ROTTEN TOMATOES: Christine James

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Career Girls
4.5/5	Magnolia
4/5	Batman Forever
3.5/5	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
3/5	First Knight
2.5/5	Dangerous Minds
2/5	Harriet the Spy
1.5/5	Mr. Deeds
1/5	Birth

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	Career Girls
4.5/5	V For Vendetta
4.5/5	Magnolia
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5	Hide and Seek
1/5	Birth
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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3/5	" Impressively free of black-and-white characterizations." Posted Jul 8, 2006	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)	76%
2/5	" Who knows -- perhaps it's not a glitch in the fourth dimension that Kate and Alex must traverse, but rather just some bad editing." Posted Jun 24, 2006	The Lake House (2006)	36%
1.5/5	" An American Haunting utterly stultifies the thrilling Bell Witch legend on which the film is based; the most disturbing ghost here is the wraith of opportunity lost." Posted Jun 3, 2006	An American Haunting (2006)	12%
3/5	" The story's beats and developments are a little too familiar, though quirky wit and a genuine warmth make getting from one to the next a pleasure." Posted Apr 28, 2006	Kinky Boots (2006)	58%
3/5	" Writer-director Doug Atchison dishes out tough love with words like ratiocinate, synecdoche, and one that 'begins with an x' and only gets worse from there, but he pulls his punches when it comes to the more emotionally resonant issues faced by Akeelah." Posted Apr 28, 2006	Akeelah and the Bee (2006)	83%
4.5/5	" It all unfolds to an apex of the triumph of the best of humanity that could even change the real world." Posted Mar 23, 2006	V For Vendetta (2005)	73%
2/5	" Martin Lawrence continues to run around in a fatsuit impersonating a sassy obese grandma in order to take down criminals and slaver over beautiful women." Posted Mar 4, 2006	Big Momma's House 2 (2006)	5%
2/5	" By now, we all know what you did last summer and have had our ticket punched at our final destination. And nerdy girls have been turning hot and wreaking revenge on their nemeses at least since ZZ Top's heyday." Posted Feb 17, 2006	Tamara (2006)	32%
2/5	" Just in case there was anyone out there who didn't already know the payoff revelation, the commercial considerately spells it out, thus saving those viewers who like suspense for their $7.50 their ticket money." Posted Feb 11, 2006	When a Stranger Calls (2006)	9%
3/5	" A fugly Mary Poppins meets Nanny 911 in this family comedy whose overly familiar elements still go down easily as if with a spoonful of sugar." Posted Jan 27, 2006	Nanny McPhee (2006)	73%
3.5/5	" *Admirably avoiding the burlesque fish-out-of-water/makeover movie one might fear, Last Holiday* is as joyful and winsome as Georgia turns out to be.*" Posted Jan 13, 2006*	Last Holiday (2006)	55%
3.5/5	" Mike Newell does an exceptional job translating the fourth book to the screen, showing a remarkable flair for cutting-edge visuals." Posted Nov 18, 2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)	89%
3.5/5	" *Clever writing, appealing leads and the one-two comic punch of the hilarious and lovable Heder and Logue make this date-movie Heaven." Posted Sep 12, 2005*	Just Like Heaven (2005)	57%
2/5	" While Cho may have charted much of this territory, by now it's comic terrain that's overtraveled and dangerously eroded." Posted Sep 1, 2005	Margaret Cho - Assassin (2005)	38%
1.5/5	" Black comedy, romance, adventure, fantasy and horror all get short shrift, even as they're pitched toward the extreme." Posted Aug 26, 2005	The Brothers Grimm (2005)	37%
3/5	" There's not much new behind the gates of the Wonka Factory for viewers who have the trippy Gene Wilder take seared into their memories." Posted Jul 18, 2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)	84%
3.5/5	" *Almost every moment of War of the Worlds* is heart-racing, jaw-dropping, knuckle-biting, date-grabbing adrenaline.*" Posted Jul 5, 2005*	War of the Worlds (2005)	73%
2.5/5	" [An] occasionally amusing but entirely forgettable film." Posted Jun 24, 2005	Bewitched (2005)	25%
2/5	" [Ferrell's] humor is cut off at the knees by sloppy editing, a tedious pace and an underwhelming payoff." Posted May 13, 2005	Kicking and Screaming (2005)	43%
No Rating	Click here to read article Posted Apr 29, 2005	SLC Punk! (1999)	60%
2.5/5	" There are the inevitable bathtub attacks, taps dripping blood, demons who appear behind you when you're looking in the mirror and an invisible friend who gets mad if you say it doesn't exist." Posted Apr 18, 2005	The Amityville Horror (2005)	24%
2.5/5	" *A more visceral approach might have upgraded Constantine* from what in its present form feels more like a trip to heck and back.*" Posted Feb 18, 2005*	Constantine (2005)	45%
2.5/5	" Some fascinatingly original twists that play with time and space keep the tension ratcheting up till the ending." Posted Feb 6, 2005	Boogeyman (2005)	13%
1/5	" 'Come out, come out, wherever you are' probably sounds much more menacing in the halls of CAA, where De Niro is no doubt stalking the agent who sold him on this film." Posted Jan 30, 2005	Hide and Seek (2005)	13%
1.5/5	" White Noise generates a number of boo! moments -- the hiss-suffixed, vegetable-throwing kind. But mostly, like its namesake, it just puts you to sleep." Posted Jan 6, 2005	White Noise (2005)	8%
2.5/5	" It all has the trajectory of every Disney animated film of the '90s featuring a feisty femme." Posted Nov 16, 2004	Bride and Prejudice (2005)	66%
1/5	" Birth is entirely misconceived." Posted Oct 29, 2004	Birth (2004)	40%
2.5/5	" *Plays less like The Twilight Zone* than a Bizarro World Lifetime Channel Movie of the Week.*" Posted Sep 24, 2004*	The Forgotten (2004)	31%
2.5/5	" Horror fans will hold a grudge against writer/director Takashi Shimizu for conjuring some of the most frightening wraiths in cinematic history, only to dull their terror with repetition and a convoluted plot." Posted Jul 23, 2004	Ju-On: The Grudge (2004)	56%
3.5/5	" Keeping the docu from feeling like a whine-fest is Hetfield, whose sharp-humored, powerful presence is always magnetic." Posted Jul 11, 2004	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)	87%
3.5/5	" The exhilaratingly fun, obliquely clever and feverishly crowd-pleasing achievement of director Sam Raimi spins a web that everyone wants to be caught up in." Posted Jul 4, 2004	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	93%
2/5	" *If director Frank Coraci wanted to rehash Rush Hour 2* and Shanghai Knights, was there any need to drag Jules Verne into it?*" Posted Jun 18, 2004*	Around the World in 80 Days (2004)	30%
1.5/5	" Tedious, insincere malarkey that wants badly to play on emotions it's not capable of generating itself." Posted Jun 18, 2004	The Terminal (2004)	60%
2.5/5	" There are laughs along the way, but the central Stepford Wife concept is the main running joke, and it's too overly familiar to even be considered satire at this point." Posted Jun 10, 2004	The Stepford Wives (2004)	27%
3/5	" Linklater does an admirable job of keeping things flowing by having his protagonists walk through picture-postcard streets and hop on a boat taxi for some lovely moving travelogue shots to hold interest." Posted Jun 6, 2004	Before Sunset (2004)	94%
2/5	" It will leave true believers deeply disillusioned and everybody else apathetic." Posted Jun 4, 2004	Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of A Sorcerer ()	0%
3/5	" Cuaron tries to touch on a couple dozen of the subplots that so delightfully and leisurely unfold in the book, but here come off like a fast-forwarded highlight reel." Posted Jun 4, 2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	89%
3.5/5	" *There's a lot more to Shrek 2* than this 'I'm-okay- you're-okay' idealism, namely non-stop jokes that are clever, surreal and good-natured.*" Posted May 21, 2004*	Shrek 2 (2004)	89%
1.5/5	" Antics with half-dug pools, earth-movers, cranes and a road trip to the woods with a horse carcass strapped to the car roof ensue. Forever. Or so it seems." Posted May 2, 2004	Envy (2004)	6%
2.5/5	" Waters' pacing is off and the revenge never builds a satisfying momentum." Posted Apr 30, 2004	Mean Girls (2004)	84%
2.5/5	" It's the ultimate extreme makeover ... but the result is another good-looking clone without much individuality or character." Posted Apr 23, 2004	13 Going on 30 (2004)	64%
2.5/5	" *For fans of vigilante justice, The Punisher* is a guilty pleasure. A very guilty pleasure. We're talking moral, intellectual and judicial culpability here, folks.*" Posted Apr 16, 2004*	The Punisher (2004)	28%
3/5	" Ella Enchanted may be a little too enchanted with itself, but it conjures enough magical moments to keep its target audience entranced." Posted Apr 11, 2004	Ella Enchanted (2004)	50%
5/5	" Writer/director Mike Leigh has once again assembled an amazing cast to render a spectrum of human emotions beyond the range of most filmmakers' reach." Posted Apr 9, 2004	Career Girls (1997)	87%
2.5/5	" Never incites enough of a rooting interest to capitalize on its inherent feel-good triumph-of-the-underdog arc." Posted Feb 20, 2004	Against the Ropes (2003)	13%
2.5/5	" Would that this film were as pulled together as Lola's fabulous outfits." Posted Feb 20, 2004	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)	13%
2.5/5	" A quirky, thoughtful and bittersweet comedy/drama." Posted Feb 13, 2004	Kitchen Stories (2004)	90%
3/5	" The film rollicks as a witty ensemble character study, but the ending, though cutely bildungsromanic, cannot help but disappoint a little as far as the unfulfilled promise of grand gains and Icelandic mythological magic." Posted Feb 13, 2004	The Seagull's Laughter (2001)	84%
No Rating	Click here to read article Posted Feb 9, 2004	Disney's The Kid (2000)	49%
3/5	" Director John Woo, progenitor of film violence as stylized artistry, rests on his laurels here. He keeps the action sufficiently engaging, but never mind-blowing." Posted Jan 4, 2004	Paycheck (2003)	27%

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