ROTTEN TOMATOES: Rubin Safaya

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RUBIN SAFAYA

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Total Reviews: 46

Location: Minneapolis

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Fresh	Fresh 62%	Clerks II (2006)	" The turning point is Dante's serious conversation with Becky about his future plans. From there, the movie finds its narrative center and becomes a real story about real people and, suddenly, you find you even care about Randal." Posted Jul 22, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 67%	A Scanner Darkly (2006)	" As the drugs keep cranking the gears of suspicion, seducing them down syllogistic corridors of absurd reasoning, you can feel them out-thinking their own paranoia to the brink of insanity." Posted Jul 14, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 53%	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)	" It's as if seven Vice Presidents of Production sat in a boardroom for three days straight, without food or water, and finally their collective genius, poring over reams of test screening data, resoundingly declared with one voice, "WE NEED MORE RUM JOKES" Posted Jul 7, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 75%	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)	" ...a story that makes studio executives proud, in which the end lesson is that Stockholm Syndrome is a healthy outlook on life for a career gal." Posted Jun 30, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 76%	Superman Returns (2006)	" Routh isn't given much else to do except act as a Flying Plot Device... Kate Bosworth's Lois Lane is a study in the art of still life." Posted Jun 30, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Wordplay (2006)	" So many aspects of our lives are mundane that just having some sort of passion... means that people are taking time to engage themselves in more than merely subsistence. That demonstrates that there is culture left in the world..." Posted Jun 23, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 36%	The Lake House (2006)	" It's odd, but now I can say I've seen a movie which makes the timing of character interaction in the "Star Wars" prequels look fantastic." Posted Jun 16, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 75%	Cars (2006)	" ...scenes involving the colorful townspeople, capitalizing largely on Paul Newman's skill at playing wise yet ostensibly cantankerous old men, are repeatedly interrupted by long stretches of boring homages to the world of celebrity..." Posted Jun 9, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 81%	A Prairie Home Companion (2006)	" ...the film is so busy coddling itself in colloquial humor and Keillor's conjured up diatribes that, from one Minnesotan to you, isn't funny in it's own right. The humor depends largely on whether or not you've been a fan of the original show." Posted Jun 9, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 93%	An Inconvenient Truth (2006)	" ...the fundamental obstacle to making the average human aware and concerned about the ecology is a matter of comprehending scale--a problem which the formerly robotic Democrat tackles rather elegantly." Posted Jun 9, 2006
N/A	Fresh 91%	Water (2006)	" What's interesting is the difference between what's in your traditions versus what's in your conscience. Between the Bhagavad-Gita and the Laws of Manu (the traditional basis for the practice of widows becoming Sanyasis), a thousand years have passed. It" INTERVIEW Posted Jun 6, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Water (2006)	" ...you're an observer to a real dialogue and not merely a viewer in an audience watching a scripted drama and plot unfold." Posted Jun 6, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 36%	Keeping Up With The Steins (2006)	" ...the director treats this movie much in the same way he treats the religion--an endless series of blindly-adhered liturgies, the deeper history and meaning of which is never fully contemplated." Posted Jun 2, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 57%	X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)	" This isn't so much a movie as it is a solicitation to lower one's expectations..." Posted May 26, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 73%	Over the Hedge (2006)	" Where it lacks ingenuity and cohesive storytelling, it satiates with manic energy, oddball observation and witty humor..." Posted May 19, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 24%	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	" ...the real secret to "The Da Vinci Code" is that there is no secret." Posted May 19, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 13%	Just My Luck (2006)	" Lohan reads more like oak than Marilyn Monroe on her most inebriated day." Posted May 12, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 33%	Poseidon (2006)	" It's a ship. It sinks. People die. Sound familiar?" Posted May 11, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 32%	The Promise (2005)	" While the visuals are often quite beautiful, the film is structurally identical to most other popular Chinese epics which, in my mind, have become the East Asian equivalent of Bollywood Cinema -- trash that looks like art to the average viewer." Posted May 4, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 70%	Mission: Impossible III (2006)	" The movie leaves you no sense of reward for having paid attention and everything might as well have been one large dream sequence." Posted May 4, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006)	" While his lyrics aren't complicated, both the words and the delivery reflect years of pain and anguish, particularly in seeing time pass, friends come and go." Posted May 4, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 40%	Running Scared (2006)	" There's something films like this reflect in our nature... that we seem to delight in propped up monsters that give the protagonist an excuse to behave like one." Posted May 4, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 55%	16 Blocks (2006)	" It's like those cartoon chase sequences where the scrolling background is on a loop. Here, the characters are on a loop, and the backgrounds change." Posted May 4, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)	" Because Chappelle's really digging into who people are... he has the capacity to adeptly grasp such perennial wellsprings of humor as class conflict to a degree unparalleled by modern entertainers..." Posted May 4, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 49%	The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	" To describe this film as "pornographically violent" is an affront to pornography." Posted May 4, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 31%	The Libertine (2005)	" Stumble away from this film as quickly as possible." Posted May 4, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 27%	The Shaggy Dog (2006)	" It's an underestimation of the intelligence of your average eight year old to believe his or her rapt attention can be held for long by a film like this." Posted May 4, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 25%	Failure to Launch (2006)	" ...logic be damned if this film needs an artificial catharsis to keep audiences from falling asleep." Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)	" ...we see around and behind and underneath the stage, so to speak -- peering into the intertwined lives of the people who are caught up in the maelstrom of an untenable subject for film adaptation." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 73%	V For Vendetta (2005)	" They're working within a style that depends on exaggeration, sure -- I get that. However, aside from lacking the granularity that would make V a more intriguing and complex figure, he is by even his own admission little more than a reaction." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 58%	Find Me Guilty (2006)	" We could have done just as well to watch the proceedings on Court TV -- free, as it were, to flip channels or get up for a snack and skip the parts that disinterest us, rather than be held hostage by 125 minutes of drive-by clich�s." Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Tsotsi (2006)	" Without cheap deceptions, clever editing, plot conveniences or overt exposition, the film pulls you in and keeps you there on the merit of the story's substance." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 86%	Inside Man (2006)	" This isn't the kind of story that can really occupy the full length of a feature film, unless of course you're fooled into believing something more actually happened." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 78%	CSA: The Confederate States of America (2006)	" Here, technique interferes with the film's argument because it's attempting to satirize a history that didn't occur." Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)	" ...the film doesn't try to be too clever and hip for the kids, as have many animated movies of late in the endless attempt to sell attitude to credit-card wielding adults at the box office." Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Thank You For Smoking (2006)	" It's not quite as dark a satire as "Lord of War," and its protagonist's jolly attitude, resembling (frighteningly) a more rational sort of Timothy Treadwell, does distract one... But... the movie is never in danger of being crushed by it's own weight." Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 87%	Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)	" ...to shorten the discussions between Mohr and Scholl would have been to miss the point. She makes her lasting impression on Mohr, and us, not by violence, or cacophony, but by the persistence, patience and persuasiveness of her intellectual discourse..." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 43%	Take the Lead (2006)	" ...it goes through it's checklist, epitomized in 80's inspirational student-triumphs-over-socioeconomic-pseudoreality films like "Lean on Me" and its lesser-known predecessor "Stand and Deliver"..." Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 78%	Brick (2006)	" I felt like I was watching a bad film school rehash of Godard in the most contrived manner. But somewhere along the way, this flagrantly self-affected and at times dementedly jocular piece of art-house trash earned my respect." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Scary Movie 4 (2006)	" The film quickly abandons biting sarcasm in favor of gumming you to a sloppy, slow death." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 33%	The Sentinel (2006)	" Michael Douglas, now 61, needs to push whatever sex appeal it is his booking agents (and the public) think he possesses. I don't care, and neither should you." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 40%	American Dreamz (2006)	" It figures... that Universal Pictures would see fit to inject multiple jabs at the world of television while unable to re-examine its own hubris." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 31%	Stick It (2006)	" The film attempts, and fails, to move in directions dramatically that are just beyond the reach of the director, Jessica Bendinger, who wrote the nearly identical "Bring It On."" Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Akeelah and the Bee (2006)	" It had the potential... to be great had it avoided running lockstep with the structure of lesser films." Posted May 3, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 68%	Hard Candy (2005)	" If Slade's intent is so clever, then why is the film so stupid as to hamfist a two-hour anti-pedophilia PSA down the throats of an entire culture that, by and large, already agrees with the premise...?" Posted May 3, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 91%	United 93 (2006)	" it's a respectable extrapolation that doesn't paint the terrorists as villains or the passengers as heroes. The movie doesn't need to." Posted May 1, 2006

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