ROTTEN TOMATOES: Telly Davidson

TELLY DAVIDSON

Agrees with the Tomatometer 38% of the time.

Biography: FilmStew.com movie critic.

Publications: FilmStew.com

Total Reviews: 22

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

Fresh	Rotten 31%	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	" The major highlight is the awkward, out-of-step dialogue between Lane and Gere as their budding relationship morphs from wariness to friendliness to love." Posted Sep 26, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 37%	Swing Vote (2008)	" Carroll turns Costner into her comic foil, effectively relegating the Oscar winner to giving a supporting-sidekick performance in his own film." Posted Aug 1, 2008
N/A	Rotten 44%	The Strangers (2008)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Says Bryan Bertino: "I was the one that rented The Texas Chainsaw Massacre* when I was still in junior high school."**" Posted Jun 26, 2008
N/A	Rotten 9%	Prom Night (2008)	" *Screw the remake and let us instead look back at the original Prom Night* in all its plasmatic and fuzzy-filmed glory.**" Posted Apr 11, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 20%	Chapter 27 (2008)	" *Leto's performance is as great a physical, if not emotional, transformation as Charlize Theron's "hagging it up" for Monster.*" Posted Mar 25, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 22%	P.S. I Love You (2007)	" Even though Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon are both way too old to be 29-year-old Holly�s best friends, they still provide welcome support." Posted Dec 20, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 60%	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)	" A comical cry in the silent night against, as George Burns� old song put it, the trend towards using people and loving things � instead of using things and loving people." Posted Nov 16, 2007
N/A	Rotten 37%	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director Zach Helm: "It might be rooted in my upbringing. As an only child living in a rural area, I had a lot of time by myself."" Posted Nov 7, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 31%	Martian Child (2007)	" A faithful adaptation would almost surely have necessitated that the focus be changed from a father-and-son story to a polemic on gay fatherhood." Posted Nov 2, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Talk to Me (2007)	" *Ejiofor recalls Ray Sharkey in The Idolmaker, but thankfully stops just short of Alan Bates in The Rose* and Eric Roberts in Star 80.**" Posted Jul 12, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 64%	The TV Set (2007)	" *Kasdan has the narrative vision (and the blls) to let most of the fun derive from what isn�t there rather than what is.**" Posted Apr 5, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 56%	Alpha Dog (2007)	" *The fraternity of Alpha* Busta Kappa is all about not being perceived as the �****� or �*� of the bunch." Posted Jan 10, 2007
N/A	Fresh 69%	Opal Dream (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - After focusing on the financial desperation of British working class males, Cattaneo opts for an Aussie fable about the power of children's imaginations." Posted Nov 21, 2006
N/A	Rotten 30%	Running with Scissors (2006)	" Filmmaker Interviews - Says author Augusten Burroughs of his new Hollywood adaptation, "It�s like watching a home movie where everyone is better looking."" Posted Oct 24, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 30%	Running with Scissors (2006)	" Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy�s new movie is a horror show, a snarky satire, a lacerating statement about the dreams of the everyday housewife � and the rest of us." Posted Oct 20, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 83%	This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)	" For all the sound and fury, Kirby doesn�t seem to entirely �get� that the only purpose of the Ratings System in today�s Information Age is as a Clintonesque symbolic gesture." Posted Sep 1, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 70%	World Trade Center (2006)	" It is the humanistic approach of Andrea Berloff�s screenplay and Nicolas Cage�s powerhouse performance that determines the fate of this highly anticipated drama." Posted Aug 8, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 90%	United 93 (2006)	" Like a photo dusted and wrinkled under a microscope by forensic investigators, the fingerprints of rights-clearances lawyers sadly mar and blur the picture�s focus." Posted Apr 28, 2006
N/A	Rotten 56%	Alpha Dog (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Perhaps the most surprising thing about the attorney central to the upcoming movie about Jesse James Hollywood are his feelings for the perpetrators." Posted Apr 24, 2006
N/A	Fresh 98%	Murderball (2005)	" Filmmaker Interview - Despite an Oscar nomination and option deal with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, former journalist Dana Adam Shapiro is taking it all in stride." Posted Feb 16, 2006
N/A	Fresh 86%	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	" A person can easily interpret the moral as being that The Other Kind of Love is truly impossible outside of the Castro, Greenwich, WeHo, Niagara Falls and South Beach." Posted Dec 19, 2005
N/A	N/A	Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One (1955)	" With a pair of new Alfred Hitchcock DVD collections upon us, the filmmaker�s daughter still remembers her dad as a champion of the fairer sex." Posted Nov 4, 2005

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