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DAVID POLAND

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications: Hot Button, Movie City Geek, Movie City News, TNT's Rough Cut

Critics' Group: Broadcast Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 278
Total QuickRatings: 378

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Fresh
85%

World's Greatest Dad (2009)

" Bobcat Goldthwaite talks to David Poland about his new movie and Robin Williams, clothed and nude." — Movie City News

Posted Aug 5, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
74%

Julie & Julia (2009)

" The Julie character is just not as interesting as Julia Child, but the movie entertains and will be loved by the over-50 set. Streep will be deservedly Oscar nominated." — Movie City News

Posted Aug 4, 2009

N/A

Fresh
74%

Cold Souls (2009)

" 30 minutes with star Paul Giamatti" — Movie City News

Posted Jul 31, 2009

N/A

Fresh
93%

Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

" 30 minutes with director Aviva Kempner" — Movie City News

Posted Jul 31, 2009

N/A

Fresh
82%

Thirst (2009)

" 30 Minutes with director Chan-wook Park" — Movie City News

Posted Jul 31, 2009

N/A

Fresh
65%

Adam (2009)

" 30 minutes with co-stars Rose Byrne and Peter Gallagher and writer/director Max Meyer" — Movie City News

Posted Jul 31, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
93%

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009)

" It's a party for your eyes and memory banks" — Movie City News

Posted Jul 31, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
68%

Funny People (2009)

" Often funny, but doesn't have the courage of its convictions about its subject matter." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 31, 2009

N/A

Fresh
75%

Humpday (2009)

" The four stars (including the director) of Humpday talk about the film at Sundance." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 10, 2009

N/A

Fresh
75%

Humpday (2009)

" Writer/Director/Co-Star Lynn Shelton & co-Star Mark Duplass talk about the 6 months since Sundance and the state of indie." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
83%

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

" Not a profound picture... not a step forward... not an important movie... but it's fine... it's pleasurable." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
67%

Public Enemies (2009)

" It's an adult drama that tells a great historic story... a story about eras changing... a very strong dramatic movie on a very big scale." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
66%

Away We Go (2009)

" If you like Jim Jarmusch and you like some of David O. Russell and you like Alexander Payne, you are going to like this movie." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
19%

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

" They've managed to make a movie that is so incredibly bad that it manages to mark career lows for pretty much everybody involved." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 29, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
67%

Bruno (2009)

" It's a funny, funny, funny movie. It'd just not revolutionary anymore." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 29, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
78%

The End of the Line (2009)

" Does a very good job of laying out the argument that humans are the unrelenting reason for marine species being wiped off the face of the planet." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
32%

Terminator Salvation (2009)

" It was a waste of effort before they even started shooting." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
92%

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

" Raimi's got skills. He has humor. He makes great use of Alison Lohman." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
98%

Up (2009)

" If Wall-E was Pixar's Jim Cameron movie, Up is their Jean Cocteau film." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
25%

Land of the Lost (2009)

" I had a good, dumb time." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Fresh

Fresh
78%

The Hangover (2009)

" A fast-moving, constant joking, how funny is a guy pulling out his own tooth kind of movie." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
52%

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

" Easily, the best non-animated studio movie of the summer so far, starting with a nearly perfect script by Brian Helgeland." — Movie City News

Posted Jun 10, 2009

Fresh

Rotten
36%

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

" It's a B movie with 1000 effects shots, pure and simple." — Movie City News

Posted May 6, 2009

Rotten
7.5/10

Fresh
95%

Star Trek (2009)

" Amazing sound, a ton of fury, signifying nothing... So densely orchestrated that the film never gives the audience a moment to breath it all in." — Movie City News

Posted May 6, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
64%

Watchmen (2009)

" I wish I could say, 'Go for the spectacle,' but frankly, you are better off watching The Dark Knight again in Blu-ray. Much better off." — Movie City News

Posted Mar 5, 2009

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Fresh
79%

Waking Life (2001)

Click here to read article — Hot Button

Posted Oct 18, 2008

Fresh

Fresh
86%

Rachel Getting Married (2008)

" It is a classic dramatic construct. Rachel Getting Married is a classic deconstruction. It is a minor masterpiece." — Movie City News

Posted Sep 16, 2008

Fresh

Fresh
62%

Che (2008)

" It is art, in the very best way. And Soderbergh's achievement as an artist is undeniable." — Movie City News

Posted Sep 16, 2008

Rotten

Fresh
82%

Tropic Thunder (2008)

" It is easy to laugh your 20 laughs and walk out of Tropic Thunder with a shrug of the shoulders." — Hot Button

Posted Jul 29, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
13%

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

" The movie feels like the direct-to-dvd version of The Mummy, complete with cheesy, already-done CG effects, and best of all, not a single actual mummy in the entire movie." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 29, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
53%

Mamma Mia! (2008)

" An AIP beach movie; Gidget Goes Grecian or How To Stuff A Wild Souvlaki or Marital Beach Party. It's meant to be rollicking, cheesy, brain-dead good fun." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 9, 2008

Fresh

Fresh
94%

The Dark Knight (2008)

" This is not a Batman movie -- this is a 2008 version of The Untouchables with The Batman as Elliot Ness, The Joker as Al Capone, and much better toys." — Hot Button

Posted Jul 9, 2008

N/A

Fresh
96%

WALL-E (2008)

" Is there anyone whose parents didn't tell them that too much TV and junk food and laziness would make them into a miserable, brain damaged blob?" — Movie City News

Posted Jul 3, 2008

Fresh
6/10

Fresh
66%

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

" But if you love crap it's what you might well want as you wait for the better movies of this summer to come." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 3, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
18%

The Happening (2008)

" It is the first film of his career that feels incompetent and utterly gratuitous at times." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 3, 2008

Rotten

Fresh
72%

Wanted (2008)

" Wanted is like the last of big budget porn, throwing around endless style along with massive fake boobs and enough smoke to choke a Scott." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 3, 2008

Fresh
7.5/10

Fresh
87%

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

" There are some remarkably beautiful things in Hellboy II... but suffers, in my opinion, from too much of everything." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 3, 2008

Fresh

Rotten
40%

Hancock (2008)

" This summer has been defined, over and over, by boys maturing into men... Hancock is by far the most thoughtful exploration of this issue." — Movie City News

Posted Jul 3, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
50%

Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)

" Some will be disappointed that it wasn't more adventurous. Some will love it because it is familiar. Some will wonder why all their friends are watching this crap." — Hot Button

Posted May 19, 2008

Fresh
7/10

Fresh
77%

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

" Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is, in spite of claims otherwise made, a CG version of an Indiana Jones movie... for better or for worse." — Hot Button

Posted May 19, 2008

N/A

Fresh
93%

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

" 2 of 2 - The Production Team has Lunch With David" — Movie City News

Posted Dec 3, 2007

N/A

Fresh
93%

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

" 1 of 2 - The Actors Lunch With David" — Movie City News

Posted Dec 3, 2007

N/A

Fresh
74%

La Vie En Rose (2007)

" Marion Cotillard have Lunch With David" — Movie City News

Posted Dec 3, 2007

N/A

Fresh
94%

No Country for Old Men (2007)

" Javier Bardem & Josh Brolin have Lunch With David" — Movie City News

Posted Dec 3, 2007

N/A

Fresh
92%

Enchanted (2007)

" Amy Adams has Lunch With David" — Movie City News

Posted Dec 3, 2007

Fresh

Fresh
85%

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

" The story is so very strong. The music is so magnificent. And with undeniable performances by Depp, Rickman, and Baron Cohen, the film really works." — Movie City News

Posted Dec 3, 2007

Fresh

Rotten
42%

The Golden Compass (2007)

" The film was kind of a primer for a series that I will be happy to watch." — Movie City News

Posted Dec 3, 2007

Fresh

Fresh
81%

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

" I do like the movie. Seeing it again will be no chore, on Hanks and Hoffman alone." — Movie City News

Posted Nov 27, 2007

Fresh

Fresh
91%

There Will Be Blood (2007)

" Defies Fresh/Rotten designation by being SO good and SO bad all in one very confused act of inspiration. Cineastes must go to wallow in it." — Movie City News

Posted Nov 11, 2007

Fresh

Fresh
65%

Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)

" kept trying to shake the film's subtle charm and unvarnished romantic strokes, but I was steadily, gently pulled in over and over and over again." — Movie City News

Posted Oct 22, 2007
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