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Tom Charity

Agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

Biography:: Village Voice film critic.
Publications:: CNN.com , L.A. Weekly , Times [UK] , Total Film , Uncut Magazine [UK] , Village Voice

Total Reviews:: 119

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1/5	13%	The Spy Next Door (2010)	" When people moan about the world's worst film-makers, the names Uwe Boll and Joel Schumacher invariably come up. If Brian Levant has escaped such infamy, it's only by sticking under the radar with kiddie-litter." — Times [UK] Posted Mar 19, 2010
1/5	5%	Old Dogs (2009)	" The pickings are slim going on invisible." — Times [UK] Posted Mar 19, 2010
1/5	14%	The Spirit (2008)	" Miller shoots it in the inky graphic style of Sin City, but he clearly hasn't a clue how to stage a scene, or shoot it, and he singly fails to animate his actors." — Times [UK] Posted Jan 5, 2009
1/5	19%	Fly Me to the Moon (2008)	" This witless 3D animated feature tries its best but never achieves lift-off." — Total Film Posted Oct 3, 2008
	77%	Role Models (2008)	" Rudd and Scott aren't stretching any new muscles, but Rudd's glum disaffection and Scott's bozo bonhomie do gel with a satisfying stickiness. They handle the gaping innuendo with such delicacy we know that they know they're better than this." — CNN.com Posted Jul 6, 2010
	37%	X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009)	" Serviceable but inescapably redundant." — CNN.com Posted May 1, 2009
	38%	Speed Racer (2008)	" Twelve-year-old boys should be wowed, but for the rest of us, it will depend on your appetite for eye candy." — CNN.com Posted Oct 18, 2008
	54%	Body of Lies (2008)	" Yes, there are a couple of chase scenes, but Scott rarely shifts into high gear." — CNN.com Posted Oct 18, 2008
	37%	Street Kings (2008)	" Keanu Reeves' bad-boy cop Tom Ludlow may not play by the rules, but the film sure does." — CNN.com Posted Oct 18, 2008
	38%	Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)	" Complicated global problems require something a bit more challenging than this." — CNN.com Posted Oct 18, 2008
	38%	Swing Vote (2008)	" It's a sentiment Capra might well have echoed, though he would surely have punched up the gags while he was at it." — CNN.com Posted Oct 18, 2008
	40%	Hancock (2008)	" Train wrecks are intrinsically spectacular, and Will Smith's new movie offers a doozy. Two of them, in fact." — CNN.com Posted Oct 18, 2008
	82%	In Bruges (2008)	" For all his movie's tough talk, it's a sometimes slipshod construction." — CNN.com Posted Oct 18, 2008
	88%	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	" The action tends to blur into a whirlwind of slapstick chaos." — CNN.com Posted Jun 10, 2008
	40%	The Bucket List (2007)	" Watching The Bucket List may not inspire philosophical introspection, but it's quite likely to make you re-examine your priorities. At least as far as movie-going is concerned." — CNN.com Posted Dec 27, 2007
	81%	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	" Maybe it wasn't his fault those chickens came home to roost in the form of the Taliban, but you have to wonder: Would Nichols have given Oliver North such an easy ride?" — CNN.com Posted Dec 27, 2007
	51%	The Kingdom (2007)	" The Kingdom works as an exotic action thriller, but its politics are so choked on checks and balances it cancels itself out." — CNN.com Posted Nov 30, 2007
	38%	The Nativity Story (2006)	" Of course there is nothing inherently wrong with preaching to the converted -- secular Hollywood does it all the time. But I confess I wish the movie had some of the passion of The Passion of the Christ." — CNN.com Posted Jul 9, 2007
	8%	The Number 23 (2007)	" For all its gimmicky numerology, The Number 23 just doesn't add up." — CNN.com Posted Jul 9, 2007
	11%	Perfect Stranger (2007)	" This one's DOA." — CNN.com Posted Jul 9, 2007
	57%	Transformers (2007)	" The illusion is shattered whenever the 'bots start talking or the action stops. Bay tries to gloss over the infantile plot, but it would take a lighter, wittier touch to square the movie's pedestrian script." — CNN.com Posted Jul 2, 2007
	45%	Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)	" The entire franchise seems on the verge of collapse, propelled to construct ever more grandiose flights of fancy. Without those sequences, there would be nothing there -- but a movie cannot exist on rollick alone." — CNN.com Posted May 27, 2007
	34%	TMNT (2007)	" A passable brand rebooting exercise that will impress younger kids even if it doesn't satisfy older fans." — CNN.com Posted Mar 31, 2007
	59%	300 (2007)	" The kids just want to have fun. Many of them will. But what does that say about another Greek contribution -- Western civilization?" — CNN.com Posted Mar 10, 2007
	84%	Breach (2007)	" Ray's careful emphasis on authenticity over thrills and psychology over action is impeded by this narrative's narrow window: there's so much we can't know about what Hanssen did and why." — CNN.com Posted Feb 17, 2007
	5%	Because I Said So (2007)	" Recycling every cliche in the rom-com handbook, it's clear from the very first that Lehmann has sacrificed his characters on the altar of sappy endings. What a waste -- for everybody." — CNN.com Posted Feb 3, 2007
	54%	Alpha Dog (2007)	" Alpha Dog is no travesty, but I would trade 95 percent accuracy for, say, 25 percent insight." — CNN.com Posted Jan 13, 2007
	69%	Freedom Writers (2007)	" Freedom Writers is another exceptional teacher scenario not so different from the norm." — CNN.com Posted Jan 6, 2007
	65%	Apocalypto (2006)	" As a piece of filmmaking it's certainly strong enough to restore his commercial viability. Whether that's to the good is another question entirely." — CNN.com Posted Dec 30, 2006
	69%	Babel (2006)	" For all its apparent scope, the film's in-your-face fatalism ultimately feels forced. The cumulative effect is more grueling than cathartic, even if it may also be good for the soul." — CNN.com Posted Oct 28, 2006
2/5	50%	Notorious (2009)	" Shooting shy of scandal, Notorious turns the life of Biggie Smalls into an off-the-peg cautionary yarn. Aside from Woolard's larger-the-life lead turn, it's strictly B.I.G. for beginners." — Total Film Posted Feb 12, 2009
2/5	20%	The Secret of Moonacre (2008)	" The costumes are beautiful. The sets are impressive... But somehow the movie feels cheap and malnourished, as if the money ran out when they were only halfway there." — Total Film Posted Feb 5, 2009
2/5	37%	You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)	" After playing it relatively straight in his recent movies, Adam Sandler goofs off big time here, laying on a thick Israeli accent and proving real men blow dry. There are funny highpoints, but the grab-bag approach never quite gels." — Total Film Posted Aug 15, 2008
2/5	11%	Fool's Gold (2008)	" This lacklustre adventure wants to be Romancing The Stone: The Swimwear Edition. Coasting on the skimpy charm of its bronzed stars and Caribbean location, Fool's Gold is sunny enough but desperately unfunny." Posted Apr 18, 2008
2/5	11%	Fool's Gold (2008)	" http://www.totalfilm.com/cinema_reviews/films_out_this_week/fools_gold" — Total Film Posted Apr 18, 2008
2/5	20%	The Invasion (2007)	" A strong, proven premise, drained of almost all feeling and personality. Hirschbiegel's Hollywood debut sporadically grips - but like Kidman and Craig's characters, you'll most likely end up battling to stay awake." — Total Film Posted Oct 10, 2007
2/5	14%	I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)	" Veering between kneejerk homophobia and PC proselytising for gay rights - often in the same scene - Dennis Dugan's comedy is an unhappy union." — Total Film Posted Sep 21, 2007
2/5	31%	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	" Kidman wades in over her depth in this genuinely odd but disappointingly flat attempt to recast a biopic as a fairytale." — Total Film Posted Mar 16, 2007
3/5	32%	The Lovely Bones (2009)	" Jackson seems more at home in the afterlife than in this one, rendering this off-kilter project creepy and pretentious." — CNN.com Posted Feb 19, 2010
3/5	27%	Pandorum (2009)	" Riffing on Alien, Sunshine and Resident Evil, the German director Alvart finds an effective balance between action-excitement and psychological chills." — Times [UK] Posted Oct 4, 2009
3/5	68%	Funny People (2009)	" Fans of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up will find much the same measure of sentiment and ribaldry - ie, too much of both - and, if it's possible, even less of a grasp on what lesser film-makers call "story"." — Times [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2009
3/5	73%	Rudo y Cursi (2009)	" This is a movie enlivened by the two stars' goofy love-hate relationship, its all-pervasive cynicism and the film-maker's mischievous decision to keep his eye off the ball." — Times [UK] Posted Jul 3, 2009
3/5	71%	American Teen (2008)	" Compelling but not especially insightful, this is like watching nine months worth of reality TV in an hour and a half. Parental discretion is advised: if you have teens, this won't cheer you up." — Total Film Posted Mar 6, 2009
3/5	51%	CJ7 (2008)	" Chow's kung fu fans may be disappointed that he's made a family film, but on its own terms it's well crafted, quite touching and frequently LOL." — Total Film Posted Aug 8, 2008
3/5	45%	Mister Lonely (2007)	" Korine comes back strong with an affected but intermittently affecting curio featuring the pseudo-starriest line-up you'll ever see. Flying nuns on BMX bikes will be a leap of faith for many, but the wild black laughs keep things grounded." — Total Film Posted Mar 14, 2008
3/5	78%	You Kill Me (2007)	" An uneven black comedy-thriller that's nonetheless worth catching for T�a Leoni's bracingly sharp performance and the inspired idea of putting hitman Ben Kingsley into AA. Just focus on the well-etched characters and don't worry too much about the plot." — Total Film Posted Dec 7, 2007
3/5	79%	A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2007)	" Depressingly compelling." — Total Film Posted Nov 9, 2007
3/5	84%	Rocket Science (2007)	" Backed by a fine cast (including sardonic narrator Alec Baldwin), there's no argument: Blitz is a confident new voice." — Total Film Posted Sep 28, 2007
3/5	68%	The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)	" It's a long, strange trip, alternately banal and visionary." — Total Film Posted Jun 15, 2007
	42%	Brooklyn's Finest (2010)	" It's played with considerable intensity -- by Hawke especially." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Jun 16, 2010

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