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Critics / A.O. Scott
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    A.O. SCOTT

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

    Publications: At the Movies, New York Times

    Critics' Group: New York Film Critics Circle

    Total Reviews: 1256

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    Fresh

    Rotten
    47%

    The Box (2009)

    " I think that Richard Kelly, from one film to the next, has gone in some very interesting and sometimes puzzling directions." — At the Movies

    Posted Nov 9, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    56%

    The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

    " Everyone involved seems to have had a pretty good time, but this one looks like it was more fun to make than it is to watch." — At the Movies

    Posted Nov 9, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    16%

    The Fourth Kind (2009)

    " [A] dull, clumsy little movie." — At the Movies

    Posted Nov 9, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    100%

    La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009)

    " One of the finest dance films ever made, but there’s more to it than that." — New York Times

    Posted Nov 6, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    55%

    Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

    " A branded piece of shiny seasonal entertainment." — New York Times

    Posted Nov 6, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    87%

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

    " A hybrid, a mash-up that might have been ungainly, but that manages to be graceful instead." — New York Times

    Posted Nov 6, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    100%

    The Maid (2009)

    " A smart little gem from Chile." — At the Movies

    Posted Nov 2, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    87%

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

    " While the director, Lee Daniels, does not shy away from the grimmest elements of the story, his eclectic filmmaking style is almost exhilarating, finding room for fantasy, operatic melodrama, and authentic humor." — At the Movies

    Posted Nov 2, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    13%

    Gentlemen Broncos (2009)

    " It doesn’t have any kind of emotional center." — At the Movies

    Posted Nov 2, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    80%

    Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)

    " The Michael Jackson we see here is not a self-styled Messiah or a tabloid oddity. He is, instead, what he always was underneath it all: a talented musician, a brilliant dancer, and one of the most gifted entertainers of his time." — At the Movies

    Posted Nov 2, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    21%

    The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)

    " I will not defend it as a good movie, but I have to say, I had a pretty good time at it." — At the Movies

    Posted Nov 2, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    48%

    Astro Boy (2009)

    " I just felt like this was a mistranslation -- almost trying to combine the slightly sinister, cold world of Japanese anime with the warm, sentimental, fuzzy, bouncy world of Hollywood kid animation." — At the Movies

    Posted Oct 26, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    17%

    Amelia (2009)

    " Wwhy does such an exciting life make such a dull movie?" — At the Movies

    Posted Oct 26, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    26%

    Motherhood (2009)

    " The humor is soft, the dramas are small, and the movie stumbles from loose and scruffy naturalism to sitcom tidiness." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 23, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    37%

    Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

    " Tests its viewers' patience even as it strives to build their loyalty." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 23, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    48%

    Antichrist (2009)

    " The scandal of Antichrist is not that it is grisly or upsetting but that it is so ponderous, so conceptually thin and so dull." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 23, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    34%

    St. Trinian's (2009)

    " Every scene is so frantic and desperate to make you laugh, to be clever, to be naughty and none of it worked." — At the Movies

    Posted Oct 19, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    57%

    Trucker (2009)

    " You know exactly what is going to happen and you don’t really care." — At the Movies

    Posted Oct 19, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    42%

    New York, I Love You (2009)

    " But in spite of some attempts at human and neighborhood variety, the stories have a self-conscious sameness, as if they were classroom assignments in an undergraduate fiction-writing class." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 16, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    86%

    Black Dynamite (2009)

    " As a five-minute clip on YouTube, this spoof might be a small masterpiece. As a feature film, it's both too much and not nearly enough." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 16, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    23%

    Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

    " It's about the cat-and-mouse game between two very smart guys, and it's perfectly happy to be as dumb as it wants." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 16, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    95%

    Good Hair (2009)

    " This movie just does take what seems like a kind of a superficial topic and really does go into it with great depth." — At the Movies

    Posted Oct 12, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    71%

    Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

    " These monsters that are made of costumes with CGI faces and voiced by these wonderful actors, they’re just as real and as complicated as the real people." — At the Movies

    Posted Oct 12, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    12%

    Couples Retreat (2009)

    " Couples Retreat is a comedy of exhaustion. But it is the comedy itself, in both concept and execution, that seems tired." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 9, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    84%

    Paranormal Activity (2009)

    " It works best when it comes out of nowhere, because that’s, in the end, where it goes." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 9, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    77%

    Bronson (2009)

    " A bit like Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange reimagined as a one-man stage show and stripped of any political implications." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 9, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Fresh
    92%

    The Damned United (2009)

    " The rare sports movie that deals with humiliation and disappointment." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 9, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    93%

    An Education (2009)

    " It’s a pleasure -- which I don’t mean entirely as a compliment." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 9, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    55%

    The Invention of Lying (2009)

    " It’s bogged down in too many squishy romantic-comedy pieties." — At the Movies

    Posted Oct 5, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    89%

    Zombieland (2009)

    " This movie is fundamentally empty." — At the Movies

    Posted Oct 5, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    82%

    Whip It (2009)

    " It will not change the way you think about movies, roller derby or the relations between teenage girls and their mothers, friends or dreams. But it does invite you to stop and appreciate all those things." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 2, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    73%

    More Than a Game (2009)

    " evoted fans of the game, and especially of LeBron James, will love More Than a Game. The skeptical and the curious may find themselves wanting more." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 2, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    85%

    A Serious Man (2009)

    " A Serious Man is, like its biblical source, a distilled, hyperbolic account of the human condition. The punch line is a little different, but you know the joke. And it’s on you, of course." — New York Times

    Posted Oct 2, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    75%

    Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

    " Even if you don’t agree with the answers that Michael Moore suggests, I think you should see this movie." — At the Movies

    Posted Sep 28, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    48%

    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)

    " Tthough this experiment doesn’t quite succeed, there’s enough intelligence and insight in this movie to make it worth the attempt." — At the Movies

    Posted Sep 28, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    28%

    Fame (2009)

    " I don’t mind the cornball and I don’t mind the clichés, but I just think that the thing has to be executed a little better than this." — At the Movies

    Posted Sep 28, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Rotten
    35%

    Blind Date (2009)

    " The film never lifts itself above its origin as a well-meaning, underdeveloped exercise." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/5

    Fresh
    72%

    The Boys Are Back (2009)

    " The problem is that the movie always takes the easy way, scattering a few heavy, confrontational scenes among acres of picturesque montages." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Fresh
    4.5/5

    Fresh
    66%

    Coco Before Chanel (2009)

    " The blossoming of her ambition, as much as her love life, drives the story forward, and turns Coco Before Chanel into a costume drama worthy of the name." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    35%

    Blind Date (2009)

    " It does feel very stage bound, very formal." — At the Movies

    Posted Sep 21, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/5

    Rotten
    32%

    The Burning Plain (2009)

    " The elliptical structure of the narrative can’t cover up its overheated, half-baked banality." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 18, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/5

    Rotten
    45%

    Jennifer's Body (2009)

    " Takes up a common theme of slasher films — that queasy, panicky fascination with female sexuality that we all know — and turns it inside out." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 18, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    94%

    35 Shots of Rum (2009)

    " 35 Shots of Rum is a quiet and lovely new film by the French director Claire Denis." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 16, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    83%

    Bright Star (2009)

    " The achievement of Jane Campion’s learned and ravishing new film is to trace the comminglings and collisions of poetic creation and amatory passion." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 16, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    86%

    The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)

    " Very good, very smart, very clear." — At the Movies

    Posted Sep 15, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    84%

    The September Issue (2009)

    " RJ Cutler had plenty of access, but it’s pretty clear that from start to finish it was Anna Wintour who was in control of this movie." — At the Movies

    Posted Sep 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    6%

    Whiteout (2009)

    " Where are the penguins?" — At the Movies

    Posted Sep 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    18%

    The Other Man (2009)

    " It owes its air of mystery to a piece of narrative trickery that’s both obnoxiously manipulative and insultingly obvious." — At the Movies

    Posted Sep 15, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    89%

    No Impact Man (2009)

    " Unsparingly exposes the confused power dynamics of a certain kind of modern middle-class marriage." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 11, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    6%

    Whiteout (2009)

    " Has a perfunctory, by-the-numbers approach to its story and its characters." — New York Times

    Posted Sep 11, 2009
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