ROTTEN TOMATOES: Dan Callahan

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	A Scandal in Paris
4/4	Stage Door
4.5/5	Angel Face
3.5/4	Donkey Skin
4/5	Pursued
3/4	Being Julia
3.5/5	Ten
2.5/4	East of Eden
3/5	Pepe Le Moko
2.5/5	Music Box
2/4	Mr. Skeffington
2/5	Anything Else
1.5/4	State of the Union
1.5/5	Sylvia
1/4	Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood
1/5	Merci Docteur Rey!
0/4	The Oh in Ohio

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	A Farewell to Arms
4/4	Seventh Heaven
4/4	History is Made at Night
4/4	Lifeboat
4/4	Story of a Love Affair
4/4	Top Hat
4/4	Swing Time
4/4	Rebel Without a Cause
5/5	The Pumpkin Eater
5/5	Tokyo Story
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	The Oh in Ohio
1/5	Merci Docteur Rey!
1/4	Mamma Mia!
1/4	The Sisters
1/4	Giant
1/4	Monster-in-Law
1/4	Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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2.5/4	"This new Brideshead takes a step in the right direction, but it's time some radical writer or filmmaker dared to leave out the dim Julia charade and let Charles and Sebastian play out their Isherwood/Auden Oxford love match to its full." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 21, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	70%
1/4	"*This film version of Mamma Mia!* is such a full-scale disaster in every way that it's hard to know what has held theatergoers' attention for so long.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jul 13, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
	"Only for Jacques Demy completists, and the stray Donovan devotee." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2008	The Pied Piper (1972)	33%
2/4	"*Jacques Demy's version of The Pied Piper* is as distanced and uncertain as his masterpiece The Young Girls of Rochefort is ecstatically sure of itself.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 7, 2008	The Pied Piper (1972)	33%
	"A heartfelt but unsuccessful film that could have been much better with a more variegated point of view." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	The Fire Within (1963)	90%
2/4	"*To be frank, Fire Within* devastated me when I saw it in college, but the unrelieved ennui that struck me as scrupulously honest and brave then looks one-note and aimless to me now.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted May 5, 2008	The Fire Within (1963)	90%
	"Jeanne Moreau at her "If it feels good, do it" best." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	The Lovers (1958)	100%
2.5/4	"This film is nowhere close to Ophuls's landmark, but it did inaugurate Moreau's extraordinary run of '60s art films in high style." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	The Lovers (1958)	100%
	"Ultimately disappointing, but Davis gives Mary Poppins a run for her money." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008	The Nanny (1965)	89%
2.5/4	"A rather quiet, cautious thriller that gives Davis more room for characterization than most of her later films." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008	The Nanny (1965)	89%
	"Standard costume fare enlivened by Bette Davis's fuming and growling." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008	The Virgin Queen (1955)	n/a
2/4	"*Henry Koster's direction is competent, for him, but Franz Waxman's music is no substitute for Erick Wolfgang Korngold's classic score for Elizabeth and Essex." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 31, 2008	The Virgin Queen (1955)	n/a
	"A great Preminger movie and a solid DVD overall." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2008	Daisy Kenyon (1947)	n/a
3.5/4	"*Fairly recently, Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon* has been starting to get some of the acclaim and attention it deserves.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 11, 2008	Daisy Kenyon (1947)	n/a
	"Iffy but interesting early Pacino that rewards another look." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 9, 2008	Bobby Deerfield (1977)	22%
2.5/4	"Pacino is at his best: precise, internal, magnetically cute, and expert at capturing the fear in this man's turtle-like existence and his longing for change." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 9, 2008	Bobby Deerfield (1977)	22%
	"An essential set of big-ticket Joan Crawford films." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 14, 2008	Joan Crawford Collection Vol. 2 ()	n/a
	"*Not only the finest work by Albert Finney and Diane Keaton and a major, unwieldy film about breaking up, Shoot the Moon* is also Tina Yothers's finest hour.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Nov 25, 2007	Shoot the Moon (1981)	100%
3/4	"Parker and Goldman seem to want this battling couple to represent a sort of romantic '60s point of view, and they show up the younger lovers as shallow, '70s-style hedonists." -- Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2007	Shoot the Moon (1981)	100%
	"A prime object of study for Susan Hayward scholars." -- Slant Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2007	I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)	n/a
2.5/4	"In the '40s, Hayward had a distinctive and rather bitchy sex appeal and clear hunger for stardom that gave way in the '50s to a weary but still authoritative command of frank self-pity and tough-broad defiance." -- Slant Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2007	I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)	n/a
3.5/4	"We Own the Night confirms James Gray's position as a major American film director." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2007	We Own The Night (2007)	54%
3.5/4	"*A fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven* is probably John M. Stahl's best-known film.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 18, 2007	Leave Her to Heaven (1945)	100%
	"A fine disc of a strange film." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2007	The Pirate (1948)	73%
3/4	"The Pirate takes place in some Caribbean of the mind, with lots of shadows and lace and high mantillas, and it's all about the promise of sex; the film keeps tapping into a nervous, adolescent sort of fear and desire." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2007	The Pirate (1948)	73%
	"A solid disc that does justice to this Cocteau/Melville puzzler." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2007	Les Enfants Terribles (1950)	75%
3/4	"Les Enfants Terribles is very much a fantasy, an accumulation of suggestive, slightly obscure visual details, offset somewhat by Cocteau's too-literary, over-explicit narration." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2007	Les Enfants Terribles (1950)	75%
	"It's worth watching once for Fonda and Bridges." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2007	The Morning After (1986)	73%
2/4	"Sidney Lumet directs wearily; as a thriller, it's full of holes." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2007	The Morning After (1986)	73%
3.5/4	"*Edith Piaf's tidal emotional vulgarity and brutish commitment to the most sentimental chansons is captured accurately and even irresistibly in La Vie En Rose." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 3, 2007	La Vie En Rose (2007)	75%
	"An unexpected and very valuable DVD." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 11, 2007	China Doll (1958)	n/a
3.5/4	"China Doll is a delicate, spare, old man's movie, with quiet attention to character detail." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 11, 2007	China Doll (1958)	n/a
	"A handsome film, and a real keeper for fans of Vivien Leigh's unstable beauty." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 1, 2007	Anna Karenina (1948)	n/a
3/4	"This version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, made A.G. (After Garbo), was not a success when it was first released, and it's still a failure now, but it's an often exquisitely sumptuous misfire, all the same." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 1, 2007	Anna Karenina (1948)	n/a
	"Kicky but muddled, it's still a valuable reminder of Ross and Williams in their too-brief moment in the sun. Why doesn't someone re-team them now?" -- Slant Magazine Posted May 1, 2007	Mahogany (1975)	23%
2/4	"Even a charming last-minute happy ending can't quite redeem all the mess and unidentified dread." -- Slant Magazine Posted May 1, 2007	Mahogany (1975)	23%
1.5/4	"One more dip into the tin-eared neo-noir well." -- Slant Magazine Posted Apr 2, 2007	Lonely Hearts (2007)	50%
	"*A respectable second set, though Never Give a Sucker An Even Break* is the only one you really need to own.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 19, 2007	W.C. Fields Comedy Collection: Volume Two (Various)	n/a
2.5/4	"A cleverly written but somewhat muffled paean to sensual appetite." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2006	Venus (2006)	89%
	"A delight for Lubitsch fans, and for anyone who thinks films from the late '10s and early '20s are mainly static "turn the camera on" chores." -- Slant Magazine Posted Nov 29, 2006	The Oyster Princess/I Don't Want to Be a Man (1919-1920)	n/a
3/4	"Manic, appealing comedies that presage Lubitsch's sophisticated Hollywood period." -- Slant Magazine Posted Nov 29, 2006	The Oyster Princess/I Don't Want to Be a Man (1919-1920)	n/a
	"An interesting set for Grant completists." -- Slant Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2006	Cary Grant: Screen Legend Collection (Various)	n/a
2.5/4	"In what seems like a sequel to Birth, we are treated to endless silent close-ups of Kidman's hard, porcelain face struggling to signal girlish repression and longing for release." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2006	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	30%
	"An acceptable disc for one of Disney's best and most unheralded animated features." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2006	The Fox and the Hound (1981)	73%
3/4	"A wounded and unresolved movie free of the expected Disney cutesiness and complacency." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2006	The Fox and the Hound (1981)	73%
	"A handsome, unsatisfying DVD of a handsome, unsatisfying epic." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2006	Reds (1981)	94%
3.5/4	"Infamous is a film about flashy facades and what lies beneath them." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2006	Infamous (2006)	70%
3/4	"Reds is finally just an appealingly conventional epic movie-star romance with radical trimmings, but it contains several sharper elements that suggest the colorful period it seeks to recreate." -- Slant Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2006	Reds (1981)	94%
	"This Capra film is typical in its muddleheadedness and atypical in its poor execution." -- Slant Magazine Posted Aug 23, 2006	State of the Union (1948)	n/a
1.5/4	"*The shock of State of the Union, Capra's last movie in a political vein, is its technical sloppiness." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Aug 23, 2006	State of the Union (1948)	n/a

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