ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stephen Holden

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

(This Critic's Cinematic Taste as Determined by Rotten Tomatoes)

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Across the Universe
4.5/5	Diggers
4/5	The Boss of it All
3.5/5	Day Night Day Night
3/5	Paris, Je T'aime
2.5/5	Allegro
2/5	Snow Cake
1.5/5	Mr. Brooks
1/5	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Up The Yangtze
5/5	Across the Universe
5/5	The Bridge
5/5	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
5/5	Body and Soul
5/5	Brokeback Mountain
5/5	Nine Lives
5/5	Junebug
5/5	The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
5/5	Aliens of the Deep
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Dirty Love
0/5	Alone in the Dark
0/5	Hearts in Atlantis
0/5	Dracula 2000
0/5	Whipped
0.5/5	Slackers
0.5/5	Ice from the Sun
0.5/5	Beautiful Creatures
0.5/5	The Amati Girls
0.5/5	The Next Best Thing
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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4/5	"There is hardly a moment in this new film in which you are not aware that its absurdist view of the human condition was shaped by traumatic 20th-century events." Posted Aug 29, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	94%
1.5/5	"It all adds up to the kind of bad family entertainment likely to raise only a few eyebrows." Posted Aug 22, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	61%
2/5	*Watching Rainn Wilson gyrate in The Rocker, you can�t help wondering if Mr. Wilson is inhabiting a role that was originally turned down by Jack Black.* Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	36%
4/5	"The portrait of Anita O�Day that emerges in this documentary is of a woman who always lived by her own rules." Posted Aug 19, 2008	Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008)	100%
3/5	"*The nymphs and druids who frolic through The Romance of Astrea and Celadon* occupy mythological space between Shakespeare and Greek mythology.*" Posted Aug 18, 2008*	Romance of Astree and Celadon (2008)	76%
1.5/5	"*With characters named Esperanza, Dawn and Patience that signal Deeper Meaning, Henry Poole Is Here* traffics in the kind of inspirational kitsch that only a true believer could swallow.*" Posted Aug 18, 2008*	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	38%
2.5/5	"Once Avery's mission assumes a Freudian dimension, the allegory loses its moral force and changes from a meditation on justice, power and inequality into a gory melodrama." Posted Aug 8, 2008	Red (2008)	62%
3/5	"The movie equivalent of being patted on the shoulder by an encouraging high school guidance counselor and assured that you are doing just fine." Posted Aug 6, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
1/5	"*The third installment of the Mummy* franchise, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, is by far the weakest.*" Posted Aug 1, 2008*	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	11%
4.5/5	*The semi-improvised performances, which seem so natural that it is tempting to confuse the actors with their characters, bring Baghead* into the realm of group therapy observed through one-way glass.** Posted Jul 25, 2008	Baghead (2008)	80%
4/5	"*An ingenuous 24-year-old man-child is at the center of John Crowley's wrenching melodrama Boy A." Posted Jul 23, 2008*	Boy A (2008)	89%
3.5/5	"An unblinking portrait of a complicated, solitary gay man who has outlived his working years." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Before I Forget (2008)	88%
2.5/5	"*Written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, and filmed at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe, Felon* is one of the most realistic prison films ever made.*" Posted Jul 18, 2008*	Felon (2008)	59%
3/5	"A handsomely remodeled variation of a cherished genre you might call the mystery-train movie." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Transsiberian (2008)	88%
4/5	"*In Julian Schnabel�s grimly majestic concert film Lou Reed�s Berlin, Mr. Reed wears the deadpan smirk of a Zen master who has endured punishing Buddhist training." Posted Jul 18, 2008*	Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)	76%
2/5	A low-rent answer to Robert Altman’s Short Cuts. Posted Jul 11, 2008	Garden Party (2008)	11%
4/5	"A brave film simply for daring to portray a nightmare lurking in the minds of middle-aged workers, people who might fear a film that addresses their insecurities this bluntly." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Days and Clouds (2008)	87%
No Rating	No article or quote available Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Stone Angel (2008)	47%
3.5/5	"In the recent epidemic of comedies about 30-something men in the throes of severe arrested development, he is one of the most pitifully incompetent losers." Posted Jul 7, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	88%
1.5/5	Holding Trevor, a portrait of 20-something gay men and their straight friends, is a joyless exploration of middle-class deadbeats. Posted Jul 7, 2008	Holding Trevor (2008)	14%
4.5/5	*Guillaume Canet�s delicious contemporary thriller Tell No One* is Vertigo meets The Fugitive by way of The Big Sleep. That is meant as high praise.** Posted Jul 2, 2008	Tell No One (2008)	91%
3.5/5	*Set mostly in Las Vegas, Finding Amanda* offers a vision of confused Americans losing their already shaky bearings in the world�s gaudiest honky-tonk.** Posted Jun 27, 2008	Finding Amanda (2008)	38%
4/5	*Peter Askin�s stirring documentary Trumbo* gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep.** Posted Jun 27, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	74%
2.5/5	*The candy-colored Full Grown Men* wants to be a kind of anti-Wizard of Oz for a culture inundated with toys and toons.** Posted Jun 25, 2008	Full Grown Men (2008)	40%
3/5	This fragmentary portrait of the British filmmaker, painter, set designer and writer Derek Jarman, is a cinematic scrapbook of the life and times of an iconoclast, aesthete and provocateur. Posted Jun 13, 2008	Derek (2008)	n/a
4/5	"Chris & Don: A Love Story examines a complicated and enduring relationship that raised eyebrows even in Hollywood." Posted Jun 13, 2008	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)	93%
2.5/5	Quid Pro Quo hovers in a noir-shaded twilight zone where repressed memories and guilt merge in an obsession with physical and emotional paralysis. Posted Jun 13, 2008	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	66%
3/5	*Think of it as a polite, tightly muzzled Clerks.* Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
3/5	[A] small gem of a film. Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Grocer's Son (2008)	81%
4/5	Much of the dialogue is so quirky it sounds overheard instead of scripted. The performances are correspondingly spontaneous. Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Go-Getter (2008)	40%
4.5/5	*Bigger, Stronger, Faster left me convinced that the steroid scandals will abate as the drugs are reluctantly accepted as inevitable products of a continuing revolution in biotechnology.** Posted May 30, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%
4/5	Stuck, while not strictly a horror film, is steeped in gore and carries a seam of mocking gallows humor as relentless as that of Sweeney Todd. Posted May 30, 2008	Stuck (2007)	71%
3.5/5	Just under two hours, sumptuously photographed in noirish shades and slathered in spine-tingling music by Ennio Morricone, it twists every which way to sustain suspense until the final frame. Posted May 30, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	62%
4/5	Enthralling documentary. Posted May 30, 2008	Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2008)	83%
2/5	The problem with gonzo moviemaking, in this case, is that nothing really adds up. What initially appears whimsical eventually seems sloppy. And when the bleeding heart kicks in, you feel betrayed. Posted May 23, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
4.5/5	"My Father My Lord has the glowing simplicity and force of a biblical parable." Posted May 16, 2008	My Father My Lord (2008)	92%
4/5	Yella is the kind of movie that tantalizes the mind with possibilities without solving the puzzle. Posted May 16, 2008	Yella (2008)	78%
2/5	Although it exhibits a heartfelt connection with the city's half-invisible population of illegal immigrants, its myriad inconsistencies and strained plotting are increasingly frustrating. Posted May 16, 2008	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	83%
4/5	Turn the River is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules. Posted May 9, 2008	Turn the River (2008)	75%
1.5/5	Noise, the second part of a projected 'fanatic trilogy', is shallow and loud. Posted May 9, 2008	Noise (2008)	52%
2.5/5	"*Until it crosses a shadowy line dividing serious comedy from distasteful exploitation, The Babysitters* has the makings of an incisive satire of greed and lust in suburbia.*" Posted May 9, 2008*	The Babysitters (2008)	28%
4/5	*The ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan�s period piece Before the Rains* may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy.** Posted May 8, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	46%
3/5	*The romantic comedy Made of Honor* adds tart satirical flavors to a cotton-candy formula without sabotaging the sugar rush.** Posted May 2, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
4/5	A somber, brooding study. Posted May 2, 2008	XXY (2008)	73%
5/5	"An astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China�s economic miracle." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2008)	95%
3/5	Then She Found Me, a serious comedy, is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment. Posted Apr 25, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	55%
3/5	"At once enthralling and troubling...does about as good a job as you could hope of distilling a 750-page historical examination of religious zealotry and power into 95 swift minutes." Posted Apr 18, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	85%
2/5	"As it plods along decorously, you have the sense of reading a poetic essay in which every image and metaphor is hammered too neatly in place." Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
No Rating	Click here to read article Posted Apr 14, 2008	The Shadow of China (1991)	n/a
No Rating	Click here to read article Posted Apr 14, 2008	Shag, The Movie (1989)	69%

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