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Critics / John Anderson
John Anderson

    JOHN ANDERSON

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

    Publications: Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Newsday, Variety, Village Voice, Washington Post

    Critics' Group: National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle

    Total Reviews: 1170

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    Rotten

    Rotten
    44%

    The Girl From Monaco (2009)

    " For all the elasticity of the form, Anne Fontaine's Girl is still a cloying bit of business, rarely very funny and never smart enough to make a solid point, at least about anything we don't already know." — Washington Post

    Posted Jul 2, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    19%

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

    " What's wrong here is that there's so much swirling, relentless action, indistinct robot characterizations and over-caffeinated techies loose on the special-effects machines that the movie, in mere seconds, achieves incoherence." — Washington Post

    Posted Jun 24, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    62%

    Tetro (2009)

    " Tetro has no internal tension and should have been a comedy." — Washington Post

    Posted Jun 18, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    97%

    Food, Inc. (2009)

    " Does for the supermarket what "Jaws" did for the beach -- marches straight into the dark side of cutthroat agri-business, corporatized meat and the greedy manipulation of both genetics and the law." — Variety

    Posted Jun 15, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    43%

    Imagine That (2009)

    " A movie that takes a major step toward reasserting Murphy's place as the comic heir not just to such obvious models as Richard Pryor but to Groucho Marx." — Washington Post

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    11%

    My Life in Ruins (2009)

    " Vardalos is charming." — Newsday

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    94%

    Moscow, Belgium (2008)

    " Director Christophe Van Rompaey has a script, of course, but much of what comes across so eloquently in this Flemish comedy of ill-manners is wordless." — Washington Post

    Posted May 29, 2009

    —

    N/A

    The Art of Flight (2005)

    Click here to read article — Variety

    Posted May 28, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    62%

    The Brothers Bloom (2009)

    " A screwball comedy for the New Depression, "The Brothers Bloom" makes an abundant number of erudite references that mean almost nothing, and, like most con-man movies, it can't be trusted." — Washington Post

    Posted May 22, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    27%

    Dance Flick (2009)

    " We live in desperate times. But no one's desperate enough to laugh at Dance Flick. Which is sort of encouraging, no?" — Newsday

    Posted May 21, 2009

    Fresh

    N/A

    I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

    " Less of a comedy than a hilarious tragedy." — Variety

    Posted May 19, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    32%

    Terminator Salvation (2009)

    " Darker, grimmer and more stylistically single-minded than its two relatively giddy predecessors, "Terminator Salvation" boasts the kind of singular vision that distinguished the James Cameron original." — Variety

    Posted May 18, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    37%

    Angels & Demons (2009)

    " What the movie is supposed to accomplish -- laying out a fairly complex mystery in a way that creates suspense -- is precisely what it doesn't do." — Washington Post

    Posted May 15, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    100%

    Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)

    " An urban nightmare with a surfeit of soul, “Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire” is like a diamond -- clear, bright, but oh so hard." — Variety

    Posted May 15, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    76%

    Outrage (2009)

    " Auds, regardless of their politics, will find Kirby Dick's filmentertaining, brisk, visually interesting and perhaps even thrilling." — Variety

    Posted May 1, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    36%

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

    " Wolverine is full of angst, and yet it has virtually all the humanity wrung out of it in an effort to create a live-action cartoon." — Washington Post

    Posted Apr 30, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    18%

    Obsessed (2009)

    " Spends much time spinning its wheels and making auds practically beg for an explanation to all the madness and obsession." — Variety

    Posted Apr 27, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    79%

    An Unlikely Weapon (2009)

    " It's their reminiscences that are the most poignant and revealing about a man who seems, in Cooper's interviews, to have done all he could to conceal himself." — Variety

    Posted Apr 24, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    15%

    The Informers (2009)

    " A nihilistic, narcissistic, knuckleheaded move about nihilistic, narcissistic knuckleheads, The Informers might have been an interesting exercise in satire, if it only had a sense of humor. Which it doesn't." — Washington Post

    Posted Apr 23, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    85%

    Earth (2009)

    " The beauty of the landscape, the beauty of the animals, it's all irresistible." — Newsday

    Posted Apr 23, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    41%

    Fighting (2009)

    " For all the utter phoniness of Fighting... [it's] not so bad." — Variety

    Posted Apr 23, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    71%

    American Violet (2009)

    " American Violet is a justice story, with some honest justice. It's nicely reassuring that it happens to be true." — Newsday

    Posted Apr 17, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    51%

    Observe and Report (2009)

    " Given that the ordinarily likable Seth Rogen is portraying a delusional, violent, sexist, racist, homophobic mall cop with a bipolar disorder, there's not really a lot to laugh at." — Washington Post

    Posted Apr 9, 2009

    Fresh
    4/4

    Rotten
    55%

    Lymelife (2009)

    " Lymelife is well told, superbly acted, recalls some of the truly banal pop hits of the late '70s and hardly ever digresses from the genuine. It's a pearl among zucchinis." — Newsday

    Posted Apr 9, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    46%

    Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)

    " Director Peter Chesholm does a fine job moving Hannah out of its $14.95 Disney Channel set and onto a bigger canvas." — Newsday

    Posted Apr 9, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    88%

    Adventureland (2009)

    " Adventureland may be targeted at teens, but it's a sophisticated film that just happens to be about unformed people and their raw emotions." — Newsday

    Posted Apr 2, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    30%

    12 Rounds (2009)

    " The future of vacuous action movies is clearly with the likes of Cena, humans who resemble characters from video games, albeit without the acting chops." — Newsday

    Posted Mar 30, 2009

    —

    Fresh
    67%

    Reeker (2005)

    Click here to read article — Variety

    Posted Mar 27, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    50%

    The Feature (2009)

    " It is a profoundly indulgent work -- what three-hour filmed memoir wouldn't be? -- but the memory of Auder's memory will linger on for the handful of resilient experimental-film fans who see it." — Variety

    Posted Mar 23, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    73%

    Sunshine Cleaning (2009)

    " Adams and Blunt are a great team and provide Sunshine Cleaning with nearly all of its potency, pain and emotional payoff, as sisters trying to avoid their own tragedy while cleaning up the mess of others." — Newsday

    Posted Mar 19, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    82%

    I Love You, Man (2009)

    " Even though I Love You, Man supplies plenty of cringes, it also has overtones of warmth and undertones of real humor, and two stars -- Paul Rudd and Jason Segel -- who do what they do with aplomb." — Newsday

    Posted Mar 19, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    4%

    Miss March (2009)

    " Overall a raggedy, unfocused affair that wastes both directors' acting talent and feels like too much work between the laughs." — Variety

    Posted Mar 13, 2009

    —

    Rotten
    43%

    Immortal (2005)

    Click here to read article — Variety

    Posted Mar 10, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    18%

    The Trouble with Romance (2009)

    " Very little that anyone here says, or does, has the slightest connection to any known reality, and if a film is going to perform an autopsy on love, the corpse should at least be recognizable." — Variety

    Posted Mar 6, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    18%

    An American Affair (2009)

    " The Cuban Missile Crisis is a year passed and the assassination is looming, and yet Adam's pubescent crises are given Wagnerian emphasis." — Variety

    Posted Feb 27, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    97%

    The Class (2008)

    " The Class is not just the best film released thus far this year. It may be the most gripping." — Washington Post

    Posted Feb 19, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    23%

    Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

    " Isla Fisher is carrying this often stylish comedy on her Prada-upholstered back." — Newsday

    Posted Feb 13, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    23%

    Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

    " Rebecca is the Lucy Ricardo of profligate spending." — Washington Post

    Posted Feb 12, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    43%

    He's Just Not That Into You (2009)

    " A not-quite-romantic-comedy that should click with the young-adult demos of both sexes." — Variety

    Posted Feb 2, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    84%

    Wendy and Lucy (2008)

    " For all its virtues, Wendy and Lucy seems like the most overrated of art movies." — Washington Post

    Posted Jan 29, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    18%

    New in Town (2009)

    " You can see where this is going all the way from Duluth." — Newsday

    Posted Jan 29, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    62%

    Bronson ()

    " Has "cult hit" written all over it." — Variety

    Posted Jan 23, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    17%

    The Lodger (2009)

    " What needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start." — Variety

    Posted Jan 23, 2009

    Fresh

    N/A

    Sergio (2009)

    " Barker takes structural chances, eschewing the predictable for a more unorthodox film, and it works." — Variety

    Posted Jan 23, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    48%

    Chandni Chowk to China (2009)

    " If Chandni Chowk to China were a person, it would need Valium." — Variety

    Posted Jan 16, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    46%

    Hotel for Dogs (2009)

    " A chihuahua-sized concept served up in a doggy bag of contrivances and shtick." — Variety

    Posted Jan 12, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    50%

    Notorious (2009)

    " A rock-solid biopic with a foolproof rise-and-fall storyline and a warmly nuanced performance by Jamal Woolard as iconic rapper Christopher Wallace." — Variety

    Posted Jan 12, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    98%

    The Wrestler (2008)

    " Imagining someone other than the beatifically battered Mickey Rourke in the title role of The Wrestler would be like picturing someone other than John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich." — Washington Post

    Posted Dec 29, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    55%

    The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

    " It's a beautiful film, but in the end, Despereaux is esthetically charmed but dramatically inert." — Washington Post

    Posted Dec 18, 2008

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    14%

    Delgo (2008)

    " A high-tech animation adventure with a top-flight voice cast and a well-told if familiar fable about power, peace and people getting it together." — Newsday

    Posted Dec 11, 2008
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