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Michael Rechtshaffen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: Hollywood Reporter
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 697

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	50%	Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel (2012)	" This keenly-observed, if generically-assembled, Grunge-era doc tells the Hole story through the eyes of its successfully rehabbed drummer." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 13, 2012
	51%	Think Like a Man (2012)	" An attractive, game cast helps liven up this handsome but overlong urban rom-com." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 12, 2012
	50%	Good for Nothing (2012)	" Beauty and the Beast meets Sergio Leone in this amusing Western import." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 16, 2012
—	74%	Big Miracle (2012)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 9, 2012
	38%	The Samaritan (2012)	" A rock solid Samuel L. Jackson adeptly anchors the twists and turns of this noir crime thriller." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 9, 2012
	88%	A Cat in Paris ()	" This unexpected Best Animated Feature Oscar nominee is sleek, stylish animated escapade that makes vivid, affecting use of its brief running time." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 9, 2012
	85%	21 Jump Street (2012)	" Co-directors Lord and Miller keep the comic pace humming along agreeably with the same sort of animated energy they provided for those raining meatballs." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 5, 2012
	56%	The Lorax (2012)	" Armed with a splendid voice cast and a gorgeously-rendered 3D-CG landscape, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax entertains while delivering its pro-environmental, anti-greed message wrapped in a bright package of primary colors that truly pop." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 29, 2012
	25%	Act of Valor (2012)	" The merging of dramatic re-creations and on-camera "performances" proves less seamlessly executed than those masterfully coordinated land, sea and air missions." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 23, 2012
	21%	Darling Companion (2012)	" Lawrence Kasdan's pleasant dramedy boasts a prized ensemble but lacks bite." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 10, 2012
	31%	Man on a Ledge (2012)	" To his credit, director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil) gets right to the business at hand where the set-up is concerned, but it's in the execution that this would-be thriller falls flat." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 23, 2012
	7%	The Devil Inside (2012)	" Proves as scary and unsettling as a slab of devil's food cake - only considerably less satisfying." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 6, 2012
	13%	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)	" Well, at least it isn't in 3D." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 14, 2011
	7%	New Year's Eve (2011)	" The result proves to be as appealing and effervescent as a flute of flat champagne." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 6, 2011
	——	Nothing Special (2011)	" Artificiality prevents this trite mother-daughter dramedy from hitting home." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 21, 2011
	92%	Arthur Christmas (2011)	" Leave it to the folks who brought us Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away to bring a delightful blast of fresh air to the conventional Christmas genre." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 10, 2011
	13%	The Greening Of Whitney Brown (2011)	" Mild tween fare that would have been more at home on the small screen." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 9, 2011
—	——	Light of Mine ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 8, 2011
	25%	Dirty Girl (2011)	" A sweet 'n' sassy period comedy with a Juno sensibility and the soul of a Little Miss Sunshine." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 5, 2011
	17%	I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)	" Fortunately McGrath ultimately moves beyond the shtick and keeps things moving at an agreeable pace, relying on his talented ensemble to capably close the deal." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 11, 2011
	12%	Tanner Hall (2011)	" There are some dedicated performances, but this unfocused drama adds nothing new to the girls' boarding school film curriculum." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 8, 2011
	23%	The Smurfs (2011)	" For all the digitally enhanced Smurfness, the results are remarkably mirthless." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 28, 2011
	71%	Friends With Benefits (2011)	" Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis make for engaging leads in this unexpectedly fresh R-rated comedy." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 18, 2011
	76%	The Sleeping Beauty (2011)	" After a beguiling once-upon-a-time beginning... the charm begins wearing off as the film gets bogged down in more contemporary, uninteresting notions of identity and sexual empowerment, leading to a shoulder-shrugging ending." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 6, 2011
	35%	The Hangover Part II (2011)	" What happens in Bangkok isn't as much fun as when it happened in Vegas, but it's still worth the trip." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 23, 2011
	77%	In A Better World (2011)	" A stirring treatise on the nature of violence from the Danish director of After the Wedding." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 28, 2011
	52%	Brotherhood (2011)	" Viewers get paddled into submission in this strident frat-house thriller." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 17, 2011
	78%	Mooz-lum (2011)	" Sensitive performances smooth out the dramatic rough spots of this well-intentioned, racially-charged drama." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 14, 2011
	80%	Barney's Version (2011)	" Highly entertaining and arguably the most satisfying Richler screen adaptation to date." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 11, 2011
	56%	Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)	" Despite the novel approach to Shakespeare's oft-told tale of doomed love, this 3D animated garden gnome variation never fully comes to life." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 9, 2011
	64%	Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)	" An undeniably engaging musical portrait that delivers major bangs for the buck." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 9, 2011
	79%	Small Town Murder Songs (2011)	" An effective ensemble backed by a bracingly haunting soundtrack strike a compelling chord in this rural Canadian crime drama." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 8, 2011
—	——	Poison: Nothing But a Good Time! Unauthorized (2003)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 7, 2011
	30%	Sanctum (2011)	" Soggy theatrics render this gorgeously-shot underwater 3D excursion more shrill than thrilling." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 2, 2011
—	——	All That I Love (Wszystko, co kocham) (2010)	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 15, 2011
—	——	Dos Hermanos ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 14, 2011
	44%	The Green Hornet (2011)	" Despite some entertaining moments, this long-in-gestation crime-fighter feature never reaches top speed." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 12, 2011
	90%	Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)	" A darkly mischievous, bracingly original and thoroughly captivating Yuletide import." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 13, 2010
	63%	Jackass 3-D (2010)	" Despite the added dimension, Knoxville and company end up falling flat on their aspirations." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 14, 2010
	36%	Hatchet II (2010)	" More funhouse than grindhouse, this unrated horror-comedy has its D-grade charms thanks to its killer cast." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 30, 2010
	51%	Devil (2010)	" There's an old belief in TV series production circles that if you're doing a stuck-in-an-elevator episode before Season 4, it's a telltale sign you've run fresh out of ideas." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 24, 2010
	50%	Little White Lies (2012)	" Canet has difficulty maintaining the film's finely calibrated tragic-comedic balance in the heavily maudlin third act, much to its detriment." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 22, 2010
	70%	Beautiful Boy (2011)	" A spare, unflinching examination of a married couple coping with the tragic death of their 18-year-old son." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 21, 2010
	73%	The Whistleblower (2011)	" Although the Canada-Germany co-production from first-time feature director Larysa Kondracki isn't as gripping as it could have been, that's no fault of Weisz's: She gives a bracing, wholly connected performance." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 20, 2010
	47%	The Bang Bang Club (2011)	" When all is said and done, their Pulitzer-winning photographs prove more potent than this well-intended but frustratingly generic picture." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 16, 2010
	0%	Virginia (2012)	" Presumably a glib attack on sanctimonious small-town religious hypocrisy informed by Black's own strict Mormon upbringing, the film is tonally all over the place, eventually settling in a rut that comes a lot closer to resembling bad camp than edgy satire" — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 13, 2010
	36%	Casino Jack (2010)	" Spacey's splendid in this brisk and engaging portrait of the disgraced Washington lobbyist." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 13, 2010
	89%	Let Me In (2010)	" This unsettling, effective American remake really gets under the skin as one of the year's most powerful thrillers." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 13, 2010
	58%	It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)	" A dramatically inert, lethargic dramedy that isn't nearly as quirky and poignant is it perceives itself." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 13, 2010

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