulate dialogue on-screen any time soon." -- Seattle Weekly* Posted May 4, 2005	Crash (2005)	75%
4/10	" As a war hero, Orlando Bloom reminds me of the nickname Truman Capote's father gave him: Little Miss Mouse Fart." -- Seattle Weekly Posted May 4, 2005	Kingdom of Heaven (2005)	39%
7/10	" Anthony LaPaglia does understated wonders...He could beat David Duchovny in an underacting contest. Few movies score so many true moments. And few add up to less. " -- Seattle Weekly Posted Apr 28, 2005	Winter Solstice (2005)	62%
8/10	" One of the most original war movies ever made. Men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Apr 15, 2005	Voices in Wartime (2005)	81%
8/10	" Sweet but not too, a tangy, teasing valentine to dear hearts and gentle people who start to feel like family. Burman is like Woody Allen with a human face." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 29, 2005	Lost Embrace (2005)	85%
5/10	" Rebecca Miller is no tragedian like her dad. She�s a lyrical poet with an elliptical turn of mind...despite moments of beauty and mystery, ultimately it�s a muddle." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 29, 2005	The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)	46%
7/10	" *A litmus test for an America scarcely less bitterly divided than Iraq. The risibly dishonest government radio broadcasts play like the satirical radio bits in MASH.*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Mar 10, 2005	Gunner Palace (2005)	85%
2/10	" Helen's chaste swain wants intimacy, not sex. C'mon�even Baptists are interested in sex. They just don't do it standing up, because someone might think they were dancing." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 10, 2005	Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)	16%
N/A	" *TELLURIDE'S MOST buzzed picture was Yes, a stunning epic whose volcanic eruptions cast lurid light on the collision of male and female, Muslim and American. In rhyme!" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Mar 9, 2005	Yes (2005)	52%
.5/10	" *Tyrone Power would have more chemistry courting Deanna Durbin in a deep coma. Theron destroys all her Monster* acting cred. Cruz squeaks like a hamster huffing helium.** " -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Head in the Clouds (2004)	15%
2/5	" Bad in the worst way, yet it trails clouds of glory and authentic stink from a Georgia pigsty. Pretty, a legitimate auteurist statement. And a flop." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Undertow (2004)	56%
7/10	" Underbaked, but you can't argue with its otherworldly aura. One disappointment: we don't get to see the belly-slit sex organs Baker designed for the never-used orgy finale." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Videodrome (1983)	80%
7/10	" Interestingly and movingly hints at the sad future fate of his Lost Boys, but it's too timid to follow up on those dark portents. " -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Finding Neverland (2004)	83%
N/A	" The director arranged to have a physical obstacle�a countertop, a couch�between Tom Arnold and his gay son in every scene until they reconcile." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Happy Endings (2005)	57%
N/A	" *"We came all the way from New Zealand and waited for three hours in the cold," kvetched one couple at Sundance, "and we still couldn't get into The Matador."" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Mar 9, 2005	The Matador (2005)	75%
2/5	" Might be mistaken for an instructional video on meat-tenderizing techniques for cannibal chefs. Mel's a muscular Christian without a philosophical bone in his head." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	50%
5/5	" My favorite deleted scene: Bill Murray as Wood's transsexual wanna-be crony serenading a mariachi band in a meat locker with "Que Sera Sera" in an eccentric sexual swoon." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Ed Wood (1994)	91%
4.5/5	" *Thank God for Being Julia, an Oscar-worthy comeback role that may just save one of our most gifted actresses from a life of way too much leisure." -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Mar 9, 2005	Being Julia (2004)	76%
4/5	" Spiffily restored and bursting at the seams with extra features. One-third of the performers were on heroin, including John Lennon." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	The Rolling Stones - Rock and Roll Circus (1968)	n/a
3.5/5	" Throws lots of stylish light on sex. But he leaves too much of Kinsey's soul in the closet." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Kinsey (2004)	90%
3/5	" *Mark Twain said that Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds. The Machinist* isn't as good as it looks. But Bale's fever-dream performance is otherworldly great.*" -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Mar 9, 2005	The Machinist (2004)	73%
5/5	" Are the DVD extras worth the doubloons? Arrgh, heartily, matey! They're a very three-disc treasure chest worth a keelhauling to own." -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	79%
4/5	" *Don Cheadle's eyes have an openness and depth like Martin Sheen's in Apocalypse Now: they're the lens through which we can watch this incredible war." -- Seattle Weekly* Posted Mar 9, 2005	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	92%
N/A	" *Though it begins like Bugsy Malone* meets River's Edge, the complicated plot grows on you. When did you last see a movie that got better as it went on?** " -- Seattle Weekly Posted Mar 9, 2005	Brick (2006)	78%

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