ROTTEN TOMATOES: Gary Goldstein

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Once
5/5	Boy A
3.5/4	United 93
4/5	The Business Of Being Born
3/4	Pink Panther
3.5/5	Times and Winds
2.5/4	Nanny McPhee
3/5	Never Forever
2/4	End of the Spear
2.5/5	Severance
2/5	The Poet
1.5/4	Failure to Launch
C-	Bella
1.5/5	Dirty Laundry
1/4	2 Days In Paris
1/5	Midnight Eagle

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Boy A
4/4	Once
4/4	Rent
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	Circulation
1/5	P.J.
1/5	College
1/5	Midnight Eagle
1/4	2 Days In Paris
1/4	Grandma's Boy
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

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3.5/5	" Restaurateur Toots Shor gets an overdue documentary close-up courtesy of his granddaughter, director Kristi Jacobson, in the enjoyable, well-assembled Toots." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 21, 2008	Toots (2008)	100%
2/5	" B.O.H.I.C.A. makes the most of its single setting and small, well-chosen cast, but otherwise never gels into the stirring antiwar statement it clearly aspires to be." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 14, 2008	B.O.H.I.C.A (2008)	n/a
2/5	" It's too bad there was no way around the story's inherent deficit since this effectively unsettling film, directed by Rob Schmidt, chugs along quite well for a while." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 14, 2008	The Alphabet Killer (2008)	n/a
1/5	" Cheesy visual effects involving, apparently, spiders and caterpillars round out the ineptitude." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 7, 2008	Circulation (2008)	n/a
1/5	" P.J. is an unconvincing drama saddled with dime-store psychology and a clunky inspirational message." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 7, 2008	P.J. (2008)	n/a
4/5	" Perhaps it's the bright, decent, appealing kids seen here, or just the idyllic portrait Suh paints of student life at Manhattan's prestigious Stuyvesant High School that gives the picture its charm." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 24, 2008	Frontrunners (2008)	88%
2/5	" erhaps a bit of star power, or at least less generic actors in the leads, might have given these underdeveloped siblings more credence or appeal." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 24, 2008	The Elephant King (2008)	11%
1/5	" A tedious, by-the-numbers raunch-fest that exists strictly because it can." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2008	College (2008)	6%
3/5	" Summer Bishil turns in a gutsy, quietly riveting performance as Jasira." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	48%
4/5	" If anyone thinks the last two U.S. presidential elections were contentious, they were schoolyard scuffles compared to Mexico's explosive 2006 presidential race." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 10, 2008	Fraude: Mexico 2006 (2008)	80%
4/5	" Parents eager to venture outside the animation or talking-Chihuahua boxes for family entertainment should check out the documentary The Little Red Truck, an inspiring look at a diverse array of youngsters introduced to the joys of stage performing." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Little Red Truck (2008)	29%
2.5/5	" Given that this supremely silly satire directed by The Naked Gun's David Zucker plays more like something slapped together to beat an expiration date, it's hard to get too worked up about it." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 6, 2008	An American Carol (2008)	14%
2/5	" Though Freebird may prove a worthwhile ride for its motorcycling trio of middle-aged screw-ups, it's a bad trip for anyone stuck watching this tedious drug comedy." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 2, 2008	Freebird (2008)	n/a
3.5/5	" An intelligent adult drama that's especially relevant in these harsh economic times." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 26, 2008	Days and Clouds (2008)	81%
4/5	" A poignant film filled with ample rewards for those who submit to its leisurely pace and gentle observations." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 26, 2008	August Evening (2007)	91%
	" [The] endless string of demeaning apartment-doorway interactions with a convincing cross-section of hungry customers is darkly funny, even if it never snowballs into the After Hours-type obstacle course one might hope." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 19, 2008	Take Out (2008)	100%
4/5	" An absorbing look at how a circle of dispossessed young artists from the 1990s eventually found its way to mainstream success." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 29, 2008	Beautiful Losers (2008)	72%
3/5	" The Longshots is a likable enough Cinderella story, one whose heart is clearly in the right place, even if it winds up on its sleeve once too often." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 22, 2008	The Longshots (2008)	38%
1.5/5	" Modine does what he can to sell the flimsy premise, but he's so hamstrung by Eddie O'Flaherty and J.P. Davis' sketchy script -- not to mention by O'Flaherty's clumsy direction -- that it's a losing battle." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 8, 2008	The Neighbor (2008)	n/a
3.5/5	" Recent and archival interview, news, war and music footage, which often juxtapose the Vietnam and Iraq conflicts, round out this unflinching, well-constructed picture." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	64%
4/5	" A Man Named Pearl not only makes you want to get out there and play Edward Scissorhands but can, at least for its 78 jazz-and-gospel infused minutes, help replenish one's faith in humanity." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	A Man Named Pearl (2008)	73%
5/5	" An absorbing, finely nuanced morality tale." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	Boy A (2008)	89%
4/5	" If Tony Soprano had a cheekier, less haunted, openly gay British counterpart, it would be Dominic Noonan, the Manchester crime boss profiled in the stylish and compelling A Very British Gangster." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 18, 2008	A Very British Gangster (2008)	67%
4/5	" What the film loses in momentum as the romance takes over, it gains in sex appeal as its two attractive actors make their own kind of magic." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	Death Defying Acts (2008)	44%
4/5	" An especially shameful chapter in U.S. history -- the internment of innocent Japanese Americans during World War II -- is sensitively examined in the overly brief but worthy documentary Passing Poston." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	Passing Poston (2008)	71%
2.5/5	" Although talented newcomer Christine Horne is ideal as the younger Hagar, letting Burstyn play the character at around 50, despite best-effort lighting, was not the wisest choice." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Stone Angel (2008)	47%
	" Rarely has the healing power of sports been as genuinely depicted as in director Susan Koch's perception-altering documentary Kicking It." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Kicking It (2008)	57%
3.5/5	" Director Adam Yauch tricks up this eclectic look at all-star high school basketball with so much cool high-def camera work and showy editing it's sure to satisfy the film's target youth audience's appetite for zippy visuals and swift pacing." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008)	74%
3/5	" If Adrian Lyne directed a racy Lifetime movie, then asked Danielle Steel what to call it, you'd pretty much have Never Forever, a sudsy chamber piece that's engrossing despite its many plot holes and contrivances." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	Never Forever (2008)	79%
2/5	" ... no crackerjack action flick but rather a dizzying, unfocused and, frankly, dull assemblage of revelations and denials." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File (2008)	50%
3.5/5	" *With its copious nudity and zipless hedonism, Viva, though unduly long, is a crafty reminder of a time when the X rating was flaunted, not feared." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 20, 2008	Viva (2008)	65%
3.5/5	" *Though modestly plotted and deliberately paced, Times and Winds* is a hypnotic look at life in a remote village on Turkey's northwest coast.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 13, 2008	Times and Winds (2008)	86%
2/5	" *There's a viable story lurking within the World War II melodrama The Poet, but much of it likely landed on the cutting room floor." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Poet (2008)	n/a
4/5	" Despite -- or, perhaps, because of -- his cult status, Sheldon makes a compelling centerpiece for the lively, nostalgic documentary Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008)	n/a
4/5	" Packed with an extraordinary amount of archival material, the film offers a fascinating, if occasionally dense look at a grass-roots movement that became the world's chance to retroactively fight Hitler's Holocaust." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 23, 2008	Refusenik (2008)	94%
	" A sort of cross between The Shawshank Redemption and an episode of MSNBC's Lockup, the intriguing documentary The Dhamma Brothers makes a cogent case for prisoner rehabilitation over, as one inmate here bluntly puts it, being 'warehoused till you die'." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	The Dhamma Brothers (2008)	82%
	" *A tale of resourcefulness and resilience, as the often-overlooked female perspective on the Shoah* gets its due.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 5, 2008	Swimming in Auschwitz (2008)	n/a
4/5	" [A] lovely, absorbing adaptation of Anne Michaels' lauded novel." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	67%
2.5/5	" So relentlessly oppressive it suffocates its potentially strong themes and characterizations." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Four Minutes (2007)	76%
4/5	" Though it's not the most technically or narratively proficient piece, the film's compelling subjects can't help but inspire, even if we're not always privy to what truly drives them or how their family lives have been affected." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	Beyond the Call (2008)	56%
	" The Lost succeeds as both a superior crime drama and a haunting cautionary tale." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 29, 2008	Jack Ketchum's The Lost (2008)	67%
	" Even if you've never run for anything but a bus, you'll likely get swept up in this movie's inspiring journey of physical endurance and personal achievement." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 25, 2008	Spirit of the Marathon (2008)	88%
4/5	" Pregnant women -- and involved dads -- would be well advised to check out this provocative portrait." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2008	The Business Of Being Born (2008)	77%
1/5	" A stupor-inducing, would-be thriller from Japan whose sporadic action and inept storytelling is as generic as its title." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	Midnight Eagle (2007)	31%
1.5/5	" Overwritten and under-directed by Maurice Jamal, the movie contains several honest moments but remains too awash in clichés and stereotypes to take seriously." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	Dirty Laundry (2007)	50%
2.5/5	" Bella is certainly a sweet, life-affirming picture, but it's just not authentic or captivating enough to justify its wildly concocted scenario." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 9, 2007	Bella (2007)	46%
C-	" A sweet, life-affirming picture, but it's just not authentic or captivating enough to justify its wildly concocted scenario." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 26, 2007	Bella (2007)	46%
3/4	" *While less successful than the similarly-themed Mystic River* -- which was also adapted from a Lehane tome -- is still a cut above, thanks in large part to its many fine performances.*" -- Reel.com* Posted Oct 19, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	94%
3/4	" Broken goes a bit heavy on the symbolism (naming the leads Hope and Will, for starters) and tries to stir up sympathy for characters who may not deserve it, but as cautionary tales go, it's worth a look." -- Reel.com Posted Oct 19, 2007	Broken (2007)	13%
3/4	" *Though, for today's movie-going audience, Golda's Balcony* may have limited appeal, it's a moving and vital story with many satisfying moments.*" -- Reel.com* Posted Oct 12, 2007	Golda's Balcony (2007)	67%

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