ROTTEN TOMATOES: Misha Berson

MISHA BERSON

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Total Reviews: 36

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

Fresh 3/4	Fresh 88%	ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)	" This is an entertaining visit to a strange planet." Posted Jun 29, 2007
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 75%	Absolute Wilson (2006)	" It's difficult for the uninitiated to glean from this film a real sense of Wilson's oeuvre, or its influence on the zeitgeist." Posted Feb 9, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 42%	Don't Come Knocking (2006)	" *For those in tune with Shepard's oeuvre; Wenders' sly, muted tone; and the exquisite cinematography of Franz Lustig, Don't Come Knocking* can be quirkily resonant.**" Posted Mar 24, 2006
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 63%	Proof (2005)	" A respectable but mild, drab little film." Posted Sep 23, 2005
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	March of the Penguins (2005)	" Mostly upbeat, visually stunning and in awe of the resiliency and loyalty of its subjects." Posted Jul 1, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 87%	Lightning in a Bottle (2004)	" The best thing about this film of an all-star 2003 Radio City Music Hall concert is, perhaps predictably, the still-sizzling power of elder statesmen and stateswomen of the blues." Posted Oct 29, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 57%	Rosenstrasse (2004)	" *For all its flaws, Rosenstrasse* is a welcome reminder that humans are capable of valor and generosity in the worst of times.**" Posted Oct 8, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	Broadway: The Golden Age (2004)	" McKay's straightforward cinematic valentine, which also includes rare archival stage footage, is a treat for those bedazzled by the idea of Broadway in its prime." Posted Sep 24, 2004
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 66%	The Door in the Floor (2004)	" A languorous, fitfully compelling screen adaptation." Posted Jul 14, 2004
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 40%	The Reckoning (2004)	" Once the actors set up shop, and Nicholas gets obsessively involved in proving Martha's innocence, melodrama and ponderousness encroach." Posted Mar 19, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 87%	The Cuckoo (2003)	" Rogozhkin's unusual film has the audacity to consider those which uplift the human spirit, as well as those that erode it." Posted Aug 22, 2003
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 28%	Love the Hard Way (2003)	" Brody pulls the juggling act off -- bringing to mind some riveting cinematic misfits before him, from Brando to McQueen to Pacino." Posted Aug 1, 2003
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 89%	Baran (2002)	" It stays with you in fleeting images of gazing faces, muddy footprints, small fires lit against the chill." Posted Dec 20, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 51%	In Praise of Love (2001)	" In Praise of Love can bore you to tears at times -- yet leave you in awe." Posted Oct 11, 2002
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 89%	The Cockettes (2002)	" It celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity, glancing vividly back at what Hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light.'" Posted Jul 26, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 81%	The Believer (2002)	" A somewhat crudely constructed but gripping, questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing, he becomes an enemy to his own race." Posted Jul 12, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 88%	Late Marriage (2001)	" It feels like a devastatingly honest portrait of how old-world family loyalties are both a haven and a prison -- for two generations." Posted Jun 7, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 47%	Triumph of Love (2002)	" It's a treat watching Shaw, a British stage icon, melting under the heat of Phocion's attentions." Posted Apr 19, 2002
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 54%	The Cherry Orchard (2002)	" Scrupulously acted (in English), visually perfected and skillfully complemented with Tchaikovsky piano music." Posted Apr 12, 2002
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 45%	Borstal Boy (2002)	" Well-made but mush-hearted." Posted Apr 12, 2002
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 43%	Pi�ero (2001)	" What makes the film so grueling and, eventually, tiresome is the relentlessness of the guy's self-destruction." Posted Mar 15, 2002
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 59%	Scotland, PA (2002)	" *... while certainly clever in spots, this too-long, spoofy update of Shakespeare's Macbeth* doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention.**" Posted Feb 26, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 19%	Joe Somebody (2001)	" Aiming to punch holes in some male myths, John Scott Shepherd's script barely makes contact." Posted Dec 21, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 43%	Amy (2001)	" This well-meaning film is really just another one-hanky slum fairy tale -- this time with an Aussie accent." Posted Dec 14, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 60%	Haiku Tunnel (2001)	" Anyone who has been a temporary office drone should find laughs and points of identification within this wry little comedy of manners." Posted Sep 21, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Down from the Mountain (2001)	" A tender tribute to Hartford's spirit, and to the enduring value of the plaintive and celebratory music that emerged from this country's farm fields and front porches and backwoods churches." Posted Sep 21, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 63%	O (2001)	" This intelligent, well-paced film rendition forgoes the Elizabethan verse, while capturing the disturbing essence and gripping plot of Shakespeare's classic tragedy." Posted Aug 31, 2001
Fresh	Rotten 54%	An American Rhapsody (2001)	" Small in scope but touching and compassionate in its simplicity." Posted Aug 24, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Under the Sand (2001)	" An absorbing, visually poetic portrait of one woman's subconscious refusal to come to grips with loss and grief." Posted Aug 3, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)	" Mitchell's textured acting and singing make Hedwig a mercurial creature, not just a transvestite harpy." Posted Aug 3, 2001
Rotten	Fresh 80%	Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)	" The movie is often clunkily paced and edited." Posted Apr 13, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 77%	The Tailor of Panama (2001)	" To enjoy this movie fully, it's best not to read le Carr�'s masterful novel." Posted Mar 30, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 89%	The Widow of St. Pierre (2001)	" Binoche gets a chance to demonstrate her on-screen radiance with subtlety and amplitude." Posted Mar 16, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 63%	When Brendan Met Trudy (2001)	" One of the smarter, more likable attempts at neo-screwball comedy to hit the screen in a while." Posted Mar 9, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 81%	The House of Mirth (2000)	" A fine film that largely respects the literary classic it springs from -- and makes you want to read it, or re-read it." Posted Jan 19, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 49%	Love's Labour's Lost (2000)	" With all the cutesy-pie self-consciousness on display, the fizz goes off the pink champagne awfully quickly." Posted Jan 1, 2000

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