ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stephen Garrett

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/6	Once
4/6	Hermanas
3/6	Blindsight
2/6	Arthur and the Invisibles
1/6	Code Name: The Cleaner
0/6	Home of the Brave

BEST REVIEWED
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/6	Home of the Brave
1/6	My Name is Bruce
1/6	Henry Poole Is Here
1/6	Chapter 27
1/6	Witless Protection
1/6	Good Luck Chuck
1/6	Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief)
1/6	The Brothers Solomon
1/6	And Then Came Love
1/6	Delta Farce
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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3/6	" The results are downright schizophrenic -- a whiplash contrast between touching and tried-and-true." -- Time Out New York Posted Nov 20, 2008	Bolt (2008)	84%
4/6	" Directors Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan examine where their homeland will be in ten years, and the answer reveals a nation full of contradictions." -- Time Out New York Posted Nov 12, 2008	Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey (2008)	n/a
3/6	" Ferociously queasy-making for its first half before flatlining into banality." -- Time Out New York Posted Nov 5, 2008	Gardens of the Night (2008)	64%
1/6	" Add two stars -- or even three -- if you�re as passionate about cheesy B-actor Campbell as he is about himself. All others can skip the good-natured self-aggrandizement of the Bubba Ho-Tep star." -- Time Out New York Posted Oct 29, 2008	My Name is Bruce (2008)	25%
2/6	" Na�vet� drives the characters and the filmmaking -- a lethal combination for a movie that�s desperate to come across as world-weary and wise." -- Time Out New York Posted Oct 15, 2008	The Elephant King (2008)	11%
3/6	" A dash of levity is key, and while Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch had almost too much to spare -- to the point of being facile exercises in braggadocio -- Ritchie�s latest is a sleeker model, less impetuous and more experienced." -- Time Out New York Posted Oct 8, 2008	RocknRolla (2008)	58%
2/6	" American rugby is the setting for this earnest sausage party of macho posturing, bro-dacious life lessons and value-focused sportsmanship that give wayward teens the strength to rise above sinful temptations." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 24, 2008	Forever Strong (2008)	27%
4/6	" Koji Masutani and Blight methodically examine how John F. Kennedy�s stalwart authority and nuanced judgment preserved an unambiguous, if fragile, peace at six different inflammatory moments during his presidency." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 17, 2008	Virtual JFK (2008)	70%
2/6	" The jarring skips required for clockwork peeks into each sexual narrative turn all the participants into reductive character sketches, spouting pithy one-liners and sporting ready-to-wear emotions on their sleeves." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 27, 2008	YPF (2008)	40%
3/6	" About as edgy as a Jonas Brothers concert, this harmless homage to �80s hair bands and 21st-century emo teenyboppers is wholesome in its debauchery and good-natured in its antiauthoritarianism." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	39%
1/6	" Why develop character when you�ve got stylish images and music full of weepy uplift?" -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	34%
2/6	" Neil Young rolls the cameras on himself and geriatric bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash as they tenaciously cling to social relevance by generally preaching to the converted during their 2006 antiwar Freedom of Speech tour." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	64%
2/6	" August tries to bluff its way into success as a deeply felt parable of greed, loyalty and family ties, but ends up being just as fatuous as those burst-bubble paper-tiger corporations it eviscerates." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	August (2008)	35%
2/6	" Three dimensions are one too many for this flat tale of geological grandiosity." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	61%
2/6	" By all means, teach our children about America�s storied past, but don�t use it to put lipstick on a narrative pig bred for selling bacon." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 18, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	78%
2/6	" Young-adult in conception and execution, this award-winning animated romance with a Thanatos twist is an underdeveloped sci-fi Groundhog Day." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2008)	87%
2/6	" *A parade of pain dominates Kung Fu Panda, which forgoes the rigors of character development for lazy, bone-crunching mayhem." -- Time Out New York* Posted Jun 5, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	89%
3/6	" Those with a yen for foolish grandeur are in for a treat. But don�t be deluded into thinking there�s more in store." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	The Foot Fist Way (2008)	57%
2/6	" Imagine a Jewish L�Avventura without any of the profound existential rumination, troubling emotional ennui or unnervingly seductive filmmaking, and a picture will form of this well-intentioned but ultimately simplistic tale of loss." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008	Tehilim (2007)	29%
2/6	" What emerges is a short movie that feels too long, a heartfelt drama too playful to be sincere, and a narrative touching on adult themes but sabotaged by schematic false notes." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	31%
3/6	" *Harajuku lovers will get a kick out of Japanese box-office smash Nana, a very kawaii celebration of girl power based on a popular manga about two 20-year-olds who share the same first name." -- Time Out New York* Posted Apr 3, 2008	Nana (2005)	60%
2/6	" Sloppy execution and too-cheeky dialogue capsize an outdated modern myth about confronting fate amid feminist saber rattling and sexist prejudices." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2008	Sex and Death 101 (2008)	26%
1/6	" Chapman�s villainy isn�t tragic or misunderstood; it�s simple insanity. To dwell on it is to wallow in pain. Elevate yourself, and stay away." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 27, 2008	Chapter 27 (2008)	20%
5/6	" A bleak thriller realized with utter vibrancy, Robert Hamer�s savory stew of London�s lower class roils with an emotional brutality and precision that most films don�t dare attempt, let alone achieve." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 7, 2008	It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)	n/a
1/6	" Gratuitous support-our-troops iconography and post-9/11 paranoia permeate a harebrained plot." -- Time Out New York Posted Feb 28, 2008	Witless Protection (2008)	0%
4/6	" A welcome, sweet-natured road trip that happily and willfully exploits Vince Vaughn�s marquee value to showcase a quartet of very deserving upstart comedians." -- Time Out New York Posted Feb 7, 2008	Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)	57%
3/6	" The situations may be forced, but the struggles with basic vices -- greed, jealousy, lust, deception -- are convincingly elemental." -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 24, 2008	Lost in Beijing (2008)	45%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Hitman (2007)	15%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Canvas (2007)	75%
1/6	" A cesspool of irrational plot points and flaccid punch lines." -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Good Luck Chuck (2007)	3%
1/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)	63%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	The Game Plan (2007)	27%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Sydney White (2007)	38%
2/6	" Overdirected and underwritten, this litany of Hallmark Channel tropes and button-pushing sentiment uses Tinseltown treacle to gussy up an otherwise forgettable message movie about humane treatment for the elderly." -- Time Out New York Posted Dec 13, 2007	Man in the Chair (2007)	50%
4/6	" Heartbreaking and life-affirming." -- Time Out New York Posted Nov 8, 2007	War Dance (2007)	85%
2/6	" A mealy adaptation of one installment in Susan Cooper�s acclaimed book series." -- Time Out New York Posted Oct 11, 2007	The Seeker (2007)	13%
1/6	" There�s no good time of the year for such a depressingly insincere movie that shirks any sense of reality but still desperately claws for emotional redemption at the end. Better to abort next time." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007	The Brothers Solomon (2007)	16%
2/6	" The girls face prejudice from their families, while their amateur moves frustrate the dance instructor. Will they ever triumph? Just guess." -- Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007	Hula Girls (2007)	50%
	" The film has its flaws, but [director Majidi's] gift for giving a cinematic texture to the emotional senses validates his work as a visionary." -- Time Out Posted Aug 2, 2007	The Willow Tree (2005)	88%
2/6	" This wanna-be neonoir ends up being as half-committed to its goals as its protagonist." -- Time Out Posted Aug 2, 2007	If I Didn't Care (2007)	37%
3/6	" Just the sort of simplistic preaching that alienates adults and insults the intelligence of their offspring." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 26, 2007	Arctic Tale (2007)	62%
3/6	" The writing and direction pull their punches, opting for a 'be cool, y’all' ethos and the hazy glow of tribute instead of the messy reality that Greene himself reveled in lancing." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 12, 2007	Talk to Me (2007)	81%
2/6	" Presenting these lives as a parable about the merits of good sportsmanship is a stretch; when the game is over, all that�s left is a low-scoring portrait of human vanity." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 12, 2007	The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)	97%
5/6	" The real dialogue is the music, as the lovers communicate through lyrics. The filmmaking is unadorned, but the emotional virtuosity is rhapsodic." -- Time Out Posted Jun 23, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
1/6	" An earnest cast of talented actors can�t save this well-meaning but torturously banal message movie about parental responsibility from poor writing, elementary plotting and pedestrian direction." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 23, 2007	And Then Came Love (2007)	17%
5/6	" A true-blue, heart-swelling doozy that�s deceptively simple in form but as sweetly structured, and as potent, as a sonnet." -- Time Out New York Posted May 19, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
1/6	" *If ribbing the U.S. armed forces was considered unpatriotic after 9/11, then Delta Farce proves that discussion of the Iraq War* has now officially jumped the shark.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted May 19, 2007	Delta Farce (2007)	3%
2/6	" Even though the cinematic foundation of this cheap prefab fluff is a message of family togetherness, the building materials -- boneheaded behavior, overwrought conflict, treacly sentiment -- have classic dry rot." -- Time Out New York Posted Apr 7, 2007	Are We Done Yet? (2007)	8%
4/6	" *What might have been a bland Back to the Future* rip-off suddenly hums with a screwball sensibility chockablock with singing gangster frogs and evil bowler hats.*" -- Time Out New York* Posted Apr 7, 2007	Meet the Robinsons (2007)	66%
1/6	" What remains is intensely numbing action scenes, poor plot machinations and joyless character sketches all rendered in exquisitely cold CGI." -- Time Out New York Posted Mar 31, 2007	TMNT (2007)	33%

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