ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jesse Paddock

JESSE PADDOCK

Agrees with the Tomatometer 88% of the time.

Biography: culturevulture.net film reviewer

Publications: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul, culturevulture.net

Total Reviews: 29

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

Fresh	Fresh 76%	Tropical Malady (2005)	" A weird, gorgeous and disorienting act of exploration" — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 23, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005)	" Brown weaves together audio footage and taped interviews that show a man whose proximity to death had calcified into a sharp blade of self-deprecating wit." — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 17, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 56%	Breakfast on Pluto (2005)	" So horribly misconceived and shoddily structured that its good intentions are worn out in the first twenty minutes" — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 1, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 66%	Everything is Illuminated (2005)	" Severely hampered by a screenplay that waters down much of the book�s power, but the blow isn�t lethal" — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 25, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 93%	The Squid and the Whale (2005)	" Wickedly funny, there�s still a recognizable warmth, a sense of familiarity, in Baumbach�s writing." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 6, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 59%	Oliver Twist (2005)	" 'Oliver Twist' proves what 'The Pianist' only hinted at�that Roman Polanski is the world�s most talented paint-by-numbers artist." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 1, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Hustle & Flow (2005)	" Gets so much of the rhythms and feel of the Dirty South right, it can be forgiven for its occasional missteps." — culturevulture.net Posted Jul 21, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 74%	Wedding Crashers (2005)	" Wilson and Vaughn are generous comedians; they love more than anything injecting disarming affection into their comedy." — culturevulture.net Posted Jul 14, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 73%	War of the Worlds (2005)	" Spectacle filmmaking of the highest order." — culturevulture.net Posted Jun 28, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 43%	Bad Guy (2001)	" The plotting keeps getting away from Kim as the story progresses." — culturevulture.net Posted Jun 22, 2005
Rotten	N/A	Spiritual Voices (1995)	" Never manages to portray its quotidian aspects as meaningfully as its director intends" — culturevulture.net Posted Jun 18, 2005
Fresh	N/A	Confession ()	" Intriguing, poetic, minimal and occasionally dull" — culturevulture.net Posted May 7, 2005
Rotten	N/A	Bob Dylan World Tours 1966-1974 - Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein (1966)	" Unfortunately for Dylanologists, Gilbert is more interested in his own story than the man whose photographs he seeks out." — culturevulture.net Posted Apr 26, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 72%	In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)	" Director Jessica Yu makes the case that it�s tough to know much about Darger with certainty." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 21, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 92%	Gunga Din (1939)	" *If PC backlash makes such classics like Gunga Din* difficult to revisit, so be it. At this point, there�s no getting around it.*" — culturevulture.net* Posted Mar 7, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 44%	The Jacket (2005)	" The two actors generate a decent chemistry together and manage to give this cobbled-together stinker whatever tiny shred of credibility it possesses as a romance." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 3, 2005
Fresh	N/A	Lenny Bruce: Without Tears (1992)	" Baker�s portrayal reveals a brilliant social critic and waggish storyteller." — culturevulture.net Posted Feb 17, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Bright Leaves (2004)	" McElwee�s examination of tobacco culture shows concern but not condescension." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jan 14, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 83%	In Good Company (2004)	" Weitz continues to make smart, funny movies that parse out the neuroses of the male species." — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 28, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 52%	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)	" It�s sad to see the filmmaker himself sinking under the weight of his own ambition." — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 14, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 68%	La Petite Lili (2004)	" Centers on a small family of wealthy, prominent celebrities, whose indulgent infighting feels forced and predictable" — culturevulture.net Posted Nov 14, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Tarnation (2004)	" One of the most powerful examples of film as self-healing, 'Tarnation' astonishes both as art and as testament." — culturevulture.net Posted Nov 9, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Vera Drake (2004)	" A piercing study...gritty, humane." — culturevulture.net Posted Nov 8, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 62%	I Heart Huckabees (2004)	" Careful, intelligent writing that is formally arresting, provocative and still wickedly funny." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 1, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 69%	Criminal (2004)	" Itself something of a counterfeit, 'Criminal' loses coherence at each new plot twist, eventually becoming silly and contrived." — culturevulture.net Posted Sep 25, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Festival Express (2004)	" Joplin lets loose a version of 'Cry Baby' that should stand as one of the great performances in any concert film." — culturevulture.net Posted Sep 23, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Gozu (2004)	" A wild surrealism that brings to mind both the rigorous weirdness of David Lynch and the twisted dark comedy of Luis Bunuel" — culturevulture.net Posted Sep 16, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 71%	Napoleon Dynamite (2004)	" While it runs out of steam near the end, it never runs out of charm, thanks to Jon Heder�s narcoleptic zeal as the title character." — culturevulture.net Posted Sep 13, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Garden State (2004)	" An often riotous journey of self-discovery." — culturevulture.net Posted Sep 5, 2004

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