ROTTEN TOMATOES: Brian Gibson

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	"One extra shows the research behind the show's period details, often gleaned from the writers' own childhoods. Another flips through a 1960 of solidifying, post-war middle-class wealth. The best is a sampler of the show's hair, costume and set designs." Posted Jul 10, 2008	Mad Men - Season 1 (2007)	n/a
	"Director Eric Daniel Metzgar makes the rookie mistake of too much voiceover. And there's a disappointing vagueness around Ogust, his story, his attraction to turtles and around the creatures themselves or the efforts to protect and breed them." Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Chances of the World Changing ()	n/a
	"At worst, a sketch comedy film, with some much-needed social and political bite, that's far superior to any Saturday Night Live movie. (Only Deleted Scenes and two outtakes suggest how senselessly offensive the movie could have become.) " Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Onion Movie (2008)	n/a
	"A stunning documentary, a must-see-and-bear-it cinematic testimonial to yet another mass war crime, lest we forget." Posted May 29, 2008	Nanking (2007)	98%
	"This often clever, snappy little comedy fires off some satirical shots with deadly sniping accuracy. And the disc's extra is an actual doc about the First Motion Picture Unit of the US Army, where we see how the military propagandistically covered itself." Posted May 29, 2008	Military Intelligence and You! (2008)	35%
	"Its strange symmetries, poetic reflections and even the score's musical murmurs are entrancing. Unfortunately, the feature is offered in a bad transfer, filling out the whole screen and slightly sheared off at the edges." Posted May 29, 2008	Syndromes and A Century (2007)	87%
	"Kohn takes a distinctive approach to this chronicle of kidnappings in Brazil%u2014call it the obsessively tangential drama-documentary. . . . the elegant, bright camerawork, along with the jaunty Brazilian musical score, builds a fitting sense of the surr" Posted May 8, 2008	Manda Bala (2007)	80%
	"A documentary built on guilt by association. . . . no more interested in questioning the loaded word "terrorist" than Verges is in making distinctions between his clients. . . . leads us on a tour full of dark, mysterious purpose and not much of a payoff." Posted May 8, 2008	Terror's Advocate (2007)	84%
	"A relentless super-self-consciousness leaves no room for subtlety or the viewer's involvement. . . . even the extras are meta and pretentious: the long-running 'interview with the director' is more about her artistic preoccupations and her career arc." Posted May 8, 2008	Strange Culture (2007)	94%
	"Pulses with an underlying distrust of an overworked, PR-driven police force that's a necessary social burden. . . . also offers a sense of family fractured, people isolated and lost in their pain, that's rarely seen on film or television these days." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Five Days (2007)	n/a
	"An environmentally minded, politically charged thriller. The way that life ends with a whimper, not a bang, in a Russia even more fissured by self-interest, is heartbreaking." Posted Apr 11, 2008	PU-239 ()	n/a
	"The film's focus on Bible-belting zealots seems as diversionary as those zealots' take on abortion . . . The film far too often ignores a woman's view . . . Most pundits in the film, and most critics, can turn abortion into a 'debate' because they're men." Posted Mar 27, 2008	Lake of Fire (2007)	94%
	"Islam is only cast as anti-democratic. Only homosexuality is [shown as] worse. The Yacoubian Building slums around in the basement when it could have shown some messy, lived-in corners of a down-to-earth, honest-to-god African nation." Posted Mar 20, 2008	The Yacoubian Building ()	100%
	"Doesn't explain the monarchy's debt to its British colonial legacy or to African traditions. . . . We don't need cooing, breathy vocals to be shaken by the tour of an AIDS orphanage, or forced to read subtitles when Swazis speak English." Posted Mar 20, 2008	Without the King (2008)	94%
	"What seems like a half-mad, half-obsessive outdoor odyssey sweeps you into a haunting tale of human survival. You've never imagined you could be so caught up in sailing. The DVD offers fascinating extra features, from an interactive tour of the cabin of C" Posted Mar 20, 2008	Deep Water (2007)	96%
	"Never as earnest or pleading as its title . . . finds a gentle, steadily fascinating poetry in the day-to-day struggle of stubborn, often inexplicable commitment that two people find themselves pushing and pulling each other into." Posted Mar 1, 2008	Tell Me You Love Me - The Complete First Season ()	n/a
	"The film never shows anyone being deeper, as if the surface patter of their '50s world is really all they are. . . . it's best to just leave this odd couple to the distant past of Geraldo and other talk show appearances. " Posted Mar 1, 2008	Crazy Love (2007)	78%
	"So intensely immediate, so caught up in the rush and roil of everyday survival, that it never becomes hopelessly sad." Posted Mar 1, 2008	Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007)	98%
	"A remarkably cogent, still-appalling synthesis of the Bush administration's breezy, sloppy planning that led to the bloody disaster of today's Iraq." Posted Jan 19, 2008	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
	"This is the film that Meadows' deceptively casual, hands-in-its-pockets, neighbourhood storytelling has led up to. A tale of one boy's summer becomes a majestic, unromantic look back at 1980s Britain. With some lovely deleted scenes . . . followed by two " Posted Dec 22, 2007	This Is England (2007)	93%
	"Little, everyday things make up this tender, quietly funny slice-of-life movie. The tedious but dignified ritual of work whirrs and grinds along . . . an understated, introverted film." Posted Dec 6, 2007	Whisky (2004)	100%
	"A gentle little drama about the shades of fathers passing through their sons . . . brushed with light touches of whimsy and bemusement . . . a delicate questioning of the slight madness of city life, the rush so many of us are a little too swept up in." Posted Dec 6, 2007	Family Law (2006)	75%
	"The teens grope and fumble through their desire, sex and gender heat-miraging away. . . . The performances are remarkably assured." Posted Dec 6, 2007	Glue (2006)	n/a
	"An eerie, haunting immersion in the near-incomprehensibility, darkness and grief rippling around suicide. With a fascinating making-of featurette." Posted Nov 23, 2007	The Bridge (2006)	69%
	"With its oblique, sometimes coyly pretentious approach (and suffocating, incessant score), Devor's film skates around this complex subject on the thin ice of its pretty aesthetic." Posted Nov 23, 2007	Zoo (2007)	56%
	"A wryly funny, surreal take on an epochal event . . . reminds us that revolutions aren't always grand, ideal affairs to be nostalgic about, but can involve the mundane and the trivial, moments argued or regretted. " Posted Nov 8, 2007	12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)	95%
	"About Tony's slow imprisonment by his own shallow, grasping selfishness . . . here's the American Dream trying to keep its head down, going about its often dirty business, but always waiting, watching out of the corner of its eye for the blow to come." Posted Oct 26, 2007	The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 2 (2007)	n/a
	"Yunis's surreal moments of imprisoned hell are emphasized with comic book illustrations and people's words as captions. It's a cartoonish nightmare with ordinary Iraqis, who've only known America through pop-culture TV, becoming trapped in easy stereotype" Posted Oct 11, 2007	The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2007)	86%
	"Leaves much unrecorded and unexplained, though. . . . What about the other boys they live with? And does the film focus on John because he's a spokesman for a cause? . . ." Posted Oct 11, 2007	God Grew Tired of Us (2007)	91%
	"A narcissistic, wayward American male rage can only find release in a confusion of sex and violence . . . this startling, strange cine-philosophical experiment throws all the usual voyeuristic conventions of film into sudden, screeching reverse." Posted Sep 13, 2007	Twentynine Palms (2004)	44%
	"With Dexter's moral ambiguities, the socially numb man's sly, deadpan voiceover and its gripping plot of 'good' and 'bad' killers playing cat-and-mouse, the series' biggest problem may be the dramatic-comic bar set in this first season." Posted Sep 3, 2007	Dexter -The First Season (2007)	n/a
	"Rarely acknowledges the basic transparency of Moore's films . . . only when [this doc] takes on [Moore's] work does it land its hardest blows. The disc's best special feature is a ten-minute 'Documentary Discussion.'" Posted Aug 20, 2007	Manufacturing Dissent (2007)	52%
	"The camerawork can be stodgy and the performances, built on improvisation, seem rickety. Many scenes, unnaturally strained and awkward, are piled on like layers of forced complication." Posted Aug 6, 2007	Find Love (2006)	n/a
	"This film demands to be rewatched, its jigsaw of lacerated lives assembled again . . . reaches a dirge-like crescendo . . . [There's] a fascinating torrent of convoluted introspection and stubborn perseverance in the women here." Posted Aug 6, 2007	The Dead Girl (2006)	74%
	"The curious fusion of sex, tech and death mostly slathers into carnage, and the ending doesn't so much hint at the pointless cycle of vengeance as set up a sequel." Posted Jun 25, 2007	Afro Samurai (2007)	n/a
	"The patience and delicacy behind this Poe-meets-Potter movie comes through in every elaborate, gradually unfurled scene." Posted Jun 25, 2007	Blood Tea and Red String (2006)	91%
	"*[Some] startlingly innovative and experimental television. It's obvious from City of Men* that there are far more stories to be found in the poor places where most people live.*" Posted Jun 8, 2007*	City of Men (2006)	n/a

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