ROTTEN TOMATOES: Brent Simon

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BRENT SIMON

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Biography: A bespectacled graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brent Simon is editor-in-chief of Entertainment Today and a writer of many words for many formats. He does not like the new Pacific Bell Wireless commercials and cannot abide a world without U2 and pizza.

Favorites: Movies without Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand, Mariah Carey and Eric Schaeffer

Publications: Entertainment Today, FilmStew.com, IGN Movies, Los Angeles CityBeat, Los Angeles Daily News, Now Playing Magazine, ReelzChannel.com, Screen International, Screendaily, Shared Darkness

Critics' Group: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 1344
Total QuickRatings: 9

Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Rotten	Rotten 28%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" This emotionally leaden genre offering never escapes a sense of mocking d�j� vu for savvy viewers." — Screen International Posted Nov 23, 2009
Rotten C	N/A	Dark Country (2009)	" A modestly sketched episode of The Twilight Zone with its visual ambition peddle pushed all the way to the floor, the early woozy, pop-art hold of this brooding, passably eerie two-hander unravels considerably in its final half." — Shared Darkness Posted Nov 8, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" Mulligan locates both the braininess and restless hormonal energy of an adolescent who's blooming before most of her peers. Bearing witness to her education, in all its naivet�, brashness, passion and pain, is illuminating." — Shared Darkness Posted Nov 8, 2009
—	Fresh 83%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	Click here to read article — Screen International Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 22%	The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)	" This sequel is a bit more comedic, a bit more convoluted and a bit more everything than its predecessor, which is a heady thing for eager fans of the stillborn cult flick, and fairly irrelevant to just about everyone else." — Shared Darkness Posted Oct 30, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 15%	Stan Helsing (2009)	" Puerile, yes, but rooted sincerely in character, this well cast comedy lampoons contemporary film audiences' familiarity with the horror genre without ever stooping to senselessly overloaded referential gags." — Shared Darkness Posted Oct 29, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 57%	Fix (2008)	" Caffeinated travelogue Fix pulses with a brash and seductive visual style, but the human drama at the core of its premise ultimately feels a bit underdeveloped; with montages galore, Fix becomes a slave to its insistent artiness." — Shared Darkness Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	Amelia (2009)	" *Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank can�t give any lift to Amelia, a soggy, un-engaging biopic." — Screen International* Posted Oct 21, 2009
Rotten C-	Fresh 69%	(Untitled) (2009)	" Studded with some funny moments, but comes off as fuzzy and false, owing to the fact that it seems conflicted about what sort of agenda to pursue, or perspective to advance." — Shared Darkness Posted Oct 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 70%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" The novelty of looking at the creatures never wears off, and Jonze uses an inquisitive handheld style that works." — Screen International Posted Oct 12, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 42%	New York, I Love You (2009)	" Like the city it honors, a jumbled, chaotic affair -- full of seduction, brio, contradiction and a pinch of pretentiousness. A mixed bag, sure, but the good news is there's something here for everyone." — Shared Darkness Posted Oct 6, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 67%	The Bluetooth Virgin (2009)	" Fitfully, intriguingly captures the ever-present tension between between art and commerce, and again sets on a tee the age-old question: is it an audience that makes a work a legitimate piece of art?" — Shared Darkness Posted Oct 6, 2009
Rotten C-	Rotten 57%	Explicit Ills (2008)	" *Though lyrical, earnest and well photographed, Explicit Ills* is ultimately more intriguing than good. Its narrative grip is far too loose.*" — Shared Darkness* DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 6, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 59%	Paris 36 (2008)	" A sumptuous and emotionally substantive look at the triumph of artistic will in the face of difficult circumstances." — Shared Darkness DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 28, 2009
Rotten C	Fresh 72%	The Boys Are Back (2009)	" A hairs-breadth thumbs down; Owen's trademark tousled charm carries stretches of too-loose widower's tale The Boys Are Back, but otherwise overly familiar dramatic plotting elicits lukewarm positive feelings at best." — Shared Darkness Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 18%	Love Happens (2009)	" Attractively shot but dramatically inert, this isn�t persuasive enough to qualify as a tearjerker, and neither does it work as a substantive comedy." — Screen International Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 31%	The Burning Plain (2009)	" A cautious, mixed recommendation; Arriaga's film evidences all of his old tricks, but generally ranks out among the better of his works, due to some solid performances. The big strike? A bit of curious overwriting." — Shared Darkness Posted Sep 7, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 49%	Good Dick (2008)	" A barbed love story wrapped inside a threadbare character drama of swallowed anger and despair, Marianna Palka's film eschews the achingly manufactured quirkiness or shaggy desire to please of so many of its American indie brethren." — Shared Darkness DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 4, 2009
Rotten D-	Rotten 6%	All About Steve (2009)	" A special sort of trainwreck that unfolds like some fever-dream mash-up of Anchorman, Mad Love, Heather Graham's Committed and a tossed-off improv sketch. A terrible movie, meriting debate only insofar as whether personal preference r" — Shared Darkness Posted Sep 4, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 86%	Big Fan (2009)	" A sort of indie throwback to low-fidelity 1970s character cinema, the perfectly detailed Big Fan makes a stinging and yet insightful comment on the culture of obsessive fandom, and the quiet savvy of its finale lies in the manner in which Siegel de" — Shared Darkness Posted Aug 28, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 95%	The Cove (2009)	" Unapologetically subjective, and a piece of social activist cinema all the way, but also thrilling and truly heartbreaking, The Cove is pieced together like a Steven Soderbergh heist flick, not some staid non-fiction film." — Shared Darkness Posted Aug 28, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 16%	Spread (2009)	" In certain ways, Spread feels like the adaptation of some lost Bret Easton Ellis novel, before he got into drugs and wild, satiric hyperbole, crossed with a story strand from The Real World. Sorry, that's not a good thing." — Shared Darkness Posted Aug 22, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 84%	The September Issue (2009)	" R.J. Cutler's fly-on-the-wall observational tack smartly trusts viewers to track small non-verbal details, and he's rewarded with the sort of carping and back-biting that almost any employee will recognize in their own corporate workplace." — Shared Darkness Posted Aug 20, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 77%	It Might Get Loud (2009)	" A real-life version of Guitar Hero that explores the electric instrument through a trio of trailblazers. Engaging, but perhaps could have used a bit more forced conversation and intellectual grappling about the beautiful mystery of creativity." — Shared Darkness Posted Aug 19, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 58%	A Perfect Getaway (2009)	" A structurally solid B-movie, marked by smart casting and carefully modulated performances, that delivers high on the popcorn-munching entertainment scale." — Shared Darkness Posted Aug 14, 2009
Rotten D+	Fresh 71%	Bart Got a Room (2009)	" An uninterrupted string of frustratingly false moments marked by a consistent, wide gulf between what it actually says and what its characters purport that others are saying." — Shared Darkness DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 14, 2009
Rotten D	N/A	Twelve in a Box (2009)	" A money-grubbing farcical ensemble British import, Twelve in a Box is a dreadful bore. The pacing is interminable, the banter not nearly as cute or witty as its makers fancy, and the nature and quality of its performances unsteady..." — Shared Darkness Posted Aug 12, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 45%	Shorts (2009)	" Shorts generally works precisely because it unfolds at breakneck pace and in a world where seemingly anything can happen." — Screen International Posted Aug 12, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 19%	Obsessed (2009)	" Ali Larter gives good crazy, but Obsessed is torpedoed by some unforgivable, easy-to-fix story hiccups and, mostly, a terrible performance by Beyonce Knowles, who alternates between woodenness and one-note histrionics." — Shared Darkness DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 6, 2009
Rotten C	N/A	The Fifth Commandment (2005)	" An unexceptionally shot and in many ways underwhelming actioner, but one given a bit of a boost by its Bangkok location filming, and a decent performance by multi-hyphenate Rick Yune." — Shared Darkness DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 6, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" Expected Apatowian excesses aside, Funny People mostly pops as a comedy, even though its last two reels are gear-grindingly inefficient and misguided, lacking the pathos that made Sideways affecting." — Shared Darkness Posted Aug 4, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 43%	Fragments (2009)	" Crash's Best Picture Oscar win helped jump-start a wave of self-deluded ensemble imitators who seem to feel that overt emotionalism ladled over a loosely connected narrative is a surefire sign of Important Filmmaking. Witness Fragments." — Los Angeles Daily News Posted Aug 4, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 93%	Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009)	" This detailed examination and celebration of Australian genre cinema of the 1970s and '80s has enough re-tilled salaciousness, wit and good-natured reminiscence to merit a look from cinephiles looking to expand their frame of bawdy reference." — Shared Darkness Posted Jul 29, 2009
Fresh B	Fresh 96%	Herb & Dorothy (2009)	" A solid and engaging documentary that shows the chasm between art and those that are removed, for various reasons, from its creation and most readily accessible exhibition to be a largely artificial construct." — Shared Darkness Posted Jul 28, 2009
Rotten D+	N/A	The Devil's Tomb (2009)	" There are ways to get around the film's hopelessly cramped space and scope, but director Jason Connery opts to try to make an underground thriller, which just underscores the movie's cheapness at almost every turn." — Shared Darkness DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 55%	Orphan (2009)	" Solid lead performances and a moderately engaging premise make Orphan a slightly above-average evil-child movie with an infusion of Electra complex and a good, if half-hearted, narrative twist." — Screen International Posted Jul 23, 2009
Rotten C	Rotten 0%	Homecoming (2009)	" Rooted by a nice sense of place but, much like its real life namesake, Homecoming isn't age-appropriate for everyone -- maybe just those in high school, or barely removed. Others will likely find the familiarity more humdrum than effectively nostal" — Shared Darkness Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh B-	Rotten 15%	Dark Streets (2008)	" *A slight musical murder-mystery with style to spare, Dark Streets' problematic narrative is sustained for vast stretches by gorgeous cinematography and a certain smoldering energy." — Shared Darkness* DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh B+	Fresh 67%	Bruno (2009)	" *Sure, the shine is off as far as Cohen's particular modus operandi, but this is a funny comedy with both the capacity to make you think and* genuinely recoil.*" — Shared Darkness* Posted Jul 10, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" A posed, pop-art cinematic ejaculation of instinctive, unthinking extremes. And no, that's not a good thing, sorry." — Shared Darkness Posted Jul 3, 2009
Rotten C-	N/A	The Human Contract (2009)	" A deeply weird stab at a sort of humanistic erotic thriller whose interesting themes are sabotaged by two woefully miscast leads..." — Shared Darkness DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 3, 2009
Fresh C+	Rotten 55%	Surveillance (2009)	" A wholly engaging partial misfire, if that makes sense -- a spare yet stylish marginal recommendation that connects due to its provocative premise and ruminations on violence, and the considerations that spawns." — Shared Darkness Posted Jul 3, 2009
Fresh A	Fresh 98%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" The Hurt Locker is so taut, and skillfully focused on character, that it could be retro-engineered into a stageplay and still retain most of its dramatic punch." — Shared Darkness Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh B	N/A	The Hostess Also Likes To Blow The Horn ()	" Greatest sex comedy title EVER? Perhaps. A pleasure, then, that this 1970 German import delivers." — Shared Darkness DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 15%	Year One (2009)	" *The big, blustery physical comedy of Jack Black makes for an amusing fit with Michael Cera�s quiet, self-deprecating humour in Year One." — Screen International* Posted Jun 19, 2009
Rotten D+	Rotten 10%	My Life in Ruins (2009)	" An aggressively awful opening 20 minutes gives way to over-the-top characterizations and an increasingly wan series of bits aping film moments we've all seen before, executed with more grace and charm." — Shared Darkness Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh B	Rotten 51%	Easy Virtue (2009)	" Engaging and well acted -- that rare period piece that refuses to yield to predictably stuffy interpretations of what does and doesn't constitute familial screen conflict in times gone by." — Shared Darkness Posted Jun 12, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 52%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" A professionally mounted genre exercise which tries to please both the thriller and social drama crowds and suffers as a result." — Screen International Posted Jun 8, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 25%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" *More rudely silly than funny, action-comedy Land of the Lost* is staged with colour and a fair amount of energy, but not much in the way of inventiveness or surprise.*" — Screen International* Posted Jun 5, 2009

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