ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mark Feeney

MARK FEENEY

Agrees with the Tomatometer 59% of the time.

Biography: Boston Globe film critic.

Publications: Boston Globe

Total Reviews: 36

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

Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 87%	Four Seasons Lodge (2009)	" *The best thing about Four Seasons Lodge* is its subject.**" Posted Dec 15, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 70%	American Casino (2009)	" Much of the final two-thirds of the documentary can have a TV newsmagazine feel: solidly presented, but not shaped to a larger end. As self-righteousness sets in, however justified, so does a certain artistic slackness." Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	More Than a Game (2009)	" What�s almost as impressive as James�s talent on the court is his poise and character." Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 73%	Act of God (2009)	" The film doesn�t need a narrator, since the people whose accounts we hear speak so absorbingly. All talking heads should talk so articulately." Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 84%	Captain Abu Raed (2008)	" Writer-director Amin Matalqa�s debut affirms life, plucks heartstrings, and knows no shame." Posted Aug 27, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 92%	Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)	" The documentary, like the series, is haimish in the extreme - cozy, warm, homey. It touches on such larger issues as feminism, acculturation, suburbanization, and the blacklist." Posted Aug 7, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 79%	Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009)	" Diverting as Glaser is being retrospective, it�s so much more interesting -- not to mention truer to his achievement -- watching him being creative." Posted Jul 2, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 79%	The Garden (2009)	" Justice and Corruption and Profit are abstractions, and film is so ill suited to deal with abstractions." Posted May 21, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 82%	The Country Teacher (2009)	" Liska, who looks like a Central European version of the young Harvey Keitel, has a kind of pitch-perfect opacity." Posted May 21, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 91%	Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)	" A sense of mortality shadows the documentary. On or off the gridiron, time is the only opponent who always wins. Even at Harvard, even at Yale." Posted Nov 21, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 93%	Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)	" *Instead of attempting a character study, Boogie Man* returns an indictment.**" Posted Oct 24, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 94%	Last Year at Marienbad (1961)	" Marienbad is elegantly hermetic, a ravishing waxworks that has stillness at its heart." Posted Feb 29, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 2%	Meet the Spartans (2008)	" *It's a MADtv* or Saturday Night Live sketch dressed up in feature-length clothing. It's way too much of an OK thing. And the way-too-much-ness goes on and on.**" Posted Jan 28, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 96%	Let's Get Lost (1988)	" Yes, it's about Baker, obviously, but a Baker who's somehow both much more and much less than the man seen on screen." Posted Jan 25, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 37%	Rambo (2008)	" None of this is beyond what you'd expect -- or fear -- from a Rambo movie. What is inexcusable is the moral self-congratulation the movie trades on, attaching itself to the plight of the Burmese people." Posted Jan 25, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	N/A	N: Napoleon & Me (2007)	" Napoleon and Me is always lively and often charming." Posted Dec 20, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 96%	Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007)	" It makes for a strange, but somewhat endearing, melange of the grim and comic." Posted Dec 6, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 82%	Czech Dream (2007)	" Let's encourage people to make fools of themselves -- then mock them when they act foolishly!" Posted Nov 9, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 85%	Terror's Advocate (2007)	" For just a moment, ignore politics. Consider Jacques Verg�s simply as star. The radical French lawyer is an absolutely compelling figure onscreen: exotic, resolute, beguilingly smug." Posted Nov 9, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 53%	The Man of My Life (2007)	" he film has a loose, easy rhythm befitting its sun-splashed look." Posted Nov 9, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 79%	Sharkwater (2007)	" Undersea photographer Rob Stewart, who directed, wrote, narrated, stars in, and helped shoot Sharkwater, really, really loves sharks. He also fears for their future on the planet. His lively documentary makes you see why, on both counts." Posted Nov 2, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	N/A	Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project (2006)	" Part of the fascination of Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project is that the documentary is so firmly planted at the intersection of -- maybe that should be collision between -- artistic self-involvement and family." Posted Nov 2, 2007
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 79%	The Rape Of Europa (2007)	" Not helping matters are Joan Allen's blanched tones as narrator, or the general flatness of the talking heads." Posted Sep 28, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 94%	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	" It's so simple, so obvious -- and a revelation." Posted Sep 14, 2007
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 96%	Deep Water (2007)	" *To reveal Crowhurst's decision would be to spoil a stunning tale. Deep Water* is not itself comparably stunning.**" Posted Sep 7, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 23%	Balls of Fury (2007)	" Balls of Fury also scores points, so to speak, for coming up with its own sports context. Talladega Nights had NASCAR. Blades of Glory had the world of figure skating. Ping-Pong has . . . rec rooms?" Posted Aug 29, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 47%	Duck (2007)	" *Writer-director Nic Bettauer can't decide whether to play Duck* for tears or laughs.**" Posted Aug 24, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 100%	Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008)	" Gimmicks and hyperbole aren't necessary, so long as there's O'Day's beaming face to look at -- radiant when young, radiant and wrinkled when old -- and the sound of that sloe-gin voice to savor." Posted Aug 3, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 82%	Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (2007)	" A patently nice man, Ralph is a not very compelling figure." Posted Jul 27, 2007
Rotten 3/4	Fresh 61%	Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2008)	" Alternately hypnotic and irksome." Posted May 4, 2007
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 74%	Becket (1964)	" *Everything that Doctor Strangelove* is -- daring and inspired, vibrant and brilliantly staged -- Becket is not.**" Posted Feb 23, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 97%	The Rules of the Game (1939)	" What ultimately defines the film, what makes it unforgettable, is its tragic gravity." Posted Dec 22, 2006
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 95%	Children of Paradise (1945)	" What ultimately defines the film, though, what makes it unforgettable, is its tragic gravity." Posted Dec 22, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 75%	The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover (2006)	" The worst thing about this fine documentary is its title." Posted Dec 15, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 89%	William Eggleston In The Real World (2005)	" William Eggleston in the Real World offers an admiring and affectionate, if also unillusioned, view of its subject at work, play, and not much of anything (a suitably Egglestonian activity)." Posted Dec 2, 2005

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