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Bob Strauss

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:: Dallas Morning News , Denver Post , Los Angeles Daily News
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 1182

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
0/4	10%	Moving McAllister (2007)	" There's so little to it that it's kind of a miracle anything actually stuck onto the film emulsion. Yet unfold along it does for 93 unimaginative minutes." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 14, 2007
0/4	23%	Vulgar (2002)	" Unspeakable, of course, barely begins to describe the plot and its complications. Vulgar is too optimistic a title." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Apr 26, 2002
.5/4	44%	Night at the Museum (2006)	" All the exhibits come to life after dark. That's about it. Aimed at kids." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 22, 2006
	28%	New In Town (2009)	" So elementary it makes most after-school specials look sophisticated." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 30, 2009
	72%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" I found its state-of-the-art technical aspects more engaging." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 5, 2009
	44%	Soul Men (2008)	" It grieves me to report that Bernie Mac's posthumous movie release, Soul Men, hardly does the great comedian justice." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Nov 7, 2008
	71%	Splinter (2008)	" This slightly elevated generic effort is still essentially what they mean by disposable entertainment." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 31, 2008
	13%	The Women (2008)	" Sex and the City was smarter. Mamma Mia! was dopier. But both, unfortunately, were more entertaining than The Women." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 12, 2008
	13%	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)	" It's the same cheesy mix of digitized monsters and lame comic relief we've come to expect." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Aug 1, 2008
	30%	War, Inc. (2008)	" Not dumb and definitely bold, War, Inc. is too shrill and nervous to really hit its political targets effectively. The humor's dominant tone is curdled, when it needs to be wickedly caustic." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted May 22, 2008
	79%	How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2008)	" Garcia Riedel is affectionate toward her characters to a fault - cameras linger as they walk down the street or make other prosaic moves, dragging the already sluggish story's pacing even more -- but she does get some lovely behavior out of each actress." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted May 16, 2008
	45%	Mister Lonely (2007)	" Despite a few lyrical moments, his film is overridingly precious and its realizations, rather than commenting in any real way on a celebrity-obsessed culture, just seem puerile." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted May 9, 2008
	50%	Smart People (2008)	" It's not a stupid film, but it could have come off much more smartly." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Apr 11, 2008
	51%	Funny Games (2008)	" Haneke keeps a lot of the brutality off screen, the more to stimulate our imaginations, don't you know." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Mar 14, 2008
	80%	Chicago 10 (2008)	" Creaky and overinstructive." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Feb 29, 2008
	35%	Vantage Point (2008)	" Increasingly complex -- and preposterous." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Feb 22, 2008
1/4	15%	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	" There was some nasty potential to be mined from Over Her Dead Body's premise, but the movie simply isn't wicked enough to go anywhere that could really be funny. It's the Casper of supernatural sex farces." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Feb 1, 2008
	23%	Mad Money (2008)	" Diane Keaton almost saves the day (and Queen Latifah helps a little), but Mad Money simply isn't funny, and there's no compensation for that." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 18, 2008
1/4	15%	The Amateurs (The Moguls) (Dirty Movie) (2005)	" The Amateurs has been shelved for a number of years because -- just a ballpark guess here -- it's not funny." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 7, 2007
1/4	23%	Slipstream (2007)	" Anthony Hopkins wrote and directed Slipstream. It's a free-form, surreal meditation on stuff that, evidently, popped into Hopkins' head while he was writing." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 26, 2007
	83%	Angels in the Dust (2007)	" Angels in the Dust is a troubling documentary for obvious reasons...but it's also a bit disturbing for reasons director Louise Hogarth may not have noticed." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 28, 2007
	5%	Good Luck Chuck (2007)	" The film's key problem? It's not funny. But almost as fatal, Chuck can't even exploit its simple central premise right." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 21, 2007
1/4	13%	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	" It's just another comedy of contrived mortification and misunderstanding." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 14, 2007
	13%	September Dawn (2007)	" Even if Cain and co-screenwriter Carole Whang Schutter hold no animosity toward the LDS, the flat-footed fakiness of their story prevents September Dawn from feeling historically accurate." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Aug 24, 2007
	25%	El Cantante (2007)	" As with his last biopic, Pinero, director Leon Ichaso has a way of both dwelling on the most sensationalistic aspects of a genius' life while obscuring the importance and meaning of their work." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Aug 3, 2007
	30%	Goya's Ghosts (2007)	" [Milos] Forman has long wanted to make a movie about the Spanish Inquisition that reflected his own dire experience under Nazi and Communist regimes. This is it. But in realizing his dream, he seems to have lost track of the film's central subject." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jul 26, 2007
	75%	Sunshine (2007)	" By the time it reaches its confusing, strobe-lit and confoundingly cut climax, Sunshine has turned from 2001-style, mind-expanding psychedelia into one immensely bad trip." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jul 20, 2007
	82%	Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	" Something about it feels cheap and programmatic compared with the earlier entries in the series." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jun 29, 2007
	45%	Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)	" It's really not all that hard to follow the complicated story's basic outline; but it just becomes wearying." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted May 30, 2007
1/4	48%	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres (2007)	" It's all as neurotically juvenile as South Park (though not nearly as sharply written and even less well-animated)." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Apr 13, 2007
2/	36%	The Situation (2006)	" It's [Wendell Steavenson] first screenplay, and it shows; while not the movie's only problem, the script is a big one, made up as it is primarily of dialogue that isn't just expository, but clunkily explanatory." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Feb 9, 2007
1/4	43%	Funny Money (2006)	" The cast is uniformly pretty terrible, playing what are already broad situations over the top." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 26, 2007
	17%	La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow) (2006)	" It's mostly Benigni jumping around and waving his hands like he always does.When the occasional sobering tragedy strikes, it has little impact because the groundwork for it has not been properly prepared." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 29, 2006
1/4	7%	Basic Instinct 2 (2006)	" While there was little doubt that the sequel would be the awful movie that it is, BI2 compounds the injury by, basically, taking forever to get to what little good, lurid stuff anyone coming to the movie wants to see." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Mar 31, 2006
1/4	26%	The Zodiac (2006)	" It's a barely serviceable police procedural that has a harder time locating persuasive drama than its detectives do tracking down their man." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Mar 17, 2006
1/4	21%	Two For the Money (2005)	" Even Al Pacino can't bellow loud enough to drown out the raging stupidity that courses through Two for the Money, the latest in a lamentable line of movies in which Screaming Al mentors a protege with predictable results." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Oct 7, 2005
1/4	39%	D.E.B.S. (2004)	" It's not easy to make an unwatchable movie about too-skinny girls in too-short skirts packing big guns. Somehow, though, D.E.B.S. gets it all wrong." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Mar 25, 2005
1/4	4%	The Whole Ten Yards (2003)	" On a 1-to-10 scale of bad comedy (10 being the unfunniest), this one rates an 11." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Apr 9, 2004
1/4	47%	And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (2003)	" As unstructured, tone deaf and tedious a romantic epic as any ever filmed." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Aug 1, 2003
	50%	Scarlet Diva (2000)	" As original and insightful as last week's episode of Behind the Music." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Sep 20, 2002
	18%	Collateral Damage (2002)	" [Davis] lays out the action scenes, the easily predictable plot twists and the story's sad ironies efficiently and clearly, but this piece is some distance down the road from his best work." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Feb 8, 2002
	53%	The Mothman Prophecies (2002)	" The longer this film drones ominously on, the more we realize that Pellington really doesn't know where he ought to be taking it." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2002
	84%	Ni na bian ji dian (What Time Is It Over There?) (2001)	" A determined, ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 18, 2002
	71%	Princesa (2001)	" Never really convinces." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 10, 2002
	46%	Orange County (2002)	" Much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle, there isn't much there here." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 10, 2002
	22%	Impostor (2001)	" There is so much action that there is hardly any room to explore the story's social and psychological themes, let alone some half-baked delusions." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Jan 4, 2002
	42%	The Majestic (2001)	" No small town was ever this forgiving, no blacklist story turned out this triumphal and -- whatever other falsehoods we may fall for or even cherish -- few Americans are as gullible as The Majestic wants to think we are." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 21, 2001
	75%	Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius (2001)	" Works better on television." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 21, 2001
	42%	Final (2001)	" The budget here was clearly miniscule, but others with less experience have certainly done more with less." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 14, 2001
	40%	Vanilla Sky (2001)	" Why does it seem like the kind of misfire only Hollywood can produce?" — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Dec 14, 2001

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