ROTTEN TOMATOES: John Beifuss

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
----------------------------------

4/4	In the Shadow of the Moon
3.5/4	3:10 to Yuma
3/4	Hatchet
2.5/4	In the Valley of Elah
2/4	Vitus
1.5/4	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
1/4	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
0.5/4	The Bucket List
0/4	The Strangers

BEST REVIEWED
----------------------------------

4/4	The Dark Knight
4/4	WALL-E
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
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
----------------------------------

0/4	The Strangers
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
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% 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 913) Next** »

Sort by RATING	Sort by ADD DATE (default)	Sort by TITLE \| YEAR	Sort by T-METER
1.5/4	"Will Ferrell isn't yet as irrelevant as Mike 'The Love Guru' Myers or Eddie 'Meet Dave' Murphy, but it's telling that when Seth Rogen makes a brief cameo appearance here, he seems to be doing the much more famous Ferrell a favor." Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	52%
2/4	"Shot on location in Greece, but the way Meryl Streep tears through the scenery, you'd think she was in a giant reptile suit on the back lot at Toho." Posted Jul 25, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
2/4	"I realized the movie had lost me when it occurred to me that after spending many minutes with Phillip and Erik, I had no interest in reading any novel that either of them might have written." Posted Jul 25, 2008	Reprise (2008)	88%
3.5/4	"Del Toro's compositions are dense with effects and background creatures, and he clearly sympathizes with the misfits and monsters who are weary of humankind's greed and ecological destructiveness; yet the movie is light on its feet and generous of spirit." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
4/4	"A drama about hard moral choices, 'The Dark Knight' is 'The Godfather' of superhero movies -- or, at least, 'The Departed.'" Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
3/4	"In 3D, it's a knockout -- you'll think you've experienced the greatest tooth-brushing scene in movie history." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
3/4	"Provides one of the year's more memorable movie moments: a simple shot of a barn, overlaid with both the soothing crooning of a Gilbert Becaud pop song and the terrified squeals of a hog being slaughtered." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
3/4	"A more enjoyable saga of girl power than Breslin's highly touted followup vehicle, 'Kit Kittredge.'" Posted Jul 11, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	49%
3/4	"The inner-city melodrama is as sticky as ever, but the downhome Georgia comedy is genuinely funny." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)	31%
2.5/4	"Fatally compromised (but) ambitious and clever... It reminds us of the way majority America treats black men in particular, with a humiliating mistrust that's never far behind the admiration expressed for those who 'earn' approval through their talents..." Posted Jul 7, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
2.5/4	"The movie would be more interesting if it weren't photographed in the amber glow we associate with Kodak commercials and other happily-ever-after exercises in nostalgia." Posted Jul 7, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	80%
3/4	"Its anti-cynical faith in the value of altruism is encouraging." Posted Jul 7, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	26%
1.5/4	"The intended show-stopper: a singalong of 'Double Dutch Bus' with a busload of Japanese tourists." Posted Jul 7, 2008	College Road Trip (2008)	14%
4/4	"Pixar's boldness has advanced with its achievements in special effects. The opening act of 'WALL-E' is as melancholy as the Ray Bradbury short story, 'There Will Come Soft Rains'..." Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
3/4	"Criticizing Timur Bekmambetov for overkill is like dismissing Alfred Hitchcock for being fat." Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
3/4	"Probably the only movie you'll ever see that opens in '1192 -- Year of the Black Rat.'" Posted Jun 27, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
2/4	"Is this a trial balloon for a new comedy franchise or for Myers' post-movie stardom career as the next Dr. Phil?" Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	15%
2/4	"A movie without a context, as useless as a shoe phone in an iPhone era." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
2/4	"Shyamalan's ideas might have more impact in a half-hour 'Twilight Zone' episode, where they would be shorn of some of the pretensions that seem to be mandatory in the feature-length work of a one-time Best Director Oscar nominee." Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
3/4	"Contains a property-damaging clash-of-the-titans free-for-all of such intensity that in the pre-computer effects era it could have been visualized only in a cartoon or a comic book." Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
3.5/4	"The most visually stunning cartoon yet from DreamWorks..." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
2/4	"Marred by the dull performance of the movie's pinup-ready title swashbuckler and the relative charmlessness of the English schoolchildren (the Hogwarts Sorting Hat would have kicked these kids to the curb)." Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
1.5/4	"As pretty and bland as its lead actors." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Shutter (2008)	7%
3.5/4	"Errol Morris has become the Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese of documentary filmmaking, with all the positives and negatives that rather facile comparison implies." Posted Jun 17, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
0/4	"Offers no more enlightenment or catharsis than a drugged insect could expect in the moment before it is skewered by a lepidopterist's pin." Posted Jun 17, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
1.5/4	"May not do much for its director's resume, but it certainly must have filled out his passport." Posted Jun 17, 2008	The Fall (2008)	53%
3.5/4	"The long, go-for-broke opening sequence in the Nevada desert is a triumph that announces that Spielberg and Indiana Jones are not just an explosive combination, they're positively atomic." Posted May 23, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
1.5/4	"As unhealthy-looking as a Dust Bowl migrant in a Dorothea Lange portrait, Hunt appears to have wandered onto the set in hopes of finding something to chew." Posted May 23, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	54%
3/4	"A funny, worthy film that -- unlike Sylvester Stallone's one-man army -- loses focus before it completes its mission." Posted May 23, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
2/4	"Worth seeing only for the mysterious adhesion process of Tautou's dresses and for Gilles Henry's glossy cinematography, which treats the luxurious Monte Carlo and Nice locations the way a tongue treats a lollipop." Posted May 23, 2008	Priceless (2008)	83%
3/4	"Gripping, but would have more impact if it had been staged -- like Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book' -- in the straightforward manner of a classic Hollywood suspense film." Posted May 23, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
1.5/4	"Absurd second installment in the Indiana Jones-for-idiots franchise..." Posted May 20, 2008	National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)	31%
3/4	"Beautifully acted and staged, but at odds with itself: the emphasis is not on the 'visitors' but on the uptight professor, who experiences a spiritual rebirth thanks to the life-affirming presence of his new Third World friends..." Posted May 20, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
3/4	"The 'Saturday Night Live' veterans make a great team..." Posted May 20, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
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)	36%
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)	54%
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)	71%
2/4	"A 'Carnival of Souls' for Mitch Albom readers..." Posted May 9, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
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)	63%
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)	67%
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)	8%
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)	85%
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)	85%
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)	73%
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)	74%
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)	57%
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)	47%

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 913) 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

RT Spotlights