ROTTEN TOMATOES: James Hebert

JAMES HEBERT

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications: San Diego Union-Tribune

Total Reviews: 32

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

Rotten	Rotten 20%	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)	" We'll spare you the spoiler. And though it has its moments, you might want to spare yourself the movie." Posted Dec 11, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 53%	Mamma Mia! (2008)	" There's something infuriatingly entertaining about this silly story, those slumming actors (Meryl Streep! Pierce Brosnan!) and those cruel, cruel songs." Posted Jul 17, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 30%	The Heartbreak Kid (2007)	" In this remake of the 1972 film, the Farrellys -- proud perpetrators of Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary and other jolly assaults on good taste -- turn Neil Simon's script inside out and flog it like a pi�ata." Posted Oct 5, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 91%	Hairspray (2007)	" A goofy bouffant of a movie primped with rich '60s atmosphere and held together by the gloss coat of Marc Shaiman's swinging music." Posted Jul 19, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 57%	Transformers (2007)	" It's a Hasbro ad. It's a Chevy commercial. It's a pitch for Homeland Security. (A pretty ineffective one.)" Posted Jul 11, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 81%	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	" *In this fourth film, there's a zip to the dialogue and a lift to the storytelling that recalls the spark of the original '88 Die Hard.*" Posted Jun 25, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 66%	Snow Cake (2007)	" Snow Cake reflects a sense of the almost infinite ways autism manifests itself, in all its baffling and fascinating and sometimes agonizing realities." Posted May 25, 2007
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 66%	Miss Potter (2006)	" It's buttoned-up to a fault, as proper as clotted cream, and at times as exciting." Posted Mar 16, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 21%	Arthur and the Invisibles (2007)	" The story [Besson] co-wrote for Arthur is workable, even clever at times, but the visualization of the Minimoys and their crib is weird and almost aggressively off-putting -- like an episode of When CGI Attacks!" Posted Jan 12, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 51%	Fast Food Nation (2006)	" It's a lot of food for thought -- even if sometimes, a bit too much is on the menu." Posted Nov 17, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 72%	Stranger Than Fiction (2006)	" Stranger Than Fiction is subversive in its own, low-key way." Posted Nov 10, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 36%	The Lake House (2006)	" This is the first time Reeves and Bullock have been paired since the 1994 hit Speed, where they were stuck on a bus that would blow up if its speed dropped below 50 mph. There's no danger of that kind of velocity here." Posted Jun 16, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 56%	X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)	" Like the first two films, this one crackles with action, delves smartly (but not smarmily) into social relevance, and salts in enough humor to make all the vaporizings and razor-izings feel a bit more festive." Posted Jun 7, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 62%	ATL (2006)	" *But the story behind ATL* (credited to Antwone Fisher, the onetime Navy man in San Diego who had a movie made about his life four years ago) for the most part feels genuine and resonant.**" Posted Mar 31, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 92%	Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)	" Block Party itself doesn't kill, exactly, but its charms are enough to disarm." Posted Mar 3, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 61%	Something New (2006)	" Something New has some surprisingly wise and nuanced things to say about navigating racial attitudes -- both society's and one's own." Posted Feb 3, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 52%	The Family Stone (2005)	" Strangely, though, it's not an overdose of sentimentality that makes the family - - and the film - - so hard to buy. It's that most of its members are so blithely cruel." Posted Dec 16, 2005
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 55%	Lords of Dogtown (2005)	" *The action sequences are real and raw, and if Lords* never quite gets airborne, it does justice to a scene whose legacy rolls on.**" Posted Jun 3, 2005
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 93%	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	" The movie's tone -- which is as naturalistic as the plot is fantastic -- heightens the tantalizing sense that maybe, finally, this is the real Carrey we're seeing." Posted Mar 19, 2004
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 85%	24 Hour Party People (2002)	" *It's part of the charm of 24 Hour Party People* ... that the filmmakers gleefully embellish or downright invent scenes -- and often admit that they're doing it.**" Posted Aug 30, 2002
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 91%	Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)	" An account that's as raw and colorful as the misfits it mythologizes." Posted May 3, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 59%	Scotland, PA (2002)	" Underachieves only in not taking the Shakespeare parallels quite far enough." Posted Apr 26, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)	" Makes for deft (if weightless) entertainment." Posted Apr 13, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Beyond the Mat (1999)	" The film manages to put a pin on pro wrestling's harsh realities." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Bicentennial Man (1999)	" Gives up too early in its search to say something authentic." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Rotten 7%	Chill Factor (1999)	" The plot is rigged to disintegrate if a moviegoer's IQ nudges above 70." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Rotten 57%	Deep Blue Sea (1999)	" Sharks for Dummies!" Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 70%	Frequency (2000)	" Frequency probably won't rewrite the history of time-bending movies, but the movie works in enough dimensions to make it a pleasant one-way trip." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Hollow Man (2000)	" *Paul Verhoeven's exceedingly violent, surprisingly pointless invisible-man tale nearly warrants a trotting-out of the Union-Tribune's dreaded 'dog' designation.*" Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Fresh 68%	Keeping the Faith (2000)	" It is also two-hours-plus in length. Not until the movie nears that 'plus' portion, unfortunately, does it find some semblance of a stride." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Rotten 55%	Mumford (1999)	" After so many gross offenses committed in the name of comedy lately, here's a film whose humor rests on the audacious assumption that you, the moviegoer, have a brain." Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Snow Day (1999)	" The attempted humor is a hodgepodge of predictable slapstick and TV-cartoon cliche." Posted Jan 1, 2000

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