ROTTEN TOMATOES: Lisa Johnson

LISA JOHNSON

Agrees with the Tomatometer 58% of the time.

Biography: FilmStew.com film writer.

Publications: FilmStew.com

Total Reviews: 45

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

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

N/A	Rotten 37%	Street Kings (2008)	" Actor Interview - Says Hugh Laurie: "I suppose that if there's one theme to the movie, it's that people are not as they seem."" Posted Apr 8, 2008
N/A	Rotten 49%	Nim's Island (2008)	" Actor Interview - Says Gerard Butler: "Abigail charged me two dollars every time I swore [on set]."" Posted Apr 2, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Young@Heart (2008)	" The best film I've seen so far this year and easily one of my favorite documentaries ever." Posted Mar 28, 2008
N/A	Fresh 72%	Under the Same Moon (2008)	" Actor Interview - Says America Ferrera: "I loved the idea of putting a face and a name to a word like "immigration.""" Posted Mar 11, 2008
N/A	Fresh 65%	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	" The guy on my right was guffawing uproariously while the girl on my left was wondering out loud, "How did this ever get greenlit?"" Posted Feb 22, 2008
N/A	Fresh 92%	Caramel (2008)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Nadine Labaki: "In Lebanon, you are always scared of what people will think of you. Their judgment is very important."" Posted Feb 13, 2008
N/A	Rotten 10%	Fool's Gold (2008)	" *Actor Interview - Says Alexis Dziena: "After being in Broken Flowers* and running around completely naked, it wasn't so bad."**" Posted Feb 8, 2008
N/A	Fresh 93%	Juno (2007)	" *Actor Interview - Juno* co-star Jennifer Garner evidently likes to play a little game called "Gotcha Baby Gotcha."**" Posted Dec 7, 2007
N/A	Fresh 89%	The Savages (2007)	" Actor Interviews - Says Philip Seymour Hoffman: "I just look at The Savages as a film about two people, and not a lot changes in the movie."" Posted Nov 30, 2007
N/A	Rotten 47%	Rendition (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Jake Gyllenhaal to the reporter: "You look like a nice mint chocolate chip cookie."" Posted Oct 19, 2007
N/A	Rotten 26%	The Final Season (2007)	" Actor Interviews - Says Powers Boothe: "Filming was like a great, family vacation and reminded me of why I wanted to be an actor, back when I was a really young guy."" Posted Oct 10, 2007
N/A	Fresh 67%	The Darjeeling Limited (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Jason Schwartzman: "I thought Wes [Anderson] wanted to invite Roman [Coppola] to come walk the dog with us."" Posted Oct 5, 2007
N/A	Fresh 94%	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Amir Bar-Lev: "All of a sudden, the family stopped doing all interviews with the media and wanted me to exonerate them.�" Posted Sep 25, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 54%	Across the Universe (2007)	" A wildly creative magical mystery tour of a film that's dying to take you away, dying to take you away, take you away." Posted Sep 14, 2007
N/A	Rotten 43%	December Boys (2007)	" Actor Interviews - Says Daniel Radcliffe: "To be honest, it wasn�t much of a stretch to pretend like you have a crush on Teresa, because she�s just beautiful."" Posted Sep 7, 2007
N/A	Fresh 80%	Great World of Sound (2007)	" Filmmaker Interviews - Says co-star Jack Healy: "Wouldn�t that be great if someone got a recording contract after all, because of the film?�" Posted Aug 28, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 13%	September Dawn (2007)	" For all its cinematic weaknesses, I left the theatre weeping. �Now you know how I feel when I see holocaust films,� my Jewish husband told me gently as he wiped away my tears." Posted Aug 24, 2007
N/A	Fresh 84%	Delirious (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director Tom DiCillo: "The money people said, �You gotta get a pop star!� And I said, 'No, I want Allison Lohman.'"" Posted Aug 21, 2007
N/A	Rotten 33%	Marigold (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says co-star Ali Larter: �In the U.S., I would have had at least six weeks to rehearse and get ready. In this one, I had three days."" Posted Aug 7, 2007
N/A	Fresh 97%	Once (2007)	" *Filmmaker Interview - For a while there, Van Morrison really had Once* star Glen Hansard going.**" Posted Aug 1, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 39%	No Reservations (2007)	" I found myself wanting to shout at the screen, 'Would you please just hurry up and have sex with your new sous chef so we can skip to dessert and go home?!�" Posted Jul 30, 2007
N/A	Rotten 57%	Interview (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says writer, director and star Steve Buscemi: "I�ve always been very fortunate with the press."" Posted Jul 6, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 77%	A Mighty Heart (2007)	" Why not cast a Thandie Newton, a Kerry Washington, even a Halle Berry in the lead, unless one actress happens to be sleeping with the producer?" Posted Jun 22, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)	" With about a zillion quick cuts per minute, the film itself is like nothing you�ve ever seen." Posted Jun 12, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 59%	Bug (2007)	" That�s the essence of the best horror films. They cause you to wonder: Is it all in your head? Is it really just in the movies? And could this actually happen in real life?" Posted May 25, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 44%	Fay Grim (2007)	" I envisioned Hartley coaching his actors, �You�re showing too much emotion! I want you to sound more as if you�re reading those lines!�" Posted May 18, 2007
N/A	Fresh 65%	Severance (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director Christopher Smith of the possibility of a sequel: "I have this great idea for a synchronized swimming sequence..."" Posted May 15, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 17%	Georgia Rule (2007)	" Lohan stalks around in short low-cut outfits and tries to seduce everything with a penis, from a missionary to her boss to her stepfather. Sound like fun for the whole family?" Posted May 11, 2007
N/A	Fresh 62%	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Thomas Haden Church: "These roles are fairly sought after by anyone that could, by any stretch of the imagination, fit in. I was overwhelmed."" Posted May 4, 2007
N/A	Rotten 16%	The Condemned (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says star Stone Cold Steve Austin: "It�s just like the producer in the movie says, �People like to watch violence. Always have, always will.�" Posted Apr 27, 2007
N/A	Rotten 20%	The Invisible (2007)	" Actor Interview - Margarita Levieva does it barehanded, without cinematic devices like spooky Goth makeup, CGI super powers or weapons even." Posted Apr 24, 2007
N/A	Rotten 55%	Vacancy (2007)	" Actor Interviews - Says co-star Kate Beckinsale: "We would have a horrible time with each other in a scene and then immediately have a good laugh afterwards."" Posted Apr 20, 2007
N/A	Fresh 67%	Disturbia (2007)	" *Filmmaker Interview - When a press junket is held on April Fools Day, you just know* something weird is going to happen.** " Posted Apr 3, 2007
N/A	Fresh 87%	After The Wedding (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says co-writer and director Susanne Bier: "If you decide not to have kids, there�s a whole area of life which you will not experience."" Posted Mar 23, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 88%	The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)	" The film�s star refused to comment on the similarities between Ireland and Iraq when he spoke to journalists, but we couldn�t help talking amongst ourselves." Posted Mar 16, 2007
N/A	Rotten 26%	Ghost Rider (2007)	" Actor Interviews - Suggests star Nicolas Cage: "What we have here is a deeper movie, a philosophical movie, dressed in a popcorn movie�s clothes."" Posted Feb 19, 2007
N/A	Rotten 15%	Hannibal Rising (2007)	" *Filmmaker Interviews - Says producer Dino De Laurentiis: "My age is connected to the three C�s: cervello (brains), cuore (heart) and coglione (blls)."**" Posted Feb 6, 2007
N/A	Rotten 11%	The Architect (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Writer-director Matt Taub says the only other actor he's seen do this as well as co-star Hayden Panettiere is Monk* star Tony Shalhoub.**" Posted Dec 28, 2006
N/A	Fresh 65%	Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Zhang Yimou actually wanted to popluate Curse of the Golden Flower* with actresses in even more risqu� get-ups.**" Posted Dec 22, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 68%	Babel (2006)	" I��rritu not only tries to pull the heart strings with children weeping; there�s also the completely gratuitous side story about Asian teens in short skirts sans panties." Posted Dec 8, 2006
N/A	Rotten 30%	Running with Scissors (2006)	" Actor Interview - Co-star Kristin Chenoweth talks about what it was like to kiss one of this year's leading Best Actress contenders." Posted Oct 24, 2006
N/A	Rotten 37%	Death of a President (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - Writer-director Gabriel Range insists his Toronto Film Festival award winner is not an "exercise in liberal fantasy."" Posted Oct 20, 2006
N/A	Rotten 48%	Driving Lessons (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interviews - After 12 takes, writer-director Jeremy Brock says his Driving Lessons* star Rupert Grint finally got the concept of tongue kissing.**" Posted Sep 29, 2006
N/A	Fresh 87%	The Last King of Scotland (2006)	" Actor Interview - As Forest Whitaker did his research on Idi Amin, he came to realize that this dastardly dictator was once a very charming man." Posted Sep 15, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 58%	Confetti (2006)	" This uproarious film put my friend Donna and I in such a jovial mood that afterwards, we ran over to Tiffany�s in Beverly Hills." Posted Sep 15, 2006

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