ROTTEN TOMATOES: Philip Martin

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A	" ...about the sometimes tragic connections that might be made between two people who, because of circumstances or convention, have no right or opportunity to pursue intimacy with each other." Posted Jan 13, 2006	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	86%
A	" ...tremendously enjoyable, a story of genuine true-life redemption that doesn't cheat its subject or its audience. In that regard, it's not unlike the Johnny Cash we all knew. " Posted Nov 18, 2005	Walk the Line (2005)	83%
A	" ...it may be possible to resist this lovely movie on the grounds that it is too British, such resistance dissolves when the lights go down and the screen begins to glow. " Posted Oct 7, 2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)	95%
A	" ... a distillation of all the weird and troubling truths he has ever wanted to tell us." Posted Sep 30, 2005	A History of Violence (2005)	87%
A	" ... a movie that slowly reveals its compassion for ordinary people, each of whom is eventually revealed as an individual, possessed of an array of qualities" Posted Sep 16, 2005	Junebug (2005)	87%
A	" *Broken Flowers won't win any fans for Jarmusch or late-model Murray, but as an eloquent and compassionate study of regret and self-mourning, it's a wonder." Posted Sep 15, 2005*	Broken Flowers (2005)	86%
A	" ...a visually intelligent and textured film that touches on the residual shame of colonialism, the inherent amorality of global capitalism and the indestructibility of love." Posted Sep 2, 2005	The Constant Gardener (2005)	84%
A	" *Unflinching, level-headed and filled with compelling characters, Murderball* is an exuberant testament to the joys of being alive and tingling with physical confidence.*" Posted Aug 26, 2005*	Murderball (2005)	98%
A	" ...less a neo-blaxploitation product than another kind of '70s film, a naturalistic fiction about ordinary human beings and their not-entirely uplifting engagements" Posted Jul 23, 2005	Hustle & Flow (2005)	82%
A	" Cute as a puppy in a sundress..." Posted Jul 23, 2005	March of the Penguins (2005)	94%
A	" ... objections recede in the face of the prime fact of this movie: It makes us feel better about being human. " Posted Jul 1, 2005	Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)	95%
A	" Wings of Desire ... in reverse" Posted Jun 17, 2005	3-Iron (2005)	87%
A	" ...a memorable and sympathetic protagonist ...Daniel Craig with a note of cool humility Steve McQueen made a career of sounding." Posted Jun 3, 2005	Layer Cake (2005)	80%
A	" ...a couple of Nietzschean supermen who as, respectively, chairman of the board and chief executive officer ... may have run the biggest Ponzi scheme in history." Posted May 27, 2005	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)	97%
A	" ...does more than flatter its audience's sense of taste." Posted May 20, 2005	Look at Me (2005)	89%
A	" ...it earns its sweetness without stooping to sentimentality" Posted Apr 22, 2005	Millions (2005)	88%
A	" Hrebejk's post-Soviet Czech Republic is more than a little like the American South, a conquered territory rife with old wounds and fresh indignities." Posted Apr 15, 2005	Up and Down (2005)	84%
A	" ... not full of uplift, but it has about it a kind of unholy truth, a worrying seed that isn't rinsed away in a triumphant final act." Posted Mar 6, 2005	The Woodsman (2004)	86%
A	" ...Almodovar manages to stuff his frame with themes familiar and unexpected." Posted Feb 25, 2005	Bad Education (2004)	88%
A	" ...an instructive and even profound movie about the survival (if not the triumph) of human decency." Posted Feb 4, 2005	Hotel Rwanda (2004)	92%
A	" What marks Parker and Stone as satirists rather than shock jocks is their perceptive analysis of the world's craziness." Posted Jan 29, 2005	Team America: World Police (2004)	78%
A	" Crammed with cinephilic allusion and rendered in an obsessive "authentic" period style..." Posted Jan 29, 2005	The Saddest Music in the World (2004)	78%
A	" This is a visually stunning film, an intelligently consummated marriage of genres resulting in a movie that is, if not unique, at least very special. " Posted Jan 29, 2005	I'm Not Scared (2004)	92%
A	" ...humor is alloyed with pathos, and all the queasy-making muddled emotions that complicate the human heart." Posted Jan 26, 2005	Sideways (2004)	96%
A	" ...a well-realized stab at melding comic book pow-sock-bang with a more adult psychological drama" Posted Jan 7, 2005	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	93%
A	" ....the story of a quotidian but nevertheless authentic hero" Posted Jan 4, 2005	Ladder 49 (2004)	41%
A	" ...it has about it the resonance of truth as well as a gentle equanimity" Posted Dec 31, 2004	The Clay Bird (2004)	89%
A	" ...aligned with the Nietzschean idea that we are doomed to be ourselves, that the "eternal recurrence of the same" has a gravitational pull on our hearts." Posted Dec 26, 2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	94%
A	" None of the characters is particularly likable, and they all do and say terrible things to one another, but they never devolve into anything less than human." Posted Dec 15, 2004	Closer (2004)	69%
A	" Burying the Past is astute and brave, and, contrary to the current fashion in documentaries, fastidiously fair to all concerned." Posted Dec 15, 2004	Burying the Past: Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre (2004)	n/a
A	" ...this post-modern version of Vanity Fair has a surfeit of humor and some delightful surprises" Posted Sep 7, 2004	Vanity Fair (2004)	50%
A	" Mann is not a playwright who films his work. He's an instinctive visual intelligence; a cinematic fauvist working with a coded color palette." Posted Aug 23, 2004	Collateral (2004)	86%
A	" ...an odd movie, but the kind of odd movie that some people will take to and even love in spite of its confusing and difficult nature." Posted Aug 23, 2004	The Door in the Floor (2004)	66%
A	" ...neither a great director or a great thinker, [Moore] has managed to make a film that is tough and true � if not in the particulars, in its grave and profound progress." Posted Jun 20, 2004	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)	83%
A	" If you've a heart and a pulse, you will like this movie." Posted Jan 29, 2005	The Triplets of Belleville (2003)	94%
A	" *a sober-sided Freaky Friday* -- a chance to look through the eyes of a child*" Posted Jan 29, 2005*	Thirteen (2003)	82%
A	" ... sensual and enigmatic" Posted Jan 29, 2005	Swimming Pool (2003)	85%
A	" ...an effervescently charming film" Posted Jan 29, 2005	Spellbound (2003)	98%
A	" Mullan has made a vicious and relentless film, but his outrage is well-earned." Posted Jan 27, 2005	The Magdalene Sisters (2003)	90%
A	" ...charged with some of the same inchoate longing of Hiroshima, Mon Amour and employs some of the same guerilla production tactics of Godard's Breathless" Posted Jan 27, 2005	Lost in Translation (2003)	95%
A	" It is smart satire, a rare thing these days, caustic but useful in a way most seasonal timewasters are not." Posted Jan 7, 2005	Bad Santa (2003)	77%
A	" ...an almost documentary truth to the performances, a un-movieish consistency of tone that makes it easy to forget that we're watching actors." Posted Jan 7, 2005	The Barbarian Invasions (2003)	82%
A	" ...an insane document, a slice of life that we probably should never have seen. But now that we have seen it, it's too late to deny its crippling poignancy..." Posted Jan 2, 2005	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)	97%
A	" ... a postmodern noir that relies as much on audience complicity as the cleverness of the scam." Posted Aug 25, 2004	The Cooler (2003)	77%
A+	" [O]ne of those rare pure examples of the highest form of collaborative art ... It is as sweet and hurtful as life itself." Posted Mar 11, 2004	21 Grams (2003)	82%
A	" ...it would be a mistake to dismiss Duvall�s career behind the camera as a rich character actor�s hobby." Posted May 26, 2003	Assassination Tango (2003)	48%
A	" ...one cannot help but be impressed by the economy and power with which LaBute frames his argument." Posted May 23, 2003	The Shape of Things (2003)	65%
A	" ...it is difficult to criticize any movie that can sound the human heart so sure and well." Posted May 12, 2003	All the Real Girls (2003)	71%
A	" A product of inestimable patience, the elegant and controlled Spider requires and rewards the same. It is a story of re-entry, following the downward fluttering trajectory of an ordinary, pitiable monster ..." Posted May 5, 2003	Spider (2003)	85%
A	" It is certainly one of the best movies of the year; it may even be as good as Meirelles imagined it could be." Posted Apr 18, 2003	City of God (2003)	92%

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