ROTTEN TOMATOES: Fred Topel

FRED TOPEL

Agrees with the Tomatometer 58% of the time.

Favorites: Labyrinth, Toy Story 2, The Rock, Face/Off, True Lies, The Big Hit, The Big One (Michael Moore), Casablanca

Publications: About.com, Can Magazine, Crave Online, E! Online, FilmStew.com, Hollywood.com, IGN Movies, Madblast.com, MovieWeb, Rotten Tomatoes, Suite101.com

Total Reviews: 899
Total QuickRatings: 362

Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" *Like a modern day Wages of Fear." — Can Magazine* Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 44%	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)	" *A return to form from the original Ice Age. That makes it a disappointment. The first one was okay. Ice Age: The Meltdown* was pretty good, and now we're back to the original mediocrity.*" — Can Magazine* Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 69%	Bruno (2009)	" The second hour of Bruno is a laugh out loud satire that will make the world a better place. That's what we want from Sacha Baron Cohen... Lots of people do funny. I'm glad he still transcended and took the bad people of the world down a peg."" — Can Magazine Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" Good, but not great" — Can Magazine Posted Jul 1, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" No longer better than sex." — Crave Online Posted Jun 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" Up is a high stakes adventure like nothing else we�ve ever seen." — Can Magazine Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 28%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" It�s a little more than half and half, definitely fun to watch with some memorable parts." — Can Magazine Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 79%	The Hangover (2009)	" It�s the funniest movie of the year." — Can Magazine Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" They fixed everything I found wrong with its predecessor, so I can only assume the filmmakers read my review and addressed my concerns point by point." — Can Magazine Posted May 23, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 27%	Dance Flick (2009)	" The best Wayans movie since the first Scary Movie. The Wayans' are in top form taking the benchmarks of dance movies to an extreme degree. They can't keep it up, but it remains a solid satire with more to say than many quickie knock-offs." — Can Magazine Posted May 23, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" I did not like The Da Vinci Code, but only because it was completely faithful to the book which I didn't like. As such, I never read Angels & Demons, but I can tell it's faithful too because it's exactly the same thing." — Can Magazine Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" He's not reinventing the genre, but he doesn't have to. He already did that once, and now he's just doing what he's good at. His era of in your face outrageousness didn't last long enough as far as I'm concerned." — Can Magazine Posted May 22, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" Everyone wanted to see the future, but I knew that would just be big robot fights. Cool maybe, but that's a war movie, not a character investment suspenseful action movie. So here, this is what you wanted. Happy now?" — Can Magazine Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" You can feel the legacy in every scene. It just rocks." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Earth (2009)	" I didn't learn anything but it's fun, which I didn't expect. Animals do stuff. I don't see how it's an overall ecosystem but whatever." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Tyson (2009)	" The stories are great, really demonstrative of how Tyson became the figure he is. It's amazing how real life has a beginning, middle and end." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" I liked The Soloist more than most disease/triumph over adversity movies. It's more believable, more sincere and just more interesting than most. I just can't get over the feeling of filmmakers patting themselves on the back..."" — Can Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" It's like in all this drama, they forgot to have a scene." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	State of Play (2009)	" It would be funny if the surprise ending was that the newspaper just folded so the reporters had to abandon the case. I mean, someone still has to pay for their efforts. Exposing conspiracy and defending the public interest isn't free." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 17, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 56%	17 Again (2009)	" Yeah, if only he hadn't taken care of the high school girl he knocked up, everything would have worked out better for him. That's so wrong I can't believe it got through script development." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 17, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" I had really hoped we'd moved beyond the era of movies about boredom. Once people realized that mundane lives aren't actually entertaining, I thought they'd stopped making them." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 28%	Fast & Furious (2009)	" The fastest, most furious movie ever. It is so fast, you'll be furious with excitement. I'm going to try to write my review fast, but that might make my editor furious." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 46%	Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)	" I don't buy Billy Ray Cyrus as Miley's dad." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 13%	Dragonball: Evolution (2009)	" *It's this generation's Surf Ninjas, and if you remember that at all then you know what I mean." — Can Magazine* Posted Apr 9, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" I just think it could have gone further, which is to say I'm so desensitized to violence that beating up children and vandalizing public spaces feels too tame to me." — Can Magazine Posted Apr 9, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" It does take a long time to explain the story for a movie that's totally summed up in its title." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 26, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 4%	Miss March (2009)	" The whole movie feels like these guys watched some other movie 100 times and thought they could do the same thing. So in their head, this is ... hilarious, but not to anyone else." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 43%	Race to Witch Mountain (2009)	" It's not just bad like some kids movies are bad because they're dumbed down. It is wow bad." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 42%	The Last House on the Left (2009)	" There are so many elements, you really don't know what's coming next, even though you know exactly what's going to happen." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 12, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 58%	Phoebe In Wonderland (2009)	" Abstract portrayals of kids with OCD and Tourette's do not, it turns out, make great entertainment." — Can Magazine Posted Mar 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 4%	Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)	" I suppose the real question again is: why is there a story at all?" — Can Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" *Redefines the word epic. I don't know what the new definition is, but it's definitely different... It's 300* times 10!*" — Can Magazine* Posted Feb 26, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)	" Why wouldn't you want to see Isla Fisher stumble on a tray of fish? Why wouldn't you want to see Isla Fisher bumble through a fan dance? Why wouldn't you want to see Isla Fisher fumble through Finnish?" — Can Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 26%	Friday the 13th (2009)	" The remake of Friday the 13th makes the remake of Halloween look like the remake of Psycho." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 39%	Inkheart (2009)	" Last Action Hero for books. By proxy, it's also kind of The Purple Rose of Cairo for books, but it's not as good as either... It would really amuse me if it ended with the family deciding, after all this trouble, let's never read again." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 32%	Fanboys (2009)	" Makes me appreciate how the jokes in Family Guy are really accessible to anyone. These are not. This is really just for fanboys, and that's fine. Have a celebration of love of Star Wars and write a love letter to the fans." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 13%	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" It's all about Martin's commitment. He knows the rules, the limits and he's an expert at performing it. Even the stunt doubles do some awesome work." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 22%	Push (2009)	" It's not great, but it's a perfectly fine version of psychics on the run versus the bad guys." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 43%	He's Just Not That Into You (2009)	" It's about social responsibility. Everyone's so afraid of hurt feelings. People need to stop making excuses. Hey, it's not all okay. Get over it. And also, stop asking your friends to make you feel better. They give the worst advice. Just go out and have" — Can Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Coraline (2009)	" Just the kind of kids' movie I like... It'll scare the crap out of them as well it should. Something's gotta toughen them up." — Can Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" *The best wrestling movie ever made. I'm sorry, No Holds Barred, you've been topped." — Can Magazine* Posted Dec 18, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 27%	Seven Pounds (2008)	" The most spiritual movie of the year." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 43%	Yes Man (2008)	" The gimmick creates sets for Jim Carrey to be crazy. He's still at it, finding new ways to contort his body and twist his face. That's really the difference that makes any generic gimmick more entertaining than someone else's." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 55%	The Tale of Despereaux (2008)	" So a queen dies by rat tainted soup? I guess that's what the kids are into these days." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Nothing But the Truth (2008)	" Most importantly, the film takes the issue beyond just journalistic integrity and the government's intrusion. It looks at real life." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 16, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 25%	Nobel Son (2008)	" You want to see how it plays out, but it's just frustrating to wade through all the "style" to get there." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" It's a fascinating study in conversation in an age of texting and abbreviation." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Cadillac Records (2008)	" The actors do a wonderful job capturing the unique qualities of the artists they portray. Then they get coked up and sleep with minors." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 66%	What Doesn't Kill You (2008)	" I guess I should just be happy it didn't end up worse and hope these guys don't come hurt me for saying all this." — Can Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 78%	Doubt (2008)	" Objectively good, but that doesn't mean I enjoy it. I mean, woo hoo, debating suspicions of pedophilia in the Catholic church!" — Can Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2008

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