ROTTEN TOMATOES: Kenneth Turan

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Letters From Iwo Jima
4/4	Dan in Real Life
4.5/5	The Lives of Others
3.5/4	Atonement
4/5	Happy Feet
3.5/5	Casino Royale
3/5	Blood Diamond
2.5/5	300
2/5	The Nativity Story

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	The Dark Knight
4/4	The Unforeseen
5/5	Summer Palace
5/5	Taxi to the Dark Side
5/5	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
5/5	The Band's Visit
5/5	Starting Out in the Evening
4/4	Dan in Real Life
5/5	Terror's Advocate
5/5	Le Doulos
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Stolen Summer
0/5	The Cell
0.5/5	The Queen of the Damned
0.5/5	Town and Country
0.5/5	3000 Miles to Graceland
0.5/5	Dudley Do-Right
0.5/5	Hollow Man
0.5/5	The Replacements
1/5	Domino
1/5	The Dukes of Hazzard
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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5/5	"To see it is to understand that Nolan and his co-writer brother Jonathan saw a chance to go deeper into familiar characters and mythology, a chance to meditate on darker-than-usual themes that have implications for the way we live now." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
4/5	"My Father My Lord is an impressive first feature that stands out for its emotional qualities, its ambition and its brevity. In this day of endless epics, this 73-minute Israeli film manages to do a lot with very little time." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	My Father My Lord (2008)	91%
4.5/5	"Tell everyone about Tell No One. Not just because this is a top-notch thriller so twisty you may forget to breathe, but because for a long time it looked like you wouldn't be able to tell anyone at all." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 2, 2008	Tell No One (2008)	92%
2/5	"*It's a strange feeling to see the summer's most promising premise self-destruct into something bizarre and unsatisfying, but that is the Hancock* experience.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
3.5/5	"Trumbo is an unconventional film about an unconventional man." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	72%
4.5/5	"*Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, Wall-E* gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
4.5/5	"This haunting phantasmagoria of a film -- comic, singular, surreal -- is not only something no one but the Canadian director could have made, it's also a film no one else would have even wanted to make. Which is the heart of its appeal." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	96%
4/5	"Having Bodrov, who directed the excellent The Prisoner of the Mountains, in charge here is an advantage. Though there is only so much any director can do with characters who are next door to mythic, Bodrov can do more than most, and it helps." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 6, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
3.5/5	"Hollywood Chinese is both a history of the Chinese presence in American films and a meditation on the difficulties Chinese Americans have had in being seen as individuals and in putting the reality of their experience on screen." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)	100%
3.5/5	"*To see how these conflicts play out, to see how both sides came to realize that they had unexpected things to learn from these remarkable young people, is where Blindsight* really makes its mark.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 30, 2008	Blindsight (2008)	97%
3.5/5	"An honest look at a complicated human situation,... it turns out to be a darker film than might be expected." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 23, 2008	Surfwise (2008)	100%
3.5/5	"Spielberg clearly got enormous pleasure employing a lifetime's worth of skill and turning out wave after wave of smartly done stunts and effects set pieces." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 18, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
4/5	"*One of the real pluses of Up the Yangtze, aside from its empathy with its subjects, is its striking visual quality." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 16, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2008)	95%
3/5	"Squarely in the tradition of the kind of teenage movies the Disney organization used to make before teens discovered horror and gore." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	66%
2/5	"*You may wish that Made of Honor* had given its stars something more of interest to occupy their time. And ours.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 2, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
4/5	"Focus is really the heart of Morris' unsettling film, which strikes a remarkable balance between art and disturbance, between beauty and pain." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
2.5/5	"Downey's unbeatable charisma makes these problems less troublesome than they would be otherwise, but wouldn't it be nice if they didn't exist at all?" -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 1, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
4/5	"The film has a sense of the genial absurdity of life, a whimsical appreciation of the inescapable randomness of our anything-can-happen existence, of how fragile yet resilient are the bonds that draw people together." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Jellyfish (2008)	86%
2.5/5	"The filmmakers come off like their protagonist, wide-eyed tourists in an exotic realm. If you've been looking for a martial arts film to take granny and the kids to, this might be the one, but a Jackie Chan-Jet Li collaboration deserves better than that." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	63%
4/5	"*You won't believe the world of Young@Heart, but you'll have a hard time resisting it." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	88%
3.5/5	"If some of this sounds like stereotypical Italian behavior, and if in fact My Brother Is an Only Child has a weakness for abrupt and melodramatic plot devices, it has other virtues that make it truly satisfying." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 4, 2008	My Brother is an Only Child (2006)	85%
4/5	"The music's insistent richness builds and builds, its sound becoming so deep and persuasive that qualms about age fade and the rhythms carry us away." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 4, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
3.5/5	"Genially preposterous and pleasantly diverting, it balances calculation against humanity and generally comes out on top." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 28, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	72%
4/5	"Stop-Loss is a film that does it right." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
2.5/5	"This largely Spanish-language film brings on the waterworks because its core story is undeniably affecting. The whole movie, however, would be more convincing if the elements around that vital core were more multidimensional and less contrived." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 21, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	73%
4/4	"No one who sees this intriguing documentary will want to argue with reporter Greider when he forcefully insists, "We need a more mature regard for the future." We do indeed." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2008	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%
4/5	"One of the strongest examples yet of a fearless new wave that has made Israel's cinema a force on the international scene." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2008	Beaufort (2008)	88%
3.5/5	"Brisk and agreeable, a handcrafted ode to the brew that is the beverage of choice where the Chinese, among many others, are concerned." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2008	All In This Tea (2008)	82%
2.5/5	"*Though Girls Rock!* is nothing if not well meaning, it doesn't always feel like the best possible film on the subject.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Mar 7, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	74%
3/5	"Outrageous and outlandish, Emmerich's 10,000 BC is easy to mock, but it is so cheerfully shameless and terminally silly that you have to admire its effrontery and accept its creator... as a certified crackpot visionary." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 7, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
5/5	"Search out this vivid film in a theater. Don't let the sacrifices he [Director Lou Ye] made be in vain." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 29, 2008	Summer Palace (2008)	65%
2.5/5	"The wave-like Rashomon structure of the story, combined with the steady pace and moody look of "Vivere" are lulling, but in the end the situation is neither believable nor fantastic enough to be very compelling." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 29, 2008	Vivere (2008)	47%
4/5	"Will leave you speechless two times over -- first with despair, then with joy." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 29, 2008	Walk to Beautiful, A (2008)	88%
2.5/5	"OK as far as it goes, which is not far enough." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 29, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	42%
4/5	"Demonstrates that no matter how many Holocaust stories the movies tell, there are always new and unexpected ones waiting to be revealed." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
3/5	"Initially intriguing and energetic, this film ends up demonstrating that a good script needs to be more than a clever concept and fine direction must be more than moving things fast." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	35%
3/5	"A sweet and somber film that works hard to overcome its limitations." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 15, 2008	The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)	85%
2.5/5	"This slick romantic comedy has several things going for it, including an interesting premise and an attractive cast. Getting all its elements to cohere, however, is too often just beyond its grasp." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 14, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
4/5	"Military Intelligence and You! is two movies for the price of one. It's both a loving spoof of World War II films and a pointed satire on America's involvement in Iraq." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2008	Military Intelligence and You! (2008)	35%
4/5	"It is sweet but not saccharine, an intimate film that doesn't stint on the desperation and anxiety that go along with the search for love." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 1, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
5/5	"A meticulous examination...Taxi is impressive." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
3.5/4	"One of the few adaptations that gives a novel the film it deserves." -- Newsday Posted Jan 14, 2008	Atonement (2007)	83%
4/5	"A message this political has rarely been delivered in so poetic a form." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 4, 2008	The Violin (2007)	94%
4.5/5	"There Will Be Blood, the joint venture between actor Daniel Day-Lewis and director Paul Thomas Anderson, might be the most incendiary combination since the Molotov cocktail." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 26, 2007	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
3.5/5	"Working hard on both sides of the camera, Washington has grafted his intensity onto this production, giving it a kind of backbone it would not otherwise have." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 26, 2007	The Great Debaters (2007)	80%
2/5	"Charlie Wilson's War is an anachronism, the wrong movie at the wrong time. Not only does it tell its tale in a style that feels dated and artificial, the story itself focuses on events that history has overtaken." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 21, 2007	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	83%
5/5	"It conveys unblinking and despairing emotional truth with enough intensity to leave you gasping for air." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 21, 2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
4/5	"This gleeful skewering of American popular music works because of the talents of director Jake Kasdan and a cast led by John C. Reilly." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 21, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
3/5	"The Marc Forster-directed version of the Khaled Hosseini novel does one part of the story so well that its success underlines what's lacking in what remains." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 14, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	67%
5/5	"The Israeli film that's become celebrated for what it lacks -- enough Hebrew to contend for the best foreign language Oscar -- can now be seen and appreciated for what it has in abundance: visual wit, verbal charm and a completely droll sense of humor." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%

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