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SCOTT TOBIAS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography: I see movies, watch DVDs, and read books, then I get paid to write what I think of them. Beats doing stuff.
Favorites: Top 5 (no order): Sansho The Bailiff, Duck Soup, Tokyo Story, Shoot The Piano Player, Taxi Driver

Publications: AV Club, Glyphs Film Guide, rec.arts.movies.reviews, Time Out New York

Critics' Group: Chicago Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 496

Location: Chicago

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Fresh
B-

Fresh
70%

The Road (2009)

" Hillcoat gives the film a remarkably evocative backdrop, but the drama lacks depth and dimension, and the scenes tend to blur together." — AV Club

Posted Nov 24, 2009

Rotten
D

Fresh
73%

The Blind Side (2009)

" There’s real ambiguity in the Oher case, but writer-director John Lee Hancock papers over it; it’s possible to see the Tuohys as generous, caring people without brushing off their less-altruistic reasons for sponsoring Oher." — AV Club

Posted Nov 19, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
85%

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

" It’s not always easy to sort out the legitimately inspired touches from the merely campy ones, but the film has a deranged, go-for-broke spirit that makes such distinctions irrelevant." — AV Club

Posted Nov 19, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
85%

Red Cliff (2009)

" The film is both traditional and modern: austere in its engagement with history, and insistent in its showy action beats." — AV Club

Posted Nov 19, 2009

Rotten
C+

Rotten
58%

Missing Person (2009)

" Shannon’s performance takes The Missing Person as far as it goes, but when a real-world tragedy commandeers the story, Buschel’s thin pastiche falls to pieces." — AV Club

Posted Nov 19, 2009

Rotten
C+

Rotten
30%

Women in Trouble (2009)

" Too much of Women In Trouble settles for banal instances of infidelity, female bonding, or psychoanalysis when it needs to keep the action going. It’s fine to be inconsequential, as long as the charged-up frivolity never stops." — AV Club

Posted Nov 12, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
50%

Uncertainty (2009)

" The leads are immensely appealing, but the sum of their experiences equals nothing more profound than two earnest people wrestling with a tough decision." — AV Club

Posted Nov 12, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
18%

The Fourth Kind (2009)

" The Fourth Kind is terminally awkward in the way it meshes fake real footage with faker fake footage. It isn’t required to be convincing as fact, but it doesn’t convince as fiction, either." — AV Club

Posted Nov 5, 2009

Fresh
A

Fresh
77%

Collapse (2009)

" There are many layers to the man and the movie, and it’s hard not to leave the theater shaken." — AV Club

Posted Nov 5, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
45%

Saw VI (2009)

" Adding a layer of social significance isn’t the worst strategy for a franchise that keeps piling on the convoluted mythos, yet hasn’t changed its risible mix of mechanized death and tongue-clucking morality." — AV Club

Posted Oct 23, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
69%

(Untitled) (2009)

" Shelton’s radiant performance as the brothers’ elusive object of desire helps rescue (Untitled) from an occasional listlessness that comes as a consequence of Parker’s nuanced, gentle jabs at the art world." — AV Club

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Rotten
F

Rotten
11%

The Stepfather (2009)

" Even by horror-remake standards, The Stepfather sets the bar for pointlessness." — AV Club

Posted Oct 18, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
22%

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

" A flagrantly ridiculous thriller that tries to retrofit Saw to function as a mainstream, semi-respectable vigilante picture about the failings of our justice system." — AV Club

Posted Oct 15, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
12%

Couples Retreat (2009)

" It’s hard to know if more convincing relationships would have made a difference in a movie so committed to funny accents and potty jokes, but at least it would have shown some effort." — AV Club

Posted Oct 8, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
93%

The Damned United (2009)

" At this point, the Morgan/Sheen roadshow may have finally run its course, but together they have a knack for understanding the recent past through men who are crafty and irreducible, usually despite all appearances to the contrary." — AV Club

Posted Oct 8, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
29%

Free Style (2009)

" Establishing some rooting interest in an underdog like Bleu’s character is essential for movies like this, but not to the point where needless subplots about his mother’s relationship with the local sheriff is more vital than putting rubber to dirt." — AV Club

Posted Oct 8, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
73%

More Than a Game (2009)

" Belman doesn’t look into the bigger problems of James’ team jet-setting across the country during the school year, or the spectacle allowed to build up around him." — AV Club

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Fresh
A-

Fresh
76%

Afterschool (2009)

" The passing of time and the evolution of technology may give it an expiration date, but more likely, Campos’ film stands to be an essential document of what it was like to be a young person in the late ’00s." — AV Club

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
82%

Whip It (2009)

" It’s virtually impossible to hate the film, but Barrymore’s presence behind the camera suggests more calculation than vision; like a lot of actors who direct, she tends to the performances, but her style never rises above bland proficiency." — AV Club

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Rotten
C

Fresh
65%

Coco Before Chanel (2009)

" Headstrong women might have been hard to find in turn-of-the-century Europe, but heroines like Tautou’s are a dime a dozen in costume dramas, and there isn’t enough material detailing what makes her Chanel a special case." — AV Club

Posted Sep 25, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
31%

The Burning Plain (2009)

" Arriaga’s achronological, everything-is-connected screenplays lost their originality and surprise, and started to become more like shtick." — AV Club

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
45%

Jennifer's Body (2009)

" Cody will stop a scene cold for the chance to shoehorn “move on dot org” into a sentence." — AV Club

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Fresh
A

Fresh
95%

35 Shots of Rum (2009)

" French director Claire Denis is one of the most magical filmmakers in the world." — AV Club

Posted Sep 16, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
89%

No Impact Man (2009)

" The film, like Beavan himself, leaves an unholy mess of contradictions in its wake, but most productively, a great deal of those contradictions are our own." — AV Club

Posted Sep 10, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
63%

Extract (2009)

" Ten years after Office Space flopped in theaters, only to find the passionate following it deserved down the line, Extract finds Judge returning triumphantly to the workplace comedy." — AV Club

Posted Sep 3, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
70%

American Casino (2009)

" The film doesn’t come to life until too late in the game, when it takes the original tack of exploring the housing crisis through abandoned backyard swimming pools..." — AV Club

Posted Sep 3, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
87%

At the Edge of the World (2009)

" It’s frequently a rousing adventure." — AV Club

Posted Aug 27, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
70%

My One and Only (2009)

" Director Richard Loncraine applies a period gloss to the proceedings, but adds little momentum; the film never gets on Zellweger’s batty wavelength." — AV Club

Posted Aug 20, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
90%

District 9 (2009)

" District 9 fuses science fiction mayhem and biting social commentary as well as any film since Starship Troopers. It’s the rare alien invasion story that has the aliens running scared." — AV Club

Posted Aug 13, 2009

Fresh
B-

Rotten
58%

A Perfect Getaway (2009)

" Even if you know what’s coming, it’s a neat bit of meta-thriller filmmaking, as much about the mechanics of storytelling as a reasonably satisfying example of it." — AV Club

Posted Aug 6, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
81%

Beeswax (2009)

" Bujalski’s funny, diverting character piece has a lived-in quality that’s no small achievement." — AV Club

Posted Aug 6, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
0%

Foolish (1999)

" The miserable production values—the cardboard sets rival a Little Rascals talent show—and P's stone-faced delivery are merely amateurish, but as a vanity project for Griffin, Foolish is downright appalling." — AV Club

Posted Aug 3, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
25%

The Collector (2009)

" The early scenes promise a potentially novel cross between heist and extreme horror, but those hopes are quickly dashed." — AV Club

Posted Jul 31, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
100%

You, the Living (2009)

" You, The Living, if only by virtue of a more intimate scale than Songs, benefits from a lightness of touch and even a thin sliver of optimism in some sequences." — AV Club

Posted Jul 30, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
15%

The Ugly Truth (2009)

" Heigl and Butler have real chemistry together, but The Ugly Truth is the sort of rom-com apparatus that no relationship can overcome." — AV Club

Posted Jul 23, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
87%

500 Days of Summer (2009)

" It goes down smoothly, thanks in large part to Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s grounded lead performance and Marc Webb’s slick direction, but it seems like every other scene coughs up a dispiriting cliché." — AV Club

Posted Jul 16, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
20%

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

" Every scrap of footage here has been done better somewhere else." — AV Club

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
15%

I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

" I Love You, Beth Cooper tries to exploit and explode broad stereotypes, but it never transcends the labels it applies." — AV Club

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Fresh
A-

Fresh
75%

Humpday (2009)

" In scene after scene, Humpday carefully raises the stakes until it hits a finale loaded with humor, tenderness, and delicious ambiguity." — AV Club

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Fresh
A-

Fresh
98%

The Hurt Locker (2009)

" For the first hour or more, The Hurt Locker boldly forsakes any conventional narrative hook beyond the ongoing tensions between these men and the terrifying grind of defusing bombs day after day." — AV Club

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
47%

My Sister's Keeper (2009)

" It would take a heart of stone not to be affected by My Sister’s Keeper, but the film’s unceasing manipulation has a Medusa effect on the organ." — AV Club

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
54%

The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)

" The Stoning Of Soraya M. crawls forward in excruciating slow motion toward the inevitable day when sinners cast the first, second, third, and fourth (etc.) stone, stacking the deck at every turn along the way." — AV Club

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
66%

Dead Snow (2009)

" Once the action broadens to the open snow and the victims start to fight back, the Nazi-zombie premise finally pays off." — AV Club

Posted Jun 18, 2009

Fresh
B-

Rotten
47%

Whatever Works (2009)

" Dusting off an ancient script intended for Zero Mostel three decades ago, Allen tweaks the material enough to supply David with bilious rants about the stupidity and meaninglessness of man and the universe." — AV Club

Posted Jun 18, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
38%

Imagine That (2009)

" Given his growing track record of odious kiddie fare, it’s no surprise to see Eddie Murphy squandering his talents as another in a long line of movie dads who are too wrapped up in their jobs to pay attention to their kids." — AV Club

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
68%

Tetro (2009)

" It’s the product of a great dreamer and aesthete, rather than an authentic emotional experience -- a gorgeous, crystalline bauble that really catches the light." — AV Club

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
66%

Away We Go (2009)

" Though Away We Go lacks the screwball unpredictability of something like Flirting With Disaster, it compensates with a unexpected depth of feeling, a novelist’s (or memoirist’s) sense of detail, and a panoramic view of what home means." — AV Club

Posted Jun 4, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
80%

Unmistaken Child (2009)

" Baratz’s apparent willingness to accept everything at face value papers over some of the more troubling aspects of Tenzin’s mission, but Unmistaken Child allows the mysteries of the process to be preserved without judgment." — AV Club

Posted Jun 4, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
90%

24 City (2009)

" Mostly, 24 City falls into the same Jia trap of inadvertently drawing the viewers’ gaze past his human subjects and to the poetic images of a country in painful metamorphosis." — AV Club

Posted Jun 4, 2009

Fresh
A-

Fresh
92%

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

" This is junk filmmaking at its finest." — AV Club

Posted May 28, 2009
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