ROTTEN TOMATOES: Peter Rainer

BEST REVIEWED FILMS

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A	" The great conundrum of the Holocaust is that it was perpetrated by human beings, not monsters. Few movies have rendered this puzzle so powerfully." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 7, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	63%
A	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 18, 2008	Man On Wire (2008)	100%
A	" It's a small, radiant gem in a movie season cluttered with rhinestones. You leave the theater feeling both clearheaded and buoyant." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 13, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	94%
A	" It may seem perverse to contend that a movie with such a harrowing subject is nevertheless revivifying. But the New Wave of Romanian cinema is the most exciting in the world right now. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is its latest masterpiece." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Feb 1, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	97%
a	" A supremely cranky and lyrical feat." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 13, 2008	Encounters At the End of the World (2007)	93%
A	" Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel series has been turned into one of the most complexly moving animated films I've ever seen." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jan 25, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	96%
A	" With its dizzying alternations of comedy and horror, the film is unmistakably a Coen brothers movie -- albeit a much better one than they've made in a while." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 20, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
A	" Amir Bar-Lev's documentary is fascinating on all kinds of levels: as a movie about the nature of art, the lure and pitfalls of celebrity, and the complicated conundrums of parenting." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 4, 2007	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	94%
A	" This magnificent documentary about the Apollo missions to the moon contains oodles of original, beautifully remastered NASA footage that has never been seen before." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 6, 2007	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	94%
A	" Although this is Ferguson's first feature -- he paid for it himself -- it's a masterfully assured piece of filmmaking." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Aug 2, 2007	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
A	" Hairspray is a feel-good musical that, for a change, actually makes you feel good." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jul 19, 2007	Hairspray (2007)	91%
A	" On so many levels, A Mighty Heart is almost as excruciating to write about as it is to watch. It has many of the virtues of a first-rate political thriller, and yet who can think of it in those terms?" -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 21, 2007	A Mighty Heart (2007)	77%
A	" This is a startlingly funny portrait of Gothic Americana." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted May 31, 2007	Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007)	95%
A	" As both historical document and human document, this 180-minute epic is infinitely valuable." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jan 11, 2007	Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965 (2007)	100%
A	" *Blanchett has also recently appeared in The Good German* and Babel, but this represents far and away her best work.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Feb 9, 2007	Notes on a Scandal (2006)	87%
A	" Pan's Labyrinth resembles a cross between Alice in Wonderland and H.P. Lovecraft, with some Bu�uel thrown in for good measure. It's a tribute to -- as well as a prime example of -- the disturbing power of imagination." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jan 18, 2007	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)	96%
A	" At times the film is so supercharged that it glosses over the story's thematic richness and turns into a very high-grade action picture. But if that's the worst thing you can say about a movie, you're doing all right." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jan 4, 2007	Children of Men (2006)	92%
A	" Marilyn may not rate an Oscar nomination, but O'Hara certainly does." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 16, 2006	For Your Consideration (2006)	51%
A	" Borat is the funniest comedy I've seen since I don't know when." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 2, 2006	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	91%
A	" Most powerfully, [Berg] also films a number of O'Grady's victims as they recount their trauma and, in some cases, loss of faith." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 12, 2006	Deliver Us From Evil (2006)	100%
A	" It is very rare for a historical drama, especially one made by artists who are not remotely Tory, to express such wide-ranging emotional sympathy for the ruling class." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 28, 2006	The Queen (2006)	96%
A	" Although the film has been made with great finesse, it is devoid of showbiz exploitation." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Apr 27, 2006	United 93 (2006)	91%
A	" A heartbreakingly powerful masterpiece that affected me far more deeply than any other film I've seen all year." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Apr 21, 2006	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)	93%
A	" This is a Holocaust movie that is so relentlessly observed and so aware of woe that it never feels like it belongs to a genre." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jan 5, 2006	Fateless (2006)	92%
A	" The film is supremely well crafted: Raucousness and wit slide into sadness, and yet you never feel as if you're being worked over by a bunch of slicksters." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Dec 8, 2005	Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)	66%
A	" What is truly distinctive about Brokeback Mountain is that it brings to life a love story that, after all these years of love stories, is essentially new to mainstream movies, and it does so without special pleading or sentimentality." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Dec 8, 2005	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	87%
A	" If young audiences respond to it at all -- as I am sure they will -- it will be because Wright has brought out the vigor in Austen's romance in a way that the other adaptations I've seen never quite accomplished." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 10, 2005	Pride and Prejudice (2005)	85%
A	" I don't think I've ever seen another performance based on a famous artist that was as psychologically acute or troubling." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 29, 2005	Capote (2005)	91%
A	" A near-masterpiece." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 22, 2005	Oliver Twist (2005)	59%
A	Click here to read article -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 14, 2006	Pride & Prejudice (2003)	64%
A	" Killer of Sheep was declared a national treasure in 1990 by the Library of Congress. I agree." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 29, 2007	Killer of Sheep (1977)	97%
A	" The film's final seven-minute shot is one of the great denouements in film history." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 3, 2005	The Passenger (1975)	91%
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)	88%
A	" The late Claude Sautet was one of the best, and perhaps the most underappreciated, of the great French directors who came to prominence in the '50s and '60s." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 18, 2005	Classe Tous Risques (1960)	100%
A	" 2006 is the centennial of actress Louise Brooks, and to honor it, her greatest film, Pandora's Box, is being released in a new 35-mm print in New York's Film Forum before being taken around the country." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jun 15, 2006	Pandora's Box (1928)	91%
A-	" If this were a fictional Hollywood movie, it would be criticized for being too upbeat. But sometimes truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's also a whole lot better." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 7, 2008	Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)	100%
A-	" At just over two hours, Stranded is nonstop harrowing. It has cumulative power. Since we already know the outcome of the crash, [director] Arij�n doesn't inject into the proceedings a false note of suspense." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Nov 3, 2008	Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains (2008)	89%
A-	" This satire is a perfect sendup of Hollywood with a marvelous cast, including De Niro in his best performance in years." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Oct 20, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	53%
A-	" Burn After Reading is a piffle, but it's a savagely amusing one." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Sep 12, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	79%
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)	87%
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%
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)	96%
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)	78%
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)	87%
A-	" It's so funny and good-natured that I can't imagine anybody not smiling through it. Not even a Grinch." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Mar 14, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
a-	" The moral dilemmas posed by this operation are dramatically rendered, and without once resorting to cant." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Feb 22, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
A-	" Director Mark Waters does a fine job meshing the fantastical with the quotidian." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Feb 15, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
A-	" Sprawling yet cramped, There Will Be Blood may not be the best movie of the year, but it's certainly the strangest. It evokes passing comparisons to everything from Giant to Citizen Kane but it's impossible to pigeonhole." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Jan 10, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	91%
A-	" *[Director] Bayona draws on everything from Peter Pan* to Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, but it has a creepiness that's all its own.*" -- Christian Science Monitor* Posted Jan 10, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	86%
A-	" Juno, the second feature directed by Jason Reitman, is far from great but it has qualities of feeling that lift it far above the ordinary." -- Christian Science Monitor Posted Dec 13, 2007	Juno (2007)	93%

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