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DAN KOIS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 86% of the time.

Publications: Slate, Washington Post

Total Reviews: 29

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Fresh	Fresh 83%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" Efficient, well-practiced storytelling is what we expect from a Disney animated feature. The real story here for parents is the clever and careful recalibration of the princess archetype." — Slate Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 80%	Collapse (2009)	" Ruppert unexpectedly breaks down, weeping openly for the lost future of humanity, and at that moment I was startled at how bad I felt for him -- and how nervous I was, suddenly, that this contemporary Cassandra might just be right." — Washington Post Posted Dec 11, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 31%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" A movie that provides plenty of jolts but precious little pleasure." — Washington Post Posted Nov 25, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" The crowning achievement in Emmerich's long, profitable career as a destroyer of worlds." — Washington Post Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 88%	The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)	" *The film holds their Disney songs in such high esteem, and discusses them with such little context, that The Boys* sometimes feels as though it is set in Disneyland, not the real world.*" — Washington Post* Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 70%	American Casino (2009)	" As Leslie Cockburn's camera roams the foreclosed rowhouses of Baltimore, their planked-up doors reminiscent of shots from The Wire, I thought: Baltimore needs some good PR." — Washington Post Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 24%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" A preposterous exercise in high-minded brutality, "Law Abiding Citizen" tries to pass itself off as a dialectic on justice betrayed, but instead plays like a snuff film with our nation's legal system as the victim." — Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 9%	Post Grad (2009)	" A movie that never quite succeeds in capturing a generation adrift." — Washington Post Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Ponyo (2009)	" Ponyo isn't Hayao Miyazaki's greatest film, but his beautiful, quirky fable has magic other children's movies can't touch." — Washington Post Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 36%	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)	" G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is as polished and entertaining as war-mongering toy commercials get." — Washington Post Posted Aug 7, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 65%	Adam (2009)	" At its best, Adam makes the viewer understand the frustration of living in a world in which everyone is a stranger." — Washington Post Posted Aug 7, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 24%	G-Force (2009)	" A dispiriting primer on the low regard Hollywood has for the intelligence and curiosity of children -- and the time and money of their parents -- G-Force is an aggressively stupid entry in the family-adventure genre from Jerry Bruckheimer." — Washington Post Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" *[Half-Blood Prince] might be the most enjoyable Harry Potter* movie yet for people who don't particularly care about Harry Potter movies.*" — Washington Post* Posted Jul 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" *As in the best horror movies, Drag Me to Hell* keeps the audience on the edge of hysteria throughout, so that every thump sets the heart racing and every joke earns a slightly out-of-control laugh.*" — Washington Post* Posted May 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Summer Hours (2009)	" If this enjoyable film is substantially more satisfying than those predecessors, it's also far less daring, a straightforward extended-family drama in the mode of last year's (more engrossing) art-house highlight A Christmas Tale." — Washington Post Posted May 22, 2009
—	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" The museum sparkles, but the movie is awfully dull." — Washington Post Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Tulpan (2008)	" *To certain serious world-cinema aficionados, Tulpan's combination of understated comedy and documentary-level depiction of rural Kazakh life will be catnip." — Washington Post* Posted May 15, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 22%	Next Day Air (2009)	" In the end, it's a fitfully amusing, sloppy comedy that doesn't work very hard for your 10 bucks." — Washington Post Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 47%	Battle for Terra (2009)	" Look past the movie's procreative protagonists and you'll find a thoughtful but muddled tale of clashing cultures, studded with battle scenes so explosion-filled that parents should think twice about bringing small children." — Washington Post Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" As painful as the movie's bloody bare-knuckle brawls can be to watch, they don't hold a candle to the frightening spectacle of Tatum brooding or, yikes, Terrence Howard doing whatever it is Terrence Howard's doing in this movie." — Washington Post Posted Apr 23, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 58%	17 Again (2009)	" *Efron has no edge. And although that edgelessness might prolong his career, it keeps 17 Again* from having anything surprising to say about teenage life in 2009.*" — Washington Post* Posted Apr 16, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Fados (2009)	" *That you very likely know nothing about who those legends are concerns Saura not at all; made for aficionados, Fados* is virtually context-free.*" — Washington Post* Posted Apr 9, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 16%	Spinning into Butter (2009)	" The film feels stuck in a particularly '90s-flavored argument -- about political correctness and culture wars on campus -- that you probably got tired of during your junior year." — Washington Post Posted Mar 26, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 65%	Duplicity (2009)	" A pleasant big-studio diversion, a screwball romance with beautiful movie stars set in gorgeous hotel rooms, deluxe office spaces and corporate jets. It's smart, it's for grown-ups and it lets Julia Roberts laugh, if just once." — Washington Post Posted Mar 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 78%	Three Monkeys (2009)	" At times while watching it, I found myself fidgeting, my patience for long stare-offs exhausted; afterward, I couldn't stop thinking about it." — Washington Post Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Taken (2009)	" A satisfying thriller as grimly professional as its efficient hero." — Washington Post Posted Jan 29, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 25%	Bedtime Stories (2008)	" An innocuous but haphazard family comedy that seems less crafted for children than dreamed up by a team of them." — Washington Post Posted Dec 29, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Bolt (2008)	" That it falls short of Pixar's lofty heights doesn't mean the attempt isn't worthwhile; indeed, Bolt is the most entertaining and well-crafted Disney Animation movie in years." — Washington Post Posted Nov 21, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Order of Myths (2008)	" A well-constructed documentary about a surprising remnant of segregation in the new South, The Order of Myths gracefully explores Mobile's Mardi Gras celebrations and profiles the young people playing at royalty at these ceremonies' hearts." — Washington Post Posted Nov 7, 2008

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