ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tirdad Derakhshani

TIRDAD DERAKHSHANI

Agrees with the Tomatometer 48% of the time.

Publications: Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer

Total Reviews: 28

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

Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" Peli is to be congratulated for pulling off such an audacious project, but he needs a sharper sense of timing: The film's pacing is uneven, which weakens the suspense." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 22, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" *It'll take all day to list all the things that are wrong with Whiteout." — Philadelphia Inquirer* Posted Sep 10, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 82%	Thirst (2009)	" Thirst begins with great intellectual and artistic promise, then devolves into a repetitious mess of teeth, blades, necks, bites, arterial sprays, sex, sex, sex and death." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Aug 27, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 55%	Orphan (2009)	" One of the best entries in the cute-as-a-button-psycho-demon-child-from-hell subgenre." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 32%	The Burning Plain (2009)	" *A classic melodrama about thwarted desire, failed relationships, and unrealized dreams, Plain* delivers solid turns from a stellar cast.*" — Philadelphia Inquirer* Posted Apr 2, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Boy Interrupted (2009)	" Boy Interrupted is a remarkable, deeply unsettling documentary about the life of Evan Perry, an uncommonly bright, talented boy from New York who committed suicide at age 15." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 2, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 18%	The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)	" Good performances and an eerie atmosphere can't save the flick: I'd wait for the DVD." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Mar 26, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 42%	The Last House on the Left (2009)	" The Last House on the Left is the best in the latest crop of slasher remakes. Admittedly, that is faint praise." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Mar 12, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 25%	Friday the 13th (2009)	" As Jason sequels go, this is one of the best, though that's not saying much." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Feb 12, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	N/A	Confession of Pain (2007)	Click here to read article — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 20%	Another Gay Sequel (2008)	" Includes clever references to the straight raunchfests Porky's and American Pie. But his film feels more like a collection of skits than a cohesive story. His characters aren't even half-dimensional and, except for Nico, are boorish bores." — Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 10, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 96%	Up The Yangtze (2007)	" Myth and reality, past and present, tradition and progress go head to head in Yung Chang's remarkable documentary about China's longest river, Up the Yangtze." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 3, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 54%	The Signal (2007)	" A startlingly original, smart indie film that so effortlessly mixes high-caliber gore, suspense and shocking violence with vaudevillian hilarity, it's clearly animated by the spirit of the classic Re-Animator films." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Feb 22, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 22%	The Eye (2008)	" An effective if redundant fright flick." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Feb 4, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 72%	Stephen King's The Mist (2007)	" A flawed, sometimes goofy, but exciting and surprisingly clever adaptation of Stephen King's horror yarn." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Nov 20, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 49%	30 Days of Night (2007)	" A truly terrifying hell-ride through darkness for grownups." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 19, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 33%	The Hottest State (2006)	" *[Director] Hawke's sincerity - especially in his terrific new film, The Hottest State* -- is also his saving grace.*" — Philadelphia Inquirer* Posted Sep 6, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 51%	Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)	" *The film's Harold Lloyd-inspired slapstick may be infantile, but it has an innocent sensibility that is a nice counterbalance to the equally childish but prurient American Pie* flicks.*" — Philadelphia Inquirer* Posted Aug 24, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 53%	A Four Letter Word (2008)	" [Director] Andreas rescues A Four Letter Word from being merely a raunchy lil' romance by showing how his characters are steeped in a culture of therapy that has filled Americans with endless, compulsive self-analysis and self-doubt." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 12, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 44%	Hostel: Part II (2007)	" The violence we see does not disturb or even excite, but, like porn, it anesthetizes us to our own humanity." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 7, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 59%	Bug (2007)	" After nearly three decades of misfires, major and minor, William Friedkin, the creator of The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer, is back in true form with Bug." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 25, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 74%	The Boss of it All (2007)	" The Boss of It All is a wonderfully perceptive study of the use and abuse of power set in a concrete, everyday context ..." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 9, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 11%	The Messengers (2007)	" [The film is] hampered by hauntingly lame performances by McDermott and Miller, who phone in their parts, and a screenplay that has the sophistication and complexity of a college dorm message board." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Feb 5, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 25%	Saw III (2006)	" The question for moviegoers: Would you rather get your dose of existenz-philosophie from Dostoyevsky or a slasher flick?" — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 30, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 10%	The Grudge 2 (2006)	" The Grudge 2, Takashi Shimizu's wildly uneven but ambitious new film -- his second American remake -- is one of the best entries in the Japanese director's Ju-On/Grudge series." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 16, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 75%	Factotum (2006)	" Dillon and director Hamer manage to give us a real Bukowski by avoiding the overly dramatic histrionics that sometimes marred Barbet Schroeder's similarly themed 1987 booze-drama, Barfly with Mickey Rourke." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Sep 1, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 84%	The Descent (2006)	" *One Aliens* reference in this film had me welling up: A blood-soaked Sarah raises her torch, Sigourney Weaver-like, and lets out a banshee war cry.*" — Philadelphia Inquirer* Posted Aug 3, 2006

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