ROTTEN TOMATOES: Walter V. Addiego

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Elevator to the Gallows
3.5/4	Lost Embrace
3/4	Gattaca
2.5/4	Sling Blade
2/4	City of Angels
1.5/4	Domestic Import
1/4	Metro
0/4	Deck the Halls

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Days and Clouds
4/4	Rescue Dawn
4/4	Into Great Silence
4/4	The Good Shepherd
4/4	Elevator to the Gallows
4/4	Les Miserables
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Deck the Halls
1/4	Savage Grace
1/4	The Grand
1/4	Nina's Heavenly Delights
1/4	Hoodwinked
1/4	Domino
1/4	The Talent Given Us
1/4	Secuestro Express
1/4	Garfield the Movie
1/4	Games People Play: New York
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

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4/4	"This is a portrait of nerve-racking economic times, and it cuts close to the bone in detailing how a marriage suffers when its financial underpinnings are suddenly knocked away." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 29, 2008	Days and Clouds (2008)	87%
2/4	"Too raw for kids and too simplistic for adults." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 29, 2008	Year of the Fish (2008)	53%
3/4	"Any documentary about the alarming level of our national debt faces a major hurdle -- making the dismal subject at least somewhat palatable. I.O.U.S.A. does about as good a job as any film could be expected to, thanks to the direction of Patrick Creadon." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 22, 2008	I.O.U.S.A. (2008)	92%
3/4	"Director Pepe Danquart and his cinematographers give us lots of splendid mountainscapes, but more importantly, they put the cameras right there with the climbers; we see, up close, every strained muscle and grimace." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 8, 2008	To the Limit (2008)	70%
3/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 5, 2008	The Sword in the Stone (1963)	69%
3/4	"*While it borrows from obvious sources, Kabluey* eventually comes into its own as a wacky commentary on the state of America in the fifth year of the Iraq war.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Aug 1, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	88%
3/4	"It's an affecting portrait of family life that gives way to a profound depiction of faith shaken to its roots." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 11, 2008	My Father My Lord (2008)	92%
3/4	" It's a harsh portrait of a brutal segment of society, only relieved by an occasional handsome landscape shot (filmed in the Shaanxi province) that makes Bai's plight all the more compelling." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 11, 2008	Blind Mountain (2008)	76%
3/4	"Encounters at the End of the World is an enjoyable example of this extraordinary director's documentary work, and accessible enough to make it a good introduction to his singular vision." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 27, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2007)	94%
1/4	"It's a horror story, all right, but the reason for telling it remains unclear, and it seems like a waste of Kalin's evident talent." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 27, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
3/4	"There are plenty of haunting landscapes... along with the sort of warfare scenes that define epics, but also an unexpected take on one of history's most fearsome leaders." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 20, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
2/4	"Stuck is a shot at making a cult film that doesn't quite come off, which is too bad because Gordon is an intriguing filmmaker whose work is worth a look." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jun 6, 2008	Stuck (2007)	71%
1/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 20, 2008	The Big Trail (1930)	100%
3/4	"Dujardin nails his character, who is deeply dense but always seems to draw the winning card, mainly through dumb luck. And Hazanavicius clearly knows the '60s-era Bond films, which are full of ripe targets that he lovingly demolishes." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008)	76%
2/4	"Graduation isn't some daring amalgam of traditional movie categories; it's simply all over the place." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 2, 2008	Graduation (2008)	0%
3/4	"Director Daniele Luchetti's strategy is to personify the long-standing divisions of his homeland in a pair of siblings, but make the characters so vital that we don't feel we're being browbeaten with political allegory." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 25, 2008	My Brother Is An Only Child (2006)	86%
3/4	" The film's emotional peak comes at the end when the chorus performs for prison inmates who must be, on average, well under half the age of the singers. It's a liberating experience, for both sides." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 18, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	88%
1/4	"You eventually get the feeling that the actors are riffing mainly for each other. Their attitude is, 'We're talented, trust us, we know how to be funny,' but in the end, it's mostly just a bluff." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 4, 2008	The Grand ()	39%
3/4	"An austere rural landscape, festering hatred, class tensions, terse dialogue -- these are common currency in indie movies these days. Shotgun Stories uses them all, but manages to stand out from the crowd." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	89%
3/4	"*I never would have guessed that Adam Carolla, the politically incorrect radio and TV personality, could hold his own in a movie, but here's The Hammer* to prove me wrong.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Hammer (2008)	70%
3.5/4	"[Cinematographer] Daniel has never shot a film for Malick, though you'd hardly guess so, given The Unforeseen's poetic and dreamy shots of nature that, like the images that open the Malick's "The Thin Red Line," hint at an Earthly paradise." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 14, 2008	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%
2/4	"There's a nice pro-education theme struggling to emerge from oceans of clumsy humor here, so let's be generous and say the movie deserves about a C-minus." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 7, 2008	College Road Trip (2008)	13%
2/4	"Director Palansky and screenwriter Leslie Caveny seem to have many of the right ingredients for creating something beguiling, but the film is, finally, surprisingly pedestrian. What a shame, with all these good performers." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 29, 2008	Penelope (2008)	52%
2/4	"As a travelogue, Jumper isn't half bad, with lots of juicy images of Rome, Tokyo, New York and other splendid places. But we're supposed to be watching a sci-fi action film, and that's where things go south." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 13, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
2/4	"[A] half-baked effort." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 8, 2008	Shrooms (2006)	19%
2/4	"The message - stay true to your roots - is solid, and [director] Lee gives his outstanding comic cast some sharp one-liners, but he undermines the effort with crass humor, mugging and slapstick." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 8, 2008	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)	24%
3/4	"Well-made and modestly enjoyable seriocomedy." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 1, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
3/4	"The filmmakers employ a powerful technique of interspersing newsreel footage with wrenching on-camera interviews of survivors and sequences of actors reciting from the letters and memoirs of the Westerners on the scene." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 11, 2008	Nanking (2007)	98%
2/4	"No one says filmmakers have to be objective, but there's a point where you can alienate even those who agree with you. This picture eventually goes off the rails, and it's likely to please only the most virulent of Schwarzenegger haters." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 11, 2008	Running with Arnold (2008)	0%
3/4	"*The goal here is to educate and to inspire, and that's what The Great Debaters* does.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	80%
3/4	"At first, the technique seems gimmicky, but finally it's as compelling a perspective as any to understand how these men passed through agony to some sort of peace." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 14, 2007	Protagonist (2007)	84%
2/4	"[Director] Lawrence is pretty good at the spectacular stuff. And he's smart enough to let Smith be Smith. But there's only so much you can do with CGI monsters that don't seem right for this kind of sci-fi scenario." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 14, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	69%
2/4	"Perhaps Patten is trying to do to us what Rinpoche does to his followers, but the film's meandering structure and intrusive narration detract from the focus on the master." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 7, 2007	Words of My Perfect Teacher (2006)	n/a
1/4	"A lightweight and sentimental exercise that succeeds at little except maybe inspiring the viewer to go out and find a decent curry." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 7, 2007	Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007)	6%
3/4	"One of the producers of What Would Jesus Buy? was Morgan Spurlock, and the film is very much in the spirit of his Super Size Me." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 28, 2007	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)	63%
3/4	"Portraying a version of Disney's Snow White, [Adams] owns the character, down to every warble and twirl." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 21, 2007	Enchanted (2007)	93%
3/4	"We get an all-access pass to watch the master at work, both on location and at his home-workshop-studio in Los Angeles. Those who aren't part of the filmmaker's substantial cult will be less intrigued." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 16, 2007	Lynch (One) (2007)	53%
2/4	"*There's some ghoulish humor in P2,* and a couple of scares, but it's little more than the umpteenth variation of the woman-locked-in-a-house plot.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Nov 9, 2007	P2 (2007)	35%
3/4	"While there's no startling news here -- most people know that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a staple in food processing and isn't particularly good for us -- this documentary neatly, and often humorously, summarizes a very unhealthy situation." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 2, 2007	King Corn (2007)	95%
3/4	"In this compelling documentary, narrated by Paul Newman, Hartley comes off as a man of intense will, and he needs to be." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Nov 2, 2007	The Price of Sugar (2007)	72%
3/4	"The film is directed with humor and a sense of openness that is quite Zen-like." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 26, 2007	How to Cook Your Life (2007)	71%
3.5/4	"[Director] Bier knows the difference between drama and melodrama." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 19, 2007	Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)	65%
2/4	"A lot of the acting is in the broad Disney Channel style." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 6, 2007	Sydney White (2007)	37%
2/4	"It's funny in spots if you can tune out the Farrellys' ultra-crass jokes -- along with any memory of the first movie." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Oct 5, 2007	The Heartbreak Kid (2007)	30%
3/4	"...Cahill wins me over with this poignant depiction of a tender father-daughter relationship." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 28, 2007	King of California (2007)	62%
2.5/4	"[Director Theroux] has a tendency to overplay things, with self-consciously arty direction and an intrusive soundtrack." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Sep 21, 2007	Dedication (2007)	41%
2/4	"*The main point I can extract from Ethan Hawke's The Hottest State* is that even a peevish and self-centered young man is capable of feeling great anguish when his girlfriend dumps him.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Sep 7, 2007	The Hottest State (2006)	34%
2/4	"The real trouble is that it's supposed to be an outrageous comedy, but in fact it's fairly tame and not all that funny." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 30, 2007	Balls of Fury (2007)	23%
2/4	"Plenty of movies have combined a blazing-guns revenge story with a family dynamics drama, but Illegal Tender never gets the mixture right, lurching between bullet-happy shootouts and overwrought domestic content." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Aug 24, 2007	Illegal Tender (2007)	13%
4/4	"Herzog aims this genre effort at a broader audience than he usually gets, and he does so without losing his soul. It's a remarkably straightforward tale that allows the director to dwell on obsessions familiar to those who know his work." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jul 13, 2007	Rescue Dawn (2007)	90%

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