ROTTEN TOMATOES: Paul Matwychuk

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PAUL MATWYCHUK

Agrees with the Tomatometer 88% of the time.

Publications: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Total Reviews: 32
Total QuickRatings: 42

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Fresh	Fresh 96%	The Return (2004)	" The Return feels like an experiment designed to find out how much basic plot information you can withhold from an audience and still have an interesting movie." Posted Jan 4, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 47%	Saw (2004)	" Capped by a final plot twist so insane I almost feel obligated to salute it out of respect for its sheer lunacy." Posted Jan 4, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 39%	Birth (2004)	" Birth is the beigest, most suffocatingly tasteful film I�ve seen since Woody Allen�s Another Woman." Posted Jan 4, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 65%	Stage Beauty (2004)	" Stage Beauty pretends to be a celebration of acting, but in fact it�s saying you�ll be happiest if you go through life playing the most conventional role you can find." Posted Jan 4, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 69%	Closer (2004)	" To quote the haunting Damien Rice song that bookends the film, you can�t take your eyes off of it." Posted Jan 4, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 75%	The Machinist (2004)	" You can�t stop thinking about how awful Bale looks�partly because his transformation is so unnerving, but also because the film doesn�t give you anything else to think about. " Posted Jan 4, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Gozu (2004)	" *Anyone in the mood for a gender-bending yakuza comedy/horror film and who doesn�t mind seeing a lot of bodily fluids spewing onto the screen ought to give Gozu* a whirl.**" Posted Jan 4, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 60%	Enduring Love (2004)	" *The notion that being stalked can lead to a spiritual rebirth is pretty goofy, but Enduring Love* is skillful enough to make it seem like a reasonable proposition.**" Posted Jan 4, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Kinsey (2004)	" *I don�t think you could ask more from a biopic than what Bill Condon accomplishes with Kinsey.*" Posted Jan 4, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 95%	The Pianist (2002)	" *There's a rock-solid authenticity to every scene of The Pianist* that seems utterly unquestionable to me.**" Posted Jan 23, 2003
Rotten	Fresh 92%	Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)	" Standing in the Shadows of Motown takes one of the great unknown stories in music history and translates it to the screen in the blandest way possible." Posted Jan 19, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 65%	Evelyn (2002)	" *I can't say as I was surprised by a single scene in Evelyn,* and yet, despite all the manipulations of the script, the film is so sincere and good-hearted that it won me over anyway.**" Posted Jan 19, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Notorious C.H.O. The Movie (2002)	" Notorious C.H.O. made me laugh as long and hard as any movie I've seen this year." Posted Jan 19, 2003
Rotten	Rotten 21%	The Hot Chick (2002)	" Couldn't someone take Rob Schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person?" Posted Jan 19, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Happy Times (2002)	" Happy Times sounds like any of the dozens of heart-tugging comedies that Miramax seems to release every month, but it has such a peculiar premise and the central performance by Zhao Benshan is so winning that Zhang gets away with it by the skin of" Posted Jan 19, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Little Otik (2001)	" Like many Disney films, Little Otik is based on a classic European folktale, but while Disney cleans these stories up into candy-coloured moral fables ready to be adapted into breakfast cereals and ice shows, Svankmajer eagerly plunges into their d" Posted Jan 19, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Audition (2001)	" *The Audition* DVD includes a director's audio commentary for the final half-hour. You may as well turn the commentary on�you'll be clamping your eyes shut for most of it anyway.**" Posted Jan 19, 2003
Rotten	Rotten 33%	The Truth About Charlie (2002)	" Never do you get the feeling that anybody is in any real danger, or that there�s any real attraction between Newton and Wahlberg�and when you�re making a caper film that doesn�t have any suspense or romance in it, there�s not a hell of a lot else left for" Posted Nov 29, 2002
Rotten	Fresh 73%	Heaven (2002)	" Arthouse hokum." Posted Nov 29, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Far From Heaven (2002)	" The remarkable thing about Far From Heaven is what an emotional experience it is�this is no arid, intellectual exercise but a genuinely heartbreaking story of three decent people prevented by repressive social conventions from acting on the desires" Posted Nov 29, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 69%	The Grey Zone (2002)	" It's hard to imagine anybody ever being "in the mood" to view a movie as harrowing and painful as The Grey Zone, but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started." Posted Nov 29, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Igby Goes Down (2002)	" Writer/director Burr Steers displays a pitch-perfect sense of the way Igby is at once repelled by his family and his upbringing and yet an unmistakable product of it." Posted Nov 29, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 65%	Solaris (2002)	" Solaris is what you'd call a "thinking person's sci-fi film," and it has all the strengths and weaknesses that that term implies." Posted Nov 29, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 71%	The Ring (2002)	" Nothing in Gore Verbinski�s previous r�sum� indicated he had the ability to create the lingering atmosphere of low-key dread he displays in The Ring." Posted Oct 17, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 11%	American Psycho 2 (2002)	" One of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history." Posted Oct 10, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 74%	Secretary (2002)	" Secretary isn�t a movie about humiliation or depravity at all; it�s a dizzy fairytale about two people who help each other to stop feeling ashamed of the very things that give them pleasure." Posted Oct 3, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Sweet Home Alabama (2002)	" *Reese Witherspoon is such a skilled comedienne that it�s a shame that people seem to prefer seeing her in films like Sweet Home Alabama, which are completely unworthy of her talents.*" Posted Oct 3, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 40%	Reign of Fire (2002)	" Reign of Fire contains several scenes in which the screen is filled with immense fire-breathing dragons, but you don't feel the slightest twinge of awe or fear for the size of these creatures or their incredible destructive powers." Posted Oct 1, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Stuart Little 2 (2002)	" A small thing can have large significance: that�s a nice theme for a children�s film to have." Posted Sep 30, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Mostly Martha (2002)	" *The surprising thing about Mostly Martha* is not that it dodges the clich�s it sets up... but that its fulfillment of those clich�s, and the warmth you feel as a result, seem so honestly earned.**" Posted Sep 17, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 15%	Swimfan (2002)	" Amounts to little more than a waterlogged teenage version of Fatal Attraction." Posted Sep 17, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Chelsea Walls (2002)	" This thing is virtually unwatchable." Posted Sep 17, 2002

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