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	Keane
4.5/5	Them
4/5	Antibodies
3.5/5	Right at Your Door
3/5	Destricted
3/6	The Omen
2.5/5	Eros
2/5	Arthur and the Invisibles
1.5/5	Tetsujin 28: The Movie
1/5	Battle in Heaven

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	The Constant Gardener
5/5	Sunshine
5/5	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard
5/5	Keane
5/5	The Deer Hunter
5/5	Pan's Labyrinth
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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1/10	S.W.A.T.
1/5	The Fog
1/5	The Brothers Grimm
1/5	Battle in Heaven
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
	more...

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

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	" Wryly amusing, achingly poignant and pleasingly understated, with a stand-out performance from Weaver." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Dec 1, 2008	The Girl in the Park (2007)	n/a
4/5	" A charming and intimate photo album of the imagination in which time and memory, though up to all their usual tricks, still offer snapshots of a singular truth." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 28, 2008	A�o U�a (2008)	73%
	" a creepy genre treat that is damn-near perfect in its execution." -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 27, 2008	The Children (2008)	n/a
	" It is no easier to warm to Zonca's film than to its central character - but it is impossible to take your eyes off either. Amoral, at times brutal, and full of surprises..." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 27, 2008	Julia (2008)	n/a
	" an erotic gospel for the secular age" -- Little White Lies Posted Nov 21, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
4.5/5	" In this animated 'leisure trip' back through an atrocity, the nightmarish hell of war assumes a new kind of reality. Devastatingly good." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 21, 2008	Waltz with Bashir (2008)	93%
	" *For all its concern with social and mental disintegration, Choking Man* is a strangely tender film.*" -- Little White Lies* Posted Nov 16, 2008	Choking Man (2007)	45%
	" Jakob's crepuscular quest to reconcile himself to his past will haunt for days those it does not send straight to sleep." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 12, 2008	Hourglass Sanatorium ()	n/a
	" Viscerally exciting enough to wake the dead, and yet politically and morally engaged enough to gore its way right into your brain. What more could anyone want from horror?" -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 12, 2008	Pig Hunt (2008)	n/a
N/A	" *update of Village Of The Damned* and Would You Kill A Child? to our own virus-obsessed times*" -- Eye for Film* Posted Nov 12, 2008	The Children (2008)	n/a
	" the cinematic equivalent of a page-turner, worthy of more than a mere skim for those who like their horror on the dark side of macabre." -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 12, 2008	Book of Blood (2008)	n/a
	" a film so taut and tense that comparisons to Hitchcock, though something of a cliche in film criticism, this time seem entirely apt." -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 12, 2008	Hush (2008)	n/a
	" *Unlike its malicious tool-wielding antagonist, Gnaw* simply fails to make the cut.*" -- Eye for Film* Posted Nov 12, 2008	Gnaw (2008)	n/a
	" a dark treat which, far from patronising us with excessive exposition, leaves plenty of room in which the viewer can either wither or flourish" -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 11, 2008	Eden Log (2009)	n/a
	" If its deadly game of cat-and-mouse is styled like a fancifully violent video game, the social divisions it exposes are real enough." -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 7, 2008	New Town Killers (2009)	n/a
3.5/5	" You can blame the government, the bourgeoisie, women or the weather, but in the end Jaoui's ensemble comedy, for all its sophisticated wit and note-perfect performances, is washed out by an overwhelming slightness." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Nov 7, 2008	Let's Talk About The Rain (2008)	77%
	" All these elements set the stage for some of the most prolonged scenes of sustained panic ever captured by cinema, as Hooper infects characters and viewers alike with the thrill of a madness from which there can be no real escape." -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 6, 2008	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)	90%
	" its greatest strength is its focus on characterisation, so that for all the monstrous goings-on at the periphery, the human element always remains at the centre to keep the viewer involved and amused" -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 4, 2008	Splinter (2008)	72%
	" *no matter how much Campbell fans may like the amiably daft and cheesy My Name Is Bruce, they would probably prefer to be liking it a little more" -- Eye for Film* Posted Nov 4, 2008	My Name is Bruce (2008)	30%
	" viewing the film today is akin to having one's sense of youthful nostalgia violated. ...the terrible dialogue, patchy pacing and silly costumes, so easily overlooked during one's wild-eyed teen years, now seem so much more obvious and distracting." -- Eye for Film Posted Nov 4, 2008	Escape from New York (1981)	81%
	" By dressing up his domestic tragedy as a boy's own adventure, Kerrigan somehow dilutes, rather than amplifies, the impact of both." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 28, 2008	I Know You Know (2008)	n/a
	" *Like any bazaar, The Market* has something for everybody.*" -- Eye for Film* Posted Oct 28, 2008	The Market (2008)	n/a
	" By the end, or indeed long before then, the viewer, too, is desperate for these workshy wastrels to 'wake up' (as Chica puts it) and get on with growing up." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 28, 2008	Lazy Days (2008)	n/a
	" in this portrait of an artist as an old man in decline, no amount of reproduction, trickery or fantasy can or ever will suffice to deflect the inevitable end." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 27, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	64%
	" a stylishly bloody descent into madness, murder and Hell itself." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 24, 2008	The Midnight Meat Train (2008)	68%
	" A convoluted crime caper with strong ethical underpinnings to support its many moods and styles." -- Little White Lies Posted Oct 21, 2008	Triangle (2007)	42%
	" *Grimaldi's elegantly understated film is a Groundhog Day* of grief suppressed and life suspended.*" -- Channel 4 Film* Posted Oct 20, 2008	Quiet Chaos (2008)	85%
	" JeeJa Yanin is a sensational discovery but this mixed assortment of high kicks and even higher melodrama may be an imperfect vehicle for her." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 20, 2008	Chocolate (2008)	71%
	" No doubt there will be more sour to come in both Nick and Norah's lives, but for the duration of this film, things remain irresistibly sweet." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 20, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	71%
2.5/5	" Amiable enough yet unadventurous and uneven, this may coax the odd big smile from viewers but it never rocks the house." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 17, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	39%
	" it is impossible not to be charmed by [Anvil lead singer Steve Kudlow's] arrested development and to find yourself rooting for his eventual success even as you laugh at his many failures." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 17, 2008	Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)	100%
	" an impressive, energetic debut that will leave you with a taste for more." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 15, 2008	Shifty (2008)	n/a
	" Rarely has a film been so serious in its underlying implications and intent, and yet so moronic in its execution." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 15, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
	" chuckle away, by all means - but also watch this with open eyes, and you might just begin to suspect that the absurd collateral damage on show here is a worrying reflection of the world that we all live in, where the dumb lead the dumber." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 15, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	79%
	" there can be few greater threats to religious zealotry than the power of laughter or the quest for knowledge - which is what makes comedian Bill Maher such an effective champion for the cause of scepticism in an age of rising fundamentalism." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 14, 2008	Religulous (2008)	71%
	" It's exciting, funny, thrilling, and as entertaining as hell - and proves, if proof be needed, that genre knows no borders." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 13, 2008	The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2009)	n/a
	" brims with charming performances and nuanced observations, but... seem[s] to last an epoch, with little to show in terms of its own natural evolution." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 10, 2008	Of Parents and Children (2008)	n/a
	" A deeply affecting portrait of the way that we are all changed in small but significant ways by our encounters with others." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 9, 2008	Goodbye Solo (2008)	n/a
	" Crossing the boundary at the outer reaches of the physical world where science meets superstition and reason collides with the irrational, it tells a tale as miraculous as the Bible and as dry as any technical text." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 5, 2008	Prince of Darkness (1987)	44%
	" while it has its share of comic observations and poetic flourishes, it is a relentlessly downbeat tale of alienation, dipsomania and nihilistic ruin." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 4, 2008	Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)	n/a
N/A	" Brideshead Revisited Press Conference, London 30 Sept '08" -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 2, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	64%
	" ...plays like a fever dream of cinematic spectacle, offering a wide-screen parade of some of the most achingly beautiful and awe-inspiring cinematography ever to have been seen." -- musicOMH.com Posted Oct 2, 2008	The Fall (2008)	59%
	" The film itself has the feel of something cobbled together in the austerity years -- and it is the better for such Aardmanesque qualities." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 1, 2008	Tales of the Riverbank (2008)	n/a
	" Individually many of these gags are very funny (and all the animation is a joy to behold), but collectively these sketches quickly become laboured and exhausting." -- Eye for Film Posted Oct 1, 2008	Robot Chicken - Season 1 ()	n/a
	" although the degeneration of events from bad to worse is made unbearably tense, Won also peppers his film with black humour, without ever abandoning his allegiance to social commentary." -- Eye for Film Posted Sep 29, 2008	A Bloody Aria (2006)	46%
	" Few would claim there are no flies on this one, but at least the outstanding 3D effects are some compensation for the dumbed-down inanity of everything else." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 26, 2008	Fly Me To The Moon (2008)	17%
	" These six unnervingly surreal slices may vary in their quality and impact, but they are well nigh unmissable for anyone devoted to Lynch's special brand of cherry pie." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 24, 2008	The Short Films of David Lynch (1966-1996)	n/a
	" *So note-perfect are the performances from all the cast in I've Loved You So Long* that you want them to inhabit a film that is somehow less contrived and more honest.*" -- Eye for Film* Posted Sep 23, 2008	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	91%
	" in the absence of tension, laughs, thrills, scares or anything like complexity, there is nothing here for viewers to sink their fangs into. The only real note of menace...is a hint at the end that there may be a sequel." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 22, 2008	Skinwalkers (2007)	14%
3.5/5	" Perhaps Sokurov's film will leave some viewers as weary as its protagonist, but this intimate and evocative journey through war is well worth taking." -- Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 19, 2008	Alexandra (2008)	94%

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