ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mark Olsen

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4.5/5	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
4/5	OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
3/4	The Hip Hop Project
3.5/5	Only Human
3/5	The Babysitters
2.5/5	The Fall
2/5	One Last Ride
1.5/5	Standing Still
1/5	The Celestine Prophecy

BEST REVIEWED
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4.5/5	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	Deal
1/5	Deception
1/5	The Ruins
1/5	Ego�ste: Lotti Latrous
1/5	Kickin' It Old Skool
1/5	What Love Is
1/5	The Hitcher
1/5	The Celestine Prophecy
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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3.5/5	"A surprisingly delicate, quietly emotional documentary look at the experiences of one Indian family that immigrated to England in the 1960s." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 15, 2008	I for India (2007)	100%
2.5/5	"For a film that wants to present itself as extravagantly dazzling, there is something thuddingly familiar and bland in its vision." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	The Fall (2008)	57%
4/5	"A pleasant sorbet to wash away the aftertaste of the pre-summer clunkers." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)	74%
3/5	"*The film remains engaging in no small part because of the beguiling and enigmatic performance of [Katherine] Waterston, daughter of Law & Order* star Sam Waterston.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 9, 2008	The Babysitters (2008)	28%
	"The Favor is that rare film that at every turn exhibits good taste and a sense of restraint." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 5, 2008	The Favor (2008)	11%
3.5/5	"Combining contemporary interviews with Factory survivors and an astounding treasure trove of archival footage shot by Williams himself, the film is an enigmatic, atmospheric portrait of a guy apparently too nice for the notorious Warhol crowd." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)	75%
3/5	"*Gleefully brimming with body parts and bad behavior, Pathology* is a fun piece of flamboyant tastelessness.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 25, 2008	Pathology (2008)	47%
1/5	"Reynolds doesn't convey any of the lightning bolt insouciance that made him arguably the greatest movie star of the '70s and '80s (really) but rather just stands there." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deal (2008)	0%
1/5	"Deception would be laughably bad if it weren't so rotely inert." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
3/5	"Never [coalesces] into a greater portrait and tending to cancel each other out. Sometimes a story does need a star." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	The First Saturday in May (2008)	72%
2/5	"It is easy to see the film as two movies crammed together, neither of them being very good." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	Dark Matter (2008)	34%
1/5	"*Not even a fixer-upper, The Ruins* should be considered a complete tear-down.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 4, 2008	The Ruins (2008)	42%
1.5/5	"The very act of writing critically about Superhero inspires something of an existential crisis -- no one likely to turn out for it is reading this review, and anybody reading this review is probably not inclined to see it under any circumstances." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 31, 2008	Superhero Movie! (2008)	15%
2/5	"*An adaptation of one of his stage plays, Meet the Browns* gives off the distinct feeling that Perry is treading water or at the very least is content to satisfy his audience with the minimum.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 24, 2008	Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)	30%
1.5/5	"The action is rendered with such disconcertingly low light levels -- and of course there is heavy rain for the climatic sequences -- that it can be a strain to simply see what is occurring on-screen. Then again, maybe that's for the best." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 28, 2007	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)	15%
	"Director Juan Antonio Bayona and screenwriter Sergio G. S�nchez ratchet up the tension to such excruciating heights that, while you�re watching the film, your impulse is to scream out loud just to feel some sense of release." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 20, 2007	The Orphanage (2007)	85%
2.5/5	"Once the film gets mired in specifics, it begins to seem like any other Holocaust documentary and loses the sense of relevance and engagement with the now that at first makes it so intriguing." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Unknown Soldier (2006)	60%
2.5/5	"Though "Berkeley" may be based on Bobby Roth's own experiences, he filters it through a narrative framework that feels distant and impersonal..." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 12, 2007	Berkeley (2007)	33%
4/5	"Moreau and Palud play on the way our minds fill in the gaps of the unknown and the very primal fear of things going bump in the night." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 20, 2007	Them (2007)	63%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 20, 2007	Slow Burn (2000)	8%
2.5/5	"The workmanlike craftsmanship of Cain's filmmaking almost (but never quite) smooths over the ham-fisted way he conceives the story." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 30, 2007	September Dawn (2007)	13%
2/5	"Lacks the emotional anchor of other Mexican cinema." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 16, 2007	7 D�as (2007)	22%
2/5	"Things tend to sputter about, feeling disconnected and episodic." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 9, 2007	Cut Sleeve Boys (2006)	45%
2/5	"Ruscio would rather add forced narrative complications than get to the actual core of what he's tossing out there, the sacrifices made in the name of relationships, dreams dashed or discarded." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 2, 2007	Laura Smiles (2007)	47%
1/5	"The way in which [director] Anspichler lingers on those who are only moments from death, especially milking a little boy's suffering in the film's finale, is truly sickening and exploitative in the lowest sense of the word." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 1, 2007	Ego�ste: Lotti Latrous (2007)	n/a
4.5/5	"At once desperately grim and unnervingly gripping, providing an exacting sense of the detail and procedure that went into death by hanging." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 1, 2007	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007)	78%
3/5	"A mixture of archival footage, recent interviews and reenactments, the film gives a solid, if rather dry, overview of events." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 1, 2007	Six Days (2007)	63%
4/5	"Mournful and engrossing." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 11, 2007	The Short Life of Jose Antonio Guiterrez (2006)	92%
3/4	"Will the music of The Hip Hop Project album change your life? Likely, no. Did the process of making it change the lives of those involved in its creation? Undoubtedly. And that, perhaps, is inspiration enough." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 11, 2007	The Hip Hop Project (2007)	60%
2/5	"Because [director] Emory doesn't grapple fully with the issues that loom over the film, there is something soppy and soft-headed about Inlaws & Outlaws." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 4, 2007	Inlaws & Outlaws (2005)	n/a
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 4, 2007	The Prisoner (1955)	60%
1/5	"The film itself seems lost in a time warp -- even its attitude toward the '80s is out of date considering the ongoing revival in music and fashion from that era." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 30, 2007	Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)	3%
1.5/5	"Beach's storytelling tactics, much like the film as a whole, would simply be annoying if they weren't also borderline insulting." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 13, 2007	Slow Burn (2007)	12%
3/5	"... a chillingly pitch-black comedy of errors ..." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 9, 2007	The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2007)	86%
2/5	"Operation Homecoming never quite captures anything so poignant or precise, rather falling into seemingly endless variations of 'war is hell.'" -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 9, 2007	Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience (2007)	88%
1.5/5	"*Did you know that sometimes men and women see things differently when it comes to relationships? Such is the essential premise to Dating Games People Play, an entirely unnecessary romantic comedy." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 29, 2007	Dating Games People Play (2006)	n/a
1/5	"*Now and then there is something strangely right about films this defiantly wrongheaded, but What Love Is* never rises above the leaden, overbearing qualities of Callahan's dialogue and staging.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 23, 2007	What Love Is (2007)	17%
3/5	"The film's values are fairly well encoded into the story, such that it feels less like a sermon and more like a film with a good, if somewhat sappy, heart." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 8, 2007	The Ultimate Gift (2007)	32%
3/5	"It is exciting to think that someone in Perry's position is indeed challenging himself, as he could presumably coast along on tried-and-true formulas for quite some time." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 14, 2007	Daddy's Little Girls (2007)	25%
1/5	"That [original] film was intellectually engaging as well as tangibly creepy, while the new remake is just plain bad, and boring to boot." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 22, 2007	The Hitcher (2007)	20%
1.5/5	"Strangely self-serious, and without covering the prerequisites of top-shelf nastiness that contemporary horror requires, this giant crocodile movie turns out to be neither fish nor fowl." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 12, 2007	Primeval (2007)	17%
2/5	"Scotsman not only lacks vision, a true sense of how to mesh Obree's sporting triumphs and personal setbacks, but it also lacks passion. What it needs, as strange and tacky as it may sound, is a bit more madness." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 2, 2007	The Flying Scotsman (2007)	50%
4/5	"The film mixes rousing kid-friendly adventure with surprisingly savvy grown-up wit and charm." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 2, 2006	Flushed Away (2006)	74%
2/5	"*While it would like to be nimble, light-footed satire, too often Death and Texas* stumbles on its own earnestness, wearing cement shoes when it should be tap-dancing.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Nov 2, 2006	Death & Texas (2004)	71%
3.5/5	"*Rather than the escalating gross-out spectacular it could have been, Sleeping Dogs Lie* is an unexpectedly thoughtful look at what it takes to make relationships work.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Oct 19, 2006	Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)	63%
3/5	"*It's not a good film by any practical standard, but The Marine* is bad in just the right way, a mindless throwaway that's at least smart enough not to take itself too seriously.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Oct 16, 2006	The Marine (2006)	21%
2/5	"The film is forever trying to balance between being for younger teenagers and keeping their parents occupied as well, and never quite gets it right." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 12, 2006	Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)	33%
4/5	"Arguably the most vital and eye-opening documentary yet made regarding the United States' current military entanglement." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 12, 2006	The War Tapes (2006)	98%
3.5/5	"Its sexual provocations aside, the film works best as an idealized portrait of a specific time and place, a hipster bohemia where everyone struggles to find meaning in the everyday acts of living." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 5, 2006	Shortbus (2006)	65%
2/5	"This may be a just-for-fun comedy, but that shouldn't mean that it must entirely disconnect from the world." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 5, 2006	Employee of the Month (2006)	21%

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