ROTTEN TOMATOES: Paul Byrnes

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2.5/5	" Strap yourself in for some pure violence and stupidity." Posted Oct 10, 2008	Babylon A.D. (2008)	7%
4/5	" As confronting as the movie is, I saw it as hopeful and a caution, but I admit I'm biased towards freedom of expression. There are no questions of consent here, only one's preparedness to be confronted." Posted Oct 10, 2008	Towelhead (2008)	49%
	" A woman a few rows in front of me at the preview chose to write 20 minutes worth of text messages, rather than watch the movie. Even though she was not paying, the price was clearly too high." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Disaster Movie (2008)	2%
	" The scriptwriters are setting a trap, but there's a risk. If they push the capabilities of the unseen female voice too far -- and they do -- they risk our patience. Once you withdraw your willingness to believe, it's hard to get it back." Posted Oct 3, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
4/5	" This is intimate cinema, rewarding for the way it takes its time." Posted Sep 26, 2008	The Grocer's Son (2008)	88%
	" Between occasional guffaws and more frequent hand-over-mouth, oh-my-God moments, I started to think about where American comedy has come from and where it's going." Posted Sep 19, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	55%
	" If anyone doubted that Pixar is the most creative outfit in modern motion pictures, this movie should convince them. It is a genuine masterpiece, a word I don't use often." Posted Sep 19, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
4/5	" Waltz with Bashir is a brilliant piece of work and I never want to see it again." Posted Sep 12, 2008	Waltz with Bashir (2008)	85%
4/5	" McDonagh directs with supreme confidence, just as he writes." Posted Sep 12, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	81%
3.5/4	" It's a tawdry kind of horror movie plot, given new meaning by Haneke's considerable intellect." Posted Sep 5, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	51%
3/4	" Maybury at least makes it lush, which is a relief from the drab realism of other English lit biopics." Posted Aug 29, 2008	The Edge of Love (2008)	91%
4/4	" A beautiful, quiet, measured movie about the death of some American values since September 11, 2001." Posted Aug 29, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	93%
3/4	" Thank heavens for the practical presence and humour of Bates, and the quiet conservatism of Allen's performance as a pious woman scared of too much freedom." Posted Aug 29, 2008	Bonneville (2006)	41%
3.5/4	" Ben Stiller's confidence as a director is growing; this is comedy on a grand scale, with huge effects and a big cast." Posted Aug 22, 2008	Tropic Thunder (2008)	83%
	" A simplistic action-thriller depicts extreme prejudice and shows middling contempt." Posted Aug 12, 2008	Taken (2009)	48%
2.5/5	" *Not much about Meet Dave* is memorable, so I'm having trouble remembering.*" Posted Jul 11, 2008*	Meet Dave (2008)	20%
2/5	" As the celebrity love guru of Los Angeles, Mike Meyers delivers jokes so poorly that they just clang to the floor like metal weights." Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	14%
4/5	" At 65, director Mike Leigh proves an old dog can turn new tricks." Posted Jul 10, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	97%
1/5	" Which words describe this movie version of one of the funniest television shows ever made? Terrible, puerile and a travesty are close, but not angry enough." Posted Jul 10, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	52%
2.5/5	" History is never easy to capture in a fiction film, especially with a war in the background. But you have to at least try to embrace the whole of it, not just tear off a convenient chunk. Real life is inconvenient; great movies still deal with it." Posted Jul 4, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	27%
	" It's an engrossing political love story, with a strong sense of the shadings within the daily lives of these characters." Posted Jun 20, 2008	My Brother Is An Only Child (2006)	86%
4/5	" The winner of this year's Oscar for best foreign-language film puts devils, as well as angels, on the head of the pin." Posted Jun 8, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
	" It's hard to imagine, I know, but Shine A Light gives us the Rolling Stones in a fresh way." Posted Jun 8, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
	" It's nice to see these women again, because they are all rich and complex characters, but it's basically a sentimental exercise, designed for maximum cash flow before the idea is retired." Posted Jun 8, 2008	Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)	50%
	" Each woman has to turn herself inside out in continuous time. It has the demands of theatre and the intimacy of cinema." Posted Jun 6, 2008	Nine Lives (2005)	76%
2/5	" A hip comedy, and as such, being hip and caustic is sometimes more important than being funny." Posted May 30, 2008	Rats and Cats (2008)	83%
3/5	" There is precious little comedy and even less characterisation." Posted May 2, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
3/5	" Exaggerating the genre cliches is a joke the audience can share; deriding their belief in romance, the genre's sacred trust, is not." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
4/5	" The director, Sarah Gavron, came through documentaries and BBC TV drama. This is her first feature and she makes the film very sensual, as well as highly controlled." Posted Mar 21, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
4/5	" One of the most intelligent gangster movies in years." Posted Jan 4, 2008	American Gangster (2007)	79%
4	" I think this just might be [the Coens'] best film so far, with some qualifications." Posted Dec 21, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
3/5	" *It's like watching the younger brother of There's Something About Mary: it's brash and talks too loud, it's a bit snotty and it so wants to be as cool as its older sibling." Posted Dec 1, 2007*	The Heartbreak Kid (2007)	30%
3/4	" It's fun for a while, but the script doesn't have the structure to sustain 85 minutes." Posted Sep 21, 2007	Surf's Up (2007)	78%
3.5/4	" The pace is breakneck, and the animation -- though still primitive -- makes good use of the full width of the screen." Posted Jul 27, 2007	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	90%
3.5/5	" Stallone wanted this movie to restore dignity to his greatest character. He succeeds, better then anyone might have expected." Posted Feb 23, 2007	Rocky Balboa (2006)	76%
3.5/4	" It's a very frank film about the daily frustrations for women who just want to enjoy their lives. It's a comedy, but of a fairly bitter sort." Posted Sep 29, 2006	Offside (2006)	95%
	" There's enough material in that scene for a whole conference of psychologists, but I couldn't stop to figure it all out. I was too busy laughing." Posted May 20, 2006	Slither (2006)	85%
	" The film is itself an offering to the god of speed, but much more besides." Posted Apr 7, 2006	The World's Fastest Indian (2005)	81%
	" The film's approach to violence is unflinching: this is what poor people are doing to each other with the guns the West sells them, it screams -- but there's no suggestion it might be stopped, or slowed." Posted Feb 17, 2006	Lord of War (2005)	61%
	" If the length inevitably dilutes some of the concentrated power and energy of the shorts, it offers compensation, in terms of extra time spent with characters we all love." Posted Oct 15, 2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)	95%
	" Struggles to find the right tone." Posted Sep 10, 2003	Rage in Placid Lake (2003)	53%
	" Superbly acted, as you would expect, it's also rich in moral nuance. Doing the right thing is not as simple in his films as it once was." Posted Jun 6, 2003	25th Hour (2002)	77%
	" Parts of it are very silly, but it is still extraordinarily powerful as cinema and its meanings grow murkier, not clearer, with what we now know of Lang's life." Posted May 23, 2003	Metropolis (2002)	91%

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