ROTTEN TOMATOES: Scott Von Doviak

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SCOTT VON DOVIAK

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography: I am a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. My book <i>Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema</i> was published in December 2004 by McFarland Press.

Favorites: Taxi Driver, Sunset Blvd., M*A*S*H, Brazil, Dr. Strangelove, Manhattan, Slacker, Chinatown, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Blue Velvet, Jaws, Apocalypse Now, The Wizard of Oz

Publications: culturevulture.net, Film Threat, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Total Reviews: 369
Total QuickRatings: 3

Location: Austin, TX

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Fresh	Rotten 58%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" *At its best, Goats* maintains a giddy Dr. Strangelove-via-the-Coen-Brothers vibe.*" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram* Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" More concerned with stretching nail-biting suspense to the breaking point than finding new ways of making heads explode." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 30, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Antichrist (2009)	" On a narrative level, it's gobbledygook, as if von Trier has dredged up the details of a nightmare and filmed them in an attempt to get at some primal truths." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 26, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 71%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" Aimlessly trudging through woods or desert, sniping and clawing at each other, Carol and his fellow wild things come to resemble the H.R. Pufnstuf crew on downers." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 16, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" The whole production just comes off as a paid vacation at Club Med for Vaughn and friends." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Zombieland (2009)	" It's hard not to be entertained (assuming your definition of entertainment includes exploding skulls and spattered intestines)." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" *Closer to a Coen Brothers farce than A Civil Action* or North Country.*" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram* Posted Sep 18, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 56%	9 (2009)	" There's no denying that Acker has a knack for bleak landscapes and an inventive salvage-yard approach to character design, but his narrative skills are less developed." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Sep 11, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 63%	Extract (2009)	" A "sympathy for the boss" comedy could conceivably work, but Judge has neglected to supply the laughs this time around." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Sep 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" For anyone who has been hoping to see Tarantino back at the top of his game, the must-see movie of the summer has finally arrived." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 58%	A Perfect Getaway (2009)	" Doesn't want to be anything more than a ninety-minute thrill ride, and unlike most of the bloated blockbusters of late, it succeeds on its own terms." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Aug 7, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" Funny People isn't exactly a chore to sit through, but it's awfully slack and self-indulgent." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Jul 31, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Br�no (2009)	" a hit-and-miss brand of humor, as likely to leave you squirming from embarrassment as howling with laughter." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Jul 10, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 67%	Public Enemies (2009)	" Even the bank jobs and prison breaks feel perfunctory and enervated." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Jul 3, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 52%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" I can think of worse ways to while away a hot, sticky summer afternoon than ducking into the air-conditioned comfort of the multiplex for a couple of hours worth of jacked-up, seat-rattling, subway-heisting action." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Jun 11, 2009
Rotten	N/A	After Last Season (2009)	" "Intensely boring, thoroughly disorienting and so technically incompetent it achieves several deeply unnerving effects entirely by accident."" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Jun 7, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" A soulless special effects flick crossed with a tired gross-out comedy." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" Entertaining enough in its squishy-squirmy way, and the payoff delivers a little jolt of that old time Raimi magic." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted May 27, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" As unlikely as it once seemed, it looks like the ol' Enterprise has a few more light-years left in it after all." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted May 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Adventureland (2009)	" *The plot mechanics are a drag because Adventureland* is at its best when it's in laid-back, hanging out mode.*" — culturevulture.net* Posted Apr 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" Monsters vs. Aliens tries very hard to entertain every demographic in the audience, although it's at its most enjoyable when it's not trying quite so hard." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Mar 26, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" The approach is depressingly literal, and none of the scenes build on what has come before -- they're just meticulously reconstructed Scenes From Watchmen." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Coraline (2009)	" *For a movie that rarely leaves the house, Coraline* takes a number of inspired detours.*" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram* Posted Feb 5, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 43%	Yes Man (2008)	" No comedy classic, but it packs enough laughs into 104 minutes to justify the price of admission (or at least a matinee ticket)" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Dec 18, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 77%	Doubt (2008)	" Award-worthy performances aren't enough to keep Doubt from falling flat in the end." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Dec 11, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Four Christmases (2008)	" To say that Vaughn is phoning it in these days would be an insult to telecommuters everywhere." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Nov 26, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 85%	JCVD (2008)	" JCVD has points of interest, but it may leave you feeling like you've just slowed down to look at a car wreck." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Nov 21, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	" *The most ambitious, challenging, frustrating and thrilling American movie since I'm Not There* - maybe since Mulholland Drive.*" — culturevulture.net* Posted Oct 24, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 34%	Pride and Glory (2008)	" There's nothing wrong with a gritty cop drama, so long as it has something to offer besides grit." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 24, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 18%	Max Payne (2008)	" It boasts a stylish surface, but there's nothing new beneath it." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 17, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 60%	W. (2008)	" Since we're dealing with Oliver Stone, a point worth making once is worth making a hundred times, in 100-point boldface type, until not even the dimmest bulb in the audience can possibly miss it." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 16, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	" There's a sweet, funny movie lurking underneath the too-cool-for-you surface." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 3, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Appaloosa (2008)	" For its first hour or so, Appaloosa is a crisply paced pleasure, mostly thanks to the interplay between Harris and Mortensen." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 3, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Ghost Town (2008)	" Gervais may be alone in remembering that this kind of movie is actually supposed to be funny." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Sep 19, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 0%	Surfer, Dude (2008)	" There's something about the mystical-spiritual aura surrounding surfing that tends to turn most movies on the subject to hippie-dippie mush." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Sep 11, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 61%	Traitor (2008)	" *There's a terrorist around every corner in Traitor, to the point where you start wondering if "Steve Martin" is a pen name for Dick Cheney." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram* Posted Aug 27, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 19%	The Clone Wars (2008)	" *Really, isn't this where the Star Wars* movies were headed all along - a feature-length toy advertisement?*" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram* Posted Aug 15, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	" How seriously the filmmakers take the miracle of the stucco wall is up for debate, but the movie's ultimate revelations feel unearned." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Aug 15, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 14%	The Love Guru (2008)	" The Love Guru isn't really about spiritual well-being or hockey; it's about Myers' mistaken belief that the comedic possibilities of male genitalia are endless." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Jun 20, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 66%	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	" The whole thing plays like it's been focus-grouped to death, stripped of any real personality of its own." — culturevulture.net Posted Jun 13, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 36%	You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)	" Unless you find words like 'baba ghannouj' inherently hilarious, the nearly two-hour running time proves to be a punishing length." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Jun 6, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 44%	The Strangers (2008)	" A must-see for horror fans, but the fewer questions you ask, the more effective it will be." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted May 29, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 49%	Smart People (2008)	" *The performances go a long way toward making Smart People* an enjoyable, if familiar, outing.*" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram* Posted Apr 11, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 59%	Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)	" Vince Vaughn is coming to town with the Four Indistinguishable Frat Dudes of Comedy." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Feb 8, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 52%	Bee Movie (2007)	" Kids should get a kick out of it, but anyone craving Seinfeld's usual brand of funny business will have to stick to TV reruns." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Nov 2, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 49%	30 Days of Night (2007)	" *The humans are a bore, but the vampires light up this Night." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram* Posted Oct 19, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 74%	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)	" The story drifts aimlessly toward its foregone conclusion, hitting a few interesting notes along the way but never gelling into a coherent narrative." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 5, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 30%	The Heartbreak Kid (2007)	" Supplies the laughs, but the heart is missing." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Oct 5, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Balls of Fury (2007)	" Just another one-joke sketch that goes on forever." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Aug 29, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 51%	Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)	" The time has come for Mr. Bean's retirement." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted Aug 24, 2007

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