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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Rotten	Fresh 72%	The Blind Side (2009)	" I believe the real Leigh Anne Tuohy did a wonderful, selfless thing and I told her so when I interviewed her. She deserves a better movie to be made about her." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Black Dynamite (2009)	" The climax is so outrageous I can't believe it. The ending outdoes Inglourious Basterds because it's not even about making a statement. It's just about being crazy, which is what awesome movies should be." — Can Magazine Posted Oct 17, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	The Burning Plain (2009)	" I'll give it one thing though. This may be serious Charlize, but at least she still shows her boobies." — Can Magazine Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 20%	Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)	" As good as any Hollywood movie, which is to say it's got lousy visual effects and generic dialogue. Since we're already forgiving that anyway, there's enough engaging action to make it plenty fun and entertaining." — Can Magazine Posted Jul 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Bruno (2009)	" The second hour of Bruno is a laugh out loud satire that will make the world a better place. That's what we want from Sacha Baron Cohen... Lots of people do funny. I'm glad he still transcended and took the bad people of the world down a peg."" — Can Magazine Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 51%	Body of Lies (2008)	" That Ridley Scott guy, he directs things pretty good." — Can Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Burn After Reading (2008)	" The overall tone I like the filmmakers saying, 'Yeah, we did that. That just happened. You saw it. It's stupid but we don't care.' They just keep letting it roll from being innocently dirty at times to farcical and referential." — Can Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 79%	The Bank Job (2008)	" *This banal nonaction story is Jason Statham's Raw Deal* or Boiling Point.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Mar 7, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 65%	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	" The greatest idea for a comedy ever... Please understand that this is a Michel Gondry, so even as commercial as it wants to be, it's still an art film." — Rotten Tomatoes Posted Feb 22, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 42%	The Bucket List (2007)	" *It's Grumpy Old Cancer Victims." — Can Magazine* Posted Jan 24, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 71%	Beowulf (2007)	" Even the heaving bosom looks clunky." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 17, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 51%	Bee Movie (2007)	" It's still the Dreamworks model of big, recognizable voices playing their personas, but this time it's an actual movie too. They wait a while to unload all the major pop culture references." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2007
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	Rotten 43%	The Brave One (2007)	" It's entertaining but it's certainly not the essay on violence it purports to be... At least it's not boring. Whenever you see a scumbag, at least you know she's going to shot him in the face." — Can Magazine Posted Sep 14, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 23%	Balls of Fury (2007)	" Thank god somebody remembers how to do comedy. It's really simple. If you're doing really silly things, you have to play them totally straight. That's the only way it works." — Can Magazine Posted Aug 31, 2007
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 69%	Blades of Glory (2007)	" It may be ice, but Will Ferrell is on fire. That's right, I said it." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 65%	Black Snake Moan (2007)	" There's just nowhere to go. They start talking about their feelings and being the healing process, and it's like Dr. Phil." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 3, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	" Pan's Labyrinth for kids... such a story can be just as powerful without the gore and war." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 16, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Breach (2007)	" *It feels like a taut spy thriller, the intellectual answer to The Bourne Identity." — Can Magazine* Posted Feb 16, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 5%	Because I Said So (2007)	" Though it is far from perfect, I'm giving it a pass... once you get a little distance from the pandering, the movie kind of takes off." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 62%	Blood Diamond (2006)	" It all feels like Hollywood pathos... It's the sign of a filmmaker that doesn't really have anything to say, so he just shows some tragedy and lets his actors cry about it." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2006
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	Rotten 39%	Beerfest (2006)	" *The tone of Beerfest* is like South Park if they did an episode only about the adults in South Park... Even real German actors put on ridiculous accents.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Aug 25, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 33%	The Break-Up (2006)	" Vince Vaughn overreacting to Pictionary will certainly be on his highlight reel at the next awards show... The greatest comedy is found in the deepest truths, and when the truth hurts, the experience can touch the full spectrum of emotion." — Suite101.com Posted Jun 1, 2006
N/A	Rotten 33%	The Break-Up (2006)	" *Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston talk about the scene in Chicago where they filmed their movie The Break-Up." — Can Magazine* Posted May 22, 2006
N/A	Rotten 33%	The Break-Up (2006)	" *Vince Vaughn discusses the media attention surrounding The Break-Up* and how he protected the film's cliche-defying sensibilities.*" — Suite101.com* Posted May 22, 2006
N/A	Rotten 33%	The Break-Up (2006)	" *Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston talk about their relationship... in the movie The Break-Up." — Can Magazine* Posted May 22, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 7%	Basic Instinct 2 (2006)	" *Usually when you want a movie to be so bad it's funny, you can count on someone connected to the Basic Instinct* franchise. Alas, they have let even their extremely forgiving audience down.*" — About.com* Posted Mar 30, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 37%	The Brothers Grimm (2005)	" The CGI is absolute crap. It looks like it was just pasted on. And I don�t mean paste like the cut and paste tool on computers. I mean Elmer�s." — About.com Posted Aug 25, 2005
Fresh	Rotten 46%	Bad News Bears (2005)	" Nobody learns about teamwork, or that winning isn't everything, or even that it is. They just misbehave and there is a great joy to a such an antisocial movie." — About.com Posted Jul 21, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Batman Begins (2005)	" Definitely a comic book movie for adults... Of course, I�d let my kids see it if I had any. I ain�t raising no sissies." — About.com Posted Jun 14, 2005
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 26%	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)	Click here to read article — MovieWeb Posted May 16, 2005
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 39%	Beauty Shop (2005)	Click here to read article — MovieWeb Posted May 16, 2005
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 54%	Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)	Click here to read article — MovieWeb Posted May 16, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 66%	Bride and Prejudice (2005)	" I think there�s some unmined potential here, but hopefully it can be the launching pad for more in depth Bollywood style musical literary updates to come." — About.com Posted Feb 11, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 13%	Boogeyman (2005)	" Frankly, watching dark closets for 90 minutes may not have been the best idea for a film. Watson unfortunately doesn�t have the screen presence to carry it off." — About.com Posted Feb 4, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Blade: Trinity (2004)	" The weapon to kill the vampires makes no sense... It�s okay to have a stupid plan. It�s okay to have an illogical plan. But it can�t be both." — About.com Posted Dec 8, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 81%	The Bourne Supremacy (2004)	" *Somebody needs to tell filmmakers that holding a camera by hand and shaking it around is not artistic. It looks like The Bourne Witch Project." — About.com* Posted Jul 22, 2004
Fresh	N/A	Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 (2001)	" *All of you people who paid $600 on eBay for the Academy DVD of Once More with Feeling, your investment is now worthless." — About.com* Posted Jun 4, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 33%	The Butterfly Effect (2004)	" If you thought the molestation, death, torture and suicide were leading up to flowers and candy, you can�t really blame the movie for letting you down." — About.com Posted Jan 23, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Bad Santa (2003)	" If you've never seen Santa Claus wet himself before, here's your chance." — About.com Posted Nov 13, 2003
Fresh	Rotten 44%	The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)	" The Battle of Shaker Heights is the best movie ever to come out of a reality TV series. I haven�t seen From Justin to Kelly, The Real Cancun or Stolen Summer, but I can assume. The film�s novelty is the war re-enactment motif." — About.com Posted Aug 15, 2003
N/A	Fresh 81%	The Bourne Supremacy (2004)	" *Producer Frank Marshall details the production of The Bourne Supremacy. A new director, new globe-trotting locations and a new story - not like the book." — About.com* Posted Aug 13, 2003
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Bad Boys II (2003)	" It would just be way too easy to hate Bad Boys 2. It would be too easy to say the excessive humor involving human cadavers is nauseating. It would be too easy to say that jokes at the expense of dead women are offensive." — About.com Posted Jul 18, 2003

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