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	Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
2/4	20 Dates
1/4	The Gingerbread Man
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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	" Its moving portraiture is refreshingly free of cliches and moralizing platitudes, and the high-contrast black-and-white photography and dense, highly creative sound track are equally impressive." -- Chicago Reader Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	91%
	" Gross-out horror comedy is my least favorite genre, but this movie's so skillful I have to take my hat off to it." -- Chicago Reader Posted Oct 7, 2008	Slither (2006)	85%
	" In its own quiet way it delivers the goods." -- Chicago Reader Posted Oct 3, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
	" It's a real pity, because Reiner has certainly been funnier and more inventive on other outings and Sherilyn Fenn makes a winsome gal Friday." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 30, 2008	Fatal Instinct (1993)	16%
	" Like most of Lee's work, this bites off more than it can chew, but the breadth and energy are impressive." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 23, 2008	Summer of Sam (1999)	50%
	" This is basically sloppy, all-over-the-map filmmaking with few hints of self-criticism and few genuine laughs." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 23, 2008	Bamboozled (2000)	47%
	" The performances are strong, but the spectator often feels adrift in an overly busy intrigue." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 22, 2008	Clockers (1995)	67%
	" There isn't an ounce of flab or hype, and the story it tells is profoundly affecting." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 22, 2008	4 Little Girls (1998)	100%
	" Though it's full of striking visual ideas and actorly turns, it never fully convinces." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 22, 2008	Mo' Better Blues (1990)	71%
	" There are so many voices you may think you're swimming through a maelstrom, but thanks to Lee it's all superbly orchestrated." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 22, 2008	Jungle Fever (1991)	83%
	" I can't say I warmed to the results, but I was solidly held for the film's two hours." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 17, 2008	8MM (1998)	22%
	" Barry Gifford's beautifully written picaresque novel about southern lovers on the run, though essentially literary, could have worked as a movie had David Lynch shown some fidelity to the realistic context." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 17, 2008	Wild at Heart (1990)	65%
	" Like so many post-Val Lewton horror films, this 1992 feature starts out promisingly while the plot is mainly a matter of suggestion, but gradually turns gross and obvious as the meanings become literal and unambiguous." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 17, 2008	Candyman (1992)	74%
	" What really makes this worth seeing is Cage's outrageously unbridled performance." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 16, 2008	Vampire's Kiss (1989)	68%
	" A rather ho-hum if watchable neo-noir, though it's been treated in some quarters as something special." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 16, 2008	Red Rock West (1993)	95%
	" Cage is the only actor allowed to do riffs on his assigned part, something he takes full advantage of; the others are stuck with their two-dimensional satirical profiles, which grow increasingly tiresome and unyielding." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 16, 2008	Amos & Andrew (1993)	23%
	" Even the weather seems tailored to the script's shifting needs." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 16, 2008	Trapped in Paradise (1994)	14%
	" Despite some excessive narrative streamlining, this 1991 release was the best Disney animated feature in years, full of charm and humor." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 10, 2008	Beauty and the Beast (1991)	93%
	" This 1950 effort shows Disney at the tail end of his best period, when his backgrounds were still luminous with depth and detail and his incidental characters still had range and bite." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 3, 2008	Cinderella (1950)	87%
	" This animated feature based on Felix Salten's book about the coming of age of a fawn and his various forest friends (including the beloved Thumper) does convey some of the primal emotional power of Disney's features during this period." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 3, 2008	Bambi (1942)	89%
	" Within the apparently necessary aesthetic and ideological limitations (such as making the hero and heroine Americans surrounded by foreign servants a la Pinocchio), the animation manages to be fairly energetic." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 3, 2008	The Little Mermaid (1989)	88%
	" This is an absorbing and involving picture, but the terms propounded here limit the story, which depends almost entirely on emotions rather than on thought." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 3, 2008	Losing Isaiah (1995)	41%
	" Surely one of Disney's ugliest and least imaginative efforts." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 2, 2008	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)	73%
	" Even when animals speak, lip sync is avoided; they seem to be communicating almost telepathically, and one seldom feels that they're contradicting their animal natures." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 2, 2008	Princess Mononoke (1997)	93%
	" Overall this seems like a reasonable stab at an impossible agenda." -- Chicago Reader Posted Sep 2, 2008	Pocahontas (1995)	56%
	" Malle adeptly eases us into the play so we can't tell at what precise moment Chekhov takes over, an ambiguity that becomes the film's triumph as well as its key limitation." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 12, 2008	Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)	87%
	" This is entertaining filmmaking on a grand scale." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 12, 2008	Farewell My Concubine (1993)	88%
	" This 1997 comedy may be amusing if you feel a pressing need to feel superior to somebody, but the aim is too broad and scattershot to add up to much beyond an acknowledgment of small-town desperation." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 12, 2008	Waiting for Guffman (1997)	91%
	" The performances, however, are very enjoyable, with first honors going to Chazz Palminteri and Dianne Wiest." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 12, 2008	Bullets Over Broadway (1994)	96%
	" For me it felt like a good many weeks at a politically correct summer camp." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 12, 2008	All About My Mother (1999)	97%
	" It's such a potent and courageous wreck of a movie that it's worth more than most 'successes.'" -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 5, 2008	Cobb (1994)	68%
	" One of the better Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn comedies -- not so much for the screenplay by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, which lacks the bite and sophistication of Adam's Rib, as for the relaxed and graceful interplay of the stars." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 4, 2008	Pat and Mike (1952)	90%
	" It's characteristic of the virtues and limitations of French sexual provocateur Catherine Breillat...that they usually derive from the same source--the fearless determination to skirt the borders of camp." -- Chicago Reader Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
	" Juggling onstage and offstage action, Cassavetes makes this a fascinating look at some of the internal mechanisms and conflicts that create theatrical fiction." -- Chicago Reader Posted Jul 28, 2008	Opening Night (1977)	95%
	" 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)	94%
	" 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%

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