ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jake Coyle

JAKE COYLE

Agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

Biography: Associated Press film critic.

Total Reviews: 30

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

Fresh	Fresh 65%	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)	" The resulting film is an outlandish juggling act. It teeters, creaks and breaks at the seams, but somehow holds together better than you would expect and better than such an extravagant farce should." Posted Dec 22, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 83%	Avatar (2009)	" A movie whose effects are clearly revolutionary, a spectacle that millions will find adventure in. But it nevertheless feels unsatisfying and somehow lacks the pulse of a truly alive film." Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Invictus (2009)	" Invictus is dripping with inspiration -- how to summon it, how to communicate it. Late in his career, Eastwood seems to be finding it everywhere." Posted Dec 8, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 69%	The Last Station (2009)	" The message is clear, if you didn't get it from the rich acting: This is a film to celebrate nature and life." Posted Dec 2, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 57%	Brothers (2009)	" *The aspiration of Brothers* is noble. But it can't preserve the intimacy of the original film, and the loosened characters slide into cliche.**" Posted Dec 2, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 72%	The Road (2009)	" *Adapting a masterpiece such as The Road* is a thankless task, but the film doesn't work on its own merits.**" Posted Nov 23, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 85%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" Cage dives headlong into the madness. It's plain fun to see the actor give himself so fully to a character after several years of mostly forgettable action movies." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" There's not another filmmaker working today (or perhaps ever) who believes so strongly in the extremes of melodrama." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" *For too much of the 2 1/2-hour 2012, the end is not near.*" Posted Nov 11, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" Too much of the film is geared around 3-D wizardry. Unneeded sequences pop up for purely "wow" baiting." Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 22%	The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)	" *Cloaking vigilante justice (not to mention casual racism and homophobia) in religion eventually turns Boondock Saints* from merely a bad movie to a distasteful one.**" Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" The supernatural and its accompanying history of half-vampires and vampaneze never establishes itself as anything but ridiculous." Posted Oct 21, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" The film isn't shy about its feelings about technology - it's time to unplug. It laments a culture that medicates pain away and has its head in virtual realms." Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" It's Kate Beckinsale on Ice." Posted Sep 21, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 45%	Shorts (2009)	" Somewhere around the time a giant booger runs riot through the town, one wishes for a bit more adult supervision." Posted Aug 19, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 24%	G-Force (2009)	" *Most depressing about G-Force* is the talent wasted in the name of family entertainment.**" Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 51%	Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)	" The roles are paper thin, which is too bad considering the talent of the cast. They have all been better. Molina and Leguizamo, in particular, deserve better material." Posted Dec 10, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 37%	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	" Unfortunately, it falls into incredibly predictable territory." Posted Oct 3, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 13%	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	" If this sounds absurd, it is." Posted Jul 31, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	" *As summer movies get bigger and bigger, they often make us, the audience, feel smaller and smaller. The bright Kung Fu Panda* is a simple and lighthearted exception.**" Posted Jun 4, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	" [Director] Schwimmer shows some skill by keeping the mood light and making no notable missteps, but he still comes away looking like someone trying, and failing, to play Judd Apatow, the reigning champion of realistic, emotional comedy." Posted Mar 27, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 75%	City of Men (2008)	" *Though the histrionics of City of Men* are a bit obvious, and it lacks the bravado of City of God, it's ultimately a more rewarding film.**" Posted Feb 29, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)	" When Lee's finally called upon to yell the trademark 'Alllllvin!' it feels like a forced whimper that only reminds us how stale the decades-old material is." Posted Dec 12, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 17%	Revolver (2007)	" *After 2002's terrible Swept Away* and now Revolver, Ritchie has managed to make, back to back, two of the worst films any one director can lay claim to.**" Posted Dec 6, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 38%	August Rush (2007)	" We need to break out a whole new definition of cheesiness for a film like this, augmented by fake tears and vomit gestures." Posted Nov 21, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 90%	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	" While The Simpsons Movie is -- like the TV show has become -- too much a caricature of itself, it still possesses good cheer, an aversion to self-seriousness and manic energy for stuffing the screen with layers of humor." Posted Jul 25, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 2%	Epic Movie (2007)	" The film never becomes anything of its own, however; it merely jumps from spoof to spoof, often with tenuous transitions." Posted Jan 30, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 7%	Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006)	" This is the sort of film that thinks calling a beer a 'libation' is a form of wit." Posted Dec 1, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 6%	Deck the Halls (2006)	" It�s disappointing to see Broderick and DeVito try to make mediocre material work." Posted Nov 20, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 61%	Jackass: Number Two (2006)	" *True to its aim, Jackass 2* probably will leave fans more satisfied than the vast majority of films this year have left moviegoers.**" Posted Sep 22, 2006

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