ROTTEN TOMATOES: Michael Szymanski

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MICHAEL SZYMANSKI

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Biography: Mike is a freelance film critic who sees about 400 films a year. He lives in Hollywood right smack between the biggest movie complex in the world at Universal Studios and the most well-known movie theater in the world Grauman's Chinese Theatre. He writes for Scifi.com, Hollywood.com, Wordmag.com and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Zap2it.com, Entertainment Weekly and E! Online.

Favorites: Casablanca Star Wars Grease

Publications: FilmStew.com, Hollywood.com, International Press Academy, Sci-Fi Weekly, Wordmag.com, Zap2it.com

Total Reviews: 706
Total QuickRatings: 1005

Location: Hollywood, Calif.

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

Fresh 4/5	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" Frankly, this movie is quite scary when it's viewed with the idea that this is the film version of creepy disappearances that are really happening in Nome, Alaska. When it's not that, it's almost laughable." — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Nov 21, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Perfect Getaway (2006)	" I love this movie enough to pay to go see it again and see what I missed along the way." — International Press Academy Posted Nov 21, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 71%	The Daytrippers (1995)	" Unfortunately, to reveal that this funny family movie is bisexual actually will ruin the film for anyone who wants to see it." — International Press Academy Posted Nov 21, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" One of her suitors stays out all night with his weird friends. The other does his "Brokeback Mountain" thing with his buddies in the woods." — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Nov 21, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 59%	Find Me Guilty (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Sep 8, 2009
Fresh 9/10	Rotten 20%	Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)	" I think this is a world-class film! It contains great martial arts and great storytelling, and it turns the vampire genre on its ear." — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Aug 18, 2009
Rotten 6/10	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" Even on "The View" the day before the film opens, the ladies wondered whether men really talk about their own junk (and their friend's package) as much as they do in the movie, and whether women actually find that funny." — International Press Academy Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 8/10	N/A	Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (2008)	" Jack Wrangler, gay porn star married to a woman, is dead at 62; and personal memories" — International Press Academy Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 9/10	N/A	Steam (2007)	" This is a movie that I can safely recommend to both my sister and my mom, to Republicans and Democrats, to my students in college to my son's elementary school teachers, to my close friends and even total strangers. Not many movies are like that. There's" — International Press Academy Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 9/10	Rotten 14%	Steam (2009)	" "Steam" is a movie that is charming, heart-wrenching and heart-warming all at the same time. You'll learn about different cultures, different religious beliefs, different ethnic practices and different sexualities." — International Press Academy Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 7/10	Fresh 83%	I Love You, Man (2009)	" "I Love You, Man" is going to make a lot of guys squirm, but only those who are uncomfortable with their own masculinity. Why can't guys talk about masturbating? Now, maybe they can." — International Press Academy Posted Aug 18, 2009
Rotten 6/10	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" Hugh Jackman's animal magnetism is palpable in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." He's more sexy than he has ever been in the past X-Men films, and the movie shows him in bizarre bromance relationships with other mutant freaks as well as a very intimate and most" — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 7/10	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" The brilliant writer of the comic books that this is based on, Alan Moore, is well known for bisexual characters (women mostly, of course), in his work." — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Aug 18, 2009
Rotten 2/10	Rotten 24%	Little Ashes (2009)	" It's not even worth it for Robert Pattinson, who is shown in the movie, nearly fully naked, with his privates tucked between his legs, but everything else showing." — International Press Academy Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 6/10	Rotten 29%	Myra Breckinridge (1970)	" If you truly analyze this, it's a very bisexual scene, and it's a classic, and I was told by a film buff friend that it was considered an A-list movie at the time." — International Press Academy Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 8/10	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" Harry Potter grows up. Harry Potter needs to shave. Harry Potter shows more interest in the young ladies at Hogwarts." — International Press Academy Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 6/10	Fresh 78%	Humpday (2009)	" There hasn't been a mainstream movie since maybe "The Crying Game" that has so subtly brought up the possibility of a man's bisexuality than "Humpday."" — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 7/10	Rotten 38%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" OK, sometimes the movie gets really weird, but overall it's a very entertaining escapist sci-fi romance%u2014and these days that's a rare event." — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh 9/10	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" Another metaphor for the misplaced, displaced and disassociated bisexual is how "District 9" shows how cruel humans can be%u2014especially to something they don't understand. They have characterized these giant insect-like aliens as lazy, predatory, omniv" — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Aug 18, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 11%	The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 90%	Duck Season (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 16%	The Condemned (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 61%	Shopgirl (2005)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 49%	Candy (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Lake Dead (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 78%	Mulberry Street (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 26%	The Lost City (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 76%	The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 27%	The Zodiac (2005)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 13%	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 9%	See No Evil (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 56%	Nightmare Man (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 11%	Blood and Chocolate (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 100%	Borderland (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 16%	Eragon (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 39%	Firehouse Dog (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 26%	Poster Boy (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 12%	The Benchwarmers (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 89%	Starter For 10 (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 87%	The Ground Truth (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 9%	The Reaping (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 86%	Jesus Camp (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 68%	Aurora Borealis (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 25%	Saw III (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 65%	Shortbus (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 92%	The Host (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 56%	Fuck (2006)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 75%	The Matador (2005)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Unearthed (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 20, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 59%	Resurrecting the Champ (2007)	Click here to read article — Hollywood.com Posted Aug 25, 2007

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5/5	Desperate Housewives - The Complete...Offsite
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9/10	District 9Offsite
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B+	Just Like HeavenOffsite
4/5	Tales of the Unexpected - Set 1Offsite
8/10	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceOffsite
3/4	BoogeymanOffsite
B	The Brothers GrimmOffsite
7/10	The Time Traveler's WifeOffsite
2.5/4	Green Street HooligansOffsite
3/5	America Home of the BraveOffsite
B-	UndeadOffsite
6/10	HumpdayOffsite
C+	Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl...Offsite
2/4	In Her ShoesOffsite
C	StealthOffsite
2/5	Postcards from Buster - Buster's...Offsite
1.5/4	My Super Ex-GirlfriendOffsite
C-	Herbie: Fully LoadedOffsite
D+	UltravioletOffsite
1/5	The BenchwarmersOffsite
2/10	Little AshesOffsite
D	The CaveOffsite
D-	The Lake HouseOffsite

5/5	Starter For 10Offsite
4/4	QuinceaneraOffsite
A	The Hills Have EyesOffsite
A	The IllusionistOffsite
5/5	Alias - The Complete Fourth SeasonOffsite
A	Everything is IlluminatedOffsite
5/5	Desperate Housewives - The Complete...Offsite
A	Batman BeginsOffsite
4/4	DownfallOffsite
4/4	Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of...Offsite

D-	TamaraOffsite
D-	The Lake HouseOffsite
D	The Hilarious House of FrightensteinOffsite
D	The CaveOffsite
2/10	Little AshesOffsite
1/5	The Hills Have Eyes IIOffsite
1/5	The BenchwarmersOffsite
1/5/4	Collateral DamageOffsite
1/4	Alone in the DarkOffsite
1/4	The Whole Ten YardsOffsite

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