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PHILIP MARTIN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Biography: Author, newspaper columnist, former shortstop, songwriter and rhythm guitarist strangepup.blogspot.com

Publications: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Critics' Group: Southeastern Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 1055
Total QuickRatings: 3411

Location: Little Rock, Arkansas

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Rotten
83/100

Rotten
42%

New York, I Love You (2009)

" how well it holds your attention may depend on your degree of occupation with the titular city (which in this case, isn't really the whole of New York, but mainly the semi-private island of Manhattan)..."

Posted Nov 20, 2009

Fresh
86/100

Fresh
94%

An Education (2009)

" ...about the British preoccupation with status, about the aspirant bourgeois and the outliers who exist beyond convention, in a moveable feast of booze, sex and petty criminality."

Posted Nov 20, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
78%

Bronson (2009)

" A stylized portrait of a criminal famous in his native Britain as perhaps the most violent man in Her Majesty's prison system, Bronson serves primarily as a showcase for Tom Hardy's undeniably brilliant performance."

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Rotten
80/100

Rotten
59%

Pirate Radio (2009)

" ...an amiable mess of a period piece about an interesting time in British pop music history"

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Rotten
83/100

Rotten
38%

2012 (2009)

" ...Roland Emmerich has done it again - he has delivered a movie that can pass for either a sunny atrocity or a brilliant black joke."

Posted Nov 13, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
77%

It Might Get Loud (2009)

" ...a sweet little ride, a little glimpse into the spooky stuff inside."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Fresh
89/100

Fresh
86%

Lorna's Silence (2009)

" ...less a character study than the apparent breaking-in of a camera crew on a sad and sordid life."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Rotten
38%

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

" ...not the pandering exploitation film you might expect. It's not all pentup sexuality, ripened teen flesh and brooding ashen untouchable boys."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Fresh
90/100

Fresh
86%

A Serious Man (2009)

" ...emotionally authentic and genuinely interested in the philosophical questions it raises."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Fresh
87/100

Fresh
80%

Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)

" ...a footnote to a complex, creative life that cannot be reduced to a cautionary tale. It is a glimpse of joy, a sequin shining amidst the ashes."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Fresh
91/100

Fresh
72%

That Evening Sun (2009)

" a very specific film in that it is about a particular human being in a particular place at a particular moment in time ... It is not about the struggle between good and evil, but about how hard it is to live as a decent person in the world."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Rotten
85/100

Fresh
69%

Paris (2009)

" Overlong and with ambitions of grandeur, Cedric Klapisch's enjoyable Paris is an attempt at Trollopean social archaeology that's best received with a shrug and a smile."

Posted Nov 7, 2009

Rotten
85/100

Rotten
9%

Opa! (2009)

" ...a moderately enjoyable movie that plays like an extended commercial for a vacation on the Greek island of Patmos."

Posted Oct 18, 2009

Fresh
87/100

Rotten
31%

The Burning Plain (2009)

" It lacks whatever Inarritu brought ... something like a joyful playfulness to leaven the dolefulness of Arriaga's literary vision."

Posted Oct 18, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
86%

Big Fan (2009)

" ...Siegel seems more interested in exhibiting Paul as a not-so-rare species of delusional male thwartedness than granting him an interior life, but it's still a powerful and interesting bit of sociology."

Posted Oct 18, 2009

Fresh
90/100

Fresh
94%

Munyurangabo (2009)

" Compared to "Munyurangabo," admirable films like Terry George's "Hotel Rwanda" or Michael Caton-Jones' "Shooting Dogs" seem like so much heavy-handed melodrama."

Posted Oct 5, 2009

Fresh
90/100

N/A

Private Century (2009)

" ...a serious, important but above all lovely movie."

Posted Oct 5, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
75%

Cold Souls (2009)

" doesn't quite cohere around its squishy metaphysical center, and sometimes swings erratically from meditative essay to screwball surrealism ..."

Posted Oct 5, 2009

Fresh
87/100

Fresh
85%

World's Greatest Dad (2009)

" ...bravely acted (especially by Robin Williams, who's much better in roles like these than when he's called on to be "funny") and invigoratingly dark."

Posted Oct 5, 2009

Fresh
86/100

Fresh
89%

Zombieland (2009)

" Like life itself, "Zombieland" is "nasty, brutish and short" and extraordinarily sweet."

Posted Oct 5, 2009

Fresh
86/100

Rotten
56%

9 (2009)

" the plot unfortunately calls to mind an unholy recombination of Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines times the third Ice Age installment."

Posted Sep 13, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
89%

O'Horten (2009)

" ...a fable that relies less on fantastical transport than the defrosting of cool faculties; less on the titillation of the senses than the thawing of frozen hearts."

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Rotten
78/100

Rotten
49%

Taking Woodstock (2009)

" ...it's hard to get past the idea of Taking Woodstock as a missed opportunity. It's fine around the edges, but it never convinces you that the central event was the cataclysmic cultural convergence some claim."

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Fresh
90/100

Fresh
88%

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

" t's so rich in cinematic value, it's difficult for me to understand how a film critic could fail to be impressed by it."

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Fresh
87/100

Fresh
84%

Soul Power (2009)

" ...if you are a fan of any of the musicians ... or maybe I should say if you're completely unfamiliar with any of the musicians mentioned - then Soul Power is well worth seeing. Or at least hearing."

Posted Sep 9, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
90%

District 9 (2009)

" ...a speculative fiction with genuine emotional resonance."

Posted Aug 18, 2009

Fresh
87/100

Fresh
69%

Adoration (2009)

" ...a complicated and not altogether successful rumination on identity, technology, terrorism and the nature of truth."

Posted Aug 18, 2009

Rotten
76/100

Rotten
15%

The Ugly Truth (2009)

" ...despite some execrable dialogue, the clocklike predictability of the jokes and a total lack of faith in the audience's powers of discernment, Heigl and Butler almost pull it off."

Posted Jul 26, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
86%

Tyson (2009)

" ...if Tyson never manages to charm us, there are other times when he comes off as touchingly naive. He's uncommonly empathetic to those who might think him a monster. It seems he often sometimes thinks of himself the same way."

Posted Jul 24, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
66%

The Merry Gentleman (2009)

" ...a formally minimalist film that focuses onsurface description, eschews expository dialogue and expects theaudience to collaborate in its story-making."

Posted Jul 19, 2009

Fresh
86/100

Fresh
98%

Food, Inc. (2009)

" Like a 21st-century updating of The Jungle ... Food, Inc. is infuriating and disheartening, as it introduces us to the unpleasant verities of eating and the cynical rationalizations of those who purport to feed us."

Posted Jul 17, 2009

Rotten
77/100

Fresh
67%

Bruno (2009)

" It's a shallow and silly thing that has every right to exist but no profound purpose. It is just a $40 million practical joke, and like all practical jokes, it has at its core a hard kernel of cruelty."

Posted Jul 17, 2009

Fresh
87/100

Rotten
54%

Cheri (2009)

" Frears revels in the painted silks and hothouse flowers of the era ... Friend often seems carved from alabaster... Pfeiffer is ... [t]rue to Colette's vision ... alternately steely and pliable, willing to bend yet unable to break."

Posted Jul 10, 2009

Rotten
77/100

Fresh
61%

Zabriskie Point (1970)

" ...can't be regarded as any sort of success. It's a self-indulgent movie, filled with half-baked ideas and radical sloganeering."

Posted Jul 4, 2009

Rotten
80/100

Rotten
45%

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

" ...you'll likely be underwhelmed by this kinetic film, which feels like the product of screenwriting software that has yet to become self-aware and develop a sense of shame."

Posted Jul 4, 2009

Fresh
89/100

Fresh
94%

Three Kings (1999)

" Three Kings mightn't be the best thought-out or most reassuring movie of the year, but the more I think about it, the more I'm sure that it is one of the best."

Posted Jun 28, 2009

Fresh
89/100

N/A

War Eagle, Arkansas (2009)

" an example of tough-minded, well-executed independent filmmaking rooted in the specific circumstances of credible human characters ... a damn good movie"

Posted Jun 26, 2009

Fresh
88/100

Fresh
100%

At the Death House Door (2008)

" makes great sense from a journalist's perspective."

Posted Jun 26, 2009

Fresh
88/100

N/A

At the Death House Door (2008)

" ...makes great sense from a journalist's perspective."

Posted Jun 26, 2009

Rotten
79/100

Fresh
66%

Away We Go (2009)

" ...takes the boorishness of conventional Americans as a given and valorizes nonconformity for its own sake."

Posted Jun 26, 2009

Rotten
83/100

Rotten
51%

Easy Virtue (2009)

" ...almost undone by the casting of thoroughly modern Jessica Biel."

Posted Jun 22, 2009

Rotten
77/100

Rotten
43%

The Proposal (2009)

" By its own modest aims, it's not horrible ..."

Posted Jun 22, 2009

Rotten
68/100

Rotten
15%

Year One (2009)

" In the beginning, there was the dud."

Posted Jun 22, 2009

Fresh
91/100

Fresh
93%

Sugar (2009)

" ...an immigrant's song, a story about cultural dislocations and human connections that happens to be one of the year's best movies."

Posted Jun 12, 2009

Rotten
83/100

Rotten
38%

Gigantic (2008)

" ...the story of how two emotionally damaged but terribly affected andprivileged underachievers meet, fall in love and presumably somehow form a family."

Posted Jun 12, 2009

Fresh
87/100

Rotten
52%

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

" There are few things in life more pleasant than watching John Travolta enjoy himself on-screen."

Posted Jun 12, 2009

Fresh
87/100

Fresh
84%

Pontypool (2009)

" ...most of the pleasures the movie offers are visceral, from the silken roar of character actor McHattie's FM shock jock voice and the bloody meltdown of a production assistant to the bizarro epilogue appended to the credits."

Posted Jun 7, 2009

Fresh
86/100

Fresh
61%

The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

" ...a slightly monstrous movie about the retailing of intimacy"

Posted Jun 7, 2009

Rotten
77/100

Rotten
32%

Terminator Salvation (2009)

" ...plenty of people who will enjoy this kind of soulless, technically correct, mark-hitting moviemaking, but it's difficult for me to imagine why."

Posted May 29, 2009

Fresh
91/100

Fresh
98%

Up (2009)

" If only live action adventure movies were as well-written, subtle and painstakingly realized as this, we might be willing to renew our almost expired belief in the transporting powers of what Pauline Kael called "movie movies.""

Posted May 29, 2009
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