ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jonathan Rosenbaum

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Nights of Cabiria
3/4	Scream
2/4	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
1/4	Jerry Maguire
0/4	Samaritan Girl
3-4	Iraq in Fragments

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Starting Out in the Evening
4/4	Out 1, Noli Me Tangere
4/4	Private Fears in Public Places
4/4	Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
4/4	Letters From Iwo Jima
4/4	Inland Empire
4/4	Half Nelson
4/4	The Illusionist
4/4	Three Times
4/4	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	The Astronaut Farmer
0/4	Saw II
0/4	Samaritan Girl
0/4	Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
1/4	13 Tzameti
1/4	Scoop
1/4	Pride and Prejudice
1/4	Dear Wendy
1/4	Last Days
1/4	Mr. and Mrs. Smith
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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	"One of Penn's best features; his direction of actors is sensitive and purposeful throughout." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 23, 2008	Night Moves (1975)	82%
	"Whit Stillman's crafty independent feature about wealthy Park Avenue teenagers and a middle-class boy who joins their ranks over one Christmas vacation is certainly well imagined, and impressively acted by a cast of newcomers." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 18, 2008	Metropolitan (1990)	92%
	"It's pretentious, lugubrious, mawkish, and full of both naivete and macho bluster. It also has moments that are indelible and heartbreaking." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 15, 2008	Too Late Blues (1961)	80%
	"Unimaginative but intelligent." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 9, 2008	Julius Caesar (1953)	100%
	"One can pick plenty of bones with Laurence Olivier's direction of the Shakespeare play, but this 1945 film is still a powerful production from many standpoints." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 9, 2008	Henry V (1944)	100%
	"Gone is any sense of drama or character; the cluttered spectacle yields no overriding design but simply disconnected MTV-like conceits or mini-ideas every three seconds." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 3, 2008	Prospero's Books (1991)	67%
	"This runs 118 minutes, but it felt like six or seven hours." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 3, 2008	Looking for Richard (1996)	82%
	"Akira Kurosawa's remarkable 1957 restaging of Macbeth in samurai and expressionist terms is unquestionably one of his finest works -- charged with energy, imagination, and, in keeping with the subject, sheer horror." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 1, 2008	Throne of Blood (1957)	97%
	"The cast -- including Derek Jacobi as the modern-dress chorus, Paul Scofield, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson, and Robbie Coltrane in an effective cameo as Falstaff -- is uniformly fine without any grandstanding." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 1, 2008	Henry V (1989)	100%
	"Woody Harrelson plays Flynt with energy, and Courtney Love does at least as well as his wife." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 30, 2008	The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)	87%
	"Sidney Lumet's direction, like David Mamet's patchy script, may not be quite good enough to justify the Rembrandt-like cinematography of Edward Pisoni and the brooding mood of self-importance, but it's good direction nonetheless." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 30, 2008	The Verdict (1982)	96%
	"Chevy Chase returns to the anonymous, unmemorable suburban mode that made his earlier movies profitable. And guess what? The results are anonymous and unmemorable." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 30, 2008	Cops & Robbersons (1994)	17%
	"In the narration Maddin claims that Winnipeg has ten times as many sleepwalkers as any other city in the world, and though he's surely making this up, it conveys his own sense of entrapment amid the town's dreaminess." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 27, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	97%
	"An original movie, though not Tim Burton's best." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jun 17, 2008	Edward Scissorhands (1990)	91%
	"Compulsively mainstream as only 50s Hollywood could be, and never very funny." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 28, 2008	Pillow Talk (1959)	92%
	"Whatever my qualms, it's still one of the funniest comedies around." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 27, 2008	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)	80%
	"Griffith's talent, energy, and sexiness give it some drive and punch." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 27, 2008	Working Girl (1988)	83%
	"This exudes trendiness at regular intervals, and otherwise manages to be reasonably charming about Manhattan's melting pot culture, but my general response was still 'Wake me when it's over.'" -- Chicago Reader Posted May 27, 2008	Party Girl (1995)	75%
	"While it's easy to imagine an infinite number of bad courtroom comedies based on this scenario, this movie turns out to be wonderful -- broad and low character comedy that's solidly imagined and beautifully played." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 27, 2008	My Cousin Vinny (1992)	89%
	"Elaborate visual mounting and iconographic placement of the romantic leads are the movie's preoccupation, with the overthrow of Batista merely providing local color." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 26, 2008	Havana (1990)	17%
	"Most of the show belongs to Cher and Cage, both of whom are at their energetic best." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 23, 2008	Moonstruck (1987)	91%
	"Basically a redneck drive-in movie in style and delivery." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 22, 2008	Shakes the Clown (1992)	37%
	"The character and plot contrivances are dumber than ever, but this is basically vaudeville, not narrative, and the thrills keep coming." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 22, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
	"The results are watchable enough, with a particularly adept use of Sean Connery, Chicago locations, and period details." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 21, 2008	The Untouchables (1987)	82%
	"A curiously sour movie in its amused contempt for this fatuous family." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 20, 2008	Brady Bunch Movie (1995)	59%
	"Though it's a good half hour too long, this overblown 1993 spin-off of the 60s TV show otherwise adds up to a pretty good suspense thriller." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 20, 2008	The Fugitive (1993)	94%
	"At least the special effects and outer space vistas are more handsome than usual." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek: Generations (1994)	51%
	"[The] special effects, despite the hefty budget, look strictly bargain basement." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 19, 2008	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)	18%
	"[A] celebration of high jinks." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 19, 2008	Sgt. Bilko (1996)	32%
	"I don't see this slightly better-than-average drug thriller, with slightly better-than-average direction by Steven Soderbergh, as anything more than a routine rubber-stamping of genre reflexes." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 18, 2008	Traffic (2000)	92%
	"Sonnenfeld's cheerful irreverence keeps it reasonable." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 18, 2008	Wild Wild West (1999)	21%
	"If you really hate your kids, pack them off to this slapdash farce, whose only funny moment is the PC disclaimer at the end about the Disney company's humanist concern for blind people." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 16, 2008	Mr. Magoo (1997)	4%
	"Even if you find Franken hard to bear, as I do, the movie's take on how he functions in the world is both authoritative and compelling, and the movie steadily grows in stature." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 14, 2008	Stuart Saves His Family (1995)	29%
	"Four writers worked on the script, and they all should hang their heads in shame." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 13, 2008	The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)	25%
	"The characters (both animal and human) are solidly conceived, and the storytelling and visuals are expertly fashioned." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 13, 2008	Babe (1995)	98%
	"powerful experience, alternately corrosive with dark parodic humor, suspenseful, moving, and terrifying." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 7, 2008	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)	98%
	"An entertaining comedy-thriller adapted by Scott Frank from the Elmore Leonard best-seller and directed with bounce (if not much nuance) by Barry Sonnenfeld." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 7, 2008	Get Shorty (1995)	85%
	"Sarandon and Davis bring a lot of unpredictable verve and nuance to their parts." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 7, 2008	Thelma & Louise (1991)	90%
	"In 1990 the people who brought you Top Gun -- Tom Cruise, director Tony Scott, and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer -- figured out a way to take more of your money, and it involved stock-car racing." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 7, 2008	Days of Thunder (1990)	44%
	"Even more gory and adolescent than its models, which explains both the fun and the unpleasantness of this globe-trotting romp." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 7, 2008	Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)	85%
	"Very silly but enjoyable." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 6, 2008	Wayne's World (1992)	83%
	"This 1964 entry is the most enjoyable of the James Bond thrillers starring Sean Connery -- perhaps because it's the most comic and cartoony in look as well as conception." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 6, 2008	Goldfinger (1964)	96%
	"*I found it more pleasurable as a time waster than either Mission: Impossible." -- Chicago Reader* Posted May 6, 2008	Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)	26%
	"This one offers some agreeably mindless fun in which the villains (including Norton) are truly villainous, the payback is satisfying in a purely infantile way, and the familiarity of everything is oddly comforting." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 6, 2008	The Italian Job (2003)	73%
	"As a deeply personal work about free-floating existential identities, this 1989 film has the kind of grit and feeling that few action comedies can muster, with Eastwood and Peters interesting and unpredictable throughout." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 5, 2008	Pink Cadillac (1989)	18%
	"The fast pace and force-fed wisecracks are as seamless as ever, but rarely has audience laughter sounded as hollow." -- Chicago Reader Posted May 5, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	89%
	"Nearly all the SF premises are accorded the status of Andrew Dice Clay one-liners -- which means that they, along with the characters, keep changing from one scene to the next." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 30, 2008	Demolition Man (1993)	61%
	"Whatever one thinks, and however much the film may seem dated now in relation to Brakhage's subsequent output, it is an achievement to be reckoned with." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 29, 2008	Dog Star Man (1964)	100%
	"A wonderful mess." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 28, 2008	Magnolia (1999)	84%
	"This is a long way from the social comedy of Jerry Lewis. The characters here are ultimately turned into punching bags or punch-line dispensers." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 28, 2008	Dumb and Dumber (1994)	60%

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