ROTTEN TOMATOES: A.O. Scott

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

(This Critic's Cinematic Taste as Determined by Rotten Tomatoes)

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Waltz with Bashir
4.5/5	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3.5/4	Zack and Miri Make a Porno
4/5	Control
3.5/5	The Darjeeling Limited
3/5	The Kingdom
2.5/5	We Own The Night
2/5	The Heartbreak Kid
1.5/5	Fool's Gold
1/5	Yes Man
.5/5	The Love Guru

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Waltz with Bashir
5/5	Knocked Up
5/5	The Lives of Others
5/5	Pan's Labyrinth
5/5	Letters From Iwo Jima
5/5	Volver
5/5	Overlord
5/5	Pandora's Box
5/5	Spirit of the Beehive
5/5	Syriana
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Sorority Boys
0/5	State Property
.5/5	The Love Guru
0.5/5	Dragonfly
0.5/5	Super Troopers
0.5/5	Snow Dogs
0.5/5	Rocky Road
0.5/5	China: The Panda Adventure
0.5/5	Bully
0.5/5	The Demon Within
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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2/5	Edward Zwick�s stiff, musclebound new movie tells the true story of the Bielski partisans, who fought the Nazis and rescued hundreds of Jews through the darkest years of war and genocide. Posted Dec 30, 2008	Defiance (2008)	45%
1.5/5	" *What is most striking about The Spirit* is how little pleasure it affords, in spite of its efforts to by sly, sexy, heartfelt and clever all at once.*" Posted Dec 29, 2008*	The Spirit (2008)	14%
5/5	*The animated documentary Waltz With Bashir* is a memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film.** Posted Dec 29, 2008	Waltz with Bashir (2008)	95%
4.5/5	" The Curious Case of Benjamin Button sighs with longing and simmers with intrigue while investigating the philosophical conundrums and emotional paradoxes of its protagonist�s condition." Posted Dec 25, 2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	72%
4.5/5	" *The richness of The Secret of the Grain* lies in the close, tireless, enthusiastic attention it pays to the most mundane daily tasks.*" Posted Dec 24, 2008*	The Secret of the Grain (2008)	93%
2/5	" I would tell you to go out and see it for yourself, but you might take that as a recommendation rather than a plea for corroboration. Did I really see what I thought I saw?" Posted Dec 19, 2008	Seven Pounds (2008)	29%
1/5	" Not far from that of Liar Liar, one of Mr. Carrey's biggest hits of the mid-'90s...That film was a philosophical tour de force compared with this one." Posted Dec 19, 2008	Yes Man (2008)	43%
4/5	" The Wrestler shows that, in both movies and wrestling, the line between reality and play-acting may be less clear than we assume." Posted Dec 17, 2008	The Wrestler (2008)	98%
2/5	" After Wall-E and I Am Legend and the dozens of apocalypse flicks since the last Day the Earth Stood Still we can surely do better. Even Klaatu looks bored and distracted, much as he did back when we knew him as Neo." Posted Dec 12, 2008	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)	19%
3.5/5	" Mr. Soderbergh once again offers a master class in filmmaking. As history, though, Che is finally not epic but romance. It takes great care to be true to the factual record, but it is, nonetheless, a fairy tale." Posted Dec 12, 2008	Che (2008)	56%
4.5/5	" Wendy and Lucy takes place mainly outdoors and registers the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest with unostentatious affection." Posted Dec 9, 2008	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	84%
1.5/5	" Does it have to be so witless, so stupid, so openly contemptuous of the very audience it’s supposed to be pandering to?" Posted Dec 5, 2008	Punisher: War Zone (2008)	23%
4/5	" Cadillac Records is a rollicking and insightful celebration of Chicago blues in its hectic golden age." Posted Dec 4, 2008	Cadillac Records (2008)	66%
4/5	" Dust is an eccentric and profoundly informative documentary." Posted Dec 3, 2008	Dust (2008)	75%
3/5	" Four Christmases is refreshingly tart and lean, forgoing the usual schmaltz and syrup of the season." Posted Nov 26, 2008	Four Christmases (2008)	25%
4.5/5	" Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. And Milk is a marvel." Posted Nov 26, 2008	Milk (2008)	93%
3.5/5	" The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) is quiet, contemplative and impressionistic, which makes the story it has to tell all the more powerful." Posted Nov 21, 2008	The Betrayal (2008)	90%
3.5/5	" If Bolt does not quite rise to the level of bona fide Pixar masterpieces like Wall-E, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille, it does manage to be frisky, funny and inventive enough to engage the attention of grown-ups as well as children." Posted Nov 21, 2008	Bolt (2008)	85%
4.5/5	" After two and a half hours in the thrilling, exhausting company of the characters in A Christmas Tale, the intimacy we feel with them is wired with surprise." Posted Nov 14, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	90%
2.5/5	" Quantum of Solace prompts the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?" Posted Nov 14, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	65%
2/5	" This may well be the most memorable Jean-Claude Van Damme movie ever, but I'm afraid that's not saying much." Posted Nov 7, 2008	JCVD (2008)	87%
3/5	Soul Men is a raucous, rambling comedy, offering some laughs, some groans and a feast for fans of the musical idioms it mocks and celebrates. Posted Nov 6, 2008	Soul Men (2008)	44%
2.5/5	The phrase 'divorced couple' sounds like an oxymoron, but there's really no other way to describe the Dutch ex-spouses whose table talk dominates Stages. Posted Nov 5, 2008	Stages (2008)	50%
3.5/5	One Day You'll Understand contains no great revelations or surprises, but rather is suffused with a quiet glow of sympathy and enlightenment. Posted Oct 31, 2008	One Day You'll Understand (2008)	65%
3.5/5	With Splinter, the director Toby Wilkins honors the conventions of the horror genre with skill and enough wit to keep the scares sharp. Posted Oct 31, 2008	Splinter (2008)	72%
3.5/4	Zack and Miri Make a Porno, in spite of its lewdness, follows a gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula that would not be out of place on the Disney Channel. Posted Oct 31, 2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	65%
4/5	" A new documentary offers a salutary and touching reminder that the race, like nearly everything else great about New York City, was the creation of a stubborn visionary." Posted Oct 29, 2008	Run for Your Life (2008)	n/a
2.5/5	" When it works best, Changeling is a feverish and bluntly effective parable of wronged innocence." Posted Oct 24, 2008	Changeling (2008)	59%
4/5	" Moments of obviousness are offset by a feeling of gritty lyricism in Wayne Wang's "Princess of Nebraska," a beautifully shot but awkwardly acted movie that is available only online." Posted Oct 24, 2008	The Princess of Nebraska (2008)	n/a
	" Moments of obviousness are offset by a feeling of gritty lyricism in Wayne Wang's “Princess of Nebraska,” a beautifully shot but awkwardly acted movie that is available only online." Posted Oct 24, 2008	The Princess of Nebraska (2008)	n/a
2/5	" Pride and Glory, directed by Gavin O�Connor, plods across familiar ground. It�s yet another movie about the fraternal disorder of the police." Posted Oct 24, 2008	Pride and Glory (2008)	34%
4/5	In the drama I've Loved You So Long, Kristin Scott Thomas's furious honesty rules out easy, unearned redemption. Posted Oct 24, 2008	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	90%
2/5	" The title of Barry Levinson's new movie, What Just Happened, is not phrased as a question, but if it were it would demand another question in response: 'Who cares?'" Posted Oct 17, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	54%
2/5	" The Secret Life of Bees insists so strenuously on its themes of redemption, tolerance, love and healing that it winds up defeating itself." Posted Oct 17, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	56%
2/5	Max Payne is content to be an efficient vehicle for the delivery of a familiar range of sensations, some of which almost rise to the level of feelings. Posted Oct 17, 2008	Max Payne (2008)	18%
3/5	Packages a real-life story of athletic triumph and social progress into an accessible, rousing melodrama that is no less potent for being almost entirely predictable. Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Express (2008)	62%
2/5	Mr. Scott's professionalism is, as ever, present in every frame and scene, but this time it seems singularly untethered from anything like zeal, conviction or even curiosity. Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
4/5	" As thin as an iPod Nano, as full of adolescent self-display as a Facebook page, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist strives to capture what it's like to be young right now." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
2/5	" Eagle Eye churns and flails and piles on pointless and improbable complications." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
4/5	Has an undeniable and authentic vitality, an exuberance of spirit, that feels welcome and rare. Posted Oct 3, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	87%
3.5/5	Blindness is not a great film. But it is, nonetheless, full of examples of what good filmmaking looks like. Posted Oct 3, 2008	Blindness (2008)	40%
3/5	" Setting the record straight after so many years and so many movies is not necessarily a simple undertaking, and this film sometimes stumbles under its heavy, self-imposed burden of historical significance." Posted Sep 26, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	33%
3.5/5	Appaloosa shows a square jaw and a steely gaze, but also a smile and a wink. Posted Sep 19, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
2/5	*Considered purely as a formal exercise, Lakeview Terrace* is a passable piece of hackwork, with some adequately suspenseful passages.** Posted Sep 19, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	49%
1.5/5	" It hurts especially to watch Ms. Bening and Candice Bergen (who plays Mary's mother) lend their wit and dignity to a project that has so little of its own." Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	13%
4/5	Tells a fascinating and complicated story of regional identity. Posted Sep 12, 2008	Moving Midway (2008)	95%
4.5/5	*What is most impressive about A Secret* is the way Mr. Miller artfully and gently gestures toward such enormous themes without spelling them out.** Posted Sep 8, 2008	A Secret (2008)	84%
4/5	" *Claude Miller's haunting new movie is called A Secret. But the gist of this story of repression and family tragedy is that secrets are rarely singular." Posted Sep 5, 2008*	Un Secret (2008)	70%
3.5/5	Mister Foe is infused with enough macabre and comical touches to prevent it from sliding into clinical sensationalism. Posted Sep 5, 2008	Mister Foe (2008)	72%
1.5/5	" *The only explicable thing about Babylon A.D.* is that it was not screened in advance for critics.*" Posted Sep 2, 2008*	Babylon A.D. (2008)	7%

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