ROTTEN TOMATOES: Steven Winn

STEVEN WINN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

Publications: San Francisco Chronicle

Total Reviews: 25

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

Rotten 0/4	Rotten 16%	Hounddog (2008)	" The whole distasteful mess is sunk up to its neck in a brew of Southern Gothic atmosphere and hocus-pocus sentimentality." Posted Oct 31, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 75%	A Man Named Pearl (2008)	" In its own modest fashion, the film does capture a sense of the intuitive craftsmanship, pride and determination that drive the self-taught artist." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 93%	Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)	" Boogie Man has an awful lot to say about where America finds itself at the 2008 moment of decision." Posted Oct 17, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 90%	The Grocer's Son (2008)	" The quiet, patient soulfulness of the film, which Guirado co-wrote with Florence Vignon, lingers." Posted Sep 5, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 96%	Chop Shop (2007)	" In this clear-eyed, quietly absorbing film, director Ramin Bahrani opens up a wedge of Third World America that operates, all but invisibly, in plain sight." Posted Jun 27, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 79%	The Bank Job (2008)	" The movie plunges into this rank, choppy water and churns through it with a busily whirring story line and clear sense of purpose. The ride becomes its own satisfying reward, complete with the bumps and lurches along the way." Posted Mar 7, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)	" It all plays out as you know it must, right down to [Brian] Cox's narrative revelation at the end, but that doesn't diminish the sense of satisfaction this gratifying family entertainment delivers." Posted Dec 25, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 85%	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	" *Stylized but spasmodic, this Sweeney* seems more interested in distancing than captivating an audience.**" Posted Dec 21, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 26%	Fierce People (2007)	" There are lots of potent things floating around in it -- sexual initiation, drugs, fantasy-land wealth, brute violence, primitive rituals, Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland -- but the mix just sits there without producing any notable reactions." Posted Sep 21, 2007
Fresh 2/4	Rotten 13%	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	" This film apparently sat around for a few years before being released. It's unlikely to make waves now, but Thornton and Scott do set off a few entertaining ripples." Posted Sep 14, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 100%	Live-In Maid (2004)	" Live-In Maid is a modest chamber piece enriched by its affecting human harmonies and overtones." Posted Aug 31, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 20%	Death Sentence (2007)	" *Blunt, bloody and far too busy with its sledgehammer plot and mighty gunplay to waste time on the main character's inner life, Death Sentence* is a baseline entertainment.**" Posted Aug 31, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 98%	The Devil Came On Horseback (2007)	" An exceptionally powerful film driven by contradictory forces." Posted Aug 24, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 74%	La Vie En Rose (2007)	" La Vie en Rose is a life seen through a glass tinted darkly, with Cotillard glittering fiercely before the light goes out." Posted Jun 8, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 70%	Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)	" Wrestling With Angels is a canny piece of filmmaking, sure to absorb both audiences familiar with Kushner's plays and those who know little or nothing about him." Posted Dec 1, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 63%	Favela Rising (2006)	" ... an uneven, spasmodic film." Posted Aug 13, 2006
Fresh 2/4	Fresh 83%	Swimmers (2006)	" Well-observed but self-consciously studied family drama." Posted Jun 16, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 91%	Ballets Russes (2005)	" A daisy chain of touching now-and-then moments." Posted Nov 4, 2005
—	N/A	Ann Rule Presents The Stranger Beside Me (2003)	Click here to read article Posted Apr 30, 2005
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 97%	Hearts and Minds (1975)	" The unnerving brilliance of the film owes to the director's skill at assembling information and allowing it to speak for itself." Posted Sep 24, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 53%	A Dirty Shame (2004)	" More catalog than comedy, a checklist of erotically twisted dysfunctions strung together to fill 89 minutes of chirpy, stylized screen time." Posted Sep 24, 2004
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 38%	Anything But Love (2003)	" This stylized romantic comedy offers limited, largely synthetic rewards." Posted Nov 14, 2003
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 44%	Luther (2003)	" *For all its scope and detail, Luther* fails to convey the sense of history moved by a compelling individual.**" Posted Sep 26, 2003
Rotten	Fresh 84%	What Time Is It There? (2002)	" The weight of the film's opaque, numbingly studied details ... is oppressive." Posted Feb 4, 2002
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 47%	The Underneath (1994)	" The film may turn out to have been more of a stylistic adventure for the director than for an audience." Posted Jan 1, 2000

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