ROTTEN TOMATOES: Adam Nayman

ADAM NAYMAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography: a 21 year old film critic at Eye Magazine in Toronto, Adam has been writing about movies for as long as he can remember, and just can't believe they're paying him for it.

Favorites: 2001: A Space Odyssey Grand Illusion Manos: Hands of Fate 400 Blows

Publications: Boxoffice Magazine, eye WEEKLY, L.A. Weekly

Total Reviews: 243
Total QuickRatings: 8

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Rotten	Rotten 17%	This Beautiful City (2009)	" The only real notes of authenticity are struck by the actors, and even then, only on the distaff side." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 27, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Hania (2008)	" There is more to movies than pretty pictures. And make no mistake, Hania is plenty pretty." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 11, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 3%	The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)	" Unfortunately, the performances are so slack and the filmmaking so clunky that any intentional humour gets lost in a sea of inadvertent giggles." — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 31, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Retrieval (2006)	" Overall, it�s still a fine debut, balancing its more ungainly dramatic turns with an absolutely perfect and poetic (dare I say Dardenne-esque?) final shot." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 7, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 53%	Viva (2008)	" Viva the film is as sly and knowing as Viva the character is endearingly oblivious." — eye WEEKLY Posted May 8, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 46%	The Ruins (2008)	" Paranoia, spinal injuries, psychic distress, impromptu amputations, self-mutilation -- it�s all in there, convincingly rendered (the first-rate sound design exacerbates every fracture) and finally pointless." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 4, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 51%	Funny Games (2008)	" more than the sum of its facile narrative parts." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 13, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 78%	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	" more than the sum of its facile narrative parts." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 13, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 9%	10,000 B.C. (2008)	" This year's first Event Movie is almost guaranteed to wind up as its dumbest." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 13, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Noah's Ark (2007)	" It's finally nothing if not good-spirited." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 28, 2008
Rotten	N/A	Men in the Nude (2006)	" It's self-conscious in a way that distances us from the purportedly roiling emotions of the characters." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 21, 2008
Rotten	N/A	Iska's Journey (2007)	" Unfortunately, the movie itself is only intermittently gripping." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 15, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Just Sex and Nothing Else (2005)	" Precise camera setups, smarter-than-usual dialogue and fine, spontaneous-seeming ensemble work." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 7, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 42%	Military Intelligence and You! (2008)	" It would be a shame if this smarmy, kiddie-pool-shallow bit of gimmickry were to be confused with clear-eyed satire." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 7, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 22%	The Eye (2008)	" Alba is so believable as a woman thrown out of her comfort zone... that it�s actually a disappointment when the plot kicks in." — eye WEEKLY Posted Feb 1, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 2%	Meet the Spartans (2008)	" *Until the mainstream produces some films undeserving of idiot violation, the idiot violation represented by Meet the Spartans* -- a Xerox of absolute zero -- will be par for the course.*" — eye WEEKLY* Posted Jan 25, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 24%	Awake (2007)	" The twist-happy screenplay holds together, and the actors around Christensen are better than they have to be: not only reliable hands like Lena Olin and Arliss Howard, but also a perfectly cast Jessica Alba, smartly playing with and against her looks." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jan 10, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 13%	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)	" Indifference is the name of the game across the board, really." — eye WEEKLY Posted Dec 28, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 69%	I Am Legend (2007)	" What we have here is about two-thirds great and one-third awful, and in that order." — eye WEEKLY Posted Dec 13, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 94%	Come and See (1985)	" In Klimov's unshakable vision, death is casual, safety is impossible and beauty is backwards: this is peerlessly gorgeous filmmaking about absolute ugliness." — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 15, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 14%	Skinwalkers (2007)	" *What differentiates Skinwalkers* from other bad werewolf movies is just how colossally bad it is: it makes Blood and Chocolate look like Ashes and Diamonds.*" — eye WEEKLY* Posted Aug 10, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 38%	Walking to Werner (2007)	" It's an impressive odyssey, but the film -- which alternates between Phillips' ceaseless ramblings and interviews with the predictably eccentric folks he meets on the road -- plays like a prolonged death march." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jul 20, 2007
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Red Without Blue (2007)	" Present-tense drama comes when one of the boys decides he wants to be a girl, a development the filmmakers mine -- responsibly but resourcefully -- for strains of significance." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jun 19, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 90%	Colma: The Musical (2007)	" Richard Wong's DV-shot musical channels an earnest, let's-put-on-a-show-ethos into a melancholy celebration of the titular San Francisco suburb." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jun 19, 2007
—	N/A	Dying at Grace (2003)	Click here to read article — eye WEEKLY Posted May 26, 2007
Rotten	N/A	The Parallel (2007)	" *An amateurish mashup of The Butterfly Effect* and The Family Man (talk about unholy hybrids!) that strains patience from the get-go.*" — L.A. Weekly* Posted May 10, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 96%	The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)	" Her efforts, presented without even the faintest whiff of self-congratulation, yield revelation and real success, and keep The Cats of Mirikitani moving along a compelling and unpredictable trajectory." — eye WEEKLY Posted Apr 23, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 78%	Linda Linda Linda (2006)	" Director Nobuhiro Yamashita seems to be aiming for a laconic deadpan tone, yet the static camera work and even-keel pacing elicit more yawns than chuckles." — eye WEEKLY Posted Jan 12, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 47%	Coffee Date (2006)	" How disappointing that a film that hints at the fluid, nonbinary natures of love and attraction should labor so hard to knot its own loose ends." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 9, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 64%	Evil Aliens (2005)	" West seems to mistake smugness for genre savvy, and his aggressive, arm-punching brand of pandering quickly grows tiresome, and then unbearable." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 28, 2006
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 34%	Breaking and Entering (2007)	" Breaking and Entering is an intelligent movie with a great supporting cast -- virtues that prove to be its undoing." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 79%	Summer '04 (2006)	" A rare thing: a successfully asymmetrical drama." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 66%	Snow Cake (2007)	" Marc Evans� direction is alternately clear-eyed and blearily sentimental, but the film is a fine showcase for Weaver." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	Deliver Us From Evil (2006)	" [A] blood-boiling documentary." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	The Italian (2007)	" What began as a vivid tour of enclosed institutional rot segues, smartly and seamlessly, into a compelling open-road odyssey." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 88%	Requiem (2006)	" The film is incisive about the all-too-mundane social, physical and emotional pressures exacted upon its heroine." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 82%	Manufactured Landscapes (2007)	" Though its vistas may look alien, this urgent, quietly damning film never lets us forget that we, by dint of our comfy environs, are their creators." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 87%	After The Wedding (2007)	" This melodrama about a miserable Good Samaritan (Mads Mikkelsen) staring down a difficult (and heroically contrived) ethical dilemma gets soapier -- and dopier -- as it goes along." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 40%	The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (2006)	" The film is undone by sloppy plotting, over-deliberate writing and a few terrible ebbs in tone." — eye WEEKLY Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)	" While it doesn't deviate from the snippy, newsmagazine format of its predecessors, Iraq for Sale stays mostly on point and on target, as Greenwald trains his sights on the ruinous consequences of corporate involvement in the Iraq war." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 7, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 56%	Nightmare Man (2007)	" All impenetrably dark nighttime shots, politely telegraphed shocks and limp, transparent misogyny masquerading as genre-savvy hijinks." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 3, 2006

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