ROTTEN TOMATOES: Kenneth Baker

KENNETH BAKER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 63% of the time.

Publications: San Francisco Chronicle

Total Reviews: 24

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

Fresh 4/4	Fresh 71%	Guest of Cindy Sherman (2009)	" As soon as Guest of Cindy Sherman ended, I wanted to see it again for its high entertainment value and to determine better what I had just witnessed." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 79%	Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009)	" ...will leave an audience feeling both lightened and illuminated." Posted Jun 19, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 79%	In a Dream (2009)	" Isaiah's work frequently rewards the camera's roving attention, but his self-absorption and lack of self-insight make him a sad subject even for as forgiving a study as In a Dream." Posted Apr 17, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 61%	Universe of Keith Haring (2008)	" *In its filmic conventionality and reliance on driving musical soundtrack, The Universe of Keith Haring* actually makes too little of his gift for thinking out loud in images.**" Posted Sep 12, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 64%	Beautiful Losers (2008)	" The film's score, by Money Mark, is an entertainment in itself." Posted Sep 5, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 91%	Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)	" No one emerges very well defined from this historical shuffle, but those who know the artists' works, or names such as Hopps and Blum, but have never heard them speak, will find The Cool School absorbing and informative." Posted Mar 21, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 82%	Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)	" Wagstaff's character accounts for some of the frustration the film induces. Crumb's documentary style accounts for the rest." Posted Feb 1, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 73%	Alice Neel (2007)	" So many people speak onscreen, from so many folds of Neel's life, that, despite captions, the viewer feels taxed to keep straight their identities and relationships to Neel." Posted Jan 25, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	N/A	The Gates (2007)	" People say the $20 million cost of 'The Gates' would have been better spent feeding people, he notes, 'but this feeds the soul.' To a lesser extent, so does the documentary about it." Posted Nov 2, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 94%	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	" Bar-Lev goes to the heart of the issue -- that all art, but especially abstract art -- demands commitment on every side, but commitment takes many forms and has many motives behind it." Posted Oct 12, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	Manufactured Landscapes (2007)	" Again and again, Baichwal tapers passages of her film toward resolution in the form of a finished picture by Burtynsky, telescoping her vision and his." Posted Jul 20, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 100%	The Rape of Europa ()	" *Fortunately, historical facts far outweigh psychological speculation in The Rape of Europa.*" Posted May 22, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 67%	Stolen (2006)	" In telling the story of an unsolved crime, they use every trick available to awaken and prolong suspense before a payoff that never comes." Posted Sep 1, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 81%	Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)	" *How much more persuasive Sketches of Frank Gehry* might have been had Pollack differentiated degrees of achievement in Gehry's work.**" Posted May 26, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 57%	Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)	" Allegedly all these incidents connect symbolically in Barney's mind, but in the viewer's, they thud, inert and separate as stones." Posted May 12, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 81%	How to Draw A Bunny (2002)	" Cumulatively [Johnson's] collages, letters and performances -- and his legend -- compose a self-portrait of striking wryness and complexity." Posted Apr 9, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 63%	Chelsea Girls (1966)	" Watching and waiting brought some amazing performances before Warhol's camera: Emerson's stoned monologue, Ondine's violent, sourly comic rant on being pope." Posted Apr 3, 2004
—	N/A	Cremaster 4 (1995)	Click here to read article Posted Oct 7, 2003
—	N/A	Cremaster 5 (1997)	Click here to read article Posted Oct 7, 2003
—	Fresh 67%	Cremaster 1 (1995)	Click here to read article Posted Sep 5, 2003
—	Fresh 73%	Cremaster 2 (1999)	Click here to read article Posted Jul 8, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 62%	Cremaster 3 (2002)	" Viewers of Barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it." Posted May 23, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	Russian Ark (2002)	" *Merely as a technical, logistical feat, Russian Ark* marks a cinematic milestone.**" Posted Feb 14, 2003

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