ROTTEN TOMATOES: Lou Lumenick

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3.5/4	The Bourne Ultimatum
3/4	Into the Wild
2.5/4	The Jane Austen Book Club
2/4	Freshman Orientation
1.5/4	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
1/4	Feast of Love
0.5/4	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A Veggietales Movie
0/4	Southland Tales

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	WALL-E
4/4	Atonement
4/4	Juno
4/4	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4/4	No Country for Old Men
4/4	American Gangster
4/4	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4/4	Hairspray
4/4	Ratatouille
4/4	Pan's Labyrinth
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Swing Vote
0/4	The Promotion
0/4	Alvin and the Chipmunks
0/4	Southland Tales
0/4	The Brothers Solomon
0/4	American Cannibal - The Documentary
0/4	Bratz: The Movie
0/4	I Know Who Killed Me
0/4	Kickin' It Old Skool
0/4	One Third
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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3/4	"Manages to be a notably funnier than average summer comedy despite being a fairly shameless rip-off of School of Rock." Posted Aug 20, 2008	The Rocker (2008)	34%
3.5/4	"[Allen's] funniest movie in years and arguably his sexiest." Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
3/4	"Tropic Thunder is all over the place, but it's hard to get too tough on a Hollywood satire that in the end loves Hollywood so much that it's just not going to take any prisoners." Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	84%
3/4	"*Beautifully shot by Michael J. Ozier, the dominating taste in Bottle Shock* is Rickman's beautiful performance as a snob -- a snob who is secretly open to being delightfully surprised.*" Posted Aug 6, 2008*	Bottle Shock (2008)	48%
3/4	"Frequently hilarious, occasionally sweet and often graphically violent, Pineapple Express may not be the greatest stoner movie ever made, but it will do perfectly well until we get another hit of Harold and Kumar." Posted Aug 6, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
2.5/4	"*Sensitively directed by Sanaa Hamri, The Sister of the Traveling Pants 2* demonstrates that not only is sisterhood powerful, it can be awfully entertaining.*" Posted Aug 6, 2008*	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
3.5/4	"A low-budget triumph for director Courtney Hunt that won the grand jury prize at Sundance, Frozen River is a thriller set in upstate New York anchored by an unforgettable performance by veteran character actress Melissa Leo." Posted Aug 1, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	78%
2/4	"*The direction of this autobiographical tale by Paul Weiland (whose lengthy rap sheet runs all the way from Leonard Part 6* to Made of Honor) is less than subtle.*" Posted Aug 1, 2008*	Sixty Six (2008)	58%
0/4	"This would-be civics lesson is such an appalling view of American democracy that it could be used as a recruiting film by al Qaeda." Posted Aug 1, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	40%
3.5/4	"*[An] engrossing and exhilarating documentary Man on Wire, which uses vintage footage, interviews and re-creations." Posted Jul 25, 2008*	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
2/4	"Satire, you see, requires the sort of artistic discipline that is anathema to mumblecore filmmakers." Posted Jul 25, 2008	Baghead (2008)	82%
2/4	"Ultra-slick and predictable." Posted Jul 25, 2008	American Teen (2008)	71%
2/4	"The X-Files: I Want to Believe is atmospheric and moves briskly, but it's basically TV writ large." Posted Jul 25, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
2/4	"Well-acted but familiar." Posted Jul 23, 2008	Boy A (2008)	88%
2/4	"*A good cast and disciplined direction add some distinction to Ric Roman Waugh's Felon,* which is basically the old tale about an innocent man corrupted by a stay in prison.*" Posted Jul 18, 2008*	Felon (2008)	59%
3/4	"*An atmospheric, Hitchcockian thriller set aboard a famed train route, Brad Anderson's Transsiberian* is a genuine sleeper that jump-starts an almost extinct genre.*" Posted Jul 18, 2008*	Transsiberian (2008)	90%
3/4	"A fun, crowd-pleasing alternative for an audience whose idea of entertainment runs more to infectious '70s pop ditties, spandex, sex-starved women of a certain age and bare-chested hunks than watching a caped sadist torturing criminals." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	54%
1.5/4	Click here to read article Posted Jul 16, 2008	Flawless (1999)	37%
3/4	Click here to read article Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Take (2004)	90%
2/4	"Despite a terrific lead performance by Ellen Burstyn, Kari Skogland's epic The Stone Angel is a lesson in the perils of trying to cram a hefty Canadian novel that spans decades into a movie running just under two hours." Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Stone Angel (2008)	47%
1.5/4	"Harold is a genuine oddity that's more watchable than it sounds." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Harold (2008)	25%
1.5/4	"There are some laughs here and there, but this is badly edited hack work." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	20%
3/4	"Unusual for this genre, the script doesn't insult the audience's intelligence, and it mercifully soft-pedals its message about the virtues of reading." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	61%
2.5/4	"Kabluey, which has no discernible political agenda, is wildly uneven and often seems like a short stretched to feature length. But it's also kind of oddly endearing." Posted Jul 10, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	87%
1.5/4	"Leaving behind the laughs for schmaltz, Hancock chickens out at the last minute, lurching toward a cop-out happy ending that gives every indication of having been reshot at the behest of test audiences. Well, at least you won't be bored." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
2.5/4	"*Much of Finding Amanda* doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but at its best the still-boyish Broderick suggests his most famous character, Ferris Bueller, going through a midlife crisis.*" Posted Jun 27, 2008*	Finding Amanda (2008)	38%
3/4	"Credit director Marcos Carnevale with beautifully pulling off this schmaltzy premise, as well as restaging the famous scene at Rome's Trevi Fountain from La Dolce Vita with his elderly lovers in place of Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg." Posted Jun 27, 2008	Elsa & Fred (2008)	52%
3/4	Click here to read article Posted Jun 27, 2008	To the Limit (1995)	n/a
4/4	"Some day, there will be college courses devoted to this movie." Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	97%
1.5/4	"Full Grown Men is nicely photographed and has impressive sets; too bad there's so little going on that it seems long even at 78 minutes." Posted Jun 25, 2008	Full Grown Men (2008)	40%
2/4	"One of those Sundance "comedies" that make you contemplate slitting your wrists." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Expired (2008)	60%
3.5/4	"One of the 10 best American movies released so far this year, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is the surprisingly satisfying first theatrical film inspired by a long-running series of historically themed dolls." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	80%
2.5/4	"Would you believe the new version of the '60s spy spoof Get Smart, starring Steve Carell, isn't awful -- like almost all TV-to-movie transfers -- but instead, that it's actually pretty funny (if overlong and overproduced)?" Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
3/4	"*This warped masochistic cousin to David Cronenberg's Crash* - not to be confused with the Oscar winner of the same name -- is well worth seeing for Farmiga's stunning performance.*" Posted Jun 13, 2008*	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	66%
3/4	"Many American sports documentaries tend to fall into a predictable inspirational rut, no matter how stunning the footage. Pepe Danquart's To the Limit from Germany looks great, but it's an altogether different animal." Posted Jun 13, 2008	To the Limit (2008)	70%
2.5/4	"*Like its monstrous hero, The Incredible Hulk* gets the job done with minimal artistry and a lot of noise.*" Posted Jun 12, 2008*	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
2/4	"*Delightful music alternates with too-brief interviews with Wendo and his colleagues. On the Rumba River* cries out for narration to help viewers understand the tragic context of his life.*" Posted Jun 6, 2008*	On the Rumba River (2008)	83%
3/4	"A ruefully funny cautionary tale about cross-cultural tone-deafness." Posted Jun 6, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
0/4	"Easily the worst movie I've seen so far this year." Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
2/4	"How much you like this will depend upon your appreciation for repeated jokes about hummus, gays, Zohan's crotch and his fondness for older women." Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
2.5/4	"*Stuart Gordon's gorily amusing Stuck* is essentially a B-movie with a single joke, albeit a pretty good -- if admittedly sick -- one.*" Posted May 30, 2008*	Stuck (2007)	71%
3/4	"There's been a glut of pointless first- person documentaries lately, but newcomer Christopher Bell has a legitimate personal take in his film about Americans who use anabolic steroids." Posted May 30, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	97%
1.5/4	"*This movie provides no good reasons to revisit Sex and the City, except to fulfill fans' desires for one more for the road and add millions to Time Warner's coffers. Be careful what you wish for." Posted May 28, 2008*	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
3/4	"*On a satisfaction scale, it lands squarely between The Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade." Posted May 19, 2008*	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
3/4	"While this slow-starting update of Private Lives has plenty of laughs, the incredibly expressive Stevenson turns Julia's romantic dilemma into something genuinely moving. She makes A Previous Engagement something special." Posted May 9, 2008	A Previous Engagement (2008)	35%
2/4	"This is a feast for the eyes and a famine for the brain." Posted May 9, 2008	The Fall (2008)	54%
1.5/4	"For an idea of the level of wit, several gags are built around the name 'Dick Banger'." Posted May 9, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	27%
3/4	"*Surprisingly entertaining, Hollywood Chinese, a fast-paced survey of how the Chinese have been portrayed in American films from the silent era to the present, is packed with unexpected delights." Posted May 2, 2008*	Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)	100%
2/4	"Fugitive Pieces, however well-meaning, is still pretty much an emotionally distanced slog." Posted May 2, 2008	Fugitive Pieces (2008)	70%
3.5/4	"One of the hippest, best-written and best-directed superhero movies ever -- a splendid way to kick off the summer movie season." Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%

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