ROTTEN TOMATOES: Bob Strauss

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Pineapple Express
3.5/4	Ratatouille
3/4	Amu
2.5/4	Interview
2/4	Fido
1.5/4	Good Luck Chuck
1/4	Mr. Woodcock
0/4	Moving McAllister

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Trouble the Water
4/4	Pineapple Express
4/4	Offside
4/4	Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
4/4	Saraband
4/4	Tell Them Who You Are
4/4	Turtles Can Fly
4/4	Million Dollar Baby
4/4	The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi/Sonatine
4/4	Dogville
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Moving McAllister
0/4	Vulgar
.5/4	Night at the Museum
1/4	Over Her Dead Body
1/4	The Amateurs
1/4	Slipstream
1/4	Mr. Woodcock
1/4	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres
1/4	Funny Money
1/4	Basic Instinct 2
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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	" Now that they've gone and made Batman all serious and good, the campy comics hero movie mantle has been taken up by The Spirit." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 5, 2009	The Spirit (2008)	14%
	" I found its state-of-the-art technical aspects more engaging." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 5, 2009	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	72%
3.5/4	" Gomorrah brings subtle artistry and character insight to the observational, plot-drive-phobic school of filmmaking that's so popular among serious auteurs at the moment." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 19, 2008	Gomorrah (2009)	90%
3/4	" The two lead actresses play superbly rounded characters, both smart, tough customers unused to being pushed around, yet wives and mothers whose domestic concerns are as important to them as professional ones." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 19, 2008	Nothing But the Truth (2008)	77%
2/4	" Yes Man is a nice movie about the benefits and limits of approaching life with an upbeat attitude, but a comedy that was actually hilarious would've had the same effect -- and been a lot more entertaining." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 19, 2008	Yes Man (2008)	43%
3/4	" *Equal parts bizarre and conventional, Seven Pounds* is -- if not good -- an intriguing film.*" -- Los Angeles Daily News* Posted Dec 19, 2008	Seven Pounds (2008)	29%
3/4	" Clint Eastwood collects and distills everything we know he is capable of doing on screen -- some of which we might wish he hadn't done, but most of which we love. Even if we might be a little ashamed to admit it." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 12, 2008	Gran Torino (2008)	73%
2.5/4	" If you're going to set a faith-vs.-uncertainty debate in the heart of a church milieu, shouldn't some of the characters at least mention the beliefs that they've not just dedicated their lives to, but built them around?" -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 12, 2008	Doubt (2008)	75%
2.5/4	" The Reader isn't an act of moral imbecility like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, but it's pretty questionable all the way through." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 12, 2008	The Reader (2008)	61%
2/4	" You couldn�t ask for a more committed and demanding performance than this one. But there is a richer one that eluded Del Toro. And boy, does that lack of character dimension make this thing an endurance test." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 12, 2008	Che (2008)	56%
3.5/4	" Wendy and Lucy renews the spirit of American independent film. Its minimalism has a purpose, its sentiment seeks honest feeling when it could have been used for easy manipulation." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 12, 2008	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	84%
3.5/4	" Frost/Nixon could be the best political film in a year that's had more than its share of good ones." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 5, 2008	Frost/Nixon (2008)	91%
2/4	" LaBruce's film is such a riot of conflicting information and signifying styles that inner logic never really gets a grip." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 5, 2008	Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (2008)	43%
3.5/4	" After many years and failed attempts, a very, very good biopic of Harvey Milk is finally here." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 26, 2008	Milk (2008)	93%
3/4	" Eden is a sad, nicely observed study of a decade-old marriage that, for the most part, is over." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 21, 2008	Eden (2008)	68%
2/4	" A lot of love was clearly poured into this project; too bad the results were only so-so." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 21, 2008	The Dukes (2008)	58%
	" The story of the women's groups -- Christian and Muslim, uniting for the first time in the nation's history -- is unbelievably inspiring." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 14, 2008	Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)	100%
2.5/4	" Quantum's worst miscalculation is letting Bond's dark side cast shadows over everything else. For all of its fantastic stunts and exotic settings, it's a mostly joyless romp." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 14, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	65%
3/4	" David Vyorst's comprehensive and celebratory documentary presents the stats in one easy-to-follow, nicely organized 86 minutes." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 14, 2008	First Basket (2008)	67%
3/4	" The movie maintains a nice balance between affection for its fame-seekers and sharp jokes at their expense." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 7, 2008	Loins of Punjab Presents (2008)	56%
3.5/4	" Kuenne uses ingenious montages and judicious pacing tactics to drive through reams of evidence, legal codes and other data that, in most documentaries, would leave viewers' eyes glazed over." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 7, 2008	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)	93%
2.5/4	" Not for all tastes, Repo! The Genetic Opera can boast a lot of imagination and some evident talent." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 7, 2008	Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)	30%
	" The direct, shimmering minimalism with which Hammer tells his story also gets to some fairly real, universal stuff." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 7, 2008	Ballast (2008)	87%
	" It grieves me to report that Bernie Mac's posthumous movie release, Soul Men, hardly does the great comedian justice." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 7, 2008	Soul Men (2008)	44%
3/4	" This may not be everyone's idea of either scary or great animation, but it is a generally successful attempt to marry the two forms in a unique way." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 31, 2008	Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)	71%
	" This slightly elevated generic effort is still essentially what they mean by disposable entertainment." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 31, 2008	Splinter (2008)	72%
2.5/4	" Evident passion and a tremendous amount of thought went into Synecdoche." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 24, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	63%
2/4	" Stranger things, no doubt, do happen. But ambitious, intelligent Eberl needed more mature storytelling skills to make Choose Connor seem plausible." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 17, 2008	Choose Connor (2008)	43%
2.5/4	" The film is generally well-staged and adequately acted (Seth Green stands out as a sarcastic buggy-driver)." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 17, 2008	Sex Drive (2008)	41%
2.5/4	" The psychological picture the movie paints is as yawningly incomplete as its historical one -- and can be yawningly tedious, too." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 17, 2008	W. (2008)	58%
2.5/4	" It comes across more as a connect-the-dots Southern literary concept than as a tale of real, damaged people bonding on a persuasively deep level." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 17, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	56%
	" deeply and seriously explores a key historical moment in the country's tortured political history." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 10, 2008	Fraude: Mexico 2006 (2008)	80%
	" Gosh, it's pretty." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 10, 2008	Ashes of Time Redux (2008)	80%
	" It's good the film exposes his methods, especially with the final stretch of our current election cycle upon us." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 3, 2008	Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)	93%
3/4	" Overall, it's a smart movie that even makes apt, respectful references to the greatest film on this subject, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 3, 2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	38%
3/4	" The most gripping movie about engineering windshield wipers you will ever see. Take that any way you care to." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	57%
3/4	" Nothing great, but enough laughs and moments of genuine emotion to give it a pass." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2.5/4	" The film�s default position is to always fall back on anti-capitalist rhetoric whenever dialogue and drama grow too banal." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 26, 2008	Battle in Seattle (2008)	52%
3/4	" August Evening creates a complete world, with all of its practical limitations and emotional possibilities, for Jaime and Lupe to hunt for their place in." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 26, 2008	August Evening (2007)	91%
	" A completely bizarre sex farce that�s heartfelt and stomach-turning in about equal measure, Choke also delivers a terrific climactic twist and the best dumb- blonde joke in years." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 26, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
2.5/4	" Unsuccessfully ambitious, the movie is nonetheless unique and creative enough to be worth sitting through -- or would be had it been about an hour shorter." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 26, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	33%
	" Considerable talent lifts this wallowing soap opera up to a more powerful and accomplished level." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 19, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	60%
	" Lakeview Terrace is a lot of things you never expected it to be. And most of those things are smart, complicated and provocative in the best way." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 19, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	49%
	" A Secret illuminates the most intimate personal histories against a perfectly detailed political and cultural background. It finds glorious forgiveness where it can, and accepts that when that can't be done, it just can't be done." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 12, 2008	Un Secret (2008)	70%
	" Japanese spaghetti Western that's both faithful to its Italian antecedents and way out on its own wacky wavelength." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 12, 2008	Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)	59%
	" Towelhead is tough stuff. It's also brilliant stuff. Proceed, with caution, accordingly." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 12, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	47%
	" Sex and the City was smarter. Mamma Mia! was dopier. But both, unfortunately, were more entertaining than The Women." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	13%
2.5/4	" A movie that's completely out of its tree." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Aug 29, 2008	Red (2008)	68%
3/4	" This is a pleasant enough visual romp with surprisingly few down notes." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Aug 29, 2008	Beautiful Losers (2008)	68%
3.5/4	" In Search of a Midnight Kiss gets L.A. like few films do. And writer-director Holdridge understands the aspiring, disappointed but still open-to-anything crowd on the fringes of show business quite persuasively." -- Los Angeles Daily News Posted Aug 22, 2008	In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)	84%

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