ROTTEN TOMATOES: Adam Keleman

ADAM KELEMAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications: Globe and Mail, Slant Magazine

Total Reviews: 29

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

Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 14%	Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)	" A somewhat amusing yet trite example of the modern-day screwball comedy." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 17, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 23%	Planet 51 (2009)	" The film fails at creating characters with credible emotional textures, a task easily, and vividly, demonstrated by Pixar time and time again." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 67%	Dare (2009)	" Dare is substandard fare by all accounts, plucking its characters from past (and better) teen-angst films." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 48%	Astro Boy (2009)	" Astro Boy succeeds at creating a complex world filled with second-class robots and sometimes careless, greedy humans, providing food for thought and animated thrills for adults and kids alike." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 22, 2009
N/A	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" *"I'm the director, I'm not their mom," Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig dryly notes, regarding her first English language effort, An Education." — Slant Magazine* Posted Oct 6, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 72%	The Boys Are Back (2009)	" Despite buoyant performances from its cast and an excellent score by Sigur R�s, cloying sentimentality is in heavy supply throughout Scott Hick's adaptation of Simon Carr's memoir." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 18%	Love Happens (2009)	" Eckhart operates on cruise control, but the performance can't be helped as the screenplay is insincere and the overall tone of the film is inconsistent." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 85%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" *Now a 3D animated film, adapted to the screen by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Cloudy* looks to work similar magic on a new generation.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Sep 16, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Marina of the Zabbaleen (2009)	" The principal strength of Wassef's debut is its delicate, revealing look at Marina's life." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 18%	The Other Man (2009)	" The film is filled with good-on-paper moments that build up and slowly tighten like a knot but usually end in a whimper." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 57%	Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009)	" *From an outsider's perspective, Died Young* is thorough, diving into minor, specific details like the silkscreen process used by many of the artists.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 74%	Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)	" Spread out over 33 years and framed almost entirely in three crucial, tension-filled scenes, Oliver Hirschbiegel's Five Minutes of Heaven dissects the intersection of two men's lives in the aftermath of wartime and sectarian conflict." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 26%	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)	" A mean-spirited nightmare of throwaway gags." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 13, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	N/A	Smile 'til it Hurts: The Up With People Story (2009)	" The film is as insubstantial and irrelevant as the group itself, providing no probing insight into its ultimate purpose and function, or how they managed to survive all these years." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 4, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 95%	In the Loop (2009)	" *Armando Iannucci's debut feature In The Loop* carries on the staggering comedic traditions of its source material, his critically embraced BBC series The Thick of It, hardly ever missing a step.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Jul 13, 2009
N/A	Fresh 68%	Tetro (2009)	" Slant caught up with Coppola at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles to discuss the vibrant second phase of his career and what it means to be a personal filmmaker these days in Hollywood." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Shadow Billionaire (2009)	" A vivid tale of deceitful, sexual obsession." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 10, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Racing Dreams (2009)	" Curry has expertly stitched together a 90-minute triumph in crowd-pleasing, wholesome entertainment." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 10, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	N/A	Don McKay (2009)	" *Jake Goldberger has lassoed a great cast to ham it up in this comical homage to Billy Wilder's classic noirs Double Indemnity* and Sunset Boulevard.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 10, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	N/A	Dazzle (2009)	" Dazzle reveals the crack in the walls of humanity, delicately reflecting upon man's inability to survive when emotional burden becomes too much to handle." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 10, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 79%	The Garden (2009)	" The documentary digs deep into the racial and monetary problems of a tumultuous, melting-pot community." — Slant Magazine Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Stay Cool (2010)	" This is thoroughly a family affair, but with the Polish brothers' upcoming film Manure just around the corner, Stay Cool feels a bit rushed, suggesting nothing more than an homage to Pretty in Pink or Some Kind of Wonderful." — Slant Magazine Posted May 3, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	An Englishman in New York (2009)	" This fresh look at the gay culture and its desired goals establishes profound insight into what it means to be a true-to-spirit man these days, no matter if he happens to wear a little lipstick and maybe a scarf or two." — Slant Magazine Posted May 3, 2009
N/A	Fresh 93%	Sugar (2009)	" Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are great at finishing each other's sentences." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 20%	Bob Funk (2009)	" Playing the misogynistic, bar-hopping, impulsive, titular irritant, Campbell's thespy histrionics come off as truly labored." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2009
Rotten .5/4	Rotten 0%	Echelon Conspiracy (2009)	" Simply a case of we've-seen-this-before-and-better (at least Sandra Bullock's The Net had camp value), Conspiracy flimsily masquerades as a ticking bomb but is ultimately sans heart-pounding jolts." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 70%	Alexander the Last (2009)	" Part of that restless, productive team of mumblecore savants, Swanberg allows his actors to do what they do best: act." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 12, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 59%	Phoebe In Wonderland (2009)	" *The taxing whimsy of Phoebe in Wonderland* proves more grating than poignantly escapist.*" — Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 95%	Under the Sea 3D (2009)	" *Strictly fodder for the preteen set, Under the Sea 3D, the latest IMAX deep-sea-dive exploration (brought to you by the fisheye's point of view), is expectedly rudimentary but a splendor to watch." — Slant Magazine* Posted Mar 6, 2009

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