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Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications:: Film Journal International , Hollywood Reporter , Newsday , TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	13%	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)	" The animated chipmunk singing group creates generic funny-animal antics on a tropical island. After two critically lambasted but huge hits, why make any effort at imagination or originality?" — Film Journal International Posted Dec 16, 2011
	44%	Happy Feet Two (2011)	" Technically accomplished and otherwise uninspired sequel to the 2006 CGI hit about a dancing penguin in Antarctica." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 1, 2011
	0%	Laredoans Speak: Voices of a South Texas Border City (2011)	" Stilted, didactic documentary about immigration reform, with amateurish production values and no journalistic grounding, does not even reach the level of a classroom film." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 16, 2011
	8%	The Reunion (2011)	" Pro wrestler John Cena stars in a WWE film about estranged half-brothers compelled to work together to rescue a kidnap victim in this old-TV-style family adventure-drama." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 28, 2011
	60%	Glitch in the Grid (2011)	" Live-action and animated art film, � la the Quay Brothers, of a spiritually ungrounded young man and his friends." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 24, 2011
	59%	Real Steel (2011)	" A science-fiction family film in which nine-foot-tall boxing robots are greased not with oil but with schmaltz." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 6, 2011
	60%	The Weird World of Blowfly (2011)	" Footnote in musical history gets a padded documentary that says more about the nature of fandom than about songwriter and raunchy party-record singer Clarence "Blowfly" Reid." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 22, 2011
	44%	Beware the Gonzo (2011)	" A crusading young reporter's high-school underground newspaper becomes a rallying point for the bullied and the outcast in this low-budget drama filmed in Brooklyn and Queens." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 9, 2011
	25%	Inside Out (2011)	" Barely workmanlike domestic drama by a lawyer-turned-screenwriter and a TV producer-director, each making their first feature-a vehicle for pro wrestler Triple H as an ex-con." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 9, 2011
F	11%	Captain America (1990)	" The movie isn't merely wrong for kids -- it's just all wrong." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 21, 2011
	79%	Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)	" Stirring World War II story of old-fashioned rightness and integrity, saved from corniness by star Chris Evans' sincere performance and director Joe Johnston's imaginative action sequences." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 21, 2011
	27%	Green Lantern (2011)	" Generic superhero movie, assembled with off-the-shelf narrative components and no authentic soul or emotion. Green Lantern is colorless. " — Film Journal International Posted Jun 16, 2011
	82%	Super 8 (2011)	" ...the result is clunky and predictable, not streamlined and exciting like the Spielberg films of old." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 9, 2011
	82%	TrollHunter (2011)	" The Blair Witch Project, with trolls: Deadpan, dead-on Norwegian mockumentary is destined to be a classic of its kind." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 9, 2011
	87%	X-Men: First Class (2011)	" A dark and emotionally complex movie for grownups, this prequel to the Marvel Comics X-Men franchise is exactly what its title suffix says." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 3, 2011
	81%	Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)	" ...the film works on both aesthetic and emotional levels, and is truly beautiful to behold." — Film Journal International Posted May 27, 2011
	73%	The Big Uneasy (2010)	" A comedian's well-meaning but muddled documentary about the Army Corps of Engineers' pre-Katrina failings in New Orleans is a narrative mess of 20/20 hindsight." — Film Journal International Posted May 20, 2011
	77%	Thor (2011)	" Lavish and satisfying big-screen translation of the Marvel comic's mighty Norse god brought down to Earth." — Film Journal International Posted May 6, 2011
	71%	Exporting Raymond (2011)	" Fascinating and entertaining vanity production about adapting the show for Russian TV." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 29, 2011
	11%	Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil (2011)	" Once upon a time there was a substandard CGI secret-agent spoof with fairy-tale characters spouting unfunny dialogue and shoehorned-in pop-culture references." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 29, 2011
	82%	American: The Bill Hicks Story (2011)	" Hagiographic documentary of the late standup comic, with great visual style but gaping narrative and thematic holes due to the filmmakers' remarkable decision to only interview Hicks' loving family and friends." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 7, 2011
	88%	Rango (2011)	" An animated homage to western movies-from classic to revisionist, old-fashioned to postmodern--Rango plumbs existential depths and hits movie-lover highs." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 2, 2011
	49%	No Strings Attached (2011)	" Attractive but laugh-deficient romantic comedy of two young people in L.A. trying to maintain a friends-with-benefits relationship." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 21, 2011
	43%	I'm Dangerous with Love (2011)	" This highly personal look at the controversial addiction-ending drug Ibogaine often veers into self-indulgence before becoming an interesting ethno-documentary at the end. But its lack of journalistic objectivity hinders real understanding of the subject." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 19, 2011
	100%	Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (2011)	" Moving and fast-moving documentary about the influential 1960s folksinger and face of the protest movement, considered second only to Bob Dylan in the power of his lyrics." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 5, 2011
	80%	Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers (2010)	" The talented Mabry delivers an interesting look at a sport with great potential, and at women who can be testosterone-tough while remaining fully feminine. " — TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) Posted Dec 17, 2010
	80%	Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers (2010)	" Documentary about women's roller-derby in Portland, Ore., showcases a talented new director but doesn't disclose its executive producer's ties to the organization, making objectivity suspect." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 17, 2010
	8%	Alien Girl (2010)	" By-the-numbers crime thriller set in 1990s Ukraine, Prague and Bratislava, with a femme fatale and fatheads." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 17, 2010
	86%	Rabbit Hole (2010)	" We don't want fireworks, but we do want a lit fuse." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 15, 2010
	90%	Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)	" Odd and ominous little tale about a long-buried monster uncovered in the frozen wastes of Lapland: the horned demon Santa Claus." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 3, 2010
	72%	Megamind (2010)	" Rollickingly funny superhero comedy of manners about a poor, misunderstood supervillain may not be The Incredibles, but it's still incredible." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 12, 2010
	40%	Walkaway (2010)	" Four first-generation Indian-American New Yorkers look for love, or try to hold onto it, in this Desi-loo production." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 1, 2010
	39%	The Taqwacores (2010)	" No profit will shine a light on this youth-drama of Muslim-American punk rockers." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 25, 2010
	86%	Punching the Clown (2010)	" A quiet jewel of smart, unexpected laughs...as old vaudevillians would say, "It's funny because it's true."" — Film Journal International Posted Oct 25, 2010
	0%	Kalamity (2010)	" Kalamity well describes this katastrophe." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 25, 2010
	50%	Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (2010)	" Interesting but uncritically na�ve look at male and female convicts in Oklahoma, competing in one of the nation's last two prison rodeos." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 4, 2010
	50%	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)	" PG rating belies the incipient terror of this exquisitely rendered, well-told tale of genocidal ambitions, medieval slashing tools, child slavery, child soldiers and other nightmare-inducers." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 24, 2010
	17%	Last Day of Summer (2010)	" A fine performance by character actor DJ Qualls can't make up for an amateurish enterprise as pathetically inept as its own hero's own attempts at recognition." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 17, 2010
	17%	Legendary (2010)	" Stix Dig Hick Pix? A firmly Middle American high-school drama, set in small-town Oklahoma, about classical wrestling, starring a sports-entertainment wrestler and produced by World Wrestling Entertainment." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 10, 2010
	20%	Clear Blue Tuesday (2010)	" Theatre-inspired and cast-workshopped musical about several New Yorkers' lives in the wake of 9/11 is well-intentioned but off-off-off-off-Broadway." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 2, 2010
	27%	Takers (2010)	" Takers is all so slickly handsome, it's like a string of European clothing commercials interrupted by the occasional plot." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 26, 2010
	36%	Hiding Divya (2010)	" Intimate indie about a disaffected desi in Edison, N.J., who with her 16-year-old daughter must face her own mother's ever-more-evident mental illness." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 19, 2010
	81%	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)	" Magical realism meets Mortal Kombat, as magical combat and mortal realism fire up a sweet, funny and blindingly original first-love tale." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 10, 2010
	78%	The Other Guys (2010)	" Smart, funny send-up of buddy-cop movies wields wit and satire even while cars crash, storefronts explode, and Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg exchange jibes as eager police partners pursuing big prey." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 4, 2010
	20%	Red Alert: The War Within (2010)	" Even charismatic star Suniel Shetty can't generate interest or excitement in this earnest drama of India's internal conflict with the Maoist "Naxalite" movement." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 8, 2010
	62%	Raavanan (Villain) (2010)	" Dark, psychologically trenchant modern retelling of the ancient epic The Ramayana, with a police inspector's wife held captive in a jungle by a near-mythic tribal leader." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 18, 2010
	67%	The Karate Kid (2010)	" Formulaic but savvy reboot of the four-film series makes for a solid children's movie, bolstered by exotic locales and a genuinely talented young star." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 11, 2010
	87%	Cropsey (2010)	" Documentary of a spate of child kidnappings/killings in Staten Island, New York, in the 1970s, tied thematically to the titular Hudson Valley boogeyman myth." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 8, 2010
	0%	Raajneeti (2010)	" More pulpy than political, this Godfather-ripoff Hindi electoral drama is a candidate for oblivion in U.S. theatres." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 7, 2010

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