ROTTEN TOMATOES: Adam Markovitz

ADAM MARKOVITZ

Agrees with the Tomatometer 87% of the time.

Total Reviews: 30

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Rotten F	Rotten 0%	Transylmania (2009)	" A no-stars, no-plot, no-point vampire spoof about a group of coeds studying abroad in a haunted castle, Transylmania boasts the kind of acting and direction usually relegated to the adult section of your local video store." Posted Dec 4, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 23%	Planet 51 (2009)	" Delivers a few pleasant surprises, including a smart story -- a reverse-E.T. riff that plops an American astronaut down in a world of just-like-us-only-green creatures -- and clever characters..." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 20%	The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)	" Earns points only for being remarkably unself-conscious about its across-the-board ineptitude." Posted Nov 4, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 29%	Free Style (2009)	" *The plot of Free Style, lifted wholesale from any number of kid-with-a-dream movies, unfolds just the way you think it will... until the climax turns out to be even cheesier than you feared.*" Posted Oct 7, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 21%	Halloween II (2009)	" Most of its 101 minutes are filled with routine slasher scenes and flecks of pop-Freudian hokum about why the infamous Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) is such a murderously unhappy guy." Posted Sep 1, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 38%	X Games 3D: The Movie (2009)	" Aside from unrevealing sit-downs with a few key players, X-Games 3D: The Movie is mostly an overlong demo reel of increasingly gutsy tricks." Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 29%	Aliens in the Attic (2009)	" The ensuing war of the worlds is waged with weapons as fearsome as a bubble blower, a skateboard, and a sort of anti-gravity grenade that, frankly, looks like a lot of fun." Posted Jul 31, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 89%	S�raphine (2008)	" Moreau is bewitching -- she simply breathes her role, without a hint of vanity." Posted Jun 3, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" Murderously dull stretches of dialogue suck most of the fun out of this sloppy drama about a country boy trying to make a buck in the big city by moonlighting as an underground prizefighter." Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 62%	Crank High Voltage (2009)	" The result, an eye-popping strobe of flesh and blood, is as visually stunning as it is absurdly offensive, sure to thrill some while leaving others in a state of outrage-induced catatonia." Posted Apr 17, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 13%	Dragonball: Evolution (2009)	" *Fans of the best-selling Dragonball comics (and cartoons, and videogames...) might have a shot at untangling the knotty dream-logic that strangles Dragonball: Evolution's live-action adaptation.*" Posted Apr 13, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 18%	The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)	" Madsen barely emotes during the ensuing flood of hokey scare tactics." Posted Mar 27, 2009
Rotten D-	Rotten 4%	Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)	" The fight scenes are saggy, the actors are stiff, and the sleepiness of it all is enough to make you nostalgic for the simple smackdown charms of the movie's namesake videogame." Posted Mar 2, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 95%	Under the Sea 3D (2009)	" It's impossible not to be wowed by some of the images in Under the Sea 3D,  the coolest of which are a nice  reminder that, even in the age of CG wizardry, the best special effects still come straight from Mother Nature." Posted Feb 18, 2009
Rotten D-	Rotten 32%	The Uninvited (2009)	" Horror standbys like mangled corpses and stone-faced children pop up regularly, but sibling directors Charles and Thomas Guard haven't quite nailed the genre's rhythms." Posted Jan 29, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 82%	Cherry Blossoms (2009)	" There's a grace to it all, and moments of oddball poetry will reward patient viewers." Posted Jan 22, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 34%	Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)	" [Kevin James] proves to be a warm leading man who grounds the movie as it morphs into a loopy heist thriller after a promising start as something entirely different: a gentle comedy of suburban underachievement." Posted Jan 14, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 45%	Hotel for Dogs (2009)	" Marking its territory in the mind-boggling  middle ground between Schindler's List and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, the cartoonish kid pic Hotel for Dogs turns out to be a weirdly oblivious Holocaust parable." Posted Jan 14, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 55%	The Tale of Despereaux (2008)	" The Tale of Despereaux looks like an illuminated manuscript brought to life. Too bad the story's such a mess." Posted Dec 18, 2008
Rotten D-	Rotten 13%	Delgo (2008)	" Too grim for kids and too dumb for grown-ups, this cut-rate CG space opera raises more questions than it answers." Posted Dec 10, 2008
Rotten C+	Rotten 55%	Special (2008)	" Thanks to Rapaport's brio in embracing the hero's drug-induced delusions, the movie is less a failure than a noble experiment gone awry." Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten C-	Rotten 3%	The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)	" The story's a snooze, so the filmmakers punch it up with smash cuts and thunderclaps that turn the most laughably banal items into cheap jack-in-the-box shocks. They'll make you flinch -- but then again, so will most of the dialogue." Posted Oct 31, 2008
Rotten C	Rotten 21%	Passengers (2008)	" The actors make a noble effort, but Passengers turns out to be just another dud in the genre of revisionist mysteries that have been messing with our heads since Haley Joel Osment saw dead people." Posted Oct 29, 2008
Rotten C+	Rotten 32%	Forever Strong (2008)	" Shares the secret sin of many a pigskin pic: Despite all the macho posturing, the corny story is just as sappy as anything on Lifetime." Posted Sep 24, 2008
Rotten C	Rotten 35%	Igor (2008)	" Igor tries to spoof Mary Shelley just as Shrek did the Brothers Grimm, but something tells us this movie's charmless hero won't make an ogre-size impression on kid audiences. Call it a hunch." Posted Sep 17, 2008
Rotten D+	Rotten 7%	Babylon A.D. (2008)	" **Babylon's plot is a lumpy mixture of The Fifth Element and Children of Men, while its dystopian future references Blade Runner, Dune, and The Matrix.**" Posted Sep 2, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 37%	Space Chimps (2008)	" While candy-colored graphics should dazzle kids, Space Chimps has little draw for audiences spoiled by the Pixar-given knowledge that CGI can entertain -- and not just stupefy -- moviegoers of any age." Posted Jul 17, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 10%	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)	" *Regardless of your personal views, Expelled's heavy-handed bias (a visit to Darwin's home gets the same eerie music as a tour of Dachau) is exasperating.*" Posted Apr 24, 2008
Rotten D	Fresh 64%	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	" The worst part of the martial-arts epic The Forbidden Kingdom [is] a moment near the halfway mark when there arrives a gag that involves Chan getting a face full of urine. This kingdom really should be forbidden." Posted Apr 17, 2008
Rotten C+	Rotten 13%	College Road Trip (2008)	" College Road Trip is at its best when it drops any pretense of plot for sheer goof, and at its worst when Lawrence manages to out-ham even his porky four-legged costar." Posted Mar 6, 2008

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