ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jim Ridley

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	Trouble the Water
	One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story
	Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Music Legend
	Man on Wire
	Mad Detective
	Kabluey
	The Exiles
	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
	Heavy Metal In Baghdad
	A Jihad for Love
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	Mother of Tears
	Frontier(s)
	Savage Grace
	Anamorph
	Backseat
	Irina Palm
	Doomsday
	Doomsday
	Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
	The Eye
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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	"*The resilience of the movie's subjects -- survivors of street crime and drugs and HIV -- irradiates Trouble the Water* like sunshine.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Aug 19, 2008	Trouble the Water (2008)	100%
	"Miller neither defends or apologizes: His remarkably candid footage (extending all the way to Wagner's deathbed and beyond) and interviews leave the man's sincerity (and his collectors') as open to scrutiny as his art." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2008	One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008)	67%
	"The directors prefer to secure O'Day's due as, in the words of critic Will Friedwald, the only white jazz singer who belongs in the company of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2008	Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Music Legend (2008)	100%
	"Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga, and entirely engrossing." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 23, 2008	Man on Wire (2008)	100%
	"Even if you lose track of who's shooting whom and why during the abstract climactic face-off, the clever last shot shows you're not alone." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 16, 2008	Mad Detective (2008)	82%
	"The Austin-shot movie catches the nation's mood of economic anxiety and workplace exploitation more pungently than anything else in theaters." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	87%
	"This 50-year-old film about a Los Angeles neighborhood on the skids and its barely tethered dwellers stands as the freshest movie in theaters." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008	The Exiles (1961)	89%
	"While the evidence of his spotty post-1970s work is hard to refute, Gonzo proves what a vapid, overvalued commodity edginess is, championing Thompson's best work for brass-tacks insight more than brass-balled outrage." -- Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2008	Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)	88%
	"A once-great director's near-worst work passes through its funhouse plumbing and emerges from the crapper as intentional mischief: self-sabotage explained away as mad genius." -- Village Voice Posted Jun 4, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	49%
	"The movie reclaims metal's appeal to the powerless as well as its threat--when you can get shot for wearing a Slipknot T-shirt (talk about "Death, be not proud")... raising those devil horns isn't an empty act of aggression." -- Village Voice Posted May 21, 2008	Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008)	91%
	"The movie leaves open a provocative question: If you pick and choose which tenets of a religion apply to you, is it still a religion?" -- Village Voice Posted May 21, 2008	A Jihad for Love (2008)	76%
	"Movies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute slow-motion shot of a Michael Jackson impersonator and a stuffed monkey aboard a clown bike." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 8, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	44%
	"It�s as relentless as it is hateful, hammily directed and derivative of the dreariest slop in contemporary American horror cinema." -- Village Voice Posted May 8, 2008	Frontier(s) (2008)	65%
	"Son of Rambow evokes the rush of discovery that turns budding cinephiles into lifers -- that delight in finding a film that seems to express or coalesce some inchoate yearning, including a yen to share." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	75%
	"Movies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute shot of a clown bike." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2008	Mister Lonely (2008)	44%
	"*A lip-smacking episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Depraved, designed more for train-wreck gawkery than psychological illumination." -- Village Voice* Posted Apr 23, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
	"[A] searching, intellectually lively documentary." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	83%
	"Director/co-writer H.S. Miller just lays on the chilly blues and a wet-blanket mood of arty anguish, leaving cinematographer Fred Murphy and production designer Jackson De Govia to trump up trompe l'oeils of carefully posed carrion." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008	Anamorph (2008)	26%
	"Floridly plotted but acutely detailed." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2008	Never Forever (2008)	78%
No Rating	"[Star Michael Shannon is] one of the most formidable unsung actors working today in American movies." -- Village Voice Posted Apr 2, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	89%
	"Bruce Van Dusen's 2005 comedy plots a meandering course due north without locating a word of truth." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008	Backseat (2008)	8%
	"Pegg has staked out a peculiar slant on genre material that ventures beyond irony toward rehabilitation -- and nobody plays blithe humiliation with more style." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
	"Staggeringly inane." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	72%
	"I still believe with all my heart that no movie with real car stunts, a tough-chick hero, and a severed head that thunks directly into the camera can be all bad. But this is pushing it." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2008	Doomsday (2008)	48%
	"Put Herzog at the same table as Hines, Harrelson, Parnell, Cross, and Farina, and poker on film starts to look a lot less dull. Imagine what they could do with Monopoly." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2008	The Grand ()	39%
	"A modest surprise: better acted than needed, better made than expected." -- Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2008	Never Back Down (2008)	24%
	"*[It] could pass for an episode of CSI: Reykjavik, only with less high-tech gimmickry, more pavement-pounding, and a head-clearing view of crime as anything but a cool diversion." -- Village Voice* Posted Feb 27, 2008	Jar City (2008)	91%
	"The movie's glacial pace and willingness to let its mind and eye wander that produces its spiritual and intellectual heft�not to mention its atypical visual splendor." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 27, 2008	The Unforeseen (2007)	86%
	"This uneven but impressive shot-on-digital shocker earns a marker in the mausoleum of apocalyptic horror -- a genre that's proving (un)surprisingly durable in the new century." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 20, 2008	The Signal (2007)	55%
	"*Forms, with Killer of Sheep, a landmark diptych about work as the crucible of the American character—either in its abundance or its absence." -- Village Voice* Posted Feb 12, 2008	Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)	n/a
	"Despite the unhurried pace, the stories unfold without compelling details, and the interweaving is more pedestrian than artful." -- Village Voice Posted Feb 5, 2008	Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)	60%
	"Ever had a premonition of imminent catastrophe, only to watch helplessly as the worst unfolds? You have if you saw the previews for this snoozer of a paranormal shocker and bought a ticket anyway." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 4, 2008	The Eye (2008)	21%
	"As vehement in its stereotyping as World War II propaganda." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 31, 2008	Rambo (2008)	36%
	"An unforgettable all-access pass behind the scenes of Bob Dylan's '65 British tour, D.A. Pennebaker's landmark 1967 rock doc all but invented the form while presaging the music video." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 29, 2008	Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967)	100%
	"The performances, culled from seven shows on the �Vertigo� tour from Mexico City to Buenos Aires, burn with the old unforgettable fire." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 23, 2008	U2 3D (2008)	92%
	"For once, the movie -- written by Annmarie Morais and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid with a gritty overlay of 16mm grain -- regards book learning as at least as important as physical prowess." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 22, 2008	How She Move (2008)	66%
	"Credit writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein with making a first feature that every man in America will watch with his legs crossed." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 15, 2008	Teeth (2008)	81%
	"Walk Hard limps soft." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 21, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
	"This burlesque of biopic cliches flounders from one setup to the next without the engine that drives the genre: a strong central character." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 18, 2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)	75%
	"A medical thriller with a noggin full of novocaine, this shocker about a botched heart surgery evidently suffered brain surgery to match." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 6, 2007	Awake (2007)	24%
	"They [Rounders] stand as perhaps the truest heirs to the Harry Smith Anthology's wild and woolly Americana—a point Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul C. Lovelace's affectionate doc makes with a minimum of fuss and lots of bawdy hilarity." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 4, 2007	The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2006)	100%
	"*As a study of stubborn artisanal tradition in the Pro Tools age, Note by Note* is a stirring symphony of specialized labor.*" -- Village Voice* Posted Nov 13, 2007	Note by Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037 (2007)	90%
	"This blast of homecoming claustrophobia is being released for the holidays, when it may prove therapeutic. Bring the family. Or better yet, leave them." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 13, 2007	Margot at the Wedding (2007)	51%
	"I'd be lying if I didn't say it overcame my naturally complacent instincts." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 6, 2007	War Dance (2007)	86%
	"The Future Is Unwritten is less a eulogy than a wake, and one in which the subject is startlingly present." -- Village Voice Posted Nov 1, 2007	Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)	88%
	"Much of this is tedious -- no more or less exciting than surveillance-cam footage of a regional sales manager." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007	Lynch (One) (2007)	53%
	"*Do-nothing Sarah may be the dullest, most featureless and inactive protagonist in recent movies -- great news for those Scooby-Doo* die-hards who never got enough Freddy.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Oct 20, 2007	Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007)	0%
	"In his strikingly downbeat directorial debut, Affleck has created something of a blue-moon rarity: an American movie of genuine moral complexity." -- Village Voice Posted Oct 16, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	94%
	"*It�s the first of the agonizing Resident Evil* movies that could remotely be considered fun.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Sep 24, 2007	Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)	22%
	"In the Shadow of the Moon recalls the wondrous moment when America had the entire world looking up, up, and not away." -- Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2007	In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)	94%

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