ROTTEN TOMATOES: Brian Tallerico

BRIAN TALLERICO

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications: HollywoodChicago.com, Movie Retriever, Screentalk, The Deadbolt, UGO, UGO Screenwriter's Voice

Total Reviews: 652
Total QuickRatings: 33

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Fresh	Fresh 88%	Fish Tank (2010)	" *Isn't that what we mostly go to the movies to see when we pay to see drama? Stories that touch our hearts and minds in a relatable way and in doing so achieve greatness? Fish Tank* is a great movie.*" — Movie Retriever* Posted Feb 5, 2010
Rotten	Fresh 70%	The Last Station (2009)	" The lack of focus ultimately leaves too much of it as surface level when we really needed to get under the skin of Leo and Sofya Tolstoy in the way these great performers deserved." — Movie Retriever Posted Feb 5, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 67%	District 13: Ultimatum (2010)	" The plot is ludicrous but one doesn't go to Luc Besson action films for character-driven storytelling; they go for exactly what this film promises and delivers -- frenetic, inspired, grin-inducing action." — Movie Retriever Posted Feb 5, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Frozen (2010)	" Allows one to hold out hope for what Green does next. Perhaps next time he'll make it up the mountain instead of getting halfway there." — Movie Retriever Posted Feb 5, 2010
Fresh	Rotten 55%	Edge of Darkness (2010)	" A remarkably accomplished thriller, one that's never anything less than good and even approaches the edge of greatness." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 29, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 96%	35 Shots of Rum (2009)	" These people feel one hundred percent real, as well-written and completely defined as those living in the apartment next door to you right now." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 22, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 82%	7 Days (2010)	" *Perhaps not quite torture porn but undeniably torture drama, 7 Days* is one of the most gut-wrenching and disgusting things you could order On Demand all year.*" — Movie Retriever* Posted Jan 22, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 15%	The Tooth Fairy (2010)	" It's one thing to make a disappointingly unfunny family film but it's quite another to make one that's simply this unenjoyable." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 22, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 30%	Extraordinary Measures (2010)	" Far from an awful film, it's merely a completely inconsequential one, forgettable in a way that used to be acceptable during the CBS Evening News on a Sunday night but isn't when you're paying modern prices for a movie ticket." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 22, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 36%	The Lovely Bones (2009)	" At once both one of the most conceptually daring films of 2009 and one of its biggest train wrecks." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 15, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 86%	The White Ribbon (2009)	" With some of the most striking imagery of the year, Haneke's film is not easy to dissect and even less so to shake off when it's over." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 15, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 66%	Daybreakers (2010)	" Clearly a cult hit in the making and horror fans should eat it up like a vampire with a fresh kill." — HollywoodChicago.com Posted Jan 8, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 71%	Youth in Revolt (2010)	" A surprisingly charming and eccentric comedy; a riff on common themes in the world of teenage romantic comedies but done so with a unique, entertaining style." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 8, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 66%	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)	" If Ledger had completed the entire film or not, Doctor Parnassus doesn't seem well-focused enough to be a truly landmark Gilliam work but it's much closer than anything else he's done this millennium." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 8, 2010
Rotten	Rotten 28%	Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009)	" A clearly inferior piece of writing that doesn't have the emotional resonance of even previously acknowledged mediocre works by Williams." — Movie Retriever Posted Jan 8, 2010
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Crazy Heart (2009)	" With the best lead performance of the year, a few great supporting ones, excellent music, and completely genuine characters freed of an ounce of melodrama, Crazy Heart is one of the best dramas of 2009." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 26, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	A Single Man (2009)	" With two of the best performances of the year, a confident visual style, and intellectually challenging themes worthy of coffee house discussion afterward, A Single Man is one of the better films of the season." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 26, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 58%	It's Complicated (2009)	" Something that works merely by the infectious nature of the good time these talented actors clearly had in making the film." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 26, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Sherlock Holmes (2009)	" A decent action movie that goes down like fast food would often be enough to recommend, but generations of Holmes fans and those who have come to expect more from actors this talented may be disappointed that it's not closer to filet mignon." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 26, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 37%	Nine (2009)	" Nine has flaws, but I was too busy humming with the energy of this vibrant, eccentric piece of musical entertainment to really care." — HollywoodChicago.com Posted Dec 24, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 75%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" A film with many admirable individual parts that form a surprisingly forgettable whole." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" Even though it may not stand among Almod�var's best, it's still a wildly enjoyable, sumptuous, and rewarding film." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 18, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 82%	Avatar (2009)	" Avatar may be a technical masterpiece, but there are deep storytelling flaws that keep the film from working as the complete experience promised by the visual expertise." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 16, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Me and Orson Welles (2009)	" A film that nearly everyone will enjoy on their own terms but it's also surprisingly bland considering the larger-than-life personality that gives it half a title." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Invictus (2009)	" *There's absolutely no reason to hate Invictus. But there's also not a lot to love." — Movie Retriever* Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" It's fantastic that a mostly hand-drawn Disney film will be a part of the story when history books write about this great year for the form. But maybe I'm just old-fashioned." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Collapse (2009)	" His theories start to live up to the title of the film but he does raise some interesting points of discussion that aren't a part of the international discussion nearly as much as they should be." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	The Maid (2009)	" Writer/director Sebastian Silva wisely focuses on character instead of caricature and has crafted a film that is surprisingly moving by the time it reaches its bittersweet final act." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 7, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	The Strip (2009)	" Starts off so shakily and features such overly familiar material that by the time the filmmaker's love for his characters starts to shine through the stale jokes and recycled premise, it's too late for the film to close the sale." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 4, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 58%	Brothers (2009)	" Brothers is ultimately like someone remaking a recipe that worked before but altering a few essential ingredients. It doesn't taste as good and only makes you wonder why anyone thought to make it again." — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Rarely has a film spoken more effectively to something we all wonder at some point in our lives, usually more than once -- where am I going?" — Movie Retriever Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 76%	The Road (2009)	" *I'm not sure if The Road* could ever have worked on the big screen, but I am sure that this version could be used to make that case.*" — Movie Retriever* Posted Nov 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" Of course, an interesting and clever children's film with a cast and team this talented is still worth a look, but this match made in hipster movie heaven could have been more magical." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 25, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" *Rain and Harris are decent and there are moments of stylized lunacy that nearly work, but Ninja Assassin* is a film that falls apart as soon as you think about any single element of it.*" — Movie Retriever* Posted Nov 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Red Cliff (2009)	" *I loved watching Red Cliff* from a purely technical level but never cared about it on a human one.*" — Movie Retriever* Posted Nov 25, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 70%	The Blind Side (2009)	" It's a feel-good movie that could have been a more intellectual, honest exercise, but it's still a feel-good movie that works on its own terms." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 23, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 42%	Turning Green (2009)	" Turning Green has been on the shelf for so long that I'm afraid this forgettable film has gone bad." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 20, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 64%	Missing Person (2009)	" The moments that do undeniably work are overshadowed by a general feeling that the film just isn't quite clicking the way it could or should have, amplified by a final act that simply gets away from everyone involved." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 20, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 58%	Mammoth (2009)	" Takes a bit too long to get going and perhaps bites off more thematically than it can chew, but it has too many intriguing ideas and spectacular performances to be dismissed." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	The Messenger (2009)	" A stunning debut, an effective, expertly-made and performed drama about the common human ability to deal with tragedy and loss in unique, unpredictable ways." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" It almost makes one angrier to think about the time Cage has wasted on crap films when he should be doing interesting ones like this every single time." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 20, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Planet 51 (2009)	" Computers have been assisting in the production of animated films more and more every year, but have they started writing them too?" — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 20, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Like a teenage girl trying to adapt her diary into a one-woman show, Rosenberg has turned Stephenie Meyer's work into something that thinks it's Shakespeare but never resonates with an ounce of true emotion." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 87%	Skin (2009)	" *Great performances and a smart decision to avoid melodrama make Skin* worth seeing but it's the small things that hold it back from being truly great.*" — Movie Retriever* Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" *There is a lot about The House of the Devil* to admire but West ultimately likes the slow burn a bit too much and it fizzles out.*" — Movie Retriever* Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 29%	Women in Trouble (2009)	" It's a film with undeniably gorgeous parts that never quite develops into a sum." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" *Several films in one without fully developing any of them, Pirate Radio* is one of those movies that tries to do too much at once and yet often feels like it's doing nothing at all.*" — Movie Retriever* Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" You don't get off a rollercoaster and complain about the lack of storytelling." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" The "feel-bad, feel-good" movie of the year, a well-made film that is so dark that it can be hard to watch but that is designed to illustrate the fact that the human power to overcome adversity is stronger than the instinct to shrivel and die." — HollywoodChicago.com Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" Nothing more than an elaborate light show, smoke and mirrors designed to lull the audience into believing that not only what they are seeing is real but that the filmmaking isn't some of the most amateurish of the year." — Movie Retriever Posted Nov 6, 2009

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