ROTTEN TOMATOES: Fred Topel

FRED TOPEL

Agrees with the Tomatometer 58% of the time.

Favorites: Labyrinth, Toy Story 2, The Rock, Face/Off, True Lies, The Big Hit, The Big One (Michael Moore), Casablanca

Publications: About.com, Can Magazine, Crave Online, E! Online, FilmStew.com, Hollywood.com, IGN Movies, Madblast.com, MovieWeb, Rotten Tomatoes, Sci Fi Wire, Suite101.com

Total Reviews: 946
Total QuickRatings: 361

Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Fresh	Fresh 100%	Futurama the Movie: Bender's Big Score (2007)	" A return to form for the sci-fi comedy, with perhaps a bit more confidence. The story is a brilliant time travel adventure, that makes way more sense than, say, Southland Tales, and rewards longtime fans." — Crave Online Posted Nov 20, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Star Wars Trilogy (1977)	" Lucas is...a person filled with so much creativity that none of us will ever fully understand it.That doesn't mean he's always right,but he suffers from the artist's curse..." — About.com Posted Sep 19, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Up (2009)	" Up is a high stakes adventure like nothing else we�ve ever seen." — Can Magazine Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" *The best wrestling movie ever made. I'm sorry, No Holds Barred, you've been topped." — Can Magazine* Posted Dec 18, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 98%	Murderball (2005)	" With all the summer movies disappointing audiences, here's one that's sure to give you your thrills." — IGN Movies Posted Sep 23, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Murderball (2005)	" *The Fast and the Furious* of quadriplegic sports documentaries... should really be the material of a Disney sports movie, sort of a paralyzed Mighty Ducks.*" — About.com* Posted Jul 7, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	" Having Eastwood and Wallach share memories in the featurette is priceless... The participants paint an effective portrait of Sergio Leone and Lee Marvin while they're at it." — About.com Posted Apr 27, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" *Like a modern day Wages of Fear." — Can Magazine* Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)	" The best inspirational sports movie since The Mighty Ducks. Now, I'm not saying it changes the world like D2: The Mighty Ducks did, but for individual achievement, it's there." — Can Magazine Posted Aug 17, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Incredibles (2004)	" Smart, funny, exciting and profound, like all the best Pixar movies... This family makes the Spy Kids look like wusses." — About.com Posted Nov 5, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 96%	WALL-E (2008)	" We've seen social commentary via future sci-fi before, but it's never been this astute or accurate. Hopefully it'll reach the kids before they're set in their text messaging, virtual ways." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 9, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Ratatouille (2007)	" Little rats and big utensils is comedy gold." — Can Magazine Posted Jun 29, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Star Trek (2009)	" You can feel the legacy in every scene. It just rocks." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	The Dark Knight (2008)	" Everything you would want to see in a movie... I wanted to applaud after every scene Heath Ledger performed... features Batman's most wonderful toys yet." — Can Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 94%	No Country for Old Men (2007)	" The Coen Brothers make the same old story exciting again by telling the entire story in action. Nobody explains their plans, they just see what they have to do and do it. It's all clear, and it's never slow." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 9, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	" Ben Affleck's script achieves the feeling of a novel with its sprawling story, but it is achieved within the framework of a two hour movie. Take that, Dennis "448 pages" Lehane." — Can Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Casino Royale (2006)	" Daniel Craig hardly needs me fawning all over him. I'll just add to the litany of praises that I think he's a much better runner than Tom Cruise." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 16, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	" You have to acclimate yourself to the fact that this sequel will not be your idea for how the story will continue. It will be somebody else�s." — About.com Posted Jun 29, 2004
N/A	Fresh 94%	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	" *Supporting actresses Molly Cheek and Elizabeth Bank reveal tiny details about Spider-Man 2. There's an astronaut!" — About.com* Posted Aug 13, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 94%	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	" There are people who understand every frame of this film. I am not one of them, but that�s okay." — About.com Posted Dec 17, 2003
N/A	Fresh 94%	American Splendor (2003)	" *4-page intervie with Paul Giamatti covering the Harvey Pekar mannerisms, relating to Harvey, comments on Revenge of the Nerds, the Sundance experience, and of course, Private Parts." — About.com* Posted Aug 13, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)	" Blade Runner is so good, it doesn't even have to be changed. The dialogue is so fascinating you can always hear it." — Crave Online Posted Oct 5, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 93%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" *I get why Slumdog Millionaire* is getting all the raves. It's well done and it's the kind of movie that gets people's attention. Just not mine.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Nov 14, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Iron Man (2008)	" Iron Man actually gets away with doing a whole film that's the first act of Spider-Man. It's all the joy of discovery" — Can Magazine Posted Feb 1, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Juno (2007)	" "Well, here's how you make a comedy about teen pregnancy and abortion... By never settling on a tone, Juno has its fun with all sides of the equation."" — Can Magazine Posted Jan 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 93%	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	" The espionage is great. Surveillance dodging scenes are more exciting than the most outrageous action sequences, and everyone talking in codes, testing each other and lying keeps the audience guessing." — Can Magazine Posted Aug 4, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 93%	An Inconvenient Truth (2006)	" Where he won me back was when he started talking about the population issues... Perhaps this should be a birth control film as well as an environmental one. " — Can Magazine Posted May 25, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" He's not reinventing the genre, but he doesn't have to. He already did that once, and now he's just doing what he's good at. His era of in your face outrageousness didn't last long enough as far as I'm concerned." — Can Magazine Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	" It was a film The Secret would want me to see." — Can Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Children of Men (2006)	" This is real movie magic... We know they can create anything in CGI, make anything happen with tricky editing and the like. To actually take that out of an equation may not be obvious to everyone, but it registers." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 27, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 92%	The Departed (2006)	" There should be so many interesting dilemmas, but like the original Infernal Affairs, it muddles in standard mob deals and police investigations, nothing you can't see on any handful of TV shows. Why not give each side some painful decisions to mak" — Can Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" It's a fascinating study in conversation in an age of texting and abbreviation." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 91%	There Will Be Blood (2007)	" *It's Magnoilia." — Can Magazine* Posted Jan 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Hairspray (2007)	" The happiest movie of the year." — Can Magazine Posted Jul 20, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 91%	Pusher 3 (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 91%	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	" A relentless comedy extravaganza. He milks existing situations for the maximum comedy potential and creates comedy where there would otherwise be none... He's like Yakov Smirnoff on crack." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	" *It�s Dude, Where�s My Car?* meets 28 Days Later... Perhaps Dude, Where�s My Zombie? would be more appropriate.*" — About.com* Posted Sep 23, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 91%	The Great Escape (1963)	" For a movie with so few surviving participants, this DVD set does a great job of including as many as possible, and addresses the true history as well." — About.com Posted May 1, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" *Peter Jackson let Neil Blomkamp make his Bad Taste* but with all of Jackson's expensive toys.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Knocked Up (2007)	" *It shows Nine Months* what a great childbirth comedy can be.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Jun 26, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Hot Fuzz (2007)	" Less than a week after I called Grindhouse the best movie ever made, I saw a movie I may like even more... The best made movie since Lord of the Rings." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 19, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 90%	Shut Up & Sing (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Up in the Air (2009)	" I think it's important to note the realities the movie portrays. Racial stereotypes are still true at airports. We want to believe things are better, but they're not. You still have to deal with the way things actually work." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" What might happen if Sam Raimi did a zombie movie." — Can Magazine Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Coraline (2009)	" Just the kind of kids' movie I like... It'll scare the crap out of them as well it should. Something's gotta toughen them up." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Eastern Promises (2007)	" *I didn't make a whole lot of notes during Eastern Promises* because there wasn't a whole lot to critique. It does what it does expertly.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Sep 14, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Rescue Dawn (2007)	" Rescue Dawn covers all the emotions you want a movie to... It's just a good, all around, well rounded movie." — Can Magazine Posted Jul 6, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Zodiac (2007)	" David Fincher proves that you don't need resolution to make a compelling serial killer movie." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 3, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	" This film tells the exact same story more effectively than J.K. Rowling." — About.com Posted Jun 4, 2004

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