ROTTEN TOMATOES: Eric Beltmann

ERIC BELTMANN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications: Flipside Movie Emporium

Total Reviews: 40

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

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

N/A	N/A	2004 Year-in-Review (2004)	" Best Movies of 2004" Posted Jan 26, 2005
Fresh B	Fresh 89%	Trembling Before G-d (2001)	" *What's most fascinating about Trembling Before G-d* is the way it shatters stereotypes not about homosexuality but about fundamentalism.**" Posted Jan 26, 2004
N/A	N/A	2003 Year-in-Review (2003)	" Best Movies of 2003" Posted Jan 14, 2004
Fresh B+	Fresh 87%	Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004)	" Complicated, moving, and entirely real." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh B+	Fresh 63%	Unknown Pleasures (2003)	" When was the last time you saw a movie about an entire community facing an existential identity crisis?" Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh B	Fresh 87%	Under the Skin of the City (2003)	" Spare, static, and brimming with everyday details about life in Tehran." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Rotten C	N/A	Towers Open Fire and Other Films (1962)	" This abrasive assault on linear editing did little for me. Ho-hum, I say." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Rotten C-	Rotten 58%	The Princess Blade (2003)	" Fails to transform its aggressive pessimism into something bolder, and richer. At least Donnie Yen's choreography is sporadically clever." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Rotten C+	Fresh 87%	OT: Our Town (2003)	" Kennedy's fly-on-the-wall aesthetic yields a haphazard, unremarkable documentary about a remarkable event." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh B	Fresh 87%	On Guard (1997)	" Channeling the spirit of Dumas and F�val, de Broca has unleashed a spry, rousing, funny swashbuckler." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh B+	Fresh 86%	Lilya 4-Ever (2003)	" Its ugliness is easily trumped by Moodysson's abiding compassion and artistic vision -- his strokes only get darker, bolder, and more divine as the film progresses." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Rotten C+	Fresh 64%	The Flower of Evil (2003)	" More misanthropy from one of the nouvelle vague's last holdouts, and it gives me the creeps." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh B+	Fresh 89%	Distant (2004)	" Maintains a mood of melancholy and loneliness so unrelenting that it's borderline inhospitable." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Rotten D+	Fresh 60%	Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002)	" I don't have enough eyes to roll at all the anonymous herons, woods, streams, nudes, and wheat fields that kill time between recreations of Nijinsky's renowned choreography." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Rotten F	N/A	Chump Change (2000)	" Burrows displays an Ed Woodian aptitude for transparently veiling the fact that he is incapable of developing a scene, a character, or even a good crotch joke." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 100%	Un Chien Andalou (1929)	" This is Warhol and this is Lynch, but more richly suggestive than both put together." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh B	Fresh 93%	Blood of a Poet (1930)	" An illogical, artificial ode to the power of images." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh A	Fresh 73%	Ali Zaoua (2000)	" This lovely urban fable transcends realism, conjuring a waterfront Casablanca that reminded me of Roald Dahl at least as much as Bu�uel." Posted Dec 2, 2003
Rotten C+	Fresh 90%	Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)	" *Beats me. I know I was incredulous, horrified, spellbound, and finally moved, but I don't have a clue whether Sick* is a good movie or not.**" Posted Oct 22, 2003
Fresh B	Fresh 98%	Sweet Sixteen (2003)	" *What's great about Sweet Sixteen* isn't its politics but the way everything feels simultaneously inevitable and spontaneous, especially in terms of the acting and mood.**" Posted Oct 6, 2003
Fresh B+	Fresh 91%	Stevie (2003)	" *My severe reservations didn't prevent me from becoming completely absorbed by Stevie* and its underlying implications regarding a filmmaker's motivations, methods, and responsibilities.**" Posted Sep 16, 2003
Rotten D	Fresh 73%	Johnstown Flood (2003)	" Often resembles an Irwin Allen disaster flick commissioned by the Learning Channel. It drowns in fire-and-brimstone spectacle." Posted Jul 19, 2003
Rotten C	Rotten 48%	XXX (2002)	" *If Bond is for boomers, and Spy Kids* for kiddies, then XXX is a secret agent for cynical in-betweeners.**" Posted May 21, 2003
Fresh B-	Fresh 93%	Spy Kids (2001)	" *It has a youthful exuberance missing from Rodriguez's work since El Mariachi.*" Posted May 21, 2003
Fresh B	Fresh 89%	Shrek (2001)	" Swift, cocksure, and sometimes bracing, Shrek is like a child who threatens to leap from a soaring swing, but isn't quite audacious enough to follow through." Posted May 21, 2003
Rotten C	Fresh 78%	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)	" Based on its returns, one might be tempted to speculate whether parents have been placed under a spell, cursed to forfeit their coins in exchange for an afternoon with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Posted May 21, 2003
Rotten C-	Fresh 78%	ABC Africa (2002)	" An awkward, superficial travelogue about Iranians on a publicity excursion to Africa, providing no more insight into Uganda than a Sally Struthers heart-pull." Posted May 21, 2003
Fresh B	N/A	The Cook and Other Treasures (1917)	" Fascinates partially as a historical document but mostly because it provokes interesting questions about the bond between screen jesters and the American public." Posted May 14, 2003
Fresh B	Fresh 92%	The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)	" *The brashly entertaining The Kid Stays in the Picture* wants everyone to know and love the fabled Robert Evans -- and it just might work.**" Posted Sep 2, 2002
Fresh A	Fresh 90%	The Fast Runner (2002)	" Its tempo might be challenging, but only in the best way -- since it produces a textured, full-bodied classic myth, the deceptive 'slowness' is, for me, its greatest thrill." Posted Aug 17, 2002
Fresh B	Fresh 89%	Kandahar (2001)	" There are sequences of beauty but also legitimate terror." Posted Jul 29, 2002
Fresh B	Fresh 84%	The Son's Room (2002)	" *Devoid of sentiment, The Son's Room* becomes a story about real misery, about the dreadful room a son's absence leaves in a parent's life.**" Posted Jun 3, 2002
Rotten C+	Fresh 68%	Tron (1982)	" *Despite appearing rather primitive now, the effects still supply Tron* with its greatest creative asset -- the simple visuals have a striking, minimalist beauty to them.**" Posted Apr 22, 2002
Fresh A-	Fresh 83%	Titanic (1997)	" Despite the rather clunky script and histrionic acting, the film becomes some kind of alarmist masterpiece about an event of painful cultural humbling." Posted Oct 30, 2001
Fresh B	Fresh 90%	Iron Monkey (1993)	" One of the most purely entertaining kung fu movies, particularly during the climactic showdown between fighters balanced on the tips of burning, toppling bamboo poles." Posted Oct 30, 2001
Fresh B	Fresh 81%	Shadow of the Vampire (2000)	" Shadow of the Vampire is about dueling egos, and the great joke of this vampire movie is that the bully film director, not the undead bloodsucker, is the real monster." Posted Oct 24, 2001
Fresh B+	Fresh 77%	Beloved (1998)	" The first film to truly get the horror -- the harrowing human repugnance -- of slavery on the screen." Posted Oct 24, 2001
Rotten C	Rotten 54%	G.I. Jane (1997)	" *Should American women be allowed in combat? G.I. Jane* declares that many women are physically and mentally capable of battle, but does anyone disagree?**" Posted Oct 24, 2001
Rotten C+	Fresh 64%	Time and Tide (2001)	" This spirited ode to crashing bodies seems a mere appropriation of the styles and themes long employed by Wong, Ringo Lam, and Woo." Posted Oct 24, 2001
Rotten C+	Rotten 13%	Driven (2001)	" *To reject [Driven] without acknowledging the pleasures it has to offer -- however small -- is to deny one of the most valid reasons for cinema to exist.*" Posted Oct 24, 2001

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