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FRANK SWIETEK

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications: One Guy's Opinion

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 3064
Total QuickRatings: 767

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Fresh
B

Fresh
92%

Skin (2009)

" A powerful fact-based parable illustrating exactly how irrational and cruel racial bigotry is."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
47%

The Box (2009)

" While visually arresting and peculiar enough to hold your interest, in the end it proves to be pretty empty inside."

Posted Nov 5, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
56%

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

" Offers just a few moderately amusing moments, and by and large proves curiously flat, despite all the talent on the screen."

Posted Nov 5, 2009

Rotten
F

Rotten
15%

The Fourth Kind (2009)

" If you're gullible enough to accept the backstory given here, you're probably the sort of person who'll take Criswell's assurances that Plan 9 from Outer Space is based on sworn testimony at face value."

Posted Nov 5, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
55%

Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

" Clear evidence of the limitations of the performance-capture method of animation and of the excesses it invites...there's more of artifice than art in it."

Posted Nov 5, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
84%

Flame & Citron (2008)

" A suspenseful, often riverting drama of World War II resistance that combines old-fashioned virtues of craft and style with a more modern sense of nuance and complexity."

Posted Oct 31, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
93%

An Education (2009)

" Takes what's essentially a soap-operatic plot and spins it into something very like cinematic gold...instructive about how a very familiar story can be given new vibrancy by filmmakers and actors working at peak form."

Posted Oct 27, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
69%

(Untitled) (2009)

" The rare picture nowadays that takes satiric aim at the pomposity of the world of high art and hits the target, even if the blows are more often than not only glancing ones."

Posted Oct 24, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
37%

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

" All winded wind-up and no dazzling follow-through. Hogwart's wizards have absolutely nothing to fear from this bunch of sad second-raters."

Posted Oct 24, 2009

Rotten
F

Rotten
44%

Saw VI (2009)

" The tawdry use of important real-life social issues in the service of what amounts to nothing more than another exercise in malignant sadism makes this picture even worse than earlier episodes."

Posted Oct 24, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
48%

Ong Bak 2 (2009)

" Not really a sequel but more a misguided prequelish follow-up...obviously enjoyed a much larger budget than its titular predecessor, but it's nowhere near as much fun."

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
48%

Astro Boy (2009)

" Decked out in snazzy computer-generated animation, but comes across as more rote than exhilarating."

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
17%

Amelia (2009)

" Comes off more like a museum exhibit than a vital drama...Amelia never takes flight, but it certainly crashes."

Posted Oct 22, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
92%

The Damned United (2009)

" Even if you're not a soccer fan you should respond to...another expert mining of historical record by Peter Morgan [that's] not so much a sports movie as a character study."

Posted Oct 21, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
93%

Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

" Stylistically unpretentious but highly informative and enjoyable documentary [on] one of radio's great stars and a television pioneer."

Posted Oct 21, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
95%

Good Hair (2009)

" A surprisingly fascinating subject that...yields lots of laughs."

Posted Oct 21, 2009

N/A

Fresh
73%

More Than a Game (2009)

" Interview with Kristopher Belman"
INTERVIEW

Posted Oct 19, 2009

Rotten
C

Fresh
71%

Walt and El Grupo (2009)

" A bland tourist souvenir, the equivalent of an authorized biography rather than an independent one."

Posted Oct 18, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
86%

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)

" Merely lets the facts of forty years ago speak for themselves, and one can't deny that its dramatization of them has enormous energy and urgency."

Posted Oct 16, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
11%

The Stepfather (2009)

" A botched remake...A real thriller has you on the edge of your seat; watching this one, you're more liable to sit back and snooze."

Posted Oct 16, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
42%

New York, I Love You (2009)

" This love letter to the Big Apple has more than its share of worms."

Posted Oct 15, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
23%

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

" One of the silliest action yarns in years...There's room for good pulp trash on screen, but lousy pulp, which is what this picture is, deserves a quick trip to the dumpster."

Posted Oct 15, 2009

Rotten
C+

Fresh
70%

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

" One appreciates the mixture of fidelity and imagination that Jonze has lavished on Sendak's little book, but in the end the magic spark that marks a classic eludes him."

Posted Oct 14, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
12%

Couples Retreat (2009)

" A loud, crude, dreary misfire that feels like it was cobbled together from material cut from other lousy comedies."

Posted Oct 9, 2009

N/A

Rotten
29%

Free Style (2009)

" Interview with Corbin Bleu"
INTERVIEW

Posted Oct 9, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
84%

Paranormal Activity (2009)

" Isn't much more than an extended exercise in horror tropes, but it's a clever one, expertly designed and executed, depending more on pulse-pounding suggestion rather than explicit violence."

Posted Oct 8, 2009

Rotten
D-

Rotten
29%

Free Style (2009)

" You can always while away the hour and a half playing 'Count the Cliches.' One wishes Bleu all the best, but on the evidence of this picture his career might be a lot shorter than his hair."

Posted Oct 8, 2009

Rotten
C

Fresh
66%

Coco Before Chanel (2009)

" As cool and elegant as its heroine. Unfortunately it's also equally impassive, opaque and--at least in this incarnation--dull."

Posted Oct 6, 2009

Fresh
A

Fresh
85%

A Serious Man (2009)

" Piercingly funny, wrenchingly sad and always brilliant...a small but genuine masterwork from a team that's already given us plenty of them."

Posted Oct 6, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
72%

The Boys Are Back (2009)

" For the most part it's a tearjerker that works...testimony to the good judgment--and good taste--of everyone involved."

Posted Oct 6, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
86%

Lorna's Silence (2009)

" The Dardennes have once again captured the harsh reality of the modern underclass while also injecting a note of moral hopefulness into what might have been a bleak and heartless tale."

Posted Oct 6, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
86%

A Woman in Berlin (2008)

" Though deliberately paced and somewhat repetitive, it's...powerful and enlightening."

Posted Oct 6, 2009

Fresh
A-

Fresh
100%

Toy Story 2 (1999)

" Colorful and witty...the mixture of action and humor proves as irresistible as ever."

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
100%

Toy Story (1995)

" Colorful and witty...the mixture of action and humor proves as irresistible as ever."

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
89%

Zombieland (2009)

" Nothing more than a Troma schlockfest with a bigger budget, but it boasts an amusing script, a quick tempo and...a cast that milks the madness for all it's worth."

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
82%

Whip It (2009)

" An unexpected pleasure...goofily enjoyable."

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Rotten
C+

Rotten
55%

The Invention of Lying (2009)

" Starts with a clever premise and raises the prospect of really biting satire, only to trail off into weakly sweet comedy that falls far short of its potential."

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
75%

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

" What [Moore] offers isn't an argument as much as a polemic. But as in the past, he proves a skilled polemicist,...[and] looked at dispassionately, it's fun."

Posted Oct 1, 2009

Rotten
C-

Rotten
18%

The Other Man (2009)

" A turgid tale of adultery among the rich and boring."

Posted Sep 29, 2009

Rotten
F

Rotten
27%

Pandorum (2009)

" So bad it ought to be based on a video game."

Posted Sep 29, 2009

Rotten
D+

Rotten
38%

Surrogates (2009)

" Particularly silly...the sort of emptily bombastic popcorn movie that might make you wish you had a surrogate to go and sit through it in your place."

Posted Sep 24, 2009

Rotten
D

Rotten
28%

Fame (2009)

" Riddled with cliches from beginning to end...[a] misguided exhumation of what was once a pretty lively piece."

Posted Sep 24, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
88%

Amreeka (2009)

" An earnest comedy-drama, which covers familiar territory but in an unpretentious, and so reasonably pleasant fashion."

Posted Sep 24, 2009

Rotten
C

Rotten
45%

Jennifer's Body (2009)

" You have to give Cody and her cohorts credit for trying to pump some new blood into a stale genre, and there are moments of inspired cleverness...but they're not frequent or sustained enough."

Posted Sep 18, 2009

Rotten
F

Rotten
18%

Love Happens (2009)

" Yeah, love happens. So does something else. Sappy, overemphatic and cloying...[a] mountain of narrative cliches."

Posted Sep 18, 2009

N/A

Fresh
83%

Bright Star (2009)

" Interview with Paul Schneider"
INTERVIEW

Posted Sep 17, 2009

Fresh
B-

Fresh
85%

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

" Doesn't soar like Up, but it stays afloat long enough to remain a pleasant family treat."

Posted Sep 17, 2009

Fresh
B

Fresh
83%

Bright Star (2009)

" A mellow, pictorially attractive period piece in which the characters seem actually to breathe rather than merely pose, as so often happens in such films."

Posted Sep 17, 2009

Fresh
B+

Fresh
76%

The Informant! (2009)

" A movie of chuckles rather than belly-laughs...but they really add up. In its unforced, loopy way, this is one of the funniest pictures of the year."

Posted Sep 16, 2009

N/A

Rotten
32%

The Burning Plain (2009)

" Interview with Guillermo Arriaga and Joachim de Almeida"
INTERVIEW

Posted Sep 16, 2009
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