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MIKE WARD

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography: I'm a feelance film critic for Richmond.com and inRich.com, and have been reviewing movies for them since 2001.

Publications: Richmond.com

Total Reviews: 252

Location: Richmond, VA

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Fresh 3/4	Rotten 46%	The Box (2009)	" *The dude behind Donnie Darko* and kid from Richmond's South Side has crafted the kind of movie that will have some diggin' its trippy cosmic karma, and others trashing its gimmick gone wild.**" Posted Nov 8, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 66%	Coco Before Chanel (2009)	" Earlier in the year we had Julia Childs, two weeks ago we has Amelia Earhart, and this week we have Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. Who's next? Rachel Ray and her journey to invent edible crayons? Hannah Montana's battle against Dissociative Identity Disorder?" Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 81%	Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)	" There are two ways to look at Michael Jackson's big screen B-roll dirge: Either it's a touching documentary tribute or only slightly classier than stringing up Jacko's corpse by its wig and making him perform a post-mortem marionette moonwalk." Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 17%	Amelia (2009)	" The characters look and sound more like animatronic figures at the Air & Space Museum than real-life history makers. Every sanitized, faux-jolly line of script is spoken like it's from a decades-old toothpaste commercial." Posted Oct 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 70%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" *Sure, Where the Wild Things Are* is darker than Dracula's sunset cup of Joe. And it may have a smaller potential audience than Lamaze'ing with the Stars. But I don't care.**" Posted Oct 17, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" *With Couple's Retreat,* we're hoping for a Wedding Crashers redux we can turn into a date night. But all we get is something else to bitch about.**" Posted Oct 10, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 55%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" The Invention of Lying isn't atheist propoganda, it's just a movie. And while it's clever, it's not ungodly funny. While Gervais is still working out the kinks of the filmmaking craft, his quirky comic writing and channeling of British Office" *Posted Oct 3, 2009*
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" Rarely does a movie treat its kill shots with such modern artistry, and dissect its own campy horror clich�s with thoughtfully appropriate dialogue...finally a zombie flick has a less predictable recipe than a Tuna Helper box top." Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 76%	The Informant! (2009)	" Not only does Matt Damon channel schlepiness with a real-life fat suit, a bad mustache and ties that look like there were cut from Vegas carpets, but he's also a bumbling megalomaniac and ferocious fibber." Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 77%	It Might Get Loud (2009)	" Somehow we got two rockin' documentaries about air guitar and even one about the electric car before we got a solid movie about the life of the electric guitar." Posted Sep 18, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 56%	9 (2009)	" Who the heck was this post-apocalyptic rock'em sock theater made for? Not kids, not adults, not even really stupid adults. I haven't seen something with less of an audience since Cameron Diaz was on Inside the Actor's Studio." Posted Sep 11, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 63%	Extract (2009)	" Extract feels less like a movie, and more like a collection of small biz campfire stories you've heard from buddies at networking breakfasts, lounging at the El Paso Holiday Inn Express' 10-gallon pool, and while commiserating over cold calls with" Posted Sep 4, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 51%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" You won't get wasted, but your money won't wither." Posted Aug 29, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" *Despite the trailer's first impressions, Inglourious Basterds* is much more than Brad Pitt with a funny accent and a few Hitler-stache cameos.**" Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" *You've never seen a movie like District 9,* but you're likely to now see many more...Unless the big studio heads dispatch their own men in black with magic memory erasers.**" Posted Aug 14, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 75%	Julie & Julia (2009)	" Cooking shows haven't just jumped the shark, they've pan-seared its still-beating heart and served it as a $40 mini burger with a side of couscous at a SOHO fusion joint. This backlash helps Julie & Julia, half of it, anyways" Posted Aug 7, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" Funny People is not "ha ha" funny. You won't pee your pants, spit out Mr. Pibb or bust your gut. But you'll smile, nod approvingly and occasionally chuckle, the same response your mom might give a Cathy comic." Posted Aug 1, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 87%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" *Sometimes love is a battlefield; but in (500) Days of Summer* it's a pillow fight in which the Posturepedic puffballs have more personality than the protagonists.**" Posted Jul 31, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 98%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" Let's be honest, war movies as a genre have slipped behind sappy Scientology sci-fi flicks and movies based on board games. But here comes The Hurt Locker, a modestly budgeted movie starring no one you know about a cowboy bomb diffuser made by the" Posted Jul 25, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" Someone needs to tell that man-boy wizard that sequels, like gallons of milk left on the equator, aren't supposed to get better with age. Twinkies ain't got nothing on the Hogwarts posse when longevity meets sheer satisfaction." Posted Jul 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 67%	Br�no (2009)	" Bruno has enough gay heat to toast a Pop Tart in the Pope's ass." Posted Jul 11, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" They're not really "f$ck-ups," they're just self-absorbed slow starters with smelly Birkenstocks, like many of us." Posted Jul 4, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 67%	Public Enemies (2009)	" The cat and mouse game played by the world's most prolific bank robber and the first big-time FBI agent isn't worth a slice of government cheese." Posted Jul 2, 2009
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" *I'd rather listen to Mr. Roboto* on a loop for 150 minutes than watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen again.**" Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Tyson (1995)	" Mike Tyson is the James Joyce of train-wreck celebrities. Seriously. Sure, he's tough to read just like the literary giant, but once you get comfortable and crack his stream-of-conscious flow, it's rich and compelling stuff." Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 15%	Year One (2009)	" Year One is easy to hate, especially if you loathe Jack Black's hammy shtick, think Michael Cera peaked in Arrested Development or you have a worn Bible in your bedroom... and you're not living in a Super 8. But I loved it." Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 52%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" *Sometimes it's refreshing to see a movie that is okay with just being okay. With The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, you get a C-student shoe salesman that rarely dazzles but doesn't disappoint.*" Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 73%	Rudo and Cursi (2009)	" It's still nice to see an endearing sports movie that doesn't follow the "Varsity Blues" formula, even if there is no whipped cream bikini." Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Up (2009)	" I laughed, I cried, I spooned a balloon animal." Posted May 30, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" *The problem with the Terminator* franchise is that it's beginning to feel more and more like a cold, calculating Machine. Somewhere, it lost its humanity and became Dick Cheney's daydream.**" Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 36%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" Right now in Florida, there is a slick-haired tele-evangelist claiming to be both the second coming of Christ and the Antichrist. He has his own church, a "666" tattoo and hundreds of thousands of adoring believers tuning in worldwide. In other words, the" Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" Star Trek comes out with its high beams on, its pacing hyper, and its phasers set to "stoked." And it never hits the brakes." Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" I'd rather watch Hugh Jackman prance across the Oscar stage singing show tunes and making Perez Hilton's loins tingle than watch him wrestle with comic book villains." Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 19%	Obsessed (2009)	" I hope Jay-Z doesn't add me to his hit list for saying this, right below Chris Brown, but his wife can't act worth a damn when she doesn't get to sing." Posted Apr 27, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 84%	State of Play (2009)	" Writing about a movie that acknowledges the demise of traditional media for an online magazine could be its own ironic verse in an Alanis Morissette song. Just like rain on your wedding day." Posted Apr 20, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 50%	Observe and Report (2009)	" If a mall security flunkie is ever trading mace with bullets during a "Sbarro's hostage incident," he better hope the punk with the gun saw Observe and Report instead of Paul Blart: Mall Cop." Posted Apr 13, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 89%	Adventureland (2009)	" Adventureland is a surprisingly sweet and irreverent tale of summer jobs and summer love. It reminds you how the hearts of teens and young 20-somethings flutter up and down just like the rusty deathtrap roller coasters they're looking after." Posted Apr 3, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" In what other movie do you get shout-outs to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Beverly Hills Cop" in the same frame. "Monsters vs. Aliens" might be a better time capsule of kitsch than an actual movie." Posted Apr 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	I Love You, Man (2009)	" Man crushes have been around since Jesus and Peter, Tom Hanks and the other dude from "Bosom Buddies," and Tom Hanks and that mute volleyball Wilson from "Castaway." But they've never been hotter then here" Posted Mar 20, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" You don't need 12-sided dice and a fictitious Canadian girlfriend to "get it," but it certainly helps." Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 90%	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	" **Madeline Goes to Prison tops Madea Goes to Jail**" Posted Feb 27, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 58%	The International (2009)	" Considering the nation's top banking CEOs were just paraded across the small screen in a C-SPAN perp walk, they hardly look like invincible super villains. Evil? Maybe. Powerful. Not really." Posted Feb 13, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" It woulda been less insulting for Martin to dig up Peter Sellars' corpse, build a bone xylophone out of the skeletal remains, and bang out Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther" theme during the Super Bowl halftime show. Opie & Anthony were right..." Posted Feb 5, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" The stage play-turned-big screen Oscar contender zips along from scene to scene with rare pep until building to a furious climax. And remember, this isn't a movie about alien invasions or pirate ghosts. It's a movie about two guys talking." Posted Jan 30, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" One wonders if the star's limping, heavy breathing and dulled senses are all a show, or an upshot of a tortured boxing stint that transformed his face from cover boy-worthy to catcher's mitt quality." Posted Jan 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 70%	Last Chance Harvey (2008)	" Last Chance Harvey is a movie for which the happy ending is the wrong ending. Let's say our two middle-aged lovers make a go of it, you can already see them bickering over the price of produce and which early bird dinner to split." Posted Jan 17, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 79%	Gran Torino (2008)	" Eastwood is funny this time around. Sure, the crumedgeon isn't taking bouncy balls to the crotch like some slapstick hack or dressing up as a dozen fat relatives at the dinner table like Eddie Murphy, but he made me laugh popping off ethnic barbs." Posted Jan 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 71%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is big screen Botox for your soul." Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Milk (2008)	" Yes, there is enough gay heat in the movie to pasteurize Richard Simmons' swimming pool %u2013 and allegedly the longest man-on-man kiss of any mainstream movie. I credit Director Gus Van Sant for keeping it real and authentic and not diluting the tone to" Posted Dec 12, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 67%	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	" You'll walk out of Charlie Kaufman's new movie feeling like a drunk bodybuilder just went bumper bowling with your brain." Posted Dec 5, 2008

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