ROTTEN TOMATOES: Rob Blackwelder

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ROB BLACKWELDER

""F***in' DARK in here!" Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), "Bound")"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography: Once upon a time, Rob was the entertainment editor at a small community college with a kick-*** journalism program. One day he graduated and realized that he could not give up writing about movies, even if he had to hold a day job to do it. Through a friend he got a peanut-paying freelance gig at a podunk newspaper in an overgrown farm town in Northern California, writing one review a week. It wasn't pretty, but it kept him on the mailing lists at the publicity houses. Soon Rob started a web site called Movieolla and before long was being chased by lawyers for the people who make the Moviola editing equipment that is the film industry work horse for cutting and splicing. Hmm, thought Rob, splicing! And thus was born SPLICEDwire (http://www.splicedwire.com), the web site for SPLICEDwire Content Services, which provides movie reviews and features to newspapers, web sites, and other media outlets. Rob was named one of the 10 Best Film Critics of 2003 by the Critic Doctor (http://www.criticdoctor.com/toptenlists/2003.html).

Favorites: RECENT #1 FILMS: 2003: "Lost in Translation" 2002: "Chicago" 2001: "Amelie" 2000: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" 1999: "Run Lola Run" 1998: "Buffalo '66" 1997: "Titanic" 1996: "Breaking the Waves" 1995: "Othello" Robio's FAVORITES list:

Breaking the Waves" (1996, Lars VonTrier)

"What's New Pussycat" (1965, Clive Donner)

"The Thin Man" (1934, Woodbridge S. VanDyke)

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981, Stephen Spielberg) [*} (tie) "His Girl Friday" (1940, Howard Hawks)

"The Seven Year Itch" (1955, Billy Wilder)

"Laura" (1944, Otto Preminger)

"Gilda" (1946, Charles Vidor)

"The Usual Suspects" (1995, Bryan Singer)

"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" (1991, Pedro Almodovar)

"Dangerous Liaisons" (1988, Stephen Frears)

"The Philadelphia Story" (1940, George Cukor)

"Bound" (1996, Wachowski Bros.)

"Moon Over Miami" (1941, Walter Lang)

Publications: Combustible Celluloid, SPLICEDWire

Critics' Group: San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 1891
Total QuickRatings: 310

Location: Oakland, CA

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Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	In the Mood for Love (2001)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Nov 17, 2007
Rotten 2/4	N/A	Ghost Rock (2003)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 23, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 10%	House of D (2005)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted May 27, 2006
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 47%	Don't Move (2005)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted May 27, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 64%	Cemetery Man (1994)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted May 27, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 29%	The Punisher (2004)	" Listless, lifeless, uninterestingly bleak and quite often ridiculous." — Combustible Celluloid Posted May 26, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 34%	Shark Tale (2004)	" The kind of flashy and colorful but insultingly trite Hollywood regurgitation that far too often gets a pass under the excuse that "it's just a kids' movie."" — Combustible Celluloid Posted May 26, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 87%	A History of Violence (2005)	" *David Cronenberg is out of his element in A History of Violence,* and it shows.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Sep 23, 2005
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 37%	Dear Wendy (2005)	" The film's last act almost completely self-destructs, falling into blind, metaphor-baiting machinations." — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 22, 2005
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 64%	Roll Bounce (2005)	" Director Malcolm D. Lee has a gift for finding gold nuggets of personality and comedy in the tailings of over-mined plots." — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 21, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 38%	Flightplan (2005)	" The third act begins with another twist � but this one is so arduous, absurd and out of character for the film that the entire plot, stretching back to Scene One, is sabotaged" — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 21, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)	" *Blessed with memorably iconic characters and a creative, if fairly predictable plot, Corpse Bride* is quick, droll, and destined to be a perennial Halloween favorite.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Sep 21, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 57%	Just Like Heaven (2005)	" When it comes to romantic chemistry, they never quite mesh, no matter what twinkle effect Waters puts on the screen when Ruffalo's hand touches Witherspoon's ethereal plane." — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 15, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Clueless (1995)	" The movie's simple yet spot-on characters and performances make the laughs timeless, no matter how firmly the film is set in 1995." — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 9, 2005
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 45%	The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)	" *Part spine-tingling horror movie, part unorthodox courtroom drama, Emily Rose* runs into trouble because it's ironically more credible as the former than the latter.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Sep 8, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 11%	The Man (2005)	" A boring, all-you-can-regurgitate buffet of buddy-movie/cop-movie banality, it would collapse under the weight of its own generic stupidity (without) Jackson and Levy." — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 8, 2005
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 53%	An Unfinished Life (2005)	" Another sleepy, sweeping soft-serve melodrama from director Lasse Hallstrom...the story arc seems to have been drawn on graph paper rather than written in a script." — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 8, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 83%	The Memory of a Killer (2005)	" *The only thing that prevents The Memory of a Killer* from seeming 100-percent Hollywood is the characters' speaking in subtitled Dutch.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Sep 2, 2005
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 7%	A Sound of Thunder (2005)	" A catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and conspicuously cheap special effects that can't even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next." — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 1, 2005
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 50%	Transporter 2 (2005)	" Few bad movies are more aggravating than a sequel that betrays everything which made its predecessor entertaining." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 31, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	The Constant Gardener (2005)	" A preachy but gripping socio-political thriller...directed by Fernando Meirelles with the same unblinking, sweaty, ground-level grittiness he brought to City of God." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 30, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 32%	Pretty Persuasion (2005)	" Puerile social satire, stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated wit and overwhelming smugness are painful to sit through." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 26, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 8%	Undiscovered (2005)	" Can somebody tell me why we're supposed to care about these one-dimensional MTV-spawned caricatures? Writer John Galt and director Meiert Avis sure haven't offered any clues." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 26, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 37%	The Brothers Grimm (2005)	" A movie with a Terry Gilliam look and feel but without a Terry Gilliam soul. (The director) seems to have had his spirit broken by studio mandates and commercial constraints." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 24, 2005
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 95%	Elevator to the Gallows (1957)	" In backwards-thinking terms, Malle was the Tarantino of his day, giving French cinema a creative, influential shot in the arm that opened new horizons in directorial thinking." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 18, 2005
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 85%	The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)	" Since the clever, off-kilter, off-color, surprisingly character-driven guffaws just keep coming and coming, the movie is side-splitting in spite of its fundamental flaws." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 17, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 36%	Asylum (2005)	" *A mid-20th-century bodice-ripper about sexual obsession and questionable sanity, Asylum* doesn't live up to its admirable pedigree.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Aug 16, 2005
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 78%	Red Eye (2005)	" *Wes Craven tries his hand at Hitchcockian suspense in Red-Eye,* and turns in a modest B-movie thriller that's just as invigorating as it is easy to pick apart.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Aug 15, 2005
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 10%	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)	" I did get through it without being overwhelmed by the urge strangle myself, so the movie has that going for it." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 12, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 52%	Four Brothers (2005)	" *Singleton fills the screen with moody darkness (but) Four Brothers* falls apart completely in the last act.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Aug 12, 2005
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 100%	The Gold Rush (1925)	" Curiously melancholy yet packed with laughs, the picture's funniest moments aren't even the famous ones." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 11, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 86%	Junebug (2005)	" A dreary, stagnant story about people who make no effort to think or grow." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 11, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 38%	The Skeleton Key (2005)	" A first-rate concept for a spine-tingling tale...rendered impotent by bland, generic execution." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 10, 2005
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 84%	2046 (2005)	" Another achingly evocative and melancholy near-masterpiece from Wong Kar-Wai...blessed with vivid, visceral performances that burst at the seams with reserved passion." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 8, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 87%	Broken Flowers (2005)	" ...has a bottomless poignancy that Jarmusch cements in quiet character moments, symbolic imagery and out-of-reach temptations that wiggle effectively into the subconscious." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 8, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 14%	The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)	" Too much blah-blah, not enough 'Yeeehawww!'" — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 2, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 31%	November (2005)	" Those who give themselves over to Harrison's compelling machinations will be rewarded with a superbly unnerving mystery." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 31, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 35%	Must Love Dogs (2005)	" *The film's curdled aftertaste is so frustrating that it may be hard to remember why Must Love Dogs* ever seemed so endearing and entertaining in the first place.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jul 28, 2005
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	Sky High (2005)	" A clich�-dependent Disney cheapy that aims no higher than the unsophisticated standards of its pre-adolescent target audience -- and somehow succeeds in spite of itself." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 28, 2005
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 13%	Stealth (2005)	" *Daisy, Daisy I'll blow you out of the sky / I'm half crazy, seen Top Gun* too many times...a plumb guilty pleasure.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jul 26, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 67%	A Sidewalk Astronomer (2005)	" If [i]A Sidewalk Astronomer[/i] can't turn you on to astronomy, I feel sorry for you." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 21, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 40%	The Island (2005)	" The third act (is) so full of holes it's a wonder the film doesn't get tangled up in the projector." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 21, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 46%	Bad News Bears (2005)	" *...feels less like The Bad News Bears* and more like the clich�-riddled sports-underdog comedies that have been ripping off The Bad News Bears for 30 years.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jul 20, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 74%	Wedding Crashers (2005)	" *The Vaughn-Wilson chemistry makes Wedding Crashers* sing with consistant laughter, but it crosses the finish line with a pronounced limp.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jul 15, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 56%	Happy Endings (2005)	" Roos has a gift weaving good laughs out of human failings and frailties." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 14, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)	" Tim Burton is ideally suited to bringing Roald Dahl's twisted-as-taffy children's tale to the big screen, and the sourball confection created as a result is pure movie magic." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 13, 2005
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 46%	Dark Water (2005)	" Torpid, trite and not the least bit scary � just unrelentingly unpleasant � (and) the most contemptible kind of cinema horror: putting little kids in peril for cheap thrills." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 7, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 29%	Undead (2005)	" *What the movie lacks in clarity it makes up for in gallons of campy gore. Undead* sure ain't art, but it sure is fun.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jul 6, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 26%	Fantastic Four (2005)	" Who are these half-wit Hollywood clowns that keep hiring cleavage-candy actresses with no measurable talent to play laughably bespectacled scientists in action movies?" — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 6, 2005
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 64%	5X2 (2005)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 5, 2005

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