ROTTEN TOMATOES: Anton Bitel

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Zodiac
4.5/5	Climates
4/5	Bamako
3.5/5	Not Here to be Loved
3/5	Flyboys
2.5/5	Gone
3/6	The Omen
2/5	Arthur and the Invisibles
1.5/5	The Truth About Love
1/5	Material Girls

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	The Deer Hunter
5/5	United 93
5/5	King Kong
5/5	Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films
5/5	Sunshine
5/5	Live Free or Die Hard
5/5	Keane
5/5	The Deer Hunter
5/5	Pan's Labyrinth
5/5	Beyond Hatred
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/10	National Treasure
1/10	S.W.A.T.
1/5	Material Girls
2/10	Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
2/10	Ping Pong
2/10	Duplex
2/10	Uptown Girls
2/10	Scary Movie 3
2/10	Respiro
2/10	Hollywood Homicide
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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	"Outpost is exactly what a horror film should be - while also commenting on a whole history of human barbarity and conflict that seems doomed forever to repeat itself." -- Eye for Film Posted May 15, 2008	Outpost ()	n/a
	"Here the eternal clash of water and land becomes a powerful metaphor for East and West, constantly, often violently, renegotiating their inevitable interrelationship." -- Film International Posted May 15, 2008	Silence (1971)	n/a
	"Charlie Bartlett is not terrible - but in the crowded market of teen comedies, you need to work a whole lot harder to be top of the class, or even to sit at the back with the cool kids." -- Eye for Film Posted May 14, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	53%
	"Jarmusch constructs from basic ingredients a complex of narrative symmetry and existential ennui pointing to something far more resonant than the sum of its parts." -- Eye for Film Posted May 13, 2008	Stranger Than Paradise (1984)	94%
	"this student's film is surprisingly adult about its adolescent preoccupations - and well-nigh unmissable for the Jarmusch fan." -- Eye for Film Posted May 13, 2008	Permanent Vacation (1980)	n/a
	"As riveting as it is dizzying, Schroeder's documentary thriller takes a mesmerising ad hominem approach to twentieth century terror, offering up for our judgement an advocate whose views ought to be indefensible." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 12, 2008	Terror's Advocate (2007)	84%
	"Matsushima may spend most, even all, of her time on the outside, but here the whole world has been converted into a penitentiary, and any escape is either short-lived or illusory." -- Film International Posted May 10, 2008	Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)	n/a
	"Brimming with exploitation antics, grindhouse sensibilities and, heh heh, exploding bunnies, Doomsday conjures a future thrown back to the dead-end styles and amoral excesses of the eighties - and no future could be bleaker than that." -- musicOMH.com Posted May 9, 2008	Doomsday (2008)	41%
	"*A confronting examination of human evil in all its enduring banality, Heartbeat Detector* takes a crooked path towards its bid for some straight talking.** " -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 9, 2008	Heartbeat Detector (2007)	75%
	"bears all the hallmarks of Bresson's celebrated restraint, but it also shows its age, so failing to engage that, like its protagonist, you too will (probably) find yourself just wanting it to end." -- Channel 4 Film Posted May 7, 2008	The Devil, Probably (1977)	75%
	"for all the curiosity of seeing Foster in a rare comic r�le, her neurotic, tic-afflicted, accident-prone Alexandra annoys more than she engages, which is a problem for a character who contributes so little to the actual plot apart from diversion" -- Eye for Film Posted May 1, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
	"go[es] through all the clich�d tropes of addiction, recovery and terminal illness while at the same time repeatedly subverting them." -- musicOMH.com Posted May 1, 2008	Dangerous Parking (2007)	n/a
	"Amidst all this sequel's state-of-the-art 3D visuals and technological obsessions is a quest for the human beyond (or at least within) the machine." -- Eye for Film Posted Apr 30, 2008	Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)	n/a
	"This magical realist memoir of the small men (and women) in history is a sprawling carnivalesque treat - as tall and refreshing as a tankard of Czech beer and with the same bitter aftertaste." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 30, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	100%
	"Not only will you have a pretty good idea from the start what is going to happen to all these 'characters', but, even worse, you will not care when it does. A film so soulless deserves to be confined to DVD hell." -- Eye for Film Posted Apr 22, 2008	Timber Falls (2007)	n/a
	"Chile's first martial arts movie is a cheesy trip through 1980s excess, where genre quickly gets lost in the desert. It's knowingly daft fun with a violent sting in its tail." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 22, 2008	Kiltro (2006)	n/a
3/5	"*while Death Note* may boast what is in every sense a killer concept, it's rather blandly directed, repetitive, over-explained and overlong*" -- Channel 4 Film* Posted Apr 17, 2008	Death Note (2006)	60%
	"its undeniable sense of spectacle is best appreciated on a very big screen - even if, after a full-throttle build-up, the film's final sequences seem oddly anticlimactic." -- musicOMH.com Posted Apr 17, 2008	Vexille (2007)	n/a
	"could Argento really, like his Mater Lachrymarum, be returning to bring a second reign of blood, chaos and terror to the world? Or will he, like his heroine Sarah, find himself once again wading through shit? The truth lies somewhere in between." -- Eye for Film Posted Apr 17, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	88%
	"survival horror cheap and nasty enough to get genre fans drooling - but it is also consummately crafted, heralding the welcome return of Australia's finest exploitation writer Everett De Roche." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 14, 2008	Storm Warning (2007)	n/a
2.5/5	"Simon DaVison gets the charmingly clunky look and feel of 1950s SF spot on - but he also captures the genre's more tedious shortcomings a little too accurately for the average viewer's patience to bear." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 10, 2008	Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth (2008)	11%
	"*Ultimately, Prot�g�* is a derivative mess, unable to give viewers already familiar with its influences the hit that they need.*" -- Eye for Film* Posted Apr 9, 2008	Prot�g� (2008)	n/a
	"a maddening celebration of the power of narrative to amuse, bewilder, disorient and entrap." -- Eye for Film Posted Apr 9, 2008	The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)	89%
4/5	"even as this odd couple cuts its destructive path through the social order in a story that is essentially a tragedy, they come across as idealised revolutionaries rather than deluded victims of love." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 9, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	78%
	"My Brother Is An Only Child reminisces with improbable yet affecting fondness over the adolescents behind the -isms that would shape post-war Italy." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 27, 2008	My Brother is an Only Child (2008)	90%
4.5/5	"This uncategorisable asylum-set ensemble dramedy backs up its extraordinary visual effects with a lot of heart." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 26, 2008	I'm A Cyborg (2006)	80%
4/5	"Featuring a game whose practitioners cultivate friendships rather than rivalries, in a time and a place where conflict was otherwise all too easy to find, The Go Master is a biopic of rare subtlety, delicacy and stillness." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 26, 2008	The Go Master (2006)	69%
	"*Here, the visceral, the intellectual and the spiritual all come together, elevating The Escapist* beyond merely escapist entertainment, and offering something that any viewer can dig.*" -- musicOMH.com* Posted Mar 25, 2008	The Escapist (2008)	80%
	"Cheung's film concentrates not so much on fighting itself as the question of what fighting is for, and whether it can ever be justified." -- Eye for Film Posted Mar 24, 2008	A Battle of Wits (2008)	n/a
4.5/5	"this litany of human disconnection, misery, frustration and despair... would be an almost unbearably bleak mosaic of our living deaths, were it not for Andersson's profound appreciation of Chaplin's observation that comedy is tragedy seen in long-shot." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 21, 2008	You, The Living (2007)	100%
3.5/5	"Moody, tense and claustrophobic, Cedar's unconventional war movie allegorises the political tensions within a beleaguered, bunkered Israel." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 21, 2008	Beaufort (2008)	87%
	"*It is not that Caotica Ana* lacks ideas - it positively brims with them - but they are all treated with a shallow desultoriness that brings little satisfaction...*" -- Eye for Film* Posted Mar 18, 2008	Chaotic Ana (2007)	n/a
	"*Miike's return to the horror genre is a slicker and less original affair than Audition, but also sharply dissects the J-horror phenomenon even as it scares the hell out of you." -- Channel 4 Film* Posted Mar 18, 2008	One Missed Call (2003)	48%
	"Beautifully realised, entertainingly absurd and as true to the original as a feature-length expansion can be, this animated allegory gets the child in all of us to think big thoughts about small things." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 18, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
	"*this Funny Games* remake is as thrilling, as provocative, and as harrowing as the original - but only because it is a near carbon copy.** " -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 13, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	49%
	"Antonioni's film feels like one very long, not entirely rewarding night of despair." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 13, 2008	La Notte (1961)	71%
4/5	"*An astoundingly well-made debut - even if The Orphanage* is ultimately as empty as it is haunted.*" -- Channel 4 Film* Posted Mar 12, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	85%
	"a bludgeoning, bloody trawl through the cliches of survival horror, with a strong contemporary political subtext - and as with any good barbecue, there is plenty of red sauce, and absolutely nothing has been left underdone." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 10, 2008	Frontier(s) (2008)	56%
3.5/5	"Williams' story twists and turns...veering from Coen caper to Hooper horror -- but the one unifying constant is the film's wicked streak of humour." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Mar 10, 2008	The Cottage (2008)	73%
	"a complex, ambitious anatomisation of the workings of justice in a deeply iniquitous world" -- Eye for Film Posted Mar 10, 2008	La Zona (2007)	63%
	"*Reflexive, allegorical and poetic, La Antena* is a dizzyingly dense piece of cinema, thriving on paradox, and always matching its medium to its message.*" -- Eye for Film* Posted Mar 7, 2008	The Aerial (2007)	60%
	"there is something rather refreshing about the elliptical manner in which Bernal has chosen to anatomise divisions of class and race in contemporary Mexico." -- Eye for Film Posted Mar 6, 2008	Deficit (2007)	n/a
	"Vantage Point prefers to stick with the familiar, so that it ends up, bizarrely enough, affirming rather than challenging the viewer's prejudices." -- musicOMH.com Posted Mar 5, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	37%
	"while without question funny at times (and sad at others), [it is] never mocking, degrading or lewd - a true miracle for a film about one man's relationship with a sex doll" -- Eye for Film Posted Feb 28, 2008	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	80%
4.5/5	"sees the writer/director well and truly back from the dead and returning to his independent roots, with a small, character-based production that is intelligent, bleak, and at times jarringly funny." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Feb 28, 2008	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	60%
	"a... po-faced affair, pretending to be above all the sensationalism and depravity that it exploits, as though Hoblit and co. are somehow themselves immune from their killer's obsession with viewing figures." -- Eye for Film Posted Feb 27, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
	"To Benny, and to us, too (at least for the duration of the film) the mediated image - blinkered, manipulable, vicarious - is the 'reality' of choice." -- Eye for Film Posted Feb 26, 2008	Benny's Video (1992)	40%
	"what might in other hands have been ethnographic agitprop is instead an engaging, character-based tragicomedy, grounded in what might be called the politics of real people." -- Eye for Film Posted Feb 21, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	95%
	"With ensemble performances as intense as its drama, The Edge of Heaven leaves the viewer, like Nejat, sitting and waiting in patient awe for an end that will blow in either heavenly reconciliation or hellish oblivion." -- musicOMH.com Posted Feb 21, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	88%
	"*Much as violence follows hatred, Kassovitz follows up his breakout film La Haine* with this challenging investigation into the evolving traditions of male sociopathy.*" -- Channel 4 Film* Posted Feb 20, 2008	Assassin(s) (1997)	n/a

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