ROTTEN TOMATOES: J. R. Jones

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	The Dark Knight
	Journey to the Center of the Earth
	Hancock
	Fugitive Pieces
	The Foot Fist Way
	The Promotion
	Mister Lonely
	Constantine's Sword
	The Strangers
	The Devil Wears Prada
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	Mamma Mia!
	Wanted
	War, Inc.
	When Did You Last See Your Father?
	Reprise
	Sex and the City: The Movie
	The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
	Fat Albert
	Body of War
	Before the Rains
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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	"The year's most aggressive chick flick, with a score of irresistibly catchy ABBA tunes sweetening the dumb story like peaches in cottage cheese." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
	"Christopher Nolan's second Batman adventure is the rare blockbuster that left me engaged and thoughtful instead of bored and bummed out." Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
	"Eric Brevig, making his feature directing debut after a long career as a visual effects supervisor, lurches from one CG set piece to the next, though he's helped along by Fraser's easy comic touch." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
	"As popcorn movies go, this is fleet, funny, and even thoughtful: its central question, nicely underplayed by director Peter Berg, is why power and altruism never seem to intersect." Posted Jul 3, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
	"Timur Bekmambetov makes his U.S. debut with this big, cruel, stupid actioner about an office dweeb (James McAvoy) who gets recruited into an ancient cult of assassins." Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
	"Like so many satires in the Strangelove mold, this never comes close to working as a story, but its lampoon of U.S. imperialism and military privatization is so bracingly obnoxious I didn't really care." Posted Jun 13, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
	"Tasteful, unremarkable art-house fare, rescued from complete irrelevance by Stephen Dillane's bottled-up performance as a writer scarred by the Holocaust." Posted Jun 13, 2008	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	69%
	"This father-son drama never rises above the archetypal: its conflict will be familiar to all, its resolution a surprise to none." Posted Jun 13, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	74%
	"It plays exactly like a Will Ferrell comedy, but better, because Ferrell's not in it." Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Foot Fist Way (2008)	58%
	"Isn't as broad as its premise might suggest." Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
	"*In contrast to the grimy and occasionally grotesque Gummo* (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), this drama has a more gentle, Felliniesque feel.*" Posted May 30, 2008*	Mister Lonely (2008)	43%
	"The movie is enjoyable for its flashy surfaces--the witty editing, the narrative forecasting, the droll omniscient voice-over--but as drama it seems superficial." Posted May 30, 2008	Reprise (2008)	89%
	"The breadth of Carroll's scholarship and the depth of his religious understanding strengthen his assertion that our misadventure in Iraq is the beginning of a new holy war." Posted May 30, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	83%
	"There's nothing remotely new here, but the movie has the taut, queasy feel of an early 70s drive-in shocker: old-fashioned suspense without any guarantee of old-fashioned mercy." Posted May 30, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
	"In both its TV and movie incarnations, the empty materialism and sincere longing for love always manage to cancel each other out, leaving behind nothing but what this started out as -- a sitcom." Posted May 29, 2008	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
	"An agreeably shallow comedy." Posted May 27, 2008	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)	76%
	"As summer shoot-'em-ups go, this is pretty well executed, with plenty of macho posing and gunfire." Posted May 20, 2008	S.W.A.T. (2003)	48%
	"The Nickelodeon cartoon series about an oceanic sponge and his starfish sidekick washes onto the big screen with a tide of weak one-liners, exaggerated reactions, and vaguely nauseating gags." Posted May 20, 2008	The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004)	69%
	"At the end of this weak comedy is a strange and touching scene in which Bill Cosby and his childhood pals from Philadelphia, now elderly men, gather at the grave of Albert Robertson, the real-life inspiration for Cosby's bighearted Fat Albert." Posted May 20, 2008	Fat Albert (2004)	21%
	"Gary Baseman's Emmy-winning cartoon series arrives on the big screen in a delightful blast of bold drawing, brainy humor, and hard-charging songs." Posted May 19, 2008	Teacher's Pet (2004)	76%
	"Reasonably entertaining if utterly familiar." Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)	36%
	"[Tomas Young] deserves better treatment from the government than he's gotten as a returning veteran, and a better movie than this simpleminded indictment of every senator who voted 'yea.'" Posted May 16, 2008	Body of War (2008)	71%
	"Producer Ismail Merchant died in 2005, but Merchant Ivory's stuffy tradition of quality lives on." Posted May 16, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	45%
	"This would never have worked with anyone else but Faithfull, who gives a touching performance even as she flaunts her 40-year metamorphosis from porcelain pop diva to elderly bad girl." Posted May 16, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	72%
	"I can't imagine a better movie for children and adults to enjoy together." Posted May 9, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
	"A sour little 70s-style David Mamet play about the lies, calculations, and ice-cold politics of Hollywood." Posted May 9, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
	"The killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. marines in November 2005 is still so clouded by cover-up that the last thing anyone needs now is an improvised drama about the tragedy by UK gonzo documentarian Nick Broomfield." Posted May 7, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2008)	63%
	"This film by the masterful Errol Morris gets closer to the actual events than any of them, with probing interviews of soldiers who were involved and careful scrutiny of the hundreds of photographs retrieved from three digital cameras at the prison." Posted May 2, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
	"This adaptation of an Elinor Lipman novel is Hunt's feature directing debut, and under the circumstances she might have been wiser to give the lead role to someone else." Posted May 2, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	54%
	"Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan make an agreeable pair in this above-average comedy, another go-round for the reliable premise of longtime pals awakening to each other romantically." Posted May 2, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
	"[A] wily thriller, which revitalizes a familiar premise by turning it inside out." Posted Apr 29, 2008	Inside Man (2006)	86%
	"The jokes all revolve around weed, stereotypes, and Neil Patrick Harris; the stereotype stuff is by far the funniest." Posted Apr 28, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
	"*Reminiscent of Godard's Contempt, but writer-director Hong Sang-soo--South Korea's foremost chronicler of romantic maneuvering--is more aptly compared to Eric Rohmer for his subtle comedy." Posted Apr 25, 2008*	Woman on the Beach (2008)	88%
	"Perelman never overcomes the disjuncture of having two familiar actresses play the same grown character, and despite the endless crosscutting, the two halves settle respectively into ghoulish foreboding and murky psychological drama." Posted Apr 25, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
	"Screenwriter Edward Anderson drops the South African angle in favor of more conventional developments and has a hard time bringing this across the finish line without a number of implausibilities." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Flawless (2007)	59%
	"The video is dully and cheaply shot, but the Hennegans are lifelong racing fans with family ties to the sport, and their infatuation with the derby is infectious." Posted Apr 25, 2008	The First Saturday in May (2008)	72%
	"his drama, about the three days leading up to the murder, never overcomes its inherent ghoulishness, largely because Chapman, like so many mentally ill people, is a huge bore." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Chapter 27 (2008)	20%
	"*A product of the recent poker craze, this can't compare with the movie that helped launch it, John Dahl's tense Rounders." Posted Apr 24, 2008*	Deal (2008)	0%
	"You don't have to be a genius to find yourself several steps ahead of this helpfully titled mystery thriller." Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
	"*The script favors routine Odd Couple* gags over the sort of comic contemplation of motherhood a writer like Fey might have brought to the subject.*" Posted Apr 24, 2008*	Baby Mama (2008)	62%
	"The hero's nuclear family and kooky rural relatives are so sketchily conceived that none of the intended comedy works, and the balance of the movie is given over to one of Crowe's sugary romances." Posted Apr 22, 2008	Elizabethtown (2005)	28%
	"Be very afraid." Posted Apr 22, 2008	London (2006)	14%
	"[Richard Jenkins] gets the role of a lifetime in this powerful second film by writer-director Thomas McCarthy." Posted Apr 21, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
	"It's a little insulting to all the real reporters who've died in the field looking for hard information, not weak indie comedy." Posted Apr 21, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	35%
	"Though it's beautifully shot (and characteristically drenched in red-orange light), the characters gently bump each other away, like slow-rolling billiard balls." Posted Apr 18, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
	"The outcome is never much in doubt, but Salvadori artfully choreographs the endless table turning, and the Moroccan-born Elmaleh capitalizes on his striking resemblance to Buster Keaton with a similarly comic composure." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Priceless (2008)	83%
	"The project reeks of commercial calculation, which is just tolerable until Walker, in search of a story arc, follows two chorus members with serious illnesses into the hospital." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	88%
	"In the Apatow manner, [writer/star Jason] Segel mines a mother lode of painful personal memories for his breakup gags, and the vanity of entertainment people proves to be another rich vein." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
	"Another 'roid-raging dirty cop drama from David Ayer." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
	"The characters are credible and sharply observed and all four actors go to town." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%

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