ROTTEN TOMATOES: Lisa Schwarzbaum

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Knocked Up
A-	Poison Friends
B+	28 Weeks Later
B	Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
B-	Shrek the Third
C+	Provoked
C	Introducing The Dwights
C-	Even Money
D+	Resurrecting the Champ
D	Broken
F	88 Minutes

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Man on Wire
A	My Winnipeg
A	Babe
A	Up The Yangtze
A	Persepolis
A	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A	Beaufort
A	There Will Be Blood
A	The Savages
A	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	88 Minutes
F	Bigger Than the Sky
F	Surviving Christmas
F	My Boss's Daughter
F	Boat Trip
F	Saving Silverman
D-	Firewall
D-	Pretty Persuasion
D-	Dear Frankie
D-	Eulogy
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

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A-	"The players are timelessly familiar in American Teen. But filmmaker Nanette Burstein tells their stories with a distinctly 21st-century pop and audacity that makes this latest version of Fast Times at My So-Called Happy Days High a timely pleasure." Posted Jul 24, 2008	American Teen (2008)	67%
A	"[A] breathtaking documentary about that mad-genius coup achieved over three decades ago." Posted Jul 24, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
A-	"The sumptuous costumes and florid dialogue in The Last Mistress represent early-19th-century French custom at its most curlicued, but the power of one woman's molten sexuality is timeless in Catherine Breillat's rich drama." Posted Jul 3, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
B+	"A gently thoughtful, audience-appropriate entertainment that assembles swell actors to play colorful characters who don't shy away from depicting serious hard times." Posted Jul 3, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	80%
C+	"Hancock the jaunty, jokey riff on the screwed-up inner emotional life of a traditionally ironclad superhero becomes Hancock the icky lesson in the importance of personal responsibility, loyalty, and continued family togetherness." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
B	"Wanted is kind of unintelligible and idiotic. Also kind of nasty and brutish. And also undeniably kind of fun." Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
B+	"Written and directed with efficiency, cheer, and a refreshing lack of look-how-meta-clever-we-are egotism, the movie references just enough of the original touchstones and punchlines to please those who lived it the first time." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
B+	"The work is a reflective hodgepodge of unnervingly 'cute' animation, reenactments, archival footage, and Bachardy's own reminiscences, spoken in the singular British accent he invented just as he invented his own unorthodox life." Posted Jun 13, 2008	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)	96%
A	"An entrancing riffle through the olde curiosity shoppe of the filmmaker's psyche." Posted Jun 13, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	97%
C	"The movie demonstrates a smart movie geek's obsession with the rhythms and gory details of horror storytelling, undermined by a pompous insistence on spiritual lessons of the tritest kind." Posted Jun 11, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
B+	"*Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov contrasts images of sweeping landscape and propulsive battle with potent scenes of emotional intimacy in Mongol, his quite grand, quite exotic, David Lean-style epic." Posted Jun 6, 2008*	Mongol (2008)	88%
A-	"An exit strategy in Iraq? This self-aware study shows how hard it'll be." Posted Jun 6, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
C+	"The Promotion edges toward some pretty bleak stuff. Then it steps back and laughs, like an office slacker." Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
C+	"*Forget Monty Python, You Don't Mess With the Zohan* is a circus that never really flies.*" Posted Jun 4, 2008*	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
B	"[A] baroquely lurid and undeniably fascinating exercise in pulp with a political angle." Posted May 30, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	59%
B-	"At its best, it's a satisfying shuffle of the deck of famous Spielbergian moments that have gone before." Posted May 18, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
A	"Australian director Chris Noonan and producer George Miller show what real talent and imagination can do, even without big-name humans as costars." Posted May 13, 2008	Babe (1995)	98%
B	"*As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, The Believer, this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm." Posted May 7, 2008*	Noise (2008)	52%
A	"Filmmaker Yung Chang finds a sad and beautiful way to glimpse the big picture of dislocation through an exquisitely poised small study." Posted May 7, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2008)	95%
C	"Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, and even they might feel an urge to squirm between the videogame-style, whizbang, jellybean-colored, CG-jiggered car races that are the adrenalized heart of this entertainment with no soul." Posted May 7, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
B	"An irresistibly satisfying cultural artifact." Posted May 5, 2008	The Big Chill (1983)	69%
B+	"A sly catalog of deceits and a gentle commentary on slippery creativity and desire." Posted Apr 30, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
B+	"That thing Mamet does he does again with feverish effing commitment in Redbelt, his effing Rocky." Posted Apr 30, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
C+	"*The team who made The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* display plenty of whirligig energy, if not much control or lightness of touch.*" Posted Apr 30, 2008*	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
D	"Everything is wrong pretty much from the start of this misbegotten adventure in Adrian Lyne territory, including but not limited to the strained mind games that drive the plot, and the tentative New York accents on the actors from Australia and Scotland." Posted Apr 30, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
B	"Although the big picture itself gets mushy, the small moments, especially involving Fey, are sharp." Posted Apr 30, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	61%
D+	"A fictional drama that uses a Columbine-like high school massacre as a plot device had better have solid justification for engaging our grief and horror." Posted Apr 24, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
F	"It takes eight minutes, tops, to know that even by the conventionally lax standards of watch-and-toss serial-killer movies, 88 Minutes is a stinker, the more so for the thespian excesses of the accomplished cast." Posted Apr 17, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
B+	"[Jason] Segel embraces the destiny of male anatomy in yet another clever creation from the Judd Apatow Alumni Association; this one, too, speaks from the male heart (and other parts) in a language accessible to females." Posted Apr 17, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
A-	"[Director] Walker has found a delicate, thoughtful, respectful, witty way to convey both the dignity of the individual men and women singing, as well as the ineffable power of determining to live fully until there's no breath left." Posted Apr 16, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	88%
B+	"This audaciously issues-loaded indie drama works, improbably and entirely, on account of the marvelous, often familiar-looking, rarely starring character actor Richard Jenkins and his perfect performance as a stodgy, widowed economics professor." Posted Apr 9, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
B+	"*Marvelously inventive, often-ironic Israeli storyteller Etgar Keret and his life- and workmate, Shira Geffen, spin in Jellyfish* a dreamy, arty, alluringly cockeyed tale.*" Posted Apr 2, 2008*	Jellyfish (2008)	86%
A-	"*The great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien expands on the bright, drifty loveliness of Albert Lamorisse's 1956 classic, The Red Balloon, in Flight of the Red Balloon." Posted Apr 2, 2008*	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	78%
C	"Reproducing a period-piece screwball comedy for a modern audience turns out to be one playful, self-deprecating wink too many for [Clooney]." Posted Apr 2, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
B-	"The importance of faith, church, kin, staying off drugs, sharing food, repenting from sin, forgiving sinners, appreciating a good black man, rejecting a bad one, and honoring black matriarchy is enumerated with typical, reassuring Perry broadness." Posted Mar 26, 2008	Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)	31%
A-	"Documentarian Morgan Neville takes an appropriately lively, left-field approach to The Cool School's eye-opening history of the Beat-era Left Coast art scene -- a lesser-known chapter in the story of American modern art." Posted Mar 26, 2008	Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)	95%
C	"It's left to Caine to wink and nod at his own contribution to real caper classics of the 1960s and '70s, produced with more emphasis on fun and less on instructive fact-finding." Posted Mar 26, 2008	Flawless (2007)	59%
B-	"*Strewn story parts pile up in Stop-Loss, a painfully polite Iraq war drama pitched at the MTV generation." Posted Mar 26, 2008*	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
B+	"Boy loves girl and sings about it, boy loses girl to tragedy and sings about it, then boy considers the possibility of new love with a new boy and sings about it -- and the whole thing works, in a delirious French way." Posted Mar 19, 2008	Love Songs (2008)	67%
D	"It's hardly worth going on at much length about the movie, a disordered, dispirited shuffling of flailing-to-be-funny and trying-to-be-empathetic scenes." Posted Mar 19, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
B-	"The steaming platters of fried catfish, macaroni and cheese, sweet corn bread, and black-eyed peas that appear early and often in writer-director George Tillman Jr.'s sentimental family drama should be listed in the credits as costars." Posted Mar 17, 2008	Soul Food (1997)	80%
B-	"With the secret 1985 airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees into Israel as a historical starting point, writer-director Radu Mihaileanu turns one fictional boy's story into a loaded, didactic drama about survival, adaptation, and identity." Posted Mar 12, 2008	Live and Become (2008)	83%
A-	"*It's a thin line between 20th-century Nazism and 21st-century corporate culture in Heartbeat Detector, Nicolas Klotz's rewardingly chilly psychological thriller." Posted Mar 12, 2008*	Heartbeat Detector (2008)	76%
A-	"*If I ran the circus, the gang that made the sturdy, witty, inventively animated Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!* would get first dibs on any future movie productions of the Theodor Seuss Geisel canon.*" Posted Mar 12, 2008*	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
D	"Neither grand enough to be impressive nor antic enough to be charming, the movie settles for bland and frantic, climaxing in a showdown among decadent pyramid builders." Posted Mar 12, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
B+	"Lucy Walker's observant film Blindsight is about profound East-West differences in the importance of journey versus destination and comradeship versus competition." Posted Mar 6, 2008	Blindsight (2008)	97%
C-	"Judging from this low-scoring sports comedy about the mystique of men with balls, Will Ferrell needs to call a time-out from belly baring to refocus his fan-favorite game of playing clueless male doofuses." Posted Mar 6, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
B	"Married Life is much more about the enduring relationship between husband and wife than it is about the excitement between husband and girlfriend." Posted Mar 6, 2008	Married Life (2008)	57%
B+	"It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit." Posted Mar 5, 2008	Independence Day (1996)	62%
B	"*Add The Unforeseen* to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that show how humans are screwing up the planet.*" Posted Feb 28, 2008*	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%

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