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MIKE SAGE

Agrees with the Tomatometer 62% of the time.

Biography: Freelance writer and film critic in Toronto, writing for Peterborough This Week, PopMatters.com and BlogTO.com, also a budding filmmaker, with first short: "Decoding Aleil" having debuted on Canada's Space: the Imagination Station

Favorites: Death Becomes Her, Contact, Braveheart, Gladiator, The Ring, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Mulan, The Descent, The Departed, Children of Men, 300

Publications: Peterborough This Week

Total Reviews: 206

Location: Downtown Toronto.

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Rotten 2/5	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" Watchmen isn't a superhero movie, it's a pretentious turkey that thinks it's better than the genre." Posted Mar 12, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 25%	Friday the 13th (2009)	" The acting is always good, but when it's not, you can always expect that character to flash her boobs, so who's complaining?" Posted Feb 18, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 77%	Doubt (2008)	" More tailored for the Oscars than a Clint Eastwood war epic, Doubt features some of the best performances we've seen all year but it falls short in other departments." Posted Dec 23, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 93%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" I don't think Boyle could film paint drying and make it dull." Posted Dec 23, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 27%	Seven Pounds (2008)	" Smith and Dawson both look like death, so watching their romance-on-life-support is painfully dreary and tragically unsexy" Posted Dec 23, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 64%	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)	" Barring direct-to-DVD Disney sequels, the first Madagascar was one of the worst animated flicks of all time. The bad news is Escape 2 Africa reunites the same cast and directors that made the first DreamWorks flick such a turkey." Posted Dec 2, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 64%	Quantum of Solace (2008)	" Quantum makes us understand the importance of a good director, which is sadly absent here." Posted Dec 2, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 54%	Australia (2008)	" Had the team abandoned the tediously tidy final third of the film and all the awful World War II shenanigans we obviously don't care about, Australia would be a wild romp." Posted Dec 2, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 68%	Pineapple Express (2008)	" Another winner from the Apatow factory, this is a stoner comedy that soars." Posted Sep 9, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 53%	Mamma Mia! (2008)	" Unfortunately, Streep and her ancient co-stars create pure torture whenever on screen together. This is the Catwoman of movie musicals" Posted Sep 9, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 39%	The House Bunny (2008)	" Fans of comedies like Legally Blonde and Mean Girls should get a kick out of Anna Faris' amusing starring vehicle, even if this one isn't quite as sly or slickly produced." Posted Sep 9, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 94%	The Dark Knight (2008)	" a riveting piece of work that will have us all mourning Ledger's loss but smacking our lips for a third entry" Posted Sep 9, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 77%	Burn After Reading (2008)	" Burn After Reading is a welcome escape from September's usual crop of inane thrillers starring Nicolas Cage or Julianne Moore." Posted Sep 9, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 76%	Cloverfield (2008)	" Mixing the immediacy of documentary observation and the slam-bang pace of the modern disaster epic, Cloverfield is economic and engaging." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 82%	Atonement (2007)	" Director Joe Wright is quickly establishing himself as a powerhouse adapter of period romance tomes." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 37%	Rambo (2008)	" Luckily, Rambo's years away from war haven't dulled his ability to rip out a man's throat with his bare hands." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 91%	There Will Be Blood (2007)	" And the winner of the overrated Oscar front-runner award goes to..." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 24%	Never Back Down (2008)	" The acting is hammy, Djimon Hounsou shows up to give the flick a corny air of Karate Kid and there's nothing particularly original about the whole premise but somehow it works. It must be those abs. Or the kicks to them." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 41%	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	" With plenty of betrayal, attempted incest and beheadings crammed into this period episode of The Young and the Restless, The Other Boleyn Sister has appeal in an otherwise stiff genre." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 10%	Fool's Gold (2008)	" Never do we believe that these two might actually be capable of hooking up off-screen, and this romantic flatness kills your appetite to keep watching." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 35%	Vantage Point (2008)	" If you thought 24's perspective on terrorism was, well, limited, get ready to groan. The meat and potatoes of Vantage Point -- the suicide bomb explosions, the bloody fisticuffs and blaring car chases -- are indeed awesome, and that's what truly matters f" Posted Apr 15, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 9%	10,000 B.C. (2008)	" The actors speak in fluent anachronistic English. The dialogue is prehistoric but not in the way Emmerich intended." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 46%	The Ruins (2008)	" Gore hounds will definitely be pleased as The Ruins boasts some of the most sickening blood and guts this side of snuff films." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 78%	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	" after the overcooked live action Grinch and nauseating Cat In The Hat, Hollywood has finally served up a tasty adaptation of Dr. Seuss." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 35%	21 (2008)	" Too bad most of the performers can't seem to pull off the insane IQs they clearly do not have." Posted Apr 15, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 49%	Nim's Island (2008)	" here is in fact no actual villain or conflict or tension or fun, and let's face it: we all know Jack will make it back safe and sound (sorry kids, but Wendy Or doesn't have JK Rowling's narrative cahoonas)" Posted Apr 15, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 49%	30 Days of Night (2007)	" no amount of desensitization can prepare you for David Slade's chilling vampiric bloodbath. 30 Days of Night is relentlessly brutal horror with nary a comedic wisecracker in sight." Posted Oct 9, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 34%	Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)	" Period films, even sequels, are limited by budget, and Kapur does a marvellous job with the money he has." Posted Sep 11, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	Hairspray (2007)	" Unlike Eddie Murphy's exploitively unfunny attempts at fat and female, John Travolta makes his character absolutely endearing and charming by playing it relatively low-key." Posted Aug 29, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 90%	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	" Doh! What a colossal disappointment. The Simpsons Movie has its funny bits but so does the average Marge-centric episode. But this is a highly anticipated 90-minute episode for which audiences have to pay." Posted Aug 29, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 76%	Stardust (2007)	" The cast is dynamite and funny%u2014particularly the cute hero Charlie Cox, the vain witch Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro playing further against type then ever before." Posted Aug 29, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 19%	The Invasion (2007)	" The Invasion is Nicole Kidman's latest unsuccessful summer attempt to prove she's a versatile actress." Posted Aug 29, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 23%	Balls of Fury (2007)	" the insanely corny plot should appeal heavily, especially to audiences who grew up on awful late 80s, early 90s action movies starring Jean-Claude Van Damme" Posted Aug 29, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 81%	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	" the dialogue and one-liners of Die Hard 4 are cheeky and clever, and it proves Bruce Willis still has his game against younger, faster kung-fu maniacs like Maggie Q" Posted Jul 4, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Rotten 57%	Transformers (2007)	" Transformers is in a stellar class of seamless FX films populated by genre classics like Jurassic Park, Twister and Titanic" Posted Jul 4, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 90%	Knocked Up (2007)	" Like many films of late, Knocked Up is a little too long, but it's worth it in the end. Stone is so pathetic, we need extra time for Apatow to convince us that Alison shouldn't have an abortion" Posted Jun 27, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 37%	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)	" somehow Jessica Alba's acting has taken a turn for the worse, and Chris Evans has the audacity to only take his shirt off for three seconds" Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 78%	Surf's Up (2007)	" basically Riding Giants meets Happy Feet: an animated penguin flick with the goofy structure of a mockumentary" Posted Jun 27, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 69%	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	" somewhere between the locker room ass-slapping, the bland heist plot develops, as if it really matters" Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 96%	Ratatouille (2007)	" Don't be surprised if people start called Brad Bird the Spielberg of animation" Posted Jun 27, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 41%	Shrek the Third (2007)	" Justin Timberlake as the voice of the wiumpy Artie is certainly the best new addition to the Far Far Away Kingdom" Posted Jun 4, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 89%	Waitress (2007)	" we're left with a moral message that it's OK to cheat on your partner as long as they're boring, brainless or vegetative" Posted Jun 4, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 45%	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)	" Needless to say, it all looks and sounds absolutely fabulous, and the return of Geoffrey Rush is simply AAHRResting" Posted Jun 4, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 62%	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	" If you ever wondered what the Power Rangers could do with a $250 Million budget, just wait for the silly climax" Posted May 1, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 55%	Vacancy (2007)	" For a terror tale about snuff torture porn, Vacancy is actually rather subtle." Posted Apr 20, 2007
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 8%	Premonition (2007)	" I had a premonition this might be a forgettable mediocrity, but I was wrong. It's actually a laughable turd." Posted Mar 19, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 89%	Zodiac (2007)	" the performances are dang-on across the board, and even though the formal protagonist shifts around a bit, the major characters played by Gyllenhaal, Downey Jr and Ruffalo have fascinating arcs." Posted Mar 7, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 60%	300 (2007)	" 300 is an erotic spectacle for men (straight and gay apparently) and this demographic should bask in the bombastic grandeur of discourse, domination and decapitations." Posted Mar 7, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 35%	Reno 911!: Miami (2007)	" as long as you can appreciate a good fart joke, Reno 911! Miami is worth your admission" Posted Feb 28, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 26%	Ghost Rider (2007)	" Outside of maybe X-men's Jubilee, I can't think of a comic character less deserving of the big-screen treatment than Ghost Rider. But what do I know? Maybe the idea of Nic Cage in unyielding biker leather sounded good on paper." Posted Feb 16, 2007

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