ROTTEN TOMATOES: A.O. Scott

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

(This Critic's Cinematic Taste as Determined by Rotten Tomatoes)

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4.5/5	Eastern Promises
3.5/4	Zack and Miri Make a Porno
4/5	Talk to Me
3.5/5	Hairspray
3/5	El Cantante
2.5/5	We Own The Night
2/5	Moliere
1.5/5	Hot Rod
1/5	Good Luck Chuck
.5/5	The Love Guru

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Knocked Up
5/5	The Lives of Others
5/5	Pan's Labyrinth
5/5	Letters From Iwo Jima
5/5	Volver
5/5	Overlord
5/5	Pandora's Box
5/5	Spirit of the Beehive
5/5	Syriana
5/5	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Sorority Boys
0/5	State Property
.5/5	The Love Guru
0.5/5	Dragonfly
0.5/5	Super Troopers
0.5/5	Snow Dogs
0.5/5	Rocky Road
0.5/5	China: The Panda Adventure
0.5/5	Bully
0.5/5	The Demon Within
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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4.5/5	" After two and a half hours in the thrilling, exhausting company of the characters in A Christmas Tale, the intimacy we feel with them is wired with surprise." Posted Nov 14, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	93%
2.5/5	" Quantum of Solace prompts the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?" Posted Nov 14, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	66%
2/5	" This may well be the most memorable Jean-Claude Van Damme movie ever, but I'm afraid that's not saying much." Posted Nov 7, 2008	JCVD (2008)	84%
3/5	Soul Men is a raucous, rambling comedy, offering some laughs, some groans and a feast for fans of the musical idioms it mocks and celebrates. Posted Nov 6, 2008	Soul Men (2008)	44%
2.5/5	The phrase 'divorced couple' sounds like an oxymoron, but there's really no other way to describe the Dutch ex-spouses whose table talk dominates Stages. Posted Nov 5, 2008	Stages (2008)	50%
3.5/5	One Day You'll Understand contains no great revelations or surprises, but rather is suffused with a quiet glow of sympathy and enlightenment. Posted Oct 31, 2008	One Day You'll Understand (2008)	67%
3.5/5	With Splinter, the director Toby Wilkins honors the conventions of the horror genre with skill and enough wit to keep the scares sharp. Posted Oct 31, 2008	Splinter (2008)	71%
3.5/4	Zack and Miri Make a Porno, in spite of its lewdness, follows a gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula that would not be out of place on the Disney Channel. Posted Oct 31, 2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	64%
4/5	" A new documentary offers a salutary and touching reminder that the race, like nearly everything else great about New York City, was the creation of a stubborn visionary." Posted Oct 29, 2008	Run for Your Life (2008)	n/a
2.5/5	" When it works best, Changeling is a feverish and bluntly effective parable of wronged innocence." Posted Oct 24, 2008	Changeling (2008)	56%
4/5	" Moments of obviousness are offset by a feeling of gritty lyricism in Wayne Wang's "Princess of Nebraska," a beautifully shot but awkwardly acted movie that is available only online." Posted Oct 24, 2008	The Princess of Nebraska (2008)	n/a
	" Moments of obviousness are offset by a feeling of gritty lyricism in Wayne Wang's “Princess of Nebraska,” a beautifully shot but awkwardly acted movie that is available only online." Posted Oct 24, 2008	The Princess of Nebraska (2008)	n/a
2/5	" Pride and Glory, directed by Gavin O�Connor, plods across familiar ground. It�s yet another movie about the fraternal disorder of the police." Posted Oct 24, 2008	Pride and Glory (2008)	34%
4/5	In the drama I've Loved You So Long, Kristin Scott Thomas's furious honesty rules out easy, unearned redemption. Posted Oct 24, 2008	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	90%
2/5	" The title of Barry Levinson's new movie, What Just Happened, is not phrased as a question, but if it were it would demand another question in response: 'Who cares?'" Posted Oct 17, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	51%
2/5	" The Secret Life of Bees insists so strenuously on its themes of redemption, tolerance, love and healing that it winds up defeating itself." Posted Oct 17, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	58%
2/5	Max Payne is content to be an efficient vehicle for the delivery of a familiar range of sensations, some of which almost rise to the level of feelings. Posted Oct 17, 2008	Max Payne (2008)	18%
3/5	Packages a real-life story of athletic triumph and social progress into an accessible, rousing melodrama that is no less potent for being almost entirely predictable. Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Express (2008)	62%
2/5	Mr. Scott's professionalism is, as ever, present in every frame and scene, but this time it seems singularly untethered from anything like zeal, conviction or even curiosity. Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	50%
4/5	" As thin as an iPod Nano, as full of adolescent self-display as a Facebook page, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist strives to capture what it's like to be young right now." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2/5	" Eagle Eye churns and flails and piles on pointless and improbable complications." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
4/5	Has an undeniable and authentic vitality, an exuberance of spirit, that feels welcome and rare. Posted Oct 3, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	87%
3.5/5	Blindness is not a great film. But it is, nonetheless, full of examples of what good filmmaking looks like. Posted Oct 3, 2008	Blindness (2008)	42%
3/5	" Setting the record straight after so many years and so many movies is not necessarily a simple undertaking, and this film sometimes stumbles under its heavy, self-imposed burden of historical significance." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	33%
3.5/5	Appaloosa shows a square jaw and a steely gaze, but also a smile and a wink. Posted Sep 19, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
2/5	*Considered purely as a formal exercise, Lakeview Terrace* is a passable piece of hackwork, with some adequately suspenseful passages.** Posted Sep 19, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	44%
1.5/5	" It hurts especially to watch Ms. Bening and Candice Bergen (who plays Mary's mother) lend their wit and dignity to a project that has so little of its own." Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	13%
4/5	Tells a fascinating and complicated story of regional identity. Posted Sep 12, 2008	Moving Midway (2008)	95%
4.5/5	*What is most impressive about A Secret* is the way Mr. Miller artfully and gently gestures toward such enormous themes without spelling them out.** Posted Sep 8, 2008	A Secret (2008)	83%
4/5	" *Claude Miller's haunting new movie is called A Secret. But the gist of this story of repression and family tragedy is that secrets are rarely singular." Posted Sep 5, 2008*	Un Secret (2008)	72%
3.5/5	Mister Foe is infused with enough macabre and comical touches to prevent it from sliding into clinical sensationalism. Posted Sep 5, 2008	Mister Foe (2008)	72%
1.5/5	" *The only explicable thing about Babylon A.D.* is that it was not screened in advance for critics.*" Posted Sep 2, 2008*	Babylon A.D. (2008)	7%
3/5	A loving and lurid pastiche of the spaghetti westerns that were themselves lurid pastiches of classic Hollywood cowboy pictures. Posted Aug 29, 2008	Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)	57%
3/5	Traitor, a somber, absorbing and only moderately preposterous new thriller written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, manages an impressive feat of economy. Posted Aug 27, 2008	Traitor (2008)	56%
2.5/5	Spends too much time cruising the sun-dappled California hills, tripping over potentially engaging dramatic possibilities and leaving them in the dust. Posted Aug 6, 2008	Bottle Shock (2008)	45%
3/5	A moving and intriguing reverie. Posted Aug 1, 2008	Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2008)	89%
2/5	[A] lazy, complacent film, which takes the novel's name in vain. Posted Jul 25, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	64%
4/5	" Fascinating, queasy-making new documentary. The fascination comes from how unguarded these young people seem to be about their own lives, speaking frankly to the camera and allowing it to observe uncomfortable and intimate moments in their lives." Posted Jul 25, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
4/5	Thorough, understated and altogether enthralling documentary. Posted Jul 25, 2008	Man On Wire (2008)	100%
4/5	" *In keeping with the grandeur of its title, The Human Condition* is anything but modest in scope and ambition.*" Posted Jul 18, 2008*	Human Condition, The - Pt. 1 - No Greater Love (1958)	86%
2.5/5	You can have a perfectly nice time watching this spirited adaptation of the popular stage musical and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is. Posted Jul 17, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
3.5/5	" It was made with the kind of heedless, geeky enthusiasm that has been drained out of the standard, somber superhero melodramas that crowd the multiplexes these days. It’s an artful, clever throwaway that may, over time, turn into a valuable collectible." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	88%
3.5/5	This documentary gives a remarkably thorough and detailed account of the difficult conditions facing American soldiers in Iraq. Posted Jul 9, 2008	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	74%
3.5/5	Gonzo is a fascinating history lesson and a bit of a cautionary tale about how fame can turn into the scourge of talent. Posted Jul 4, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	88%
3/5	" The Wackness makes a good-faith effort to steer clear of coming-of-age story clich�s, and succeeds and fails in roughly equal measure." Posted Jul 3, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	67%
4.5/5	It is, undoubtedly, an earnest (though far from simplistic) ecological parable, but it is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity. Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
2.5/5	Certainly touching, even heart-rending at times, and it mostly steers clear of the didacticism and sentimentality its subject matter often invites. But it never takes the full measure of its modest heroine, and makes her world a bit too small. Posted Jun 20, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
.5/5	The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again. Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
3/5	" Warsaw Bridge, which takes place mostly in Barcelona and is directed by Pere Portabella, is not shy about declaring a debt to Bu�uelian surrealism." Posted Jun 13, 2008	Warsaw Bridge (1990)	n/a
3.5/5	My Winnipeg, which combines archival documentary images with freshly shot passages, is more concerned with lyrical truth than with literal accuracy. Posted Jun 13, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	94%

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