ROTTEN TOMATOES: John Patterson

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

FRESH SAMPLE
----------------------------------

	The Color of Pomegranates
	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
	Unconscious
	Fuck
	Vajra Sky Over Tibet
	Princesas
	Queens (aka Reinas)
	Sisters in Law
	RV
	Wolf Creek
	more...

ROTTEN SAMPLE
----------------------------------

	Greg and Gentillon
	Stoned
	Firewall
	Get Rich or Die Tryin'
	Into the Blue
	Flightplan
	The Man
	Chaos
	Must Love Dogs
	Union Square
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Genre: # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Results for All Genres ...	*(1-50* of 80) Next** »

Sort by RATING	Sort by ADD DATE (default)	Sort by TITLE \| YEAR	Sort by T-METER
	"A madly beautiful, often straight-up-bonkers meditation on the life of its eponymous Armenian-Azeri balladeer and poet." Posted Feb 21, 2008	The Color of Pomegranates (1969)	80%
	"Shadows was a leap in the dark like none other in Soviet film history, and a slap in the face of the officially sanctioned and artistically vacuous school of Socialist Realism." Posted Feb 21, 2008	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)	100%
	"*Laboring in the wide shadow of Almod�var and lacking much in the way of visual distinction, Unconscious* compensates with its cast�s full-tilt commitment to rip-snorting farce.*" Posted Apr 12, 2007*	Unconscious (2007)	85%
	"Profound and joyously silly at the same time, Steve Anderson�s documentary about our most potent secular blasphemy comes at the word and subject from every conceivable angle: Its awesome power to offend the listener and to empower its utterer." Posted Nov 9, 2006	Fuck (2006)	56%
	"Sending two faux-provincial innocents into real-life situations involving levelheaded, genially imperturbable Canadians offers only the mildest kind of comedy." Posted Oct 26, 2006	Greg and Gentillon (2006)	n/a
	"A tonic for Buddhists, no doubt, it offers many pleasures to atheists as well." Posted Sep 7, 2006	Vajra Sky Over Tibet (2006)	55%
	"Aranoa's film is a small miracle of controlled empathy." Posted Aug 31, 2006	Princesas (2006)	74%
	"This enormously likable comedy is given an additional boost by the energetic presence of five of Spain�s favorite actresses (including sleek Marisa Paredes, flighty Mercedes Sanpietro and growlin� Carmen Maura, an Almod�var regular)." Posted Aug 24, 2006	Queens (aka Reinas) (2006)	43%
	"Inspirational stuff, and often hysterical to boot." Posted Jul 6, 2006	Sisters in Law (2006)	90%
	"In RV, the downwardly spiraling career trajectories of Robin Williams and director Barry Sonnenfeld intertwine like the ropes of a tangled parachute." Posted May 2, 2006	RV (2006)	23%
	"This half-forgotten �60s controversy can�t sustain a whole movie, so director Steven Woolley and writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade pad things out." Posted Mar 23, 2006	Stoned (2006)	15%
	"*Had Loncraine done a better job of plundering his own oeuvre, Firewall* might have acquired the mojo it so sorely lacks.*" Posted Feb 9, 2006*	Firewall (2006)	19%
	"Consummately well-crafted, unapologetically vicious and leavened with moments of humor that merely intensify the horror." Posted Dec 22, 2005	Wolf Creek (2005)	53%
	"Even more problematic is the script�s clumsy, sprawling architecture, Sheridan�s clubfooted sense of pacing and his grubby, indistinct visuals." Posted Nov 10, 2005	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)	17%
	"A harrowing and often nauseating compendium of battle-zone confessions that was cast into obscurity almost immediately upon release in 1972." Posted Nov 3, 2005	Winter Soldier (1972)	100%
	"Crowe�s undeniable gifts -- his well-crafted individual scenes and his love for his characters -- are more evident here than his flaws." Posted Oct 13, 2005	Elizabethtown (2005)	28%
	"Some narrative economy could have shaved 20 minutes off the film�s slackly paced two hours and brought us sooner to its memorably frenetic underwater climax -- a payoff that�s finally too little, too late to save the movie." Posted Sep 29, 2005	Into the Blue (2005)	22%
	"*The vanished child one really misses here is that adorably sparky, wised-up kid from Bugsy Malone* and Alice Doesn�t Live Here Any More.*" Posted Sep 24, 2005*	Flightplan (2005)	38%
1/5	"When a movie's comedic zenith is Levy farting in an elevator full of nuns, or nerdily intoning the salutations 'homie' and 'bitch,' you know it�s time to storm the box office to demand restitution." Posted Sep 8, 2005	The Man (2005)	11%
	"The colors are lurid, the camera prowls relentlessly, and the lead performers are exuberant." Posted Aug 25, 2005	The Perfect Crime (2005)	84%
	"A prefatory title-card-cum-alibi suggests that the film�s extreme brutality is intended 'to educate and, perhaps, save lives,' but that�s little more than a nauseating rationalization." Posted Aug 18, 2005	Chaos (2005)	6%
	"At once over- and under-written, and peppered with tiresome coincidences and misunderstandings, Goldberg�s mechanical, joke-one, joke-two, joke-three approach to ensemble screenwriting soon betrays his TV-sitcom roots." Posted Jul 28, 2005	Must Love Dogs (2005)	35%
	"*Without a well-delineated political or social framework, Union Square* offers little that we didn't already know from, say, The Panic in Needle Park or Christiane F.*" Posted Jun 23, 2004*	Union Square (2003)	50%
	"Irish director David Caffrey and English screenwriter Jeremy Drysdale have, respectively, zero sense of pace and a tin-eared grasp of period speech, and together fail either to let us care about their characters or to create any sense of a living era." Posted Jun 17, 2004	Grand Theft Parsons (2004)	42%
	"[Anselmo's] sure-footed handling of emotional tone enables his endearing young leads to function in a sympathetic and coherent realm." Posted May 20, 2004	Stateside (2004)	24%
	"One of the richest prison movies in years." Posted May 12, 2004	Carandiru (2004)	68%
	"Yet another unfunny buppie sex comedy." Posted May 12, 2004	Breakin' All the Rules (2004)	32%
	"What's frustrating about the half-cocked comedy that follows is that it contains so many inspired moments and offers plenty of laughs, yet suffers from the lack of a unifying directorial intelligence." Posted Apr 29, 2004	Envy (2004)	6%
	"Relaxed, leisurely and unforced, exactly the way a pleasant round of golf ought to be." Posted Apr 29, 2004	Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)	27%
	"A movie of two unreconcilable halves." Posted Apr 22, 2004	Man on Fire (2004)	39%
	"The movie has a rambunctious and likable energy that compensates for its unsteady, only intermittently amusing narrative." Posted Mar 31, 2004	Shaolin Soccer (2002)	90%
	"One of the sturdier superhero movies of the last couple of years, with monsters and effects and diabolical baddies to spare, a heart as big as a house and a love story that actually gets its hooks in you." Posted Mar 31, 2004	Hellboy (2004)	79%
	"*While Eurotrip* scarcely amounts to a considered examination of transatlantic cultural differences, it sure comes through on the belly-laugh front.*" Posted Feb 26, 2004*	Eurotrip (2004)	47%
	"*The memory-loss device dimly recalls Groundhog Day, though the film's low laugh rate, occasional lachrymosity and flaccid pacing assuredly do not." Posted Feb 11, 2004*	50 First Dates (2004)	44%
	"Breathtaking stuff that freezes the toes, harrows the soul and turns the viewer's seat into a foot-wide ledge over a yawning chasm." Posted Feb 5, 2004	Touching the Void (2004)	93%
	"Hysterically funny, historically aware, politically nuanced, culturally sophisticated and productively self-critical all at the same time -- and you'll need a second viewing just to catch all the jokes." Posted Feb 5, 2004	Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)	69%
	"This undercooked high school heist movie is disfigured by flabby dialogue ... unfunny pratfalls and criminally slack pacing." Posted Jan 28, 2004	The Perfect Score (2004)	16%
	"For the first time in ages, a film makes one grateful for special effects: Indeed, it feels as if this is the very story such innovations were invented to enhance. You do, you do, you DO believe in fairies!" Posted Dec 18, 2003	Peter Pan (2003)	76%
	"Rough-hewn, improvisatory and contentedly lo-fi, the resulting documentary should prove warmly encouraging to embattled progressives of all stripes, and incidentally offers the best political date-movie of the week." Posted Nov 20, 2003	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)	98%
	"A nasty, intelligent and complex thriller." Posted Jul 9, 2003	Tattoo (2002)	74%
	"Norrington falls repeatedly into predictable fight sequences and apocalyptic explosions, drowning the few remnants of wit and subtlety under bombast and empty stylistics." Posted Jul 9, 2003	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)	16%
	"Despite the exotic visuals, Western viewers may have trouble digesting a two-and-a- half-hour epic more in the tradition of Thucydides than De Mille." Posted Jun 18, 2003	The Legend of Suriyothai (2003)	52%
	"*At 82 minutes it feels longer than Lawrence of Arabia* -- and a lot less funny.*" Posted Jun 12, 2003*	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)	10%
	"A bracingly sarcastic political comedy ... possessed of a baleful satiric eye for hypocrisy and greed, a delicious anti-clerical bent, and pitch-perfect comic timing." Posted Jun 12, 2003	La Ley De Herodes (2000)	67%
	"Often extremely funny." Posted May 22, 2003	The In-Laws (2003)	36%
	"No matter how 'real' things appear, scenarios and story arcs are relentlessly imposed upon the partay-cipants so as to finesse a narrative as crudely overdetermined and howlingly predictable as any studio-manufactured fiction." Posted May 1, 2003	The Real Cancun (2003)	35%
	"The always-watchable Bologna is the adhesive holding together this slight and gentle romantic comedy, lending it perhaps more conviction and authority than the material warrants." Posted Apr 25, 2003	Returning Mickey Stern (2005)	31%

Genre: # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Results for All Genres ...	*(1-50* of 80) Next** »

* Sort by Rating: Sort results by this critic's rating. This option is only available for critics with a rating system (4 star, letter grade, 1-10, etc.)
* Sort by T-meter: Sort results by the Tomatometer (percentage of critics recommending a certain movie)

RottenTomatoes.com