ROTTEN TOMATOES: John Beifuss

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Ratatouille
3.5/4	Crazy Love
3/4	Live Free or Die Hard
2.5/4	Transformers
2/4	Wild Hogs
1.5/4	Rush Hour 3
1/4	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
0.5/4	The Bucket List

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	There Will Be Blood
4/4	In the Shadow of the Moon
4/4	Ratatouille
4/4	Killer of Sheep
4/4	Pan's Labyrinth
4/4	The Last King of Scotland
4/4	Letters From Iwo Jima
4/4	Children of Men
4/4	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
4/4	The Departed
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Doogal
0/4	Christmas with the Kranks
0/4	The Big Bounce
0/4	Gigli
0.5/4	The Bucket List
0.5/4	Evan Almighty
0.5/4	Perfect Stranger
0.5/4	The Number 23
0.5/4	Norbit
0.5/4	Eragon
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

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3.5/4	"From the Day-Glo pop of its computer-generated environments to the '2001'-like rush of its almost abstract action climax, this may be the most extreme head-trip movie for kids since Gene Wilder conducted us to a lethal candyland in 'Willy Wonka.'" Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	35%
3.5/4	"Exciting, but the message is mixed: Stark's creation of Iron Man affirms rather than repudiates his arms race-exploiting past -- it proves once again that the one with the best weapons wins." Posted May 9, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
2.5/4	"The gross-out and gay-panic humor is overdone, but like its predecessor, the movie makes some cogent if clumsy points about racial identity." Posted May 9, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	56%
3/4	"Among its other virtues, the film reminds us that Chiwetel Ejiofor is one of the most comfortable, consistently convincing and undervalued actors in movies today." Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
2/4	"A 'Carnival of Souls' for Mitch Albom readers..." Posted May 9, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	22%
3/4	"Plenty of fun action sequences, but one wants more from a movie that contains this promising line: 'Summon the witch. The one born of wolves.'" Posted May 6, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	62%
3.5/4	"'We love you no matter what your job is,' a character tells her son. That's a love that this very humanistic if dark film asks us to extend to everybody, even those whose sins invite outrage and disgust." Posted May 6, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	68%
1.5/4	"If early slasher films, as their critics claimed, punished teens for having sex, the new 'Prom Night' punishes teens for their conspicuous consumption (stretch limos, hotel suites, and so on)." Posted Apr 21, 2008	Prom Night (2008)	9%
3.5/4	"As perfectly tailored an introduction of a new (if limited) movie star as has been seen since the golden age of the Hollywood studio system." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
3.5/4	"An utterly convincing depiction of childhood loneliness and uncertainty, in a world I'd never seen onscreen: the Orthodox Jewish community of Sao Paulo." Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)	84%
3/4	"What's stuck with me aren't the film's flaws but the success of its mission: It puts a real human face -- many human faces, in fact -- on a problem that many politicians would prefer to represent with a racist caricature." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	74%
3/4	"'Why don't you start your own band? That's a lot cooler than having a boyfriend in a band!' So says 15-year-old Laura, who makes a better pitch for the 'empowerment' aspects of the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls than do the adult counselors..." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	73%
3.5/4	"Dramatizes the notion that a person's 'burden of conscience' is not an innate reality but a malleable construct, motivated by narcissism." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Married Life (2008)	55%
3.5/4	"Like a stomach-churning human-interest sidebar to the Iraq War overview of 'No End in Sight.'" Posted Apr 11, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
2/4	"Plays like a sitcom writer's idea of a Noah Baumbach film, with characters who are amusing, intelligent and screwed-up but not as prickly or treacherous as Baumbach's." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
2/4	"Stripped of the novel's kudzu-like excess, the story loses its timeless, nightmarish, existential power and becomes another cautionary tale in which beautiful and privileged post-9/11 young people learn the world is no longer safe for Americans." Posted Apr 11, 2008	The Ruins (2008)	42%
3/4	"A flawed movie, made with sympathy and integrity..." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
2.5/4	"Katherine Heigl proves she deserves leading-lady status in this predictable but entertaining romantic comedy..." Posted Apr 11, 2008	27 Dresses (2008)	39%
2.5/4	"More vanity project than essential document of the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band in what we can presume to be the twilight of its godhood." Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
2/4	"The flirtatious banter is often clever, but 'Leatherheads' demonstrates that writing alone wasn't responsible for the head-spinning irresistibility of Howard Hawks' 'Twentieth Century' and 'His Girl Friday,' to cite two screwball-masterpiece influences." Posted Apr 4, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
3/4	"The formality and the deliberate pace suggest the influence of Laurel and Hardy and Jacques Tati..." Posted Mar 31, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
2/4	"A formulaic sisters-are-doing-it-for-themselves (and doing each other's hair) ensemble drama in the manner of 'Beauty Shop,' elevated by the novelty of its Lebanese locations and Arabic cast..." Posted Mar 31, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
2/4	"The glossiness of director Robert Luketic's staging offers reassurance even when events turn grim, as if Luketic was unable to shake the good-time vibe of his previous films..." Posted Mar 31, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
3/4	"Overcomes its occasional stumbles, thanks almost entirely to the charm of its cast..." Posted Mar 31, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
2.5/4	"Delivers the exploitation goods and then some, but it's so utterly derivative it represents a depressing step backward for Marshall..." Posted Mar 21, 2008	Doomsday (2008)	41%
2/4	"Not only is it a carbon copy, but such recent genre movies as 'Hostel' have examined the attraction of screen violence with greater immediacy and subversiveness." Posted Mar 21, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	49%
2/4	"The first film from the Judd Apatow Productions assembly line that feels like it came off an assembly line: 'Drillbit' is to Judd Apatow as 'Harry and the Hendersons' is to Steven Spielberg." Posted Mar 21, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
2.5/4	"Seuss' stories depend on an economy of line, both in their rhymes and their drawings. 'Horton,' to some extent, respects this..." Posted Mar 14, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
2/4	"Coppola was more efficiently mystical when he wasn't trying so hard." Posted Mar 14, 2008	Youth Without Youth (2007)	29%
2/4	"'A sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods,' according to the press notes; it's also a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age in which snow is referred to even by Ice Age veterans as 'the great white rain'..." Posted Mar 10, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
3/4	"Disappointing but also bracing, and it ends with the question that has motivated all Romero's work: 'Are we worth saving?'" Posted Mar 7, 2008	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	60%
2/4	"This flat-footed screwball period piece is aimed at the 'art house' crowd, which means it must take itself seriously, which means it must stop dead in its tracks to address the waste of war, and so on..." Posted Mar 7, 2008	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	76%
2.5/4	"Morelli's film is most effective at its most documentarian, when it focuses on street detail and the casual, everyday behavior of the people inside the desperate favelas." Posted Mar 7, 2008	City of Men (2008)	77%
2/4	"With its cotton-field locations, diddley-bo props and scripted nods toward blues history and mythology, 'Honeydripper' somehow feels touristy rather than authentic -- as if it were a product of research rather than passion." Posted Feb 29, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	67%
2/4	"Ferrell's character comedies spoof NASCAR, figure-skating and so on; but these films also reveal a sincere, envious love and fascination for the cultures and skills they mimic. These are wish-fulfillment movies..." Posted Feb 29, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
2.5/4	"It's easy to see why audiences have embraced this critically lambasted film: Its premise is irresistible." Posted Feb 29, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
3/4	"The monsters seem to be psychological projections as well as special-effects creations, with the scary lead ogre emerging to fill the void left by the absence of the resentful children's neglectful father." Posted Feb 22, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
2.5/4	"As the 'ironic' contrast between historic Flemish beauty and modern vulgarity and violence increases, the movie becomes overdetermined in its twist-of-fate plotting and over-reliant on thuggish humor..." Posted Feb 22, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	78%
2/4	"Movies used to boast of being 'torn from the headlines.' Now, they're torn from an electronics catalog. Who needs James Bond's Q when you've got Best Buy?" Posted Feb 22, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	37%
3.5/4	" If Charles M. Schulz's 'Peanuts' cast was transported inside 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,' the visual result might resemble this film..." Posted Feb 15, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	95%
1.5/4	"Vaughn seems to believe that bringing hundreds of F-bombs per night and such guest stars as 'the gay guy from "Wedding Crashers"' to the benighted masses that live between New York and Los Angeles is the domestic equivalent of a USO show." Posted Feb 8, 2008	Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)	56%
2/4	"May have been filmed in a new process: Pectoralscope." Posted Feb 8, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
3/4	"Like America, it's both excited by and ashamed of its bloodlust." Posted Feb 1, 2008	Rambo (2008)	33%
2/4	"Topiary folk artist and chainsaw-wielding 'plant whisperer' Pearl Fryar seems like a wonderful man, but the directors never justify the feature-length treatment they give to a story that easily would have fit into a Sunday morning Charles Kuralt segment." Posted Feb 1, 2008	A Man Named Pearl (2007)	n/a
3.5/4	"Suggests the influence of YouTube and (inevitably) 9/11, but actually belongs to the old-fashioned exploitation tradition as it uses state-of-the-art effects and ballyhoo to update B-movie subject matter for a new audience." Posted Jan 28, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
2/4	"In its re-edit, Paramount tries to hide the cultural specificity that makes the movie interesting beneath generic 'urban' camouflage." Posted Jan 28, 2008	How She Move (2008)	68%
4/4	"Those who believe America is trading blood for oil will find agreement in the film's very title, as well as in the action of prospecting and drilling, in which heavy stakes are driven into the Earth's heart to loose dark gushers..." Posted Jan 21, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	91%
3.5/4	"There is something cinematic about Bauby's situation. Like the moviegoer stuck in a seat in the dark, he can only observe the action in front of him. His comments are unheard by the people who move before his eyes and attempt to manipulate his emotions." Posted Jan 21, 2008	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
3.5/4	"Hoffman and Linney make a great comedy team, even though the movie they're in is a sometimes grim affair..." Posted Jan 21, 2008	The Savages (2007)	90%
2/4	"As Lead Belly might sing, to the tune of 'One Meat Ball': 'You get no thrills/ From One Missed Call...'" Posted Jan 21, 2008	One Missed Call (2008)	0%

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