ROTTEN TOMATOES: Allison Benedikt

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	In This World
3.5/4	So Close
3/4	Suddenly
2.5/4	This Thing of Ours
2/4	Red Betsy
1.5/4	Secondhand Lions
1/4	Love Don't Cost a Thing
.5/4	Johnson Family Vacation

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Squid and the Whale
4/4	Friday Night Lights
4/4	In This World
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WORST REVIEWED
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.5/4	The Dukes of Hazzard
.5/4	Mindhunters
.5/4	House of D
.5/4	Johnson Family Vacation
1/4	Running Scared
1/4	End of the Spear
1/4	Waiting...
1/4	A Slipping Down Life
1/4	A Thousand Clouds Of Peace
1/4	Love Don't Cost a Thing
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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	"*Short on insight and artistry, Six Days* takes a dry approach to the hottest of conflicts.*" -- Village Voice* Posted May 15, 2007	Six Days (2007)	63%
3/4	"Patchy but powerful rumination on myth, youth and man's capacity for brutality." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 18, 2006	Down in the Valley (2006)	52%
3/4	"It does a bang-up job of illuminating why many a contemporary pop icon and, online, a whole new generation of men have taken to Bettie." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 20, 2006	The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)	55%
3/4	"The film is packed with hilarious, often poignant interviews with metal luminaries." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 13, 2006	Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)	89%
3.5/4	"Feuerzeig recounts it all with clear-eyed candor, turning to Johnston's battered friends and family for insight and empathy and to Johnston's tapes and drawings for an inside look at his illness." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 13, 2006	The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006)	87%
2/4	"The mystery feels elementary and his characters, though compelling as sketches, remain one-dimensional from the first to the last good-looking frame." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 7, 2006	Brick (2006)	78%
3.5/4	"A class-conscious L.A. tale of four best friends and the men who love (and hurt) them." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 6, 2006	Friends With Money (2006)	71%
2/4	"*As visually stunning as it is, DR9* is also more than two hours and contains, at best, 10 lines of dialogue, an ear-piercing Bjork score and no discernible plot.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Apr 6, 2006	Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)	57%
1.5/4	"Adam & Steve is a mostly bland, sporadically crude, by-the-numbers romantic comedy about two gay men in love." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 30, 2006	Adam & Steve (2006)	54%
2.5/4	"*Like most media these days, ATL* feels like the product of video-on-demand-era focus groups, which means that it's entertaining, but not smart.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 30, 2006	ATL (2006)	63%
2.5/4	"*As you can imagine, sticking a girl dressed up as a boy into a dorm with hunky boys lusting for girls is the stuff of comic mix-ups, and in She's the Man,* we have plenty.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 17, 2006	She's The Man (2006)	44%
3/4	"Though problematic, repetitive and stylistically rough, the film raises intriguing questions, the most compelling of which is, does our memory determine who we are?" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 11, 2006	Unknown White Male (2005)	73%
2.5/4	"Midway through, Rapp loses momentum, failing to hone in on just what kind of movie he wants to make, and Winter Passing languishes in that no-man's land between tiny, meandering, indie drama and plotted, pointed family melodrama." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 11, 2006	Winter Passing (2006)	41%
2/4	"In the end it's not the predictable action but the lack of chemistry and camaraderie that sinks 16 Blocks." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 3, 2006	16 Blocks (2006)	56%
3.5/4	"...an uplifting, funny and engaging star-studded affair." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 3, 2006	Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)	92%
1/4	"There's clearly supposed to be tension between Joey's good and bad sides. Sure, he's a mobster, but he's also a family man, which makes him... gray. (Not black and white = very sophisticated.)" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 24, 2006	Running Scared (2006)	40%
2/4	"It's not exactly a good time at the movies, and even as pure education, it's a rather dull film with very little dialogue." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 24, 2006	Workingman's Death (2006)	73%
2/4	"Jarecki seems to have had his answers before asking the questions. He's a master at filtering, at choosing the best quotes to bolster his argument and at connecting dots that, perhaps, shouldn't be." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 17, 2006	Why We Fight (2006)	79%
2.5/4	"Eight Below is the Brian's Song of dog movies: schmaltzy, feel-goody, inspired-by-a-true-story-y. It's formulaic and frequently over the top, 30 minutes too long and altogether too slow." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 17, 2006	Eight Below (2006)	71%
1.5/4	"I guess there's something progressive going on when a lesbian love story gets to be just as dreadful and tacky as most straight ones." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 4, 2006	Imagine Me & You (2006)	31%
1/4	"End of the Spear is a childish and visually repetitive movie, ham-fisted, proselytizing and overtly simplified." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 19, 2006	End of the Spear (2006)	41%
2/4	"Mindless, predictable and mildly entertaining." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 12, 2006	Tristan & Isolde (2006)	32%
3/4	"Funny and touching." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 5, 2006	The Matador (2005)	75%
3/4	"It's a pleasure to let the Allenisms wash over you, ever so slightly disguised in the form of a taut dramatic thriller but never diluted." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 5, 2006	Match Point (2005)	77%
3/4	"[An] easygoing but surprisingly likable comedy." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 27, 2005	Rumor Has It... (2005)	19%
2.5/4	"Do we need another handsome, well-assembled, entertaining movie to prove that we all bleed red?" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 22, 2005	Munich (2005)	77%
2/4	"It's inoffensive material with few laughs and even fewer jabs. And when the end credits thank guys such as Jeffrey Skilling and Bernie Ebbers, you'll swear it should be the other way around." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 20, 2005	Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)	29%
2/4	"The Family Stone aims to please, and lands precisely on so-so." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 15, 2005	The Family Stone (2005)	53%
1.5/4	"Purporting to look at the roots of modern-day anti-Semitism, Levin only has eyes for a well-worn checklist of Jew-haters and oppressors, his shoddy search for answers turning up not a single one." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 8, 2005	Protocols of Zion (2005)	69%
1.5/4	"*With its schmaltzy romance, slapdash mistaken identity and heartwarming finale, Christmas in the Clouds* belongs on 'Lifetime.'*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Dec 6, 2005	Christmas in the Clouds (2005)	69%
2/4	"Even with young talent, director Roger Kumble and writer Adam Davis rely way too heavily (no pun intended) on the fat-suit joke and titular impasse." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 22, 2005	Just Friends (2005)	43%
3/4	"Silverman throws her carefully crafted persona a proper, and hilarious, coming-out party." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 10, 2005	Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)	64%
1.5/4	"*So, we've got spelling bees, Kabbalah, Tikkun Olam, Hare Krishna and robbery -- and yet Bee Season* is completely vacant.*" -- Metromix.com* Posted Nov 10, 2005	Bee Season (2005)	42%
2.5/4	"*In the vast world of ludicrous plots, and the vaster world of ludicrous plots for thrillers starring handsome celebrities, Derailed* rings almost logical.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Nov 10, 2005	Derailed (2005)	20%
2.5/4	"A good, not great movie." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 3, 2005	Jarhead (2005)	60%
4/4	"Baumbach captures a crisis in one family's life that, though it shakes the foundation, leaves all four Berkmans drifting toward highs and lows unknown, each of them only dimly aware that, no matter what the movies tell us, we never really come of age." -- Metromix.com Posted Nov 3, 2005	The Squid and the Whale (2005)	94%
1.5/4	"The filmmakers are going for something operatic here with their mix of love and loss, rap and race. They miss. By a lot." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 27, 2005	G (2002)	28%
2/4	"[Director Tony] Scott and screenwriter Richard Kelly turn Domino's life upside down, mixing tiny parts fact with heaping, heaving sums of fiction. But with a real-life story like Domino's, why all the fantasy?" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 13, 2005	Domino (2005)	19%
1/4	"*Remember Office Space, with Jennifer Aniston as a flair-wearing Chotchkie's waitress? See, writer/director Mike Judge got his chain-dining establishment just right." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Oct 6, 2005	Waiting... (2005)	31%
2.5/4	"Mad props to Peter Zuccarini, who headed the team of ocean-bound photographers and captured some remarkably vivid footage, and also to the actors, who spend plenty of time looking cool, calm and collected swimming with the predatory fishes." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 29, 2005	Into the Blue (2005)	22%
2/4	"*For all its flying cats with rainbow wings and navigational library books, MirrorMask* barely has a story, its talent and vision focused entirely on its singular dreamworld facade.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Sep 29, 2005	MirrorMask (2005)	51%
2.5/4	"Every novel cannot be a movie, and this one should not have been." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 22, 2005	Everything is Illuminated (2005)	67%
3/4	"Cronenberg crafts a remarkably interesting thriller, with suspense that is less about what's coming around the corner--often, we know--and more about Tom's slow transformation in the face of terror." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 22, 2005	A History of Violence (2005)	87%
1.5/4	"Just Like Heaven is a huge waste of talent (Witherspoon's) and time (ours), a supernatural romantic comedy that is neither romantic, comedic, super or natural." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 15, 2005	Just Like Heaven (2005)	57%
1.5/4	"*Everyone seems to be playing someone else in Allan Mindel's full-of-potential, slight-of-script Milwaukee, Minnesota." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Sep 8, 2005	Milwaukee, Minnesota (2005)	39%
2/4	"Michael Showalter is a funny man, but � how to put this gently � not a funny movie star." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 8, 2005	The Baxter (2005)	30%
2.5/4	"An expertly blended mix of live music and real sex." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 26, 2005	9 Songs (2005)	25%
2/4	"*If you're not careful, A Tout De Suite--Benoit Jacquot's ode to the French New Wave, infused with his love of American crime classics 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Badlands'--will fool you." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Aug 25, 2005	A Tout de Suite (2005)	70%
3.5/4	"The answer is, unequivocally, yes. Yes, Steve Carell can carry a movie." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 19, 2005	The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)	84%
3/4	"The movie here is Treadwell's footage -- some of it beautiful, much of it difficult to watch." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 11, 2005	Grizzly Man (2005)	93%

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