ROTTEN TOMATOES: Lisa Schwarzbaum

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A-	Rescue Dawn
B+	The Simpsons Movie
B	This Is England
B-	The 11th Hour
C+	Time
C	Introducing The Dwights
C-	The Nanny Diaries
D+	Resurrecting the Champ
D	Broken
F	88 Minutes

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Trouble the Water
A	Tropic Thunder
A	Man on Wire
A	My Winnipeg
A	Babe
A	Up The Yangtze
A	Persepolis
A	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A	Beaufort
A	There Will Be Blood
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Hounddog
F	88 Minutes
F	Bigger Than the Sky
F	Surviving Christmas
F	My Boss's Daughter
F	Boat Trip
F	Saving Silverman
D-	Firewall
D-	Pretty Persuasion
D-	Dear Frankie
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

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B-	" The product is concept, not execution, and the delivery techniques bear standard Hollywood patents." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	59%
C+	" How to Lose Friends & Alienate People chronicles the short-but-sour New York career of the British journalist, who arrived for a stint at Vanity Fair at the invitation of its flamboyantly coiffed editor, Graydon Carter." Posted Oct 1, 2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)	35%
A-	" The marvelous, magical boy-meets-girl-in-the-city-that-never-sleeps romantic comedy Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is a revolutionary movie disguised as a familiar story." Posted Oct 1, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	71%
B+	" A spare, controlled study in communication gaps and a piercing sketch of suburban American loneliness." Posted Sep 24, 2008	A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2008)	65%
C+	" As the players enact the fall and rebirth of civilization, Meirelles suggests that even a society gone to hell looks better with a little music-video-like pizzazz." Posted Sep 24, 2008	Blindness (2008)	37%
C-	" Even keepers of the Sparks flame are likely to have their spirits dampened by the wind-rattled, Diane Lane and Richard Gereencrusted adaptation of Nights in Rodanthe." Posted Sep 24, 2008	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	27%
C-	" So hysterical in its terrorist subplot and its seizure-inducing action sequences that a pummeled viewer can be excused for texting WTF? to a friend in the middle of the chaos." Posted Sep 24, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	28%
B	" The secret uncovered by an adolescent in 1950s Paris is strikingly specific, yet echoes with the history of millions." Posted Sep 17, 2008	Un Secret (2008)	76%
F	" Under the circumstances, Fanning is remarkably collected and even dignified. As for the rest of the gang, they ought to be returned to sender." Posted Sep 17, 2008	Hounddog (2008)	16%
B-	" Ghost Town is diverting enough, but it's also the kind of high-concept studio concoction Ricky Gervais might have ridiculed in his great backstage-showbiz sitcom Extras." Posted Sep 17, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	86%
B	" [The filmmakers] have accomplished their goal of making the unorthodox life of the late-18th-century noblewoman Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, relevant to a 21st-century audience of moviegoers." Posted Sep 17, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	60%
A-	" The whole idea of foundation -- as it applies to family, history, and an actual, stately American house -- receives a thoughtful inspection in Moving Midway, the graceful nonfiction film from Godfrey Cheshire." Posted Sep 17, 2008	Moving Midway (2008)	92%
C	" *Once more in Burn After Reading* [the Coens] goof around, in their arch, bemused way, with conventions of genre -- a little screwball here, some spy spoof there.*" Posted Sep 10, 2008*	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
A-	" *The resonant, beautifully naturalistic drama The Pool* is a return to the familiar subject of haves and have-nots for director Chris Smith.*" Posted Sep 5, 2008*	The Pool (2008)	95%
C+	" Interest in Playa lies in the fact that director Jessica Yu is a documentarian with a daring taste in subjects. Yet in her first non-doc feature, she plays it safe; even the championship showdown feels polite." Posted Sep 5, 2008	Ping Pong Playa (2008)	68%
B+	" The story sometimes moves at a crawl, but always the filmmaker follows the pair with unobtrusive attentiveness to conflicting cultural and generational pulls." Posted Sep 5, 2008	August Evening (2008)	95%
A	" Essential, unique viewing: a stunning experience of the hurricane and its aftermath, rooted in immediate personal response and emotions that encapsulate the full national catastrophe." Posted Aug 28, 2008	Trouble the Water (2008)	97%
B-	" [Faris] gives an A performance in the kind of farce from which she's more than ready to graduate." Posted Aug 28, 2008	The House Bunny (2008)	38%
C	" The wait isn't worth it in this fearmongering, opportunistic political/spy thriller, a slippery entertainment that's all feints and few punches thrown at a fight card of indistinguishable terrorists, Muslim and otherwise." Posted Aug 28, 2008	Traitor (2008)	53%
B-	" Let Death Race serve as a warning, or maybe an inspiration, to any TV producer who says she'd kill for high ratings: Why not stage a pay-per-view car race in which prisoners compete to stay alive on the course?" Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	43%
B-	" With One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story and a subject this colorful, all a nonfiction filmmaker has to do is get out of the way." Posted Aug 19, 2008	One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008)	67%
B+	" In A Girl Cut in Two, Sagnier is yummy as a local TV weathergirl caught between a womanizing older novelist (Fran�ois Berl�and) and a nouveau riche playboy (Magimel) used to getting his own way." Posted Aug 19, 2008	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	85%
A	" This is Stiller's Hellzapoppin' Apocalypse Now -- the ultimate fighting machine of comedies-about-the-making-of-movies. It's raunchy, outspoken -- and also a smart and agile dissection of art, fame, and the chutzpah of big-budget productions." Posted Aug 13, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
C	" *By the time Bud sincerely apprehends his citizen responsibilities, Swing Vote* has swung irrevocably toward condescension.*" Posted Jul 31, 2008*	Swing Vote (2008)	38%
A-	" The players are timelessly familiar in American Teen. But filmmaker Nanette Burstein tells their stories with a distinctly 21st-century pop and audacity that makes this latest version of Fast Times at My So-Called Happy Days High a timely pleasure." Posted Jul 24, 2008	American Teen (2008)	69%
A	" [A] breathtaking documentary about that mad-genius coup achieved over three decades ago." Posted Jul 24, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
A-	" The sumptuous costumes and florid dialogue in The Last Mistress represent early-19th-century French custom at its most curlicued, but the power of one woman's molten sexuality is timeless in Catherine Breillat's rich drama." Posted Jul 3, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
B+	" A gently thoughtful, audience-appropriate entertainment that assembles swell actors to play colorful characters who don't shy away from depicting serious hard times." Posted Jul 3, 2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)	79%
C+	" Hancock the jaunty, jokey riff on the screwed-up inner emotional life of a traditionally ironclad superhero becomes Hancock the icky lesson in the importance of personal responsibility, loyalty, and continued family togetherness." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
B	" Wanted is kind of unintelligible and idiotic. Also kind of nasty and brutish. And also undeniably kind of fun." Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	73%
B+	" Written and directed with efficiency, cheer, and a refreshing lack of look-how-meta-clever-we-are egotism, the movie references just enough of the original touchstones and punchlines to please those who lived it the first time." Posted Jun 20, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
B+	" The work is a reflective hodgepodge of unnervingly 'cute' animation, reenactments, archival footage, and Bachardy's own reminiscences, spoken in the singular British accent he invented just as he invented his own unorthodox life." Posted Jun 13, 2008	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)	93%
A	" An entrancing riffle through the olde curiosity shoppe of the filmmaker's psyche." Posted Jun 13, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	94%
C	" The movie demonstrates a smart movie geek's obsession with the rhythms and gory details of horror storytelling, undermined by a pompous insistence on spiritual lessons of the tritest kind." Posted Jun 11, 2008	The Happening (2008)	18%
B+	" *Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov contrasts images of sweeping landscape and propulsive battle with potent scenes of emotional intimacy in Mongol, his quite grand, quite exotic, David Lean-style epic." Posted Jun 6, 2008*	Mongol (2008)	88%
A-	" An exit strategy in Iraq? This self-aware study shows how hard it'll be." Posted Jun 6, 2008	Operation Filmmaker (2008)	92%
C+	" The Promotion edges toward some pretty bleak stuff. Then it steps back and laughs, like an office slacker." Posted Jun 6, 2008	The Promotion (2008)	47%
C+	" *Forget Monty Python, You Don't Mess With the Zohan* is a circus that never really flies.*" Posted Jun 4, 2008*	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	35%
B	" [A] baroquely lurid and undeniably fascinating exercise in pulp with a political angle." Posted May 30, 2008	The Unknown Woman (2008)	61%
B-	" At its best, it's a satisfying shuffle of the deck of famous Spielbergian moments that have gone before." Posted May 18, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
A	" Australian director Chris Noonan and producer George Miller show what real talent and imagination can do, even without big-name humans as costars." Posted May 13, 2008	Babe (1995)	98%
B	" *As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, The Believer, this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm." Posted May 7, 2008*	Noise (2008)	50%
A	" Filmmaker Yung Chang finds a sad and beautiful way to glimpse the big picture of dislocation through an exquisitely poised small study." Posted May 7, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2007)	95%
C	" Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, and even they might feel an urge to squirm between the videogame-style, whizbang, jellybean-colored, CG-jiggered car races that are the adrenalized heart of this entertainment with no soul." Posted May 7, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	37%
B	" An irresistibly satisfying cultural artifact." Posted May 5, 2008	The Big Chill (1983)	69%
B+	" A sly catalog of deceits and a gentle commentary on slippery creativity and desire." Posted Apr 30, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	88%
B+	" That thing Mamet does he does again with feverish effing commitment in Redbelt, his effing Rocky." Posted Apr 30, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	70%
C+	" *The team who made The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* display plenty of whirligig energy, if not much control or lightness of touch.*" Posted Apr 30, 2008*	Son of Rambow (2008)	74%
D	" Everything is wrong pretty much from the start of this misbegotten adventure in Adrian Lyne territory, including but not limited to the strained mind games that drive the plot, and the tentative New York accents on the actors from Australia and Scotland." Posted Apr 30, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%

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