ROTTEN TOMATOES: Kevin John Bozelka

KEVIN JOHN BOZELKA

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Publications: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Total Reviews: 33

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

Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 44%	Love Me If You Dare (2004)	" It doesn't point toward a new way to live our lives; it smugly applauds the 'radical' choices of one self-absorbed, sociopathic boy-girl couple." Posted Jul 2, 2004
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 73%	Strayed (2004)	" *If Bon Voyage* ... didn't satiate your desire for films about the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, you're in luck. Another one has washed up on our shores, and it's even better.**" Posted Jun 25, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 91%	Kitchen Stories (2004)	" What you're left with is a relationship between two men that is untouched by macho posturing or any trace of anxiety -- and a perfect respite from the action flick mentality." Posted Jun 17, 2004
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 26%	A Slipping Down Life (2004)	" The film does little more than clock the highs and lows of another of cinema's many, many, many couples." Posted May 27, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 95%	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2004)	" The payoff of this intoxicating film is less a deep, coherent message than a series of gorgeous surface images: the smoky visuals, the calm, committed rapport with nature, the dramatic seasonal shifts." Posted May 13, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 76%	Bon Voyage (2004)	" It's an utterly accessible, thoroughly entertaining World War II thriller whose mild comedic touches detract not a whit from the haunted memory of Nazi occupation." Posted May 7, 2004
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 23%	The Statement (2003)	" All Jewison has to offer us is an exquisitely packaged reminder of the Catholic Church's collaboration with the Vichy government. But why distort history when your sole purpose is to offer a history lesson?" Posted Mar 25, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 35%	Neil Young - Greendale (2004)	" The ceaseless 4/4 lumber of Young's perennial backing band, Crazy Horse, combined with the aggressive grunginess of the imagery, bespeaks commitment, and a sense of purpose." Posted Mar 11, 2004
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 69%	Zero Day (2003)	" Zero Day simply proves that feel-bad films are no more instructive than feel-good films." Posted Mar 5, 2004
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 89%	In July (2000)	" We've been to this place many times before, folks: An overly fastidious, brainy male gets led through a series of zany adventures by a free-spirited female, and the moral of the story is to not live life so cautiously." Posted Feb 12, 2004
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 72%	Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)	" *For the most part, Girl With a Pearl Earring* is simultaneously heaving and static, like the cover of a Harlequin romance novel and about as exciting to contemplate for more than 90 minutes.**" Posted Jan 29, 2004
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 19%	Chasing Liberty (2004)	" *Amounts to little more than a nearly two-hour travelogue of Europe, a la The Lizzie McGuire Movie.*" Posted Jan 8, 2004
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 82%	Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003)	" Suffers the same banal fate of most band documentaries. It's essential for rabid fans but even ordinary ones will live rich and meaningful lives without ever having seen one minute of it." Posted Aug 21, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 62%	Camp (2003)	" A film best avoided by teenage misfits of any stripe." Posted Aug 21, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 87%	The Cuckoo (2003)	" Demonstrates how little communication has to do with language. And isn't that what the greatest films show us?" Posted Aug 15, 2003
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 57%	Northfork (2003)	" Beware of smarty-pants filmmakers run amok in small-town America." Posted Aug 7, 2003
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 77%	Respiro (2003)	" After 90 minutes of policing female sexuality, the film is left with little to say on the matter." Posted Jul 8, 2003
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 90%	Whale Rider (2003)	" *For a better look at the sexism behind ancestral traditions, try Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's masterpiece The Circle. But this easier-to-take film has an intoxication all its own.*" Posted Jun 27, 2003
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 73%	Together (2003)	" What makes it all work in the end is the actors, especially Tang Yun as the child prodigy." Posted Jun 13, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 69%	Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003)	" A joyless hatchet job." Posted Jun 13, 2003
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	The Italian Job (2003)	" A 'robbers and robbers' film that fails to distinguish itself from any of the others." Posted May 29, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Time Out (2002)	" [A] rare, beautiful film." Posted Jun 14, 2002
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 84%	The Son's Room (2002)	" Moretti plays Giovanni, a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy. Too predictably, in fact." Posted May 30, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 47%	Triumph of Love (2002)	" *Has an unmistakable, easy joie de vivre.*" Posted May 9, 2002
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 49%	Harrison's Flowers (2002)	" It's as if the complex backdrop of war could support only the most generic melodrama." Posted Mar 15, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 89%	101 Reykjavik (2001)	" The director wisely resists the temptation to treat slackerdom as just a blase counterpoint to the craziness of the world." Posted Mar 8, 2002
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 22%	John Q (2002)	" *It looks much more like a cartoon in the end than The Simpsons* ever has.**" Posted Feb 15, 2002
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 58%	Hart's War (2002)	" [E]ventually, every idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism." Posted Feb 14, 2002
Fresh	Rotten 10%	Slackers (2002)	" The unique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable, if not a pleasure in its own right." Posted Feb 1, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 34%	I Am Sam (2002)	" Each heart-tuggingly placed Beatles tune and life-affirming moment of triumph pats us on the back just for sitting through such a socially responsible film." Posted Jan 25, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Come Undone (2001)	" *If you found films like But I'm a Cheerleader* or Edge of Seventeen profoundly unimaginative, Sebastien Lifshitz, making his directorial debut, has something to show you.**" Posted Dec 14, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 56%	Focus (2001)	" *What we're left with suspiciously resembles a moderately clever episode of The Twilight Zone.*" Posted Dec 7, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Cure (2001)	" Don't expect the meticulously honed story of Seven or an evening of pretzel-raveling a la Memento. But if you've had a particularly stressful workweek, it'll make you question whether the stress was worth it." Posted Dec 7, 2001

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