ROTTEN TOMATOES: James Adams

JAMES ADAMS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography: Film Critic, Globe and Mail

Total Reviews: 20

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh 3/4	N/A	Crab Trap (2009)	" A glacially paced spellbinder about the mostly black residents of La Barra, a destitute, isolated village on Colombia's Pacific coast where the fishery's gone bust and the only economic hope is a madcap scheme by a local landowner to build a beach resort." Posted Sep 11, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 86%	Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)	" It's a pretty fine film, thanks largely to the performances (and look) of its crackerjack cast, as well as Jonathan Freeman's restless, gritty cinematography and a lickety-split script." Posted Jul 31, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 97%	The Beaches of Agnes (2009)	" This is a lovely, quirky and not a little poignant film from Agn�s Varda, at 81 the still spry grande dame of the Nouvelle Vague that revolutionized French and world cinema in the late 1950s and early 60s." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 55%	Surveillance (2009)	" The film's a failure." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 84%	Soul Power (2009)	" A non-stop head-bobbing knee-bouncer." Posted Jul 24, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Katyn (2007)	" Katyn is remarkably concise and (if one may say this about a cinematic commemoration of mass murder) elegant." Posted Jul 17, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 67%	Bruno (2009)	" It's a thing , not a movie -- if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes." Posted Jul 10, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 47%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" Less an exercise in catharsis than an obstacle course of premise-heavy, flashback-drenched plot points, it's an emotional flat-liner, even though virtually every character (including Alec Baldwin as the lawyer) carries some hurt or grief." Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 81%	Departures (2009)	" It breaks no new ground, offers no audacious insights or rude revelations; toe follows tac as surely as tac follows tic." Posted Jun 12, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" Bigelow and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd crank up the tension to nail-biting, gut-churning extremes and the mayhem is powerfully visceral." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 53%	Stone of Destiny (2008)	" Smith, who also wrote the screenplay, is all brisk efficiency over the course of the movie's fat-free 96 minutes." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 50%	Down to the Dirt (2008)	" The movie, directed by first-timer Simms, gets really interesting -- in a squalid, darkly humorous, Atlantic Canada Gothic kinda way." Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 95%	My Winnipeg (2008)	" Holding its hallucinatory blend of archival footage, animation and skewed recreations of scenes from Maddin's childhood together is the director's inspired, entertaining narration." Posted Sep 8, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 26%	Copying Beethoven (2006)	" There's a lot of Romantic hokum here that probably won't play well with many postmodernist sensibilities." Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 76%	Catch a Fire (2006)	" This one's a nail-biter, a fast-paced, compulsively watchable political thriller." Posted Sep 23, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 57%	Rosenstrasse (2004)	" Von Trotta skims when she should be bearing down; tidies up when situations should be allowed to get much messier. In the end, this tale of human decency fails to make you feel enough." Posted Sep 24, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 87%	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)	" It's less rockumentary and more exploration of, and meditation on long-term relationships, creativity and maturity, the value of the 'talking cure' and the quest for personal authenticity in a matrix of family demands, peer pressure and corporate greed." Posted Jul 16, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 93%	Super Size Me (2004)	" [A] gripping, often funny, unfailingly gut-wrenching burp of a documentary about America's fast-food industry and one man's (his) greasy descent into its cholesterol-clogged bowels." Posted May 7, 2004
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 91%	The Weather Underground (2003)	" Directors Sam Green and Bill Siegel expertly limn the forces that gave rise to Weatherman and clearly sympathize with the group's motivations. At the same time, they don't stint on Weatherman's follies." Posted Oct 24, 2003
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 29%	How to Deal (2003)	" There's a kind of timeless, weirdly chaste 'nowhereness' to the whole enterprise, its dilemmas and behaviours as applicable to 1973 as 2003." Posted Jul 18, 2003

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