ROTTEN TOMATOES: Cary Darling

CARY DARLING

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications: Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald

Total Reviews: 37

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh 2.5/5	Rotten 20%	The Strip (2009)	" It sports a gentle amiability that’s engaging." — Dallas Morning News Posted Dec 4, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 47%	Ong Bak 2 (2009)	" Ong Bak 2 is really just an excuse for several jaw-dropping set pieces that show off Jaa's killing skills." — Dallas Morning News Posted Nov 20, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 88%	Skin (2009)	" By the end, the incredulity stems not from the fact that this happened but that the wider world didn't know about it before now." — Dallas Morning News Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 27%	The Canyon (2009)	" The Canyon is undermined by the expectation of a big payoff that never comes." — Dallas Morning News Posted Oct 30, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 56%	Trucker (2009)	" Trucker is a knockout." — Dallas Morning News Posted Oct 23, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 9%	Opa! (2009)	" An amiable if easily forgotten story of middle-age romance set amid the sun-splashed Greek Islands." — Dallas Morning News Posted Oct 16, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 72%	The Boys Are Back (2009)	" It manages to veer from touching to humorous (Warr has some rather unconventional parenting techniques) without being overly mawkish, and the sumptuous cinematography by Greig Fraser is perhaps the best commercial ever for South Australia." — Dallas Morning News Posted Oct 9, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 29%	Free Style (2009)	" *As predictable and cliché as Free Style* is, it moves along briskly enough and Bleu is compelling enough that it doesn't wear out its welcome.*" — Dallas Morning News* Posted Oct 9, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" *When it comes to genre filmmaking, Zombieland, a grisly comedy about yet another attack of the ravenous undead, does just about everything right." — Dallas Morning News* Posted Oct 2, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 18%	The Other Man (2009)	" Everyone seems as if they're going through the motions." — Dallas Morning News Posted Sep 25, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 67%	Paris (2009)	" Klapisch, who shoots Paris with the eye of someone rapturously in love with the town, is less interested in the reality than the romance." — Dallas Morning News Posted Sep 25, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" It's a fun premise -- a twist on the usual girl-in-distress scenario of the standard-issue horror film -- enlivened by Codyspeak." — Dallas Morning News Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 50%	Broken Hill (2009)	" Broken Hill, with its picture-postcard shots of the vast Outback, looks good and fills a niche for families." — Dallas Morning News Posted Sep 11, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 86%	Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2009)	" Be sure to stay through the closing credits as the scenes of Senegalese life act as a captivating coda to a film pulsing with music and memory." — Dallas Morning News Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" This might go down as the year that science-fiction cinema, despite the deafening crash and clangor of sparring robots, began to rediscover its brains, heart and soul." — Dallas Morning News Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 65%	Adam (2009)	" The two of them look terrific together, too -- enough so that you wish someone would cast them together in a much better movie." — Dallas Morning News Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 78%	$9.99 (2009)	" It has been a good year for animation that pushes thematic and visual boundaries." — Dallas Morning News Posted Aug 7, 2009
Rotten 4/5	Rotten 58%	A Perfect Getaway (2009)	" David Twohy doesn't do much new and the twist is as obvious as a tornado in the Texas Panhandle. But that doesn't make it any less of an escapist joyride on a hot summer day." — Dallas Morning News Posted Aug 7, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 86%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" This sweetly engaging trifle goes down as easy as cold lemonade on a hot afternoon." — Dallas Morning News Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 98%	Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)	" A winning and surprisingly moving documentary about -- wait for it -- a struggling Canadian heavy metal band that apparently influenced a generation of hard-rockers including Metallica, Anthrax and Guns N' Roses." — Miami Herald Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 56%	Enlighten Up! (2009)	" Enlighten Up! is a low-key, charming trip." — Dallas Morning News Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 58%	Skills Like This (2009)	" It'll be intriguing to see where Miranda goes from here." — Dallas Morning News Posted May 8, 2009
Fresh B+	Rotten 55%	Lymelife (2009)	" Solid performances combine with a sense of warm naturalism to make for engaging, memorable drama." — Dallas Morning News Posted May 1, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 86%	Earth (2009)	" Directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield mostly avoid speaking directly of social issues. Instead, they let the visuals and the animals' plights underscore the importance of maintaining a healthy ecosystem." — Dallas Morning News Posted Apr 24, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 16%	Spinning into Butter (2009)	" *The biggest lesson from Spinning Into Butter* has nothing to do with the ethics of race and more with realizing that every hit play doesn't need to be turned into a movie.*" — Dallas Morning News* Posted Apr 17, 2009
Rotten C+	Rotten 34%	Alien Trespass (2009)	" While there's a lot to admire, it all feels like an engaging though needless academic exercise." — Dallas Morning News Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Beauty in Trouble (2008)	" While this seems like familiar territory, in the hands of director Jan Hrebejk and his longtime screenwriting partner, Petr Jarchovský, it's an engrossing, layered story of the ill-fitting choices and compromises everyone makes." — Dallas Morning News Posted Apr 3, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 18%	The Cross (2009)	" What inspired his faith in the first place? Does he have family? How did his constant wandering affect them?" — Dallas Morning News Posted Mar 27, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 71%	The Secrets (2008)	" Restrained direction and the cast's strong, disciplined performances keep it from falling into soap-opera territory." — Dallas Morning News Posted Mar 13, 2009
Rotten C	N/A	Familiar Strangers (2008)	" Good intentions and huggable canines go only so far in the face of a predictable script and casting so random that everyone involved seems barely part of the same species, let alone the same family." — Dallas Morning News Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 39%	Outlander (2009)	" An unexpectedly enjoyable science-fiction adventure that should be generating louder fanboy buzz than it has so far." — Dallas Morning News Posted Jan 23, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 47%	Chandni Chowk to China (2009)	" Chandni Chowk isn't going to appeal to those not already entertained by Bollywood and kung-fu movie clichés. But it could turn the charismatic Kumar into a global star, making the prescribed happy ending even sweeter for Warner Bros." — Dallas Morning News Posted Jan 16, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 86%	Nowhere in Africa (2003)	" A good story, exceedingly well told." — Miami Herald Posted Mar 27, 2003
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 26%	Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)	" Cradle boasts a couple of bravura fight and chase scenes but they're stranded amid the predictable and the pedestrian." — Miami Herald Posted Feb 27, 2003
Fresh	Rotten 48%	Russian Doll (2001)	" A breezy pleasure." — Miami Herald Posted Sep 7, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 19%	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)	In the end, Croft loses to the most dangerous villain of them all: mediocrity. — Miami Herald Posted Jun 15, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Taste of Others (2001)	The characters prove to be engaging and their quite real human emotions are enough to carry it. — Miami Herald Posted May 21, 2001

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