ROTTEN TOMATOES: Joshua Katzman

JOSHUA KATZMAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Total Reviews: 43

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

Fresh	Fresh 91%	Katyn (2007)	" Andrzej Wajda has spent much of his long career dramatizing major events in Polish history, and this poignant feature depicts the circumstances surrounding the Soviet Union's massacre of thousands of Polish officers in the spring of 1940." Posted Feb 18, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 75%	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008)	" This French comedy fondly lampoons both the popular French spy movies adapted from Jean Bruce's novels in the 1950s and '60s and the colonialist era they were set in." Posted Dec 17, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 77%	A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)	" As in most of Wang's films, a memorable cast of characters compensates for a serviceable plot." Posted Dec 16, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 20%	Righteous Kill (2008)	" This thriller by Jon Avnet is mostly by the numbers, and its surprise ending, though effective, feels somewhat forced." Posted Dec 9, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 9%	Bangkok Dangerous (2008)	" While the film includes several exciting, creatively shot action scenes, the drama is otherwise so shopworn that the violent climax is a relief." Posted Dec 8, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 21%	Passengers (2008)	" *The surprise ending isn't as shocking as those of Jacob's Ladder* or The Sixth Sense -- two stellar examples of the genre -- but it's still dramatically potent.**" Posted Oct 30, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 28%	Filth and Wisdom (2008)	" Madonna, making her directorial debut, aims for the romping irreverence of Richard Lester's 60s comedies, and though she lacks the formal control to pull it off, this is a charming mess." Posted Oct 23, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 50%	Battle in Seattle (2008)	" One strength is Barry Ackroyd's handheld-camera work, which deftly tracks the action but still captures the disorientation of those engulfed by the mayhem." Posted Sep 26, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 31%	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	" This romantic stinker is one of those films in which every plot development becomes a life lesson and every gesture is weighted with significance." Posted Sep 26, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 16%	Hounddog (2008)	" A bewildering slice of southern gothic hokum, it suffers from a weak script, proving that old saw about actors being only as good as the lines they're given." Posted Sep 19, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Last Stop For Paul (2008)	" This engaging, mostly improvised no-budget feature is based in part on Mandt's experiences, its loose narrative structure developing by chance as the duo encounter an assortment of characters on the road." Posted Sep 19, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 78%	Outsourced (2007)	" A sweet if predictable variation on the premise of the ugly American, redeemed by Hamiton's dry performance, some nice comic turns by the Indian supporting cast, and a droll script by Jeffcoat and George Wing." Posted Aug 29, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 81%	The World's Fastest Indian (2005)	" This compelling fact-based story is [Donaldson's] best effort in years." Posted Aug 6, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Shotgun Stories (2007)	" ... here there's also an undercurrent of biblical revenge that lends the narrative a sense of violent menace and an almost continuous tension." Posted Jun 6, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 19%	Thunderbirds (2004)	" There's enough special effects razzle-dazzle to distract the average ten-year-old, but the script by William Osborne and Michael McCullers is stilted and humorless -- a little camp might have helped." Posted May 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Grizzly Man (2005)	" Like so much of Herzog's work, both narrative and documentary, this is an engrossing look at obsessive behavior gone terribly awry." Posted Apr 29, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 64%	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	" *Pairing Jackie Chan and Jet Li would seem like a slam dunk, but this big-budget martial arts drama, which borrows liberally from The Wizard of Oz, is something of a disappointment.*" Posted Apr 18, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 39%	The Favor (2008)	" This accomplished and economical debut feature (2006) is refreshingly free of gimmicks, focusing squarely on the hero's awkward attempts to forge a relationship with the petulant teenager." Posted Apr 11, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Devil Came On Horseback (2007)	" Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg chronicle his burgeoning activism in the face of the U.S. government's indifference as the government of Sudan works systematically to eradicate black Africans from the region." Posted Jan 4, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 62%	Them (2007)	" First-time directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud have crafted a highly effective horror film that combines a plausible narrative with accomplished use of sound and image." Posted Jan 3, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Fierce People (2007)	" Director Griffin Dunne, working from Dirk Wittenborn's adaptation of his own novel, pounds away at the analogy between the inherent cruelty of the tribal rituals of the Iskanani and those of the well-heeled." Posted Dec 3, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 20%	Death Sentence (2007)	" This graphically violent film suffers from cursorily developed characters whose primary function is to advance the creaky plot." Posted Dec 3, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 41%	Dedication (2007)	" Actor Justin Theroux makes an impressive directorial debut, aided by David Bromberg's mordantly funny dialogue." Posted Oct 5, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 33%	Freshman Orientation (2007)	" John Goodman has a nice turn as a queen with a heart of gold." Posted Sep 28, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 43%	December Boys (2007)	" Though familiar as an old shoe, this is straightforward and well told." Posted Sep 21, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Sydney White (2007)	" While the film's premise is shamelessly hokey and Joe Nussbaum's direction is at best pedestrian, props are due the young cast, especially Bynes, whose can-do optimism seems genuine if ultimately overdone." Posted Sep 21, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 7%	Silk (2007)	" Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel is a visually arresting period piece, set in the 1860s, that addresses memory and loss." Posted Sep 14, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 13%	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	" Under Craig Gillespie's uninspired direction, the humor eventually settles into stale, familiar pratfalls." Posted Sep 14, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 85%	In Between Days (2006)	" Kim keeps dialogue to a minimum and provides the barest of story arcs, using a handheld camera to probe subtle shifts of emotion in her nonprofessional actors." Posted Sep 7, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Deep Water (2007)	" Osmond and Rothwell's depiction of his unraveling is an exquisitely structured drama." Posted Sep 7, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 15%	Underdog (2007)	" The TV show was mildly subversive, with humor that children and adults could enjoy on different levels, but the movie strives for a blander, family-oriented middle ground." Posted Aug 6, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 74%	Sunshine (2007)	" Boyle's spiritual and metaphysical musings intertwine neatly with his pop sensibility, imbuing this with an art-house intelligence without diluting its summer blockbuster appeal." Posted Jul 20, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Amu (2005)	" In Shonali Bose's tightly constructed debut feature (2005) a young Indian-American woman from Los Angeles returns to Delhi for the first time since childhood to visit her relatives." Posted May 25, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Triad Election (2007)	" *As in the first movie, To deftly references the Godfather* trilogy, examining the moral equivocation and shifting alliances among various syndicate members.**" Posted Apr 24, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Steel City (2006)	" Set in a decaying industrial town in downstate Illinois, writer-director Brian Jun's gritty first feature is a heartfelt portrait of a fractured working-class family." Posted Mar 7, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 8%	Underclassman (2005)	" This is geared toward the preteen set, but director Marcos Siega proves inept at executing the most basic dramatic and comedic setups, and Cannon's mugging and preening quickly grow tiresome." Posted Mar 6, 2007
Fresh	N/A	Isabella (2006)	" A melancholy look at a hybrid culture on the verge of major change." Posted Feb 9, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 6%	Supercross: The Movie (2005)	" Like the drive-in classics of Roger Corman and Samuel Z. Arkoff, this develops the principal characters and conflicts with just enough depth and keeps the narrative moving at a brisk pace." Posted Jan 8, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 40%	Everyone's Hero (2006)	" This computer-animated baseball adventure espouses a shopworn moral about persevering against long odds, but there's still plenty to recommend it, including memorable characters, solid storytelling, and accurate period detail." Posted Sep 15, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Beautiful City (2006)	" [A] melancholy drama about the aftermath of a senseless murder." Posted Mar 30, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 63%	You'll Get Over It (2002)	" While Cazeneuve's story is about gay love, it also charts universal truths about adolescent romance and high school politics with great aplomb." Posted Apr 17, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 100%	A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (2004)	" It's a haunting portrait of a young man who, while genuinely gifted and loved by friends and family, couldn't cope with the world." Posted Jan 10, 2004
—	Fresh 85%	Sexy Beast (2001)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 17, 2001

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