ROTTEN TOMATOES: Laura Clifford

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LAURA CLIFFORD

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography: Reeling: The Movie Review Show has been produced by Robin and Laura Clifford at the Malden, Massachusetts cable access television station, MATV, since March 16,1991. Reeling is also cablecast on these cable access stations in Massachusetts: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Wakefield, Belmont, Waltham, Salem and Lowell with more on the way. Robin and Laura have attended film courses at Emerson College and workshops in 16 mm film production at the Boston Film and Video Foundation.

Favorites: Red Sid and Nancy Aguirre, the Wrath of God The Decalogue The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Being There The Wizard of Oz

Publications: rec.arts.movies.reviews, Reeling Reviews

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Broadcast Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 1824
Total QuickRatings: 69

Location: Boston, MA

MOVIE REVIEWS ONLY

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

Fresh A-	Fresh 88%	The White Ribbon (2009)	" Writer/director Michael Haneke has been exploring the darker effects of society on human behavior throughout his career and, with "The White Ribbon," he has made one of his most chilling and thought provoking films." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 30, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 49%	It's Complicated (2009)	" It's as if Meyers has given Streep an outlet to indulge any vanity her late career surge has instilled in her." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 25, 2009
Fresh C+	Fresh 70%	Sherlock Holmes (2009)	" ...the supremely talented Robert Downey Jr. is in danger of becoming a brand now, even if he can still milk a laugh with a well timed toss off..." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 25, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 37%	Nine (2009)	" A singing, dancing Italian Daniel Day Lewis is not, I'm afraid." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 20, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 74%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" Blunt is appealingly inexperienced but shrewd in the title role and once Rupert Friend becomes firmly entrenched in the action the film seems to find itself." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 15%	Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)	" Lawrence clearly has a talent for the genre if he can write a story that includes a murder, not one but two bear attacks...and a climax at a rodeo and make the whole thing feel unforced." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 89%	Crazy Heart (2009)	" Scott Cooper...makes his directorial debut with one of America's greatest actors delivering a terrific performance in a story we've seen a thousand times before." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 83%	Avatar (2009)	" I already saw this story earlier this year in a CGI animation called "Battle for Terra" and I certainly didn't experience the sense of awe that I recall upon seeing "Jurassic Park" way back in 1993..." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 67%	Police, Adjective (2009)	" ...a very thoughtful film with a slow build to a powerhouse ending. Porumboiu's screenplay is one of the most devious and delightful of the year." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 15, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 100%	Sita Sings the Blues (2008)	" Romantic breakups have provided inspiration to artists through the ages, but never have lemons been made into such a sparkling lemonade as Paley's done here." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 14, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 69%	The Last Station (2009)	" Sergei Yevtushenko's ("Russian Ark") score acts as the film's barometer - surprisingly playful well into the film, watch out when it becomes dramatically cliched...Mirren is a delight" — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 13, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 82%	A Single Man (2009)	" a well-acted and written film, but it's theme of isolation and loss is muffled by Ford's elegant good taste." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 11, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 40%	The Lovely Bones (2009)	" Jackson's adaptation sacrifices the family at the heart of the story, giving more time to the sensationalistic serial killer and a raft of special effects work that renders Heaven as the inside of a Mac program busy graphing Robert Zemeckis's "Contact" fi" — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 10, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 76%	Invictus (2009)	" After dealing with racism on a neighborhood level with his last film, "Gran Torino," Clint Eastwood takes on the subject on a grand, political scale while also offering a partial portrait of Nelson Mandela, a role Eastwood vet Morgan Freeman owns." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 10, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 83%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" This charming twist on the classic fairy tale follows the standard Disney outline splendidly, updating itself with self-referential cheekiness and its first African American heroine." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 7, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 46%	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" ...thinks it's a heartwarming Christmas entry about family, but it's really an unnecessary remake with a name cast floundering about under hapless writing and directing." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 89%	Up in the Air (2009)	" ...[an] observation, and that is the many parallels between "Up in the Air" and Alexander Payne's "About Schmidt." I for one would much rather see the gifted younger Reitman under the influence of Payne than Diablo Cody dialogue." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 57%	Brothers (2009)	" The complexity Sheridan inspires in the reactions of two little girls to the adult drama encircling them is one of the film's great joys and the entire cast is terrific, but..." — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 83%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" isn't as finely tuned as Almod�var classics like "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," which "Girls and Suitcases" is clearly covering, but fans of the director's work will find much to indulge in." — Reeling Reviews Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten F	Rotten 6%	Old Dogs (2009)	" ...a morass of cliche, crotch shots and utter disregard for both logic and the audience. Walt Disney and poor Bernie Mac must be turning over in their graves." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten C+	Fresh 72%	The Road (2009)	" an interior novel that has been rendered on the screen with post apocalyptic drear and actors trying their damndest, but Hillcoat's episodic tale only strikes a real emotional chord once." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 89%	Red Cliff (2009)	" a historical epic featuring great characters, extremely clever tactical maneuvering, and scope, scope, scope..." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 22, 2009
Rotten C	Fresh 72%	The Blind Side (2009)	" ...had its heart in the right place, but in order to have a shred of believability, it needed more grit. The Tuohys are cardboard saints with a big bank account and Oher is their big lump of clay." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 85%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" The film is both a police thriller and a drug addled fantasy with an iguana for a guide and Cage plays it like Hunter S. Thompson with a badge." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" ...as Lautner's stock rises, Pattinson's falls." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 92%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" ...is well acted and Lee Daniels has directed it with some wit and experimental flair, but the actual story...is a horror movie turned fairy tale, "Cinderella" on steroids" — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" Cliched, bombastic, coincidental, corny and technologically implausible, "2012" is so silly it might be entertaining if it didn't go on so long." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten C+	Fresh 60%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" It's extremely episodic, and while the individual episodes are often a lot of fun...one walks away with little but classic rock earworms." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 93%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" What sets "Mr. Fox" apart from the rest of the Anderson oeuvre, apart from the talking animals, is that Anderson's writing is glossed with some wry hardboiled noir and more than a few double entendres." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 95%	The Maid (2009)	" Writer/director Sebasti�n Silva uses a documentary shooting style that works to create an intimate, slightly unsettling portrait of a domestic on the edge." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 11, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 78%	Bronson (2009)	" Nicolas Winding Refn ("The Pusher" trilogy) takes an experimental approach to the biopic, letting his subject guide the way through his life so far as if it were a piece of performance art." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 9, 2009
Fresh C+	Fresh 69%	(Untitled) (2009)	" ...starts to feel like a one trick pony." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 8, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 53%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" Even Clooney seems to be spinning his wheels here, playing the same self-aware looniness we've seen from him in Coen Brothers movies, just as Jeff Bridges is right back in "Big Lebowski" territory." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 8, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" ...we never experience that moment when Scrooge's heart melts. He seems already changed the moment Marley leaves him." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 7, 2009
Rotten D-	Rotten 16%	Gentlemen Broncos (2009)	" The script is condescending to its characters to the point that poor Jennifer Coolidge should file abuse charges." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten D-	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" I'd love to be at a screening of "The Fourth Kind" in Nome, where it's sure to be greeted as a comedy." — Reeling Reviews Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 50%	Antichrist (2009)	" The craft on display here is stunning...and the actors are up to the von Trier's challenges, but...It's a cerebral piece of horror, one that keeps you at arm's length." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 24, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 21%	Amelia (2009)	" Hilary Swank certainly looks the part and...fits the period well, ...but although her Amelia talks about her love of flight, Nair fails to really make us feel it." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 87%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" ...despite his fine attention to detail, a great cast and a deliciously edgy build, West can't bring his film to the finish line." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 18, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 24%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" Director F. Gary Gray seems to have picked up on some "Seven"-like aspects of the script to arrive at the film's visual look, but the effect it produces is more like "Saw V" crossed with every clich�d film about...a workaholic coming to appreciate his fam" — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 41%	New York, I Love You (2009)	" ..worth the effort for the four pieces called out - Nair's is deep and playful at the same time, Attal's very well written and acted. Hughes' is perhaps the best example of the theme...while Akin's is the most visually inventive and mysterious" — rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" In this amazing, if not perfect adaptation, the filmmakers subtly create an alternate reality for Max...and they have done it in an incredibly imaginative and moving way." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 96%	Crude (2009)	" ...a better balance of the human element against that of politics and courtrooms would have given the film a stronger emotional hook." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 12, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 94%	The Damned United (2009)	" ...one of the best sports films ever made, despite the paucity of play on the actual field. Many think Sheen has been unfairly overlooked by the Academy for past performances, but his Brian Clough is a career best." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 11, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" ...may be set in Bora-Bora, but it's about as much fun as a lock down with an obsessive religious cult." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" Relative newcomer Carey Mulligan makes a huge splash in the title role with a complex performance that balances a sophistication beyond her years (and her upbringing) with the vulnerability of youth." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 94%	Good Hair (2010)	" ...a surprisingly in-depth documentary in which a niche subject - black women's hair - turns out to touch upon all type of societal issues from self-esteem and ideals of beauty to economics to sexual intimacy." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 90%	The Messenger (2009)	" A n intricate dual character study." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 70%	Chelsea on the Rocks (2009)	" ...Ferrara has left a testament to a beloved place whose spirit has been corrupted by commerce." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 3, 2009
Fresh A+	Fresh 100%	Toy Story 2 (1999)	" Inventive, hilarious, witty, touching and exhiliarting, (the final climatic scene which follows an airline's baggage handling system is heart stopping) "Toy Story 2" is that rarest of things - a perfect film." — Reeling Reviews Posted Oct 1, 2009

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