ROTTEN TOMATOES: Matt Singer

MATT SINGER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography: Village Voice film critic.

Total Reviews: 42

MOVIE REVIEWS ONLY

Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh	Fresh 88%	ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)	" *Movie buffs who don't know their way around the Great White Way will be struck by the endless parallels to Hollywood in the Broadway documentary ShowBusiness.*" Posted May 8, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 43%	One Third (2006)	" *The sexual horror makes it difficult to watch at times, but a voyeuristic slant on The Divine Comedy* sort of needs to be.**" Posted Oct 3, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 0%	They're Just My Friends (2006)	" For such a poorly made autobiopic to earn a theatrical release, Nwamu must have some friends in high places." Posted Sep 19, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 100%	A Cantor's Tale (2006)	" With its outlandish stories, obsession with masculine ego, and focus on an absurd, forgotten subculture, A Cantor's Tale is the stuff Ben Stiller movies are made of ..." Posted Sep 8, 2006
Rotten	N/A	Satellite (2006)	" Nice low-budget cinematography and authentic New York City locations aside, there's little to engage viewers over the course of 100 wandering minutes." Posted Aug 8, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 33%	Mad Cowgirl (2006)	" *It's safe to say there will not be another movie this year like Mad Cowgirl. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on your tolerance for copious bloodletting, hardcore pornography, and C-SPAN.*" Posted Jul 18, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 34%	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)	" Tokyo Drift is a subculture in search of a compelling story line, and Black's leaden performance makes you pine for the days of Paul Walker." Posted Jun 20, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 0%	Kiss Me Again (2006)	" *More trashy dialogue like that (and a more favorable nudity-to-sex-scene ratio) could have transformed Kiss Me Again* into a guilty pleasure.**" Posted May 2, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 58%	Kinky Boots (2006)	" Why are movies 'inspired by a true story' always the most contrived?" Posted Apr 11, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Slither (2006)	" Gunn doesn't reinvent the wheel but he does tighten its spokes a bit with some terrifying sequences and a witty, deadpan screenplay." Posted Mar 28, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Shakespeare Behind Bars (2006)	" Rogerson's structure is ingenious: He dilutes our initial skepticism by showcasing the prisoners' thoughtfulness and intelligence, and as soon as we've come to care for the men he shocks us with the details of their crimes." Posted Mar 7, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 70%	Doing Time For Patsy Cline (2006)	" Claims to run 95 minutes but feels more like 25 to life." Posted Feb 28, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Love (2005)	" A multi-perspectival film vastly superior to Crash, Vladan Nikolic's dynamic thriller Love reinvigorates a stale cinematic format and imparts a compelling message all without a single head-on collision." Posted Feb 14, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 9%	When a Stranger Calls (2006)	" This version is a thin, protracted study in shifting Hollywood strategies." Posted Feb 13, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 64%	Film Geek (2006)	" Westby never provides a reason you should pay to spend 70 minutes with Scotty, but he offers at least a dozen compelling ones not to." Posted Feb 7, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 54%	Last Holiday (2006)	" The most surprisingly satisfying Hollywood comedy in ages." Posted Jan 17, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 56%	Glory Road (2006)	" The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies." Posted Jan 17, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Hoodwinked (2006)	" *Finally, a Rashomon* for the whole family. This cartoon version of 'Little Red Riding Hood' tells and retells its story from a variety of perspectives, all of them boring.**" Posted Jan 10, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 5%	Yours, Mine, & Ours (2005)	" [A] shrill family comedy." Posted Nov 29, 2005
Fresh	Rotten 40%	Seamless (2005)	" Though the film is a sober account, the subject alone ensures numerous moments of inspired hilarity." Posted Nov 21, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 25%	The Legend of Zorro (2005)	" It's Zorro, the domesticated blade!" Posted Nov 1, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 81%	The Last Mogul (2005)	" Avrich's Wasserman is less a man than a list of accomplishments, a Kane without a hint of a Rosebud and nary a whiff of significant criticism." Posted Nov 1, 2005
Rotten	N/A	Rooms for Tourists (2005)	" The scenario is absurd enough to play as satire, but no." Posted Oct 18, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 21%	Into the Blue (2005)	" Any potential guilty pleasure is washed away in a sea of icky sermonizing." Posted Oct 4, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 38%	A Tale of Two Pizzas (2003)	" Innocuous but forgettable." Posted Oct 4, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Serenity (2005)	" Whedon, who always delights in blending genres and tones, has assembled his most frantically disparate collection of pop culture quotations, boldly and cleverly going where plenty have gone before." Posted Sep 27, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 44%	The Thing About My Folks (2005)	" Falk isn't given anything funny to say or do, but his performance is littered with beautiful touches, tiny oases of brilliance in an entertainment desert." Posted Sep 13, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 50%	Transporter 2 (2005)	" Besson doesn't fiddle with the first movie's formula -- impossible car chases punctuated by impossible martial arts sequences." Posted Sep 6, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Kamikaze Girls (2005)	" *If you value plausibility in movies, skip Kamikaze Girls.*" Posted Sep 6, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 6%	Supercross: The Movie (2005)	" Director Steve Boyum, a former motocross driver, hacks his racing footage to incomprehensible pieces and, from the looks of the meager, jumpy narrative, did the same to the script." Posted Aug 23, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 17%	Now & Forever (2005)	" At least the title's accurate: This is a viewing experience that feels like it will never end." Posted Aug 23, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 73%	Sky High (2005)	" My 12-year-old self would have liked this movie a lot. The 25-year-old me likes it a bit more than he cares to admit." Posted Aug 3, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 59%	Oyster Farmer (2005)	" Writer-director Anna Reeves seems to expect an audience already proficient in marine biology and never clarifies any of the indecipherable mollusk jargon. Aw, shucks." Posted Jul 26, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Fantastic Four (2005)	" Before the inevitable and surprisingly anticlimactic battle with Doom, we are treated to two extreme-sports demonstrations, several training montages, [and] an ill-advised love triangle." Posted Jul 12, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 0%	Sex, Politics, & Cocktails (2005)	" *Comparing Sex* to a student film is an insult to the American education system; even film students can make title cards without typos.**" Posted Jun 28, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 5%	The Perfect Man (2005)	" Like a Nike commercial without a shot of the sneakers." Posted Jun 21, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 13%	Slutty Summer (2005)	" First-timer Casper Andreas approaches his subject with the subtlety of a wrecking ball." Posted Jun 7, 2005
Fresh	N/A	Paternal Instinct (2004)	" *It's difficult not to be won over by Instinct's humanity.*" Posted Jun 7, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 41%	Kicking and Screaming (2005)	" Even the intermittent laughs undermine Kicking and its winning-isn't-everything message. According to the plot, competition makes Phil insufferable. According to Ferrell's performance, it makes him hilarious." Posted May 10, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 0%	A Man's Gotta Do (2004)	" The only thing more inexplicable than the loathsome score is the story's determination to impregnate all its major female characters." Posted May 3, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 84%	The Tunnel (2005)	" It's distressing to learn how much German television looks like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie." Posted Apr 26, 2005
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control (2002)	" Director Barry Alexander Brown never reconciles the outlandish premise with the screenplay's schmaltzy dialogue." Posted Apr 26, 2005

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