ROTTEN TOMATOES: Kim Newman

KIM NEWMAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

Publications: Empire Magazine, Empire Magazine Australasia, Jam! Movies, Rotten Tomatoes, Sight and Sound, Sunday Times (UK)

Total Reviews: 379

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Rotten 2/5	Rotten 41%	Blacula (1972)	" Blaxploitation meets vampire movie that's formulaic and full of holes." — Empire Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 81%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" Gorgeous and seductive, if pitched at Almod�var fans and perhaps a touch long. Those drawn by Cruz�s divadom will wonder why it takes so long to get to her � though she is wholly dazzling when it does." — Empire Magazine Posted Aug 29, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 95%	Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)	" A nerve-shredding masterpiece." — Empire Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 31%	The Broken (2009)	" Writer-director Sean Ellis is influenced by M. Night Shyamalan, and manages an approximation of both Shyamalan�s habitual look and whispery melodramatics." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 30, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 86%	The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)	" Fascinating history, very good movie � but demanding, and its lack of easy answers will frustrate some. Lessons about 21st century terrorism are implicit, but not overly stressed." — Empire Magazine Posted Nov 14, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 86%	The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)	" Fascinating history, very good movie -- but demanding, and its lack of easy answers will frustrate some. Lessons about 21st century terrorism are implicit, but not overly stressed." — Empire Magazine Posted Nov 14, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 94%	The Blue Angel (1930)	" A remarkable performance from Emil Jannings." — Empire Magazine Posted Jul 28, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 95%	The Big Sleep (1946)	" Bogart as Marlowe is compelling in this classic thriller that is complex but triumph of atmospheric cool." — Empire Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 71%	Back to the Future Part III (1990)	" A clever and enjoyable wrapping-up of the time-travelling adventures." — Empire Magazine Posted May 5, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 76%	Blackboard Jungle (1955)	" Originating the genre of 'dedicated teacher reaches troubled kids in a ghetto school', this is still affecting although heavy-handed." — Empire Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 84%	The Blues Brothers (1980)	" Still sounds great, and looks as good as ever through Ray-Bans." — Empire Magazine Posted Apr 1, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 65%	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	" The remake/parody sequences are outstanding, but Black�s all-over-the-place mania and Mos Def�s bland orphan hero don�t quite tie the rest of the picture together. Still, it has heart." — Empire Magazine Australasia Posted Mar 20, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 87%	Back to School (1986)	" This Rodney Dangerfield vehicle is a lot better than it should be." — Empire Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 65%	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	" *There�s just enough whimsical good humour to carry Be Kind Rewind, but Michel Gondry�s latest does tend to keep crashing into �oh come on now, what were you thinking?� self-indulgence." — Empire Magazine* Posted Feb 20, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 71%	Black Sheep (2007)	" Make up your own sheep-related pun - ewe�ll love it, mutton to be ashamed of, ram-bunctious etc. If you only see one zombie sheep movie, you won�t have a lot of choice, but this certainly delivers all you could wish for." — Empire Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 95%	The Birds (1963)	" Genuinely disturbing thriller classic from the master of suspense." — Empire Magazine Posted Sep 21, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 84%	Breach (2007)	" Cold and cerebral, with simmering suspense rather than outright excitement, this is a feel-the-quality-of-the-acting movie. It can�t answer all sorts of questions, but does take a scary mug shot of a subtle monster." — Empire Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 11%	Blood and Chocolate (2007)	" *If it came to a wolfbitch fight, the girls from Ginger Snaps* could rip up the entire werewolf race from Blood and Chocolate without mussing their fur.*" — Empire Magazine* Posted Feb 16, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 67%	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)	" Russ Meyer does mainstream, kind of." — Empire Magazine Posted Feb 14, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 3%	Bless the Child (2000)	" *Shamelessly silly, Bless The Child* notches up the clich�s as the daft story meanders towards a suitably hammy conclusion.*" — Empire Magazine* Posted Dec 30, 2006
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 7%	Basic Instinct 2 (2006)	" You�ve been here before when it was fresher." — Empire Magazine Posted May 6, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 6%	Big Momma's House 2 (2006)	" Martin, please stop making films." — Empire Magazine Posted Apr 1, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Batman Begins (2005)	" In a year when the franchise watchword is �dark�, this delivers the full noir with a side order of dementia." — Empire Magazine Posted Jun 6, 2005
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 54%	Blood Work (2002)	" Very silly: sometimes almost enjoyably so, often just in a tired way." — Empire Magazine Posted Jun 20, 2003
Fresh	Rotten 17%	Bats (1999)	" Bats sticks to the ground rules of its genre and gets through a story at once predictable and preposterous with an ingratiating absence of pretension." — Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 2%	Battlefield Earth (2000)	" *It doesn't help that the film's premise, which sees stoneage cavemen turn into ace fighter pilots with only a week's training, is as naive as that of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers." — Sight and Sound* Posted Dec 2, 2002
—	Rotten 13%	Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)	Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 54%	Blow (2001)	Click here to read article — Empire Magazine Posted Sep 11, 2001
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 65%	Bread & Roses (2001)	" A somewhat awkward plot, and too many scenes consisting of people in meetings or singing protest songs." — Empire Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2001
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 47%	Bamboozled (2000)	" The question of where ethnic comedy stops and cruel stereotype begins also gets lost as the cast improv well beyond any given scene's point, and it can all end only with a contrived last act of kidnappings and shoot-outs with the cops." — Empire Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2001
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 96%	Breathless (1959)	" Fast and loose, with a buzzing sense of the potential of the cinema undercut by the beginnings of Godard�s intellectual rigour." — Empire Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2001
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	A Bug's Life (1998)	" Though not as deep, philosophical or vocally star-studded as Antz, Pixar's insect nation is every bit as eye-popping, and kids who don't love it are very likely to become zealous members of some future Trenchcoat Mafia." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 67%	Boiler Room (2000)	" With rap music, scratch cuts, sudden explosions from ticking bomb characters, verbal and physical strutting and a heavy dose of morality, it's a super-charged, intensely-played picture which will edge most of its cast up the ladder." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Bringing Up Baby (1938)	" A masterpiece." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000

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