ROTTEN TOMATOES: Sid Smith - Rotten Tomatoes

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Ballets Russes
3.5/4	Alfie
3/4	Open Water
2.5/4	What the Bleep Do We Know?
2/4	Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
1.5/4	Without A Paddle
1.5/5	Strength and Honor
1/4	Naked Boys Singing
Sid Smith	Introducing The Dwights
2	Revolver

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Last Year at Marienbad
4/4	Ballets Russes
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/4	Naked Boys Singing
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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2.5/4	"For various reasons, many of the subjects are interviewed with their faces blurred or hidden, understandably preserving anonymity but maintaining a distance that's unfortunate." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2008	Jihad for Love (2008)	81%
3/4	"CSNY: D�j� Vu brings back glimmers of the old glory and touchingly suggests that the body may age, but the spirit of the Woodstock nation endures." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2008	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	66%
2/4	"*French cinema's reputation for subtlety goes up in smoke with OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies,* a movie whose satire proves as lame as its clunky title.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jun 26, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)	78%
3/4	"The unorthodox upbringing of the Paskowitz clan is the subject of Surfwise, the story of a family who lived on the road, camped at the beachfront and fashioned its own vanguard version of 1960s-'70s alternative lifestyles." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 19, 2008	Surfwise (2008)	100%
3.5/4	"There are fascinating archival clips that show rare glimpses of early years of struggle behind the Iron Curtain, while the story eventually moves through such momentous footage as the Helsinki Accords and the fall of the Berlin Wall." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 19, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	94%
3.5/4	"The catharsis here is all the more moving because of what wasn�t finished, what remained unsaid and what in the answer to the title�s question proves unknowable." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 13, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	73%
3/4	"Fugitive Pieces is often quiet, lyrical, reflective and underplayed. It doesn't minimize Holocaust suffering--far from it--but it strives, often successfully, to unearth the innate good in people Anne Frank alluded to so eloquently." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 13, 2008	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	69%
3/4	"The disturbing, embarrassing domestic moments and conflicts are quirky, slightly weird, and yet they boast the shock of recognition because they're so true to the strife in every family." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 12, 2008	This Is My Father (1999)	76%
3/4	"Lelouch's deft touch with various cinematic styles, however surface, enables him to interweave pastoral elegy, quirky social comedy and thriller with fluid ease." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 22, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
3/4	"Irina Palm is saddled with an odd title, an outlandish plot and an unlikely star--notorious rock maven Marianne Faithfull cast as a suburban frump. But it turns out a success" -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 15, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	72%
4/4	"To even talk of a story is nonsensical, since a central aesthetic of the film involves the effects of fantasy, time and subjective memory on human consciousness. Marienbad takes place in a heightened, sci-fi nightmare world where knowing, believing" -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 1, 2008	Last Year at Marienbad (1961)	93%
3/4	"There's a gentle realism that makes room for laughs, drama and the slightest touch of farce, never spilling into the comically cheap and managing to explore subtler issues involving adoption" -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 1, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	54%
2/4	"It's too clever by half, too facile in its use of sensationalist headline material, too far-fetched in its psychological fancy." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 24, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
3/4	"*The fey illogic in the title of My Brother is an Only Child* hints at the style of this funny-sad film, which flips from dark to light moods and back with suave, unpredictable dexterity.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Apr 10, 2008	My Brother is an Only Child (2006)	85%
2.5/4	"Shelter may only be shoreline deep, and its ending fanciful, but the film captures the beauty, thrill and ache of young love and extracts a casual joy out of the process." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 3, 2008	Shelter (2008)	50%
2/4	"There's too little clarity or thoroughness in the biographies, too few prolonged scenes of the girls creating their songs." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 6, 2008	Girls Rock (2004)	n/a
3/4	"Morgen's best achievement is the news footage, more detailed looks at events outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel and in Chicago parks than you typically see on TV rehashes." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 28, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	76%
2/4	"Summer Love is fraught with feverish moods, bold imagination and a devilishly complicated exploration of the genre's iconography. It is also maddeningly paced, often like watching paint dry, albeit paint that's the garish tones of buckets of blood." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 21, 2008	Dead Man's Bounty (2007)	38%
	"The movie makes its main point. Wagstaff was an important, complex, fascinating figure, well worth remembering." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 14, 2008	Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)	77%
2/4	"**Fool's Gold is a movie that keeps reminding you of its antecedents, all the way back to 1984 and the comic adventure Romancing the Stone.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Feb 7, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
3/4	"The delight stems from the quartet of lesser known comics Vaughn chose to place at the movie's center, as well as the unpretentious way we learn so much about them--their motives, pains, struggles and revealing ethnic and class backgrounds." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 7, 2008	Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)	57%
3/4	"Sheds light on particular wartime atrocities largely neglected in the collective memory." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 1, 2008	Nanking (2007)	98%
2/4	"*A manipulative look at dying with dignity and a lame yarn about as realistic as the fantasy in The Princess Bride." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	42%
2/4	"Its odd clash of shifting sensibilities is just as often wearisome as engaging." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 4, 2008	Zebraman (2004)	46%
3/4	"Honest, sincere, blunt and yet provocative in its look at ordinary marriage, friendship and betrayal." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 3, 2008	Fireworks Wednesday (2008)	n/a
2	"Not the disaster described in the British press but unlikely to restore Ritchie�s luster." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 17, 2007	Revolver (2007)	16%
2/4	"The problem with the film is that it makes for better journalism than cinema." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 14, 2007	Meeting Resistance (2007)	76%
1.5/5	"Relentlessly dismal and dismally predictable." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 7, 2007	Strength and Honor (2007)	7%
2/4	"It's an unabashed feel-good weeper, and those eager for that type of fare might as well settle for this one. But an equal number will be put off by the bad dialogue, transparent manipulation and saccharine overkill." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 20, 2007	August Rush (2007)	38%
1/4	"Naked Boys live are a hoot. Frozen on celluloid, they're tacky." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 15, 2007	Naked Boys Singing (2007)	64%
2.5/4	"Fred Claus seems a clever installment, not a seasonal classic, a buffet whose many nibbles you sample, move on and quickly forget." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 8, 2007	Fred Claus (2007)	22%
2/4	"Carter comes off as compassionate and intelligent. But the complex issues brought up in his book don't get much more than a superficial debate." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 1, 2007	Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)	79%
2/4	"Slipstream is bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 25, 2007	Slipstream (2007)	24%
3/4	"*It gorgeously recalls Fellini and Koyaanisqatsi* and hauntingly pits ancient tradition against science, oppression and industrial rot.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Oct 18, 2007	Khadak (2006)	64%
3/4	"Chop off a star if you're not up for highly experimental cinema." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 18, 2007	Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)	66%
2.5/4	"*Despite its admirable qualities, Canvas* fizzles and falls into cliche.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Oct 11, 2007	Canvas (2007)	75%
3/4	"*I�ve no clue how the world will take to I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With. For Chicago, it�s a scrumptious, four-star banquet." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Oct 4, 2007	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007)	74%
2.5/4	"The Kingdom has a heart and a viewpoint. It's a thrill ride with a lingering thought or two in its wake. But the explosions, breakneck chases, daredevil escapes and predictability about which side will be victorious remain its foremost mission." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 28, 2007	The Kingdom (2007)	51%
2/4	"Dedication is engaging for a while, but flits from style to style, from dark to loopy comedy, only to settle on gooey romance." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 20, 2007	Dedication (2007)	41%
2/4	"Juvenile viewers may well benefit from the movie. But, for the adult, it�s ultimately a film that arrives too early for the season in its title and too late in terms of style and impact." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 20, 2007	December Boys (2007)	42%
3/4	"Vanaja, a film exploring the tensions of the caste system in contemporary rural India, boasts a compelling story on-screen and off." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 13, 2007	Vanaja (2007)	78%
3/4	"Dans Paris is limned with human stumbling, snatches of temporary joy laced with existential disquiet and the desperation of souls at sea in a sterile universe but not to be denied grasps of pleasure." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 30, 2007	Dans Paris (2007)	60%
2/4	"Belle Toujours is doggedly inconsequential, deliberately non-eventful and blank." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 23, 2007	Belle Toujours (2006)	67%
3/4	"*It's sillier but funnier than Knocked Up, the summer's other notable comedy." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Aug 20, 2007	Death at a Funeral (2007)	62%
1.5/4	"*Despite original touches, Cut Sleeve Boys* is mostly a mediocre gay-themed movie plagued by tired humor and slapdash filmmaking.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Aug 16, 2007	Cut Sleeve Boys (2006)	45%
3/4	"*Long delayed in its release because of the summer competition, Death* arrives at last as an adult tonic in a season typically abandoned to the comic book cocktail.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Aug 16, 2007	Death at a Funeral (2007)	62%
3.5/4	"A small film that packs a big wallop." -- Metromix.com Posted Aug 9, 2007	This Is England (2007)	93%
2.5/4	"The tone of the movie...saves it from its preposterous plot." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 2, 2007	My Best Friend (2007)	75%
2/4	"There are some likable elements to this unusual, erratic, ultimately frustrating film." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 27, 2007	Vitus (2007)	64%
3/4	"*Youthful love and lust, everlasting movie topics, are back again in Cashback, a modest but engaging film that mixes hormonal surges with art-house ingenuity." -- Metromix.com* Posted Jul 19, 2007	Cashback (2007)	46%

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