ROTTEN TOMATOES: John J. Puccio

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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10/10	A Christmas Carol
9/10	The Wild Bunch
8/10	Deliverance
7/10	The Jungle Book
6/10	Top Gun
5/10	We Are Marshall
4/10	Next
3/10	Cruising
2/10	Strange Wilderness

BEST REVIEWED
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10/10	Raiders of the Lost Ark
10/10	A Christmas Carol
10/10	Essential Classic Dramas
10/10	The Maltese Falcon
10/10	Toy Story 2
10/10	The Wizard of Oz
10/10	Mary Poppins
10/10	Gone With the Wind
10/10	The Empire Strikes Back
10/10	The Grapes of Wrath
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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1/10	Freddy Got Fingered
2/10	Funny Games
2/10	Strange Wilderness
2/10	Kill House
2/10	Rest Stop
2/10	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
2/10	Night of the Lepus
2/10	The Crow - Wicked Prayer
2/10	Taxi
2/10	Showgirls
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 83% of the time.

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8/10	"...grim, fascinating, always absorbing, wildly imaginative, and not a little scary. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jul 25, 2008	Dark City (1998)	75%
8/10	"...the movie is mostly style, but it's a style so engrossing, it more than makes up for any lack of substance." Posted Jul 25, 2008	Dark City (1998)	75%
8/10	"...if kids are going to cut, I wish they'd do it the way Ferris did it. I mean, do it right, for heaven's sake! (I Love the 80's Edition)" Posted Jul 24, 2008	Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)	82%
8/10	"...funny, satiric, bright, and inventive, sagging around the two-thirds mark but coming through with an exhilarating finish." Posted Jul 24, 2008	Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)	82%
3/10	"...little more than a collection of drug and sex jokes, profanity, and nudity, intermittently punctuated by potty gags. (Unrated 2-Disc Special Edition)" Posted Jul 22, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
3/10	"Anything the filmmakers might have, could have, should have handled with even the remotest degree of subtlety...they didn't." Posted Jul 22, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
6/10	"The dogfights and aerial footage are fun, but a person might best forget the love story and melodrama. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jul 21, 2008	Top Gun (1986)	42%
6/10	"The film is remarkably silly and often empty-headed, yet it leaves one pleasantly amused.... (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jul 20, 2008	Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)	73%
6/10	"...for all its juvenile shortcomings, there's a sweet and beguiling charm to the film." Posted Jul 20, 2008	Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)	73%
7/10	"...it makes for a crackerjack story. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Bank Job (2008)	78%
7/10	"Not a great film, maybe, but a pretty nifty one in any case." Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Bank Job (2008)	78%
8/10	"...it builds an amiable relationship with its audience that promotes repeat viewing. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Lost Boys (1987)	75%
8/10	"Play it loud and enjoy." Posted Jul 14, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
8/10	"...an exhilarating and wholly engrossing event." Posted Jul 14, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
10/10	"...a terrific piece of moviemaking--funny, thoughtful, and poignant. (Blu-ray Digibook Edition)" Posted Jul 11, 2008	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	98%
3/10	"I'm sure I could be kind and say the program is essentially harmless--simple, dumb fun." Posted Jul 9, 2008	MANswers - Best of Manswers: Season One's Top 25 Manswers (2008)	n/a
3/10	"...mindless, witless, hapless, frivolous diversion that might, nevertheless, almost by accident hit the funny bone on occasion." Posted Jul 9, 2008	MANswers - Best of Manswers: Season One's Top 25 Manswers (2008)	n/a
8/10	"...creative, energetic, imaginative, involving, and even a little inspiring. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jul 7, 2008	Batman Begins (2005)	84%
8/10	"Its edgy tone and dark atmosphere coupled with its comic-book theatrics make it a winning combination for older children and adults alike." Posted Jul 7, 2008	Batman Begins (2005)	84%
4/10	"...Blu-ray's clearer, sharper high definition only made me want to turn my head away from the TV screen all the more. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jul 4, 2008	The Ruins (2008)	47%
6/10	"The movie is well-intended but just misses the mark." Posted Jul 2, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
6/10	"...once it makes its point, it tends to pile on, never making an entirely convincing drama nor an entirely convincing argument." Posted Jul 2, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
4/10	"*It's for people who thought there wasn't enough noise, blood, or violence in Hitman, Shoot 'Em Up, or Planet Terror." Posted Jun 30, 2008*	Wanted (2008)	72%
4/10	"...cold, mean-spirited, and tiresome. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 30, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
4/10	"It's not a disagreeable film, just a dull, uninspired one." Posted Jun 27, 2008	Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control (2007)	n/a
4/10	"...more like a series of afterthoughts than a fully realized motion picture." Posted Jun 27, 2008	Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control (2007)	n/a
4/10	"...a story that fails to engage us and characters who fail to involve us...the movie is plain, old-fashioned dull. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 25, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
4/10	"...gets bloodier as it goes along, substituting close-up gore for horror, grossness for fright. (Unrated Edition)" Posted Jun 23, 2008	The Ruins (2008)	47%
4/10	"...silly, sentimental, sometimes cruel, often clumsy, mostly unfunny, and frustratingly inane." Posted Jun 21, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
7/10	"...there are some touching scenes as well, which ensure this isn't just another juvenile fantasy/action adventure. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 19, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
4/10	"...most of the film is simply a matter of waiting for it to end." Posted Jun 17, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
5/10	"It's neither scary nor disturbing, neither suspenseful nor involving. It's just well-made, dark-toned confetti. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Eye (2008)	21%
5/10	"...it doesn't leave us with much more than a feeling that we've been there and seen it all before." Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Eye (2008)	21%
5/10	"When you like a movie's music more than its story or characters, you know the thing's in trouble. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 15, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
7/10	"...imaginative fun, derivative, to be sure, but amusing and entertaining and just a little bit scary by turns, at least for kids." Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
5/10	"...more silly than romantic, more frantic than comedic, and more busy than adventurous." Posted Jun 12, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
7/10	"Nicholson plays a caricature of himself, and Freeman plays his usual buddy role. But we wouldn't want it any other way.(Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 11, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	42%
6/10	"Stone hammers his message home.... He utilizes overkill to criticize overkill. (Blu-ray Digibook Edition)" Posted Jun 10, 2008	Natural Born Killers (1994)	50%
6/10	"Stone has guts, I'll grant him that; but he needn't have spilled so much of it in our laps." Posted Jun 10, 2008	Natural Born Killers (1994)	50%
2/10	"...ugly and mean-spirited, which is I guess what its creator intended." Posted Jun 9, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	50%
2/10	"...a lurid piece of business, made all the more offensive for its apparent higher aspirations." Posted Jun 9, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	50%
5/10	"*With Otis* you get half a good film. Or if you're a pessimist, half a bad film.*" Posted Jun 7, 2008*	Otis (2008)	n/a
5/10	"*The problem with Otis* is that it keeps getting in its own way.*" Posted Jun 7, 2008*	Otis (2008)	n/a
7/10	"...sentimental, simplistic, and almost shamefully manipulative, yet I found it absolutely charming." Posted Jun 5, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	42%
6/10	"If you liked the movie in standard definition, you'll love it in high-def, despite the contradictions the improvements bring to the "documentary" concept. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 3, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
6/10	"...an A for effort, a B for visuals, a C for content, and a C for photography, the latter, of course, being intentionally herky-jerky." Posted Jun 3, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
7/10	"...not only the first movie in the series, it's still the best. (Blue-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 2, 2008	Dirty Harry (1971)	97%
7/10	"Eastwood created a genuine American folk hero in Harry Callahan, and whether you like him and his Neanderthal ways or not, he's around to stay. (Blu-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 2, 2008	The Dirty Harry Series (1971-1988)	n/a
7/10	"Plainview's character is unchanging, and Day-Lewis's dour portrayal becomes somewhat tiresome going on for so long as it does. (Blue-ray Edition)" Posted Jun 1, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
7/10	"*As a film about one man's obsessive egomania, There Will Be Blood* does its job.*" Posted Jun 1, 2008*	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%

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