ROTTEN TOMATOES: Betsy Bozdech

BETSY BOZDECH

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Biography: I'm a lifelong movie lover who's been fortunate enough to be able to make writing about cinema part of my professional life. Ever since I made the leap into entertainment writing in 2000 (thanks to a job at Reel.com), I've been reviewing movies and DVDs for the likes of Hollywood.com and DVDJournal.com -- more than 350 movies altogether, at last count -- and I'll keep doing it as long as they'll let me.

Favorites: Network, The Princess Bride, The Shawshank Redemption, Strictly Ballroom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Meet the Parents, Little Miss Sunshine, Arsenic and Old Lace, Singin' in the Rain, Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Publications: Common Sense Media, DVDJournal.com, Hollywood.com, Reel.com

Total Reviews: 425

Location: Alameda, CA

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Fresh 3/5	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" Fun, fast-paced sequel is more upbeat than the original." — Common Sense Media Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 62%	The History Boys (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 51%	City of Ember (2008)	" Fast-paced fantasy has lots of tense moments." — Common Sense Media Posted Oct 8, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 43%	Flawless (1999)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Oct 1, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 81%	Tsotsi (2006)	" Gavin Hood's Oscar-nominated tale about a young South African gangster who gets an unexpected chance at redemption is literally a world apart from anything produced by Hollywood." — Hollywood.com Posted Sep 27, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 71%	American Teen (2008)	" Candid, intimate, and often heart-wrenching, Nanette Burstein's documentary captures the confusion and agony of living through high school." — Hollywood.com Posted Jul 25, 2008
N/A	Fresh 79%	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	" Look Who's Talking Common Sense: Abigail Breslin" — Common Sense Media Posted Jul 18, 2008
N/A	N/A	Picture This (2008)	" Look Who's Talking Common Sense: Ashley Tisdale" — Common Sense Media Posted Jul 18, 2008
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Camp Rock (2008)	" Disney turns out a fun, clean, surefire tween hit." — Common Sense Media Posted Jun 19, 2008
N/A	Rotten 37%	Speed Racer (2008)	" Look Who's Talking Common Sense: Susan Sarandon" — Common Sense Media Posted May 8, 2008
N/A	Rotten 49%	Nim's Island (2008)	" Look Who's Talking Common Sense: Jodie Foster" — Common Sense Media Posted May 8, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 49%	Nim's Island (2008)	" Book-based tropical adventure is good family fun." — Common Sense Media Posted Apr 4, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 49%	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	" Wong Kar Wai's dreamy film boasts strong performances but ultimately feels more like a wistful character study than a heartfelt romance." — Hollywood.com Posted Apr 4, 2008
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 55%	Flawless (2007)	" *For a movie about a diamond heist, Michael Radford's talky, 1960s-set Flawless* lacks sparkle--despite strong period detail, earnest messages, and committed performances.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Mar 28, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 57%	Married Life (2008)	" *Stuck somewhere between a dark comedy and a thriller, director Ira Sachs' Married Life* doesn't really work as either, leaving its strong cast adrift.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Mar 7, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 78%	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	" *A charming mix of screwball comedy and poignant romance, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day* is lighthearted period fun.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Mar 7, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 72%	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	" Teen-friendly romcom about love's ups and downs." — Common Sense Media Posted Feb 14, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 96%	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	" Starkly, brutally honest, Cristian Mungiu's well-acted abortion drama paints a bleak picture of Romanian life in the late '80s." — Hollywood.com Posted Jan 25, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 67%	How She Move (2008)	" *Thanks to earnest performances and flat-out amazing dancing, the fairly predictable inner-city drama of How She Move* feels surprisingly fresh.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Jan 25, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 66%	The Kite Runner (2007)	" *Faithful to the bestselling novel on which it's based, The Kite Runner* is a thoughtful, often heart-wrenching story about betrayal and redemption.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Dec 14, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 61%	Grace is Gone (2007)	" John Cusack takes it down several notches in James C. Strouse's somber, well-acted family mourning tale." — Hollywood.com Posted Dec 9, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 77%	I'm Not There (2007)	" Simultaneously head-scratching and thought-provoking, Todd Haynes' metaphorical Bob Dylan drama feels more like poetry (or music) than a biopic." — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 21, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 37%	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)	" Dustin Hoffman charms in [this] colorful fairy tale, but despite plenty of magical moments, it's missing the extra sparkle that could make it a classic." — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 16, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 81%	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	" *Thanks to grounded performances from its top-notch cast, Lars* overcomes an ultra-quirky premise and develops into a thoughtful, albeit unusual, romance.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Oct 13, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 68%	Ira & Abby (2007)	" *If Dharma and Greg went to therapy--a lot--you might end up with something like Robert Cary's appealing but uneven romantic comedy." — Hollywood.com* Posted Oct 5, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 90%	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	" Ride along to dysfunction in quirky indie comedy." — Common Sense Media Posted Oct 1, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 38%	Sydney White (2007)	" Tween star hits college; drinking, hazing ensue." — Common Sense Media Posted Oct 1, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 82%	Into the Wild (2007)	" Sean Penn's gorgeous, tragic film is both an advertisement for wanderlust and a sobering cautionary tale." — Hollywood.com Posted Sep 28, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 77%	The Last Winter (2007)	" Sure, global warming is scary, but chances are even Al Gore would be baffled by Larry Fessenden's moody, Arctic-set 'eco-thriller.'" — Hollywood.com Posted Sep 28, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 7%	Silk (2007)	" *The movie looks* gorgeous ... but the story never really builds momentum; you keep waiting for the 'real' action to start, but it never does.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Sep 14, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 51%	Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)	" Rowan Atkinson's second feature-length outing as the bumbling Brit has moments of genuine humor and charm, but overall, [it's] more of a mini-break than a full vacation" — Hollywood.com Posted Aug 24, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 27%	Evening (2007)	" Despite strong performances from its excellent cast, Lajos Koltai's wistful adaptation of Susan Minot's novel doesn't quite connect." — Hollywood.com Posted Jun 29, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 35%	Reno 911!: Miami (2007)	" *As always, the most impressive thing about Reno* is the cast's stellar improvisational skills. All of them are completely committed to their characters.*" — DVDJournal.com* Posted Jun 17, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 74%	La Vie En Rose (2007)	" Vivid and emotional--but also disjointed and melodramatic--Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic ... is all about Marion Cotillard's passionate performance." — Hollywood.com Posted Jun 16, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 77%	Crazy Love (2007)	" Dan Klores' documentary proves that truth really is stranger than fiction as it spins the tale of an infamous crime of passion--and its unbelievable result." — Hollywood.com Posted Jun 8, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 2%	Epic Movie (2007)	" More a string of already-past-their-expiration-date gags based on big popcorn flicks than an actual film." — DVDJournal.com Posted May 21, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 94%	Away From Her (2007)	" Spare and poignantly bittersweet, Sarah Polley's wrenching romantic drama ... delves into the painful effects of Alzheimer's disease." — Hollywood.com Posted May 18, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 75%	Black Book (2007)	" *Paul Verhoeven's well-acted but overblown (and overly long) WWII thriller ... is like The Diary of Anne Frank* by way of Basic Instinct.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted May 11, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Big (1988)	" Hanks has since aced plenty of other parts ... but he's rarely been as beguilingly charming -- and utterly convincing -- as he was playing a 12-year-old trapped in a grown man's body." — DVDJournal.com Posted May 6, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum (2006)	" Kids who don't care about the finer points of cinematic storytelling (in other words, most of them) will certainly enjoy the film, as will older viewers with a taste for the fantastic." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 22, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 43%	In the Land of Women (2007)	" *Wistful and uneven, Jonathan Kasdan's [drama] is like Garden State* by way of a John Hughes movie -- but less engaging than either.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Apr 20, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 87%	Notes on a Scandal (2006)	" An absorbing character study that successfully deals with the shades of gray that are part and parcel of real, messy, everyday life." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 15, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 58%	First Snow (2007)	" Fate plays havoc with a salesman's existence in [this] bleak psychological thriller about life and death in the New Mexico desert." — Hollywood.com Posted Apr 13, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 91%	Volver (2006)	" *Unlike so many of the characters Cruz has played [in Hollywood], Volver's Raimunda -- earthy, sensuous, confident, and capable -- feels like a real, lived-in woman." — DVDJournal.com* Posted Apr 8, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 74%	Happy Feet (2006)	" Happy Feet is a perfect example of a good concept that never quite figured out where it was going -- the story is uneven at best and virtually falls apart near the end." — DVDJournal.com Posted Mar 25, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Peter Pan (1953)	" Plenty of charming moments and iconic characters ... but the story isn't anchored firmly enough in the land of fairy tale to avoid feeling dated a few decades down the line." — DVDJournal.com Posted Mar 18, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 56%	Keeping Mum (2006)	" The plot twists aren't exactly hard to ferret out, and the characters aren't particularly deep, but the actors give the movie enough charm to coast by on." — DVDJournal.com Posted Feb 26, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 8%	Gray Matters (2007)	" Heather Graham's nonstop perky chattering is more annoying than cute in [this] uneven, unrealistic romantic comedy about a rather bizarre love triangle." — Hollywood.com Posted Feb 25, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 71%	Amazing Grace (2007)	" *Blending period drama with message-driven political wrangling, Amazing Grace* is as earnest and well-intentioned as it is unsurprising.*" — Hollywood.com* Posted Feb 25, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 30%	Running with Scissors (2006)	" Heavy-handed soundtrack cues, vintage costumes, and rooms overflowing with props can't disguise the fact that the characters, for all their bizarre quirks, don't have much depth." — DVDJournal.com Posted Feb 11, 2007

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