ROTTEN TOMATOES: David Fear

DAVID FEAR

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Biography: Film Critic, San Francisco Bay Guardian and CultureVulture.net

Publications: culturevulture.net, Time Out, Time Out New York, Time Out Sydney

Critics' Group: San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 365

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Rotten 0/6	Rotten 5%	88 Minutes (2008)	" Now that this stupendously inept serial-killer flick has slithered into theaters, the diminutive legend had better clear room in his closet for another cinematic skeleton." — Time Out Posted Oct 3, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 8%	The Skeptic (2009)	" Tennyson Bardwell�s pretentious psycho-supernatural flick doesn�t even qualify as guilty-pleasure camp. It�s the sort of bad movie that will make you lose faith in the genre altogether." — Time Out New York Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 27%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" There�s precious little to laugh at � not the lead�s one-dimensional swagger, Michael Douglas�s Rat Pack-meets-Robert Evans jive talk or an anti-misogyny parable with the gall to make every female a neurotic shrew or a sex-starved harpy." — Time Out Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 27%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" McConaughey�s character is finally forced to face up to past transgressions; one day, the filmmakers behind this rancid, hypocritical farce will have to deal with theirs." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 12%	Lake City (2008)	" The real shame is the waste of Spacek. She's an American treasure who doesn't work nearly enough; to see this star make a rare appearance, only to wither among such emotional cheap shots, is the one thing in Lake City that will genuinely make you weep." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 17%	Fly Me To The Moon (2008)	" It'd be nice to imagine, however, that after enduring this attempt at selling fourth-rate 3-D animation as entertainment, ripped-off toddlers would react properly and take to the streets en masse." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 5%	88 Minutes (2008)	" Compared with Jon Avnet�s barely functional directing and the ripened dialogue, Pacino�s phoned-in turn hardly qualifies as a cardinal sin." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 18, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 8%	Backseat (2008)	" The list of transgressions in Bruce Van Dusen�s stalled road-trip flick is miles long: dialogue chocked with bumper-sticker platitudes, self-consciously quirky characters, gratuitous gunplay and a soundtrack top-heavy with achingly bad dorm-rock." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 27, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 50%	Penelope (2008)	" Neither a talented cast nor the film�s Gaudi-like version of London�s urban landscapes can make up for schizophrenic pacing and inexplicable phenomena." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 28, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 17%	How to Rob a Bank (2008)	" Bereft of anything resembling subtlety or common sense, this cretinous caper flick does offer a lesson on how to rob folks of $10.50. The bank aspect is merely incidental." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 7, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 30%	The Heartbreak Kid (2007)	" The original's premise has been stripped of anything to do with upward mobility, and except for one shot involving a Prince Albert, the Farrellys' signature shock humor is largely absent." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 17%	Revolver (2007)	Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 42%	The Bucket List (2007)	" Horribly manipulative, heinously written tripe." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 13, 2007
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 34%	Rails & Ties (2007)	" Some films use talent and eloquence to grab an audience. Others, however, rely simply on brute force; if nothing else, this megaweepie isn�t afraid to throw elbows at any unlucky sod with $11 and a masochistic streak." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 25, 2007
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 37%	Reservation Road (2007)	" If the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions, there must be a special circle for directors who�d milk a child�s death for cheap manipulation." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 18, 2007
Rotten 1/6	Fresh 81%	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	" Even [Gosling] can’t guide us to the pulse within this pat material, and you have to keep reminding yourself which of the title characters is the plastic one." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 18, 2007
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 35%	Finishing the Game (2007)	" What little potential there is ends up squandered within nanoseconds; as both a parody and a polemic, the film is finished before it�s barely begun." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 6, 2007
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 4%	Happily N'Ever After (2007)	" The computerised animation is cut-rate; the script keeps piling on clunker jokes that even toddlers will find lame; and Prinze proves he isn�t any better an actor in two dimensions than he is in three." — Time Out Posted Aug 1, 2007
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 37%	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)	" The performances are plywooden, the cornball visual gags are groanworthy, and Tim Story still can�t direct his way out a sack with a map." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 23, 2007
Rotten 1/6	Fresh 62%	Music and Lyrics (2007)	" This isn�t just a chick flick wallowing in moon-spoon-June levels of Hallmark mush; it�s the 'Macarena' of cut-rate rom-coms." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 17, 2007
Rotten 1/6	Rotten 4%	Happily N'Ever After (2007)	" You expect a certain amount of sugar and snark in a modern children�s film, but this tossed-off retelling reeks of folks just out to make a cheap buck." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 3, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Fresh 71%	The Blind Side (2009)	" It�s just blinkered middle-class pandering at its most shameless." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 30%	Women in Trouble (2009)	" The film borrows beaucoup Almod�varisms -- multilayered hysterical heroines, a singular homo-ironic aesthetic -- and reduces them to Podunk wink-wink camp and carping-harpy heroines." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Fresh 86%	Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)	" God forbid anything even slightly suspenseful or significant should happen without revved-up �80s Irish rock blasting over the soundtrack." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 20, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 25%	The Collector (2009)	" This is the sort of cheap bilking that separates completists from masochists; the brief suffering onscreen is nothing compared with the agony scary-movie buffs will feel after being so thoroughly cheated." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 5, 2009

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5/5	35 Shots of RumOffsite
5/6	Momma's ManOffsite
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4/6	Beautiful LosersOffsite
3/5	DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a NationOffsite
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