ROTTEN TOMATOES: Walter Chaw

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	28 Weeks Later
3.5/4	The Cowboys
3/4	Knocked Up
2.5/4	Surf's Up
2/4	Lucky You
1.5/4	1408
1/4	Forrest Gump
0.5/4	Shrek the Third
0/4	Nancy Drew

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Psycho
4/4	Synecdoche, New York
4/4	Strangers on a Train
4/4	Hellboy II: The Golden Army
4/4	The Dark Knight
4/4	The Hustler
4/4	Time
4/4	There Will Be Blood
4/4	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4/4	Deliverance
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Zack and Miri Make a Porno
0/4	Blue City
0/4	The Love Guru
0/4	The Jane Austen Book Club
0/4	10,000 B.C.
0/4	Charlie Bartlett
0/4	The Golden Compass
0/4	Things We Lost in the Fire
0/4	Unaccompanied Minors
0/4	The Hills Have Eyes II
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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2.5/4	" Let's not underestimate the significance of a workmanlike Disney animation." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 25, 2008	Bolt (2008)	84%
1/4	" Baz Luhrmann's Titanic." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 25, 2008	Australia (2008)	51%
0.5/4	" Here's an idea: get Adam Shankman to do the next one, from a script by Akiva Goldsman--let's see Bond wriggle out of that one." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 17, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	66%
4/4	" I'd wager there aren't any films that have been more analyzed than Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Psycho (1960)	97%
1/4	" Flyblown, devoid of pace and heat; it's such a mortician's slab that it's hard to even tell if the Fox performance is wasted on it, though I suspect it is." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Bright Lights, Big City (1988)	65%
3.5/4	" What works best about it works still: it's a paranoid film with an ambiguous ending." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	WarGames (1983)	96%
3/4	" LaBute's message has consistently been that no matter the privileges society affords, we're all just bad monkeys in the end." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	44%
0.5/4	" I will say this about Nights in Rodanthe: spoken Nicholas Sparks is preferable to written Nicholas Sparks." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	30%
0.5/4	" The morons going to Eagle Eye are the ones who would most benefit from its message in spoon-fed form." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
1/4	" The problem with Blindness is Meirelles' bad habit of making a terrible hash of something already done with more eloquence" -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Blindness (2008)	41%
1/4	" Ed Harris' howler of a vanity piece." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	76%
2/4	" Perfectly workmanlike, unimpeachably prestige-y, achingly contemporary, and a near-complete failure as revelation" -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
2.5/4	" a diary of missed opportunities" -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Trouble the Water (2008)	98%
2.5/4	" Manages to paint Jr. as an Oedipal retard unable to shake the disapproval of Papa Bush." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	W. (2008)	57%
N/A	" "State of Mind: An Interview with Charlie Kaufman"" -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	64%
4/4	" A benchmark for this moment in time. To not recognize that is a bad mistake, and a terrible shame." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	64%
0/4	" There's something wrong with Kevin Smith." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	64%
3/4	" What works is its canny deployment of reasonable warmth and, hold on to your hats, surprising smarts." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Role Models (2008)	75%
0.5/4	" There aren't very many alternatives right at this moment, so expect it to make money out of proportion with its quality." -- Film Freak Central Posted Nov 9, 2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)	59%
2.5/4	" *I'm sick of the kind of exceptional that Shotgun Stories* represents.*" -- Film Freak Central* Posted Sep 2, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	91%
2/4	" Tied together by a performance from Franco that has the misfortune of being familiar and human in the middle of a lot of low-aspiring blarney." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
1/4	" Paul W.S. Anderson makes one kind of movie: the shitty kind." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	Death Race (2008)	42%
3/4	" The picture affirms that the only thing truly important is this image of the older brother with his arm around the younger." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	The Lost Boys (1987)	77%
0/4	" Suggesting that Judd Nelson is gay as a French holiday is only mildly wittier than suggesting the same of clearly gay Tom Cruise." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	Blue City (1986)	n/a
1/4	" (Its success) supports the pop-psych analysis that pre-actualized teenage boys are the most homosexual beings in existence." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	Top Gun (1986)	39%
3.5/4	" A freakshow of social dysfunctions and wild-eyed blue-sky ventures." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 1, 2008	Encounters At the End of the World (2007)	93%
1.5/4	" Not helping is an epilogue that suggests that money can, in fact, buy you love." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 1, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	86%
4/4	" the work most necessary for a deeper appreciation of Hitchcock's late masterpieces." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 1, 2008	Strangers on a Train (1951)	97%
4/4	" The film itself is lovely, a breathless feast of fantasy anchored by an authentic humanism." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 17, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	88%
4/4	" Whatever the causes, the effects of The Dark Knight are subtle and powerful. It's rejuvenating, it renews the faith." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
3/4	" A fascinating film about exploitation as it applies to blacks and the entertainment industry." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	39%
2/4	" sacrifices its undercurrent of pain and abandonment to big-budget special effects" -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
0.5/4	" a lot of shouting offered up as an ineffectual camouflage to the picture's complete lack of ambition." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Seeker (2007)	13%
2.5/4	" sort of awful, but it goes places most conventional children's entertainments fail to go" -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 1, 2008	Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	85%
3.5/4	" A work of art expressing that the products of our hands can hold, if we look well and deeply, the secrets to our own salvation." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
3/4	" A smart update, with a hero who has transformed his humiliations and frailties into, of all things, maturity and empathy." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 19, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
0/4	" Thus Myers marries his two passions (hockey and not being funny) into one noxious ball." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 19, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
2/4	" Shyamalan's essentially made a sociopathic movie." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 14, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
0.5/4	" [Norton] seems to resent that in the Fight Club food chain, he's Edward Norton and not Brad Pitt." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
3.5/4	" I love this movie." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 28, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
3/4	" Doom hangs over the thing like a pall." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 27, 2008	The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (1974)	77%
2/4	" A sentimental old fool that retreats back into the utterly, dishearteningly familiar" -- Film Freak Central Posted May 23, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
1/4	" An extravagant, pathetic pageant." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	37%
0.5/4	" It's like an animatronic reproduction of a Jewish mom relationship erected at the world's most racist amusement park." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 8, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	51%
2.5/4	" serves as a devastating, nihilistic attack on the failures--and fascinatingly, the successes--of Argento's oeuvre to this point." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 7, 2008	The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)	75%
0.5/4	" Listen, I have a family." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 7, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
4/4	" *Eddie's true modern progeny is There Will Be Blood's* Daniel Plainview, drinking bitter milkshakes since 1961.*" -- Film Freak Central* Posted May 7, 2008	The Hustler (1961)	97%
2/4	" Garden-variety pop heroism/wish-fulfillment marinated in Robert Downey Jr.'s effortless insouciant sauce." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 7, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
3/4	" Stripped-down and mean, it honors its character and his artistry." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 7, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	69%
0.5/4	" I was really looking forward to this one." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 24, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%

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