ROTTEN TOMATOES: Henry Stewart

HENRY STEWART

Agrees with the Tomatometer 63% of the time.

Biography: Henry was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he still lives today. He held a Bachelor's degree in philosophy, but sold it when he discovered that the paper it was printed on was actually more valuable. He now has a Master's degree in journalism, equally worthless.

Favorites: Vertigo, Annie Hall, City Lights

Publications: Cinepinion, Slant Magazine, The L Magazine

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 306

Location: Bay Ridge, NY

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Fresh A-	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" The brothers cloak their bleak theology in the cover of a comedy, but the pain and injustice of a world in which God only takes but does not give--in which he punishes the seemingly unoffending--is clear and deep. So why that stupid opening?" — Cinepinion Posted Dec 29, 2009
Fresh A+	Fresh 93%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" Anderson's most radical suggestion--and this isn't from Dahl--might be that, between animal rights and workers rights, there's little distinction." — Cinepinion Posted Dec 29, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 89%	Crazy Heart (2009)	" Should we be congratulating Bridges, or the team that mussed his stringy hair?" — The L Magazine Posted Dec 29, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Nine (2009)	" "'Style is the new content'"" — The L Magazine Posted Dec 29, 2009
Fresh A-	Rotten 59%	The Headless Woman (2009)	" *It would almost be reminiscent of Carnival of Souls* if it didn't evoke Antonioni so strongly.*" — Cinepinion* Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" Bigelow is a merciless director. [But screenwriter] Boal, despite his war-reporter background, turns out to be a sucker for schmaltz." — Cinepinion Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" The dramedy builds to conflict that's predictable as much as it's inevitable; and yet, because of the emotional honesty in which Mottola steeps the film, it's harrowing. The climactic reconciliation? Obvious. And @!$%-ing heartbreaking." — Cinepinion Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 95%	35 Shots of Rum (2009)	" *A seemingly authentic portrait of the immigrant and children-of-immigrants experience in contemporary France that puts to shame Cederic Klapisch's recent Paris..." — Cinepinion* Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 84%	Bright Star (2009)	" *Revolves around a love story stilted, pretentious and twee, essentially Garden State* moved to London, ca. 1818. But the failings of the first quarter give way to a glorious middle...*" — Cinepinion* Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	A Single Man (2009)	" If anyone was wondering what it'll feel like in the future, when Vanity Fair's ad pages contain short films on paper-thin screens rather than static images, the answer is: a lot what it feels like to watch A Single Man..." — The L Magazine Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	[Rec] 2 (2009)	" [The film] (sort of) works as an allegory for a pandemic of contagious immorality and godlessness...but the directors aren't blind apologists for the Church, either." — The L Magazine Posted Dec 15, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 41%	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)	" Maybe it would function better as a stage piece. Or, like, as a series of short stories, collected in some kind of book..." — Cinepinion Posted Nov 29, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 78%	Bronson (2009)	" Refn avoids the pitfall of adapting a real life story--getting mired in conforming the complexities of a life into the blueprint of a familiar narrative--by artfully addressing a larger, compelling theme. Until he settles into the biopic's familiar rhythm" — Cinepinion Posted Nov 29, 2009
Rotten B-	Fresh 86%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" Director Webb is like our country's Christophe Honore, except his sensibilities are so Hollywood, masquerading as Indiewood..." — Cinepinion Posted Nov 29, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 95%	[Rec] (2007)	" Filmed in the rawness of firsthand experience with a handheld camera that is disorienting and imprisoning: it puts you at the mercy of the directors, who exploit their authoritarian position to maximum effect." — Cinepinion Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten C	N/A	I Can See You (2009)	" Some neat surrealism can't hide its underlying vacuity." — Cinepinion Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 82%	Pontypool (2009)	" The filmmakers' target is Talk Radio, obviously of the kind that would (after the film was released) put together Tea Parties..." — Cinepinion Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 42%	The Last House on the Left (2009)	" The movie is disgusting. The violence is disturbing, too--but it's the film's underlying politics that really make you want to vomit." — Cinepinion Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh A	Rotten 44%	The Box (2009)	" A parable about The Wars, about Americans' willingness to kill strangers in exchange for prosperity--as long as they don't have to get their own hands dirty, of course." — Cinepinion Posted Nov 23, 2009
Rotten B-	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" Faithfully capturing the textures of juvenilia should be a means, not an end..." — Cinepinion Posted Nov 23, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 87%	The Sun (2005)	" A character study, compelling in its moodiness, that devolves into a plodding portrait." — The L Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 55%	Uncertainty (2009)	" The best thing [it] has to offer is its portrait of Bloomberg's city: it's on a par with Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, and much richer in texture than the recent and largely clueless New York, I Love You..." — The L Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 77%	That Evening Sun (2009)	" When the rest of the cast and crew can't keep up, being such a talented performer becomes a fault. Holbrook doesn't just deserve better material; he needs equitalented colleagues." — The L Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 13%	Friday the 13th - Part 3 (1982)	" None of the second film's sensible motivation [are present in] this entry's killings: Jason's murders here are illogical and indiscriminate, heralding what we would later be able to diagnose as Rob Zombie Syndrome." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 35%	Friday the 13th - Part 2 (1981)	" The quintessential 80s slasher, complete with promiscuous, plastered, post-Carter pueriles getting their reactionary deserts...maintains an anchoring sense of driving logic--something that can't be said for so many of the horror movies that would follow.." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 26%	Halloween II (1981)	" Halloween...is in a class by itself, and comparing the sequel to it--as critics and audiences often do, dismissively--is unfair. Sure, [it] lacks the freshness of its predecessor. But compared to films its own size...it's a goddamn masterpiece." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Scream of Fear (1961)	" *Less a horror movie than a mystery: not Carnival of Souls* so much as an episode of Scooby Doo...an eerie and efficient guessing game.*" — The L Magazine* Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 95%	Theatre of Blood (1973)	" The real pleasure here is watching Price exercise his campy range, not only by hamming his way through the grand speeches of the Great Tragedies but also by appearing in a variety of costumes, in that grand English style of dress-up..." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 21%	Halloween II (2009)	" Myers is Operation Enduring Iraqi Freedom incarnate..." — Cinepinion Posted Oct 26, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 50%	Wild Grass (2009)	" On the surface, [it']s about obsessive romantic love; a bit deeper, it's about an elderly cineaste's obsession with the movies." — Cinepinion Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Baby Doll (1956)	" An actor's piece, a supreme example of The Power of the Method...about a South in transformation, both economically and culturally." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" The haunting is a metaphor for the challenges young couples face in building successful relationships..." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 14, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 41%	New York, I Love You (2009)	" This isn't a film by and for New Yorkers, a series of love letters from hometowners and transplants; it's a shallow portrait sketched by casual admirers, outsiders looking in through clich�-tinted lenses." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 14, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 82%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" Almod�var's movie about movies...feels half-realized, the hasty production of an unpolished draft." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 9, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" Another clich-soused bildungsscreenplay. So, that on screen it's anything other than an object of infuriation is a near-miracle, one that owes its...lack of utter failure to its stellar cast and its extra-Hollywood pedigree." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 7, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	The White Ribbon (2009)	" And that little boy grew up to be...Hermann Goering?" — The L Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Ponyo (2009)	" Such blatant cynicism would rarely be found in an American cartoon. But Miyazaki isn't afraid of going past the limits with which his intended audience is accustomed..." — Cinepinion Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 50%	Antichrist (2009)	" For a while it's wonderful...grappling with the contours of grief, the effects of toddler suicide, the limits of psychotherapy and the dynamics of marriage. And then Charlotte Gainsbourg has to spoil it all by doing something stupid..." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Police, Adjective (2009)	" Vertigo-esque [but] not so much concerned with the politics of cinema as it is with simple politics." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 2, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 77%	Afterschool (2009)	" Palely imitative...which no amount of Bela Tarr pacing, no cloak of arthouse legitimacy, can hide. This is a sham." — The L Magazine Posted Oct 2, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" The more prolific Steven Soderbergh becomes, the more his movies feel like perfunctorily adumbrated rough drafts..." — The L Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 67%	Paris (2009)	" "Ritzy, shabby, trashy Paris," as one character describes it, told through ditzy, flabby, flashy filmmaking." — The L Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 91%	Harmony and Me (2009)	" [It] has nothing going for it: not its ghastly DV aesthetic, not its mangled sense of humor, not its go-nowhere narrative, not its casual non-performances, not its haphazard editing." — The L Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 38%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" *If you cut through the romantic veneer that thinly blankets [this] epitome of manipulative women's weepies, you find the creepiest Tinsel Town picture since the pedophilic and incestuous 17 Again..." — Cinepinion* Posted Sep 14, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" *Though global warming gets namechecked only once in Whiteout, and off-handedly, it's the ever-present subtext..." — The L Magazine* Posted Sep 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	We Live in Public (2009)	" Too many recent documentaries fail because they take compelling topics and turn them into bland films...But We Live in Public...serendipitously avoids this pitfall by taking video as its subject. You need to see it in order to understand it." — The L Magazine Posted Sep 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Summer Hours (2009)	" The real tragedy is that snipped thread of historical continuity and consequent nihilism." — Cinepinion Posted Aug 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Tarantino's coup is to replace one set of tropes with another: his latest is a Western, spaghettisploitation with a National Socialist twist, merely disguised as a war movie...As such, he gives the W.W. II movie a much-needed kick in the ass." — The L Magazine Posted Aug 28, 2009
Rotten B-	Fresh 82%	Beeswax (2009)	" Bujalski is the Apatow of the Underground." — Cinepinion Posted Aug 19, 2009

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