ROTTEN TOMATOES: Bruce Demara

BRUCE DEMARA

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Publications: Toronto Star

Total Reviews: 40

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

Fresh 3/4	Fresh 85%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" *Hungry for some good old family-friendly entertainment? Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs* should fit the bill of fare.**" Posted Sep 18, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 18%	Love Happens (2009)	" This romantic-comedy is the kind of cloying, saccharine-saturated date movie that only the most deluded of fools in love would enjoy." Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 65%	Adam (2009)	" The film rides on Dancy's wonderfully authentic performance." Posted Aug 7, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 47%	The Girl From Monaco (2009)	" As a solid thriller, La fille de Monaco feels like it's missed the mark." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 87%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" Falling in love or falling out? This film offers a helpful tonic for either condition." Posted Jul 23, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 54%	Cheri (2009)	" By the end, it almost seems as if Frears has wearied of the tale, bringing in the narrator to dispatch Ch�ri to his fate (an unhappy one) in a few well-modulated sentences." Posted Jun 26, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 47%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" With solid performances and an intelligent script, My Sister's Keeper offers a moving and powerfully realistic portrait of a family stalked by tragedy that somehow manages to emerge from crisis battered but intact." Posted Jun 26, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 78%	The Hangover (2009)	" A strong cast, a quirky script with some unexpected twists and a steady hand from the director's chair make this a desert ride on the wild side a worthy road trip." Posted Jun 5, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 51%	Easy Virtue (2009)	" Full of gorgeous architecture and sightlines but a bit too cold for comfort and with an all-too pervasive air of tedium." Posted May 29, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 18%	Dance Flick (2009)	" What it isn't is subtle, smart or particularly funny." Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 66%	Is Anybody There? (2009)	" There's a touch of magic at play here but it is of the understated variety, delivering a finale that is unexpectedly hopeful, moving and emotionally satisfying." Posted May 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 68%	Adoration (2009)	" Egoyan draws strong performances from the entire cast, including a solid performance from Scott Speedman, sporting a heavy beard, as the uncle raising the orphaned Simon, a sort of everyman embodying Western liberalism who is flawed by his own insularity." Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 46%	Hotel for Dogs (2009)	" Plot and character development are pretty much irrelevant in the sunshiny fantasy world of this movie." Posted Jan 16, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Toronto Stories (2008)	" There is in each of these tales -- as in good short story writing -- hints of darker places and hidden pain as well as a sense of hope and redemption." Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 40%	Savage Grace (2008)	" While the pace occasionally flags and there are times when we wonder where Kalin is leading us, he maintains a pervasive sense of dread and unease throughout that makes the chilling climax seem both shocking and inevitable." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 21%	Righteous Kill (2008)	" The power couple's onscreen chemistry, which should be the film's strongest calling card, is merely adequate, a major disappointment for those expecting a tug o' war between screen titans." Posted Sep 12, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 88%	Frozen River (2008)	" It's fair to say that Hunt's first full-length feature, though uneven at times, holds the promise of better things to come." Posted Aug 22, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 38%	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	" *Thanks to Wilson's sympathetic performance and Pellington's restraint, Henry Poole is Here* may just succeed in warming hearts and lifting spirits.**" Posted Aug 22, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 90%	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	" Director Wang Quan'an shows us a China of contrasts and in transition, where a life of traditional farming is harder than ever to sustain while life in the nearest city includes nice hotels, decent health care and good schools." Posted Aug 22, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 40%	The Longshots (2008)	" *So how does the creative team behind The Longshots* freshen up such a hackneyed, clich�-ridden franchise? The answer is that, despite a game effort, they don't.**" Posted Aug 22, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 15%	Mirrors (2008)	" How could horror be so dull?" Posted Aug 19, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 86%	'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007)	" It gives us a glimpse back to a time when hepcats were cool and jazz was king, reminding us that the power of great music transcends time, fate, exile and even death." Posted Aug 15, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 87%	Jellyfish (2008)	" Jellyfish, with its pervasive sense of mysticism, is anything but standard, predictable storytelling. What is it exactly? Well, you might as well ask a jellyfish." Posted Aug 8, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 71%	American Teen (2008)	" A moving and engrossing slice-of-life documentary about teen life in small-town Warsaw, Ind." Posted Aug 1, 2008
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 65%	Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008)	" Despite a game performance by Trevor Matthews in the lead, not much in this alleged comic/horror flick really succeeds as either funny or scary." Posted Jul 25, 2008
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 55%	Step Brothers (2008)	" A movie of unrelenting idiocy featuring boorish behaviour, unrealistic character development and ludicrous plotting." Posted Jul 25, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 73%	Stuck (2007)	" Stuck gives a boost to the dramatic elements of the story, while preserving the stern lesson about a society crumbling under the weight of self-interest and moral decay." Posted Jul 18, 2008
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 87%	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	" One can't help but wonder whether Del Toro hasn't misjudged the balance between comedy and gravity in this sequel." Posted Jul 11, 2008
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 15%	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	" Writer/director Jeff Lowell settles for a story that takes a little too long to tell, concocted situations a little too implausible to buy and repartee that occasionally hits the dartboard but never gets close to the bull's-eye." Posted Feb 1, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 24%	Awake (2007)	" The plot has more holes in it than a tea bag and the film should come with a warning label: don't go see with anyone with even a modicum of medical knowledge, because they'll surely spend the film huffing and rolling their eyes skyward." Posted Dec 3, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 9%	The Comebacks (2007)	" Sports fans (including those with old head injuries) are likely to cheer. The rest of us may just go for the long pass." Posted Oct 22, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 49%	30 Days of Night (2007)	" It's clear the film script has gone through the standard Hollywood death-of-a-thousand-rewrites wringer to emerge as shadow of its former self, drained of much of its creative synergy." Posted Oct 19, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 46%	Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (2007)	" In the end, it's easy to answer the question: why don't we care what happens one way or the other?" Posted Oct 15, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 13%	The Seeker (2007)	" Director David L. Cunningham's proffered chills are strictly of the lightweight variety: a menacing flock of ravens, a slimy skein of snakes and a couple of mall security yobs too fat or stupid to overpower even a spindly teenager." Posted Oct 13, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 52%	The Hunting Party (2007)	" *Politics aside, The Hunting Party* is a breezy, occasionally bumpy ride that ultimately becomes a satisfying journey.**" Posted Sep 14, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 26%	Halloween (2007)	" Trick or treat? Rob Zombie's "re-imagining" of John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic Halloween must sadly be consigned to the former category and it's not even a very interesting, suspenseful trick at that." Posted Sep 4, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 74%	Sunshine (2007)	" Sunshine -- despite a title so at odds with the film's tone -- is engrossing, believable and intelligent sci-fi filmmaking at its best." Posted Jul 20, 2007
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 89%	Rescue Dawn (2007)	" *Workmanlike and watchable, Rescue Dawn* is nonetheless a disappointment in its depiction of a hero with plenty of scars but little depth or substance beyond an iron will.**" Posted Jul 6, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	Sweet Mud (2006)	" An appealing coming-of-age tale that takes on the difficult issues of mental illness and conformity." Posted Jun 15, 2007
—	Fresh 72%	Sunshine (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Jan 1, 2000

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