ROTTEN TOMATOES: Chris Kaltenbach

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Black Book
4/4	Vanaja
A-	Once
3.5/4	The Secret Life of Bees
B+	The Italian
3/4	My Name is Bruce
B	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard
b-	Evening
C+	Ocean's Thirteen
2/4	Blindness
C	The Flying Scotsman
1.5/4	Beverly Hills Chihuahua
C-	Dan in Real Life
D+	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
D	License To Wed

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Vanaja
A	Taxi to the Dark Side
A	U2 3D
A	Black Book
A-	Persepolis
A-	Once
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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D	Over Her Dead Body
D	License To Wed
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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3.5/4	" Its script is smart, its conceit a heart-tugger in the finest of senses, and it's the first Disney effort in way too long to be more concerned with being a movie than with being a breeding ground for product tie-ins." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Nov 21, 2008	Bolt (2008)	84%
3/4	" An exercise in self-indulgent filmmaking at its most endearing." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Nov 14, 2008	My Name is Bruce (2008)	25%
3.5/4	" Even as it stubbornly resists any sense of closure, it cautiously reminds its characters and its audience that hope, and the future it promises, is sometimes more a matter of conviction than revelation." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Nov 14, 2008	Ballast (2008)	85%
2/4	" Even with a running time of nearly 2 1/2 hours (which, to Eastwood's credit, moves along at a brisk pace), it's hard to avoid the feeling there should be more to this story than what made it on screen." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 31, 2008	Changeling (2008)	57%
4/4	" A wondrous piece of filmmaking and a sensitive, engaging movie from a first-time filmmaker working on a shoestring budget with a cast of nonactors." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 24, 2008	Vanaja (2007)	80%
3.5/4	" *Love and family may not be able to overcome everything, but you couldn't prove that by The Secret Life of Bees, a refreshingly clear-headed film version of Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling novel." -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Oct 17, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	58%
2/4	" [A] belabored allegory that fails to even set up any rules, much less abide by them." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 3, 2008	Blindness (2008)	42%
1.5/4	" It's hard to go wrong with a movie full of talking dogs. But the makers of Beverly Hills Chihuahua sure try." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 3, 2008	Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)	41%
C+	" It's a film that sometimes wants to be School of Rock, sometimes wants to be This Is Spinal Tap, but ends up more like an uninspired episode of The Partridge Family." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	39%
C	" The film's respect for its source material goes only so far before reducing everything to the level of an old-style Saturday-morning cartoon, complete with stock characters finding themselves in stock situations." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 15, 2008	Fly Me To The Moon (2008)	17%
B-	" Simplistic as can be with its cliched squabbling-family dynamics offering little more than a hook for the 3-D technicians to hang their hats on. But for most audiences, this one included, that was plenty." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	61%
B+	" Stop-Loss, a harrowing, emotional indictment of a war that has divided this country like no conflict since Vietnam, delves into what happens when the country doesn't do as well by its soldiers as they do by it." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
C-	" If only it had some funny lines, a focused plot and an idea that stretched beyond the initial setup." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Mar 21, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
A	" It is, at once, among the most riveting and hard-to-watch documentaries of recent years." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Feb 22, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
C	" *Seeing itself as a Ferris Bueller's Day Off* for the 21st century, Charlie Bartlett the film is instead a testimony to how low we as a culture can stoop.*" -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Feb 22, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
C-	" An overly gimmicky and fatally repetitive terrorist thriller that quickly wears out its welcome." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Feb 22, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	36%
C+	" Even as a zombie film, it comes across not as something new, but as something warmed-over." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Feb 15, 2008	George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)	61%
C	" *There's enough kinetic energy in Jumper* to light a thousand houses. Unfortunately, there's no one home in any of them.*" -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Feb 14, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
B	" Definitely, Maybe adds some welcome spice to a genre that rarely ventures beyond the predictable anymore." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Feb 14, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
c+	" Undeniably energetic and viscerally satisfying, but emotionally hollow." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Feb 14, 2008	Step Up 2 the Streets (2008)	24%
B-	" *Screen couplings that work are things to be treasured. In that sense, Fool's Gold* is as close to the real thing as we've come in a while.*" -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Feb 8, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
C	" Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins imagines slapstick farce as feel-good dramedy, which is to say, it's an unhappy (and largely unfunny) marriage of two movie types that don't really go together." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Feb 8, 2008	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)	24%
A-	" At once a tribute to one young woman's stubborn resilience and a reminder that people are people, regardless of how their governments may want them to behave, Persepolis is a film of great wisdom and welcome perception." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Feb 1, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	96%
D	" *Parker, who must have phoned in her performance during a weekend break from Desperate Housewives, is simply awful." -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Feb 1, 2008	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	16%
B-	" How She Move sure has got the moves. And even if we've seen so many of them before, its young cast delivers the goods with such gusto and drive that the familiarity breeds more enjoyment than contempt." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 25, 2008	How She Move (2008)	67%
C	" Untraceable lambastes us for being amoral voyeurs as it panders to our baser instincts at the same time." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 25, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
A	" A concert film featuring one of the world's premier rock bands in top form, shot using cutting-edge technology that gives the audience a better-than-front-row seat. What's not to love?" -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 23, 2008	U2 3D (2008)	92%
C-	" Allen's latest, his 42nd effort as a director, is the work of an artist devoid of ideas and energy. Perfunctorily staged and lazily written, it comes to life in only the briefest of spurts, usually when the ever-reliable Tom Wilkinson is on-screen." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 18, 2008	Cassandra's Dream (2008)	49%
C+	" The pleasures of this slight caper film are strictly small-screen, as three talented actresses walk through quaint roles before they hurry on to the next project." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 18, 2008	Mad Money (2008)	21%
B-	" The film's overriding sense of the unknown ratchets up the suspense, if not the terror." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 18, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
B	" *Predictable but utterly engaging, 27 Dresses* will likely be remembered as the film that made Katherine Heigl an A-list star.*" -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Jan 18, 2008	27 Dresses (2008)	40%
B	" *Adult horror returns to the screen with the crisp and frightening The Orphanage, a haunted-house tale about the dueling forces of childhood friendship and maternal love." -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	86%
C	" First Sunday is a movie about forgiveness that asks its audience to forgive too much -- with regard to both its characters and its makers." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 11, 2008	First Sunday (2008)	14%
C+	" The Bucket List is 98 minutes of mawkish sentiment, a stream of greeting-card moments." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	41%
C-	" Dan in Real Life wants desperately to be loved. It includes a few laughs...but with all its cloying, tone-deaf attempts at genuine emotional warmth, all it really deserves is to be avoided." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 26, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	66%
B-	" A charmer that boldly marches where lesser movies -- at least since the heyday of John Hughes -- fear to tread." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 21, 2007	Sydney White (2007)	38%
D+	" Such ham-fisted earnestness does no one any good, least of all those who believe there's a big difference between historical fact and emotional screed." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 24, 2007	September Dawn (2007)	13%
B-	" At times, it's a mawkish drama about a mother-son relationship that's uncomfortable to watch and too melodramatic to be believed. Then, it's a sprightly comedy about an innocent boy who hits the adolescent jackpot." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 10, 2007	Introducing The Dwights (2007)	52%
B+	" [A] lean, mean surviving machine of a film." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 27, 2007	Rescue Dawn (2007)	90%
C	" A romantic comedy that does precious little with the considerable resources at its disposal." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 27, 2007	No Reservations (2007)	39%
D+	" Films that preach tolerance and respect for diversity, which is what this one does ultimately, are fine and good, and here's hoping the message comes across. But here's betting the fat and the gay jokes hang around a lot longer." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 20, 2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)	13%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 14, 2007	Preaching to the Choir (2006)	36%
B	" The humor arises from the situations and the characters, not from an overeager screenwriter's determination to cram as many jokes and putdowns into the script as possible." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007	Knocked Up (2007)	91%
b-	" The acting, by any measure, is superb." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007	Evening (2007)	27%
C	" The movie includes a few good one-liners, but that's really all it is -- a forum for putdowns and sassy dialogues." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007	The Salon (2005)	13%
A	" [Director] Verhoeven proves a sure-handed storyteller, which might come as a surprise, as well as a terrific visual stylist, which shouldn't." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007	Black Book (2007)	76%
B+	" Away From Her is that rare movie that breaks hearts with finesse and reserve, not through brute force." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007	Away From Her (2007)	94%
B	" Those willing to overlook its emotional grandstanding will find much to admire and even more to think about in this Oscar-nominated Danish drama." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007	After The Wedding (2007)	87%
C+	" 28 Weeks Later doesn't match the impact of its predecessor." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 10, 2007	28 Weeks Later (2007)	71%
B	" Citizen Kane, it isn't. But for 140 minutes in the dead of summer, it's a ton of dumb fun." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Jul 3, 2007	Transformers (2007)	57%

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