ROTTEN TOMATOES: David Edelstein

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	The Exiles
	Hellboy II: The Golden Army
	The Wackness
	Journey to the Center of the Earth
	Full Battle Rattle
	WALL-E
	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
	Wanted
	Get Smart
	Expired
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	Mamma Mia!
	The Dark Knight
	A Thousand Acres
	The Happening
	The Incredible Hulk
	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
	Speed Racer
	Mister Lonely
	88 Minutes
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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	"Streep has a sweet voice and knows how to use it, but it�s sad to watch a perfectionist remove part of her brain and try to convince us she�s having a jolly time." -- New York Magazine Posted Jul 14, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	53%
	"*You can only brood on the near half-century since The Exiles* was shot -- and be grateful that someone went to that place and captured it all.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Jul 14, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	93%
	"The Dark Knight is noisy, jumbled, and sadistic." -- New York Magazine Posted Jul 14, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
	"Has modest charms -- enough to overcome my CG-ennui for at least a few scenes." -- New York Magazine Posted Jul 7, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
	"*The fun is watching Thirlby -- second banana in Juno* -- do a tantalizing sex-bomb number, and Kingsley get to flout his knighthood by sticking his tongue down the throat of Mary-Kate Olsen.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Jul 7, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	66%
	"It would be barely passable under normal circumstances, but in 3-D it�s a circus of excellent FX." -- New York Magazine Posted Jul 7, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
	"The film is freaky, amusing, and sickening in equal measures -- part fly-on-the-wall v�rit�, part multiple-perspective Altmanesque tragicomedy." -- New York Magazine Posted Jul 7, 2008	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	78%
	"From the first frame, a silhouetted barn and windmill at dawn, the images feel prefab, and the all-purpose wistful tinkly piano and sighing strings pin them even more boringly down." -- Slate Posted Jul 3, 2008	A Thousand Acres (1997)	24%
	"The new Pixar picture Wall-E is one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world -- assuming, like the title character, you�re still around when all the humans have taken off and have access to an old video player." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 30, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
	"A tender, even-tempered elegy to a writer who at his peak could ingest staggering (literally) amounts of drugs and alcohol and transform, like Popeye after a can of spinach, into a superhuman version of himself." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 23, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	84%
	"Wanted has the kind of irresistible summer-movie allure that makes studio executives drool in anticipation. Even its title must swim before their eyes and transform into 'Want-to-See'." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 23, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
	"Get Smart is likable and very funny -- at least a two-to-one ratio of excellent gags to clunkers -- but it�s not, for better or worse, Get Smart." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
	"*All that�s missing is the head alien of Plan 9 From Outer Space* dropping by to lecture the populace for disrespecting nature: 'Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!'*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
	"Morton is one of those tingly actresses whose skin barely covers her soul, and to watch her search for tender mercies in a crazy-hostile world is a gift. The film is appallingly good." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2008	Expired (2008)	60%
	"*The chief fault of The Incredible Hulk* is that it aims to be the diametric opposite of Lee�s, and it jettisons what actually worked.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
	"Primed as we are by a culture rich in both homophobia and dirty old men, we can be forgiven for anticipating a sordid cautionary tale. It�s a shock -- a happy shock -- when Chris & Don recounts a love that approaches the transcendental." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 9, 2008	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)	95%
	"My Winnipeg is overloaded and digressive -- it comes with the territory -- but it�s also grounded in a place, Maddin�s Manitoban hometown, and it�s painfully engrossing." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 9, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	96%
	"*The first half of Quid Pro Quo* is among the most jaw-dropping things I�ve ever seen: Who knew there was a closeted subculture of people pretending to be paraplegics?*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Jun 9, 2008	Quid Pro Quo (2008)	64%
	"Midway through, an eerier theme creeps in, all the more powerful for Herzog�s lack of insistence. By the 'end of the world' he means the end of the world." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 9, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	94%
	"Director Dennis Dugan knows his way around shin-whacking slapstick, and Sandler is mesmerizing." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 9, 2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	34%
	"[Argento's] odyssey has a little Harry Potter, a little Da Vinci Code, and enough splatter to make the late Lucio Fulci dash his brains against the inside of his coffin for the chance to come back and top it." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	51%
	"Operation Filmmaker doesn�t quite shake out as a microcosm of the American-Iraq relationship, although [director] Davenport cheekily toys with the conceit. But the movie is endlessly resonant." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	96%
	"Martin Hynes�s first film, The Go-Getter, is an especially wonderful addition to the [road movie] genre, with the right -- flickering -- mixture of loneliness and enchantment, and with jokes that come at you from just around the bend." -- New York Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008	The Go-Getter (2008)	40%
	"*In its frigid way, Savage Grace* is potent: It makes incest a state of mind.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted May 27, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	42%
	"The action is the movie�s raison d��tre, of course, but the setups are wittier than the payoffs." -- New York Magazine Posted May 27, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
	"Sex and the City: The Motion Picture (not the actual title) is a joyful wallow. And it�s more: In this summer of do-overs (The Incredible Hulk, a new Batman versus a new Joker), it�s what the series finale should have been." -- New York Magazine Posted May 27, 2008	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
	"At every turn, the filmmakers go for clutter and tumult where simplicity would do -- and Adamson, to put it kindly, isn�t the fleetest of action directors." -- New York Magazine Posted May 19, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
	"*In Sangre de mi Sangre, Christopher Zalla serves up an old-fashioned, sentimental weeper with a sucker punch of urban-immigrant horror." -- New York Magazine* Posted May 12, 2008	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	83%
	"An exhilarating weave of childhood remembrance, projection, literary digression, and impish commentary." -- New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2008	Reprise (2008)	89%
	"Rahul Bose has a winning presence -- eager with a touch of wariness or wary with a touch of eagerness, and never entirely at home. He keeps the movie from seeming too comfy -- a good thing." -- New York Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	41%
	"The movie has a mixture of edginess and melancholy that�s beautifully sustained until the climax, when the tang of realism becomes the cudgel of melodrama." -- New York Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	Turn the River (2008)	75%
	"It�s a hell of a picture." -- New York Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2008)	63%
	"It�s an eyesore, a shambles, with incoherent action and ear-buckling dialogue." -- New York Magazine Posted May 5, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
	"The film is pretty ramshackle, full of obvious group improvisations that fail to spark and an overdose of bathos." -- New York Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	43%
	"*So how�s the Mamet Rocky? Fast. Lively. In your face. Very watchable. And, like its predecessors, so bizarrely convoluted it barely holds together on a narrative level." -- New York Magazine* Posted Apr 28, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
	"Iron Man is a shapely piece of mythmaking." -- New York Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
	"*The galumphing serial-killer picture 88 Minutes* is dumb enough to be straight out of the parodies in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Apr 21, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
	"*See Standard Operating Procedure* for its riveting narrative, for the way it keeps looping back -- to the swirls of Danny Elfman�s night music -- to the basement of Abu Ghraib.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Apr 21, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
	"*It's like a third-rate Austin Powers* picture cut to the whacking, attention-deficit-disorder tempo of Moulin Rouge.*" -- Slate* Posted Apr 16, 2008	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)	42%
	"[A] middling romantic comedy." -- New York Magazine Posted Apr 14, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
	"In between snorting and rolling your eyes, you can pass the time pitying Thurman, who has to emote in a vacuum, and admiring Wood." -- New York Magazine Posted Apr 14, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
	"Once past the clunky prologue, the film is great fun, with a good balance between computer effects and athleticism." -- New York Magazine Posted Apr 14, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	63%
	"The film is a hodgepodge, and it closes with a whimper. But along the way some lucid voices slip through." -- New York Magazine Posted Apr 14, 2008	Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	36%
	"Cop Land shares its leading man's slow-wittedness, but also his likability." -- Slate Posted Apr 9, 2008	Cop Land (1997)	71%
	"Stop reading. Put this review on hold until after you've seen L.A. Confidential." -- Slate Posted Apr 9, 2008	L.A. Confidential (1997)	99%
	"*In The Flight of the Red Balloon, the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao Hsien uses Albert Lamorisse�s 1956 masterpiece The Red Balloon* as a springboard for his own masterpiece.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Mar 31, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	78%
	"*The power of Stop-Loss* -- and this is no dumb joke -- is that it shows its hero between Iraq and a hard place.*" -- New York Magazine* Posted Mar 31, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
	"[Scorsese] comes at the Stones from every imaginable angle. He voodoos the footage into a fluid whole." -- New York Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
	"What makes My Brother Is an Only Child so alive and entertaining is how it dramatizes the endless tug-of-war between political conviction and personal experience -- the way the lines twist and blur and finally implode." -- New York Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2008	My Brother is an Only Child (2006)	85%

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