ROTTEN TOMATOES: Catherine Bray

CATHERINE BRAY

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Total Reviews: 28

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Fresh 4/5	Fresh 82%	Avatar (2009)	" The groundbreaking FX work is worth the price of admission alone, while the rollicking adventure story should find fans from eight to 80." Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" Don't go expecting joyous escapism, but if you're interested in seeing melancholic auteur filmmaking, complete with a lush soundtrack... you won't see a more compelling film this year." Posted Dec 11, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 40%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" It's a film, Jim, but not as we know it: a meandering bad trip through a gorgeously shot Spain that's really only accessible to tenacious Jarmusch enthusiasts." Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 60%	Carriers (2009)	" Diverting and well made with solid performances, but Carriers adds nothing new." Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 62%	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)	" The Girlfriend Experience is no date movie: Soderbergh offers a snappily paced but tonally bleak snapshot of an alienated young woman who has ridden the new culture of personal branding to its psychological and physical limits." Posted Dec 4, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 44%	The Box (2009)	" Think very carefully before you attempt to unlock the mysteries of The Box. There is no going back, you cannot undo your decision, you will never get back those 115 minutes, and by the horrifying end, those same 115 minutes will feel like a life sentence." Posted Dec 4, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 75%	Cold Souls (2009)	" For those who like Charlie Kaufman on paper but occasionally find themselves a little tested by his self-conscious meanderings in practice, the hilarious Cold Souls is a pleasingly tight and subtle execution of an eye-opening concept." Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" Jennifer's Body has more to say about the dynamics of teenaged female friendship, sexual power games and the trials of adolescence than many a more self-consciously worthy film." Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 42%	Colin (2009)	" This is a film that belongs to the noble heritage of beery DVD nights with a takeaway and themed movie double bill." Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 69%	Coffin Rock (2009)	" Coffin Rock stands or falls entirely by your reaction to these people - it's not horror, it's a melodramatic thriller, and seen from this perspective, it works nicely." Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 65%	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)	" A eulogy, a polemic, an intriguing mess: Dr Parnassus is ultimately more worth your time than many a polished creation, and it's a must for Terry Gilliam completists, but this time out he delivers a feast for the eyes more than he satisfies intellectually" Posted Oct 16, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 47%	Ong Bak 2 (2009)	" Tony Jaa is a martial arts star. Is he a director? No. The dull plotting and predictable characters in Ong Bak: The Beginning all but overwhelms Jaa doing what he does best, which is fighting." Posted Oct 16, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 27%	Pandorum (2009)	" Pandorum's insistence on action sequence after action sequence, reveal after reveal, tension upon tension deadens the effect any of it might have had in a more gracefully developed narrative." Posted Oct 4, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 57%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" A little comedy that dares to think big, Ricky Gervais makes the leap to Hollywood comedy lead with aplomb in a sweet film that will give you a whole new appreciation of the power of telling porkies." Posted Oct 4, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" An attractive slice of glossy dystopian sci-fi shenanigans from the team behind Terminator 3 sees Bruce Willis reprising the one-cop-against-the-system role that he could by now play in his sleep. Or even via a remote controlled robotic surrogate." Posted Sep 25, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 94%	BirdWatchers (2009)	" Makes its point very effectively in the first 10 minutes and has subsequent difficulties convincing as a full-length narrative feature; a documentary treatment could have been more illuminating." Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" A funny, lip-smacking 3D adventure that looks good enough to eat and isn't afraid to tickle your brainy bits too." Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 38%	Passchendaele (2008)	" A kind of Canadian World War I version of Pearl Harbor recast with TV actors and made on a tenth of the budget - yet for all that more endearing than Pearl Harbour." Posted Sep 4, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 88%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" Sin Nombre is a spry, humane account of the hardships encountered on the Mexican immigration trail, whose violence never feels exploitative, for all that it may be hard to watch. Highly recommended." Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 55%	Orphan (2009)	" A creepy premise is undermined by wilfully flashy direction as a fine cast struggle bravely to inject credibility into a tale of vanishing nuns and burning treehouses." Posted Aug 7, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 24%	G-Force (2009)	" Technically accomplished holiday fun to while away a wet afternoon with the sprogs, G-Force is exciting while it lasts, but about as memorable as the bucket of over-priced popcorn." Posted Jul 31, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 88%	Skin (2009)	" An admirably understated central performance from Sophie Okenedo, supported by a fine cast, gives a human face to this true-life race relations drama, which never over-simplifies in favour of easy emotional wins." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" Too deep into the saga to win over any Potter virgins, this is payback for those who've followed the series from the start, with some of what was best about the books finally making a comfortable transition to screen." Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 71%	Ichi ()	" Ultimately a romp, albeit one with some entertaining quirks and a strange melancholy undertow, we shouldn't make overly high-falutin' claims for Ichi, but fans of balletic fight scenes should get a kick out of some good-looking sequences." Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	Katyn (2007)	" Delivering an emotional punch to the gut in the final reel, this engaging account of an under-reported tragedy will remind you how cinema can still rise to the occasion and go beyond the empty bangs and flashes of tent pole releases." Posted Jun 19, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 11%	Beyond the Fire (2009)	" Quite simply one of the more embarrassing films we've ever seen, Beyond The Fire is bad in a way that only a film aspiring to deal with a serious, sensitive subject and falling flat on its face can be." Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Painters Painting - The New York Art Scene: 1940-70 (1972)	" Great if you're already versed in the work of the figures chatting happily away here, more of an archive curio if you're not." Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 87%	Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008)	" Marion Cajori makes a brave attempt to grapple with a subject who resists explanation; while she may not always succeed, the journey is frequently illuminating." Posted May 22, 2009

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