ROTTEN TOMATOES: Michael Atkinson

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	California Split
	Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
	Love and Anger
	Prix De Beaute
	Laura
	Somewhere in the Night
	Damnation
	The Prefab People
	The Innocents
	Boudu Saved from Drowning
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	Remember the Titans
	My Brother Is An Only Child
	Stuff and Dough
	All The King's Men
	Solo Con Tu Pareja
	Keeping Mum
	The Ground Truth
	Le Petit Lieutenant
	Saint of 9/11
	The Wicker Man
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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	"Yakin's hackwork is so slickly manipulative and preachy it has the tone of a politician's TV commercial..." -- Movieline Posted May 29, 2008	Remember the Titans (2000)	71%
	"The rough-and-tumble tone is bitterly entertaining but in the end doesn't contribute to a convincing historical portrait, and a pileup of half-baked resolutions spoils the buzz." -- Chicago Reader Posted Apr 25, 2008	My Brother Is An Only Child (2006)	86%
	"Simultaneously lean and distracted." -- Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2008	Stuff and Dough (2008)	67%
	"Sold as a comedy, the film scans more like American-century Dostoyevsky, with comp cocktails." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008	California Split (1974)	90%
	"A rather astonishing, starkly stylized blood flood set inside a privatized prison." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 12, 2008	Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)	80%
	"Bristly and mad as hell, the coalescent result is both a fabulous time capsule and a prescient rediscovery for today's latent anti-war movement. Supps include new interviews, galleries, and a booklet of background info." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 7, 2007	Love and Anger (1969)	n/a
	"The breathtakingly lurid finale, set in a screening room, has an almost necrophilic obsessiveness." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 31, 2007	Prix De Beaute (1930)	n/a
	"A hypnotic and deathlessly interpretable experience." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007	Laura (1944)	100%
	"Joseph L. Mankiewicz's nervous nightmare (made in his first year of directing) isn't an all-hallowed member of the noir canon -- it's fairly slick, and Mankiewicz has little or no existentialist cred. But it sings the school's black-hearted lament." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007	Somewhere in the Night (1946)	89%
	"It's a serotonin-depleted ordeal, and yet seemingly a sketchbook of vibes and ideas to come, with some of the most magnificent black-and-white images shot anywhere in the world." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 5, 2007	Damnation (1987)	89%
	"An unrelenting, smell-the-sour-breath portrait of a blue-collar marriage dissolving under pressure from Communist-era poverty, masculine inadequacy, and restless depression." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 5, 2007	The Prefab People (1982)	100%
	"Is it the finest, smartest, most visually savvy horror film ever made by a big studio?" -- Village Voice Posted Sep 24, 2007	The Innocents (1961)	95%
	"Amid the early-talkie crudeness you can see Renoir discover what it means to visually evoke the unpredictable flow of life with composition, movement, and depth." -- Village Voice Posted May 9, 2007	Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)	100%
	"For under-30 viewers who still think they're immortal, the latest installment could very well be the grimmest and most haunting of horror films." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 3, 2006	49 Up (2006)	97%
	"A detailed and somewhat straggling account of the 2004 presidential election's flashpoint climax in Ohio." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 3, 2006	So Goes the Nation (2006)	91%
	"*Sometimes clumsy and dry, always sympathetic, and wryly interested in the impact food has on social intercourse, Be With Me* is eventually affecting once its elliptical shape becomes clear.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Sep 26, 2006	Be With Me (2005)	90%
	"Penn goes for larger-than-life, wrapping his pinched frown around an unintelligible Louisiana drawl and swinging his arms like an autistic evangelist." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006	All The King's Men (2006)	12%
	"Pushing the dull Cacho as a chick magnet capable of opening any pair of legs suggests that Cuar�n's respect for women has gained serious ground since he was 29." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006	Solo Con Tu Pareja (1991)	60%
	"Obvious, simplistic, and never funny, Niall Johnson's movie may be useful only as real estate porn -- Cornwall and the Isle of Man never looked so super cute." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2006	Keeping Mum (2006)	55%
	"Patricia Foulkrod's film backs itself into a Support Our Troops corner, elegizing the soldiers. Iraqis do not figure in, except as bad memories." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2006	The Ground Truth (2006)	87%
	"Tragedy, when it comes, does not involve us -- we're kept at arm's length through to the final retribution." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 5, 2006	Le Petit Lieutenant (2006)	79%
	"*As a rhythmic cry for understanding, Man Push Cart* has the simplicity of an Islamic hamd call to prayer.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Sep 5, 2006	Man Push Cart (2006)	87%
	"Filmmaker Glenn Holsten sells it to the cheap seats anyway, fleshing out Judge's alcoholic struggles and his redoubtable activist work with mega-dramatic gimmickry and sentimental hosannas." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 5, 2006	Saint of 9/11 (2006)	84%
	"This wasn�t a horror film the first time around, and LaBute makes sorry feints at effective creepiness." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2006	The Wicker Man (2006)	15%
	"Renoir sought out balance and humanistic sympathy, reshaping the narrative so the thief (Jean Gabin) and the Baron (Louis Jouvet) bond over their mutual rebellion against the social system." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 30, 2006	The Lower Depths (1935)	83%
	"An adorable, preposterous mutant film from the heyday of international do-your-own-thing moviemania." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 29, 2006	Fando y Lis (1967)	67%
	"It might be the most maturely conceived role in Burns's films, but the plot around it is flimsy, the visual storytelling simpleminded, and the general ideas for character one-note." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 29, 2006	Looking for Kitty (2006)	39%
	"Ray's film is an incisive dissection of culture shock and class privilege." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 29, 2006	The Chess Players (1977)	83%
	"Idlewild has a sober, loving respect for history and the old South, and thereby grants itself a measure of distinction." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 22, 2006	Idlewild (2006)	48%
	"A hellish and unconvincing celebration of badda-bing-ness." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 22, 2006	10th & Wolf (2006)	19%
	"The very notion that movies about torture are considered 'horror,' and are more profitable now per foot of celluloid than any other type of independent film, is what's qualmy." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 8, 2006	Calvaire (2005)	33%
	"... a psychodrama of typically brisk efficiency and relaxed gallows humor." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2006	The Bridesmaid (2006)	90%
	"... easily the most valuable piece of film to emerge about the war in all of its three-plus years." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2006	My Country, My Country (2006)	85%
	"The title's difficult to argue with, unless it's to maintain that we'd all be better off if the film's entire roster of characters had been shot in the head at the dump, greyhound-style." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 25, 2006	John Tucker Must Die (2006)	25%
	"The world seen through the bloodshot eyes of Xbox zombies." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 20, 2006	Azumi (2006)	43%
	"Shyamalan is mystically assuming that any idea or image that pops into his skull will make a shapely tale, no matter how much cock-and-bull logic he has to invent to Gorilla Glue it together." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2006	Lady in the Water (2006)	24%
	"*It's still a feat of period filmmaking. More than that, Overlord's revivification of a wasteland Europe offers up a powerful whip lesson for the postwar complacent." -- Village Voice* Posted Jul 11, 2006	Overlord (1975)	91%
	"*Edmond is all sizzle and little meat, a veritable tangent act dropped from Glengarry Glen Ross* because it was several marks too silly.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Jul 11, 2006	Edmond (2006)	46%
	"We, in any case, are as unconvinced by his lovelorn saga as Deneuve's skeptical pragmatist -- that is, until a romance paperback deus ex machina shoots the film's lifelike credibility out of the water." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006	Changing Times (2006)	65%
	"The film's Endsville, when we reach it, is almost an anticlimax, thanks to the masterfully orchestrated ensemble acting and the countless dramatic mini-explosions unleashed along the way." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006	71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)	n/a
	"...it's an oasis of visual gravity, firmly tripod-rooted to the ground and entirely free of handheld manipulations. Sharply acted under the restrictive circumstances, the film might be too preconceived for its own good..." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2006	Guernsey (2006)	67%
	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is even more of a party-hearty-Marty potlatch of silliness than its predecessor. -- Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)	54%
	"It's a farce about loss, and it doesn't flinch." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 27, 2006	Click (2006)	31%
	"The Motel, Michael Kang's modest Sundance applause reaper, doesn't deserve to be shotgunned for the sins of 30 other movies. But the underwhelming syncopation of make-nice clich�s is too familiar." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 27, 2006	The Motel (2006)	87%
	"The film makes no more or less sense than Ridley Scott's Legend or Jim Henson's Labyrinth, and in fact has a creaky, blue-gel '80s-ness to it, but for many, keeping up with Miike's cranked output is an end in itself." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 27, 2006	Great Yokai War (2006)	67%
	"Strangers With Candy regularly lampoons junkie-reparation melodramas and after-school specials, but with so little focus it's never clear what the film, or even Sedaris's vaudeville buffoon incarnation, is supposed to be parodying." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 27, 2006	Strangers With Candy (2006)	52%
	"From the beginning Yamada's movie, made in 2004, looks and feels more like a John Ford western than any other Asian film I've ever seen." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2006	Hidden Blade (2006)	87%
	"Wrongheaded and bizarrely outrageous." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 13, 2006	Land of the Blind (2006)	12%
	"It's slick homogeneity, co-produced by Salles and co-funded by the Brazilian petroleum giant Petrobras, of a kind that commonly finds U.S. distribution while far better, riskier, more memorable films on the international table are ignored." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 13, 2006	Lower City (2006)	60%
	"Wordplay has no subject, finally, besides the puzzle you could be solving instead." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 13, 2006	Wordplay (2006)	95%

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