ROTTEN TOMATOES: Peter Rainer

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	No End in Sight
A-	The Simpsons Movie
B+	Stardust
B	No Reservations
B-	Becoming Jane
C+	27 Dresses
C	The Invasion
C-	Delirious
D+	The Hunting Party
D	The Strangers

BEST REVIEWED
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A	The Exiles
a	Encounters at the End of the World
A	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A	Persepolis
A	No Country for Old Men
A	My Kid Could Paint That
A	In the Shadow of the Moon
A	No End in Sight
A	Hairspray
A	A Mighty Heart
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
F	License To Wed
F	Wild Hogs
F	The Number 23
F	Final Destination 3
D	The Strangers
D	Gray Matters
D	Black Snake Moan
D	The Astronaut Farmer
D	Because I Said So
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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C	"Some touching moments, but too blandly inspirational." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	38%
B	"Tropic Thunder passes for "daring" in a movie era notably short on risk-taking. In the case of Downey, that daring is earned." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	84%
B	"There's something intriguing going on here. It's a movie about the sacrifices that people make to be happy." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	80%
D+	"George Lucas's fixation on this saga has gone past commercial smarts into full-blown monomania. With all the money and power he has at his disposal, here he is once again fobbing the same leaden dialogue and nonvisionary visuals at us." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Clone Wars (2008)	20%
C-	"Begins promisingly and then swerves into absurdity." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Red (2008)	61%
B+	"While this may seem like an apologia for randy older men, it doesn't come off that way, and Cruz gives her best performance to date." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Elegy (2008)	72%
	"Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 8, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
C	"*It doesn't measure up to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Which is sort of like saying Rocky V* wasn't as good as Rocky IV. Sort of.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Aug 8, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
B+	"You feel like you're watching a life, not a performance." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 1, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	84%
C	"The filmmakers want to fashion a civics lesson but they don't bother to include anything of substance." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 1, 2008	Swing Vote (2008)	40%
C-	"Anyone looking for a terrific summer popcorn movie should not hop on board." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 1, 2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	11%
B+	"A great piece of work in a movie." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 25, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	68%
B-	"Burstein does indeed capture some of the awkwardnesses that we can all relate to -- the dating scene, the snubs, the cliques, the bad behavior." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 25, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
B	"David Duchovny's Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully are still chastely in love, the world is as dark and doomy as ever, and Billy Connolly, as a scurvy priest who may or may not be a visionary, steals the acting honors." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 25, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	33%
C+	"Director Adam McKay is a veteran of the Judd Apatow school of R-rated gross-out gooniness, but this latest installment in the canon is decidedly underpowered." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 25, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	53%
A-	"*As an anatomy not only of Polanski's psyche but also of the legal system he confronted, it's as baroquely compelling as The Dark Knight." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	86%
C-	"Streep certainly gives it the old college try and so do Walters and Baranski, who are experienced singer/dancers. Somehow they all end up looking just as flamboyantly amateurish as everybody else." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	54%
A-	"The film is so relentlessly bleak that, paradoxically, its blackness is not given its full due. But this comic-book movie is more disturbing, and has more freakish power, than anything else I've seen all year." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
C-	"*Why would you take your kids to see Space Chimps, an uninspired animated feature about chimp astronauts, when you could take them instead to see Wall-E." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Space Chimps (2008)	33%
A	"A semidocumentary account of native Americans living in Los Angeles's downtown Bunker Hill, its evocations of loneliness and despair and renewal are among the most eloquent in American cinema." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	89%
C+	"*Much of Journey* plays like a thinner version of an Indiana Jones movie – a series not noted for its stoutness to begin with.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	61%
C	"When will Eddie Murphy think as highly of his talents as we do?" -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 11, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	20%
B	"Decorous to a fault, in the manner of middling Eric Rohmer talkfests, it's a film that could use some shaking up." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 27, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	77%
B+	"Family home movies and photos and archival clips round out the film, which holds its hero-worshiping to fairly tolerable levels." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 27, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	74%
A-	"WALL-E is yet another notch in Pixar's computer-animation belt, and it's one of the better entries, with greater emotional resonance than anything they've done since Finding Nemo." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 27, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	97%
C-	"The film's high proficiency is at the service of a concept that can most accurately be defined as sadomasochistic." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 27, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
C	"For most of the movie, we feel as trapped as she does, and the lurching narrative seems anything but novelistic." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 20, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
A-	"The first feature film based on the highly popular American Girl book series -- there have already been three made-for-television American Girl movies -- plays out like a sweet-souled Nancy Drew mystery." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 20, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	80%
C-	"Get Smart needed to be a lot smarter. And funnier. The movie stands as proof yet again that hit television series do not make for good movies." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
B	"What links all these characters is Myers's gift for antic, elfin burlesque. He's like a second-best Peter Sellers." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 20, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
C+	"A smash-and-slash affair. This probably bodes well for the franchise but ill for those of us who think the world would be a better place with at least one less conflicted comic book antihero glutting the megaplexes." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
C-	"*If you were a fan of David Cronenberg's Crash, you might just be the target audience for Quid Pro Quo, a perverse psychological drama about able-bodied people who yearn to become disabled." -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jun 13, 2008	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	66%
a	"A supremely cranky and lyrical feat." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 13, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2007)	94%
C	"It's also a bit sneaky of Shyamalan to set us up for a paranoid 9/11 thriller and then go all Greenpeace on us. He's trying to be socially conscious but he doesn't have the reformist's temperament. He has the temperament of a self-infatuated messiah." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
A-	"Mongol is a throwback to a more respectable tradition. The largeness of its scope arises naturally from the material, not the budget. The movie earns its stature." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 6, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
B+	"The film's parallels between Mohmed's travails and the Iraq war are forced, but overall this is a fascinating odyssey that never plays out in ways you would expect." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 6, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
B+	"The animation is consistently sporty and there are some choice comic riffs on martial arts movies." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
B+	"Zohan coasts on its premise far more often than it fulfills it. But these days, you take your laughs where you find them. It's a pretty good scattershot comedy." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 6, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
C	"Given its subject matter, it's oddly vacuous -- it rarely takes hold emotionally even when its people hit bottom with a resounding thud." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 30, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
C+	"An unstable concoction of political melodrama, film noir, and weepie." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 30, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	62%
D	"It's so gruesomely relentless that the effect is like watching a slo-mo snuff film." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 30, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	42%
B-	"As gender-segregated experiences go, SATC is preferable to, say, that idiotic beefcake epic 300. The amusing thing about SATC is that it objectifies men in much the same way that most male-oriented movies objectify women." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 30, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	51%
B	"It's a bewildering mix of very smart and very dumb, but the cast is tiptop. " -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 23, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
B	"Powerful, sexually graphic drama." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 23, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	89%
B	"Crystal Skull is a fun ride, but if we have to wait 19 years for the next one, that's OK by me." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 23, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
B	"*The black comedy Noise* may be a one-joke movie but it's a resonant one.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted May 16, 2008	Noise (2008)	52%
B-	"Janssen, who reportedly did her own pool shooting, is [best] served in the scenes with Gulley, which are wrenching in a coolly understated way." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 16, 2008	Turn the River (2008)	75%
B	"*This is a bigger and darker Narnia* movie and although it didn't leave me famished for the inevitable sequel, it delivers the family-entertainment goods.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted May 16, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
B	"A Norwegian movie that often looks and feels like a resurrected specimen of the French New Wave." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 16, 2008	Reprise (2008)	87%
B-	"Some of the set pieces are ravishing, more often they're ravishingly clunky." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 9, 2008	The Fall (2008)	54%

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