ROTTEN TOMATOES: Charles Taylor

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CHARLES TAYLOR

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Biography: In addition to writing about movies for Salon, my writing on film has also appeared in Sight and Sound, Details, and the Boston Phoenix

Favorites: My favorite film of all time is "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" A random sampling of some others would be Rules of the Game, The Godfather, Parts I and II, The Lady Eve, L'Atalante, A Hard Day's Night, The Wild Bunch, Last Tango in Paris, The Lady Eve

Publications: L.A. Weekly, Salon.com, Sight and Sound, Slate

Total Reviews: 455

Location: Boston

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N/A	Fresh 92%	The Bad News Bears (1976)	Click here to read article — Slate ESSAY Posted Aug 11, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	" Temple succeeds beautifully in evoking Strummer as a cross between a punk journeyman and one of the battered, upright gunmen who populate Sam Peckinpah�s films." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 21, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 59%	Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)	" Existing in the moment without inquiry or challenge, cin�ma v�rit� fosters exactly the sort of refusal to think beyond the immediate that this film criticizes in right-wing dittoheads." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 21, 2006
—	Fresh 100%	Kwik Stop (2001)	Click here to read article — Slate DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 19, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Nobody Knows (2005)	" *Akira reminds you of the children who have populated the films of Vittorio De Sica or Satyajit Ray, and, more unexpectedly, of the elderly Carlo Battisti in the title role of De Sica's Umberto D." — Salon.com* Posted Feb 5, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 10%	Elektra (2005)	" The sad thing about Elektra is that it reveals that for all the millions of dollars now spent on them, comic-book movies are being made with no more distinction than the cheapest old Saturday-afternoon serials." — Salon.com Posted Jan 15, 2005
Rotten	Rotten 52%	Spanglish (2004)	" Offensive because it turns liberal self-abasement into self-congratulation." — Salon.com Posted Dec 18, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 83%	The Sea Inside (2004)	" *There's a combination of fatalism and hard-edged humor at work in The Sea Inside* that you can imagine Irish writers would feel right at home with.*" — Salon.com* Posted Dec 18, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 91%	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	" Solemn, inflated and dull." — Salon.com Posted Dec 18, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 77%	A Very Long Engagement (2004)	" The mixture of a trickster director and classic movie conventions works better than you'd expect it to." — Salon.com Posted Nov 27, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)	" So clumsy and crass that it makes you doubt the pleasure of the first movie." — Salon.com Posted Nov 12, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Ray (2004)	" Any viewers who look at Ray and see only clich�s are declaring themselves hopelessly lost to the real achievement of this picture, which is nothing less than a statement of faith in the inclusiveness of American culture." — Salon.com Posted Oct 29, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Enduring Love (2004)	" It's affirmative action for psychos." — Salon.com Posted Oct 28, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 78%	Team America: World Police (2004)	" The first work from Parker and Stone that I'd describe as a failure of nerve." — Salon.com Posted Oct 19, 2004
—	Rotten 48%	Shall We Dance? (2004)	Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Oct 19, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 81%	Friday Night Lights (2004)	" Substitutes slick, cynical point-scoring for insight." — Salon.com Posted Oct 19, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 97%	Sideways (2004)	" Makes you feel like you're trapped at dinner with a wiseass who's trying to convince you what a sensitive guy he is." — Salon.com Posted Oct 19, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 92%	Vera Drake (2004)	" Susan has served the point Leigh is making about how easy it is for affluent women to get safe abortions (no kidding) and is no longer of use or interest to him." — Salon.com Posted Oct 7, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 91%	The Big Red One (1980)	" As the longest and biggest of Fuller's movies, it magnifies the essence -- good and bad -- of his work." — Salon.com Posted Oct 6, 2004
Fresh	Rotten 44%	The Brown Bunny (2004)	" Must be one of the truest songs of roadside America that the movies have produced." — Salon.com Posted Sep 18, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 15%	Head in the Clouds (2004)	" Makes you wish that Duigan had either worked to make the film believable as serious drama or gone unabashedly for tear-jerking." — Salon.com Posted Sep 18, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 60%	Wimbledon (2004)	" Slick, satisfying entertainment." — Salon.com Posted Sep 18, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 49%	Vanity Fair (2004)	" Scene by scene and moment to moment, it's a woeful misreading of the book." — Salon.com Posted Sep 4, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Hero (2004)	" *It's not too much to say that Hero* is one of the most ravishing spectacles the movies have given us.*" — Salon.com* Posted Aug 28, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 20%	She Hate Me (2004)	" Lee, who always has an agenda, is fundamentally unsuited to satire, which has no sides, no friends, no agenda." — Salon.com Posted Aug 7, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Last Life in the Universe (2004)	" *The closest thing to entering a dream state at the movies right now is watching Last Life in the Universe." — Salon.com* Posted Aug 7, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 87%	Intimate Strangers (2004)	" *To borrow a phrase from Pauline Kael, Intimate Strangers* suggests bits of Alfred Hitchcock and bits of Woody Allen. But the wrong bits.*" — Salon.com* Posted Jul 30, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 81%	The Bourne Supremacy (2004)	" An entertaining, well-constructed spy story (though not as satisfying as the first film -- perhaps because it's not as simple)." — Salon.com Posted Jul 24, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 66%	The Door in the Floor (2004)	" The movie appears to be made for an audience whose highest aspiration is to be WASPs -- and it feels long enough to produce enough generations of them to fill an Andover reunion." — Salon.com Posted Jul 20, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 94%	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	" *For a big-budget action movie Spider-Man 2* is modest and not assaultive -- it has a boring decency.*" — Salon.com* Posted Jul 3, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 52%	The Notebook (2004)	" The movie not only approaches a level of shamelessness you have to see to disbelieve, it does it in a manner that's both inept and crass." — Salon.com Posted Jul 3, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 61%	The Terminal (2004)	" Probably the worst-directed film Spielberg has ever made." — Salon.com Posted Jun 19, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 22%	Raising Helen (2004)	" This ode to the most stifling aspects of family and motherhood make you feel like the hicks have all uprooted themselves and moved into the front office at Touchstone." — Salon.com Posted May 29, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 59%	Valentin (2004)	" *The characters in the Argentinean heart-warmer Valentin* spend so much time squabbling and yelling that after a while I began to long for a nice movie about a family of mutes.*" — Salon.com* Posted May 7, 2004
—	N/A	The 39 Steps (2004)	Click here to read article — Salon.com DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 24, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 85%	Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)	" *for all the craft that's gone into Kill Bill, Vol. 2, despite the chance Tarantino has taken in departing from the wham-bam movement of the first half, my final reaction to the movie is, so what?" — Salon.com* Posted Apr 17, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 55%	The Girl Next Door (2004)	" The American male hypocrisy toward sexually active women in general -- and porn in particular -- is at the center of the new comedy The Girl Next Door. Unfortunately, instead of being the movie's target, it's the subtext." — Salon.com Posted Apr 17, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Bon Voyage (2004)	" The movie is great fun. It offers the plush sense of relaxation that only smooth professionalism can deliver." — Salon.com Posted Apr 3, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 71%	Dogville (2003)	" *In every respect other than sheer length -- in scope, imagination, execution, depth and spirit -- Dogville* is a piddling movie.*" — Salon.com* Posted Mar 27, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 55%	Ladykillers (2004)	" Structured like a Mad magazine parody where there's a promised joke in each frame. It doesn't add up to a movie." — Salon.com Posted Mar 27, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Taking Lives (2004)	" Jolie is far too good for this tripe but she does give the film its only believable moments, and for the first half, her concentration makes you watch her intently." — Salon.com Posted Mar 21, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 46%	Hidalgo (2004)	" It's a manqu� of a rousing adventure tale and not the real thing. You're constantly aware of the gulf between how the movie wants to excite you and the halfhearted execution." — Salon.com Posted Mar 16, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Havana Nights (2004)	" *Next to Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, the first picture is like something out of the golden age of Hollywood." — Salon.com* Posted Mar 1, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 2%	Twisted (2004)	" *Judd is let down by Twisted* because tearful, confused victim doesn't come naturally to her; she's not fun to watch suffer if you can't see her calculating the payback.*" — Salon.com* Posted Mar 1, 2004
Rotten	Fresh 69%	Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)	" Like going out for a bad meal with a group of people you love being with. You're happy to be in their company; you just wish you didn't leave feeling hungry." — Salon.com Posted Feb 7, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 16%	The Big Bounce (2004)	" Everything here is too mild, too sloppy." — Salon.com Posted Jan 31, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 33%	The Butterfly Effect (2004)	" It's one of the most unpleasant Hollywood films in some time." — Salon.com Posted Jan 24, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 19%	Chasing Liberty (2004)	" Forgettable fluff but it left me in an unaccountably bad mood, mainly because it's a step back for Mandy Moore." — Salon.com Posted Jan 17, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Millennium Mambo (2003)	" The combination of the thick sensuality of Mark Lee Ping-bing's cinematography and the gradual fascination that Hou's measured rhythms exert keep you watching." — Salon.com Posted Jan 17, 2004
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Along Came Polly (2004)	" A movie where love means diarrhea." — Salon.com Posted Jan 17, 2004

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