ROTTEN TOMATOES: Alonso Duralde

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Persepolis
4/5	The Dark Knight
3/5	What Happens in Vegas
2/5	Speed Racer
1/5	Made of Honor

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	A Christmas Tale
5/5	Slumdog Millionaire
5/5	Quantum of Solace
5/5	Role Models
5/5	Zack and Miri Make a Porno
5/5	Synecdoche, New York
5/5	Happy-Go-Lucky
5/5	Vicky Cristina Barcelona
5/5	Pineapple Express
5/5	Elegy
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	Soul Men
1/5	My Best Friend's Girl
1/5	Hounddog
1/5	Bangkok Dangerous
1/5	College
1/5	Death Race
1/5	Swing Vote
1/5	Space Chimps
1/5	The Love Guru
1/5	War, Inc.
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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3/5	" *Hardwicke has shrewdly made a film that will appeal to the audience that could make or break it. But there's little here to win over those of us without dog-eared copies of Twilight* under our beds.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Nov 21, 2008	Twilight (2008)	43%
2/5	" *[W]hen the canine protagonist of Bolt* borrows a character arc from Buzz Lightyear, even youngsters will smell a rip-off.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Nov 18, 2008	Bolt (2008)	84%
5/5	" A Christmas Tale brilliantly captures the melancholy and familial recrimination that, for some people, is as much a part of the holiday season as fruitcake and egg nog." -- MSNBC Posted Nov 11, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	93%
5/5	" *Once Slumdog* launches into its final act, you'll get that pang that comes with the last chapter of a great book you wish you weren't about to finish.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Nov 11, 2008	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	92%
5/5	" This isn't Roger Moore or even Pierce Brosnan we're dealing with here -- this is a 007 who bleeds and aches, both internally and externally." -- MSNBC Posted Nov 11, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	66%
2/5	" Easily entertained children will probably be amused enough by Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, but their parents may find themselves growing restless at this overly fussy, shticky movie and will not doubt look forward to an Escape 2 the Lobby once the" -- MSNBC Posted Nov 4, 2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)	60%
1/5	" *The plot outline for Soul Men* could fit comfortably on a single note card, with room left over for a grocery list and a few phone numbers.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Nov 4, 2008	Soul Men (2008)	44%
5/5	" ...a well-crafted concoction, from the brilliant payoff of a running gag about KISS to its unique blend of crassness and huggability." -- MSNBC Posted Nov 4, 2008	Role Models (2008)	76%
3/5	" The Haunting of Molly Hartley flirts with having something to say about budding female sexuality and evangelical religion, but it winds up being a pale copy of several of Roman Polanski's more chilling films." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 31, 2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)	3%
5/5	" A lovely, naughty little movie that allows writer-director Kevin Smith to indulge his twin penchants for scatological sex talk and heartfelt slacker romance." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 29, 2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	64%
2/5	" *Let's just say that I walked out of HSM 3* humming the tunes from the other movies.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Oct 21, 2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)	67%
5/5	" It's the best American film of 2008 to date, and probably of 2007 and 2006 as well." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 21, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	65%
2/5	" Audiences will be forgiven for reaching for their coats and then putting them down again over and over; everytime you think this tune is done, there's another 38 bottles of beer on the wall." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 20, 2008	Changeling (2008)	57%
2/5	" *Sixteen years after The Player,* it's apparently still all about making temperamental British directors change their endings and grappling with the casting of Bruce Willis.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Oct 17, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	51%
2/5	" Eventually, Max pieces together a conspiracy, but Max Payne spells it all out so obviously that the densest audience members will put the pieces together at least half an hour before the hero finally does." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 17, 2008	Max Payne (2008)	18%
4/5	" Even though Stone can't resist the occasional lapse into cartoonishness, W. winds up being a thought-provoking examination of a crucial turning point in American history." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 16, 2008	W. (2008)	58%
3/5	" *At its best, Secret Life of Bees* feels like an American spin on the wonderful Dutch Oscar-winner Antonia's Line, about a utopian matriarchal society that stands apart from a world in chaos.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Oct 14, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	58%
2/5	" While producers Fox Walden continue in their efforts to bring interesting books for youngsters to the big screen, moviegoers are advised to read the novel and skip the flick." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 10, 2008	City of Ember (2008)	48%
2/5	" The Hollywood Surge still isn't working." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 8, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	50%
5/5	" Indeed, playing someone sunny without making them totally irritating might be more of a challenge than portraying Lady Macbeth, and Hawkins makes Poppy's good cheer pragmatic and personable." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 7, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	94%
3/5	" If it's adrenaline, over-the-top violence and cheeky gangsters you're after, RocknRolla definitely delivers. But don't be shocked if you find yourself wanting some aspirins and a cold compress once it's all over..." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 7, 2008	RocknRolla (2008)	58%
3/5	" [D]espite an appealing cast and a tone of mildly sardonic sweetness, the movie is missing that X factor that makes you understand why the characters fall for each other and gets you to root for them being together." -- MSNBC Posted Oct 1, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2/5	" Blindness bleeds seriousness and lofty intentions from its every frame, but it's a didactic bore." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 30, 2008	Blindness (2008)	42%
3/5	" [T]he film is a compelling mix of painful comedy and revelatory tragedy, but when we get to the wedding reception, director Jonathan Demme gets completely distracted by the musicians he's cast to perform in the film." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 30, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	87%
2/5	" What might have been a zeitgeist-fueled paranoid thriller along the lines of The Conversation or Three Days of the Condor winds up an unintentionally hilarious exercise in the suspension of disbelief, peppered with confusingly edited car cha" -- MSNBC Posted Sep 25, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
2/5	" Many critics will no doubt tar this film with the dreaded "Lifetime movie" epithet, but I'd venture a bit further -- Nights in Rodanthe is the world's longest General Foods International Coffee commercial." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 24, 2008	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	31%
3/5	" *Lee's creative passion is apparent throughout Miracle at St. Anna,* but the screenplay lets him, and the audience, down.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Sep 23, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	33%
1/5	" Want to spend a seemingly endless 100 minutes watching a dullard trying to decide between a douchebag and a eunuch? Then run, don't walk, to My Best Friend's Girl, a supremely irritating movie about idiots and their dull quest for unconvincing love" -- MSNBC Posted Sep 19, 2008	My Best Friend's Girl (2008)	16%
3/5	" Appaloosa will probably just ride off into the sunset without much of an impact, but it will sate your fix for horses, guns and slapping leather. You know, if you're into that sort of thing." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 19, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	76%
2/5	" If an actor this talented is going to slum it in hokey, over-the-top thrillers, I'd prefer he direct his anger at those mother-effing snakes on that mother-effing plane." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 16, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	44%
2/5	" In the hands of a filmmaker with an actual point of view -- Sally Potter, say, or Mike Leigh -- this could be a potentially inflammatory tale. But with British TV vet Saul Dibb (The Line of Beauty) at the helm, it's just a story about a woman who m" -- MSNBC Posted Sep 16, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	61%
1/5	" ... a laughably lurid, vulgar parade of barefoot children, Gothic stereotypes, and "Fetch me a Co-Cola" dialogue you thought had gone out with God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 16, 2008	Hounddog (2008)	17%
2/5	" Compared to 88 Minutes, Pacino's previous collaboration with director Jon Avnet, it's a work of art, but the movie is so dreadfully by-the-numbers and predictable that comparing it to a TV cop show would be an insult to TV cop shows." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 11, 2008	Righteous Kill (2008)	22%
2/5	" The Women clangs with so many false moments that you practically leave the theater with tinnitus." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 9, 2008	The Women (2008)	13%
2/5	" [O]ne gets the impression that with just a few cuts, the film could be a gut-busting laugh riot or a taut bit of suspense. What actually wound up on screen, however, feels like all and none of the above at the same time." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 9, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	79%
1/5	" If Cage wants to use his clout as an actor and producer (he's credited with both here) to make down-and-dirty B-movies, then more power to him. But if the results are going to be this unbearable, he'd might as well crank out the Oscar-bait." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 5, 2008	Bangkok Dangerous (2008)	9%
4/5	" [W]hen the characters are this charming and the dialogue is this smart, you won't mind watching a little white ball clonk its way from paddle to tabletop and back again." -- MSNBC Posted Sep 2, 2008	Ping Pong Playa (2007)	67%
2/5	" If the eventual director's cut DVD proves this movie to be a masterpiece, then I'll be first in line to buy it. Given what's currently unfolding on the big screen, however, it's no wonder the director is so eager to disown it." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 29, 2008	Babylon A.D. (2008)	7%
1/5	" Like a fraternity hazing, the film is sexist, gross, and simultaneously homophobic and homoerotic; like a freshman dying of alcohol poisoning, it's not funny in the slightest." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 29, 2008	College (2008)	6%
2/5	" All you'll learn about the War on Terror from this movie is that one exists." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 26, 2008	Traitor (2008)	56%
1/5	" *[D]irector Paul W.S. Anderson gives us gray cars racing around gray buildings underneath a gray sky. When I found myself longing for the eye-scorching hues of Speed Racer,* I knew we were in trouble.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	41%
2/5	" It's a movie that wastes the talents of up-and-comers (Emma Stone from Superbad), rising stars (the sublimely funny -- in other movies -- Anna Faris) and talented vets (Beverly D'Angelo, looking like she wishes she were anywhere else) alike." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 21, 2008	The House Bunny (2008)	40%
4/5	" Hamlet 2 is never boring, and it certainly contains some of the heartiest laughs you'll have at the movies this summer, but it lacks a sense of engagement that would have made it so much better." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 19, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	62%
4/5	" *If only for making Tom Cruise and Matthew McConaughey funny for the first time since 1994 or so, Tropic Thunder* would already qualify as an impressive comedic achievement.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Aug 12, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
5/5	" Funny, intelligent, provocative and heartfelt, the film will remind moviegoers why they ever loved Woody Allen." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 12, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	81%
2/5	" *Very young kids, Star Wars* completists and Lucas apologists may find themselves compelled to attend; anyone else would have a better time going to the Toshi Station to pick up power converters.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Aug 12, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	19%
5/5	" *Usually, the laughs disappear when the violence starts getting heavy, but Pineapple Express* never ceases to bust the audience's guts, even when the characters onscreen are getting shot in theirs.*" -- MSNBC* Posted Aug 6, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
5/5	" It's an often-wrenching film, but it's one that thoughtful filmgoers can't afford to miss." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 4, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
3/5	" [T]his sequel to the 2005 sleeper hit feels like the Teen People version of an old Hollywood "women's picture," the sort of vehicle that kept Joan Blondell and Ann Sothern busy before and during World War II." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 4, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
1/5	" As for the political commentary ... it's as toothless as a Disney Channel movie." -- MSNBC Posted Aug 1, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	36%

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