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MIKE WARD

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography: I'm a feelance film critic for Richmond.com and inRich.com, and have been reviewing movies for them since 2001.

Publications: Richmond.com

Total Reviews: 230

Location: Richmond, VA

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Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 64%	Public Enemies (2009)	" The cat and mouse game played by the world's most prolific bank robber and the first big-time FBI agent isn't worth a slice of government cheese." Posted Jul 2, 2009
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 20%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" *I'd rather listen to Mr. Roboto* on a loop for 150 minutes than watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen again.**" Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Tyson (1995)	" Mike Tyson is the James Joyce of train-wreck celebrities. Seriously. Sure, he's tough to read just like the literary giant, but once you get comfortable and crack his stream-of-conscious flow, it's rich and compelling stuff." Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 17%	Year One (2009)	" Year One is easy to hate, especially if you loathe Jack Black's hammy shtick, think Michael Cera peaked in Arrested Development or you have a worn Bible in your bedroom... and you're not living in a Super 8. But I loved it." Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 50%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" *Sometimes it's refreshing to see a movie that is okay with just being okay. With The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, you get a C-student shoe salesman that rarely dazzles but doesn't disappoint.*" Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 70%	Rudo and Cursi (2009)	" It's still nice to see an endearing sports movie that doesn't follow the "Varsity Blues" formula, even if there is no whipped cream bikini." Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" I laughed, I cried, I spooned a balloon animal." Posted May 30, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" *The problem with the Terminator* franchise is that it's beginning to feel more and more like a cold, calculating Machine. Somewhere, it lost its humanity and became Dick Cheney's daydream.**" Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" Right now in Florida, there is a slick-haired tele-evangelist claiming to be both the second coming of Christ and the Antichrist. He has his own church, a "666" tattoo and hundreds of thousands of adoring believers tuning in worldwide. In other words, the" Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" Star Trek comes out with its high beams on, its pacing hyper, and its phasers set to "stoked." And it never hits the brakes." Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 37%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" I'd rather watch Hugh Jackman prance across the Oscar stage singing show tunes and making Perez Hilton's loins tingle than watch him wrestle with comic book villains." Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 18%	Obsessed (2009)	" I hope Jay-Z doesn't add me to his hit list for saying this, right below Chris Brown, but his wife can't act worth a damn when she doesn't get to sing." Posted Apr 27, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 85%	State of Play (2009)	" Writing about a movie that acknowledges the demise of traditional media for an online magazine could be its own ironic verse in an Alanis Morissette song. Just like rain on your wedding day." Posted Apr 20, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" If a mall security flunkie is ever trading mace with bullets during a "Sbarro's hostage incident," he better hope the punk with the gun saw Observe and Report instead of Paul Blart: Mall Cop." Posted Apr 13, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" Adventureland is a surprisingly sweet and irreverent tale of summer jobs and summer love. It reminds you how the hearts of teens and young 20-somethings flutter up and down just like the rusty deathtrap roller coasters they're looking after." Posted Apr 3, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" In what other movie do you get shout-outs to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Beverly Hills Cop" in the same frame. "Monsters vs. Aliens" might be a better time capsule of kitsch than an actual movie." Posted Apr 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	I Love You, Man (2009)	" Man crushes have been around since Jesus and Peter, Tom Hanks and the other dude from "Bosom Buddies," and Tom Hanks and that mute volleyball Wilson from "Castaway." But they've never been hotter then here" Posted Mar 20, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" You don't need 12-sided dice and a fictitious Canadian girlfriend to "get it," but it certainly helps." Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 90%	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	" **Madeline Goes to Prison tops Madea Goes to Jail**" Posted Feb 27, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 58%	The International (2009)	" Considering the nation's top banking CEOs were just paraded across the small screen in a C-SPAN perp walk, they hardly look like invincible super villains. Evil? Maybe. Powerful. Not really." Posted Feb 13, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" It woulda been less insulting for Martin to dig up Peter Sellars' corpse, build a bone xylophone out of the skeletal remains, and bang out Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther" theme during the Super Bowl halftime show. Opie & Anthony were right..." Posted Feb 5, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" The stage play-turned-big screen Oscar contender zips along from scene to scene with rare pep until building to a furious climax. And remember, this isn't a movie about alien invasions or pirate ghosts. It's a movie about two guys talking." Posted Jan 30, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" One wonders if the star's limping, heavy breathing and dulled senses are all a show, or an upshot of a tortured boxing stint that transformed his face from cover boy-worthy to catcher's mitt quality." Posted Jan 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 70%	Last Chance Harvey (2008)	" Last Chance Harvey is a movie for which the happy ending is the wrong ending. Let's say our two middle-aged lovers make a go of it, you can already see them bickering over the price of produce and which early bird dinner to split." Posted Jan 17, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 80%	Gran Torino (2008)	" Eastwood is funny this time around. Sure, the crumedgeon isn't taking bouncy balls to the crotch like some slapstick hack or dressing up as a dozen fat relatives at the dinner table like Eddie Murphy, but he made me laugh popping off ethnic barbs." Posted Jan 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is big screen Botox for your soul." Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Milk (2008)	" Yes, there is enough gay heat in the movie to pasteurize Richard Simmons' swimming pool %u2013 and allegedly the longest man-on-man kiss of any mainstream movie. I credit Director Gus Van Sant for keeping it real and authentic and not diluting the tone to" Posted Dec 12, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 67%	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	" You'll walk out of Charlie Kaufman's new movie feeling like a drunk bodybuilder just went bumper bowling with your brain." Posted Dec 5, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 54%	Australia (2008)	" You half expect a bloodied and battered Ben Affleck to be running shirtless in slow motion while an Aerosmith ballad blasts forth like cover fire from above. Hopefully Fosters beer won't sue, but it's true: Baz Luhrmann is Australian for Michael Bay." Posted Nov 26, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 49%	Twilight (2008)	" He's a 100ish-year-old albino who likes classical music and deer blood. She's a quiet teen from a broken home who likes sweaters, ballet and alone time. Together, they make movie romance and suspense all at once!" Posted Nov 21, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 65%	Quantum of Solace (2008)	" Bond's one-liners are replaced by stoic stares. The flirty martini has been traded in for self-hating binge drinking. And even 007's bedroom shenanigans are condensed to a mere quickie." Posted Nov 14, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 15%	Saw V (2008)	" The Saw franchise cut its teeth with macabre MacGyver gimmicks and buckets of bloodshed. Acting was never a consideration. And when you're racking in millions upon millions with next to no budget, why start vying for Oscars now?" Posted Oct 28, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 41%	Blindness (2008)	" I usually love post-apocalyptic flicks. There's something so refreshing about thinking of finally having a zero credit card balance that I don't think about the smelly beards, black market prostitution and cannibalism that will inevitably ensue." Posted Oct 3, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Slacker Uprising (2008)	" Slacker Uprising is a grossly self-indulgent flick compared to Moore's other works -- a second trip to the Golden Corral buffet when your elastic waistband already reeks of fried okra." Posted Sep 24, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 9%	Bangkok Dangerous (2008)	" For a man obsessed with The King -- he even married his daughter -- it makes sense that Cage has finally entered the fat Elvis act III of his career. I hope we don't read about him flat-lining on the commode, face down in the "Ghost Rider 3" script." Posted Sep 5, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Balls of Fury (2007)	" Imagine if Chris Farley had been a Gremlin ... the good, cute gremlin. Fogler would be what happened after you poured water on him and fed him KFC after midnight." Posted Aug 31, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 87%	Superbad (2007)	" *Add Superbad* to this list of films fit for weekend slackerdom, fraternity row pre-gaming and 30-somethings taking a drunken stumble down memory lane.**" Posted Aug 16, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 20%	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	" Despite its derivative desperation and a ridiculous chain of serendipitous turns that are necessary to stuff a globe-trotting action flick into less than two hours, Ratner and company show they can grill an easy-watching summer blockbuster." Posted Aug 10, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 75%	Sunshine (2007)	" Sooner or later, the plot has to voyage into the unknown. And while leaps of faith are technically easier in space because of that whole gravity thing, they're rarely a thing of grace in the movie theater." Posted Jul 26, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Hairspray (2007)	" Despite Travolta's best efforts, he might as well be dressed like Vincent Vega or Danny Zuko. He just can't sell the second 'X' chromosome." Posted Jul 23, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	" In declaring my mere like for Order of the Phoenix and not all-out love, I risk having an inbox full of tween-penned emails (ghost-written by parents) suggesting I do a certain something with the blunt end of a broomstick." Posted Jul 10, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Transformers (2007)	" Bay's best effort by far. The robot thespians are better actors than the cast of Armageddon and the plot is probably more historically accurate than Pearl Harbor." Posted Jul 3, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Sicko (2007)	" After the screening, I stocked my First Aid kit, inquired about buying an MRI on layaway and began searching for a barrel sturdy enough to jump Niagara Falls and stake my claim to socialized healthcare and a life of free Zamboni rides." Posted Jun 28, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Evan Almighty (2007)	" Will it make up its $175 million budget? Maybe with some divine intervention. Seriously. I wouldn't be surprised to see buses unloading smiling families and frenzied Young Lifers hitting up theaters for the first time since Mel Gibson told them to." Posted Jun 22, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 70%	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	" You know it's one sequel too many, well, actually two sequels too many, when Brad Pitt and George Clooney start finishing each other's sentences while strolling down the Vegas strip and reminiscing on the good ole days." Posted Jun 8, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Knocked Up (2007)	" *The late, great Rodney Dangerfield used to say that the best part about babies is making them. Knocked Up* proves that the nine-month ride can also be pretty damn fun, too.**" Posted May 31, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Waitress (2007)	" Waitress exists in a fictional film universe that many movies strive for but few actually reach, where slightly off-kilter characters are dropped into bizarre circumstances and the whole thing feels far from contrived." Posted May 24, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 41%	Shrek the Third (2007)	" Shrek does what he does best: pop culture shout-outs, irreverent humor that's too high-brow to infect the kiddies, and still enough slapstick and classic cartoon nonsense to keep those wee ones happy, too." Posted May 17, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 62%	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	" Spidey promised bigger, bolder and better. Turns out he's a two-faced liar." Posted May 4, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 71%	Fracture (2007)	" It would be easy to imagine the nearly two-hour movie being broken down to a 50-minute Law & Order TV episode. Just cut the romance, tighten the script and cue up a couple of cliffhanger commercial breaks." Posted Apr 20, 2007

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