ROTTEN TOMATOES: Erik Childress

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Knocked Up
5/5	Fall from Grace
3.5/4	The Nines
4/5	Hounddog
3/4	Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
2.5/4	Zodiac
3/5	Self-Medicated
2/4	Music and Lyrics
2/5	Private Property
1.5/4	Perfect Stranger
1/4	Premonition
1/5	Day Watch
0.5/4	Chapter 27
0/4	Evening

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Dark Knight
4/4	WALL-E
4/4	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
4/4	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
4/4	Juno
4/4	Stephen King's The Mist
4/4	Beowulf
4/4	No Country for Old Men
4/4	Gone Baby Gone
4/4	Superbad
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	The Lucky Ones
0/4	The Happening
0/4	Sex and the City - The Movie
0/4	What Happens in Vegas
0/4	The Bucket List
0/4	I Know Who Killed Me
0/4	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
0/4	Evening
0/4	Broken Bridges
0/4	The New World
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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2.5/4	" After Ridley's less-than-stellar stretch including Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year and American Gangster, expectations are medium at best and Body of Lies does nothing to raise them." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 9, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	52%
2/4	" Many critics will make some quip on the film's title doing precisely that to the audience looking for a little inside baseball, but there's so much general familiarity going for it already, why add to it?" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 3, 2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	33%
0/4	" With one head-gnawing plot contrivance after another, it may think it's the wacky Iraq version of Easy Rider but is more like this year's Around the Bend or Diamonds." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
3/4	" The Kubrickian Hitchcock elements are out front and personal, but D.J. Caruso keeps things nicely slick and swift so the film reminds you, maybe not of those legends, but certainly of someone like John Badham at his 1983 peak." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
2.5/4	" Arriaga's attempt with poignant reconnections at the end can't strike the emotional footnote it wants at the fade as he's muddled it up trying to get us to make all the obvious connections from the previous 100 minutes." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	The Burning Plain ()	20%
2/4	" We already had one Other Boleyn Girl this year, but even as the occasional blip of droll humor breaks up the monotony and 'tell me something I don't know' developments, it's still quite a dullard's affair." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	61%
3/4	" Maher's holy trinity comes in the form of the words 'I don't know' and it's the lesson he wants to shout from the pulpit, even if there's some arrogance in believing that he knows everyone else is wrong." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 25, 2008	Religulous (2008)	68%
3/4	" The bullets may not be comparable to the Yuma remake or Kevin Costner's underrated Open Range, but the men holding the guns are still the same. So what if they're just a little bit different?" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 18, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
2.5/4	" Lakeview Terrace waves bye-bye much earlier on than it should and that's a shame because it would have been so nice to see such lofty reflections getting along in a thriller for mass consumption." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 18, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	42%
2.5/4	" Whenever Christian McKay is on screen, it's transportive. So it's a shame that Linklater didn't see the egotistical irony in the title and just make a film all about Orson Welles. It's what he would have wanted." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 16, 2008	Me and Orson Welles (2008)	n/a
2/4	" The film's tone between dark comedy and creepy psychodrama just never works and alternates with such mellowness that it's impossible to get a grasp on how we should feel about either 'victim.'" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 16, 2008	Four Nights With Anna (2008)	n/a
3/4	" You wish there was a little less grumbling and more of the Before Sunrise/Sunset feel that we get in the final half hour which is quite special. Put Michael Cera and an escalator in your climactic scene and somehow magic is born." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 16, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2.5/4	" The pacing isn't quite as screwy as the premise and it winds up with the occasional lag while it chases too much of any particular subplot" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 16, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
3.5/4	" I [have] a little crush on Ghost Town and I'll stand by it as one of the best surprises of 2008." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 12, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	85%
3/4	" If Rian Johnson took a page from Raymond Chandler for Brick, then it's one of Wes Anderson's eyes he's plucked out for his latest." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Brothers Bloom (2008)	71%
0.5/4	" We're in for a bumpy ride on Anderson's Bi-polar express where the line between homage and ripoff is never as blurry as his action sequences. His Ben-Hur chariot race would have needed nothing more than one set of horses, a couple human heads and a wheel." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 21, 2008	Death Race (2008)	43%
2.5/4	" Despite its breezy quality and occasional big laugh, The Rocker just never completely clicks as A-side material." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	36%
3.5/4	" Stiller has rediscovered the subversive humor from the best moments of his career and created a near-classic that is his funniest film since the remake of Meet the Parents." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 12, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
3/4	" While the pot comedy genre has strived more on memorable characters (Spicoli, Cheech & Chong, Harold & Kumar) than memorable movies, Pineapple Express is the rare exception." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 5, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
3/4	" Neither are merely satirizing the late '80s string of age reversal comedies. Instead in their own bizarro way have a charm that results in their commitment to the premise." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 24, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
4/4	" The most brilliantly complex, perfectly paced, nerve-jangling, moral-wrangling film ever based on a graphically detailed literary work and, dare I say, one of the most important American films to be made in years." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
3/4	" It's an all-ages type of show, doesn't cost much, you'll laugh a few times and smile even more. Then when he makes his way around again to DVD and onto cable, you may just be inclined to take in another matinee." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Great Buck Howard (2008)	86%
3/4	" Light as a feather, but never boring, Journey 3-D, brought me back just a little to my days as a youth watching adventures and for 90 minutes it was a welcome spelunk." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	62%
3/4	" May have an indie budget but equally evokes the rich landscapes of early Terrence Malick and the grimy grindhouse tales of the '70s, converging poetically into its heartmashing climax." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 1, 2008	All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2008)	58%
2/4	" By the expedited conclusion it all feels less like a Peter Berg film and just another chapter in Will Smith's tentpole history of major creative failures." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 30, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
1.5/4	" When we, the audience, are confronted directly at the end and asked "what the #$!% have you done lately?" at least you can readily answer, "well, I sure didn't make a film as crappy as Wanted."" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
4/4	" Not since Titanic will you have heard two prospective partners cry out each other's names with as much longing (and frequency) and if there's any karma, fate, or pure love out there to believe in than WALL-E will equal its attendance and then some." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
0/4	" The greatest excuse yet to get that anti-M. Night petition started. The last thing we want is a future of Shyamalan films with the knowledge that we all could have done something sooner." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	18%
1.5/4	" If you can clock a feature film by its transformations (25-&-50) style and still wish that you could skip through the commercials in-between, precisely how far removed are you from what's come before." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
3/4	" Dreamworks is bringing old school to the new school with Kung Fu Panda, which quietly lumbers around in its first half before proving itself a worthy master of the art in its action-packed second." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	89%
3/4	" A film to unnerve us enough to either buy some extra deadbolts or kill the next bastard who walks across our lawn." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 29, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	43%
0/4	" Having the story of Cinderella play a significant role in the feature introduces the deadpan irony that this version is told through the eyes of the stepsisters like a big screen version of Wicked only without the happy ending." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 29, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	50%
4/4	" To all of the wannabes, imposters and posers out there � it�s time to go back to school and learn how a real adventure picture is made." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 19, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
0.5/4	" Speed Racer devolves into one of the most painfully ill-conceived borefests to ever grace a summer movie season and an easy candidate of one of 2008's worst films." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	37%
0/4	" A distinctly awful cover version of 'I Want A New Drug' plays on the soundtrack and is a direct thought to the audience who is going to need something a lot stronger to make it through this unrelentless excuse for a romantic comedy." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 8, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	27%
2.5/4	" The digression of the film's setup into an expedited version of The Spanish Prisoner would be less unnerving if what followed didn't turn out to be so irreversibly ridiculous." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	70%
1.5/4	" Forgive me if I've already forgotten what The Favor is really about, but the truth is so does Miss Aridjis. So drastically in fact, that the film doesn't even qualify for After School Special exemption status." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2008	The Favor (2008)	39%
3.5/4	" Like every path to success, there is an origin story and Iron Man ranks as one of the most instantaneously satisfying of all of them." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
1/4	" Wolverines and Cougars aside, there are more than one strokes responsible for violating their own rules and putting a name on the film that is only an introduction to what's wrong with it." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
0.5/4	" Deal has to take the title of the worst film ever about the game and that includes the how-to videos with Joan Rivers impersonators you see in your Vegas hotel room." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deal (2008)	0%
2/4	" It's still average schlock, albeit one with a little something for every discerning male; big breasts, fake breasts, heavily pierced breasts, breasts with star pasties and bloody pasty breasts that are the true stars." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2008	Zombie Strippers (2008)	41%
1/4	" At times it's almost like Pacino has been lured into a Bobby Bowfinger production except the best blackmail material around to get his permission for release is 88 Minutes itself." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	5%
1.5/4	" From The Lion King to the Monkey King director Rob Minkoff goes and along with him goes the reverse evolution of the American martial arts epic." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	64%
3/4	" Despite only sharing credit as a co-writer, the story has Ellroy's fingerprints all over it and those familiar smudges become a detriment to an otherwise well-made film by director David Ayer." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 10, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
3.5/4	" The Promotion, beyond what's a deeper screenplay than some may give it credit for, is consistently funny in a build-up-and-release way that, much like The Weather Man, supplements those one-liners with uncomfortable behavior and a comedy of manners." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 10, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
N/A	" SXSW '08 Interview: 'A Necessary Death' Director Daniel Stamm" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 9, 2008	A Necessary Death (2008)	100%
3/4	" The Hitchcockian elements are actually much subtler than recognized, partly because the film is generally more a comedy than some Peeping Tom-esque thriller." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 9, 2008	Mister Foe (2008)	75%
4/4	" One of the best documentaries I've ever seen and I am not prone to such hyperbolic statements. This is Oscar-worthy material and hopefully enough people on the committees will see it and cast a vote for next year." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 9, 2008	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)	n/a
3.5/4	" Modigliani is there from the beginning which helps bring potency and unexpected tragedy to the lives of both Bush's local supporters and his dissenters." -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 9, 2008	Crawford (2008)	100%
3.5/4	" Ellison's lasting contributions to science-fiction and the medium in general are well-documented in-between interludes where Ellison himself reads passages from his work and reminds us how beautiful the written word can be when put into the hands of a tru" -- eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 9, 2008	Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)	94%

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