ROTTEN TOMATOES: Rob Blackwelder

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ROB BLACKWELDER

""F***in' DARK in here!" Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), "Bound")"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography: Once upon a time, Rob was the entertainment editor at a small community college with a kick-*** journalism program. One day he graduated and realized that he could not give up writing about movies, even if he had to hold a day job to do it. Through a friend he got a peanut-paying freelance gig at a podunk newspaper in an overgrown farm town in Northern California, writing one review a week. It wasn't pretty, but it kept him on the mailing lists at the publicity houses. Soon Rob started a web site called Movieolla and before long was being chased by lawyers for the people who make the Moviola editing equipment that is the film industry work horse for cutting and splicing. Hmm, thought Rob, splicing! And thus was born SPLICEDwire (http://www.splicedwire.com), the web site for SPLICEDwire Content Services, which provides movie reviews and features to newspapers, web sites, and other media outlets. Rob was named one of the 10 Best Film Critics of 2003 by the Critic Doctor (http://www.criticdoctor.com/toptenlists/2003.html).

Favorites: RECENT #1 FILMS: 2003: "Lost in Translation" 2002: "Chicago" 2001: "Amelie" 2000: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" 1999: "Run Lola Run" 1998: "Buffalo '66" 1997: "Titanic" 1996: "Breaking the Waves" 1995: "Othello" Robio's FAVORITES list:

Breaking the Waves" (1996, Lars VonTrier)

"What's New Pussycat" (1965, Clive Donner)

"The Thin Man" (1934, Woodbridge S. VanDyke)

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981, Stephen Spielberg) [*} (tie) "His Girl Friday" (1940, Howard Hawks)

"The Seven Year Itch" (1955, Billy Wilder)

"Laura" (1944, Otto Preminger)

"Gilda" (1946, Charles Vidor)

"The Usual Suspects" (1995, Bryan Singer)

"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" (1991, Pedro Almodovar)

"Dangerous Liaisons" (1988, Stephen Frears)

"The Philadelphia Story" (1940, George Cukor)

"Bound" (1996, Wachowski Bros.)

"Moon Over Miami" (1941, Walter Lang)

Publications: Combustible Celluloid, SPLICEDWire

Critics' Group: San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 1891
Total QuickRatings: 310

Location: Oakland, CA

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Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Turtles Can Fly (2005)	" *A tragic yet bittersweet, simple yet spellbinding slice of life's uncertainty...an unpretentious, understated tour de force* of Middle Eastern cinema.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Apr 15, 2005
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	The Aviator (2004)	" A film of grand scope and masterfully intimate nuance, portraying a wild young mustang of a man who lived a fast life on an epic scale." — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 22, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 81%	Goodbye Dragon Inn (2004)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 19, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 86%	Outfoxed (2004)	" The most scrupulous, most focused, most thorough, and arguably most important of 2004's wave of activist documentaries." — SPLICEDWire Posted Oct 6, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 86%	Garden State (2004)	" *May just be The Graduate* for the arrested-development generation.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Aug 13, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 78%	The Saddest Music in the World (2004)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jul 3, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 89%	The Five Obstructions (2004)	" An eccentric and intrepid testament to the pure joy of cinema...a duel of intellect and imagination." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jun 25, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 72%	Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)	" There are several moments in the picture so evocative, so stunning that they literally make you hold your breath." — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 28, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 95%	Lost in Translation (2003)	" Extraordinary in its beautiful, lyrical simplicity...Coppola's seemingly effortless, flawlessly fluid command of the film's moods and unspoken emotions is cinematic bliss." — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 1, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Promises (2002)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted May 22, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	Russian Ark (2002)	" There is a genius to (this) experimental and utterly surreal historical epic that has nothing to do with the fact that it was shot in one uninterrupted, mind-boggling take..." — SPLICEDWire Posted Feb 14, 2003
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 87%	Chicago (2002)	" Chicago is, quite simply, one of the two or three best movie musicals I've ever seen." — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 24, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	Catch Me If You Can (2002)	" Steven Spielberg's best movie in at least a decade." — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 23, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Adaptation (2002)	" The unique niche of self-critical, behind-the-scenes navel-gazing Kaufman has carved from Orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality." — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 9, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Far From Heaven (2002)	" That Haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace." — SPLICEDWire Posted Nov 9, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 76%	Igby Goes Down (2002)	" One of those rare, exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight, as you mull over its every nuance in your mind." — SPLICEDWire Posted Sep 18, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 82%	The Rookie (2002)	" *The fact that The Rookie* is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Mar 28, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	In the Mood for Love (2001)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Nov 17, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 95%	Lagaan (2001)	" I have a new favorite musical -- and I'm not even a fan of the genre" — SPLICEDWire Posted May 31, 2002
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 93%	No Man's Land (2001)	" It's a great war farce because it's confident enough in its emotions and convictions to focus on the laughs, knowing you'll get the message anyway." — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 18, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Amelie (2001)	" This delight of whimsical wonderment is a feat of light-hearted genius." — SPLICEDWire Posted Nov 8, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 93%	Memento (2001)	" Incredibly hard to describe and absolutely astonishing to watch." — SPLICEDWire Posted Mar 29, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Panic (2000)	" A brilliantly observant, darkly humorous and immaculately acted movie." — SPLICEDWire Posted Feb 1, 2001
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 77%	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)	" The funniest, most inspired movie of Coen Brothers illustrious comedy careers." — SPLICEDWire Posted Dec 28, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	Girlfight (2000)	" *A fervent, absorbing, near-flawless film experience, as a boxing movie Girlfight* ranks with Raging Bull and kicks Rocky's ass.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 93%	October Sky (1999)	" ...so full of spirit and letter-perfect filmmaking that I defy anyone to watch this movie without getting a tingle in his or her heart." — SPLICEDWire Posted Oct 25, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 89%	American Beauty (1999)	" Astounding." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Being John Malkovich (1999)	" *Destined for well-deserved cult status along side such creepy-comedy masterpieces as Brazil* and Harold and Maude.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 71%	Bringing Out the Dead (1999)	" Nicolas Cage inhabits this lonely, broken, everyday hero in a way no other actor ever could (save, perhaps, De Niro) in Martin Scorsese's ironically vital masterpiece of mortality." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 86%	Cookie's Fortune (1999)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 71%	Limbo (1999)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Run Lola Run (1999)	" *Every tick of the 81 minutes in Run Lola Run* is pounding with kinetic energy and double-espresso adrenaline, like a marathon inside a rave inside a fusion reactor.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 82%	The War Zone (1999)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 10/10	Fresh 97%	The Winslow Boy (1999)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)	" The most fun I've had at the movies all year." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 93%	Shakespeare in Love (1998)	" The most deliciously witty film of the year." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 71%	The Red Violin (1998)	" *Like a blending of great symphony and great cinema, The Red Violin* is a magnum opus of musical-visual composition.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 100%	The Godfather Collection (1997)	" Coppola's commentary tracks prove how DVD commentary only gets better with several years reflection." — SPLICEDWire Posted Oct 9, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 84%	Open Your Eyes (1997)	" A jaw-dropping psychological thriller about the power of the human mind to bend and break reality." — SPLICEDWire Posted Aug 11, 2001
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 71%	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)	" Garofalo, no surprise, steals every scene she's in." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 84%	All Over Me (1997)	" There may not be a more personal and affecting film this year." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 45%	The Peacemaker (1997)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 52%	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 69%	Deconstructing Harry (1997)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 97%	Good Will Hunting (1997)	" *At the core of Good Will Hunting* is vivid, succulent dialogue that is emotionally naked, yet remarkably pedestrian at the same time.*" — SPLICEDWire* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 63%	Oscar and Lucinda (1997)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 83%	Titanic (1997)	" It is opulent, daring, detailed, vastly over-priced and incomparable." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 79%	Buffalo '66 (1997)	" (A) bleak, outstandingly creative film...(Gallo's) wounded, embittered performance is captivating, and so is his filmmaking." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 84%	Pi (1997)	" Every line of dialogue, indeed every small action, is packed with meaning in this taxingly potent film." — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 69%	Tin Cup (1996)	Click here to read article — SPLICEDWire Posted Jan 1, 2000

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