ROTTEN TOMATOES: S. James Snyder

S. JAMES SNYDER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 62% of the time.

Total Reviews: 23

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

Fresh 3/5	Fresh 91%	Defamation (2009)	" Meet Yoav Shamir -- the Israeli Michael Moore, who marches through the power centers of the U.S. and his homeland to challenge the religious orthodoxy." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 45%	Turning Green (2009)	" Both Project Greenlight runners-up, directors Michael Aimette and John G. Hofmann get the teen angst and Gaelic aesthetic right; too bad their third-act thuggery isn’t just routine, but ridiculous." Posted Nov 11, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 50%	The Providence Effect (2009)	" Swooning but shallow, this doc plays like a promotional commercial for Providence St. Mel, a private school on Chicago’s impoverished West Side that sends 100 percent of its graduates on to college." Posted Sep 23, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 0%	If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans (2009)	" The risk of such hands-off filmmaking is that the narrative itself can become mired in the mundane; there’s little that happens here to shed light on the way this renowned shutterbug works or thinks." Posted Sep 16, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 33%	The Painter Sam Francis (2009)	" It’s a stirring snapshot of that strange space where the act of creating can be a religious experience." Posted Sep 9, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 31%	Tickling Leo (2009)	" Jeremy Davidson has the heart for a reconciliation drama -- but not the words." Posted Sep 2, 2009
Rotten 1/5	N/A	Sandstorm (2009)	" What could have been a riveting thriller about a guilt-riddled cop cracking up instead becomes a series of monster-versus-saint confrontations and some seriously hammy advocacy." Posted Sep 2, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 33%	Gospel Hill (2008)	" It’s a familiar formula: Greedy suits touting high-rise schematics and targeting blue-collar citizens end up locking horns with a local firebrand. Guess who wins?" Posted Aug 26, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 87%	At the Edge of the World (2009)	" These ragtag rebels exude an infectious determination, and while director Dan Stone fails in the adrenaline department, he succeeds in bringing home a memorable portrait of resilience." Posted Aug 26, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 9%	Post Grad (2009)	" Timing’s everything in comedy, so perhaps Post Grad would have seemed peppier prior to the Great Recession; circa now, this comedy feels like a cynical stroll through the unemployment lines awaiting today’s class of seniors." Posted Aug 19, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Fresh 68%	Grace (2009)	" Paul Solet’s gyno-horror flick is certainly twisted but only slightly unnerving; the movie is about as gripping as one might expect given that its infant monster is both mute and cradle-bound." Posted Aug 12, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 84%	Captain Abu Raed (2008)	" Eager, earnest and ultimately a little too easy on the conscience, Amin Matalqa’s Jordanian melodrama is social commentary with the gloss of classical Italian drama." Posted Aug 12, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 81%	Earth Days (2009)	" Earth Days has a lot to say about the minor victories of the past. It’s too bad that the film ends at the dawn of the 1980s -- all but ignoring the most important chapter of this ongoing saga." Posted Aug 12, 2009
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 43%	Fragments (2009)	" The anxiety is deafening in this flimsy symphony of shattered lives, which -- like that confounding Oscar winner Crash -- confuses entropy for empathy." Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 95%	The Cove (2009)	" A strong contender for this year's Man on Wire, this nonfiction potboiler follows filmmaker Louie Psihoyos as he documents the illicit slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan." Posted Jul 29, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	California Company Town (2009)	" [Director] Schmitt wisely allows the images to speak loudest -- a silent, sobering portrait of what happens after the well dries up." Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 92%	The Way We Get By (2009)	" Though Aron Gaudet’s documentary never quite captures the relieved atmosphere of these homecomings, it does acknowledge the dark side of a cheery platitude: those on both sides of the divide are in need of healing." Posted Jul 15, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 50%	Death In Love (2009)	" Survivor’s guilt jumps a generation in Boaz Yakin’s bleak family portrait, an incendiary journey back into the psychic horrors of the Holocaust." Posted Jul 15, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 36%	Local Color (2009)	" *The sweeping landscapes look flawless, but missing from Local Color’s canvas is any nuance in its human elements.*" Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 55%	Surveillance (2009)	" *The many devils in Surveillance* don’t just want money or blood; they take pleasure in seeing you squirm, and that’s precisely why this nightmare gets under your skin.**" Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 84%	The Windmill Movie (2009)	" A mind-bending autobiography by proxy." Posted Jun 17, 2009
Fresh 4/6	N/A	Moon and the Sledgehammer (1971)	" As peculiar as it is hypnotic, Philip Trevelyan’s 1971 oddity documents a bold British family living off the grid in the Sussex woods." Posted Jun 3, 2009
Rotten 2/6	Fresh 88%	The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)	" Directors Gregory and Jeffrey Sherman, sons of the composers, have set themselves such a furious pace in parsing the full chronology that we only skim the surface of the Poppins near-disaster." Posted May 20, 2009

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