ROTTEN TOMATOES: Keith Phipps

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Neil Young - Heart of Gold
A-	The Queen
B+	Mission: Impossible III
B	V For Vendetta
B-	Lemming
C+	Coastlines
C	A Good Woman
C-	Winter Passing
D+	The Break-Up
D	She's The Man
D-	88 Minutes
F	The Ten Commandments

BEST REVIEWED
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A	The Dark Knight
A	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A	No Country for Old Men
A	Children of Men
A	Brokeback Mountain
A	Neil Young - Heart of Gold
A-	Paranoid Park
A-	Cloverfield
A-	Atonement
A-	The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	The Hottie & the Nottie
F	The Ten Commandments
D-	88 Minutes
D	Hell Ride
D	Evening
D	Georgia Rule
D	Blood and Chocolate
D	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
D	RV
D	She's The Man
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

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C	" It almost goes without saying that the film looks gorgeous, but the filmmaking behind it feels unsure how to work on this grand a scale. Australia is big. But it never fills the screen." Posted Nov 25, 2008	Australia (2008)	52%
B	" Quantum is content merely to be the second episode in what's shaping up to be a viable series, good enough but disappointing for those expecting greatness." Posted Nov 13, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	66%
B+	" It's a sweetly queasy film that suggests the spirit that sustains us, the demons we hide from the world, and the monsters that prey upon us in the dark might all be variations on the same beast." Posted Nov 7, 2008	Let the Right One In (2008)	98%
D+	" It's a horror film better suited for skittish cats than humans." Posted Nov 3, 2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)	3%
B	" Where much of Changeling works at once as a compelling mystery and an agonizing human drama, it starts to drift in a series of final scenes that finish the story while losing all sense of urgency." Posted Oct 23, 2008	Changeling (2008)	59%
B	" Provides a fascinating glimpse down a path perhaps advisedly not taken." Posted Oct 9, 2008	Ashes of Time Redux (2008)	82%
B	" It's solid filmmaking that, bafflingly, leaves little to talk about on the way home." Posted Oct 9, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
C-	" For kids who like dogs and grown-ups who don't mind a movie filled with pro-adopt-a-shelter-dog messages, it could theoretically be worse." Posted Oct 2, 2008	Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)	41%
D+	" Maher's too smart to make a movie this dumb." Posted Oct 2, 2008	Religulous (2008)	71%
B-	" The film drags as it reaches the hours before sunrise, but Cera and Denning's passive-aggressive flirtation keeps its pulse alive." Posted Oct 2, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	71%
B	" Burn's land of the perpetually deluded works as an amusing place to visit, but an even better place to flee." Posted Sep 11, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	79%
D+	" The original was a tart dipped in acid; this one's a biscuit sprinkled in Splenda." Posted Sep 11, 2008	The Women (2008)	13%
C-	" The novelty of watching De Niro and Pacino team up wears off pretty quickly." Posted Sep 11, 2008	Righteous Kill (2008)	21%
D+	" Even if it never finds an audience outside L.A., someone ought to write a book called When Dull Films Happen To Clever Production Designers." Posted Sep 2, 2008	Babylon A.D. (2008)	7%
C+	" It's the perfect end-of-summer film, and a sign that summer needs to end soon." Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	42%
D	" A witless reprise of '60s and '70s biker movies written, directed by, and starring Larry Bishop." Posted Aug 8, 2008	Hell Ride (2008)	11%
B	" *As an acting showcase that builds to some unexpectedly moving moments, Elegy* has much to recommend it.*" Posted Aug 8, 2008*	Elegy (2008)	74%
C+	" The film ends by closing the door on future sequels, which is probably fine. Everyone here looks like they've learned their lesson and can now move on." Posted Aug 6, 2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	63%
A	" Nolan lets the film's spectacular action scenes seem like the natural consequences of the conflicts between characters, conflicts that build until Gotham becomes less a setting than a stage for a conflict between tortured good and contented chaos." Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
B	" It's more Thompson-for-beginners than an exhaustive inquiry, but as introductions go, it's thorough and thoughtful." Posted Jul 11, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	89%
C-	" It's comedy that doesn't ask anyone, onscreen or in the audience, to try too hard." Posted Jul 10, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	19%
B-	" It carries a bitter aftertaste, but by those low standards, it's a considerable success." Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
C	" *[Director] Brooks plunges into the thick of a largely unfamiliar subculture in Quid Pro Quo,* but the journey involves a series of well-telegraphed twists and turns.*" Posted Jun 12, 2008*	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	67%
B-	" It delivers the goods and waits for fans to sign the receipt." Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
B	" Nicely balances moments of childhood trauma with a full appreciation of the man whose enthusiasm for high spirits sometimes came at considerable cost to those around him." Posted Jun 6, 2008	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	70%
C	" Trouble is, the gags just keep finding new ways to make McBride's strip-mall sensei seem pathetic, and the few scattered laughs never justify the cruelty." Posted May 29, 2008	The Foot Fist Way (2008)	57%
C	" The creatures remain beautifully designed and Narnia still looks like a colorful, inviting place, but it feels as lifeless as the fantastical anyworlds found on glittery unicorn posters." Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
C	" It's touching work that makes Dempsey's plastic sincerity look as thin as the film's posters." Posted May 1, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
C+	" Baby Mama doesn't have a plot so much as a series of contrivances that play out completely as expected." Posted Apr 24, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
D-	" *Why is Al Pacino in 88 Minutes?" Posted Apr 17, 2008*	88 Minutes (2008)	5%
C	" Directors Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin deliver some eye-catching fantasy sequences in the early scenes, but the film grows more mundane and the tone more uneven as it goes on." Posted Apr 3, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
B-	" *If amiability equaled greatness, Leatherheads* would be destined to become a classic.*" Posted Apr 3, 2008*	Leatherheads (2008)	52%
B-	" Fast-paced and filled with neat special effects, it's a sure kid-pleaser, albeit one that suffers from the very elements that make it go down so easily." Posted Apr 2, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
C	" The familiarity wouldn't matter if the gags weren't so belabored and, thanks to the PG-13 rating, neutered." Posted Mar 20, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
A-	" Through simple observation, Van Sant quietly lets viewers understand Nevins and feel the full force of his distress." Posted Mar 6, 2008	Paranoid Park (2008)	74%
C-	" Emmerich knows how to fill the screen with spectacle, but not how to field-marshal it." Posted Mar 6, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
B+	" the visual wit, game performances, and overflowing humanity have more than made up for the shortcomings by the time the film finds a final moment that's simultaneously abrupt and magical." Posted Feb 22, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	68%
F	" A waste of 90 minutes." Posted Feb 7, 2008	The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)	5%
C-	" Suspense remains at a minimum." Posted Jan 24, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
A-	" It puts human faces on the victims of mass destruction, faces that might easily have been yours or mine, staring down the maw of something we don't understand." Posted Jan 18, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
C	" *Made 10 years ago, it probably would have starred a vacationing cast member from Friends." Posted Jan 17, 2008*	27 Dresses (2008)	40%
C-	" The scheme works for a while. Sadly, the movie never does. As a heist film, it relies on the trio of felonious females besting a system that seems laughably easy to outwit." Posted Jan 17, 2008	Mad Money (2008)	21%
C+	" For a movie about a debate team -- one with the word 'debaters' in the title, no less -- Denzel Washington's second effort as a director doesn't have that much interest in what a debate looks and sounds like." Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	79%
A	" Burton brings his signature visual style, and a pair of stock players for his stars, into this film adaptation, but he wisely follows Sondheim's lead, letting the music and spirit of the original piece show the way." Posted Dec 20, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
C	" It's okay to be manipulated so long as you don't feel the strings being pulled. Here the tug is constant, and constantly distracting." Posted Dec 12, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	66%
C-	" There's just not enough here for a movie. It's almost as if some ideas were meant to live for three and a half minutes each Christmas season, not to get stretched to the breaking point for 50 years." Posted Dec 12, 2007	Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)	26%
C+	" The Golden Compass does manage the job of bringing Philip Pullman's world to the screen. With luck, any future entries will try harder to get the job done right." Posted Dec 6, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	42%
A-	" With the Ian McEwan novel adaptation Atonement, it's obvious that Joe Wright -- who made his big-screen debut with 2005's deft, affecting version of Pride & Prejudice -- knows how to shepherd a novel to the screen." Posted Dec 6, 2007	Atonement (2007)	83%
B-	" The gag wouldn't work with just anyone in the lead, but Adams' openhearted performance never winks. She really does want the best for everyone, and can't fathom why they don't all feel the same." Posted Nov 21, 2007	Enchanted (2007)	93%
B+	" The missteps don't detract from the thrilling brilliance of the filmmaking (aided by the remarkable cinematographer Ed Lachman), or dim the sense that Haynes was right in deciding that the fractions of the man would add up to more than the man himself." Posted Nov 21, 2007	I'm Not There (2007)	78%

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