ROTTEN TOMATOES: Dana Knowles

DANA KNOWLES

Agrees with the Tomatometer 87% of the time.

Total Reviews: 38

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh A	Fresh 93%	Shakespeare in Love (1998)	" An energetic, joyous celebration of love, art, language, and the creative process." Posted Aug 11, 2003
Rotten F	Rotten 39%	Hannibal (2001)	" If only the adorably sentimental Dr. Lecter could cut my skull open and remove the chunk of my brain that houses the memory of having seen this film." Posted Aug 11, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 89%	American Beauty (1999)	" Elegant and gorgeous in its careful progression from satire to poignant drama, AMERICAN BEAUTY celebrates the rewards of the journey instead of glorifying the destination or the prize." Posted Aug 11, 2003
Fresh A-	Fresh 95%	The Insider (1999)	" THE INSIDER may not be groundbreaking in terms of its muckraking revelations or its cinematic achievements, but it is an exceptionally well-crafted, well-acted drama." Posted Jun 18, 2002
Fresh A+	Fresh 96%	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	" 2001 is movie as monolith... a gateway to a new level of vision." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten C-	Fresh 60%	Arlington Road (1999)	" It's impossible to reconcile the giggle-inducing style of Pellington's direction with the real issues the film addresses and come up with a coherent take on his intent." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A-	Fresh 92%	Being John Malkovich (1999)	" It's a kick to have such tremendous fun at a movie and then discover that you've been given so much food for thought as a bonus." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten F	Rotten 25%	Breakfast of Champions (1999)	" This movie is nothing but a freak show--a grating, unfunny, boring, empty-headed cartoon that never ceases to make you yearn to run away." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten C+	Rotten 52%	Cleopatra's Second Husband (2000)	" It dares to take on a supremely annoying sort of human enigma: a man whose comfort zone precludes even the tiniest assertion of his own will." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten D	Rotten 11%	End of Days (1999)	" Why make an original movie when you can crib a bunch of scenes from other movies, change them slightly...then cut them together and pretend you're releasing something fresh?" Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B+	Fresh 83%	Erin Brockovich (2000)	" Though ERIN PROCKOVICH certainly treads on familiar fight-the-power turf...director Steven Soderbergh has wisely taken the scenic route." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	Fargo (1996)	" Conjuring a universe that is at once singular and familiar, FARGO is that rarest of breeds: a film that genuinely merits the word unique." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Fresh 70%	Frequency (2000)	" Stephen Hawking himself couldn't hope to explain the dynamics of the climactic scene, but who cares? It's just a movie, and a more than adequately engaging one." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Rotten 51%	Girl, Interrupted (1999)	" Saddled with a dreadfully ugly wig that seems to be visual shorthand for "she's one very messed up girl," Jolie grabs center stage in every scene she's in." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Fresh 77%	Gladiator (2000)	" What Gladiator lacks in narrative resonance is almost successfully offset by what it provides visually." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A	Fresh 84%	Happiness (1998)	" ...the best kind of personal filmmaking. I don't have to love Solondz, his characters, his story, or his point of view to be thankful that he wrestled them onto a screen." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A+	Fresh 83%	Magnolia (1999)	" the most audacious, courageous, and cinematically complex filmmaking of the year... a deeply collaborative tightrope walk of immense proportions." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten D+	Fresh 62%	Man on the Moon (1999)	" If the notion of watching Carrey pull off a complex physical imitation of Kaufman appeals to you, the absence of further enlightenment may not matter at all." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Fresh 76%	Mansfield Park (1999)	" An agreeable and reasonably charming fusion of the titular novel and Ms. Austen's personal writings." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten D-	Rotten 29%	Message in a Bottle (1999)	" Kevin Costner's...surly pouting and willful detachment are so unappealing that director Luis Mandoki is forced to resort to the dreadful falling in love by montage approach." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B+	Rotten 55%	Mumford (1999)	" There are dozens of small throwaway lines that would be high-points in the script for any other movie." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A	Fresh 93%	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	" The structure itself is worth the price of admission." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A+	Fresh 90%	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	" Meticulously staged and shot, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN captures the insanity of combat with bracing immediacy." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Fresh 78%	Shanghai Noon (2000)	" so light-hearted and ingratiatingly good-natured that it seems churlish to begrudge its wispiness" Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B+	Fresh 72%	Sleepy Hollow (1999)	" A terrific ride, despite its remarkable hollowness as a narrative." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Fresh 65%	Sugar Town (1999)	" But this is a Altman-esque multi-character extravaganza...without the time or budget to go to half the places (narratively and thematically) that it could or should." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B+	Fresh 72%	Sunshine (1999)	" A minimalist fable posing as sprawling historical epic" Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A-	Fresh 85%	The Blair Witch Project (1999)	" If it manages to burrow under your skin, you'll have a hell of a time leaving it behind you in the theater." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Fresh 70%	The Cider House Rules (1999)	" This film tells its intended tale about as well as it could be told, and with a sweetness and generosity of spirit that is undeniable and admirable." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten C+	Rotten 22%	The General's Daughter (1999)	" A movie that practically screams "Hollywood," this murder-mystery/thriller is as slick as sheet-ice and just about as deep." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Fresh 83%	The Hurricane (1999)	" It's a testament to how good most of the film is--and to how great Washington is--that its omissions and its fizzling toward the end never threaten to kill the movie itself." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B-	Fresh 62%	The Patriot (2000)	" If you go with it, it's fairly entertaining, if only because playing guess-the-next-clich� can be a heap of fun." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten D+	Rotten 28%	The Story of Us (1999)	" THE STORY OF US sputters and dwindles and dies at the hand of its own bland indifference to what makes people interesting in the first place." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A	Fresh 95%	The Straight Story (1999)	" This is every bit a David Lynch film, despite its apparent departure from the disturbing subject matter and edgy darkness." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh A-	Fresh 81%	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)	" Beautifully crafted from start to finish" Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B	Fresh 68%	Titus (1999)	" a brutal, busy, messy, sometimes darkly funny epic about revenge as historical Mobius strip... a twisted plane from which there is no escape" Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten C+	Fresh 84%	Tumbleweeds (1999)	" As much as these characters look and feel authentic from frame to frame, something about the film itself rings false and feels just a bit hollow." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh B+	Fresh 95%	You Can Count on Me (2000)	" Few things are more difficult than bringing the ordinary into focus with the sort of grace and quirky specificity that Lonergan achieves." Posted Jan 1, 2000

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