ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mark Olsen

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4.5/5	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
4/5	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
3/4	The Hip Hop Project
3.5/5	Only Human
2.5/4	Flash of Genius
3/5	The Babysitters
2.5/5	The Fall
2/5	One Last Ride
1.5/5	Standing Still
1/5	The Celestine Prophecy

BEST REVIEWED
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4.5/5	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	Repo! The Genetic Opera
1/5	Hounddog
1/5	murder.com
1/5	Deal
1/5	Deception
1/5	The Ruins
1/5	Ego�ste: Lotti Latrous
1/5	Kickin' It Old Skool
1/5	What Love Is
1/5	The Hitcher
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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1/5	" The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 7, 2008	Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)	27%
3.5/5	" The HSM series has always been playful and high-spirited, with a refreshing emphasis on collective action and the importance of group effort over the individual, and there's nothing in High School Musical 3: Senior Year to upset the formula." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 24, 2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)	67%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2008	Red (1994)	98%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2008	You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)	34%
2.5/5	" Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this Sex Drive is only partly worth the trip." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 17, 2008	Sex Drive (2008)	40%
3/5	" At times stirring, inspiring and thoughtful." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Express (2008)	62%
2.5/4	" ...It wants so desperately to be a Hollywood-style story of the little guy triumphing over the big guy that it races past much of the subtlety of Kearns' story..." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	57%
2/5	" Despite its superficial lip-service to self-actualization/realization, there has to be more to life than what Beverly Hills Chihuahua is putting out there, which is fit for neither man nor beast." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 3, 2008	Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)	41%
1/5	" The problems that plague the movie land squarely with the writer, director and producer, Deborah Kampmeier, who has crafted a howler of a bad script, shows little affinity for working with actors and displays no visual sense behind the camera." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 19, 2008	Hounddog (2008)	17%
4/5	" An elegant and deceptively straightforward dramatic thriller." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 29, 2008	Red (2008)	68%
2/5	" Cthulhu isn't awful, but it isn't particularly compelling either, as Glidark and Cogswell make their message so plain that it robs the story of its broader mysteries." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 22, 2008	Cthulhu (2008)	55%
2/5	" *If it were a parody of relationship-youth pictures, In Search of a Midnight Kiss* would maybe be tolerable, but writer-director Alex Holdridge seems to be playing it with a straight face.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Aug 22, 2008	In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)	86%
2/5	" *An empty enterprise that provides a few moments of goofy fun, Mirrors* reflects back nothing.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Aug 19, 2008	Mirrors (2008)	14%
1.5/5	" The film gets the scummy patina right, all phony-Leone dusty trails, but while everybody on screen looks to be enjoying themselves, it is no fun to watch." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 8, 2008	Hell Ride (2008)	11%
2/5	" Elegy seems to mourn for the wrong things, making its self-examining characters seem merely narcissistic and more than a little pathetic." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 8, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
2.5/5	" Eight Miles High, based on the memoirs of Uschi Obermaier, wants to be both a tangy piece of Eurosleaze and an overview of one woman's transformations from the heady days of the 1960s onward." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	Eight Miles High (2007)	40%
3/5	" [Director] Jarrold seems too often to consciously be making an in-quotation-marks classy picture, much like last year's Atonement, in which the costumes and setting are just so, but the human drama gets lost amid the pictorial pleasantries." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	64%
1/5	" *When a single episode of your sister's TV show contains hotter action and more story structure than the movie you are in, it may be time to reboot. Murder.com* is strictly CTRL+ALT+delete.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jul 18, 2008	murder.com (2008)	n/a
2.5/5	" For a film that seems to pride itself on its depiction of prison-reality, it feels extremely movie-phony." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 18, 2008	Felon (2008)	63%
2/5	" Written with more bite, the premise might hold up, but as executed here by Tolan, it is a soft-hearted, haphazard mess." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Finding Amanda (2008)	40%
4/5	" The images captured by Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger are dazzling all on their own, finding the disorienting psychedelia that is nature at its weirdest." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Encounters At the End of the World (2007)	93%
1.5/5	" The story of a man (Aaron Eckhart) grappling with middle-age ennui at work and at home feels done to death, as does the distracting addition of a spunky rich-kid high schooler." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 13, 2008	Meet Bill (2008)	17%
4/5	" A remarkably compact and engaging overview of the history and ideology of this urban outlaw art form." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 6, 2008	Bomb It (2008)	87%
2/5	" One would only hope that a film about death and dying wouldn't have to feel quite so lifeless." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 6, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	69%
2.5/5	" There are intriguing issues swirling around the film, but [director] Kofman never brings it to a boil, never finds the deeper, truer meaning inside the ideas he is grappling with." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	The Memory Thief (2008)	77%
4/5	" *The saga of small-town strip mall taekwondo instructor Fred Simmons, The Foot Fist Way* is the sort of nimble oddball discovery that one wishes would come along more often.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 30, 2008	The Foot Fist Way (2008)	57%
3.5/5	" *More than just another Iraq-doc, Heavy Metal* is a surprisingly up-close look at the toll of the war on young people, and how they still have dreams and still want to jam, party and get down.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 23, 2008	Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)	81%
1.5/5	" Postal is largely just a byproduct of Boll's self-promotion, rendering the film itself, in essence, beside the point." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 23, 2008	Postal (2008)	8%
3.5/5	" A surprisingly delicate, quietly emotional documentary look at the experiences of one Indian family that immigrated to England in the 1960s." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 15, 2008	I for India (2007)	100%
2.5/5	" For a film that wants to present itself as extravagantly dazzling, there is something thuddingly familiar and bland in its vision." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	The Fall (2008)	59%
4/5	" A pleasant sorbet to wash away the aftertaste of the pre-summer clunkers." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008)	76%
3/5	" *The film remains engaging in no small part because of the beguiling and enigmatic performance of [Katherine] Waterston, daughter of Law & Order* star Sam Waterston.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 9, 2008	The Babysitters (2008)	31%
	" The Favor is that rare film that at every turn exhibits good taste and a sense of restraint." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 5, 2008	The Favor (2008)	39%
3.5/5	" Combining contemporary interviews with Factory survivors and an astounding treasure trove of archival footage shot by Williams himself, the film is an enigmatic, atmospheric portrait of a guy apparently too nice for the notorious Warhol crowd." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)	77%
3/5	" *Gleefully brimming with body parts and bad behavior, Pathology* is a fun piece of flamboyant tastelessness.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 25, 2008	Pathology (2008)	50%
1/5	" Reynolds doesn't convey any of the lightning bolt insouciance that made him arguably the greatest movie star of the '70s and '80s (really) but rather just stands there." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deal (2008)	0%
1/5	" Deception would be laughably bad if it weren't so rotely inert." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
3/5	" Never [coalesces] into a greater portrait and tending to cancel each other out. Sometimes a story does need a star." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	The First Saturday in May (2008)	69%
2/5	" It is easy to see the film as two movies crammed together, neither of them being very good." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	Dark Matter (2008)	36%
1/5	" *Not even a fixer-upper, The Ruins* should be considered a complete tear-down.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 4, 2008	The Ruins (2008)	45%
1.5/5	" The very act of writing critically about Superhero inspires something of an existential crisis -- no one likely to turn out for it is reading this review, and anybody reading this review is probably not inclined to see it under any circumstances." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 31, 2008	Superhero Movie! (2008)	13%
2/5	" *An adaptation of one of his stage plays, Meet the Browns* gives off the distinct feeling that Perry is treading water or at the very least is content to satisfy his audience with the minimum.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 24, 2008	Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)	30%
1.5/5	" The action is rendered with such disconcertingly low light levels -- and of course there is heavy rain for the climatic sequences -- that it can be a strain to simply see what is occurring on-screen. Then again, maybe that's for the best." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 28, 2007	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)	14%
	" Director Juan Antonio Bayona and screenwriter Sergio G. S�nchez ratchet up the tension to such excruciating heights that, while you�re watching the film, your impulse is to scream out loud just to feel some sense of release." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 20, 2007	The Orphanage (2007)	86%
2.5/5	" Once the film gets mired in specifics, it begins to seem like any other Holocaust documentary and loses the sense of relevance and engagement with the now that at first makes it so intriguing." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Unknown Soldier (2006)	60%
2.5/5	" Though "Berkeley" may be based on Bobby Roth's own experiences, he filters it through a narrative framework that feels distant and impersonal..." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 12, 2007	Berkeley (2007)	33%
4/5	" Moreau and Palud play on the way our minds fill in the gaps of the unknown and the very primal fear of things going bump in the night." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 20, 2007	Them (2007)	63%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 20, 2007	Slow Burn (2000)	14%
2.5/5	" The workmanlike craftsmanship of Cain's filmmaking almost (but never quite) smooths over the ham-fisted way he conceives the story." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 30, 2007	September Dawn (2007)	13%
2/5	" Lacks the emotional anchor of other Mexican cinema." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 16, 2007	7 D�as (2007)	22%

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