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: 945
Total QuickRatings: 361

Location: Los Angeles, CA

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

Rotten	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" They should cast Will Smith as the Half-Fresh Prince. Then I'd be interested." — Can Magazine Posted Jul 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" *Like a modern day Wages of Fear." — Can Magazine* Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 78%	The Hangover (2009)	" It�s the funniest movie of the year." — Can Magazine Posted Jun 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 44%	Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)	" I don't buy Billy Ray Cyrus as Miley's dad." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 44%	He's Just Not That Into You (2009)	" It's about social responsibility. Everyone's so afraid of hurt feelings. People need to stop making excuses. Hey, it's not all okay. Get over it. And also, stop asking your friends to make you feel better. They give the worst advice. Just go out and have" — Can Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 48%	Harsh Times (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 67%	High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)	" No Disney movie has made me re-evaluate my life like this since D2: The Mighty Ducks. Perhaps HSM 3 is the perfect bookend to my teenage teamwork movie. At least this time I can look back and realize I have made the right choices." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	" It was a film The Secret would want me to see." — Can Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 37%	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	" the film is excessively proud to chastise the celebrity journalism industry but it has no basis. One, all but one of the celebrities is made up. Two, nobody seems to do any journalism. Three, they never establish the joy of Hollywood." — Can Magazine Posted Oct 3, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 16%	Hounddog (2008)	" We're seeing Fanning in soaking wet white underwear playing in the river, gyrating like Elvis. That's worse that an exploitative rape scene. This is just the filmmakers deciding to depict salacious behavior." — Can Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 39%	The House Bunny (2008)	" Their makeovers are not superficial. It's just basic interaction. It's not bad to dress like human beings. And making over that brace is a real triumph over adversity." — Can Magazine Posted Aug 22, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 63%	Hamlet 2 (2008)	" The answer to every stupid inspirational teacher movie there ever was... It's about what crap all those inspirational teacher movies are." — Can Magazine Posted Aug 22, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 18%	The Happening (2008)	" I'm always amused by the sort of backlashes that Shyamalan is in right now. Well, M. Night Shyamalan makes vague, subtle fantasy thrillers. If you've outgrown it, don't blame him." — Can Magazine Posted Jun 13, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 54%	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	" *There are poop jokes and cm shots but nothing as insightfully twisted as the diarrhea twins.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Apr 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 71%	The Hammer (2008)	" There are plenty of opportunities for Carolla to spout wisdom and observations." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 21, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 5%	The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)	" It's a horrible, horrible movie but not because of anything Ms. Hilton does or does not do. In fact, even the actress playing the Nottie is perfectly fine. It's a disgusting film with men so repulsive, even the campy socialite deserves a better project." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 40%	Hancock (2008)	" No surprise to me, because I fully expected it to be awesome." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 28, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 30%	The Heartbreak Kid (2007)	" Lowers the bar set by Along Came Polly" — Can Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Halloween (2007)	" *If they can't top Busta Rhymes kung fu-ing Michael Meyers, there's really no point. Yes, that's the benchmark I have for the Halloween* franchise.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Aug 31, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 38%	Hot Rod (2007)	" Hot Rod is probably going to be like Billy Madison where it grows on me after multiple viewings." — Can Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Hairspray (2007)	" The happiest movie of the year." — Can Magazine Posted Jul 20, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	" It's about No Child Left Behind. The government tries to sanitize the classes and standardize tests so that the kids won't actually learn anything threatening." — Can Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 87%	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	" This is the Hellboy movie. Hellboy 1 was just some thing that was made. It's the most creative movie of the year. I would call it Fred's Labyrinth." — Can Magazine Posted May 24, 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
Rotten	Fresh 85%	The Hoax (2007)	" It's impossible to see this as Clifford Irving. It's Richard Gere... It's fine when you're doing a Richard Gere movie but you can't be Richard Gere in a true story because Richard Gere doesn'" — Can Magazine Posted Apr 7, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 4%	Happily N'Ever After (2007)	" *This isn't unwatchable or boring. Not like Everyone's Hero, Open Season* or Over the Hedge. But it's still so done.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Jan 6, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 46%	The Holiday (2006)	" Nancy Meyers' trademark thinking comedies always deliver a perceptive perspective on relationships, but this one forgets to be funny too." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 74%	Happy Feet (2006)	" Happy Feet will leave your kids toe tapping all the way home. I've seen it firsthand. They actually leave the theater bouncing off the walls. Good luck putting them to sleep at bedtime." — Can Magazine Posted Nov 16, 2006
Rotten B-	Rotten 57%	How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)	" Based on the, uh, classic kid's book, Fried Worms captures that feeling of spending a Saturday on a secret mission -- one that seems like the most important thing in the whole world -- until the next day, when you find another one." — E! Online Posted Aug 25, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 49%	The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	" Neither sickly brilliant nor twistedly clever... At least the message is family bonding leads to tragedy and prayers are useless." — About.com Posted Mar 10, 2006
N/A	Rotten 59%	Hostel (2006)	" *By any measure, including the fact that he used three times more fake blood on Hostel* than he did on Cabin Fever, writer-director Eli Roth is on a horror roll.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Jan 10, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 40%	Havoc (2005)	" It shows that a movie can premiere on DVD and just tell a quality story, not some knock off action vehicle for a star past his prime." — About.com Posted Dec 1, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)	" Does a fine job consolidating all the important elements of J.K. Rowling's book. You get the same arc for every character and it doesn't take a month and a half to finish." — About.com Posted Nov 18, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 87%	A History of Violence (2005)	" Don�t watch any trailers or read any reviews, including mine. You shouldn�t have even read this." — About.com Posted Sep 22, 2005
Fresh	Rotten 42%	Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)	" A fast paced, breezy ride for the summer. The story sets up a lot of racing scenes to show Herbie in action and other scenes to set up Herbie�s slapstick gags." — About.com Posted Jun 23, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 26%	House of Wax (2005)	" House of Wax is Paris Hilton�s best movie." — About.com Posted May 5, 2005
Fresh	Rotten 35%	Hostage (2005)	" Die Hard from the outside... Ben Foster can�t not look like he�s going to kill you... And [Willis] has got catch phrases again. Yay! ... I even loved the opening credits." — About.com Posted Mar 10, 2005
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 15%	Head in the Clouds (2004)	" A cliché-ridden war-torn romance." — IGN Movies Posted Sep 16, 2004
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
Rotten	Fresh 81%	Hellboy (2004)	" *What begins as sensory overload eventually gives way to blatant plot gaps... I'm totally on the fence about Hellboy." — About.com* Posted Apr 4, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 46%	Hidalgo (2004)	" The hero feels old poop to find out how far behind he is. He steals water from evil military guys,but...the sandstorm turns his water to mud.These are all intriguing elements." — About.com Posted Mar 5, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 75%	House of Sand and Fog (2003)	" *This is the movie The Hours* should have been. Proof that you can tell a melancholy story with tragic characters, but provide dramatic bite and compelling entertainment.*" — About.com* Posted Dec 24, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 61%	Hulk (2003)	" The Hulk stuff looks great. The CGI character is expressive, sympathetic and there�s just a great visceral thrill to all the 'Hulk Smash' scenes. Most of the film has a good heart, with undertones of rage and repression. But, it�s a slow start." — About.com Posted Jul 14, 2003

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