ROTTEN TOMATOES: Walter Chaw

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	Inland Empire
3.5/4	Performance
3/4	The Lookout
2.5/4	The Hoax
2/4	Reign Over Me
1.5/4	The Sound of Music
1/4	TMNT
0.5/4	Color Me Kubrick
0/4	Premonition

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Strangers on a Train
4/4	Hellboy II: The Golden Army
4/4	The Dark Knight
4/4	The Hustler
4/4	Time
4/4	There Will Be Blood
4/4	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4/4	Deliverance
4/4	No Country for Old Men
4/4	Gone Baby Gone
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Blue City
0/4	The Love Guru
0/4	The Jane Austen Book Club
0/4	10,000 B.C.
0/4	Charlie Bartlett
0/4	The Golden Compass
0/4	Things We Lost in the Fire
0/4	Unaccompanied Minors
0/4	The Hills Have Eyes II
0/4	Johnny Be Good
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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2.5/4	"*I'm sick of the kind of exceptional that Shotgun Stories* represents.*" -- Film Freak Central* Posted Sep 2, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	90%
2/4	"Tied together by a performance from Franco that has the misfortune of being familiar and human in the middle of a lot of low-aspiring blarney." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	Pineapple Express (2008)	68%
1/4	"Paul W.S. Anderson makes one kind of movie: the shitty kind." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	Death Race (2008)	40%
3/4	"The picture affirms that the only thing truly important is this image of the older brother with his arm around the younger." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	The Lost Boys (1987)	77%
0/4	"Suggesting that Judd Nelson is gay as a French holiday is only mildly wittier than suggesting the same of clearly gay Tom Cruise." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	Blue City (1986)	n/a
1/4	"(Its success) supports the pop-psych analysis that pre-actualized teenage boys are the most homosexual beings in existence." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 23, 2008	Top Gun (1986)	39%
3.5/4	"A freakshow of social dysfunctions and wild-eyed blue-sky ventures." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 1, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2007)	94%
1.5/4	"Not helping is an epilogue that suggests that money can, in fact, buy you love." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 1, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	85%
4/4	"the work most necessary for a deeper appreciation of Hitchcock's late masterpieces." -- Film Freak Central Posted Aug 1, 2008	Strangers on a Train (1951)	97%
4/4	"The film itself is lovely, a breathless feast of fantasy anchored by an authentic humanism." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 17, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	89%
4/4	"Whatever the causes, the effects of The Dark Knight are subtle and powerful. It's rejuvenating, it renews the faith." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
3/4	"A fascinating film about exploitation as it applies to blacks and the entertainment industry." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
2/4	"sacrifices its undercurrent of pain and abandonment to big-budget special effects" -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
0.5/4	"a lot of shouting offered up as an ineffectual camouflage to the picture's complete lack of ambition." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Seeker (2007)	13%
2.5/4	"sort of awful, but it goes places most conventional children's entertainments fail to go" -- Film Freak Central Posted Jul 1, 2008	Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	85%
3.5/4	"A work of art expressing that the products of our hands can hold, if we look well and deeply, the secrets to our own salvation." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	97%
3/4	"A smart update, with a hero who has transformed his humiliations and frailties into, of all things, maturity and empathy." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 19, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
0/4	"Thus Myers marries his two passions (hockey and not being funny) into one noxious ball." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 19, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
2/4	"Shyamalan's essentially made a sociopathic movie." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 14, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
0.5/4	"[Norton] seems to resent that in the Fight Club food chain, he's Edward Norton and not Brad Pitt." -- Film Freak Central Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
3.5/4	"I love this movie." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 28, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
3/4	"Doom hangs over the thing like a pall." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 27, 2008	The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (1974)	75%
2/4	"A sentimental old fool that retreats back into the utterly, dishearteningly familiar" -- Film Freak Central Posted May 23, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	77%
1/4	"An extravagant, pathetic pageant." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
0.5/4	"It's like an animatronic reproduction of a Jewish mom relationship erected at the world's most racist amusement park." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 8, 2008	Then She Found Me (2008)	55%
2.5/4	"serves as a devastating, nihilistic attack on the failures--and fascinatingly, the successes--of Argento's oeuvre to this point." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 7, 2008	The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)	75%
0.5/4	"Listen, I have a family." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 7, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	85%
4/4	"*Eddie's true modern progeny is There Will Be Blood's* Daniel Plainview, drinking bitter milkshakes since 1961.*" -- Film Freak Central* Posted May 7, 2008	The Hustler (1961)	97%
2/4	"Garden-variety pop heroism/wish-fulfillment marinated in Robert Downey Jr.'s effortless insouciant sauce." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 7, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
3/4	"Stripped-down and mean, it honors its character and his artistry." -- Film Freak Central Posted May 7, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
0.5/4	"I was really looking forward to this one." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 24, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
1.5/4	"A quiet variety of disaster--the type that attracts no cults and appears as a curiosity on a few talented folks' r�sum�s for people to try to place in a year or so. Maybe less." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 16, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	52%
1/4	"I love James Ellroy--his L.A. Confidential is a work of real genius--but I wonder if he's not something of a one-trick pony. And I wonder if that pony isn't the proverbial dead horse" -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 16, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	36%
0/4	"*Austen wrote six novels and The Jane Austen Book Club* is about six people who meet to discuss them over the course of six months. 666. Coincidence? I think not.*" -- Film Freak Central* Posted Apr 16, 2008	The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)	65%
2/4	"A gaudy chimera with no other reason for its existence than to be flamboyant to no great end." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 7, 2008	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)	85%
3/4	"Boys of my generation memorize the Monty Python repertoire as a buttress against the terror of losing their virginity." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 7, 2008	Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)	98%
0/4	"It's a film that countryman Uwe Boll would have made had he the budget and the cinematographer" -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 2, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
3/4	"A sly, pitch-black domestic manifesto that's scabrous enough to suggest that if you design your own cage, you'll forget that you're trapped." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 2, 2008	Married Life (2008)	58%
1/4	"inert" -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 2, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	68%
3/4	"Teeters throughout at that juncture between masterpiece and piffle." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 2, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
1/4	"*A film that makes Rounders* seem like a work of great seriousness and import.*" -- Film Freak Central* Posted Apr 2, 2008	21 (2008)	35%
1.5/4	"[A] populist anti-war polemic." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 2, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
3.5/4	"It predicts the way the world would change in 2001--and how our films would reflect that change." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 2, 2008	Gattaca (1997)	82%
4/4	"An alien anthropologist identifying humans as insects in man-clothing." -- Film Freak Central Posted Apr 2, 2008	Time (2007)	81%
2/4	"Plays like a trivia game for folks pleased to recognize a severed-head-in-a-vise gag from one of the most storied independent success stories of all time." -- Film Freak Central Posted Feb 21, 2008	The Signal (2007)	55%
0/4	"I'm going to be really f**** depressed if Charlie Bartlett isn't the worst, most irresponsible movie I see this year.*" -- Film Freak Central* Posted Feb 21, 2008	Charlie Bartlett (2007)	55%
2/4	"A collection of VistaVision postcards." -- Film Freak Central Posted Feb 7, 2008	To Catch a Thief (1955)	97%
4/4	"A Sergio Leone epic about the foundation of a specific aspect of the American character." -- Film Freak Central Posted Feb 7, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
1.5/4	"Too good for action, its action is flaccid; too good for hip, its hipsterism is tired." -- Film Freak Central Posted Feb 7, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	80%
3.5/4	"The laughter, I think, comes from a recognition of the shape of our own regrets." -- Film Freak Central Posted Feb 7, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%

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