ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tim Grierson

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	Ugly Me
	Tre
	The Kite Runner
	Control
	Great World of Sound
	No End in Sight
	Casting About
	Vacancy
	Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
	Cocaine Cowboys
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	Deal
	Beyond the Call
	Street Kings
	Extra Ordinary Barry
	College Road Trip
	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
	Romulus, My Father
	Divine Intervention
	Black Irish
	The Final Season
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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	"Deal is fatally earnest: It honestly believes it�s the first poker film to have a mentor character tell his young prot�g� that success in cards is similar to success in life." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deal (2008)	0%
	"*You walk out of Beyond the Call* admiring these humanitarians but not the movie about them -- unless you like films with lots of hugging.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Apr 17, 2008	Beyond the Call (2008)	56%
	"[The] screenwriters have no time for subtlety, assaulting the ear with an arsenal of dull tough-guy dialogue as the male characters take turns mowing down each other�s manhood and delivering hard-boiled pseudoknowledge about the nature of evil." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 10, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
	"The sort of woefully incompetent independent film that evokes either pity or disgust, depending on your level of tolerance." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 3, 2008	Extra Ordinary Barry (2008)	n/a
	"The tagline says it all: 'They can't get there fast enough.'" -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 6, 2008	College Road Trip (2008)	14%
C+	"Isn't nearly as fun and frothy as it wants to be." -- EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Mar 2, 2008	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	76%
	"Romulus, My Father is a stacked deck determined to make you feel bad, but it rarely makes you feel anything else." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 28, 2008	Romulus, My Father (2008)	44%
	"Mori, whether buried in bad makeup or dropping jaws in a slinky number, turns out to be a fine actress who just happens to be a total knockout." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 7, 2008	Ugly Me (2008)	n/a
	"Unlike most indie dramas about rudderless 20-somethings who exorcise their hang-ups by talking and screwing each other to death, Tre is something rare: a perceptive, nonindulgent chamber piece that wrings a little art from that anxious age." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 31, 2008	Tre (2008)	53%
	"Though meagerly plotted and devoid of narrative surprise, the micro-budgeted Divine Intervention cuts deeper than your typical Hollywood rom-com because of its willingness to address real problems confronting the African-American community." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 5, 2007	Divine Intervention (2007)	n/a
	"It�s too sincere and thoughtful to be immediately dismissed. But it is terribly frustrating viewing: so much time and creative energy spent making a movie that, in one form or another, the audience has already seen." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 25, 2007	Black Irish (2007)	25%
	"The film retains the novel's universal elements, but some of the political specifics get lost in translation" -- Screendaily Posted Oct 20, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	66%
	"Control honors its subject�s eternal self-doubt by honing in on that truth and leaving the legend to others." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 18, 2007	Control (2007)	87%
	"Though a nice change of pace from the usual sports flick�s incessant rah-rah sentimentality, Evans and his film forget that you can�t win too many games if you don�t occasionally swing for the fences." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 11, 2007	The Final Season (2007)	23%
	"This silly little flick is deadly serious. And seriously awful." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 28, 2007	Banished (2007)	n/a
	"Zobel�s directorial debut is as bleak a look at working as Miller or Mamet�s efforts, but what�s most striking about this bittersweet drama is its absence of indignant rage." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 27, 2007	Great World of Sound (2007)	82%
	"Good Luck Chuck is so undistinguished that it feels like an extended screen test." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 25, 2007	Good Luck Chuck (2007)	3%
	"It�s total malarkey, of course, and isn�t helped by Cook�s bizarre inability to act heartbroken or Alba�s ill-advised confidence in her gift for slapstick." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 21, 2007	Good Luck Chuck (2007)	3%
	"Lacking so much as one interesting creative flourish, Moving McAllister may inspire your inner-development exec to scream out script notes in the hope that somehow, maybe, the characters will hear you and give them a try." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 13, 2007	Moving McAllister (2007)	10%
	"Ladr�n�s earnest tone works against the film�s hoped-for irreverent stance, and Menendez�s slack pacing undercuts the project�s attempt to offer a viable alternative to Hollywood fare." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 30, 2007	Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)	62%
	"There are occasionally mildly trenchant observations made about social status and racism, but overall this fixer-upper has very little curb appeal." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 23, 2007	Closing Escrow (2007)	54%
	"There�s no point being highbrow about a film that relies on the typical fart-puke-nuts-kaboom brand of family comedy, but [director] Savage�s lethargic, impersonal approach can�t even make Camp�s gross-out moments appropriately revolting." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 9, 2007	Daddy Day Camp (2007)	1%
	"...his [Ferguson's] brilliant and riveting documentary about the Bush administration�s failures in Iraq, is at once the most devastating cinematic postmortem on America�s colossal blunder in the Middle East, and the most sober." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 26, 2007	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
	"Slowly evolves beyond highfalutin concepts like 'the craft of acting' into universal questions about surface beauty, inner depth and the double-edged sword of following a dream." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 14, 2007	Casting About (2007)	63%
	"[Director] Antal smartly adheres to the no-frills demands of B-movie horror, eliciting impressive chills from old-fashioned suffocating dread rather than the now usual gore." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 17, 2007	Vacancy (2007)	55%
	"Adapting his own novel, [director] Davlin seems blessedly unaware of how silly his story is, attacking it with such escalating melodramatic fervor that Memory rises from the disastrously campy to the bizarrely hypnotic." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 22, 2007	Memory (2007)	8%
	"[A] clumsy family comedy." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 15, 2007	Tortilla Heaven (2007)	33%
	"*For all its rah-rah David-vs.-Goliath populism, Can Mr. Smith* understands that even an uncorrupted outsider like Smith must master the art of campaign gamesmanship to be successful.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Feb 1, 2007	Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? (2006)	83%
	"The Listening isn�t really a thriller -- it�s mostly a droning conspiracy theory dressed up in moderately exotic locales, high-tech jargon and a moralizing spying-is-wrong message." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 14, 2006	The Listening (2006)	n/a
	"Despite some nice touches, this is the sort of too-precious indie film that gives its characters unnecessary quirks (like diabetes) to make them more 'real'." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 8, 2006	Off the Black (2006)	68%
	"Writer-director-producer Steve Stockman�s ineffectual shrug of a death-bed dramedy hardly inspires much response one way or the other." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 30, 2006	Two Weeks (2007)	19%
	"*However much The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes* wants to haunt your dreams, it has a better chance of production-designing you to death.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Nov 30, 2006	The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006)	44%
	"A film dripping with melodrama and pretension." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 23, 2006	Broken Sky (2006)	43%
	"Sohara may have earned the geisha�s trust in order to be allowed into their inner sanctum, but based on the evidence here, her moviemaking expertise was not a determining factor." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 16, 2006	Hannari: Geisha Modern (2006)	n/a
	"Hollywood trots out every reach-for-the-stars banality for one more excruciatingly tedious portrait of up-and-coming thespians trying to make their way in show biz." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 10, 2006	Hollywood (2006)	n/a
	"Neither the film's visual richness nor its mediocre attempts at social commentary can offset a mundane love story between two under-drawn characters." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 9, 2006	Love & Suicide (2006)	n/a
	"Slogging through The Enigma With a Stigma is to be reminded that those movies' illusion of off-the-cuff naturalness actually requires a rigorous amount of skill on the part of the filmmakers and actors." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 9, 2006	The Enigma with a Stigma (2006)	n/a
	"Cocaine Cowboys� pulpy entertainment value merely lures us into a grim, kaleidoscopic look at how one city was both destroyed and, ironically, eventually saved by some of the worst human beings to walk the Earth." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 2, 2006	Cocaine Cowboys (2006)	70%
	"*No question Soldier�s criticism of religious extremism is painfully relevant, but it�s hard to appreciate that message when you�re busy rolling your eyes." -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Nov 2, 2006	Soldier of God (2006)	n/a
	"Stolen is ultimately too lightweight and indecisive -- ironic, for a film ostensibly about people in thrall to an all-consuming passion." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 2, 2006	Stolen (2006)	67%
	"What�s most glaringly missing in this self-promotional marketing tool is, of all things, God, who gets only a bit role as Walsch�s muse in a few scenes. He really oughta fire His agent." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 26, 2006	Conversations with God (2006)	7%
	"*From its riveting opening to its gripping conclusion, . . . So Goes the Nation* is arguably the most intelligent, kinetic analysis of the modern election process since The War Room.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Oct 19, 2006	So Goes the Nation (2006)	91%
	"The film succeeds because of its refreshingly low-key emotional approach and its refusal to impose character arcs or political agendas on its subjects' footage." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 12, 2006	The War Tapes (2006)	98%
	"A case of provocative issues at the mercy of unskilled execution." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 10, 2006	Zerophilia (2006)	26%
	"*Unless you're already a true believer, Amma comes across in Darshan* as a perfect angel, a frustrating enigma and a rather dull cinematic subject.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Sep 21, 2006	Darshan - the Embrace (2006)	50%
	"A rather standard out-on-the-road rock doc except for one unique and under-explored twist: The 24 star, after signing the band to his label, impulsively decided to accompany them on this barnstorming adventure as their tour manager." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 14, 2006	I Trust You to Kill Me (2006)	33%
	"Even if writer-director Michael Kang doesn�t exactly break new ground, he imbues his debut with a quiet, compelling inertia that mimics puberty�s rudderless drift, its burgeoning desire for something, anything, to change." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 27, 2006	The Motel (2006)	87%
	"Roboh's moralistic paean to Jewish self-knowledge is so solemnly high-minded that one almost feels bad admitting that the film's only spark comes from its occasional tawdry ludicrousness." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 29, 2006	Shem (2006)	9%
	"*Compelling in fits and starts, actor-director Andy Garcia's The Lost City* possesses grand aspirations but troublesome execution.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Apr 27, 2006	The Lost City (2006)	25%

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