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FRED TOPEL
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Total Reviews: 945
Total QuickRatings: 361

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

Rotten

Fresh
77%

Invictus (2009)

" I don't like important movies anyway. Once you set out to be important, I don't buy it." — Can Magazine

Posted Dec 16, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
31%

Ninja Assassin (2009)

" Won't be starting a new ninja craze in Hollywood." — Can Magazine

Posted Nov 25, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
71%

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

Rotten

Rotten
28%

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

" It never feels as profound as Highlander, and rest assured, Highlander is not my high watermark for metaphorical drama." — Can Magazine

Posted Nov 20, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
21%

Amelia (2009)

" Near the end though, when they talk about coming home, that almost feels like she's saying, 'Two days to retirement.'" — Can Magazine

Posted Oct 23, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
41%

New York, I Love You (2009)

" There is only one segment out of the entire series of shorts that I even liked... Everything else is soooo actor-y." — 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

Rotten

Rotten
9%

Post Grad (2009)

" I know this world of trying to find a job after college. I tried my hand at entertainment journalism, which is crazy. This movie does not represent the humor in the job search. It was laughable what's out there and what I didn't get." — Can Magazine

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
38%

The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

" I think the time travel is a metaphor for relationship problems, so it explored that. I just would have rather seen a time travel movie." — Can Magazine

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
88%

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

" One basterd of a movie... Who wants to hear Quentin Tarantino dialogue in a foreign language, thus having to read it?" — Can Magazine

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
49%

Taking Woodstock (2009)

" The most expertly crafted, yet mostly uninvolving, historical music movie." — Can Magazine

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
6%

All About Steve (2009)

" It gets into McConaughey territory, worse than The Ugly Truth." — Can Magazine

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
58%

9 (2009)

" It is really hard to connect with these things... They have arms and legs and heads, but they still feel like yarn balls fighting. WALL-E was a box, but he was a box you could have a beer with." — Can Magazine

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
14%

The Ugly Truth (2009)

" Exactly the kind of movie He's Just Not That Into You was warning you about." — Can Magazine

Posted Jul 31, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
65%

Adam (2009)

" The whole movie was at his expense, the usual Hollywood feeling good about itself by portraying the struggles of such a man." — Can Magazine

Posted Jul 31, 2009

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

Rotten

Rotten
20%

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

" No longer better than sex." — Crave Online

Posted Jun 24, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
36%

Angels & Demons (2009)

" I did not like The Da Vinci Code, but only because it was completely faithful to the book which I didn't like. As such, I never read Angels & Demons, but I can tell it's faithful too because it's exactly the same thing." — Can Magazine

Posted May 22, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
32%

Terminator Salvation (2009)

" Everyone wanted to see the future, but I knew that would just be big robot fights. Cool maybe, but that's a war movie, not a character investment suspenseful action movie. So here, this is what you wanted. Happy now?" — Can Magazine

Posted May 22, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
41%

Fighting (2009)

" It's like in all this drama, they forgot to have a scene." — Can Magazine

Posted Apr 25, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
58%

17 Again (2009)

" Yeah, if only he hadn't taken care of the high school girl he knocked up, everything would have worked out better for him. That's so wrong I can't believe it got through script development." — Can Magazine

Posted Apr 17, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
88%

Adventureland (2009)

" I had really hoped we'd moved beyond the era of movies about boredom. Once people realized that mundane lives aren't actually entertaining, I thought they'd stopped making them." — Can Magazine

Posted Apr 9, 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

Rotten

Rotten
50%

Observe and Report (2009)

" I just think it could have gone further, which is to say I'm so desensitized to violence that beating up children and vandalizing public spaces feels too tame to me." — Can Magazine

Posted Apr 9, 2009

Rotten

Fresh
72%

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

" It does take a long time to explain the story for a movie that's totally summed up in its title." — Can Magazine

Posted Mar 26, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
4%

Miss March (2009)

" The whole movie feels like these guys watched some other movie 100 times and thought they could do the same thing. So in their head, this is ... hilarious, but not to anyone else." — Can Magazine

Posted Mar 13, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
43%

Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

" It's not just bad like some kids movies are bad because they're dumbed down. It is wow bad." — Can Magazine

Posted Mar 13, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
59%

Phoebe In Wonderland (2009)

" Abstract portrayals of kids with OCD and Tourette's do not, it turns out, make great entertainment." — Can Magazine

Posted Mar 5, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
4%

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)

" I suppose the real question again is: why is there a story at all?" — Can Magazine

Posted Feb 27, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
23%

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

" Why wouldn't you want to see Isla Fisher stumble on a tray of fish? Why wouldn't you want to see Isla Fisher bumble through a fan dance? Why wouldn't you want to see Isla Fisher fumble through Finnish?" — Can Magazine

Posted Feb 13, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
39%

Inkheart (2009)

" Last Action Hero for books. By proxy, it's also kind of The Purple Rose of Cairo for books, but it's not as good as either... It would really amuse me if it ended with the family deciding, after all this trouble, let's never read again." — Can Magazine

Posted Feb 6, 2009

Rotten

Rotten
55%

The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

" So a queen dies by rat tainted soup? I guess that's what the kids are into these days." — Can Magazine

Posted Dec 18, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
25%

Nobel Son (2008)

" You want to see how it plays out, but it's just frustrating to wade through all the "style" to get there." — Can Magazine

Posted Dec 12, 2008

Rotten

Fresh
66%

What Doesn't Kill You (2008)

" I guess I should just be happy it didn't end up worse and hope these guys don't come hurt me for saying all this." — Can Magazine

Posted Dec 12, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
51%

Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)

" Yeah, people really behave this way, but they shouldn't. You want to complain about violence and sex in movies influencing kids. How about making movies that teach people to find a better way, so that the next round of grownups doesn't have so many psycho" — Can Magazine

Posted Dec 12, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
54%

Australia (2008)

" It's City Slickers. I mean, come on." — Can Magazine

Posted Nov 30, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
49%

Twilight (2008)

" I think Edward Cullen has Asperger's syndrome... Bella should totally go for Jacob instead, but then he could do way better with any of the townies... Edward looks lame ripping trees out of the ground and jumping around the forest like Tom Cruise on Oprah" — Can Magazine

Posted Nov 21, 2008

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
2%

Epic Movie (2007)

" Maybe these movies are popular, but it seems they just keep getting more inane with each variation on the theme." — Hollywood.com

Posted Nov 20, 2008

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
91%

Pusher 3 (2006)

Click here to read article — Hollywood.com

Posted Nov 20, 2008

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
48%

Harsh Times (2006)

Click here to read article — Hollywood.com

Posted Nov 20, 2008

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
26%

Copying Beethoven (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

Rotten
2/5

Fresh
83%

Come Early Morning (2006)

Click here to read article — Hollywood.com

Posted Nov 20, 2008

Rotten

Fresh
64%

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

" They did another one, and probably better than the original, but I'm simply tolerant." — Can Magazine

Posted Nov 14, 2008

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

Rotten

Rotten
34%

Pride and Glory (2008)

" Loud..." — Can Magazine

Posted Nov 2, 2008

Rotten

Fresh
65%

Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

" This was bound to happen... I have so far loved every single one of [Kevin Smith's] films, especially Jersey Girl. But at some point I was going to have to give something he made a negative review."" — Can Magazine

Posted Nov 2, 2008

Rotten

Rotten
59%

RocknRolla (2008)

" Even the rock music just seems immature. It's clearly a crutch, because none of these scenes would be cool without a pounding score... This is all the kind of abrasive rock that kids like to annoy their parents." — Can Magazine

Posted Oct 11, 2008

Rotten

Fresh
62%

The Express (2008)

" Is [the significance] for Davis to set a precedent as the first African-American Heissman Trophy winner? I mean, honestly, are they going to make a biopic about Halle Berry and Denzel Washington's Oscar wins?" — Can Magazine

Posted Oct 11, 2008

Rotten

Fresh
86%

Rachel Getting Married (2008)

" If Rachel Getting Married were a real movie, it would be one of the worst of the year. Luckily, it's not a real movie, so Snow Angels, Mad Money and Fool's Gold need not worry about the competition." — Can Magazine

Posted Oct 3, 2008

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