ROTTEN TOMATOES: John Monaghan

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Army of Shadows
3/4	Drawing Restraint 9
2/4	Open Season
1/4	Crossover

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	One Week
4/4	Let's Get Lost
4/4	Blacksmith, The (1922)/ Balloonatic
4/4	Persepolis
4/4	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4/4	The Seventh Seal
4/4	The Rules of the Game
4/4	Army of Shadows
4/4	The Passion of Joan of Arc
4/4	Fateless
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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1/4	P2
1/4	Saw IV
1/4	The Seeker
1/4	Good Luck Chuck
1/4	Dragon Wars
1/4	The Brothers Solomon
1/4	Kickin' It Old Skool
1/4	The Condemned
1/4	Primeval
1/4	Code Name: The Cleaner
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

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3/4	"*This new Narnia* has more of everything, especially action and top-notch effects, but loses some of its soul in the process.*" Posted May 15, 2008*	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
4/4	"*In 1920's One Week, the silent comedian known as the Great Stone Face attempts to assemble the build-it-yourself home he received as a wedding present." Posted Mar 7, 2008*	One Week (1920)	n/a
4/4	"*There are moments in Let's Get Lost* when, if you squint just a little, [Chet] Baker is a ghost image of his former self, the 1950s musical equivalent of James Dean.*" Posted Mar 7, 2008*	Let's Get Lost (1988)	96%
4/4	"*As The Blacksmith, [Buster Keaton] bungles horse grooming and auto repair with slapstick finesse." Posted Mar 7, 2008*	Blacksmith, The (1922)/ Balloonatic (1923)	n/a
3/4	"The film from first-timer Francisco Vargas puts a human face on universal suffering. It is also about the power of music, as the title instrument saves (for a while anyway) three generations of peasant men in their roles as guerrilla fighters." Posted Mar 7, 2008	The Violin (2007)	94%
3/4	"The best documentaries take you places you don't normally have access to." Posted Feb 29, 2008	Billy the Kid (2007)	88%
2/4	"Tone is everything in a movie like this, and director John Poll spends the entire running time trying to find it." Posted Feb 22, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
2/4	"It's best to forget the story here and focus on those small moments that shine in any Sayles film." Posted Feb 8, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	68%
3/4	"As thorough as the movie is, it could easily devote another hour to cases like this." Posted Feb 1, 2008	The Rape of Europa (2007)	78%
4/4	"More than just the first film in recent memory to be considered a must-see, Persepolis begs for a second viewing, if only to chart the way it so delicately weaves together the different stages of Marjane's life." Posted Jan 25, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	96%
3/4	"Sorry, Sandra. Too bad, Meg. The mantle of movie cute queen has just been passed to Katherine Heigl, starring as the romantically challenged New Yorker of 27 Dresses." Posted Jan 18, 2008	27 Dresses (2008)	40%
3/4	"Demme says he entered the project expecting 'fireworks,' and he gets them time and again..." Posted Jan 11, 2008	Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)	79%
	"Another mediocre remake of a Japanese horror film in which flashes of computer-generated ghosts are meant to compensate for lousy acting and a banal storyline." Posted Jan 4, 2008	One Missed Call (2008)	0%
3/4	"The Savages not only boasts Oscar-worthy performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney as a self-absorbed brother and sister, its attention to detail makes it sweetly funny and genuine." Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Savages (2007)	91%
2/4	"The Great Debaters has value, to be sure, especially for teenage viewers. But serious moviegoers, especially those attracted by the movie's aggressive Oscar campaign, will likely find the package gorgeously wrapped but intellectually empty." Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	80%
3/4	"You can't deny the solid performances, the meticulous period detail and, most importantly, the way it refuses to talk down to young audiences." Posted Dec 25, 2007	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)	73%
3/4	"*The filmmakers go by the book in The Kite Runner, a literate, if occasionally listless adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel." Posted Dec 21, 2007*	The Kite Runner (2007)	67%
3/4	"This smart new spoof works because its makers...obviously love the genre they have so much fun sending up." Posted Dec 21, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
2/4	"*This National Treasure* sequel, like its 2004 original, is a dumb movie about smart people that uses just enough historical trivia to make you feel like you're bettered by the experience.*" Posted Dec 21, 2007*	National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)	31%
2/4	"Tone is everything in a movie like this, but writer-director Richard LaGravanese, working from a novel by Cecelia Ahern, can't decide between quirky indie dark comedy and laugh-a-minute TV sitcom." Posted Dec 21, 2007	P.S. I Love You (2007)	20%
4/4	"One of the most memorable films of the year." Posted Dec 20, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
3/4	"This is no masterpiece, but a fine-tuned little thriller packed with meticulously chosen details of character and place." Posted Dec 14, 2007	The Walker (2007)	52%
3/4	"Young viewers will enjoy the slapstick, while parents will relate to Lee's amiable frustration as the trio's surrogate dad." Posted Dec 14, 2007	Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)	25%
2/4	"All the effort that went into the spectacle of destroying Manhattan in flashbacks could have been better spent on developing the claustrophobic, creepy present." Posted Dec 13, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	69%
2/4	"Dear Santa: Please leave better scripts under her Christmas tree." Posted Dec 12, 2007	The Perfect Holiday (2007)	17%
2/4	"This must be what a French movie-of-the-week look like, deemed art here because of the subtitles." Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Page Turner (2007)	77%
3/4	"Using the opera's timeless whimsy and inventiveness, the movie replicates a performance on the stage that is so good that it almost makes you forget the participants' ABBA-like hairstyles." Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Magic Flute (1975)	92%
3/4	"The movie has elements of Gothic horror and philosophy, along with lusty, low comedy rolls." Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Magician (1958)	100%
4/4	"Its view of a seemingly godless landscape in the grip of plague is still bold and frightening." Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Seventh Seal (1957)	95%
2/4	"12:08 East of Bucharest is easier to admire than enjoy, funnier to describe than actually watch." Posted Nov 30, 2007	12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)	95%
3/4	"What could have been an epic Disney misfire is saved by the charming Adams." Posted Nov 21, 2007	Enchanted (2007)	93%
3/4	"What better way to spend 97 minutes in November than trying to sort out romantic complications in shorts and sailboats?" Posted Nov 16, 2007	Summer '04 (2006)	79%
2/4	"Hopelessly misguided." Posted Nov 16, 2007	Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)	27%
2/4	"Cult movies have been made with a lot less, but this one, harmless enough, doesn't have enough originality or personality to get it off the ground." Posted Nov 9, 2007	I'll Believe You (2007)	n/a
3/4	"Does the movie glorify Barnes and his nefarious profession? Probably, but show me a movie about the drug trade that doesn't hook us first with guts and glamour before the moralizing fall." Posted Nov 9, 2007	Mr. Untouchable (2007)	74%
1/4	"Even by the low standards of the horror subgenre playfully nicknamed "torture porn," P2 is scraping the bottom of the movie barrel." Posted Nov 9, 2007	P2 (2007)	35%
2/4	"The eggnog quickly turns sour as the movie alternates between moments both heartwarming and bizarre." Posted Nov 9, 2007	Fred Claus (2007)	22%
2/4	"The movie can also be accused of its own sugar overdose as director Menno Meyjes piles on every clich�d situation." Posted Nov 2, 2007	Martian Child (2007)	30%
3/4	"*More than a standard child prodigy profile, My Kid Could Paint That* turns into a priceless examination of modern art, celebrity and what it means to be a kid.*" Posted Nov 2, 2007*	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	93%
2/4	"*The future of Wristcutters* as a cult favorite is less assured. Rather than benefiting from repeated viewings, the movie's charm is pretty much spent after the first half hour.*" Posted Nov 2, 2007*	Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)	65%
1/4	"*The dullest Saw* in the shed.*" Posted Oct 29, 2007*	Saw IV (2007)	19%
3/4	"Plagues and Pleasures is simultaneously fun and creepy, best appreciated by those who enjoy similar profiles of Detroit's crumbling grandeur." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007)	95%
2/4	"Unfortunately, its superb performances and assured camerawork are overwhelmed by dubious psychology and a clich�d climax." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Red Road (2007)	89%
3/4	"As good as Melville's setups are, the joys of the movie keep returning to Belmondo, then and now the king of effortless cool." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Le Doulos (1962)	94%
3/4	"The most poignant, well-acted and weirdly funny movie you'll see this year." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	81%
2/4	"While the low-budget comedy is occasionally charming, it mostly fails in clumsy attempts at evoking laughs and tears." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Kalamazoo? (2006)	n/a
2/4	"Confessional moments and life lessons pop up around every corner as the movie swaps reality for old-fashioned melodrama. The movie defies logic." Posted Oct 26, 2007	Bella (2007)	47%
2/4	"*There is no I in "team," but there are three in "idiotic." And idiotic more or less describes the appeal of The Comebacks, a so-stupid-it's-funny spoof of inspirational sports dramas." Posted Oct 22, 2007*	The Comebacks (2007)	10%
2/4	"Thou shalt not cast Christian Slater as Moses, no matter how much the Hollywood party boy wants to fulfill some form of karmic community service." Posted Oct 19, 2007	The Ten Commandments (2007)	15%

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