ROTTEN TOMATOES: Scott Tobias

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SCOTT TOBIAS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography: I see movies, watch DVDs, and read books, then I get paid to write what I think of them. Beats doing stuff.

Favorites: Top 5 (no order): Sansho The Bailiff, Duck Soup, Tokyo Story, Shoot The Piano Player, Taxi Driver

Publications: AV Club, Glyphs Film Guide, rec.arts.movies.reviews, Time Out New York

Critics' Group: Chicago Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 459

Location: Chicago

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Rotten C-	Rotten 17%	Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)	" Every scrap of footage here has been done better somewhere else." — AV Club Posted Jul 9, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 11%	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)	" I Love You, Beth Cooper tries to exploit and explode broad stereotypes, but it never transcends the labels it applies." — AV Club Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 83%	Humpday (2009)	" *In scene after scene, Humpday* carefully raises the stakes until it hits a finale loaded with humor, tenderness, and delicious ambiguity.*" — AV Club* Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" *For the first hour or more, The Hurt Locker* boldly forsakes any conventional narrative hook beyond the ongoing tensions between these men and the terrifying grind of defusing bombs day after day.*" — AV Club* Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 44%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" *It would take a heart of stone not to be affected by My Sister�s Keeper, but the film�s unceasing manipulation has a Medusa effect on the organ." — AV Club* Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 56%	The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)	" The Stoning Of Soraya M. crawls forward in excruciating slow motion toward the inevitable day when sinners cast the first, second, third, and fourth (etc.) stone, stacking the deck at every turn along the way." — AV Club Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 66%	Dead Snow (2009)	" Once the action broadens to the open snow and the victims start to fight back, the Nazi-zombie premise finally pays off." — AV Club Posted Jun 18, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 46%	Whatever Works (2009)	" Dusting off an ancient script intended for Zero Mostel three decades ago, Allen tweaks the material enough to supply David with bilious rants about the stupidity and meaninglessness of man and the universe." — AV Club Posted Jun 18, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 43%	Imagine That (2009)	" Given his growing track record of odious kiddie fare, it�s no surprise to see Eddie Murphy squandering his talents as another in a long line of movie dads who are too wrapped up in their jobs to pay attention to their kids." — AV Club Posted Jun 11, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 62%	Tetro (2009)	" It�s the product of a great dreamer and aesthete, rather than an authentic emotional experience -- a gorgeous, crystalline bauble that really catches the light." — AV Club Posted Jun 11, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" Though Away We Go lacks the screwball unpredictability of something like Flirting With Disaster, it compensates with a unexpected depth of feeling, a novelist�s (or memoirist�s) sense of detail, and a panoramic view of what home means." — AV Club Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 85%	Unmistaken Child (2009)	" Baratz�s apparent willingness to accept everything at face value papers over some of the more troubling aspects of Tenzin�s mission, but Unmistaken Child allows the mysteries of the process to be preserved without judgment." — AV Club Posted Jun 4, 2009
Rotten C+	Fresh 94%	24 City (2009)	" *Mostly, 24 City* falls into the same Jia trap of inadvertently drawing the viewers� gaze past his human subjects and to the poetic images of a country in painful metamorphosis.*" — AV Club* Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" This is junk filmmaking at its finest." — AV Club Posted May 28, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 50%	Easy Virtue (2009)	" Easy Virtue needs a strong center to justify its celebration of American effrontery, and Biel lacks that prideful edge." — AV Club Posted May 21, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 58%	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)	" The current economic freefall started right around the time Steven Soderbergh was shooting The Girlfriend Experience...his artful glimpse at the business of sex is made all the richer for it." — AV Club Posted May 21, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" Bill & Ted�s Excellent Adventure is a more enriching experience, and it features Joan Of Arc as an aerobics instructor." — AV Club Posted May 21, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 75%	Adoration (2009)	" Under the violin swells of Mychael Danna�s enveloping score, Egoyan weaves the personal, the political, and the technological into an immense yet intimate comment on our troubled times. In doing so, he stumbles back into relevance again." — AV Club Posted May 14, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 25%	Little Ashes (2009)	" The film�s biggest problem, beyond the overheated melodrama and paper-thin period trappings, is that the trio�s fictionalized dalliances diminish their real art." — AV Club Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 33%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" *Too much of The Limits Of Control* feels canned and airless, so stifled by Jarmusch�s obsessions that it loses all sense of surprise.*" — AV Club* Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 89%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" Fukunaga paints better outside the lines, working with cinematographer Adriano Goldman to offer vivid shots of the poverty and despair cutting through Latin America." — AV Club Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 100%	Gomorra (2008)	" Over the course of this sprawling mosaic about the world�s most fearsome Mafia organization, the Neapolitan Camorra, [director] Garrone makes the business look like a beast of many tentacles, spreading misery and death to everyone it touches." — AV Club Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 28%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" Chief among the disappointments of the new romantic comedy Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past is that McConaughey plays an upscale version of his Dazed And Confused character, yet that creepy edge has been filed off again." — AV Club Posted Apr 30, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 46%	Battle for Terra (2009)	" For a movie with a on-the-cheap CGI and a wisecracking R2-D2/C-3PO clone, it�s still awfully heady." — AV Club Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 18%	Obsessed (2009)	" Obsessed makes an inadvertent argument for the monastery." — AV Club Posted Apr 27, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 90%	Il Divo (2009)	" Sorrentino�s directorial flourishes are at least partly to blame for the lack of clarity; his ornate setpieces are frequently dazzling, but as they pile up over two hours, they wind up distracting as often as they illuminate." — AV Club Posted Apr 23, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 85%	Earth (2009)	" Earth succeeds well enough as spectacle." — AV Club Posted Apr 23, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" Though its rough-around-the-edges style occasionally veers into outright sloppiness, the film is an antidote to slick studio product like 2008�s MMA advertisement Never Back Down, and it infuses even its clich�s with the poetry of the everyday." — AV Club Posted Apr 23, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 71%	American Violet (2009)	" The film is more affecting than it ought to be, thanks to a loaded cast that includes Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Charles Dutton, and the rapper and sometime actor Xzibit." — AV Club Posted Apr 16, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 56%	17 Again (2009)	" With plenty of help from a fine supporting cast, Efron deftly handles the fish-out-of-water hijinks and slips through more icky May-September romantic entanglements than an average season of Friday Night Lights." — AV Club Posted Apr 16, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 85%	State of Play (2009)	" Though solidly plotted and executed all around, the film feels like a quaint relic from another era, aping the form of journalistic thrillers like All The President�s Men while missing much of their urgency." — AV Club Posted Apr 16, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" Something of a cross between the formalist whimsy of Wes Anderson and the God�s-lonely-man psychosis of Taxi Driver, the film breaks all the rules, but the tonal schizophrenia that results isn�t an accident." — AV Club Posted Apr 9, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 38%	Gigantic (2008)	" Any resemblance the film bears to real people and real situations is purely coincidental." — AV Club Posted Apr 2, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 52%	American Swing (2009)	" American Swing could use the flair of similar portraits of disco-era debauchery like Boogie Nights or Inside Deep Throat, but it�s even-handed in capturing the operation�s ambition and hubris. Just don�t bring an appetite." — AV Club Posted Mar 26, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 94%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" Continues [Bahrani's] persistent, sympathetic documentation of first-generation immigrants on the margins of society. And in an indie world too long dominated by navel-gazers, Bahrani�s work has become an important corrective." — AV Club Posted Mar 26, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 55%	Shuttle (2009)	" When the payoff finally arrives, it seems tasteless not just because of its topicality, but because the shock feels unearned." — AV Club Posted Mar 19, 2009
Fresh B-	Fresh 82%	I Love You, Man (2009)	" What saves I Love You, Man, at least partially, is the relaxed chemistry between Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, both very funny men who are genuine enough to push back against a premise that�s often maddeningly artificial." — AV Club Posted Mar 19, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 43%	Race to Witch Mountain (2009)	" The cost of hitting every demographic sweet spot is a movie that�s suitable for all ages and recommendable to none; with Johnson in enforcer mode, it�s a little like a generic R-rated science-fiction thriller pre-edited for television." — AV Club Posted Mar 13, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 42%	The Last House on the Left (2009)	" Substitutes general 'intensity' for every thorny stylistic and political particulars that made Craven�s film so singular." — AV Club Posted Mar 12, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 74%	Tokyo! (2009)	" The entries aren�t equally strong, of course, but each comes from a sharp outsider�s perspective, approaching Tokyo as a strange, mysterious organism that infects the populace." — AV Club Posted Mar 5, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 0%	Echelon Conspiracy (2009)	" A by-the-numbers international thriller in the Bourne vein." — AV Club Posted Mar 2, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 59%	Eleven Minutes (2009)	" Eleven Minutes is better when the cameras stay on McCarroll and allow him to voice his extreme ambivalence about being a reality-TV creation, and about the industry and his place within it. As ever, he plays the consummate outsider to perfection." — AV Club Posted Feb 19, 2009
Rotten F	Rotten 23%	Fired Up (2009)	" Like a grotesque hybrid between the straight-to-DVD American Pie and Bring It On sequels, Fired Up asks the audience to root for a skirt-chasing Seacrest-and-Dunkleman pair who operate like a hive-minded Van Wilder." — AV Club Posted Feb 19, 2009
Fresh A-	Fresh 91%	Gomorrah (2009)	" *Say this for Matteo Garrone�s powerful Gomorrah: It succeeds in siphoning every ounce of glamour out of gangster life." — AV Club* Posted Feb 12, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 43%	He's Just Not That Into You (2009)	" The movie makes it seem worthwhile, even noble, to wait around for cads to change their ways. No doubt the film's happy endings will only perpetuate more delusion and heartbreak." — AV Club Posted Feb 5, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 31%	The Uninvited (2009)	" It's a slick, bloodless affair that's neither as suggestive as the classic general-audiences ghost stories of the past, nor as intense as a hard-R would allow it to be." — AV Club Posted Jan 30, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 80%	Serbis (2009)	" Though [director] Mendoza doesn't care to resolve all of the many subplots he's jugging, the film gives a complete picture of a family, a business, and a city in disarray, and the looming fallout." — AV Club Posted Jan 29, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 57%	Taken (2009)	" Having a thespian of Neeson's caliber chopping down burly henchmen with his bare hands creates a pleasant cognitive dissonance for a while, but the film is unworthy of him." — AV Club Posted Jan 29, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 17%	The Lodger (2009)	" It takes guts to remake what many believe to be Hitchcock's first masterpiece, but what Ondaatje's done with The Lodger could not be mistaken for ambition." — AV Club Posted Jan 22, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 92%	Of Time and the City (2009)	" Of Time And The City is a caustic, witty, regretful elegy for a place so transformed that it's virtually unrecognizable." — AV Club Posted Jan 22, 2009

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