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Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:: Atlanta Journal-Constitution , Austin American-Statesman , Hollywood Reporter , Slate

Total Reviews:: 224

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	Shut Up and Play the Hits ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	L ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	Safety Not Guaranteed ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	80%	Wrong ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	The House I Live In ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	5 Broken Cameras ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	Slavery By Another Name ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	——	Can ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
2/4	52%	Safe House (2012)	" As fun as the movie occasionally is, it can't make its own drama convincing, much less give Reynolds the nudge he needs toward Matt Damon-ville." — Washington Post Posted Feb 10, 2012
1/4	43%	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)	" Sincerely tries to pay homage to the likes of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson but is too contaminated by today's tame sensibilities to make it fly." — Washington Post Posted Feb 10, 2012
2/4	76%	The Innkeepers (2012)	" Up until near the end ... you could mistake it for a low-key haunted-house comedy." — Washington Post Posted Feb 3, 2012
	——	Gypsy Davy ()	" Doc borne of an abandoned daughter's indignation is made watchable but not compelling by flamenco backdrop." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 27, 2012
	50%	John Dies at the End ()	" Horror-comedy from Phantasm director starts with a bang but quickly loses speed." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 26, 2012
	——	Chasing Ice ()	" Doc about photographing glaciers makes a compelling environmental case without sacrificing beauty." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 26, 2012
	——	Madrid, 1987 ()	" A stillborn May-November seduction makes for sexual tension and fascinating dialogue." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 24, 2012
	——	Detropia ()	" Doc about Detroit's state of abandonment offers snapshots and sounds but little new information." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 24, 2012
	——	For a Good Time, Call... ()	" Female buddy comedy makes the most of its phone-sex premise." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 24, 2012
	——	Under African Skies ()	" A pure-bliss celebration of Paul Simon's landmark album Graceland coupled with an interesting if not unbiased look at the controversy surrounding its release..." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 23, 2012
	100%	Robot and Frank ()	" Robot & Frank reminds quirk-hardened veterans that an odd premise and big heart don't have to add up to too-precious awards bait." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2012
	100%	Arbitrage ()	" Nothing about the plot is novel, but the film easily maintains a low simmer that picks up in the final act, as Miller has to fight to keep his sinking ship staffed." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2012
	40%	Celeste and Jesse Forever ()	" Borrows tropes from the rom-com playbook, and has enough laughs to be mistaken for one, but ultimately doesn't want to be pigeonholed." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 21, 2012
	40%	Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)	" Adult Swim's cult series makes awkward stab at the big screen." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 21, 2012
	——	Middle of Nowhere ()	" A deceptively slight film that strikes the right balance between realist family drama and earnestness..." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 21, 2012
	100%	West of Memphis ()	" Thorny, blood-boiling and finely made, it deserves a theatrical push." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 20, 2012
	71%	The Queen of Versailles ()	" The Queen of Versailles will prompt loathing not only among the so-called 99 Percent, but among those in the top 1 percent who would like someone more sane to represent them on camera." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 20, 2012
	77%	The Grey (2012)	" A man's-man of a genre pic that will satisfy the action audience while reminding more discerning viewers what they saw in director Joe Carnahan's decade-old breakthrough, Narc." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 17, 2012
	21%	Loosies (2012)	" Making romance a big part of the mix dooms a movie already saddled with one of the worst titles in recent memory." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 13, 2012
	0%	Beneath The Darkness (2012)	" Dennis Quaid goes Psycho in dull Texas-set thriller." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 6, 2012
	12%	The Darkest Hour (2011)	" An alien invasion flick that evidently expects dramatic shots of a depopulated Red Square to make up for a flatlining screenplay and the absence of even a single compelling character." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 26, 2011
	96%	Pariah (2011)	" First-timer Dee Rees offers a fresh take on the overfamiliar coming-out genre." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 22, 2011
—	38%	God's Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz (2011)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 17, 2011
3/4	96%	Tomboy (2011)	" Sciamma pictures the story in dappled sunlight and wooded fields that, though not far from dull apartment blocks, have an out-of-time seductiveness." — Washington Post Posted Dec 16, 2011
	22%	The Sitter (2011)	" Jonah Hill bites off more than he can chew in this '80s up-all-night comedy." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 9, 2011
2/4	77%	The Conquest (2011)	" Failing to find deeper meaning in their protagonist's crises, they tell the story in a way that will only hold the interest of those who already know it fairly well." — Washington Post Posted Nov 18, 2011
	84%	Garbo: The Spy (2011)	" Doc's incredible tale of WWII espionage would likely work better as a feature film." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 18, 2011
	50%	Rid of Me (2011)	" Unconvincing tale of self-empowerment has attitude and anxiety but nothing underneath." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 18, 2011
	74%	The Lie (2011)	" Adaptation of an esteemed New Yorker story lightens the tone successfully while capturing the ugliness of a panic-inspired misstep." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 14, 2011
	76%	The Other F Word (2011)	" Despite a few genuinely poignant moments (try not to be moved as Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea talks of righting his parents' wrongs) and a bit of humor, F Word feels shallow and a little stale." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 10, 2011
	88%	Dragonslayer (2011)	" The portrait is dispiriting overall, inspiring little affection from viewers, but feels authentic and fair." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 8, 2011
	61%	Young Goethe In Love (2011)	" Highbrow pedigree is mostly window dressing for a commercial period romance about Germany's literary giant." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 2, 2011
	7%	All's Faire in Love (2011)	" A dinner of week-old turkey legs and stale mead would be more fun than this Ren Faire-set rom-com disaster." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 1, 2011
	——	And They're Off... (2011)	" The mock-doc approach is more stale than usual in TV vet Rob Schiller's racetrack comedy." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 1, 2011
	8%	13 (2011)	" G�la Babluani's English-language remake of his French debut loses the source's gritty, mysterious gloom." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 28, 2011
—	67%	The Sons Of Tennessee Williams (2011)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 10, 2011
3/4	100%	Thunder Soul (2011)	" Arguably, the current generation of funk and soul revivalists owes a debt to musicians who forged their astonishing sound in between Algebra study sessions." — Washington Post Posted Oct 7, 2011
	80%	Incendiary: The Willingham Case (2011)	" Crime doc about a dubious arson case is made more interesting by the involvement of Rick Perry." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 4, 2011

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