ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ben Rawson-Jones

BEN RAWSON-JONES

Agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

Publications: Digital Spy, Sky Movies

Total Reviews: 35

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

Rotten 2/5	Rotten 11%	The Stepfather (2009)	" The Stepfather is full of unintentional laughs, shameless plot contrivances and cheap scare tactics, but this adds to the fun once you've tapped into the risible nature of the production." — Digital Spy Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 64%	The Merry Gentleman (2009)	" The only merriment that The Merry Gentleman delivers is through Michael Keaton's masterful direction and the performances of the two leads. It�s perfectly watchable, but the story lacks the content and incident to deliver an emotional punch." — Digital Spy Posted Dec 4, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 44%	The Box (2009)	" A certain faecal word certainly sums up the artistic merits of The Box, a tedious and often excruciating production from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly." — Digital Spy Posted Dec 4, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 82%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" Paranormal Activity taps into our primal fears of the unknown to provide a procession of increasingly nervewracking and frenzied moments of terror. Cut off any distractions, glue your eyes and ears to the screen and prepare to be scared silly." — Digital Spy Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 81%	Triangle (2009)	" Destined to become a fully-fledged classic of the horror genre." — Digital Spy Posted Oct 16, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 94%	Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009)	" Shane Meadows's movies are always brimming full of originality and verve and Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee is arguably his most daring effort so far." — Digital Spy Posted Oct 9, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" Too often it feels like one of the robotic surrogates was left in charge of the scripting and directing duties for large portions of the movie." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 25, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 26%	Blind Dating (2007)	" While Pine is superb in the lead role, almost everything else fails to convince in this vastly uneven, unfunny and only sporadically dramatic enterprise." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 18, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" Devoid of personality and full of characters so one-dimensional that they aren�t even worth mentioning in this review, Whiteout is a movie that sees no-one emerge with any credit." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 11, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 47%	Dorian Gray (2010)	" Both the visceral sense and the little grey cerebral cells are well served within the company of such a pleasingly ambiguous age-defying title character in the shape of Dorian Gray." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 11, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	Dance Flick (2009)	" Cheap, dire, tedious, unfunny, offensive and desperate attempt to induce laughter. Those are just a small selection of the disparaging adjectives that can be applied to this putrid tripe." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 24, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 38%	Imagine That (2009)	" Ultimately, if you want to watch a dire attempt at comedy revolving around a misguided father and troubled daughter then go off and rent Curly Sue. It's a cut above Imagine That, but that's hardly a compliment." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 58%	A Perfect Getaway (2009)	" A Perfect Getaway is hardly groundbreaking, but it's a diverting slice of escapism that wallows in manipulating the viewer." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 43%	The Proposal (2009)	" The Proposal is not a marriage made in heaven by any means, but the eventual charm of the leads and a gag-packed second half manage to salvage the movie from inauspicious beginnings." — Sky Movies Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 89%	Moon (2009)	" An eerie, disturbing and moving film, but not without occasional bursts of humour, Moon is a refreshing antidote to the dumb action-orientated futuristic fodder has dominated cinemas in recent years." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 82%	Kisses (2008)	" It's just a shame the plot wasn't fleshed out more to enable a more complete cinematic experience, rather than a handful of inspired components." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 17, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 14%	The Informers (2009)	" Failing to work on so many levels, The Informers operates as a time capsule of 1983 and a time when substance was negated in favour of style. Sadly, this movie is severely lacking in both of those departments." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 88%	Frozen River (2008)	" A fascinating, understated look at the human condition." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 67%	Bruno (2009)	" Br�no is guilty of being both unbelievably crude and side-splittingly funny. While it's certainly very close to Borat at times, as well as the proverbial bone, with Sacha Baron Cohen in such fine form almost anything is forgivable." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 10, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 23%	Fired Up (2009)	" Fired Up is a desperate and vacuous attempt at a teen comedy that not only lacks laughs, but even the gross-out moments and shameless nudity used by other such genre offerings." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 45%	New Town Killers (2009)	" Tension and mystery are both constants throughout this very decent indie movie, which could have easily become a cult classic in future years if Sean's two pursuers were better handled by the script." — Digital Spy Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 42%	The Last House on the Left (2009)	" Its biggest shock is that there's much to praise, with a couple of stellar performances complementing the mounting tension and intriguingly twisting narrative." — Digital Spy Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 70%	Last Chance Harvey (2008)	" Last Chance Harvey deserves supreme praise for being a vessel that allows cinemagoers to bask in two wonderful turns by Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson." — Digital Spy Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 92%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" The superb Drag Me To Hell deserves to be seen on a large screen with a sizeable crowd. Much like a theme park rollercoaster ride, the synchronised gasping, screaming and relieved bursts of laughter can only enhance the experience." — Digital Spy Posted May 29, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 94%	Star Trek (2009)	" Funny, moving and fine escapist entertainment, the magnificent Star Trek is cranked up to Warp Factor 11 by the cast and crew. May the franchise live long and prosper under the guidance of J.J. Abrams." — Digital Spy Posted May 8, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 54%	Cheri (2009)	" Ch�ri is a very enjoyable and fascinating cinematic experience. Despite being set almost a century ago, the movie's central themes are very relevant to our age-obsessed contemporary society." — Digital Spy Posted May 8, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 66%	Is Anybody There? (2009)	" Is Anybody There? conjures up a winning concoction of laughs, tears and '80s nostalgia. Above all, it showcases the breadth of British acting talent." — Digital Spy Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 50%	Observe and Report (2009)	" Dark, subversive and politically incorrect humour can be brilliant in capable hands and with the right purpose (like the wonderful South Park), but here it's offensively bereft of any wit and is simply unpleasant." — Digital Spy Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 61%	Traitor (2008)	" Traitor is undeniably an intelligent, watchable thriller that wisely steers clear of racial stereotyping, yet manages to fall short of delivering a wholly satisfying cerebral or visceral experience." — Digital Spy Posted Mar 28, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 59%	The International (2009)	" Uninspired and inconsequential, The International provides less thrills than a meeting with your local bank manager to discuss interest rates." — Digital Spy Posted Feb 27, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 23%	Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)	" This excruciatingly bad attempt at a breezy romcom is an ill-conceived, dreadfully executed mess. Totally bereft of laughs, drama and chemistry between the leads, the movie is so nausea-inducing that it belongs in a sub genre of its own - the vomcom." — Digital Spy Posted Feb 19, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 25%	Friday the 13th (2009)	" Such is the one-dimensional nature of the slabs of meat masquerading as characters that it�s hard to care for their fates, and a painfully contrived romantic intrigue between two of them hardly helps the cause." — Digital Spy Posted Feb 19, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 82%	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	" Some judicious editing could have cut a cracking hour-long film out of the final product, but as things stand Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a decent flick blessed with great performances and a corking set up." — Digital Spy Posted Feb 5, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 26%	Punisher: War Zone (2008)	" The franchise simply can't compete with better written and directed comic book offerings out there. This includes Howard The Duck..." — Digital Spy Posted Feb 5, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 91%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" This superb film shows, his conversations with Richard Nixon were far more illuminating than his recent banter with Lloyd Grossman." — Digital Spy Posted Jan 23, 2009

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