ROTTEN TOMATOES: Erin Meister

ERIN MEISTER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications: Boston Globe

Total Reviews: 19

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

Rotten 2/4	Fresh 68%	The Cake Eaters (2009)	" There are only so many story threads an ensemble cast can hold." Posted Mar 27, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 45%	Bella (2007)	" It wants to answer the questions it's clearly too timid to ask, but the questions are always so much more interesting." Posted Nov 9, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 100%	Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (2007)	" Sea Monsters will undoubtedly bring open-mouthed awe and joy to brainy kids from ages 8 to 108." Posted Oct 19, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 23%	Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)	" It's all so much more fun when you're the one with the controller, telling the heroes what to do: Watching this stuff unfold onscreen is like sitting by while someone plays your video games without you." Posted Sep 24, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 72%	28 Weeks Later (2007)	" *Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo re-creates the gritty and spastic look of Days* while brilliantly utilizing dark space and shadow to enhance the terror.**" Posted May 11, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 35%	The Abandoned (2007)	" *Perhaps the worst offense of The Abandoned, however, is that so little effort is made by the screenwriters to make any 'sense' of it all.*" Posted Feb 26, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 90%	Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)	" The metal scene emerges throughout the documentary as the recruitment center of an army of misfits, where the outcasts of the world can seek each other out based on their love of the angsty, eardrum-destroying tunes their parents warned them about." Posted May 12, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 90%	Sisters in Law (2006)	" Despite the lack of an especially defined narrative arc, the people are what make the movie -- as they should in a tale like this." Posted May 5, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 53%	Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (2006)	" ... succeeds as a modest tribute to the kind of aging boys club that idles for hours in somebody's parents' rumpus room, its members tossing around big-man talk but trapped in emotional adolescence." Posted Apr 28, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 31%	Trudell (2006)	" Despite the rambling finish, however, overall the film is a thought-provoking and graceful portrait of a tenacious peace warrior whose frankness is his greatest weapon." Posted Mar 10, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 49%	The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	" From complete dismemberment to extreme shotgun violence, Aja & Co. not only pull out the stops on this one, they decimate them." Posted Mar 10, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 30%	Don't Ask Don't Tell (2002)	" A surprisingly thoughtful social film." Posted Oct 11, 2002
Fresh 2.5/4	N/A	Ciao America (2002)	" Lighthearted and often funny." Posted Oct 11, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 27%	Amy's O (2002)	" The whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 years." Posted Oct 4, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 79%	The Sleepy Time Gal (2002)	" A thoughtful, moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty." Posted Sep 27, 2002
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 57%	Group (2002)	" The nine women are a touching reminder that we all have our own, very different problems, but by relating to each other, we can come to terms with just about anything." Posted Jul 26, 2002
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 60%	The Independent (2001)	" A charming and funny look at the independent filmmaking business and the thin line between a masterpiece and a $9 nap." Posted Jun 28, 2002
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 37%	Sordid Lives (2001)	" While the film at times feels like a clumsily acted play, a surprising turn by Delta Burke carries the cast out of the doldrums of an often-strained plot line." Posted Jun 28, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 26%	Chelsea Walls (2002)	" *Were Dylan Thomas alive to witness first-time director Ethan Hawke's strained Chelsea Walls, he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to, 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Theatre.'*" Posted May 24, 2002

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