ROTTEN TOMATOES: Radheyan Simonpillai

RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

Agrees with the Tomatometer 91% of the time.

Publications: AskMen.com, Fresh and Frowsy

Critics' Group: Toronto Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 32

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Rotten 3/10	Rotten 37%	Nine (2009)	" Lost are Fellini's autobiographical nuances, the deep philosophical and psychoanalytical ramblings, the artistic construction of identity, and the very film specific deconstruction at play. They even scrap the circus! It just makes you wonder what the poi" — AskMen.com Posted Dec 17, 2009
Fresh 6/10	Fresh 65%	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)	" As impressive and as wild as Gilliam's acid-laced visuals can be -- and yes, they are often stunning and hilarious -- it's not enough to keep us engaged in a movie with a plot that spins circles around our heads and characters who are really nothing more" — AskMen.com Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh 64/100	Rotten 46%	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" To dismiss Everybody's Fine as clich�d holiday schmaltz is to stereotype without appreciating the finer details. Clearly working within an established genre without the gall to overstep his boundaries, Jones elevates the material by showing conside" — AskMen.com Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh 90/100	Fresh 89%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Though it's far from perfect, Up in the Air is without a doubt Jason Reitman's most mature film to date. In other words, it's his least flawed. A filmmaker who is certainly in tune with his generation, Reitman gives prominent roles to Blackberry an" — AskMen.com Posted Dec 2, 2009
Fresh 86/100	Fresh 80%	Fight Club (1999)	" The last great male-centric movie of the last millennium just arrived on a spectacular new Blu-ray disc for its 10th anniversary, providing the opportunity to relish every aspect of David Fincher's ultimate dissection of Gen-X masculinity. Fight Club" — AskMen.com *Posted Nov 26, 2009*
Fresh 96/100	Fresh 98%	Taxi Driver (1976)	" Writer Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese made names for themselves with this exquisitely crafted window into the contemporary male psyche. Taxi Driver seems aimless, taking as many u-turns and detours as a cabby does in the night. But it's" — AskMen.com Posted Nov 4, 2009
Fresh 66/100	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" Where the Wild Things Are is far more admirable than it is enjoyable. There's not much of a story to this flight of fancy (more on this later), but Jonze's adaptation is crafted with a striking visual design and a powerful central child performance. In fa" — AskMen.com Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh 78/100	Fresh 89%	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	" Some might confuse Zenovich's indictment on the judge as a cop-out in judging Polanski. But the facts remain. There's no further insight into the heinous crime. Nor is there a new judgment to be passed on the man who committed it. Anyone looking for new r" — AskMen.com Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 69/100	Fresh 75%	Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)	" You might say Moore has been making this movie his entire career. He attempts to expose corrupt bottom line-minded corporations that are in league with Capitol Hill as the cause of America's ills. He's been doing just that since the days of Roger & Me<" — AskMen.com Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 75/100	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" Likely to polarize its audience like any open-to-interpretation biblical tale, A Serious Man can be looked at as a film about the meaninglessness of life or as a meaningless film. Either way, there's no denying that only the Coens can make this bla" — AskMen.com Posted Sep 30, 2009
Rotten 52/100	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" Imagine that your Facebook page, complete with that airbrushed profile photo, can go out into "real" society and leave you at home twiddling your fingers, living vicariously through it. That's the general concept of Surrogates, where humans stay sh" — AskMen.com Posted Sep 25, 2009
Fresh 76/100	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" The Informant! is a provocative character study on a brainy, but utterly complicated and persistently distracted, executive who probably gets confused by which sock should go on the right foot. Soderbergh gets a rise out of his scenery, recreating" — AskMen.com Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 57/100	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" Jennifer's Body is about as scary as Mean Girls, which makes a lot of sense since Diablo Cody's comedy about evil high school girls is really just a gory and potty-mouthed version of the Lindsay Lohan movie. Megan Fox is game for Cody-speak," — AskMen.com Posted Sep 16, 2009
Fresh 86/100	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Tarantino engages with the power of language, not only spoken but cinematic language in particular. He relishes the way movies speak to an audience, the manipulative power of cinematic dialect to tell facts differently, and how film language can replace m" — AskMen.com Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh 89/100	Fresh 98%	Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)	" Sergio Leone loaded up for another Spaghetti Western and shot out his magnum opus with this follow-up to the Dollars trilogy. Charles Bronson stars as an ominous stranger known only as Harmonica -- on the account of that instrument being the only other th" — AskMen.com Posted Aug 12, 2009
Fresh 97/100	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" Far from your average monster debauchery or invasion extravaganza, District 9 operates as an allegory for apartheid, xenophobia, corporate malfeasance, gentrification, and the dog-eat-dog nature of living in poverty under hostile and oppressive conditions" — AskMen.com Posted Aug 12, 2009
Fresh 65/100	Fresh 75%	Julie & Julia (2009)	" The film features a typical bio on the one side -- the making of the legend that is Julia Child -- and a coming-of-age rom-com on the other, with the good but underused Amy Adams pouting her way through New York City and a cookbook; the only shared ingred" — AskMen.com Posted Aug 6, 2009
Fresh 74/100	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" Sure, Public Enemies can still boast Mann's crisp HD aesthetics and stylistic cool but the showdown between Dillinger and Purvis lack ... well ... Heat." — AskMen.com Posted Jul 20, 2009
Fresh 92/100	Fresh 98%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" Departing from archetypes set by WWII and Vietnam movies, Bigelow's tough-as-nails film develops its own signature. It's not a message movie, but a tactile experience. It feels gritty, real and current." — AskMen.com Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 51%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" Like a child with ADD, Tony Scott's too anxious and fidgety to rely on Brian Helgeland's witty and unnerving screenplay for thrills. Nor will he keep faith in the exciting chemistry between his prize mule Denzel Washington and the playful John Travolta." — Fresh and Frowsy Posted Jun 11, 2009
Fresh 93/100	Fresh 98%	The Conversation (1974)	" Coppola shows off his arty aspirations by doing for audio technology what Antonioni did for photography. But The Conversation is a different animal entirely, steering clear of the existential dilemmas in Antonioni's film and creating a character pi" — AskMen.com Posted Jun 11, 2009
Rotten 41/100	Rotten 40%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" [The shots in The Limits of Control are] beautiful to look at, but it all goes nowhere in a movie that's all simulacra -- all form and theory with no substance, like a shiny disco ball that reflects everything but is still empty inside." — AskMen.com Posted May 21, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 36%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" At its best, Angels & Demons is backpacker porn, taking in a whole lot of Ron Howard's digitally rendered Rome--the streets, basilicas and museums--without the long line-ups tourists usually face and having the benefit of a pulse-racing conspiracy." — Fresh and Frowsy Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh 91/100	Fresh 93%	Out of Sight (1998)	" Soderbergh finds the perfect equilibrium between mainstream entertainment and arty panache, lacing this heist movie/romantic comedy with character-motivated time shifting, prominent freeze-frames, a funky soundtrack and an all-around hip vibe." — AskMen.com Posted May 7, 2009
Fresh 98/100	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" The other summer tent poles have to stretch mighty high to reach the benchmark set by this soaring and explosive blockbuster. The action never tires in the amped-up Star Trek." — AskMen.com Posted May 6, 2009
Fresh 90/100	Fresh 87%	Heat (1995)	" The director's signature sleek and romantic aesthetic is reason enough to take a seat for this operatic three-hour marathon." — AskMen.com Posted Apr 28, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 83%	Two Lovers (2009)	" The actors, all of whom deliver compelling, low-key performances, are mere particles bouncing off each other in Gray's vast spaces and the city that consumes them." — Fresh and Frowsy Posted Apr 11, 2009
Fresh 94/100	Fresh 94%	Three Kings (1999)	" It's amazing how much action can be crammed into a movie about a war where most soldiers didn't actually see any action. Three Kings has its fair share of shootouts, none that are merely squeezed in for guilty pleasures. Every shot fired is motivated by c" — AskMen.com Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 88%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" Fukunaga seems more capable than most at setting up truly intimate moments; whether it's canoodling in bed or a warm exchange of a burrito between strangers. And it all happens on the decks of one of cinema's most enduring symbols." — Fresh and Frowsy Posted Apr 8, 2009
Fresh 94/100	Fresh 96%	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	" Visually poetic, darkly humorous, uncompromisingly brutal, and subversive in every way, Full Metal Jacket is easily one of the best war movies without being remotely similar to your standard issue war flick." — AskMen.com Posted Mar 31, 2009
Fresh 92/100	Fresh 98%	Double Indemnity (1944)	" Writer/director Billy Wilder cements all the hallmarks of a style that comes into its own with this wicked and suspenseful portrait of capitalist greed and post-war anxiety." — AskMen.com Posted Mar 26, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 65%	Duplicity (2009)	" Duplicity is a light and airy affair that has far too much fun with zingy one-liners to be concerned with the rather relevant dirty laundry that's being aired out." — Fresh and Frowsy Posted Mar 23, 2009

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