ROTTEN TOMATOES: Lance Goldenberg

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LANCE GOLDENBERG

Agrees with the Tomatometer 89% of the time.

Publications: L.A. Weekly, Village Voice, Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)

Critics' Group: Florida Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 36
Total QuickRatings: 6

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Rotten	Rotten 36%	The Perfect Sleep (2009)	" An ungainly fusion of dutiful homage and snarky send-up." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Fanny and Alexander (1982)	" A sprawling, ornately constructed entertainment." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Amarcord (1974)	" What positions the film among Fellini's greatest are its punctuation points of mysterious beauty." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 48%	We Are Wizards (2008)	" Ignore the scattershot approach, however, and there's considerable pleasure to be had in spending time with these bizarre enthusiasts and watching the creative ways they find to express their obsessions." — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)	" Craig�s shaken-but-not-stirred charisma makes the most of an underwritten part, but the movie nearly flat-lines when the actor�s not onscreen, which is often." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 16, 2008
Rotten	N/A	The Pink Conspiracy (2007)	" The Pink Conspiracy's solitary gag posits female bonding as a process so deeply malevolent it might give the most embittered misogynist pause." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 18, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 16%	Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)	" ...a passion play with a guy in drag (who could ask for anything more?)..." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 20, 2005
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 89%	Bad Education (2004)	" ...Almodovar's meta-movie teases us with Big Ideas about those of us who love our fantasies so much that we turn them into our realities." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 20, 2005
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 69%	Off the Map (2005)	" ...eloquently written but not overwritten, with a story that ultimately feels less like a literary construct and more like a spontaneous celebration of a few lived lives..." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 20, 2005
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 88%	Millions (2005)	" ...Millions pulls off the neat trick of affirming that money can't buy happiness, even as it has a ball pretending that it can." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 20, 2005
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 72%	In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)	" ...a fascinating sort of connect-the-dots that allows us to essentially piece together our very own personalized portrait of this most curious of artists." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 20, 2005
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 77%	Sin City (2005)	" ...might just be the most extravagantly brutal live-action cartoon ever made." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 7, 2005
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 44%	The Brown Bunny (2004)	" ...M. Knight Shyamalan trapped in a pornorgraphic art flick." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Oct 15, 2004
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 49%	A Home at the End of the World (2004)	" The naughty bits were eventually cut (so to speak) for being too "distracting," but the publicity surrounding the deletion may be the best thing the movie has going for it." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Sep 2, 2004
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 20%	She Hate Me (2004)	" ...a movie that spews so much random, senseless, undigested matter that it seems more like projectile vomiting than filmmaking." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Sep 2, 2004
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 78%	The Saddest Music in the World (2004)	" *...a little bit like what Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle* might have been without the illusions of grandeur or pretentious aftertaste.*" — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)* Posted Aug 30, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 94%	Before Sunset (2004)	" For all the talk, there's always something unspoken bubbling away in the space between these two ex-lovers..." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Aug 30, 2004
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 72%	Open Water (2004)	" *...Daniel and Susan just float around bitching at each other, so the movie frequently seems like a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf* in scuba gear.*" — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)* Posted Aug 30, 2004
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 66%	The Door in the Floor (2004)	" ...a film both fluid and hermetically sealed, inviting multiple interpretations and yet ultimately reluctant to give up its secrets." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Aug 30, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 95%	Hero (2004)	" ...an astonishingly graceful ballet performed with swords, arrows and fists." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Aug 30, 2004
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 92%	Talk to Her (2002)	" Almodovar continues to refine the form of melodrama ... without sacrificing one iota of emotional texture or resonance." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted May 10, 2004
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 92%	City of God (2003)	" We've seen this story before, more or less -- the blood, the budding psychopaths, the all-too-young victims of urban decay -- but never quite like this." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted May 10, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 71%	Dogville (2003)	" ...an experience that's both grueling and, in its way, glorious." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted May 10, 2004
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 84%	Mean Girls (2004)	" ...a lean, mean entertainment that manages to be both playful and subversive while exhibiting plenty of mainstream appeal." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted May 10, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 89%	Kandahar (2001)	" As with so much in the Islamic world, there are things here that are profoundly beautiful, as well as much that is profoundly scary." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted May 10, 2004
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 29%	The Punisher (2004)	" *It's dark and gritty and even a little tawdry, pushing ... deep into Death Wish* territory, which is exactly as it should be.*" — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)* Posted Apr 16, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)	" KB2 is still basically a cartoon, albeit a more elaborately illustrated one..." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 16, 2004
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 30%	The Alamo (2004)	" It wavers between traditional period adventure, cynical, revisionist history and meandering, multi-character mini-series. The action scenes aren't very good either." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 9, 2004
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 65%	The Last Samurai (2003)	" ...doesn't seem particularly interested in the nuances and points of frisson that are bound to occur when East meets West." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 7, 2004
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 88%	The Son (2003)	" ...a work of enormous moral and spiritual depth, where sacrifice, forgiveness and redemption are revealed as the natural extensions of the movie's humdrum landscape." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 7, 2004
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 55%	Ladykillers (2004)	" ...nowhere near the Coens' funniest or most distinctive or even most endearing work." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Apr 7, 2004
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 93%	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	" *It's a strange trip, to be sure, sort of like what Fantastic Voyage* might have been if some acid-gobbling metaphysicians had been at the helm.*" — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)* Posted Mar 19, 2004
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 96%	Le Cercle Rouge (1970)	" It's a languorous and uncompromising work that will drive some to distraction, but also a movie of dark, still beauty that will have others weeping tears of pure, noir joy." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Mar 19, 2004
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 61%	The Dreamers (2004)	" The erotic parlor games in Bertolucci's film don't get quite get debauched or deep enough, and once they've run their course, the movie doesn't know what to do." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Mar 12, 2004
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 50%	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	" The movie's biggest sin lies not in where it chooses to cast blame, but in its bungled attempt at manufacturing what I suppose you'd have to call an epiphany of excess." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Mar 3, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 93%	My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003)	" A film with all the passion, mystery, tears and joy of first-rate, fully fleshed fiction." — Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Posted Mar 2, 2004

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