ROTTEN TOMATOES: Brent Simon

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
A-	Sin City
B+	Sahara
B	Guess Who
7/10	There Will Be Blood
2.5/4	Jackass: Number Two
3/5	The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
B-	Layer Cake
C+	Beauty Shop
2.5/5	Night at the Museum
C	Unleashed
4/10	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
2/5	Saw III
C-	House of D
3/10	Street Kings
D+	The Ballad of Jack and Rose
D	Mindhunters
D-	Rebound
F	XXX: State of the Union

BEST REVIEWED
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A	Who Killed The Electric Car?
A	King Kong
A	Good Night, And Good Luck
A	Wedding Crashers
A	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
A	Before Sunset
A	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A	Dawn of the Dead
A	The Fog of War
A	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	XXX: State of the Union
F	Cursed
F	Alone in the Dark
F	A Dirty Shame
F	Anatomy of Hell
F	Blackwoods
F	Psycho Beach Party
F	Abandon
F	Fear Dot Com
F	Freddy Got Fingered
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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	"Mostly works because it's well cast, wildly written and full of good, old-fashioned comedic friction." -- FilmStew.com Posted Apr 28, 2008	Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
	"The phrase "good enough" applies, without any negative connotations that might unintentionally summon forth." -- FilmStew.com Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
	"A fun, sloppy treatment of a profound premise that, as a reunion project between Waters and Ryder, feels right." -- FilmStew.com Posted Apr 10, 2008	Sex and Death 101 (2008)	26%
3/10	""A wearying exercise in manufactured grittiness."" -- ReelzChannel.com Posted Apr 10, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
N/A	"A lot can be gleaned about George Clooney from his humble past." -- FilmStew.com Posted Apr 4, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
7/10	"More intimately scaled than a lot of other recent children's book adaptations, the sweet-natured and light-hearted Nim's Island nonetheless achieves a nice hold over its audience." -- ReelzChannel.com Posted Apr 4, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
	"Across the Universe star Jim Sturgess reaffirms himself as a sympathetic, highly likable screen presence. " -- FilmStew.com Posted Apr 1, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
	"Succeeds in spite of itself." -- FilmStew.com Posted Mar 28, 2008	The Hammer (2008)	74%
	"Posits that we humans are a persuadable lot, willing to accept almost anything in the name of entertainment." -- FilmStew.com Posted Mar 14, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	49%
	"*The success of Juno* has re-set the bar for whimsical tales of headstrong, intelligent young women grappling with life difficulties.*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Mar 6, 2008	Penelope (2008)	53%
	"There will always be adults who want to catch up on the history lessons they slept or passed notes through during their younger years." -- FilmStew.com Posted Feb 29, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	41%
	"*Jittery, Bourne-style-lite mayhem, with edits every one-half to one-third a second." -- FilmStew.com* Posted Feb 22, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	36%
	"By trading in metaphor and parallel structure, makes a compelling allegorical statement about just how stuck in a rut we collectively feel our nation is." -- FilmStew.com Posted Feb 18, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
N/A	"*Filmmaker Interview - Says Sly: "I like First Blood* and I like this one... The others were kind of trying to figure out what I should do."*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Feb 1, 2008	Rambo (2008)	33%
N/A	"*Filmmaker Interview - Says Denzel: "In order to get enough of the money I felt we needed to make the movie, I had* to be in it."*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Jan 29, 2008	The Great Debaters (2007)	79%
	"Untraceable could have been a much more interesting film if it had simply stayed closer to its wonkish, Internet-flavored thriller roots." -- FilmStew.com Posted Jan 28, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says Frank Langella: "If you read what I read, when you get a script like this you very much want to meet the man who wrote it."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Jan 22, 2008	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
	"To paraphrase one of Chuck's girlfriends, this is a film that finds no shame in licking the sand off the balls of comedy." -- FilmStew.com Posted Jan 15, 2008	Good Luck Chuck (2007)	3%
	"Recycled, formulaic poignance, something Hollywood has provided buckets of over the years." -- FilmStew.com Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	40%
7/10	"Paul Thomas Anderson's fascinating fifth feature film is a sprawling, period piece character study... and an elongated put-on." -- ReelzChannel.com Posted Dec 29, 2007	There Will Be Blood (2007)	91%
4/10	"Chocolate-and-peanut-butter franchise mash-up corrects its most recent predecessor's PG-13 rating, but offers up neither originality nor knockout execution." -- ReelzChannel.com Posted Dec 28, 2007	Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)	15%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says Daniel Radcliffe: "Me and this girl were in this sort of passionate clinch, and a really hardcore punk song came on and totally spoiled the mood.�" -- FilmStew.com Posted Dec 17, 2007	December Boys (2007)	42%
	"Fits comfortably among a spate of recent films -inclusive of dramas, thrillers, action pictures and anxiety-infused comedies -which all can be boiled down to: we are lost." -- FilmStew.com Posted Dec 15, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	68%
	"A curious case of a sort of �grief peep show,� an episodic drama with a lot hidden in its middle." -- FilmStew.com Posted Dec 12, 2007	Grace is Gone (2007)	58%
	"A superb performance by Frank Langella anchors the exceedingly literate, engrossing Starting Out In The Evening, a richly drawn and for the most part artfully understated portrait of an aged novelist." -- Screendaily Posted Dec 5, 2007	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
	"I realize that critics sound like imagination-hating asses when they bash a movie like this..." -- FilmStew.com Posted Nov 19, 2007	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)	36%
	"To borrow a song title from the more cinematically fortunate Johnny Cash, this one is a �Ragged Old Flag.�" -- FilmStew.com Posted Nov 12, 2007	Lions for Lambs (2007)	28%
N/A	"It was easy for Focus to turn its focus elsewhere." -- FilmStew.com Posted Nov 9, 2007	Reservation Road (2007)	36%
	"*Despite the clucking disapproval of the cinematic intelligentsia, the Saw* films aren�t successful by accident.*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Oct 31, 2007	Saw IV (2007)	19%
	"If ever there were a more shrug-worthy modern hop behind the camera, it's hard to recall." -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 29, 2007	The Wendell Baker Story (2007)	44%
	"Whatever one thinks of it, it�s clear that this film isn�t made from a recipe for mainstream American embrace." -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 27, 2007	Across the Universe (2007)	53%
	"A bit more convincingly portrayed bitterness, though, would have made the movie�s laughs all sweeter in contrast." -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 26, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	64%
	"A somewhat shrug-inducing vessel of unfulfilled potential, consisting of solidly executed attack passages followed by great stretches of relative tedium." -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 23, 2007	30 Days of Night (2007)	49%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says Sir Michael Caine: "Directors who say let�s go out to dinner and let me talk with you about this� Then you know you�re in trouble."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 23, 2007	Sleuth (2007)	35%
	"Affleck has smartly gone and selected a place which he knows well and a source text that assays it with skill and no small sense of moral complexity." -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 19, 2007	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	93%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interview - Says Gavin Hood: "Are we so cynical that if something doesn�t crack it at the box office, it wasn�t worth making?"" -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 18, 2007	Rendition (2007)	47%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says Ryan Gosling: "For me, it was about a guy who meets a girl, falls in love, she comes to live with him, she gets a terminal illness and she dies."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 16, 2007	Lars And The Real Girl (2007)	80%
	"Takes enough interesting turns and twists to earn and keep your attention, all before an ending that sacrifices credibility for the sake of convenience." -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 16, 2007	We Own The Night (2007)	54%
	"*It�s The Insider* remade and rechristened with all the coiled, white-hot intensity of a crime thriller like Heat.*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Oct 10, 2007	Michael Clayton (2007)	91%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interview - Says Robert Benton: "One of the sad things about movies is that now the business part of movies has gotten more interesting than movies."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 5, 2007	Feast of Love (2007)	41%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interview - Says Richard Shepard: "I kept telling the crew I wanted this to feel like making a 1940�s Warner Bros. movie, and that Bogart would play Gere�s part."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Oct 2, 2007	The Hunting Party (2007)	52%
	"Sort of like going to an exotic restaurant and ordering the equivalent of spaghetti and meatballs; e.g., a wasted opportunity." -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 28, 2007	The Kingdom (2007)	51%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says Ryan Reynolds: "Actors are as good as their director. It�s their medium; theater might be our medium, but this one�s theirs through and through."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 25, 2007	The Nines (2007)	69%
	"Zombie heads are energetically cracked into in a manner that will please franchise aficionados but leave series newcomers somewhat fidgety and yawningly bemused." -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 25, 2007	Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)	22%
	"Will help Moore get additional notice within the industry, from writers, directors and other creative types who pay attention." -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 24, 2007	Dedication (2007)	41%
	"It�s interesting that Thornton should become embraced for playing assertive, caustic types, because in reality he�s so little like that." -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 15, 2007	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	13%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says co-star Diane Lane: "Being a self-made person means everything to me, and I�m trying to instill that into our kids."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 14, 2007	Fierce People (2007)	24%
	"The specter of Dana Carvey�s film career looms." -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 7, 2007	The Brothers Solomon (2007)	16%
	"Mangold is a filmmaker who doesn�t mind throwing a melancholic spotlight on the swallowed regret and pained reflection of his protagonists." -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 7, 2007	3:10 to Yuma (2007)	89%
	"A lot of modern horror has become more synonymous with horrifying rather than terrifying, the chief difference being the latter also provokes feelings of psychological unease." -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 4, 2007	Halloween (2007)	27%

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