ROTTEN TOMATOES: Robin Clifford

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ROBIN CLIFFORD

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography: Robin, with his wife Laura (laura@reelingreviews.com), began reviewing films on a local cable access station in 1991. The show, Reeling, has since expanded into a number of major access stations, including Boston's BNN network. We have also established a film review column for a local chain newspaper in our home town of Malden MA. We are contributing reviewers on a number of entertainment sites. Our goal is to move our TV program into the commercial realm and continue to improve the quality and content of our written review to help promote a greater understanding of the movie media.

Publications: Reeling Reviews

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Broadcast Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 2012
Total QuickRatings: 511

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Fresh B	Fresh 74%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" Production is nicely detailed, from lensing to costume, makeup and set design and make the history lesson one that you will not mind learning." Posted Jan 3, 2010
Fresh B+	Fresh 100%	Sita Sings the Blues (2008)	" [Filmmaker Nina] Paley adapts the original 1922 story, The Ramayana, by Valmiki and, wearing many hats, produces a work that is fun, entertaining, educational, colorful and imaginative." Posted Jan 3, 2010
Rotten C	Rotten 38%	Nine (2009)	" Nine does have some good song and dance and not much else." Posted Jan 3, 2010
Fresh B-	Fresh 68%	Sherlock Holmes (2009)	" This is a hip interpretation of the source material but give me Basil Rathbone any day as Holmes." Posted Dec 30, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 82%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" ...always an interesting filmmaker to watch." Posted Dec 20, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 89%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Anyone who has traveled for work, especially across the country's heartland, will appreciate the view." Posted Dec 20, 2009
Fresh A-	Rotten 57%	Brothers (2009)	" The actors are uniformly good and deliver convincing, sympathetic performances...and help make this a true ensemble effort." Posted Dec 12, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 23%	Planet 51 (2009)	" ...a mildly entertaining, visually well-crafted animation that can wait for rental." Posted Nov 29, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 72%	The Blind Side (2009)	" If not for Sandra Bullock...The Blind Side would have drowned in its own mediocrity." Posted Nov 29, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 72%	The Road (2009)	" There is a small twinkle of hope in the end but getting there is tough, relentless going." Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" The massive target audience of femmes (who nearly swooned when Edward and the incredibly buff Jacob bare their chests) is going to love New Moon." Posted Nov 21, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 93%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" There is little or nothing here for young children and some may be frightened. All the better for us big kids who can appreciate wit and artisanship." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 95%	The Maid (2009)	" Writer/director Sebastian Silva...does not insult with his deft, sleight-of-hand storytelling, making this a wonderfully well-rounded story that never condescend but ascends." Posted Nov 14, 2009
Fresh C+	Fresh 69%	(Untitled) (2009)	" The characters...are wrapped up in their own perceptions of their greatness and are an odious lot. This is fitting for the film but leaves the viewer without a character to like." Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 78%	Bronson (2009)	" ...not a great film but garners a strong performance from its star [Tom Hardy]." Posted Nov 9, 2009
Rotten F	Rotten 16%	Gentlemen Broncos (2009)	" Life is too precious to waste it watching a disaster like this one." Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 48%	Astro Boy (2009)	" The CGI animation is crisp and colorful, the characters have some complexity and there is clever enough writing to keep the parents amused while the kids have fun." Posted Oct 23, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 21%	Amelia (2009)	" Swank is fake-freckled and bewigged and bears a striking resemblance to Amelia. It is too bad the character was not better written." Posted Oct 23, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 24%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" ...the kind of ragged film that appeals to the lower common denominator rather than the intelligent portion of the viewer's brain." Posted Oct 17, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 96%	Crude (2009)	" ...good documentary filmmaking and an interesting, thought-provoking, subject." Posted Oct 17, 2009
Fresh B+	N/A	Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary (2009)	" ...almost an overload of information but does a terrific job in giving voice to a diversity of people in the docu industry and their varied opinions." Posted Oct 10, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" This is a tour de force for Carey Mulligan as the intelligent, mature Jenny..." Posted Oct 10, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" ...disasters are tightly and relentlessly weaved together by the Coens and the result is a very funny, satiric look into that particular Jewish community [spawned] from the brothers' creative minds." Posted Oct 4, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 57%	Princess (2007)	" *...a somber, sad and, in the end, hopeful animation that is a kindred spirit to such Japanese anime as Tokyo Godfathers* in look, if not feel.**" Posted Oct 3, 2009
Rotten D+	Fresh 83%	Whip It (2009)	" ...a bloated, unfocused debut that does not know what it wants to be." Posted Oct 3, 2009
Rotten B+	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" Laugh-out-loud is a good thing in a comedy and this one has plenty." Posted Oct 3, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 88%	The Spanish Prisoner (1998)	Click here to read article Posted Oct 2, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" This popcorn thriller has a bit of imagination blended in with the been-done-before action." Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 84%	Bright Star (2009)	" This is definitely a for-the-femmes flick with its story of romance, elegant dialog, fine chemistry between stars Whitshaw and Cornish and outstanding production design, lensing and costume." Posted Sep 24, 2009
Fresh B+	N/A	Still Walking (2006)	" This terrific character study of a family...is grounded in universal terms that could place it in any civilized city in the world." Posted Sep 23, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 87%	Big Fan (2009)	" ...expected a typical obsessed sports fan flick but writer and first-time director Robert D. Siegel gives us more, and entertains too." Posted Sep 23, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 87%	Amreeka (2009)	" ...a small budget, sincere little film that has its heart in the right place." Posted Sep 23, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" ...just predictable routine." Posted Sep 23, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 82%	Beeswax (2009)	" ...self-conscious first-time performances, often mumbling into their hands, are distracting and often took me from the moment." Posted Sep 23, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 85%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" *I'm a sucker for a good kids' flick and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* really delivers the goods.**" Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 57%	9 (2009)	" The attention to details, such as the individual costume of each of the diminutive sack bots and the brilliantly intricate background art, make this a great piece of elegant eye candy." Posted Sep 8, 2009
Rotten D	Fresh 63%	Extract (2009)	" This is a disappointing effort by writer-director Mike Judge that, on paper, may have been an amusing idea. In execution, though, it is not." Posted Sep 6, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 86%	Flame & Citron (2008)	" The filmmakers do a terrific job in placing us in 1944 Copenhagen under Nazi rule." Posted Aug 30, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 84%	Captain Abu Raed (2008)	" This is a loving, sad and tragic film, but a hopeful movie, too." Posted Aug 22, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 78%	It Might Get Loud (2009)	" ...a must for the rock music fan, especially you guitarists out there." Posted Aug 20, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 86%	Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)	" This is gritty storytelling where violence is a way of life and confrontation between Catholics and Protestants and police a daily occurrence." Posted Aug 20, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Tarantino fans, among many others, will have a great good time." Posted Aug 20, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 92%	The Way We Get By (2009)	" This is a nice documentary about nice people who are doing a nice thing." Posted Aug 17, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 38%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" This is not a chick flick but one that will resonate with more mature audiences." Posted Aug 15, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 81%	Under Our Skin (2009)	" This far-ranging documentary is a real eye opener, presenting its wealth of information and analysis in a clear, well-flowing manner." Posted Aug 6, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 60%	Paper Heart (2009)	" ...the first time feature filmmakers, quite professionally, crossed the continent and collected a myriad of interviews and anecdotes about love." Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 92%	Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)	" That Gertrude Berg does not hold a prominent place in American TV history is a shame. I hope [Aviva] Kempner's fine examination of the unknown celebrity corrects that." Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 96%	The Cove (2009)	" ...an ecological thriller cloaked in a gripping documentary that lays bare a world travesty." Posted Jul 30, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 100%	Afghan Star (2009)	" ...insightful document that gives you so much more than the well-done look at a reality show." Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 95%	In the Loop (2009)	" keeps the story and humor moving at a breakneck pace that never bores and always amuses" Posted Jul 23, 2009

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