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Critics / Mark Olsen
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    MARK OLSEN

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

    Publications: Chicago Tribune, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Sight and Sound

    Total Reviews: 180

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    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    0%

    Stolen (2010)

    " A leaden murder mystery with a clunky structure that swings back and forth between 1958 and 2008, Stolen wastes the talents of a reasonably good cast." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Mar 18, 2010

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Rotten
    54%

    Mystery Team (2009)

    " A pleasant, charming knockabout with a playfully imaginative sense of wit and a pleasingly assured visual style." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Mar 12, 2010

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    38%

    Wonderful World (2010)

    " The story never fully blends the idea of Singer's rediscovery of his artistic voice -- and even something as simple as why he was a children's performer in the first place is never addressed -- with his personal renewal." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jan 7, 2010

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    15%

    I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

    " A flat, tired rehash of teen movie story tropes, the film attempts to have it both ways by winkingly acknowledging its secondhand origins." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jul 10, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    18%

    The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

    " Haunting suffers for its need to be sold as a straight-up horror film, and the fact it has been seemingly retrofitted as such." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Mar 27, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    75%

    Tokyo! (2009)

    " By turns playful and melancholy, provocative and sentimental, all three of the shorts that make up Tokyo! seem like direct responses to the city itself as well as being jumping-off points for each director's personal quirks." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Mar 20, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    36%

    The Objective (2008)

    " [Director] Myrick does an admirable job of spinning tension from a group of guys mostly standing around, but too often the film's portentous tone seems more silly than suspenseful." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Mar 13, 2009

    Rotten
    0.5/5

    Rotten
    42%

    The Last House on the Left (2009)

    " A shockingly mundane disappointment taken on its own and a deeply misguided refraction of the original." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Mar 13, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    86%

    Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2008)

    " Scott Walker: 30 Century Man chronicles the career of musician Scott Walker, an enigmatic figure whose influence far outreaches his relative obscurity." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Feb 27, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    23%

    Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009)

    " The attitude displayed by Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience back toward those fans comes across as a curious mixture of shameless pandering and discreet contempt." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Feb 27, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    23%

    Fired Up (2009)

    " Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Feb 19, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    25%

    Friday the 13th (2009)

    " The original handful of Friday films had a certain low-rent elegance about them, and this slickly done, dimly lighted, whiplash-edited update loses that too." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Feb 13, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    74%

    Chocolate (2009)

    " It boils down to this: Thai girl fighting. Is that enough of a movie for you?" — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Feb 6, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    55%

    My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)

    " In some ways, the filmmakers have created something too authentic in spirit to the original film, as it also fairly quickly becomes a plodding chore to watch." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jan 20, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    38%

    Let Them Chirp Awhile (2008)

    " A movie where the only conception of life seems to come from other movies makes for no kind of movie at all." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jan 5, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    39%

    My Name is Bruce (2008)

    " Perhaps the best thing that can be said about My Name Is Bruce is that Bruce Campbell has in fact appeared in worse movies." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Dec 19, 2008

    Rotten
    1/5

    N/A

    Tunnel Rats (2008)

    " With 1968: Tunnel Rats, Boll continues to show himself to be an unusually versatile filmmaker -- outrageously awful in any genre." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Dec 19, 2008

    Rotten
    1/5

    N/A

    Waiting in Beijing (2008)

    " A preposterously inept, fabulously amateurish piece of vanity moviemaking." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Dec 12, 2008

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    67%

    Dragon Hunters (2008)

    " Dragon Hunters is sort of a lightweight, inoffensive programmer if what you want your children exposed to is mindless and pointless audio-visual entertainment rather than, you know, reading a book or stepping outside." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Dec 12, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    13%

    Delgo (2008)

    " The story is a mishmash of adventure-fantasy tropes." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Dec 11, 2008

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    80%

    A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy (2008)

    " A Good Day certainly shows Dortch as a talent to watch. Whether he does anything more with that talent will be up to him." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Dec 5, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    50%

    Gardens of the Night (2008)

    " Do these heartbreaking stories exist in the real world? Yes, yes, they do. Does dramatizing these stories with nothing to add except a certain cruel wallowing in the existence of unspeakable human depravity serve any real purpose? No, no, it does not." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Dec 5, 2008

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    N/A

    Dostana (2008)

    " By turns exuberant and goofy and mushy and yearning." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Nov 20, 2008

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    34%

    Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

    " The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Nov 7, 2008

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    67%

    High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

    " The HSM series has always been playful and high-spirited, with a refreshing emphasis on collective action and the importance of group effort over the individual, and there's nothing in High School Musical 3: Senior Year to upset the formula." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Oct 24, 2008

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    Fresh
    98%

    Red (1994)

    Click here to read article — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Oct 18, 2008

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    46%

    Sex Drive (2008)

    " Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this Sex Drive is only partly worth the trip." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Oct 17, 2008

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    62%

    The Express (2008)

    " At times stirring, inspiring and thoughtful." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Oct 10, 2008

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    58%

    Flash of Genius (2008)

    " ...It wants so desperately to be a Hollywood-style story of the little guy triumphing over the big guy that it races past much of the subtlety of Kearns' story..." — Chicago Tribune

    Posted Oct 3, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    41%

    Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)

    " Despite its superficial lip-service to self-actualization/realization, there has to be more to life than what Beverly Hills Chihuahua is putting out there, which is fit for neither man nor beast." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Oct 3, 2008

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    16%

    Hounddog (2008)

    " The problems that plague the movie land squarely with the writer, director and producer, Deborah Kampmeier, who has crafted a howler of a bad script, shows little affinity for working with actors and displays no visual sense behind the camera." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Sep 19, 2008

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    69%

    Red (2008)

    " An elegant and deceptively straightforward dramatic thriller." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Aug 29, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    62%

    Cthulhu (2008)

    " Cthulhu isn't awful, but it isn't particularly compelling either, as Glidark and Cogswell make their message so plain that it robs the story of its broader mysteries." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Aug 22, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    84%

    In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)

    " If it were a parody of relationship-youth pictures, In Search of a Midnight Kiss would maybe be tolerable, but writer-director Alex Holdridge seems to be playing it with a straight face." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Aug 22, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    15%

    Mirrors (2008)

    " An empty enterprise that provides a few moments of goofy fun, Mirrors reflects back nothing." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Aug 19, 2008

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    11%

    Hell Ride (2008)

    " The film gets the scummy patina right, all phony-Leone dusty trails, but while everybody on screen looks to be enjoying themselves, it is no fun to watch." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Aug 8, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    74%

    Elegy (2008)

    " Elegy seems to mourn for the wrong things, making its self-examining characters seem merely narcissistic and more than a little pathetic." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Aug 8, 2008

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    41%

    Eight Miles High (2007)

    " Eight Miles High, based on the memoirs of Uschi Obermaier, wants to be both a tangy piece of Eurosleaze and an overview of one woman's transformations from the heady days of the 1960s onward." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jul 25, 2008

    Rotten
    3/5

    Fresh
    64%

    Brideshead Revisited (2008)

    " [Director] Jarrold seems too often to consciously be making an in-quotation-marks classy picture, much like last year's Atonement, in which the costumes and setting are just so, but the human drama gets lost amid the pictorial pleasantries." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jul 25, 2008

    Rotten
    1/5

    N/A

    murder.com (2008)

    " When a single episode of your sister's TV show contains hotter action and more story structure than the movie you are in, it may be time to reboot. Murder.com is strictly CTRL+ALT+delete." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jul 18, 2008

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    65%

    Felon (2008)

    " For a film that seems to pride itself on its depiction of prison-reality, it feels extremely movie-phony." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jul 18, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    43%

    Finding Amanda (2008)

    " Written with more bite, the premise might hold up, but as executed here by Tolan, it is a soft-hearted, haphazard mess." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jun 27, 2008

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    93%

    Encounters At the End of the World (2007)

    " The images captured by Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger are dazzling all on their own, finding the disorienting psychedelia that is nature at its weirdest." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jun 27, 2008

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    20%

    Meet Bill (2008)

    " The story of a man (Aaron Eckhart) grappling with middle-age ennui at work and at home feels done to death, as does the distracting addition of a spunky rich-kid high schooler." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jun 13, 2008

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    87%

    Bomb It (2008)

    " A remarkably compact and engaging overview of the history and ideology of this urban outlaw art form." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jun 6, 2008

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    73%

    When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)

    " One would only hope that a film about death and dying wouldn't have to feel quite so lifeless." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted Jun 6, 2008

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    79%

    The Memory Thief (2008)

    " There are intriguing issues swirling around the film, but [director] Kofman never brings it to a boil, never finds the deeper, truer meaning inside the ideas he is grappling with." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted May 30, 2008

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    55%

    The Foot Fist Way (2008)

    " The saga of small-town strip mall taekwondo instructor Fred Simmons, The Foot Fist Way is the sort of nimble oddball discovery that one wishes would come along more often." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted May 30, 2008

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    82%

    Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)

    " More than just another Iraq-doc, Heavy Metal is a surprisingly up-close look at the toll of the war on young people, and how they still have dreams and still want to jam, party and get down." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted May 23, 2008

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    8%

    Postal (2008)

    " Postal is largely just a byproduct of Boll's self-promotion, rendering the film itself, in essence, beside the point." — Los Angeles Times

    Posted May 23, 2008
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