ROTTEN TOMATOES: Brian Gibson

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	WALL-E
	Shotgun Stories
	Jihad for Love
	Red Without Blue
	Fantastic Planet
	The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
	Caramel
	CJ7
	Taxi to the Dark Side
	Garbage Warrior
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	The Singing Revolution
	Adam's Apples
	The Forbidden Kingdom
	Normal
	Drillbit Taylor
	The Tracey Fragments
	The Tiger's Tail
	Milarepa
	Acts Of Imagination
	Dan in Real Life
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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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
	"A haunting, fantastic, and eerie robot reverie. Deft little touches add more and more complex, heartfelt circuitry to Wall-E's character. A beautifully wrought film." Posted Jul 10, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
	"The end reveals just how poetic, shifting and dazzling Nichols' touch was all along. That's because Shotgun Stories manages to pull away from a hair-trigger resolution with the same inherent right-ness that loaded the story with such tragic force." Posted Jul 10, 2008	Shotgun Stories (2007)	89%
	"The Muslims here feel bound up in an internal battle (the primary meaning of jihad) as they try to make peace between divine and earthly loves. What's lacking are deeper, more involved ruminations on such feelings, reconciliations and self-recriminations." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Jihad for Love (2008)	81%
	"Novelistic in its languid twists and turns, this astounding film superimposes images and photographs, or pans across the twins' shimmering hometown lake, only to dive in between the layers, plunging into the murky depths of identity and self-reflection." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Red Without Blue (2007)	n/a
	"Booster-ish, with only former participants in the struggle and activists interviewed. There's a you-must-feel-good thrust (and an incessant score). Warbles a familiar tune to Estonians, presumably, and doesn't offer enough rich notes for an outsider." Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Singing Revolution (2007)	83%
	"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
	"Anthropology meets surrealist art in a film about the coldly intellectual, logical Traags and the wild, passionate, heartfelt Oms. Manages to be both of our world and somehow not, shucking off any influences and finding a weird wonder all its own." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Fantastic Planet (1973)	83%
	"Steps into the shoes of youth remembered, a summer when a boy's wide eyes are opened further by disillusion--the final whistle sounds sharp and harsh, echoing long after the game's over. An elegant, reflective film that dekes around coming-of-age cliches." Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)	85%
	"Although the film isn't chatty and people are just a little too soap opera-ish photogenic, the film is often understated enough to charm. Small, tender scenes and little details make Caramel a nice, light passing fancy." Posted Jun 5, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
	"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%
	"Always intriguing but not always fully involving, CJ7 still features, as with its resurrecting dog, Chow's enlivening touch. Even when his film isn't completely absorbing, it seems he never met a dying genre clich� he can't reanimate." Posted May 29, 2008	CJ7 (2008)	45%
	"It's with Dilawar that the film begins and ends, and it's with Dilawar that Alex Gibney's documentary can rest its case%u2014his story speaks with the deepest ache. Dilawar's face stares back%u2014a young, bearded man, his eyes wide in fright." Posted May 29, 2008	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	100%
	"A brilliantly constructed film about a larger-than-life, passionate visionary who shows that simple change isn't just urgent, but blindly obvious and well within reach. All we have to do is take a second-hand look at what we're dumping out our back doors." Posted May 8, 2008	Garbage Warrior (2008)	n/a
	"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 film that asks us to have a pretty high tolerance of easy stereotypes and most of its comedy comes because you're not sure what else to do but laugh. When the ironic reversal kicks in, the film turns semi-serious and gets, if anything, a little boring." Posted May 8, 2008	Adam's Apples (2007)	71%
	"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%
	"The story, which should be forbidden, keeps coming back for more. Whenever the plot pops up, from predictable love scenes to the villainess who hates men for no reason to the crypto-Confucian lines, you keep wishing for the next fist to fly." Posted May 8, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	63%
	"Rarely has a film set the starkest of basic moral questions in such sharp-edged yet subtle relief. . . . like one of the master forger's brazenly passed-off copies--so bold, unflinching and brilliant that, to any eye, it's flawless." Posted May 8, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
	"While the acting is often fine, the setting and storylines don't have enough depth to be original. . . . for all its smooth touches and sharp emotions, this Canadian film still [doesn't have] enough big-screen originality." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Normal (2007)	n/a
	"If a few scenes are a bit stiff, some of the cast a little too telenovela photogenic, the leads' stubborn, yearning performances build just enough of a melodrama to soften the film's tough realism and earn a hopeful ending." Posted Apr 11, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	73%
	"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%
	"*The poster tagline for Drillbit Taylor* is "You get what you pay for." And who knew recycled waste will cost you $8 at the multiplex these days? . . . Ninth-grade setting, kindergarten male writing.*" Posted Mar 27, 2008*	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
	"The basic power of the plot's rewound revelation isn't there, shrapneled by the form . . . Some films reward multiple viewings, but this film, offering multiple views, falls short of being memorably singular." Posted Mar 20, 2008	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	40%
	"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%
	"It's a hard film to watch, especially if you know where it goes--I had to brace myself to see it a second time. But it's an important film, one of great feeling. It even works as a thriller." Posted Mar 20, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
	"An almost madcap comic pace battles with thundercloud-building drama . . . The social commentary can be earnest and bald, with the mythic overtones seemingly contrived to tumble O'Leary into the class gap on his arse." Posted Mar 20, 2008	The Tiger's Tail (2006)	0%
	"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%
	"The community-produced version of Fats Waller's story leads to a block film party in what may be the most touching ending of Gondry's films." Posted Mar 1, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	68%
N/A	""It's really about creating your own entertainment," Gondry adds. "Don't give your money to big corporations. Save your own money and do your own art."" Posted Mar 1, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	68%
	"A lot of beautiful animated sequences that could only come to life in movement . . . We've had this incredible wave of films giving us Iran from an insider's point of view--maybe now it's time for the exile's." Posted Mar 1, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	96%
	"The paintings become colourfully self-deluded distortions of a world where adults project themselves back into childhood, capitalizing on both the adult nostalgia for innocence and our fascination with children who seem somehow adult." Posted Mar 1, 2008	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	93%
	"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%
	"The film, in the end, as solidly good as it is, rings a bit hollow, feels a little pointlessly bleak. The last sparks of the steel furnace where Robert and Jean-Pierre used to work have faded, and all that's left is for life to grind itself down." Posted Mar 1, 2008	The Right of the Weakest (2006)	67%
	"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%
	"Most of all about recovering, about picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and plugging on. It also just happens to be, in its small, astutely observed, delicately bittersweet way, one of the best films of the year." Posted Feb 8, 2008	The Savages (2007)	91%
	"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%
	"The magnificence of Bauby's accomplishment as an author is reflected, shimmering strangely, by a film that awakens a trapped life with the kind of poetry only the camera can write." Posted Jan 10, 2008	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (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%
	"The black-and-white shots are beautiful . . . then there is the closing shot, a fantastic melding of escape and loss." Posted Dec 15, 2007	White Mane (1952)	n/a
	"A cinematic landmark . . . Lamorisse's film floats off, with the breeze of magic-realism, into a feeling of escape and peace." Posted Dec 15, 2007	The Red Balloon (1955)	100%
	"By-the-book mythmaking: stately, straightforward and not too interesting. The story . . . falls flat on film, a moody, visual medium, tremendously difficult to rework into a mirror for introspective, spiritual transformation." Posted Dec 15, 2007	Milarepa (2007)	36%

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