ROTTEN TOMATOES: Greg Quill

GREG QUILL

Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Publications: Toronto Star

Total Reviews: 44

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

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

Rotten	Rotten 32%	The Burning Plain (2009)	" *If Arriaga had allowed us to spend more time with the key characters in this extended tragedy, or had spent some time punching up the plot, The Burning Plain* might have had a chance.**" Posted Oct 16, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 81%	Unmistaken Child (2009)	" The film is fascinating on every level -- as a portrait of a willing servant in a complex, powerful and inscrutable religious system and a feast of spectacular sights and unusual mundane events in a corner of the world rarely exposed to prying eyes." Posted Oct 2, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 78%	It Might Get Loud (2009)	" Davis Guggenheim's contrived documentary is a largely unrewarding essay on the mystique of the ubiquitous electric guitar..." Posted Sep 25, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 72%	The Boys Are Back (2009)	" Shot in the glorious golds and greens of South Australia's autumn, it's a convincing tale of spiritual and emotional rehabilitation, perhaps not as important as it wants to be, but not exactly a waste of time, either." Posted Sep 25, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 27%	Fame (2009)	" That fame seems assured to those who merely crave it -- without sacrifice, or spiritual and physical effort -- emerges as the underlying message in this sanitized and unrewarding production. Simon Cowell has much to answer for." Posted Sep 25, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" By eliminating so many suspects before the obligatory drawing-room denouement and final deadly confrontation, it's a given that the audience will feel cheated when the real bad guy turns out to be the only possible contender." Posted Sep 11, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 56%	Enlighten Up! (2009)	" *Director Kate Churchill ends up with a non-story in her feature Enlighten Up!* when her subject fails to experience the changes she had been expecting.**" Posted Aug 28, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 88%	The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)	" The story of the men who wrote them in the golden age of Walt Disney Studios' movie musicals, brothers Robert and Richard Sherman, is one of the most fascinating chronicles of creative partnership never told." Posted Aug 21, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 8%	Post Grad (2009)	" Post Grad deserves a failing grade." Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 100%	Idiots and Angels (2008)	" Even without a word of dialogue, Plympton's dark fable about the almost unnatural redemption of a lost soul content in its damnation is easily understood, and neatly told." Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 91%	Ponyo (2009)	" It's a wonderful place that Miyazaki creates, an alternatively sweet and savage world that defies physics and common sense, as imaginative and impossible in its own way as Jules Verne's sci-fi fantasies or Maurice Sendak's animal kingdom." Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 86%	Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)	" The movie, shot it Ireland, has a gritty, documentary feel and a sharp, dramatic pulse that never really falters." Posted Jul 31, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae ()	" A rich and rewarding music documentary endowed with a wonderful sense of the significance of its subject, with revealing tales." Posted Jul 27, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 84%	Soul Power (2009)	" A dazzling chronicle of the African American music expo that was meant to accompany the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight title bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Congo)." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 97%	The Beaches of Agnes (2009)	" Intensely personal and universally adaptable, The Beaches of Agn�s is at once Varda's gift to posterity, and to a world that that undervalues the small and seemingly insignificant events through which we drift unconsciously, but which leave a mark." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 55%	Orphan (2009)	" The best thing about Orphan, is the way it plays with the genre's overused staples and its sophisticated audience's expectations." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 2/4	Rotten 54%	The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)	" Despite some wonderful performances, the plot plods inexorably and with sickening predictability towards the inevitable conclusion, but nothing can prepare us for the actual event, which Nowrasteh films in real time and in shocking detail." Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 93%	Summer Hours (2009)	" Performances in this small and profoundly eloquent film are superb, yet none redirects attention from Assayas's earnest meditation on the ravaging effects of a shrinking world on family traditions and entrenched personal relationships." Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 89%	Everlasting Moments (2009)	" Veteran Swedish director Jan Troell loads the chronicle of a poor family in troubled times, 1907 through the late 1920s, with a powerful subtext about class, faith, artistic fulfillment and the mysteries of love." Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 100%	Empties (2007)	" *In Empties, father-son Czech collaborators in the Oscar-winning Kolya* focus on how poorly a cantankerous high school teacher adapts to what amounts to forced retirement.**" Posted Jun 5, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	N/A	Mothers and Daughters (2007)	" Affected and overwrought, Canadian director Carl Bessai's TV-scaled Mothers & Daughters has few shining moments -- most of the absurd and comic kind -- but has nothing particularly profound to say about the subject suggested in its title." Posted May 29, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 95%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" Every moment -- including a physically exhausting climactic scene that both confounds expectations and compounds the film's poetic majesty -- is evidence of a masterpiece." Posted May 29, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	Rudo and Cursi (2009)	" As we follow their adventures, it�s impossible to ignore how poorly women come off in this story, alternatively as nags, cheats, liars and cloying opportunists." Posted May 22, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 24%	Little Ashes (2009)	" Even cinematographer Adam Suschitzky's richly textured and resonantly toned cityscapes and rural scenes can't make up for a flawed script and weak performances in what might have been a powerful historical drama." Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" Azaria pretty much steals the show." Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 55%	Lymelife (2009)	" Even in its darkest moments there are flashes of warm comedy and gentle farce that lend the story considerable credibility and charm." Posted May 8, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 71%	Bart Got a Room (2009)	" Bart Got A Room is an affectionately nuanced comedy of manners whose focus is first love and the navigation of complex relationships." Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 19%	Obsessed (2009)	" *If the producers had done their work properly on Obsessed, I would not now be wishing I could reclaim the two hours I wasted on this tepid, sexless, thrill-free melodrama.*" Posted Apr 27, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" *Rock musician-turned-director Dito Montiel fails to make much of a fist with his second feature, Fighting, though he deserves points for trying to add some contemporary New York City grit.*" Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 50%	The Education of Charlie Banks (2009)	" An earnest, if romanticized, examination of the American class system in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the eternally confounding politics of acceptance and exclusion." Posted Apr 17, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 20%	Duska (2007)	" After the first 30 minutes, rendered almost entirely without dialogue, an uneasy blend of sentimental comic haze and sinister Pinter-esque gloom settles over Dutch director Jos Stelling's visually engaging but not quite satisfying Duska." Posted Apr 10, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 67%	Cloud 9 (2005)	" *When it comes to matters of the heart, we are never old or ugly, just helpless, and Cloud 9* lays that simple reality on the line.**" Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 97%	The Pool (2008)	" Patekar's ability to convey stoic forbearance with so little apparent effort, is one of the marvellous rewards of this intricately textured and compelling film." Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 32%	Fanboys (2009)	" Buoyed by infectious high spirits and self-deprecating humour, the film works in strange and perhaps unintentional ways, thanks largely to the sustained energy of the lead actors, and writers Ernest Cline and Adam F. Goldberg." Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 79%	Before Tomorrow (2009)	" *Harrowing as the story is beneath the seal skins and beyond the tenuous, oily flame in centre frame, Before Tomorrow* is endowed with a rich humanity and an almost heroic stoicism.**" Posted Mar 27, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 18%	The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)	" Director Peter Cornwell and writers Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe set up their version of the Connecticut haunting with remarkable efficiency and credible atmospherics." Posted Mar 27, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 25%	Rip!: A Remix Manifesto (2009)	" A half-baked, poorly argued assault on the very notion of the sanctity of intellectual property posing as cutting-edge cinema." Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 42%	Race to Witch Mountain (2009)	" It's a fast, funny, frightening and family-friendly movie, an affectionate tribute to the original, and a vintage thrill ride enhanced by modern visual trickery, crazy characters -- and a soup�on of skepticism." Posted Mar 13, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 76%	Owl and the Sparrow (2008)	" A strangely overdone final�, complete with surging musical crescendos and tears, rings false, given the earnest and unsentimental qualities exhibited elsewhere in Gauger's script and direction." Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 50%	One Week (2008)	" Subsumed in Canada's vast landscape, Ben finds ephemeral distraction and occasional edification, but not much in the way of great epiphanies." Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	N/A	Saving Luna (2008)	" The real-life story of Luna -- the orphaned male orca that found itself abandoned in 2001 in B.C.'s Nootka Sound and opted for human company over finding its pod -- begs big-budget Hollywood treatment." Posted Feb 13, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 18%	New in Town (2009)	" There's a Capra-esque joy in this small and unpretentious movie." Posted Jan 30, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 78%	Examined Life (2009)	" A mere taste of these big and radical notions, all of them life-changing at full dosage levels, seems like a bit of a tease." Posted Jan 23, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 71%	Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis (2008)	" [Dany] Boon tinkers with the formula just enough to make his story fresh and the sentiment at its heart not too sweet, though compounded contrivances in the last 30 minutes of the picture threaten to unravel its peculiar magic." Posted Jan 23, 2009

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