ROTTEN TOMATOES: Kevin N. Laforest

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KEVIN N. LAFOREST

""The days go on and on... They don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people."
-Travis Bickle

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return."
-The truthful magical sitar
"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography: Kevin N. Laforest is a Montreal based critic. A film school graduate, he's also written a novel ('Qu'importe') and is a proud member of the World Badass Committee. He insists he invented the question mark.

Publications: Montreal Film Journal

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 1076
Total QuickRatings: 117

Location: Montr�al, Qc

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Rotten 2/4	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" The FX are still awesome, but they've lost their novelty factor. As for everything else, it still pretty much sucks." Posted Jun 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 43%	Killshot (2009)	" An Elmore Leonard adaptation starring Mickey Rourke as a contract killer. And this barely got released? Goddamn Weinstein Company..." Posted Jun 16, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 38%	Outlander (2009)	" This is honestly better than all the big Hollywood blockbusters that have been released so far this summer." Posted Jun 8, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" While the post-apocalyptic environment and the action sequences put together by director McG are effective, they lack a sense of fun." Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" A gigantic bore for more than half its running time, but it eventually grows surprisingly involving, thanks mostly to its great cast." Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" This feels like a movie put together by studio execs who think that stupid fanboys will eat up any random string of flashy, noisy action scenes." Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	N/A	Polytechnique (2009)	" Almost from beginning to end, we're filled with dread and, I must say, a morbid sense of anticipation." Posted Apr 26, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" This pitch black comedy has more in common with Taxi Driver or Oldboy than with a Judd Apatow flick." Posted Apr 12, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" More interested in mythology, philosophy and genre deconstruction than in cheap thrills." Posted Mar 7, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 79%	Gran Torino (2008)	" If Joel Schumacher had directed this, there might still be people enjoying it as the B-movie that it is, but no one would be calling it great." Posted Jan 9, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" Manages not to make this washed up wrestler a joke, just an "old broken down piece of meat" for whom we feel tremendous empathy." Posted Dec 2, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 54%	Australia (2008)	" Baz' latest might differ from his Red Curtain Trilogy by doing away with the overt theatricality, madcap visuals and musical numbers, but it's still driven by his infectious love of every aspect of filmmaking." Posted Nov 27, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 65%	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	" It still packs enough laughs to be worth checking out." Posted Nov 3, 2008
—	Rotten 17%	Dirty Work (1998)	Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 78%	Burn After Reading (2008)	" The Coen brothers' funniest movie since The Big Lebowski." Posted Sep 11, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	Tropic Thunder (2008)	" Even between the great gags, the movie kept me involved because, against all odds, it actually almost works as a straight war film." Posted Aug 13, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 64%	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)	" Holds little of the charm and unexpected emotional heft of its predecessor, which mostly avoided the kind of empty girly crap that abounds here." Posted Aug 5, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 68%	Pineapple Express (2008)	" David Gordon Green's hilarious stoner comedy is to action movies what The Big Lebowski was to film noir." Posted Aug 5, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 55%	Step Brothers (2008)	" Ferrell and John C. Reilly further prove that they're a perfectly matched comic pairing." Posted Jul 26, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	The Dark Knight (2008)	" An ambitious, complex, unpredictable and uncompromising morality tale." Posted Jul 19, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 96%	WALL-E (2008)	" This love story moved me more than any other in years." Posted Jul 14, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 87%	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	" Guillermo del Toro makes this sequel fully his own, firmly planting it in his unbridled imagination." Posted Jul 14, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 14%	The Love Guru (2008)	" Mike Myers is so spirited, good-natured and clearly having a blast being a goofball that it's almost impossible not to be won over." Posted Jun 18, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 19%	The Happening (2008)	" Minor Shyamalan, but still well worth seeing." Posted Jun 12, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 76%	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	" Spielberg proves once again that no one can direct an old-fashioned rollicking ride like he can." Posted May 21, 2008
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 36%	Speed Racer (2008)	" This is a kids movie through and through, for better or worse. One thing's for sure: Chim-Chim rocks!" Posted May 8, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 54%	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	" Sharp satire, d--- and fart jokes... and Neil Patrick Harris!" Posted Apr 23, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 84%	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	" Jason Segel lets it all hang out, and we love him for it!" Posted Apr 3, 2008
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 15%	Superhero Movie! (2008)	" There's honestly not a single laugh in the film, unless the mere mention or sight of shit, piss and puke is hilarious to you." Posted Mar 29, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 68%	Snow Angels (2008)	" Close in spirit to George Washington and All the Real Girls, with quirky characters, a bittersweet tone and an effortless sense of time and place." Posted Mar 18, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 51%	Funny Games (2008)	" Haneke not only manipulates the audience, he goes as far as to openly mock it!" Posted Mar 14, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 36%	Rambo (2008)	" MelGibsonly violent, with a higher bodycount than the other three flicks - put together!" Posted Jan 24, 2008
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 4%	In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)	" A major piece of crap. It shamelessly steals from J.R.R. Tolkien/Peter Jackson, but with none of the intelligence, heart and artistry." Posted Jan 9, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	There Will Be Blood (2007)	" [Blood] has repeatedly been compared to such American cinema classics as Giant, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Citizen Kane. That may sound like an oversell but believe me, it is that good and then some." Posted Dec 17, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 71%	Beowulf (2007)	" Zemeckis, you magnificent bastard! This is one of the best times I've ever had at the movies." Posted Nov 14, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 94%	No Country for Old Men (2007)	" If you're not looking for a "Fargo"-level masterpiece but just for a badass modern Western, it delivers plenty on that level." Posted Nov 10, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 79%	American Gangster (2007)	" Superfly vs. Serpico!" Posted Oct 17, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 67%	The Darjeeling Limited (2007)	" Wes Anderson's best film so far." Posted Oct 6, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 61%	Death Proof (2007)	" I've rarely seen a filmmaker, in current Hollywood at least, expose his sexual and sadistic kinks on screen with such shameless glee." Posted Oct 6, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	Eastern Promises (2007)	" Cronenberg's Christmas flick is intensely thought-provoking and affecting." Posted Sep 6, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 67%	Shoot 'Em Up (2007)	" Not only riffing on John Woo's Hong Kong flicks but cranking up the action until it becomes quite literally a madcap cartoon." Posted Aug 26, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 87%	Superbad (2007)	" I don't think I've ever identified this much with a high school movie." Posted Aug 16, 2007
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 20%	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	" It lacks the relative freshness of the first installment, but it's noticeably better than the second one." Posted Aug 6, 2007
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 93%	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	" Matt Damon gets his Bourne on again in this relentlessly smart and thrilling action masterpiece." Posted Aug 3, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 91%	Hairspray (2007)	" Mostly flat, flat, flat, but Amanda Bynes is Amanda fine!" Posted Jul 20, 2007
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 75%	Sunshine (2007)	" Goes from 2001-style contemplative science-fiction to more action-driven sci-fi as perfected by James Cameron to, for better or worse, horror." Posted Jul 16, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 57%	Transformers (2007)	" Ridiculously awesome (or awesomely ridiculous?) sequences of mass destruction, lost in a lot of uneven dramatic or comedic material." Posted Jun 28, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 81%	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	" Bring. Back. McTiernan." Posted Jun 21, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 23%	Evan Almighty (2007)	" Maybe I'm nuts, but beyond the mediocrity on display, I started to see the seeds of what could have been a masterpiece..." Posted Jun 18, 2007
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 70%	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	" Not a bad way to spend a summer afternoon at the old picture show, even though it's eminently forgettable." Posted Jun 10, 2007

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