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: 380

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Rotten 2/5	Rotten 23%	Sorority Row (2009)	" Even the gratuitous nudity can't quite save a Heathers-goes-to-college horror that's undermined by a silly plot and clunky dialogue." — Empire Magazine Posted Sep 11, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 73%	Stuck (2007)	" It�s a shaggy-dog story that spirals into garage Grand Guignol, with Suvari and Rea well-matched in uneasy roles." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 9, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 15%	The Spirit (2008)	" Displaying admirable love for pulp material and striking enviably sexy poses, but missing the emotional resonance, zeitgeist-catching populism and mainstream thrills which found movie franchises." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 5, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 44%	The Strangers (2008)	" An effective, scary emotional work-out, but perhaps you can have too much paranoid despair." — Empire Magazine Posted Aug 29, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 92%	Serpico (1973)	" Al Pacino delivers a powerful performance in this compelling biopic of a cop and a city's police force." — Empire Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 97%	The Snapper (1993)	" At once realistic and idealised, this is a rare attempt to make drama of ordinary people doing the right thing." — Empire Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	" Whether horror fans are ready for high-notes or musical buffs will appreciate Dario Argento levels of gore is an open question, but this is a rich, demented experience." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 24, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 18%	Saw IV (2007)	" Previously, Jigsaw and the filmmakers played fair, but too much about this latest instalment seems simply arbitrary." — Empire Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 79%	Scream 2 (1997)	" Clever parody of the sequel trend; once again we are treated to a movie mocking its own conventions. Some great comic -- and terrifying -- moments, but suffers for not being as original as the original." — Empire Magazine Posted Sep 23, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 53%	Sheitan (2006)	" Entertaining and genuinely creepy at times this boasts strong performances from its French cast." — Empire Magazine Posted Feb 22, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 25%	Saw III (2006)	" It requires a stretch of the imagination too far, but there's still plenty of gore and tricksy murders here." — Empire Magazine Posted Nov 29, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)	" *The best-looking Star Wars* episode of all, if not the most exciting, most imaginative or most affecting.*" — Sight and Sound* Posted Sep 28, 2006
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 68%	Snakes on a Plane (2006)	" All very well, but it is by no means the giddy delight that the fans hoped for." — Empire Magazine Posted Aug 26, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 37%	Scary Movie 4 (2006)	" *Worse than Scary Movies 1* through 3� And they were terrible.*" — Empire Magazine* Posted Apr 12, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	" Even when in danger of self-destructing, it cadges laughs with smart lines, silly observations or blokish inside jokes about zombie movies, video games and pub nibbles." — Empire Magazine Posted Apr 1, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 77%	Sin City (2005)	" For the guys it�s Rodriguez�s best film by far and a treat for fans of good-looking girls in black-and-white, of classic film noir and of imaginative ultra-violence." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 7, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 95%	Spartacus (1960)	" *Though this stuff could have been directed by anyone, the greatness of Spartacus* is in the stretches everyone remembers.*" — Empire Magazine* Posted May 19, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	" *One of the endearing aspects of Shaun of the Dead* is that, like Young Frankenstein, it pokes fun at its inspirations but plays by their rules.*" — Sight and Sound* Posted May 4, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	The Swimmer (1968)	" An enigmatic, poetic, disturbing, interestingly pretentious fable." — Empire Magazine Posted Jun 1, 2003
Fresh	Rotten 37%	Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)	" Hardy's pout and baldie glare are high-quality stage-trained British Hollywood fiendishness and, like the Borg Queen, he seems to have taken his fashion tips from Clive Barker's Cenobites." — Sight and Sound Posted Feb 4, 2003
Rotten	Rotten 52%	Scary Movie (2000)	" The air of desperation is emphasised by the insistence on padding out horror-movie gags with crude Farrelly-style humour." — Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002
—	N/A	Secrets of the Heart (1997)	Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 74%	Signs (2002)	" A terrific suspense movie, overlaid with a faintly embarrassing tale of faith lost and perhaps regained." — Sight and Sound Posted Oct 2, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Spider-Man (2002)	" Full of deftly handled small moments and characters." — Sight and Sound Posted Aug 8, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Scream 3 (2000)	" *If you want your trilogy to become a franchise, make something grander than Scream 3." — Sight and Sound* Posted Apr 17, 2001
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 71%	Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)	" As disturbing as it set out to be. This may not be an enjoyable experience but it is definitely an experience." — Empire Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2001
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	" Witty screenplay." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 50%	Summer of Sam (1999)	" An enormously energetic, flavourful film." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 85%	The Sixth Sense (1999)	" This ghost stuff works on a deeper level than the gross-out, and it�s nice that Hollywood has rediscovered the art of the soul-freezing scare." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 95%	The Straight Story (1999)	" The Straight Story, perfectly titled on several levels, is an exercise in strange sweetness that wouldn�t have shamed John Ford at his most elegiac." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	The Sweet Hereafter (1997)	" It's a tactfully acted film, beautifully shot in snowy widescreen, subtly scripted and directed with a rare touch." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000

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